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Because it's not expected to be developed in the open ever and will therefore never be useful for production apps?

Wow that's a real pain point. Why would they even do that, is there a use case?

If I am sitting, my hands get tired very soon. However, if I stand up it works very well for me. I guess you get used to it anyway.

This is amazing! I bought the LeapMotion a while ago and forgot it soon enough because the hand, finger and gesture recognition was very basic and didn't feel natural (at least to me and my friends who tried it). Now they push the boundaries of that small, old piece of hardware with a software update and show what it's really capable of. I can only imagine how impressive this must feel when you use it with an oculus rift and interact with a virtual reality environment. The sticking-blocks-together example is just the beginning of what's possible.

EDIT: Okay, I tried some of the examples and am excited! The recognition part is excellent, I can throw things up in the air and catch them again, all very natural. What's missing though are good physics. Objects glitch around my hands, wiggle mid air, get stretched even when they should be solid. But I guess that's Unity's problem, not LeapMotion's.

That would be a heat pump: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump

I'd guess they aren't well suited to fly at the coast because of the high wind speeds. I would imagine that it's quite hard to get the blimp down when it's caught in thermal updraft also.

"I believe that killing an American citizen without a trial is an extraordinary concept and deserves serious debate."

Opposed to killing anyone without a trial?

Geography is the science of the mechanics that drive our world. Learning to understand those, however different they may be after a disaster will become vital if you plan to rehabitate the whole world.

Which many would prefer because it's implicit documentation. Never knowing what interfaces a go type implements sometimes bugged me. Functions, defined in interfaces often look different in style and paradigm so sometimes they stand out and made me wonder why they would implement such functionallity in this way, not knowing that the definition comes from a hidden interface. It also takes away the ability to quickly look up all die functionality because I would have to know the functions names and what interface they are defined in. Imagine a interface changes and you would have to find all the types you have to change.

I just updated and noticed no changes. Seems to be very stable so far.

Probably a bunch of different drivers

Same system, same versions but it's fine for me. Still power hungry though.

Fine on my Chrome

The author already claims that this is only a partial list and that he didn't disclose everything he has access to.

I really like how they are making videos to announce news or advertise their product.

It's really a matter of taste! I wouldn't wear a single watch you mentionted. Watch design shouldn't be about showing off your wealth but about unobstrusive design, much like the Braun watches do for example. http://www.braun-clocks.com/watch/BN0024WHBKG

This has a really nice documentation, should make it easy to implement.

Okay I have a fairly old Galaxy Nexus and can only say that I experience it completely different. The stock Android UI is simple, nothing fancy or unexpected going on. iOS 7 is exactly like what you describe Android. Horrible icons, icons and overdone animations(0.5s zoom out from app to homescreen, really?).

They are quite certainly not monitoring their servers closely, I once had a application running on a small instance costing me more than 30,000$ in just a few weeks because it was doing expensive API calls to AWS. When a growth from <10$ per month to 30,000$ in about 2 weeks isn't concerning them why would 3000$?

leinigen is the most commonly used build tool for Clojure. They now added a routine to block project names ending in "jure" because so many used it as a "pun".

CS in Aachen has at least basic introductions to EE and hard ware.

I would learn Clojure. More and more major companies are picking it up and it seems to be a workhorse which you can use for a long time. It's mature, has advanced techniques for concurrency and is extremely flexible. It's made to stay.

Probably because it only works well on Windows. I know there are ports to Unix but c'mon.

It takes some time for an update to propagate trough Google's CDN. Usually 2-3 hours.

You didn't think that through, did you? It's longer than 15 seconds.

This is not the first company switching from a a dynamic language to Go. Python and Ruby are great for getting started quick but when you scale up you need a workhorse like Go. Nothing too fancy but nice features that give the language a modern touch. I guess Github and more will pick it up soon.

Ubuntu build their DevOps solution JuJu with Go. https://juju.ubuntu.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQLhGZVN4A

Why is Google calling it's products things they aren't? Google Chrome was the first browser which basically eliminated the Chrome. Google Drive replaces a Drive with an online service. Chromebook Pixel is the first Chromebook which doesn't let you see Pixels.

Is this a common naming strategy or Google specific?

The sound is so satisfying that I spend 5 minutes writing a bunch of senseless stuff just to hear it.

YAML seems like a perfect candidate for "Markdown for metadata".