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I've backed the project. The main reason for me is that it's a whole, integrated platform with the smartphone. It's meant to be an extension of your phone, not only a watch with wireless/accel capabilities. I love it.

On Ruby you can use the Decimal class, although it's really slow

Nicely explained on BB http://boingboing.net/2012/02/08/this-is-what-a-scientist-lo...

I would had called the post "TCP/IP on Rails"

I wouldn't say "fundamentally flawed". A bit simplistic, maybe, but totally understandable. Government funds are - let's say, shady - and private funds are usually who-knows-who and pretty inaccessible. I'm not saying that it's impossible but I certainly understand Julio: as good entrepreneur, he's taking the pragmatic route. Kudos for that.

The problem is, as it's mentioned on the article, that living in an information vacuum Twitter gets to be over-trusted. Journalists are reporting very fragmented and incomplete news as Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist. Almost all the mass media have signed a self-censorship agreement ("Iniciativa México") to limit the impact of the narco messages on the public, thus leaving people to follow unreliable media. Messages are sent by narco through actions: murders as gruesome as the desired impact of the message. Read about "blog del narco" through Google translate (I wouldn't recommend to look for the actual blog del narco) http://translate.google.com.mx/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&#...

Yes, we are living hard times here.

Absolutely. That's why I'm stating that the purpose is to store a photo library. Amazon or azure storage are too expensive for relatively big, long-term, pretty static data that will be read very sporadically. The problem is that, if you want to have an alternative, going up to S3 or Azure or similar is too expensive. That's why I'm asking if someten knows better.

Working well and fast on IE9, just paste the url.

The first paragraphs at Wikipedia may help to understand the significance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter

Don't miss the paper at http://www.bjfogg.com/mip.pdf

26, just for the record

The article never says that MS embraces jailbreaking. Keeping the original title "Microsoft: we can’t stop you from jailbreaking Windows Phone 7" would make more sense, since it would be pointless to argue on this, and would have kept the article's gist.

I would recommend The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo. It's a great introduction to eastern culture for westerners taking tea as link and guide. Despite it was published in 1906 it's interestingly both actual and dated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Tea

I've found the Technology, Investment and Migration tabs specially interesting.

Awesome, I envy you

Well, it's not my framework, I just posted the link. So, I'll not judge if it's simpler or not. All I say is that it looks promising.

The offer in the manifesto is to be simpler. I'm not to judge since don't know all the other frameworks, but at least seems promising.

From World Health Organization, 1999 for "selected rural & urban areas", the suicide rate is 13.0 (male) 14.8 (female) suicide per 100,000. Wolfram Alpha shows 20.9 suicide per 100,000 persons per year. Both looks pretti high compared to other countries. http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicider... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=china+suicide+rate

Info on the E1 (trader) and E2 (investor) on the US Embassy in Mexico http://www.usembassy-mexico.gov/eng/evisas_E.html

Highlights for the investor visa: - The investor must be coming to the United States solely to develop and direct the enterprise - The investment must be substantial. It must be sufficient to ensure the successful operation of the enterprise - must have the capacity to generate significantly more income than just enough to provide a living to the investor and his or her family, or it must have a significant economic impact in the United States

I'm not sure if a YC funded founder would be elegible, but seems hard

How can this be better than playing with the ball with, say, your hands? your feet? Maybe I'm getting old

It would be very interesting (at least for me) if some Eastern hackers here can share their point of view over these subjects, mysticism and modern science, yoga, etc.

Not on psychology but on science and eastern mysticism: Gary Zukav's The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics. An interesting general overview of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, Georg Feurstein The Yoga Tradition.

Great, just bought it with the $9.99 discount. The platform is great (as everything there are some caveats you have to deal with), but it's very reliable. We are using Azure since July for a custom MapReduce implementation, using up to 200 instances daily for several hours, http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?...

Announcement here http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/first-self-replica... with the press release, a FAQ and some fact sheets (and the video is promised to be available soon)

Doesn't work with international keyboards...

The problem here is assuming that the Kindle needs a "full" browser. It doesn't. It's a ebook reader, not a tablet. A better or faster rendering would be nice, but I think Amazon should position it in it's own niche.

why aren't they enabling this for PCs/Netbooks & webcams?

It's an open directory. You can find more on the story http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/Nemesis%20Chapters/ (among other files)

That's it, I've placed my order

We also build one at engineering school (national university of Mexico), although 12 years ago it was a 4-bit CPU (from gates, a couple of ALU, some sequencer,...), I think now they build 8-bit CPUs. Did you guys build similar things?