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As someone living in canada and visiting Tokyo for a week few years ago I complelty agree with you on "Tokyo is cold" statement,

however I don't think the original post was trying to idolize japan, at least I didn't see it that way. To me it was more of an observation that small acts of kindness happen all around us.

sure, but in case of something like symanitc versioning, the benefit, at least as far as I understand is to give you some sort of trust or guarantee, _ if you upgrade a package from 1.1 to 1.7 your app will not break_ if in practice 2 out of 10 times the your app did break, then is there really a point? should I trust it?

to be honest I am. if you told NPM to install the latest 1.x and you were on 1.1 and now got upgraded to 1.7 I would put my money on something breaking than not.

I'm surprised developers still believe in the idea of Semantic versioning.

even projects that claim they follow semantic versioning don't, maybe there are some out there but I've never seen one.

and somehow it still comes as a big surprise to people when a project violates this ideal that we created that nobody follows.

Skip sign-in, manual server entry will definitely be part of Plex Media Player, right now we don't support it since the app is gated with plexpass which means you _need to sign in_ so we can validate your subscription status. but signing in will not be required when the app leaves preview and plexpass requirement is dropped.

source: I wrote skip-sign in, manual server entry in the core platform.

Full discourage, I work for plex on plex media player and smart tv platforms,

we removed the plex pass requirement for smart TVs a few days ago, they are all free to all users. But as someone that works with smart TVs many hours a day, I would stay with rpi, it's a much much better platform, can direct play more formats without need for transcoding and in general more stable.

Are any of those quad cores? I've been trying to find the actual cpu models but I can't seem to find them mentioned anywhere.

I'm not sure I understand the logic here, so just because microsoft is a multi billion dollar company people shouldn't be inspecting their code to find security holes?

would you say the same thing if the subject was ubuntu/linux?

it's not about the scientist overestimating the value of their inventions, when you pour in years and millions of dollars on research like this you just don't give it away for pretty much nothing. 200K _might_ be considerable amount in personal finance, but when you enter the world of governments and research it's basically a rounding error. 200K? you might've as well given it away for free. When a bureaucrat sells something like this for so cheap all it tells me is they just wanted to pad a cell in one of their spreadsheet quarter of a percent with no regards on the investment and effort that was put into the project.

In this case this wasn't true, since the vaccine was done and sold before the outbreak.

A friend of mine was one of the primary researcher working on the vaccine in the Winnipeg lab. I remember going out to dinners past few years and keep hearing about him his work on this vaccine. One thing that really bothered me was how the government handled it at the end and how the vaccine was handed to NewLink (Which latter licensed it to Merc) for pretty much nothing.

From what I remember, a year or so before the outbreak and just after the development of the vaccine was pretty much done Health Canada decides that there will be no money in an ebola vaccine since they didn't foresee an outbreak and even if it did happen it would be in a third world country with not much money to go around.

So they put a warp on it and hand it to NewLink for $200,000. Apparently there were emails going around between the lab and the government trying to convince them that this is a shitty deal, but the end response was 200K is the most we'll ever get out of this.

a year later, the biggest outbreak in the history and NewLink licenses the Vaccine to Merck for $50M USD.

My main issue with it isn't that the vaccine was gone for $200K vs $50M, if you have spent god know how many millions and how many years developing a vaccine as part of government program, don't let it go for 200K, are we as a nation really hurting that much to have to recover that 200K? I just can't make any sense of it. and if you were thinking they sold it so it could be mass produced and developed then you are mistaken since NewLink did exactly nothing with it until they licensed it to Merck.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canadian-ebola-vaccine-develop...

There are a lot of assumptions in your post, but I guess that's implied given you are talking about perceptions.

At least for me I tend to trust MS (at least the new MS) more than I do apple or even google.

it was never really open.

>people were speculating that the innards would be swappable

Yup, totally sounds like something apple would let you do.

I agree with the general rule, however checking the dev tools this site doesn't actually make any calls to a server during or after you've typed your password.

I want to switch to plex for my TV media center software, I really do but the thing that keeps making me move back to xbmc/kodi is the seek lag (trying to skip to the middle of a movie) and sometimes it just freezes while fast forwarding.

to be fair, I haven't use the plex media center app, my experience is based on chromecast/android app and the android tv app. (my plex server is running a quadcore haswell i5 with 8gb of ram so it should be fairly responsive)

I bought an android TV purely for plex but so far it has been a bit disappointing.

Sorry, I did misunderstand. Completely agree.

Take a look at pushbullet, it allows you to share items between devices, they also added a new feature which lets you share your clipboard between devices.

>If the NK regime was to fail, it won't be surprising if China pull a putin and annex NK.

If China were to annex NK Wouldn't that remove the buffer? Wouldn't China prefer the west/south to take over north korea and all the costs that comes with it? that way west/south would be too busy with rebuilding north and so deep in costs they would have less time threatening China.

> non-profit domain registrar

domain squatters are already an issue. imaging if you could register domains for free. I think having to pay $10 for a year is pretty fair. That's one reason I don't mind paying ~$70 for .io domain. it keeps most squatters away.

> Given that the battery isn't removable too, this makes for a very shitty development phone.

When was the last time you pulled a battery on an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch. I think calling a phone 'shitty for development' just because you can't pull a battery is a bit over the top given the current landscape.

and nexus one was also the only nexus to have an SD card. so I think he is talking about every nexus phone/tablet except the nexus one.

how open is opendns to a .NET dev that does js/node on the side wanting to jump ship?

I really want to get out of the .net stack but haven't had a good chance to do it. and most of my ex-colleges are in .net shops too so all of my referrals are for other .net shop.

moto g is made by motorola, which is no longer owned by google. As far as I know manufacturers are not making any money from ad revenue.

I totally agree with you and think that google's wear is a better offering.

My original reply was referring to the fact that even though Google came to market with its wear device first (years ago with glass and months ago with on the watch) it's still being called a response to apple's non existent (at the time) product.

however if tables were turned and google were to release its first wear product months from now, after apple, NO ONE would call apple's watch a preemptive response to Google's wear. It would either be reported as Google copying apple or best case scenario Google's response to apple's innovation.

eg. No one called the original iPhone a preemptive strike on Android.

> preemptively responding to the Apple Watch

That's really interesting way to phrase it. if tables were turned would you say the same thing or would it be Google responding to apple or worst, Google copying apple?

I don't think so, the ASP.NET team has been releasing code to github for while. same as azure, most of their SDK was released to github,

I don't think there is a mandate for all MS project to be on codeplex which is somewhat surprising.

for some the reason not to upgrade to windows 8 isn't the license fee. It's the fact that they simply can't because their custom app doesn't work on windows 8 or they can't afford to spend IT time on migration/testing.

servicestack is no longer free as far as I can tell, https://servicestack.net/pricing