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Well done guys. But don't forget to credit Bryant Cutler (http://bryantcutler.com/) for the awesome logo.

update: downvoted? why? I really think the guy should be credited. He did a fricking awesome job which CouchDB has based its whole image on. The faux movie poster linked at the top of this story has a giant size version of his logo as the very backdrop. This shit is important. Credit him, says I!

sailormoonon Cat5 to replace HDMI later next year?

"Currently, the specification only allows for a 100Mb/sec Ethernet connection, but the alliance claims HDBaseT will be scalable up to 1Gb/sec in the future. Similarly, HDBaseT can currently playback video at up to 10.2Gb/sec, but it's theoretically scalable up to 20Gb/sec."

Anyone else see a two-order-of-magnitude problem with that statement? Uh .. if it can only transfer 100Mbps, where does the 10.2Gbps video come from? And why does a predicted 10x increase in the base transport speed only translate to a 2x increase in the high level delivery speed?

sailormoonon Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?

A room of one's own and GBP£500 a year? Now where have I heard that before.

sailormoonon Actually KIN Sold More Than 503 Devices

The daring fireball article did say "sold". Other comments here have indicated that Verizon were giving the units away just to get rid of them. Maybe they didn't pay MS for those. Who knows what was in their contract. Maybe MS decided to scrap the deal 2 months ago and told Verizon to dump its stock. Until Microsoft releases its Official Kin Sales Report, it's all just speculation.

I am inclined to believe Gruber. If he stakes his reputation (very important to his massively inflated ego) on a specific number, it means he's satisfied it's correct, and that's a pretty strong vote in my book. Could be wrong of course but in the absence of hard evidence I go by gut & human nature...

sailormoonon Post from "weev" (AT&T/ipad data hacker) on his arrest and treatment

How about "to prove he wasn't just making the whole thing up"?

sailormoonon Drug Submarine Seized In Ecuador Is Huge Leap For Smugglers

I don't believe that for a second. Most people I know can get any drugs they want, and yet they're not a bunch of drugged up crazies, just like most adults can buy alcohol whenever they want, and most are not alcoholics.

Let people make their own decisions.

sailormoonon Meditation Becomes Beneficial Surprisingly Fast

Wow, I've been doing daily meditation all these years and didn't even know it!

sailormoonon iOS 4 Update Now Avaliable

How come it says tethering is new? Tethering has been available on the 3GS for ages, I've used it numerous times.

sailormoonon U.S. Discovers Est. $1 Trillion of Minerals in Afghanistan

Pure fantasy. And you are completely ignoring probably the #1 source of anti-US hate - their proxy support of Israel. There is no Chinese equivalent, nor is there ever likely to be.

sailormoonon U.S. Discovers Est. $1 Trillion of Minerals in Afghanistan

Yeah man. Maybe you should zoom out on Google Maps and see who lives nearby, especially anyone who might have (say) the world's largest standing army, and then come back and explain how it's a wise idea for the US Army to start seizing Chinese assets in Afghanistan ..

Sorry for the snarky tone but seriously, it's this kind of ridiculous macho attitude that got the US into so much trouble in the first place.

sailormoonon The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty

I suspect that the advent of nanotechnology is going to cause civilisation upheaval the likes of which we haven't seen since the industrial revolution, if ever. All this shit will happen, and much, much more.

Hell, why limit ourselves to the surface of the sea? The materials nanotech promises to deliver will make it possible to live far above or below sea level with equal ease. Sky-steading, anyone?

sailormoonon Mongrel2

Oh. Right you are. I hadn't heard of it, but it looks interesting. Certainly a big time-saver to get all that for free.

sailormoonon Mongrel2

Looks like the project web site also has a custom ticketing system and repo browser. Why not.

sailormoonon How to Afford Anything

All this pain to drop $2.5k per year on a Nikon camera? Dude, seriously, just take a few months and learn some skills at something, then get a decent job using them. You'll be able to buy a new camera every freaking month.

I mean I'm all for living within your means and planning and frugality but seriously, don't eat out except for the cheapest fast food around? That's the wrong way to go about it. Upgrade your cash flow, not downgrade your life.

sailormoonon Apple WWDC 2010 Keynote

I am pretty sure if you had just left clicked it like a normal person you would have been fine. And wow, 1 second after you click a video link, Windows Awesome Firewall™ says something wants to connect to the internet? I wonder what that could be? Maybe the movie I clicked on 1 second ago? Why I think I'll deny it! Hey, this stupid thing doesn't work! Apple sucks!

sailormoonon Why the Soda Tax makes us angry; people do what they're forbidden

The whole point of the tax is to discourage consumption. If Ms W. Queen can't afford the tax to feed concentrated diabetes inducer to her little angels, then good! Success!

Non-diet soda is almost as bad as cigarettes and we should tax the freaking hell out of it.

sailormoonon What kind of girl do you think I am?

the Chinese government doesn't care about freedom of speech

Oh, I think the CCP cares very deeply about freedom of speech. Just maybe not in the way that you'd like ; )

sailormoonon What kind of girl do you think I am?

That is utter hyperbole. Google never had the "freedom of speech for ~1.3 billion people" to trade. They do not and probably never will have anything like that kind of power. I am far from a Google fanboy but if you're going to criticise them, please keep it reasonable.

sailormoonon How little musicians earn online

Care to provide some evidence that it is being done, ie. that artists are happy with the payment arrangement negotiated on their behalf with Spotify et al on the basis that it constitutes cheap advertising?

sailormoonon How little musicians earn online

And what exactly is the point of "advertising" a song to people who, for all intents and purposes, already own it?

sailormoonon Startups: Poverty is Underrated. Be Glad That You’re Not Rich

I think "the stick" is a pretty bad motivator overall

Totally agree. Isn't one of the imputed advantages of American entrepreneurship over, say, European, that founders don't lose everything (money, social standing) when they fail? This article seems to be claiming the opposite.

sailormoonon A Programming Langauge for Genetic Engineering of Living Cells

I am more interested in how to save memory to disk and restart...

sailormoonon ASK HN: How to plan and manage a large web project?

I recommend:

1. using branches as short-term scratch spaces for new features. Branches should not be long-lived and if they are they should be regularly merged, unless you are deliberated separating them for some reason (eg 1.x-stable, 2.x-stable etc)

2. You owe it to yourself to get familiar with a SCM ASAP. I use and recommend git. I also use and strongly recommend a paid account at github. Yes, paid! Then give your programmers access and watch it all come together there.

3. I use and recommend lighthouse. I used to dislike it but it's just so frictionless and easy to use that I can't think of anything else I'd recommend.

sailormoonon Ruby on Rails 2.3.6 Released

So have I actually, on some smaller projects, but it's going to be a major change to switch over larger ones. I'll be sticking on 2.3 with them for the time being.

sailormoonon Ruby on Rails 2.3.6 Released

Argh, my pet ticket didn't make it in: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2188-i...

Still no 1.9 for me, then :/

sailormoonon How Plastic Popped the Cork Monopoly

Bah, there's no need to use cork to seal wine anyway. A few years ago the entire Australian wine industry moved en masse to screw-top bottles and you know what? It's better. Sure, it felt a bit cheap at first, but there's no spoilage, you don't need a corkscrew, and the bottle is easily resealable. Give me a screw top any day. We don't use cork to seal anything else, and for good reason; it's an antiquated, inferior option which exists now only for marketing purposes.

sailormoonon Ubuntu 10.04 - Perfect

What you say is true, but it's splitting hairs really. The fact is that unless actively deleted, every mac has video editing software installed from the day it was delivered. Still, I have to concede that although it is present, it was not actually shipped with the OS.

It's a pretty lame boast that has to be laden with so many caveats, though.

sailormoonon Ubuntu 10.04 - Perfect

As of this very moment, MacOS X 10.6 and Windows 7. Neither of them ship with a video editor of any kind out of the box. That’s right. Of the three operating systems, Ubuntu is the only one that ships with any video editor at all.

Huh? My iMac shipped with iMovie, and Windows ships with Windows Movie Maker.

update: whaddyaknow, windows 7 doesn't actually ship with the movie software, you have to download it (free) from http://download.live.com/moviemaker. Still.

sailormoonon So long, euro?

Oh yes, and haven't they been doing a sterling job of that.