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Looks like I'll be studying Lapis for the next few days - great stuff, thanks for the recommendation!

Thanks for the reply - I am definitely learning a lot from this feedback, and appreciate the effort.

You should read the book. It might challenge your world view, which is entirely the point of reading in the first place.

It would probably be worthwhile to remember that Vernes was living in a time when the definition of "woman" is a very different thing than today. Of course, you don't have to excuse the sexism - merely understand it in the context of the book, with the purpose of gaining some insight into the points the author is trying to make.

Try not to be distracted by the sexism, is what I mean to say, while you are reading a book written over a hundred years ago..

Because I'm the kind of guy who doesn't want to share his keychain if its not necessary, is why. Its not necessary unless I reason to share a keychain .. and .. having this choice being taken away from me would be a suitable reason to abandon the platform.

I've always wanted to use nginx to build web apps in Lua .. does anyone know/can recommend any great tutorials with this in mind? It'd be nice if I could learn how to use nginx+lua to build a blog, and so on .. I'll use google, but on the off chance someone on HN knows of something already, I'm all ears ..

First, the big 'thing' is the secrecy. Why is it a secret? Because it will damage the operation, pure and simple, and the operation is justified, necessary for public protection and the sake of the greater good.

So, we have 'to keep secrets' being applied here, as a dominant principle, because to not do so is unsafe, irresponsible, bad policy, practice, americans will get killed, and so on.

But I would wager that the people making these statements aren't the ones who put themselves into the position of being killed because of associationg with, or killing for, The Country. People need to be reminded, in this big 'secrecy debate' that secrets can be kept, whether a person is dead or alive, but only the LIVING tell the truth for the greater good.

It makes all the sense in the world. Who else would benefit from keeping America's crimes in the public light, by granting asylum to one of its citizens with the courage to reveal those crimes to the world?

One country, two systems.

I wonder if the Finder will finally be able to auto-adjust its font for best-fit-for-content style views. Its the 21st Century, it should be doing this by now, grr ..

No need. Israel is already part of the US surveillance apparatus. Every single phone bill in the country gets shipped to an Israeli site for pre-processing..

Store my keychain on the iCloud, eh? Is this going to be the default behaviour now?

If so, I guess I'm abandoning Apple faster than I thought I would, a day or so ago .

I can't think of anything worse than having Rupert Murdoch involved in the education of future generations. Does anyone think this man has any intentions other than pure control over the psyche of a generation? He has proven his intentions with Fox News (an "entertainment" channel) and now we're going to let him into the schools?

If anything, this should be a wake up call for a competitor to rise to the occasion and ensure he does not establish control over this market.

{The odds are pretty high that this will get downvoted, on account of the lack of vodka.}

Markovs is a natural law, proven, is it not? Well then, it will be found in any system.

Just be sure to always bet on black, 2 ..

What about Alan Cox isn't canonical neckbeard?

Hah hah. Run TeX natively on iOS. Good one. :)

A big part of it is that space is just too inaccessible to most people - Neil Armstrong was elite, and an aversion towards all things 'elite' permeates our societies. We technocrats sure know why he was awesome, but to the average Joe, Neil Armstrong represented a segment of society that was untouchable, outside the reach of an average individual.

I think its a two-edged sword - we need 'the best' to pilot our technologically overwhelming machines - but this leaves a lot of us out. If Neil Armstrong wasn't such a well-trained, highly educated, privileged individual, perhaps there would be more of a fuss made .. but the fact is, average humanity is about as far away from the state of existence of Neil Armstrong as you and I are, really, from the Moon ..

(Too bad NASA and the entire US "Defense" apparatus isn't delivering water purification, school library and DIY-hospital packages from orbit. Maybe it'd matter more to the rest of Humanity..)

The answer is that modern consumer memory packages have come a long way from core memory. Standard ECC tech is extremely resilient to bit-rot and can recover in cases where older memory technologies would have failed catastrophically.

And in the case of real memory corruption, i.e. where cosmic radiation overwhelms the ECC controllers ability to correct the bit rot, well .. "reboot and retry" has been a standard for years, and will continue to work as a strategy as long as it is considered by the software architects of the system.

I'm using it in MOAI with harfbuzz. Its a brilliant font and makes adding simple HUD-style GUI's to my app very fun, indeed (hint: using a "printf" to get -> a graph == fun!!)

I think he means that Linux and GNU don't need each other, therefore its not /, its +, as in one is not a sub-component of the other.

The chart items are implemented in the font as ligatures, which are (in a nutshell) elements that can be overlaid over other fonts in order to give them special inflection/meaning .. instead of a carat or so on, the ligature elements of the font file are filled with perfectly scaled graph figures, per datum, so that you can address the values for the graph in ligature terms .. +20+10+30+20, etc.

When you do that, and select Chartwell as the font, you get a working font - in Illustrator, or any font-display program that supports setting the Text style for .ttf fonts ..

I'm also a fan .. so much so, that I'm mid-way integrating harfbuzz into MOAI so that I can use Chartwell in games with ease and pleasure ..

Just goes to show that people assign far more weight and importance to words than they should.

Words don't kill people.

Creepy and weird. What makes pretty girls good advice givers?

Tried it, don't have a use for it. I'm not an Instagram user, nor do I use Google Docs much.

Will there be support for other 'collections' cloud services, like Delicious for example? I could see it being a handy interface to my bookmarks in Delicious, if it were supported ..

Well, that seals it. My next Tablet will be based on 100% open sources. I will now proceed to build an Ubuntu-based tablet to replace the iPad form-factor.. boots up laser cutter and 3d printer .. </dream>

Great! I was looking for exactly this .. thanks for doing that!

!! refers to the previous command in the history. !$ refers to the last cmd-line option in the history.

I think you want to have a good, close look at MOAI:

http://getmoai.com/

Its a C/C++ based engine that includes a Lua VM, wherein you write your real app code. The engine runs on Android/iOS/OSX/Linux/Windows. There is a 'host' element to the MOAI project, where native stuff happens for each environment, and the host itself ends up running the VM to interpret the Lua code needed.

Another approach is with games, where a 3D engine is built in C++, with the NDK (on Android) used to interface with a 'wrapper' app that gets the library loaded and in use. I used this approach with a 3d game which uses the same C++ code for Android/iOS clients .. it was a fair bit of work, but the result is that we can do the game logic in C++ and forget about the platform-specific stuff.

Its a lot lovelier once you've got it in your hands and realize its actually very, very comfortable to hold for hours on end - unlike iPads/iPhones/most other mobile devices.