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• We should not be asking the user to make uninformed or cryptic decisions.

• It’s pretty easy for us to detect when a user does this. But we let them get away with it because I love seeing people use the system, whether they’ve paid for it or not. It’s one of the most complex things I’ve ever built and I’m really proud of it.
• sneaky users get the same level of service that legitimate users get. That means we respond to their customer service emails, work with stores if there are any problems
• I was recently inspired by a story I saw about a police officer in Florida. She caught a woman shoplifting from a grocery store. Turns out the woman, who had no criminal record, was broke and didn’t have food for her kids. So instead of taking the shoplifter to jail, the officer bought the shoplifter $100 worth of groceries, charged the woman with a minor misdemeanor, and let her go.

• It’s possible some of the musicians who want free DistroKid access can’t afford it. Or maybe they’re unable to get a credit card.

   

  I’m happy to give these musicians the opportunity to get their music into stores. And maybe they’ll even earn a living from it — the best art comes from struggle.

   

  So today we’re launching “Scholarship” accounts. When the system detects that you’ve just created 5 bogus referrals, you’ll be presented with a notice that we caught you, but here’s an option: Either pay the $19.99/yr, or sign up for a free Scholarship account if you can’t afford it.
• I think musicians will give these options some thought and choose the one that’s right for them.

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• Every week, like a modern-day Prometheus handing down secret knowledge about arcane tools, they have dutifully informed millions of readers about the latest gadgets or services, and whether or not they are worth purchasing.
• most meaningful personal-tech decisions left for the average person to make, about which phones, tablets, and laptops to buy, are less easily contained within the construct of a rote product review.
• it’s increasingly difficult for reviewers to fully evaluate these ecosystems as they grow deeper, more personalized, and more dependent on the technologies used by someone’s social circle; a reviewer who, along with his family and his friends, primarily uses Microsoft devices and services probably won’t have an optimal experience of Google Now.
• The questions that consumers face, in other words, are less about what to buy than about how to live. It’s not a matter of which social network or search engine or photo-sharing service to use; it’s who you should friend on Facebook, the best way to Google, and whether or not you should use filters on your Instagram photos.
• more need than ever for regular technology criticism in two of the most important newspapers in the country—but it needs to be deeper than, and different from, what Pogue and Mossberg did.
• They would both do well to reconsider what, precisely, it now means to review “personal technology.”

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• In particular one of those doors leads you back over a hundred years to a time in America that was rather like our own. There was a realisation back then that the power of money and vast corporate wealth was overwhelming politics and corrupting public life. But journalism was struggling to make sense of the full dimensions of it - and grab the public's imagination.

• Then a small group of journalists took an imaginative leap that enabled them to, not only explain, but harness the scandalous events in such a way that created a powerful reaction among the public. A reaction that led to genuine social change.

  The very thing we might be waiting for now.

   
• "fists like bricks and eyes like emeralds."

• But there is a paradox here. Because many of those who are shocked by the extraordinary extent of the secret surveillance - radical journalists, cyber-revolutionaries, internet libertarians - are also argueing for total transparency of information.

  They not only accept that there is now no privacy personally online - but they believe that the way to bust open the corrupt elite structures of power in society is to release all secret information.

• In the past, they say, the old patrician power structure maintained its power by restricting access to that information. Now the technology exists to overcome the gatekeepers and make everything public - as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden have shown.

  This transparency paradox is part of a much wider present-day confusion. Over the past few years we have been presented with scandals that seem to be evidence of powerful forces that are busy undermining both individual freedoms and the political system that is supposed to protect those freedoms. 

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• I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. We are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. Slight iterations on a theme.

• Meaning of this word is probably best described by the following: it's not a campaign against the SQL language, but rather a movement to open the minds of developers (and others) to the new possibilities beyond the classic relational approach to data persistence.

• “Profiling a subject is a lot like constructing a motherboard,” Gomez says. “You have to see connections that are invisible to other people by filling the spaces between with information.”

• #define Guard

• heart of a high performance programming platform.

• DXing means listening to far-away   — usually foreign — radio stations.

• In the present article you can find a theoretical material about artistic visualization. Now, we will talk about a creation of a picture, beginning from a modeling of the car. Very often the final result depends on the subject of rendering in itself.
  You can find a guides on step-by-step modeling or detailed adjustment sequences at the internet. Here we will talk only about factors that really forms the result. And it is not the software. What is more: it doesn’t really matter what program you use, but it is really important how you did it. The best way is to understand the principle and easily master any software later.
  The Morihei Ueshiba combined a different martial art to create the Aikido, so I will not talk about that is better to reach a goal. There is an examples from different programs in this article - in this way I can show things more detailed. Why not to use an eastern wisdom to achieve our goal?
  In this lesson we will touch upon a key moments and we will consider them step-by-step. We will give an attention to adjusting of the visualizer in itself, because this topic brings a lot of questions.
  The goal of this lesson is not to teach how to create the model right from the start with a further visualization, but to help in creation of such work - it is more appropriate among of heaps of different lessons. So, I wished to do something like a pony that will be useful at different stages of creative process.
  
• wireframe must be even, and must have a density required for certain level of detailed elaboration. It is illiterately to make a superdense wireframe for a model with low detail level. It is more useful to solve all questions by minimal amount of polygons - it will give the ability to make a corrections, also it allow to control the whole topology better. As for me, I make the wireframe more dense only if I can’t work with too small details or when I have lack of polygons.
• . Working with software - is a question of time, but about an understanding of theory - is not so.
• Now, a little off-topic. Nicola Tesla invented an ideal variant. After the death of his brother, Tesla felt a great sorrow. Afterwards, he learned how to assemble all the new devices in his own imagination. So, when he ultimately created something, all devices worked properly right away.
  

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• Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling. But if you want to call them back, you need to give them names.

• 
   So a tautology broke Hacker News?

• It works even if you delete one character anywhere from the code.

• You're building a community with the people at your event. Shuffling them in and inspecting their barcode just doesn't feel right. Your event is a collection of faces, not credit card numbers. For events like yours, we built something more friendly.

• Because when your free speech can be DELETED, it isn’t REALLY free.