patrickas's comments

Isn't that a different argument than the one you started making?

It seems to me they deliver a release every month.

http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/

Same as firefox... or chrome... or any other project on a continuous release cycle.

Right... start things... keep evolving them and getting better... and hopefully never end.

I think that's the plan.

And the linked stack exchange discussion:

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/17704/how-to-...

We are already thinking about those ideas and trying to tackle them in the ways we can (more ideas are welcome)... In the Beirut Hackerspace (where Bilal, the guy from the kickstarter is also helping get the project up and running) on the first few workshops we had a clay workshop and a silk screen printing workshop where the ratios were 50-50 which hopefully will help close the gap in the gender ratio in such geek oriented initiatives.

Here are some pics from those workshops http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=401814289872014&s...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=401814389872004&s...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=402180926502017&s...

He mentions some of the even harder problems to solve that are specific to video pass through mainly, the problem of having to focus exclusively on a screen closed to your eyes all the time which gets tiring fast.

That point is already adressed in the article, he says:

"Hard AR is tremendously compelling, and will someday be the end state and apex of AR.

But it’s not going to happen any time soon."

Then later:

"Of course, there could be a technological breakthrough that solves this problem [...] In fact, I actually expect that to happen at some point[...] But so far nothing of the sort has surfaced in the AR industry or literature[...]"

That's not how I read the second point.

As I understood it, he is saying the fact that Apple is the offensive party in the patent mess is a sad obsequy to Jobs’s otherwise colossal achievements.

> their home screen [...] looks entirely too similar to the iPhone

Maybe that's a small nit, but Samsungs's home screen looks nothing at all like the iPhone. You have to go to the less used "applications list screen" on their phones and compare that to the iPhone's default home screen so that they look similar. It is less used because on android you put you most accessed stuff on the main screen and click the icons/widgets form there.

Here is a pic: http://www.itworld.com/sites/default/files/iPhone_vs_Galaxy-...

Left is iPhone's main screen, middle is Samsung's application list (I heard it repeated so much even I used to think that was Samsung's home screen), right is Samsung's actual home screen which is very different.

You should also fix dukkan -> dukaakiin to become dakaakiin

u at the beginning is usually for a glottal stop with a dammah above it ( أُ ) while in this case it should be a fatha ( أَ )

Very interesting article.

This is the first time I hear the plural : ustaath -> usaatatha, I am a native arabic speaker and we always use asaatitha.

Also an old side project of mine, http://yoolki.com for en-ar transliteration

It was supposed to be totally tongue in cheek with a wink and smiley to make it obvious. I suppose that is still harassment. I am sorry.

Speaking of Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres, come on! It's been almost two months! I need my HPMoR fix ;-)

>Or better yet, an option to delete individual items.

    Wrench menu -> History.
    Click on [Edit Items...]
    Select the ones you want to delete
    Click on [Remove Selected Items]

OK then what happened to Lebanon ;-)

That's strange but I never made the connection until you mentioned it! Braid is one of my all time favorite games too!

Edit: And as of yesterday it is available in the Ubuntu software center.

Actually they did not measure definite positions and momenta for single photons, which would be HUGE news and contradict QM. They did a bunch of measurements on a bunch of photons and deduced an "average".

For some reason the first time I click on the link I get an error "PLEASE ENABLE COOKIES", the second time I click on the same link it works fine!

I live in Lebanon we are ranked last in the world in upload speed (0.12 Mb average upload http://netindex.com/upload/allcountries/) and before last in download speed (0.51Mb average http://netindex.com/download/allcountries/)

I often click play on a youtube video, go to bed and wake up to watch it in the morning.

I am currently developing a small twitter application and the limit of 350 api requests per HOUR is often not the bottleneck.

Just needed to get that off my chest.