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“Until now, Mojang's founders have prided themselves on the company's independence. Mojang has routinely dismissed funding overtures from venture capital companies, as well as outright buyout attempts. A tight ownership structure has meant that the company has been able to focus its operations, Mr. Manneh, the company's CEO, told the Journal earlier this year. "Financially speaking, we have no pressure whatsoever to rush into any new projects," he said. "Besides, we have no outside owners that require us to reach any particular goals. - × × ×

Фичерсет у часов такой, что можно покупать даже с таким ограниченным временем на одном заряде, как сейчас. Пассбук с карточками и пейпассом, remote к камере, пинг телефона для поисков в квартире, Apple TV и монитор активности — и это в дополнение к стандартным часам-будильнику-смс. - × × ×

Карточки работают только в США, увы. (Как и Google Wallet). - anatoliy

Думаю, что за три-четыре года силами эпплового давления в банки разойдётся из штатов до Европы и Азии, а дальше посмотрим. - × × ×

“Folks, I’ve got some news about Berg to share. We’re wrapping up for this incarnation. Our partnerships and our services, they’re done. A few things left, then hibernation. ¶ Little Printer we’ll run till March next year. A skeleton crew will keep it alive. We’ll sell it. Or open the code. See here for more. We’d love to see LP survive.” - × × ×

“The paper's authors, Benjamin Wittes and Jane Chong, are not technologists: Wittes writes about law, and Chong is a lawyer. Their argument is primarily legal and based in part on the Supreme Court decision in Riley v. California from June. In it, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that modern mobile phones "are now such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude they were an important feature of human anatomy," and so police should not be able to search them without a warrant when making an arrest.” - × × ×

"- то есть, - Рыжий папа обвел очередь взглядом в поисках сочувствия, - то есть, я правильно понимаю, что вся эта пиздатня и две штуки баксов в год - это просто так?! ¶ Очередь замерла. Ужас объял всех. - Это не пиздатня. Вот там, - Директриса грозно выгнула локоть и наотмашь оттопырила указательный палец, - вот там ваша вторая районная школа, в которой даже учитель русского языка по-русски не говорит. Там наркотики продают в буфете столовой, а одиннадцатого класса не смогли сформировать, потому что все девочки забеременели, а все мальчики сели в тюрьму. Конечно, кто остался жив. Вот там пиздатня. А у нас - Директриса обвела взглядом подъемный механизм моста - у нас ГОУ СОШ №100500, и подготовительные курсы - ваш маленький шанс попасть к нам, а не туда. Так что, не нравится - не записывайтесь... Гм. Кто первый?" - × × ×

“Invisible, Inc. is a mercenary espionage agency operating in the late 21st century. Infiltrate procedurally generated corporate facilities in tense, turn-based missions where every move could be your last. Find profit in chaos as you guide your team around the world in search of lucrative contracts.” • #проигры - × × ×

В ту же стопку, что и Транзистор: http://friendfeed.com/urbansh... - × × ×

“There are a couple things you can do to help combat link rot for your own bookmarks moving forward. ¶ First, donate to the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/donate/ ¶ Second, if you use a bookmark storage service like Pinboard or others, ask them to support adding submitted URLs to the Wayback Machine. Their bookmarklets or plugins could also submit to the Wayback Machine's "Save Page Now" endpoint. Or that could be done by the service on the back-end. For services that provide full page archives, they could capture a full WARC (network headers plus content), so every successfully cached page could be donated to the Internet Archive and integrated into the Wayback Machine. Or all of the above.” • #архивисты - × × ×

а где это? тоже хочу. - alex@kapranoff.ru

Я в детстве читала много комиксов про муми-троллей. Интересно, это одни и те же комиксы? - flamebait generator

Это в библиотеке иностранной литературы, всего один зал, но симпатичное — http://www.afisha.ru/exhibit... - × × ×

(see also: "Xena, Warrior princess") - 9000

“Why should you read some blog post about how someone teaches? I started out wanting to write a series of essays in order to share my teaching techniques – syllabi and readings, concepts and methods, exercises and assignments. However, early on in the process I realized that I was not just writing about how to teach game design. These short pieces are really about how to learn game design.” • #проигры - × × ×

“Physicists have devised a way to take pictures using light that has not interacted with the object being photographed. This form of imaging uses pairs of photons, twins that are ‘entangled’ in such a way that the quantum state of one is inextricably linked to the other. While one photon has the potential to travel through the subject of a photo and then be lost, the other goes to a detector but nonetheless 'knows' about its twin’s life and can be used to build up an image.” - × × ×

“One advantage of the technique is that the two photons need not be of the same energy, Zeilinger says, meaning that the light that touches the object can be of a different colour than the light that is detected. For example, a quantum imager could probe delicate biological samples by sending low-energy photons through them while building up the image using visible-range photons and a conventional camera. The work is published in the August 28 issue of Nature.” - × × ×

На картинке - кот Шредингера? - Igor Sereda

"It turns out that things like a computer mouse and your own avatar, if you get a feedback mechanism going, under certain conditions, your brain will actually incorporate aspects of your avatar. The most famous example is Jaron Lanier who created a virtual lobster that had extra limbs. He was curious if he could figure out how to manipulate, in a virtual environment, those extra limbs, even though in reality he didn’t have them. And it turned out he figured out how to use micro movements and so his brain could in fact figure out how to manipulate an avatar as a representation of self even though that avatar had extra limbs that the human body didn’t have. ¶ That’s amazing. That tells you a lot. That tells you immediately that our sense of self is a construct, which is not the same thing as saying that it’s illusionary, I think it’s very real, but it is certainly not your genetic code or simply your synapses or simply any one thing, it’s all those things integrated together that makes us who we are.” • #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

“A list of the weirdest, most artful or unexpected apps. Art projects, strange tools, cultural oddities, and more. I plumb the depths of the app store so you don't have to.” - × × ×

“Самое главное — происходит процесс разложения социума. Раньше мне казалось, что все-таки в России есть какие-то уровни существования коллективного, которые не затронул процесс распада. Но сегодня я думаю, что нет угла, не затронутого этим распадом. Здравые, казалось бы, люди готовы верить совершенно немыслимым глупостям, отстаивать мнение, которое они никогда в жизни не считали своим, впадать в раж, терять голову и способность к критическому мышлению. Не говоря уже о потере человеческой солидарности, желания понять другого. Теоретически мы думали, что это состояние привычности, бессилия, общего неучастия, раздробленности, размазанности, рассеянности будет приводить к гниению и загниванию строя. Но оказалось, что можно быстро перевести его в состояние экстраординарности, очень свойственное России. Чрезвычайность — это мощное орудие власти, которая другими способами не может воздействовать на население.” - × × ×

“As Lyft has gotten better at sniffing out recruiters and banning them from the service, Uber has been forced to alter its tactics. In the run-up to Lyft’s high-profile launch last month in New York City, Uber organized a "street team" to analyze Lyft’s expansion strategy. On July 9th, a marketing manager emailed a subset of the company’s contractors in New York city with a new opportunity. "We have a special ongoing project that we’re going to be rolling out next week and I wanted to get about 8–10 of you to help out," he wrote. "This is going to be completely based on your own personal hustle, as it’s not a typical onsite event. We are going to have you working on your own time helping us sign up Uber drivers, and there is HUGE commission opportunity for everyone you signup.” - × × ×

Про саботаж все-таки ничего нет. Ну то есть, 5000 снятых заявок - это не тот масштаб. Тем более каждая из них сколько, секунд 30 максимум была? - anatoliy

Это что ж — таксистов (не лицензий, а людей) нынче в крупных городах недостаток, как программистов? - 9000

“Commerce knits the modern world together in a way that nothing else quite does. Almost anything you own these days is the result of a complicated web of global interactions. And there's no better way to depict those interactions and the social and political circumstances that give rise to them than with a map or two. Or in our case, 38. These maps are our favorite way to illustrate the major economic themes facing the world today. Some of them focus on the big picture while others illustrate finer details. The overall portrait that emerges is of a world that's more closely linked than ever before, but still riven by enormous geography-driven differences.” - × × ×

Конверсионные технологии. Техпроцесс 60мкм, наверняка. - × × ×

“The only thing wrong with that, Fair said, is that Lincoln never said it. Fair said the quote was actually his own, but somewhere along the line Simon and Schuster, New York publishers, got the idea Lincoln had said it. Not only did the “quote” provide the title, Fair said, “We’ve probably created another Lincoln legend.” - × × ×