I get a feeling everyone in this thread did not buy the G1 because they liked the G1, but solely because they are google fans that buy anything google throw at them.
If you people really liked the keyboard, you would be praising the two last phones from blackberry.
physical keys, ctrl+a/c/v/z! it even have a gimmick that acts as a touchpad. and bloatware-less android (well, less than a pure-google anyway)
only downside of those phones is nobody managed to get root yet. But that is more an android issue. And some people might actually prefer a phone with no root entry points anyway.
I think that's a take that is obviously wrong for many people. The g1 was fun because of the hardware, and it didn't have an expensive plan, it was easy to write apps for. I liked the keyboard, I could put music on it that I controlled. It was my phone, instead of that mba thing, the blackberry. It was the perfect device for me at the time.
I can only speak for myself but I got it because it looked like an awesome pocket ssh console. And it was. Connectbot was ready to go on launch thanks to the sdk and emulator that was released ahead of time.
Android being open source was a huge factor too but I probably would have stuck with the Treo 680 for a while longer if it wasn't for the keyboard.
And I do use a BB key2 right now :) At least until I get my fxtec pro1.
BB seems to have stopped selling the Key2 in the US a few months back so I really hope my current one holds out long enough.
They are as dumb and undesirable as incomplete regex email filters in web forms.
Every single one ever written will have this problem. And ironically, absolutely nobody reading a fart joke will ever be offended. But the millions of people who are denied service and not twitter famous enough to reach a dot-com employee are very much offended.
...Also, the single reason to add those auto-censorship features is to please advertisers, not to protect users/drivers from fart jokes.
> patches are associative: pulling B and C together after A does the same as pulling just C after pulling A and B
that makes no sense to me. DARCS also claim this, but if you have the patches all changing the first line to a different value, obviously the last one will dictate the final value of the first line. Which is the same as git. in what world do you want to change orders of patches and not have the final state change?
You are wrong. Yes, on the left side B is applied to A, then C is applied to the result (AB). However, on the right side, C is applied to B, then the result (BC) is applied to A. A is still the left most patch in both cases. BC could depend on (the output context of) A so it wouldn't make sense to apply A to BC! BC is applied to A. A(BC)
So you are saying that applying patches is not commutative? I was assuming A(BC) == (BC)A. What makes you think that the result should be different depending on the order?
Hire someone to design a plastic mold, pay for the work, never hear from that person again.
It is insane to expect anything more than a tax code, that is only retained for some few years in some dusty finance department file cabinet.
There is no source control, design history files, CD/CI, etc in a factory, i.e. 99% of small to medium business. Silicon valley and fintech are the exceptions, even today, let alone when that happened.
Also, it is a bunch of old timers recommending one another for work. The people on the floor and owners definitely know the person, but will not tell unless they have to.
The ajax part was not that innovative. As with every product that succeed, the content was awesome. How did a startup with 2 people living "out of maxed out credit cards" in early 2000s even acquired mapping data in the first place?
Tech behemoths, full of privileged people on top, use the false pretense of respecting pronouns or other minority demands, to actually oust people that care about such issues in the first place?
They try to mislead saying that the only downside is learning a new language. Every good programmer loves to learn a new language. The actual, real downside is license/lock-in/ownership.
...Their website is hosted on Medium, not gitlab/hub. I rest my case.
Ironically, attackers would have access to more valuable data (and more freedom of movement) on your personal/dev box than on a monitored production host.
It would seem so, with a trusted fourth party (the US treasury) acting as the RNG.
But after the initial exchange, another random element is generated: the bill is torn in half, so if you want to forge your part, you'll have to tear it in just the right way to match the other part. This is probably going to be even more difficult than forging dollar bills in the first place.
Just getting the information to forge half the bill is hard enough: Either you have the original, in which case you don't need to fake it, or you have the other half, in which case you've already compromised the bad guy.
Not for the Treasury, who issues coins but not bills, but for the Fed. Every bill is a liability on the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet. Destroy the bill, destroy the liability. That the Fed doesn’t know you destroyed it [0] is irrelevant.
If you destroyed a coin that would be a “gift” to the Treasury, except the metal and cost of production to replace the coin might be larger than the worth of the coin (I.e. you destroy an old copper cent)
[0] dollar bills circulate like mad and are accounted for every time a bank gets a hold of them (often, due to vending machines, strippers, and diner waitresses). If a bill stops showing up, you can assign a high degree of probability that it will never show up again. Every one bill is probably long tailed, but money is fungible, so who cares if any one bill ends up re-appearing?
How is it a gift to the government? The undamaged dollar isn't a liability of the government. It's a gift to everyone who holds USD by virtue of slightly reducing the money supply, therefore slightly increasing the purchasing power of the dollars that still exist.
A gift in the amount of $1 divided by the total number of dollars.
Outstanding currency is a liability on the balance sheet of the issuer. The trick with issuing fiat currency is that you can redeem that liability with another, just the same.
The parent is wrong that it's a gift of $1 to the Treasury.
It is a gift to the government however, as you note in your own explanation. It just increased the government's USD purchasing power. The US Government is an epic scale spender of USD (millions of employees, $4.x trillion budget).
If you people really liked the keyboard, you would be praising the two last phones from blackberry.
physical keys, ctrl+a/c/v/z! it even have a gimmick that acts as a touchpad. and bloatware-less android (well, less than a pure-google anyway)
only downside of those phones is nobody managed to get root yet. But that is more an android issue. And some people might actually prefer a phone with no root entry points anyway.