It's £4.99 or £9.99 per month. Most people probably spend significantly more than this for their iPhone contract, data and so on. Unlimited music for this price is a steal. Pony up, or put up with the ads.
Did you read the article? It addresses that in the very first paragraph. Spotify breaks the mute button and this fixes it. It's not a matter of removing all ads or screwing over Spotify.
What? Nothing is broken. They don't let you mute ads, because they're ADS. This is the intended behaviour. If you don't like it, pay. Of course it's a matter of removing ads, your post details how to silence them when Spotify have built the software to not allow you to mute.
Of course I read your facile little article, and I stand by my post completely.
I realise we were never able to hold the Microsoft Courier, but I think they were on the right track there and had they executed (yes - I realise this is where Apple won) the landscape may look different today. RIP Courier, you passed before your time.
From the couple of videos, that thing looked very confusing (cool though, but confusing). I would doubt that we'd hear stories like the one posted about the Courier.
If it did, then the LHS and RHS would be functionally identical, or nearly so. But they aren’t, because you can’t rewrite “New use of existing technology” to “man revived after 96 minutes w/out a pulse” in many contexts, or vice-versa, without a change in meaning.
English uses “is” for simple identity, but not as often as it uses it for other things.* Indiscriminately replacing “is” with “=” or “==” is usually only going to confuse any math or programming person trying to take it seriously. And if you don’t mean it to be taken seriously, using “==” for an equally long and much more ordinary word is just silly.
* For example, copula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics) . This is the form of “is” in “Denver is south of here”. Clearly Denver is not equal to to predicate of relative southernness, or I could say “San Diego is Denver”.
"if you are serious about programming you will _eventually_ master both."
Starting to really dislike the text editor snobbery on HN.
At home I use TextMate for Python and Ruby, Eclipse for Java. At work, Eclipse for Java and Visual Studio for C#. I'm not 'serious' about my hobby and career because I like a different text editor to you?
It's not snobbery, it might have come out the wrong way (the word serious was a bad choice), but the idea still stands. It's completely fine to use different editors, as it is fine to keep developing web applications in php and not trying things like ror/django/node.js/nextbigframework, or never learning a lisp dialect.
But in all cases, just learning them will most likely improve your skills in many ways. Maybe you won't change from textmate to vim or emacs, but you will pick up many things from them that I believe will make your life easier.
I have very mixed feelings about CCTV, but generally I don't mind it (note that this is different to being 'for' it). I worked for a company writing software for CCTV operators, recording/playback etc and I heard of various crimes being solved and our images being used to convict a murderer, people who caused damage to property, thieves and so on. Very good feeling.
I don't mind the fact that I'm recorded when I walk down the street - not because of the flawed 'I have nothing to hide' argument, but simply because I can't think of a reason that I would mind. Most cameras aren't actively watched unless there is a specific reason to, and the recordings are deleted usually after 30 days. On the one hand you may dislike the camera watching you - but you'd be thrilled if it recorded the guy who mugs you on your way home and leads to his arrest and subsequent conviction. I do feel safer knowing this on the occasion that I'm on my own in an area that I don't feel safe. Maybe this is due to working with CCTV in the past, I'm more acutely aware of its presence then I might be otherwise.
London's CCTV will lead to literally hundreds of arrests of these scumbags (I live near an area that was involved, and have family even closer) that would otherwise have gone completely unpunished. Many more of the people involved in the riots are having a hard time sleeping tonight then if there were no CCTV.
@hcho - ig1 is correct. Most of the imagery you're seeing on TV is at the scene of the riot. Images of CCTV in the surrounding areas will be scoured over the coming weeks, many covered faces will have been uncovered a few streets away. Also watching where people came from can help to find associations - for example they arrest somebody who was seen on CCTV to have arrived with somebody who is not yet identified.
