I understand the general need to support legacy software. I don't so much mind Microsoft being the long-tail in closing these APIs. And while leaks can come from anywhere, I would have expected them to limit Sony's access much earlier. They don't exactly have a great history with data leaks.

Yea, it's super weird. First, they picked the wrong build. Second, they pushed it to all rings. I wonder, given that it was an xbox build, if it was pushed by someone from the xbox team. I'm guessing release permissions are shared cross-org. Then someone from xbox who doesn't have the experience with the release system had to push something for their own team.. And being from xbox, they also didn't have the proper mentor/training on the system. Since we can't see their internal tools, it could also have been a confusing process. Maybe deployment targets are numbered and it was a typo, etc. In any case, this really shouldn't have happened. They really need to fix this process.

It's an extensible API. It will work with PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, etc as well if they choose to support it.

All that foreign porn and NOT ONCE have you wondered what they were saying?

You've been able to do more or less the same demo with an Android Gear watch and phone for a couple of years. The output was just text instead of spoken aloud. Honestly it would be a lot nicer if both people could just speak through a single phone. Their new ability to recognize speakers combined with language detection should be enough for that, you'd think. This just feels awkward. If you could invite a robot translator into a phone call, that would be awesome.

I'm disappointed that there's still such a huge price jump between the 256 and 512 GB models. +256 GB of space should not cost $400. I'm sure some of that must be a "best option" premium. A lot of people want that 512 GB and are willing to pay for it.

Also, 36W power supply? Is that due to the number of cells in the battery limiting the wattage or is it to reduce total weight? The high-end MBPs have 85W connections. While a MBP obviously sucks more power and has a larger battery, I'd be curious to know if there's a technical reason preventing the SP3 from charging faster with a higher wattage.

Remember also that you can't join an RT device to a domain. It supports exchange activesync but that's as close as you're going to get. They may be some other related tricks to help IT push some of your own company's apps out to devices but I'm not aware of how that aspect of the model works.

I've found that I get exponential returns on the time I can _effectively_ dedicate to work. For example, I'll get more than twice as much done in 20 hours/week than I will in 10. For me, the sweet spot is higher than 40 hours. I'll get a lot more done in 50 hours than I will in 40. I have the extra time to step back, learn, work on tools, improve the process, etc. At just 40, I'm usually chasing my weekly goals, only getting through the most important tasks. So, as far as my career goes, I'm mostly treading water at 40 hours. But when I spend a few months at 50, I end up having a ton of really cool results that I need to differentiate myself in a review. And also, work is simply a lot more fun when I have more than enough time to get my core work done. I end up more involved in the broader project and enjoy things a lot more. If I tried to just get by with 35 hours/week, I'd end up being stressed out constantly, hating my work, and ultimately getting poor reviews.

So yea, I think everyone needs to find the right number of hours to hit their own personal sweet spot. Then, take on a conservative amount of work that leaves around 20% of their time available for good ideas and helping out more broadly. Don't start the week by planning 50 hours and over-promising. Leave yourself extra time to improve yourself. Over months and years, that extra time adds up and results in a highly successful career.

I agree we want links to the original material. Those are always appreciated (give or take nsfw, etc). But as a former news poster at an unrelated site, it's good manors to also link where you actually saw the news first yourself. That way two niche sites posting the same news day after day don't end up hating each other for never giving credit. A lot of sites have source and via links at the bottom of the posts, eg engadget. That's kinda lazy from the poster's point of view. Slashdot has the more traditional posting style of writing it all out and trying to be interesting. And for large sites, I think it's doubly important to provide the via link first. It's how small high-quality sites are able to build a following. Via links give me warm community-first fuzzies!

I had something similar. I started dating another dev from the same org. We worked on the same floor and often wandered over to hang out when stressed or bored. It was nice having someone who was on the same product cycle as I was. Crunch time, bug bashes, etc were never an issue, etc.

The story sounds a whole lot more like the perils of putting a flirty hot girl among a socially awkward group of guys. Obviously she'll be able to take advantage. And while it won't happen every time, it's pretty obvious it'll happen some of the time. Poor guys.

My cables look like this:

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Since the connector on my phone is at the top left and I know which way the notch goes, I almost never get it backwards. It's muscle memory at this point.

The only advantage I see (besides lockin/marketing) is that it could potentially be the only thin connector that is forward compatible to usb 3. As far as I know, there's no single port which can do micro usb 2.0 and 3.0. They release the iphone 5 with usb 2 but perhaps their next model needs faster data for some tasks. They can update to support usb 3 via their connector without having to change ports. While most manufacturers probably wouldn't consider it a big deal to switch to the new micro usb 3 port in the future, it would be hard for apple to build a huge accessory market if they didn't stick to a single connector for a reasonable amount of time.

In a lot of cases you don't need the pilot. But you *DO* need/want them as a backup. And honestly, I'd rather they stay awake playing games than pass out from boredom.

AP1000 is a gen 3 reactor. Bill has been pushing to get a gen 4 reactor built. I *think* that this would be the first gen 4 approved for construction. It sounds like Bill's reactor could actually use the spent fuel rods from a gen 3 like the AP1000 as fuel.

The glow nook is awesome for low-light / dark reading. I much prefer it to reading on my ipad, completely regardless of lighting conditions. The weight of the 10" ipad is a big issue for reading though. If you're going to laze around for a few hours with a book, the ipad starts to feel pretty heavy on the wrists. The nook still feels light. The only issue I have with my nook for reading is that the next/prev buttons are too stiff. I end up getting a sore hand from flipping pages. I guess I don't have my perfect device yet.. soon though I hope!