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Submission + - Lime: An Open Source Sublime Text Clone (github.com)

jones_supa writes: A clone of the popular Sublime Text text editor has been released under the 2-clause BSD license. As the author Fredrik Ehnbom announces the project:

I love the Sublime Text editor. I have created several plugins to make it even better. One thing that scares me though is that it is not open sourced and the pace of nightly releases have recently been anything but nightly, even now that version 3 is out in Beta. There was a period of about 6 months after the Sublime Text 2 “stable“ version was released where pretty much nothing at all was communicated to the users about what to expect in the future, nor was there much support offered in the forums. People including myself were wondering if the product was dead and I personally wondered what would happen to all the bugs, crashes and annoyances that still existed in ST2. This lack of communication is a dealbreaker to me and I decided that I will not spend any more money on that product because of it. As none of the other text editors I've tried come close to the love I had for Sublime Text, I decided I had to create my own. The frontend(s) are not ready to replace your favourite editor, but the backend itself I believe isn't too far away.

Submission + - Company to Balloon Tourists to the Edge of Space for $75,000 (discovery.com)

astroengine writes: If the thought of a rocket ride to space — or the $250,000 price tag to get there — leaves you feeling queasy, an Arizona firm thinks it has a gentler, less expensive alternative. World View, an offshoot of privately owned Paragon Space Development Corp., is developing a balloon-launched, near-space (30 kilometers) ride for $75,000 — less than one-third the current cost to fly on Virgin Galactic's suborbital SpaceShipTwo. “It really is very gentle. You can be up at altitude for hours, for days for research if you need to be... I think we have the opportunity to give a really, really incredible experience to people — and for a lot less than most of what’s out on the market right now,” project co-founder and Paragon president Jane Poynter told Discovery News.

Submission + - Experian sold social security numbers to ID Theft Service

realized writes: Experian — one of the three national US credit bureaus — reportedly sold SSNs through its subsidiary, Court Ventures, to the operators of SuperGet.info who then offered all of the information online for a price. The website would advertise having "99% to 100% of all USA" in their database on websites frequented by carders.

Hieu Minh Ngo, the website owner, has recently been charged with 15-count indictment filed under seal in November 2012, charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, substantive wire fraud, conspiracy to commit identity fraud, substantive identity fraud, aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, and substantive access device fraud.

Comment not suprised (Score 1) 28

Half the world was expecting this, and when Obamalamadingdong said that the US needed to bail out the car industry because the car was a US invention, only politeness kept the rest of the world from laughing their pants off.

Submission + - Learning to Code: Are We Having Fun Yet? 1

theodp writes: Nate West has a nice essay on the importance of whimsy in learning to program. "It wasn’t until I was writing Ruby that I found learning to program to be fun," recalls West. "What’s funny is it really doesn’t take much effort to be more enjoyable than the C++ examples from earlier...just getting to write gets.chomp and puts over cout > made all the difference. Ruby examples kept me engaged just long enough that I could find Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby." So, does the future of introductory computer programming books and MOOCs lie in professional, business-like presentations, or does a less-polished production with some genuine goofy enthusiasm help the programming medicine go down?

Comment Re:Half a billion? (Score -1, Offtopic) 151

The salvage is being done by Smit International from the Netherlands, a country widely regarded as efficient. Fpor more information Wikipedia article "Costa Concordia disaster", paragraph "Salvage" is a good start.

A COMPANY reagarded as efficient. The country is... well, tomorrow the government will present new plans to recover the economy. None of the plans can be considered 'efficient'.

Comment Re:They are NOT "toys"! (Score 1) 479

So, a car is a toy? A stove is a toy? A band saw is a toy?

That's very possible:

toy |toi|
noun
1 an object for a child to play with, typically a model or miniature replica of something : [as adj. ] a toy car.
  an object, esp. a gadget or machine, regarded as providing amusement for an adult : in 1914 the car was still a rich man's toy.

Toy and tool do not exclude each other. My laptop is more a toy at home, but a tool at work. (not that I don't like the work, but I rather keep a more serious pose there) I'm not sure where the EXACT difference lies, but I prefer to know the context before I judge. I've seen stoves I'd love to play with, I've seen cars (Ford Falcon!) that would serve me no more purpose than fun (heck, anyone with more than 2 cars could be considered to keep cars as toys), I wouldn't call a band saw a toy but someone else might: to each his own, I guess?

Comment Re:Neither was about race (Score 1) 25

Zimmerman got away with murder, plain and simple.

Not what the jury said.

While I don't have a problem agreeing with you that neither case had to do with race, the staggering asymmetry of how one case is blown into a month-long occupation of a state capitol, while another receives orders of magnitude less attention. In particular, my local news, which couldn't get either Zimmerman's or Martin's face off the screen, wasn't showing any pictures of the Oklahoma suspects. Why. Might. That. Be?

I hope my son isn't interested in Journalism, because I don't think it an honorable profession.

Because not every race responds equally in the same way. Some kid stole my sons lunch, "you can't complain because that's racist.". Yup., 12 years old and already pulling the racist card.

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