Have been using Newsblur too, but it doesn't work so well for Hacker News - it doesn't display the article or the comments straight off, so you have to click through twice on your mobile to read either, which is bad for navigation or a slow connection.
Yup. I'm the only person from NewsBlur. Got an RSS feed url that has full text? I'd love to use that. Otherwise, I'm planning on building a Text view that effectively extracts the article text. It's not highly prioritized, but it will be after I launch social in a month or so.
That's something I don't completely understand: why sales of entertainment goods are delayed across international borders. Don't get me wrong, I know there's a good explanation. I just don't know what it is.
I also hope this changes in the coming years with the growing popularity of e-products.
One reason for some delays is translation into the local language. Some countries want their books and movies to be in their language instead of English.
Another reason is marketing. Even if the local language is English, they will want a marketing campaign specific to the that country.
Sometimes it is just a matter of different schedules. Even if the work is being published in different countries by the same international publisher, the divisions of that publisher might be operating fairly independently in each country. The French division of a publisher might have various books in French by French offers on its plate that it considers higher priority than some American book that is coming in via the American division.
As far as translation delay goes, this could become less important as more people speak English. In the EU, over half the population speaks English as either a first or second language, and it is the first foreign language in secondary schools in every EU country (except those where English is their first language, of course).
There could become a time when people in Europe, even in countries where English is not their first language, prefer to get their American books and movies in e-form as soon as they come out, instead of waiting for a translation. These people won't need a local advertising campaign, and won't be dealing with the local division of the publisher.
If enough people in non-English speaking countries start getting American books and movies in English instead of waiting for a translation, that could make it less likely that the publishers will bother with a translation.
It will be interesting to see if that causes any controversy. I could see there being some backlash against that, with some thinking it is marginalizing their culture.
Basically, the internet has a homoginizing effect, but there are some things people do not want homogenized, so we are in for some interesting conflicts.
Print rights, historically, were generally granted on a territorial basis because it made sense --- the operations of the publishing companies were also confined that way. And until recently, ebook revenue hasn't been a large enough fraction of the print sales to give anyone an immediate financial motive to renegotiate.
(This in an industry where, like most of the world, "we've always done it that way" is taken to be a sensible argument for continuing to do it that way, and people generally don't believe that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. The limits of this strategy are becoming more apparent as they find themselves living in a world that was invented by Jeff Bezos, and not liking it much --- but what they're learning so far from that mistake is that Jeff Bezos is a bad, bad man. Which may not be the right lesson...)
At the end of the linked MSNBC video, the reporter (Kate Snow) is arguing that nobody is policing the pledged projects and that she could theoretically "go on there and say I'm gonna raise money to make a record album and then get all the money. And, if I never make a record album, nobody knows any different."
Yes. To be listed on a public stock exchange (NASDAQ, NYSE, etc) a company must be extensively audited (e.g., "does this factory really exist? lets go look") and is subject to various regulations (e.g. Sarbox).
When Chuggy G. raises money for an album on kickstarter, you might be surprised to discover that Accenture does not actually audit her.
There are scammers just like on ebay or any other site where money is exchanged, and in a way the nature of the site sort of implies risk because you're essentially investing in the development of a product, it's like a crowdsource VC, but you can filter through the noise and find interesting ideas with inventors who demonstrate their knowledge of the engineering with high quality videos, previous experience and prototypes.
The text is updated for the latest version, Perl 5.14, and some of the code only works with that version. We note in the text when we are talking about a Perl 5.14 feature, and we mark those code sections with a special use statement that ensures you’re using the right version:
use 5.014; # this script requires Perl 5.14 or greater
If you don’t see that use 5.014 in a code example (or a similar statement with a different version), it should work all the way back to Perl 5.8. To see which version of Perl you have, try the -v command-line switch:
$ perl -v
Here’s some of the new features from Perl 5.14 that we cover, and where appropriate, we still show you the old ways of doing the same thing:
* We include Unicode examples and features where appropriate. If you haven’t started playing with Unicode, we include a primer in Appendix C. You have to bite the bullet sometime, so it might as well be now. You’ll see Unicode throughout the book, most notably in the chapters on Scalars (Chapter 2), Input/Output (Chapter 5), and Sorting (Chapter 14).
* There is more information in the regular expression chapters, covering the new features from Perl 5.14 to deal with Unicode case-folding. The regular expression operators have new /a, /u, and /l switches. We now cover matching by Unicode properties with the \p{} and \P{} regular expression features.
* Perl 5.14 adds a nondestructive substitution operator (Chapter 9), which turns out to be really handy.
* Smart matching and given-when has mutated a bit since their introduction in Perl 5.10, so we update Chapter 15 to cover the new rules.
* We updated and expanded Perl Modules (Chapter 11) to include the latest news, including the zero-conf cpanm tool. We add some more module examples as well.
* Some of the items previously in Appendix B, the advanced-but-not-demonstrated features, move into the main text. Notably, that includes the fat arrow => moving into Hashes (Chapter 6) and splice moving into Lists and Arrays (Chapter 3).
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