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I agree with that. If there's one persistently leveled "flaw" in the structure of things, it was the failure to take into account the impact of political parties. There was far more concern about varying regional interests than political orientation.

Re: Germany, (I live abroad in Germany right now, it's fascinating to watch) The fascinating thing was in this latest election, her party very nearly won an outright majority, meaning it would have required no partners at all. I think the CSU/CDU felt just short of the 51% required. There's never been such a sweeping victory of that scale since the party's inception in the 50's.
Reading comprehension 101:
Identify the characters of a story and what happens to them:

- Protagonist, narrator : Bobby, Dev. knows John and 2 other devs, they meet before the week end. Part of team 1.

- Narrator's friend: John. Propose they draw up a contract with whoever they end up teaming with so that everybody that work on the week end project ends up with the 0.4% of the company if the project ends up being a company.

- Antagonist: Billy, Business / Idea guy. Pitch the idea to the team, then decline to agree to the 0.4% agreement. Propose a "Handshake Deal", unspecified terms, without shaking hands. Starts an LLC based on the StartupWeekend efforts with "JP", a friend and other business guy, who was not present at the startup weekend. Together, Billy and JP own 100% of the LLC. Says devs might join the LLC, described as being hostile to sharing equity in the company, but might be an option.

What happens in the story:

At the beginning of the story, Bobby and John listen to Billy's pitch. They approach him and say they are interested in his idea.Billy propose they join with another team (Brad's, another 4 dev team). They do.

Billy declines to agree to a 0.4% equity sharing. Offers the "Handshake agreement", terms unspecified, without shaking hands.

All 9 work on the idea over the week end.

Billy end up presenting the idea onstage with his picture on every slide.

The project ends up winning the "startup weekend" presentation.

... etc ...

---

Did you read the story?
Similar (kind of) concept but hypothecation is about collateral, not mental accounting, unless it has a second, different meaning too?
MySQL is basically taking Visual Basic's "On Error Resume Next" approach. Which is also what a lot of JS seems to be doing, too, based on limited experience.
Young folks do a lot of things that wouldn't be seen as acceptable behaviour for a CEO. I get where you're coming from, though.
If you're on strict mode, TEXT and BLOB types in MySQL 5 don't support a default value. Bugzilla didn't set anything for those fields; relying on MySQL putting in the default value. At that time Bugzilla had loads of places where the database would insert things into the database. Fixing all of those would've been pretty daunting task and IMO MySQL not supporting those defaults anymore is a too invasive (backwards compatibility breaking) change. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/data-type-defaults.ht....

This was around the time that GNOME once again was upgrading its Bugzilla instance (IIRC), plus lots of people were moving to MySQL 4. Fixing this was pretty urgent and assumed that MySQL's behaviour would change back.

Because of this MySQL change being backwards incompatible, it also broke restoring backups. This patch wouldn't help with that though (it just changes the setting for the database connection created by Bugzilla; it doesn't change the server setting).

It took many years until the Bugzilla code was less of a mess. If the same bug would've been opened nowadays a proper fix could've been made. Back then, urgh.
Whatever happened to Minority Report's technology predictions?
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Do you think this will change with the popularity of node.js and libuv? That is, people using said capabilities in a cross-platform manner more.
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I'd love to see something like this available in running stores (if it's not already). I've done the treadmill + video camera test in the past, where someone looks at slow motion video of your footfall and determines whether you're under/over pronating etc.

It's always struck me as inexact though, based in a small part on the opinion of the person doing the test. It'd be far more intuitive showing some sort of heat map of a foot showing where the most pressure is.
You've gotta look at it this way - when github updates do I even notice? Have you ever had a bug that stopped you working on github? I personally use github all the time and have never seen a bug on it. I trust it completely (well.. tech wise).

Our repository is a few million lines, maybe 20,000 commits. The search works fine now it has been changed to call out to git properly (aside from the js searchbox thing in ff). Repositories are stored on the same server. I'm not going to dig up all the issue numbers and turn this into a support request, I am involved in reporting these and commenting on them @ gitlab.com.

The syntax highlighting updates have been very well received, but I mean gitlab was shipped with syntax highlighting that doesn't work properly with Java code. Not exactly a unusual lang. And I guess that's where my rant was going - you can't ship crap like that, you should be shipping with 0 known bugs. Every time gitlab ships a bug like this, I take a knock in the office on your behalf and that's why I'm so openly annoyed.

Perhaps you could do a LTR or open a beta programme for early adopters?
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"Hugh McDonald, hughmcd@ican"

The guy has an e-mail address hosted at a top level domain. 1999 was a silly time.
But you shouldn't just pick it based on some statistical measure only. Maps are supposed to be a useful tool, and that should consider the cultural importance of a place.
Was launched at a local event (http://gathergather.co.nz/), and popped up on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6904743 -- IIRC there was a US version someone released a bit later, but I can't find it atm.
I looked back over that bit I wrote and felt it could have been a lot better. You're right, there's rarely been deviation between the popular vote and the electoral. It was envisioned that the electoral college would rarely produce a clear result, and when this system was implemented, many of those state laws you mentioned did not exist. (If I recall correctly, many of them came about after the Gore vs. Bush contest.

I do recall direct representation being a cited concern, though I agree that yes, it's original function doesn't seem to have been needed. But I couldn't tell you if that's because it's never been tested, or if it's because of the structure thereof that's prevented a test.
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you're right, I did read quickly. In your reading under the agreement they came to who would own the vast majority of the company? (i.e. all of it ex 0.4% * devs)?

This is what the text says:

>Billy brought along four other developer/designers he was already chatting with: Josh, Clay, Hayden, and another John.

>Our John, Team Paladin John, then went on to introduce ourselves and his idea for us to take 0.4% after helping launch the startup this weekend. That way should anyone go forward with the work product and it become a big success, at least there’s some kickback if this thing goes nuclear unicorn.

Also the way I read

>John explained that he’d spoken with Startup Weekend organizers and was told that contracts aren’t allowed from the event, so he asked for a handshake deal. Billy said he was happy with a handshake deal, and quickly moved the conversation forward without any handshaking actually taking place.

is that this is what everyone implicitly agreed to. I don't find it credible that "I'm happy with a handshake deal" and everyone moving forward isn't evidence of a mutual understanding of what would happen after. The actors acted as if everyone agreed that people would get 0.4% just for participating in the weekend, the terms that were brought to Billy, and that Billy was happy to agree to this.

The fact that these 0.4% terms came from Paladin's camp rather than Billy makes it even more clear that the author is in the wrong.

It sounds to me like you're saying 0.4% has nothing to do with this story whatsoever. It sounds to me like it was agreed on.
What about product Engineering
You might want to check out ice cream. It also keeps me awake.
Probably they are made from the same material as clouds.
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Pluto is 7.5 billion kilometers away. Let that sink in while you look at the photo.
Need more information on software solutions
Watch quadrocopters autonomously weave a rope bridge you can walk on
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The fact that it takes into account just height and weight is problematic. No consideration of bone structure or body frame.

At my absolutely lightest, when you could see every rib sticking out, my BMI was still comfortably in the range considered overweight. If I were to live through the Bataan death camps, I might get down to skin and bone enough to be in the normal range.
Corrugated is the most recycled material behind glass and aluminum. It gets used over and over. Source: I work at a corrugated plant.

If anyone involved with the company sees this, we would love to manufacture this for US distribution. We're right in the middle of the country and own or own trucking company.
Thanks, i'll keep that in mind
In actual fact, on many (perhaps most) platforms for which code must be signed, the developers on those platforms don't have to bother with code signing to develop and test their own code; it's stubbed out in the development environment.

So even a reaching definition of "preferred form for modifications" doesn't hit signing keys, just like "preferred form" of a Rails app doesn't include your EC2 credentials.
Fabricating statistics wholesale is conspiracy theory. Releasing statistics that are distorted in all sorts of ways because various government organizations have direct incentives to do so is pretty much a statement of fact.
There's only one rule:

1. Don't write fast running behavioural tests that verify the software is working as required.

With fast running tests I can maintain any old crap. Well, technically speaking I can rewrite it, but no-one will mind.
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> we’ve found that teams who don’t spend time addressing this issue until it actually matters (i.e., there is a tangible product to have ownership of) are much more productive and successful than those who do.

OMG! i was just about to ask what's up with that "no contracts" policy. this is incredible! they should rename to Exploitation Weekend.
That is complete horseshit and you know it. I just made a statement and a decision. He's free to disagree with my assessment, and I'm free to not give a fuck. We're both free to move on with our lives.

But then you decide to ride in on your High Horse to save the day!

Earlier you reprimanded me for saying "shut up", which is just fucking retarded to begin with, and you're engaging in a double standard because his posts were clearly not "substantive" (and thus against the arbitrarily enforced rules).

Just so you know, whenever you ban someone for calling things as they are, and trying to get people think for themselves, you're essentially supporting your own enslavement.

You're probably a psychopath yourself, of course, but most likely not protected from the potentially perpetual tyranny the world will slide into if sanity doesn't spread widely enough.
Netherlands was also one of the few countries in the world that didn't take union pay (China's atm network), so my debit card was useless. If I didn't have my credit card I would have been totally screwed.
How do you find the optimal split?
Interestingly enough, these days I think that most people won't consider most Python or Ruby code as "glue code".
Once you've checked your server, then you can head over to https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generat... and get an idea of how to change your server's SSL configuration.
I think the claims about linked lists there are rather oversold, especially the parts about functional languages. First, linked lists are common, useful, and efficient in languages such as Racket or Ocaml. I'd really want to see performance results before accepting your claims. Second, Haskell is really not limited in the way you say. You can write all the programs you'd write in an imperative language if you're willing to have IO in your type.
i'm curious, how enforceable is that? what kind of proof would one need?
Ah now that's interesting. Thanks
Is uranium really needed to make nuclear energy? I was under the impression that you could use thorium. I only got that question right because the other options didn't make sense.
For anyone wondering what this problem is, see http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=The_Erdő...
> If you use this in a real life, the more obvious way to write these transactions is:

Is it? Do ORMs really do that, or is it one of those "SQL was designed to be used this way, but nobody using SQL read the design documents" cases?
Yes, we think in text or, more accurately, a language. But only a small percentage of us can think in code, yet software businesses will continue to come online at exponential momentum. Having visual, drag and drop components is more universally accessible. If computers actually began to understand how we think (and by "we" I mean including those of us who aren't engineers), then the future of innovation is open to everyone and that's ultimately the vision of Bubble.
This is incredible, it's about 2x as fast as OSM over tor and about 10x as fast as Google Maps.
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You mean offensive not oppressive and as with everything it depends on context and really Bobby doesn't come off as straight as an arrow to me, he's as shady as he claims Billy to be and if he got his way and Billy paid him off, I bet my right arm we wouldn't have heard about those slurs at all but it's in his best interest to stir the pot and defame Billy.
Does the 0.4% "handshake deal" potentially cause issues with this, though? Couldn't that be construed as an offer for the work that was produced that weekend?

If I was being uncharitable, I could say that the reason the 0.4% offer came up in the first place was specifically to deal with this problem - by offering a trivial amount of equity, Billy has an argument that the other programmers were compensated for their time in a form that they mutually agreed to. Why else would Billy bother making this arrangement?
This doesn't seem to be true consistently FWIW; in Thailand the city I looked at had the city name in Thai (แม่สอด) but the street names romanized. Some other city names are romanized as well.
I'm special... ;)
The question is why is the userspace so shitty? Doesn't Microsoft implement some async things into their kernel?
Or stuff like epoll, kqueue, etc..?
I do not quite like the usage of the word “corrupted” here. For me, the more correct word be to use is “inconsistent”.

Aren't we talking about situations in which a database tracking account balances creates money out of thin air, or vaporizes it unexpectedly?

I feel like Aphyr is always at pains to talk about the real-world implications of these findings --- not just how bad they are in sensitive applications, but also the kinds of places you can get away with these "inconsistencies".
That is crazy.

I thought I was doing well to have my name be a valid domain: https://david.kitchen/
Just as the restaurant owner sounds like he has a tendency to take credit for more than he actually did, the software engineers here sound as if they have an irrational belief in the importance of their own contribution relative to that of others. And an ego problem. "A dream team of developers"? It's 2015 and you built a simple website in Python.

Both sides in this story need to grow up if any of them ever want to launch a successful business.
The future of programming could be more visual, but still very textual. It's not a binary decision to make.
My interpretation in layman's terms of what this paper has proved -

Take an infinite sequence of +1 and -1, for example

1, 1, -1, 1, -1, -1, -1, 1, 1, -1, ...

You get an evenly spaced subsequence by starting on the n'th element, and picking every n'th element after that (and stopping after finitely many terms). So for example, we could pick every 2nd element of this sequence and get

1 (stopping after 1 term)
1, 1 (stopping after 2 terms)
1, 1, -1 (stopping after 3 terms)
1, 1, -1, 1 (stopping after 4 terms)
1, 1, -1, 1, -1 (stopping after 5 terms)

The discrepancy of an evenly spaced subsequence is obtained by adding together all the members of the subsequence and taking the absolute value. So the discrepancies of the sequences above are 1, 2, 1, 2, and 1.

The challenge is to find an evenly-spaced subsequence with as large a discrepancy as possible. For example, in a given sequence, can you find an evenly-spaced subsequence with a discrepancy of 10? of 100? of a million?

The paper has (apparently) proved that for any sequence, there is no upper limit to the discrepancies of evenly spaced subsequences, i.e. no matter how large the discrepancy of a subsequence you have found, there is always one larger.

The amazing thing about this result, to me, is the fact that it holds for any sequence of +1 and -1. Even if you try to engineer a sequence whose subsequences all have very small discrepancy, in some sense "there isn't enough room". You are always doomed to come up with a sequence containing evenly-spaced subsequences of arbitrarily large discrepancy.
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This is really awesome to hear. For years and years I have thought I was probably just weird or anxious because if I have caffeine later than about noon I have serious trouble getting to sleep that night (bedtime around 10pm). It's nice to know that there could possibly be a reasonable physical cause for this and it's not just all in my head.
I have always replied with an honestly grateful thank you mail. It's a shame a few insufferable idiots would have the power to change the behaviour of well meaning persons.
the author might want to tone down the pretentious comments about ruling the world. sorry, but world rulers don't get screwed like this.

although i believe that the Billy guy is a jerk (but no, BTW, does not really seem a bully), i kinda had a harder time sympathizing when comparisons with google started flying, while what they were developing was a seemingly usual web app, whose only distinction was the actual business idea, and even that was not original. and why enter into something like this with unknown people, sacrifice family time, work like an ass day and night, all without any contract - i'll never get that. the whole event is simply preposterous.
But the developers did walk away, Billy was the only one who kept with it initially...

And Billy didn't really have a "company" as we understand it; he came with an idea. It had nothing. A legal incorporation is a shell, nothing more.

I'm not the only one who was rooting for Billy while reading this post. Nobody did anything bully-like - it's a complete distraction and red herring, nothing quoted by Billy is "bully-like" - the closest thing in the post is when Bobby suggested ousting Billy from his own idea and leadership, just because Bobby helped write two days of code.

"Thanks for coming up with the best business at this event - I think you should be demoted to soemthing like business development, so someone else can run it."

Ridiculous suggestion, in my opinion, especially given the negotiation that went into the event beforehand.
It's all going to look like trippy tie-dye stuff.
TLDR: Some other developers and I went to a hackathon, met an 'idea guy' there, and won first place. Afterward, he claimed that he and a friend who wasn't there owned "the startup". We then proceeded to write obnoxious emails to each other.
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Yes, I'm tall and I can confirm this.

I try to get the center of my displays at the height of my eyes.

But I have a convertible notebook, so I will probably buy a keyboard and use it in "tent-mode" in the future.
Do you understand how hard it is for an 'idea guy' to recruit a technical team? There's a wonderful Dilbert where the boss says "I have a great idea; I just need a technical team and investors". Alice replies "The economic term for what you have is 'nothing'"
1. How many sales would you lose if you required everyone to use PayPal everytime? 2. (What about Google cash? or Square cash?)
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates

* http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates/

* http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-syst...

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/08/thrd2.html#004...

I look at the above; I look at what was said by the person that you're replying to; and the conclusion as to whether that person knows what xe is talking about comes out rather differently.
> ...he's as shady as he claims Billy to be...

Would you cite the text where you decided this? I'm not seeing it but likely read with a different tone.

> ...I bet that if he got his way and Billy paid him off...

Again, I'm not seeing this. Do you mean paying him 1/9th of the money and parting ways?
It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to see timestamps in iMessage on my phone.
At multiple times while watching the video, I thought it was a joke.
It is unlikely that anyone is going to create a general-purpose operating system based directly on an L4 kernel. L4 is incredibly simple. The more reasonable thing to do with L4 is to run another OS on top of it.
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That's exactly what I was thinking while reading.

This Bobby person sounds like a thin-skinned teenager who is still salty from being called a nerd in high-school.
The company he refers to in the beginning is for cheaply sending remittances. http://www.sendwave.com/
what's xcode ghost?
http://drops.wooyun.org/news/8864 (in chinese)
This happened to me too for a 3D Printing startup. The same exact scheme of bullshit. Fellow developers, unite :)

I was just curious so I found this:

http://www.staffedup.com/

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/local/startup-weekend-wi...
Probably solved after the 4k VR displays arrive.

You would look rather ridiculous walking on a treadmill with a keyboard, wearing a Rift or something. But I think this could be the optimal setup.
> Microsoft is 10 years from death if it does not embrace Linux.

FWIW, I remember people saying this in 1999 as well...
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I think that the vast majority of web apps could be deployed via shell script that calls out commands to the particular system. I'm not too optimistic about Docker since it is vastly more complex than the alternative (VM + shell).
Write tests that ensure each subroutine is called with specific parameters, so that functionally identical modifications cause the test to fail. Any change to the code now requires a change to several tests.
Who owns the code? I think it comes down to, who has the github password. Not a good idea to let the business guy run off with all the assets, and no firm deal.
In that case why do electric/fuel cell cars/buses have noise makers?
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Thorium reactors are also Uranium reactors. The difference is that instead of powering the reactor directly with fission of Uranium you feed the reactor with Thorium which is then transmuted into Uranium in the reactor and then nuclear fission of that uranium is used to generate power.
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Wish the study was not behind a paywall but...5 human subjects?