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Several people concluding Bobby could have handled the situation better. I agree, but I sympathize with Bobby because I've been in his shoes.

Folks there are several people that come to startup weekends with pre-planned businesses, looking for cheap labor (aka "fucking nerds") to push them off into profitability. When you enter any kind of hackathon it's on you to recognize these people before you choose to engage in assisting them, and if you dont, you have a bit of yourself to blame after the fact.
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The author of this piece doesn't really sound like a much better person than this Billy character. He sounds extremely entitled and arrogant. Just because "we build the Internet" doesn't mean we own the world. Billy's handling of the situation and his open homophobia are deplorable, but so it thinking you're superior to everyone can't hack. This kind of attitude is a big problem in our industry
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Certainly seems that way since Nadella took charge, although I'm sure the wheels were already set in motion back in the Ballmer days.
My favourite one must be number 20. Best ever quote of Thumper I've seen...!

"Never document gotchas in the code. If you suspect there may be a bug in a class, keep it to yourself. [...] Remember the words of Thumper "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all". What if the programmer who wrote that code saw your comments? What if the owner of the company saw them? What if a customer did? You could get yourself fired."
It is an inconsistency, and inconsistencies are very bad. Calling it something else won't help.
Godel's theorem is great for claims like this. Have they proved that the "theorem proving" software has no mistakes?
Funny coincidence that according to that chart we are right now at an all time high.
NT syscall overhead is immense compared to a Unix derivative. There are layers galore.
Start by deciding on acceptable routes. Here's a graphic of a recent journey I computed:

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Choose your date and time window for travel.

Then for every leg, download possible times and prices. Finally, simple search for the optimal combination.

You don't have contact details in your profile, but if you email me I can send you more details. I'm extremely busy just now, but if we establish contact I can send you relevant things in slow time. Let me know.
I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Apparently sound waves aren't used to make cellphone calls. I thought the whole point of phones was to receive and emit sound waves.

Like many tests this comes down to being good at knowing what the question asker is really after. It amounts to a test of how good are you at standardized tests.
It's not a problem for Billy, software gets built by itself if you have the right ideas. Just throw some dollars at an over-seas team. Execution is never a problem.

/s
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Replacing jitters with diabetes seems like an unwise tradeoff.
I think I would still tend to say that you don't need uranium in that you don't need to start with it. I guess it's a matter of interpretation.
Good point, but imho anyone that relies on transactionnal properties to ensure validity of its operation should really not be using ORMs ( at least not for the sensitive operations).

You shouldn't need to read an ORM documentation to understand what kind of locking is happening at a given time. It should all be there right in your code.
That raises the barrier substantially, however. Also, you can bet that the hardware will be secured too - just look at the technology available currently for things like credit cards and payment systems (where I think the security is somewhat more justified.)
For all the awe that the Martian and Lunar photos instill in me, this is just the most amazing thing ever. For the entirety of my life up until recently, Pluto was this impossibly distant planet that we knew very little about. We didn't even hardly know what it really looked like. I think the most we had was the blurry Hubble shots.

And now? Now I'm looking up close and personal at this impossibly distant object and can make out land structures. Just wow.
Care to enlighten me, then? It's as on topic and relevant to the posted story as the rest of the comments here. The best I can figure is people just don't like my tone, which is childish.
Microsoft's foray - I don't necessarily mean that in a negative way - into OS technologies doesn't surprise me any more.

I remember an MS Rep telling us one day:

> Our CEO believes that consumption is the new currency.

The context in which he used it seemed to imply that Nadella believes that the way forward for Microsoft is to not so much compete with existing products, but to give people new and better ways to consume existing ones, and of course to consume these existing products themselves. So it really doesn't surprise me that they've built their own Linux for Azure Stack, especially with guys like Cumulus Networks in the market.
Allow me to recommend you a piece of advice rarely followed by others - practice the act of selling every day. That helps enormously to get good at sales (and better than any book).
A database maker would say it isn't the database that created the money out of thin air, but the faulty application code that didn't select the right isolation level.

Of course, whether it's wise for a database to default to anything except Serializable isolation is another matter.
Yeah, I found it strange that he says "it's not X, it's Y" but doesn't define either one himself.

My own definitions would agree with him: corrupted - you get exception while trying to read, or meaningless data; inconsistent - you get the right types, but wrong values. But I can only guess if his definitions agree with mine by accident, or are the same.
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What is absurd about it?
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This reminds me of Heinlein's rule three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order
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I would love this so much if I could figure it out. I'm a javascript programmer, but haven't done much with Python. I'd like to write a small, arcade-style game with python though. Does anyone know anything else like this? Is PyGame fun to work with?
>volunteers who drank a double espresso three hours before bedtime experienced a 40-minute delay of the melatonin surge.

>double espresso three hours before bedtime

>double espresso

>three hours before bedtime

Somebody get the CNN on the phone, this is groundbreaking work right here!!
The bug impact description is completely false.
Mozilla has "corporate confidential" bugs behind the @mozilla.com email check, but everything with a security rating is restricted to specific accounts that have been explicitly vouched for.
autoplaying video blaring out of my speakers, wtf
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My wife was nearly a victim of this particular drug in the late 1990s. They have no idea how much shit they caused people by withholding this information. Several years of people's lives destroyed. I doubt they will acknowledge it or even apologise let alone offer compensation.

When I say they, I don't mean the faceless corporation or brand, but the individuals who made this decision, ran the initial trials and pushed it to start with.
My experience is that the results from that site are very, very poor. My simplistic home-brew system regularly beats it by 30% or more.
Thanks. Sorry for the lack of documentation. The first version (Branch 0.1.x) was more focused as a proof of concept. Despite the examples, after some time I found several limitations. That lead to a branch (kill_the_baby), witch i've restarted the project. Well, lack of documentation first started due the constant changes over the time. pyNES 0.2.x will have a more mature API and a DOC.
I would be interested in a focus group or forum for engineers that got bitten in a similar fashion, or that wants to exchange information on how to deal with rats like this. Does that exist?
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I think it is really cool, why there is no body upvoting it?
This approach only works if your logic is codable in SQL format in the way this trivial balance change can be. If the change is happening in app business logic, this is always going to be a problem.

The fact the balance+=25 type approach works is kind of a hack, and I don't think Aphyr is wrong to call it "corrupted" (in this specific example, in one transaction, you could say that it is inconsistent - but you only need a few inconsistent operations in the same place and suddenly your data is complete rubbish).

This feels a bit like handwaving the problem away, to me. Yes, InnoDB has the problem, but with that backend you can set SERIALIZABLE isolation. You can't do that in Galera. So if you don't have the option of rewriting the SQL (either because it's not your SQL, or there is no SQL alternative available) then you're screwed.
I'd pay 25$ for this. I laughed at the 250$ price point.
Looks like the startup is StaffedUp, src: http://missouribusinessalert.com/entrepreneurs/64346/2015/09...
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"And people wonder why cities have graffiti artists."

To be honest, I always thought it was more about territorial pissings.
Oh no, again this PageRank myth.

Google won, because it was fastest and had good links.

Fastest was more important than better links. How did they get
faster than their competitors? They bought cheap servers all over to beat the transportation times to the clients. Also their page was smaller, not overloaded, so the results could be presented faster.

Their bot was also more aggressive. A more aggressive bot contributes more to the link quality than the algorithm, because you get deeper and new stuff more timely. People are searching for new stuff.

That's how Google won. Not because of PageRank alone. PageRank was a contributing factor. But renting out cheap servers in every datacenter out there and keeping the page small and fast and dealing with the consequences of cheap servers (HD fails, fallbacks, ...) was more important.
Its complex. Thorium has a long chain of transmuted states called the 'Thorium Cascade', during which it is twice Radium, twice Polonium, twice Lead and even twice Thorium (232 and 228)! The form of Uranium it passes thru is called 'synthetic' and is not the kind that makes bombs. All steps in the cascade generate power.
That more than a couple of percent knew the inventor of the Polio vaccine was a surprise to me.

It's multiple choice. I'll admit that I didn't know his name off the top of my head when reading the question. But I kind of recognized it when I saw it and I definitely knew it wasn't one of the other 3 options.
I use a standing desk at work every day (a Varidesk pro plus). For me, having monitor stand is just as important as the standing aspect. Using a laptop on a standing desk causes me to hunch over and slouch, which leaves me with worse neck and back pain than sitting.
I know of this effort: http://genode.org/

More specifically, I'd wonder about efforts to create not (necessarily) POSIX based stuff on top of seL4 etc.
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I wish more GOG games were made available for Linux and OSX. I really don't understand the reasoning behind this decision since DOSBox is already cross-platform.
Author's original paper: "Could David Hume Have Known about Buddhism? Charles Francois Dolu, the Royal College of La Flèche, and the Global Jesuit Intellectual Network"

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For more information on Ippolito Desideri and his life in Tibet:

"Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri S. J." 832 pages

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Caffeine is like a purchase on a adrenaline system credit card, and your body's system is probably in huge debt - might take a while to regain composure.
That's a generational thing. There isn't a single member of my generation that doesn't know. We lived through it; my Uncle died of it; we took the first vaccines when they came out.
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Good explanation of the problem here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFHsrCNtJu4
They don't do that automatically. In sqlalchemy for example you still have to call an extra function explicitly. (http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_9/changelog/migration_09...) I know of only one developer who knew about "for update", but then again they just read the mysql book with chapter dedicated to locking behaviour.
I tried a standing desk for about a year, with mixed feelings about it.

But guys - using a laptop at a standing desk is ergonomically still awful! If you look at the dude's neck angle in the photos, that is not a healthy way to be working all day.

Just because you're standing up doesn't mean you're exempt from regular 'keep monitors at eye level, head balanced nicely, arms and shoulders relaxed, etc' advice.
> 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.

What is the relevance of that supposed to be? You can put any part of the development process on any number of different computers or distribute the work between different developers however you like. And the relevant "preferred form for modifications" is presumably the form the user uses to make modifications to the device delivered to the user in any event.

> 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.

Why wouldn't it include your EC2 credentials (or other root access to the instance) if conveying an EC2 instance to the customer is how the customer receives the software from you? But now you're wading into the SaaS vs. software distribution ambiguity which has nothing to do with the case where you've bought a physical device with the software on it.
Google. The "pros" have white periods -- it isn't too many weeks for the body to reverse the changes and it is a new beginning for caffeine...

(I'm hellbanned, this comment would probably not be hidden otherwise.)
If you are struggling/fighting with the large deployments, I recommend you have a chat with http://www.devopsguys.com/ down in Cardiff, UK. That's all they do (and well). Speak to Jim and tell them @Junto sent you.
I don't know any ergonomic way to look at a laptop. I put my monitors up on a stand so I can look straight at them. Laptop -either the monitor is in the wrong place, or the keyboard is.
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Here's how I understand it. OP's buddy proposed the 0.4%, they ended up with 5 members in the team, OP, 3 other engineers and the guy who pitched the idea and is depicted as the asshole fitness biz guy (Billy), so 2% of the ownership of the startup the idea would potentially evolve into would end up in the hands of these initial team members regardless of who runs the startup.

i.e. if after the weekend 4 members said 'that was fun, now let's go home', and 1 member said 'oh guys, can I use all the code and make it into a company?', then the other 4 guys would each have 0.4% ownership in that company even if they didn't put in any money or any time beyond the weekend, on the basis of their work that weekend. I think that's a sensible idea: 0.4% is not a lot, but it's a weekend of work, and if the startup ends up worth $10m or $100m then it's a nice kickback for a weekend's work. If it ends up being worth nothing, no biggie, after all you just worked there a weekend and didn't do anything after to make it a success.

In short, the 0.4% is a reward for anyone who decides 'I don't want to be part of the process of continuing this idea, but I want a small reward relative to what the idea I helped initialise could one day be worth'.

The issue is that when it's all said and done, the process to decide who'd want to turn this into a startup and who didn't looks to have been really authoritarian. One person turns it into a company and splits it 50/50 with a friend of his who wasn't even part of the startup team, and then declares himself to be the owner and leader of the gig which is absolutely ridiculous. A fair process would either be 'alright let's sit together as equals, decide on how we launch the startup, who becomes the leader, equity, salary etc, and anyone who isn't interested gets the 0.4% regardless'. Instead it was 'I'm the leader, I'm half the owner, the other half is someone you've never met, you can still be part of the startup but it's under my conditions and if you don't like it you can have the 0.4%'.

In short I can see the problem OP has with this, added to implications that Billy was being a condescending asshole.

Fact of the matter is however that (1) OP and the team can decide to use the code and run a similar project themselves if they want and iterate on it faster than Billy ever could given the former have all the expertise of not just development but the codebase as well and (2) if they were never interested in that, they'd still get 0.4% of Billy's venture (as long as the handshake deal is upheld i.e. which didn't seem to be put into question).

I think the handshake deal was sensible and I see absolutely no legal basis for Billy to be able to appropriate the work exclusively to his startup. In short I think OP had the power, met an asshole, still has the power. They still have just as much right to the work, still can run a startup without Billy and still can own 0.4% of Billy's venture.

edit: they ended up with a team of 9, billy and likely 8 devs, rather than 5, billy and 4 devs. Can't be bothered to adjust the percentages etc but the same story applies.
I think the Percona writer is focusing on "corruption" in terms of how I think most database folks imagine "corruption" - where a series of commands will erase a block of data, or make a block of data unrecoverable.

I agree that "inconsistent" is probably more mechanically accurate, but since in this case the side effect of the inconsistency is that you can't trust the contents of a block of data, it seems like a difference without a distinction.
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> Do ORMs really do that

I haven't seen any, but they do use optimistic locking.
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OK, I understand now.
I always find it interesting how many things can be represented by finite state automata, and related concepts. I wonder what languages/libraries specialise specifically in handling machines of a directed-graph style? I would imagine VHDL and co. have functionality for it.
It was your code. His idea, but your code. Code is the work, not the idea. You cannot let him get away with your code for nothing.

Ask a lawyer what you can charge him to buy your code. 400K might be a lot, but a good starting point for a deal.
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Would you cite the text where you decided this? I'm not seeing it but likely read with a different tone.

Didn't you read the "we devs are taking over the world" part and the infamous Andreessen's quote?

That's evil in my book.

Do you mean paying him 1/9th of the money and parting ways?

If Bobby was paid or compensated as he had expected, we wouldn't know about these incidents involving those slurs. That's my point.
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I would agree from a database perspective, it's an inconsistency. From the application user's perspective though, the information can get corrupted in the sense that the original intent of the transactions is no longer clear, and can't be recovered. I think it's not always obvious from which perspective Aphyr is writing (database or user), so the meaning could be somewhat ambiguous.

While an unexpected inconsistency like this is certainly bad enough, I tend to agree with Vadim to reserve the word "corruption" for the situation in which the database actually stores garbage data such that it can't actually read back information properly.
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Well, it's easy to make nuclear energy or nuclear weapons with plutonium, for instance. But we can only create plutonium using nuclear reactors. In terms of naturally occurring substances it's much easier to use Uranium to bootstrap yourself but with enough effort you could use others.
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Huh, I would have assumed that a multispectral camera would have (false) colors. What does that mean here? The frequency response of each pixel's light sensor has multiple peaks instead of a nice 'bell curve' shape?
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Are you thinking of tagging? That's definitely the case. But wall-sized murals, train-car collages, pavement trompe l'oeil are all there because an inspired artist had to express themselves.
And this is going to get even more fun with "3D touch"
> Following that conclusion is using Galera cluster may result in “corrupted” data. I do not quite like the usage of the word “corrupted” here. For me, the more correct word be to use is “inconsistent”.

But Aphyr never once uses the term "corrupted data", or the word "corrupted". If you're going to quote an article, it's important to be precise.

This response feels panicked, or at least rushed. And it really misses the point. You can't, or shouldn't, try to explain away these types of findings as irrelevant, or just an issue of semantics. Instead, I'd hope by now that technical folks on the receiving end of a Call Me Maybe analysis would have learned that there's precisely one correct way to respond: acknowledge the faults, clarify relevant documentation, and file (and link to) issues in public issue-trackers that will address the problems.

HashiCorp, CoreOS, and arguably Elastic played it correctly. Aerospike, Mesos, and now Percona, didn't. Shame.
Hate people typing on noisy mechanical keyboards? You're going to love everyone babbling into their devices all the time.

I really don't want to talk to my computer/phone/coffee pot/house. I would rather that software have its normal interface polished and made closer to something that is usable, than have another UI paradigm bolted on that is going to be badly implemented 80% of the time by application developers.
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Thanks for the reference. They're not for this platform as we've already nailed down what we're doing but will keep them in my notes for future projects.
As in, all the places with a karst topography in one color, all the places with a population density of more than 1000/sq km another color, and those places with wild rabbit populations a third?

In other words, what does "similar" mean, how many people would agree with your definition, and why should Google do this?
That is $15 for non-members. First Google result for "Comprehensive formal verification of an OS microkernel" is a PDF link on ssrg.nicta.com.au. Good enough for me.