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imho, if Active Directory/ADAM ran on Linux demand for Windows Server would drop considerably. However Windows Server is also used to deliver Citrix-style remote desktops (using App Virtualization[1]) and that would be harder to replace. Also, SQL Server and Exchange use plenty of Windows-specific OS features -- it wouldn't be impossible to port to Linux but it would be a lot of work.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/hh397409.aspx
So wondering how NT kernel + Interix only would of fared.
Braintree offers "advanced fraud protection" if you pass device information along with the transaction request [1]. Has anyone tried using this, and if so, is it effective at stopping this problem?

[1] https://articles.braintreepayments.com/guides/fraud-tools/ov...
We also have a different approach to private land though; within reason you can walk all over private agricultural land, and there are often rights of way through other private land which might otherwise block a walking route.
If you look at recent financial statements from Microsoft their server revenue is still growing at a reasonable rate.
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> Do people still print out source code for better reading?

Can be required, academically. (Where "better reading" means "how someone's decided they want to read it"!)
Banks aren't subject to company wide PCI DSS audits. Which makes sense as you don't usually input your credit card number anywhere...
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I love the corporate passive-aggressive replies from all involved. Wonderful.

Not legal advice: I would wait it out, see if the business is a success, then sue the hell out of the guy ala Winklevoss@Facebook. Better than a shit-tier 0.4% equity stake any day.
It "falls" but with good publicity because of the team. After that it's just a matter of hiring new developers and profit on the SW team's work.
One I saw happen: avoid merge conflicts by having each developer maintain their own fork of trunk, or better still, multiple forks. Copy and paste is easier than merge anyway. Automate builds for all these, and provide a way to release any of them, without recording which you used. Never, ever tag. You want to delete branches too? Sure, why not. Of course this makes it hard to track dependencies, so be sure to check in the binaries of the projects you depend on into your project, especially if those were built on your own machine from source you haven't checked in instead of builds from the build server.

(and when I say 'saw happen', I mean 'I spent a week in Kiev at 12 degrees below freezing trying to figure out where the source code had gone'...we never found all of it)
> I find it really hard to communicate with you because before we even start this discussion you seems already tagged the entire ad industry as an "evil empire" who try to steal your personal information all the time.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, its a fucking duck. The Ad industry doesn't try to steal peoples information all the time, they successfully create very detailed profiles on people. You yourself admitted this when claiming that "only targeted advertising is effective".

> So I'm pretty sure that opt-out feature works.

...for the ad networks who are members of NAI and who abide by its guidelines... by requiring a cookie on every device I use, and requiring that every device is set to allow third-party cookies, which further increases the chances for me to be tracked online.

Ad this point, I don't need to demonstrate the shady practices of the ad industry - they do that well enough by themselves.

I don't care if you work for an ad company, and frankly I don't care if the adoption of content blocking software causes your employer to go out of business and you to lose your job. You chose to work for that company, knowing full-well what they do.

The ad industry made choices about how it would operate its business, and is now paying the consequences. Same goes for you, as an individual.
Neither side made their expectations clear at the beginning. I can't find either blameless. I also don't believe that engineering is the most important factor for the kind of product being described. For what the author calls "secrets", yes. Early Google was just so much better than the competition that it won. However, a lot of tech history shows that marketing trumps tech in many cases. Windows wasn't technically superior to OS/2 for example.
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Add Sharepoint (Microsoft's true cash cow[1]) to that list of yours and, yep, Windows definitely isn't going away.

[1]: http://www.tannerhelland.com/4993/microsoft-money-updated-20...
LOL. How much do the heathens know about the Bible?
For those who dont know, there is software for this so you dont have to buy glasses:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...

Win/Linux/Mac: https://justgetflux.com/
Why should that cause any issues? I run 32-bit applications (built against a 32-bit libc) on my 64-bit machine (with 64-bit kernel) all the time.
Heavy Windows server user here. We have 100+ windows server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 machines in production and a massive .Net/C# codebase.

Currently it's a complete bastard of an operating system. It's expensive, hard to manage even with powershell and DSC etc, difficult to update, difficult to provision, complicated and to be honest absolutely terrible licensing hell that costs us days a year. Hyper-V just adds complexity before anyone suggests that.

Exchange on-site deployments are dead. Everyone is moving away from them now and into Office 365 and Google Apps. There is no rational cost justification to use anything else now. Even the big orgs (5000+ staff) are moving off it as it's cheaper to get a fat pipe in than it is to keep 2-3 windows admins and a pile of kit and a SAN on the payroll just to run groupware.

Biztalk is also dead and has been for a few years. People who were using it heavily seem to be holding onto it due to cost reasons and everyone else who has been using it and have done any platform re-engineering have moved off to Windows Server AppFabric, NServiceBus and custom integrations or to AWS/SQS.

Microsoft are pushing Windows Server 2016 with container support as the up and coming new thing. I'm really not interested in this myself. I don't think anyone else is either other than a select number of core windows bloggers. It's simply a "me too" move.

As we re-engineer our application, what our endgame currently looks like is deploying disposable Linux VMs (CentOS) on AWS running ASP.Net 5/golang, microservices, lots of small PostgreSQL nodes (RDS) rather than massive 48 core SQL Server boxes, using OAuth2/OpenID authentication and getting rid of our extensive operations team who are incidentally more of an obstruction than an aid to the organisation.

IMHO Windows Server is probably circling the drain. There are very few places it fits in a modern business and this is only going to get worse going forth as well.

The remaining killer is Active Directory but you can already get Microsoft to deal with that for you on Azure, pre-integrated with Office 365 and sharepoint etc.

Microsoft I suspect will end up a services company like Google with some hardware being sold on the side. And you know what? That's fine.
Having visited NL, my card was practically useless. Any other country no problem, but Netherlands? So I don't understand you really.

That being said, direct payment gateways are common, but they require cooperation with banks. There's probably hundreds of them and only make sense on local market where you can have on or two implemented to satisfy 80%+ of customers (and others will just use regular card).
I expected questions on the scientific method or something. Wouldn't the title be more accurately "What Americans know and don't know about nature"?

To me, knowing some facts about nature is different than knowing how one would use a scientific approach to test hypotheses about nature. I'd like to save the word "science" for the tools and processes. I see too much "because science" out there, which is basically the opposite of rational, skeptical thinking.
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I think US citizens are supposed to pay taxes on all income, no matter where it was obtained (and even if they already paid local taxes, unless there are specific agreements). Of course, I am not a lawyer and definitely not an US one :)
How practical is this, does it have sata? usb? network? bash? some compiler?
Re: Conversion rates, as a consumer I have got used to it and it does not affect conversion for me at all.

Everyone uses it now in the UK and you always get redirected to the exact same page. I expect it, it doesn't put me off buying.

So it's a bad objection to the system, because once everyone's using it, it becomes the norm. Yes, there will be a dip in conversions to begin with as consumers are scared by the new page, but it will recover. Some people's implementation sucks, but that's a different matter.
I can deploy JBoss applications by `mv`-ing .ear's around and I can deploy PHP applications by FTP-ing some files into a directory somewhere but it's not the full story.

You can't deploy an asp.net app that has a database and other external dependencies on a clean install by just `xcopy`ing some files around.
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I'm surprised that Jordan Belfort hasn't appeared here already. You might know him more appropriately as The Wolf of Wall Street, and its doesn't matter what your opinion of the guy is - he has a natural talent for sales.

As you will note from his material, that there are 3 types of people, those that don't want the product, those that are unsure if they want it, and those that want the product. Sales is about converting those "unsures'" to sure wants.

I would recommend giving the book "The Wolf of Wall Street" a read.
His course "Straight Line System" is pretty pricey, but if you have the money or the means, I would recommend this course over any other:
http://jordanbelfort.com/sales-order/
I loathe verified by visa. I'll still buy from that site, but only in unusual circumstances. Verified by visa means I'd rather buy from somewhere else.
Also, use git rebase instead of merge.
Whether you feel like this is acceptable or not does not matter: If you want to send a message and it ends up in the other side receiving the message AND being uncomfortable, you're pretty bad at sending messages.
AD, Sharepoint, Office 365 is already canned in Azure/O365.

You won't be buying a Windows Server license to run them any more and it's feasible that they may even not run on Windows at some point in the future. Office's server portion and Sharepoint is all .Net so expect them to move it to ASP.Net 5 at some point.
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Banks are sadly frequently too slow moving and bureaucratic to keep up with the rest of the world, and often don't have any good infosec people.

Case in point - I recently found myself (very reluctantly and under severe protest) patching an AES library to talk to a major bank's SFTP-based file transfer service, as they're still using a mode that's been broken since 2008. No-one at said bank was able to comprehend why this was a problem.
During the summer, one of the telcos offered special plan where you got 6GB for 6 PLN ($1.6 USD). I think another telco actually followed and is now offering similar plan (1GB - 1PLN). The competition is very strong and cellular service is actually very affordable.
I'm amazed that the apparent "high skilled professionals" are satisfied with such vague conditions under which they sell themselves. It doesn't sound professional at all not having the limits and not organizing the protection of the profession. Please excuse me, that's how it appears in some European countries where what the rights are protected by the organizations of professionals (or even workers) and at the latest level by the laws.
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Nice article, I can empathize having recently inherited a PHP project which included a puphpet (vagrant/puppet) VM. It wasn't touched for a some time so the configuration was a few months old.

After installing the required dependencies (downgrade VirtualBox etc) all that was left was: vagrant up. My lord, what had I gotten myself into. Que problems with the configuration, ruby version during provisioning, paths, puphpet had gone through multiple breaking changes in the meantime, the documentation was unhelpful. The only inspiration were GitHub issues on tangentially related projects ... all I know is it was 3am having stared 6 hours earlier.

Then, in a moment of madness I deleted everything and created a completely new/fresh puphpet configuration using the puphpet site. Again during provisioning I was met with a problem, there are non-ascii characters in the php-fpm upstart configuration file (the authors name!). Luckily, this was an issue already discovered a couple of hours earlier, so a small change to that and the app was up and running. It was 4am.

Needless to say, I was very frustrated with this state of affairs of these supposed aids to setting up the dev environment. Granted, my mistake was going in the wrong direction trying to fix an outdated configuration and all the problems it generated rather than just generating the config again, but I had never used this tool before, and hadn't looked at the PHP ecosystem for the past few years, it seemed crazy at first that a config which worked in the past, presumably, would not work on my very mundane Ubuntu dev environment.
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What's most worrying with all that Docker bullshit is updating. We're going to end up with physical hosts with dozens of fire-and-forget VMs on them and each one filled with security holes.
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Your last two sentences there are superb.
> global audience

That's the reason they recommended to use a payment gateway that implements all those local payment solutions. For example, in Germany you loose a lot of customers if you don't offer direct debit (ELV) as many don't own a credit card (and don't want to).

> you typically don't have the same chargeback rights when using a banking service like iDEAL

This heavily depends on the service. For example, the upcoming German Paydirekt will offer better chargeback service than most German credit cards (where you typically don't enjoy the US-style "anything is reversible" type of protection).
As a Dutch person who does hold a credit card, i am always baffled by the near-taboo reaction when it comes up in conversation (noticed this in both France and the Netherlands). People seem to take pride in an almost pious/religious way in the fact that they want nothing to do with credit cards. I just don't get it. I know what the downsides of using a credit card can be (e.g., high interest rates) but they certainly have advantages, too (they work everywhere i travel, there are neat insurance policies). I use mine as a debit card for online and foreign purchases: there's an automatic payment at the end of the month from my current account into the credit card account, so i end up never ever paying interest, it only costs me the €x per year in card fees.
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For anyone interested in similar issues: here you can find a report for a vulnerability in Phabricator with exactly the same cause (truncation by MySQL), and pretty much the same result: https://hackerone.com/reports/2224

If Bugzilla would allow non-ASCII characters in the email address, MySQL's truncation behaviour with astral symbols (e.g. 𝌆) would probably have lead to a similar vulnerability as well. (It did so in Phabricator: https://hackerone.com/reports/2233)
This view sounds a bit too Utopian for reality, but it sure would be nice. The idea of everyone winning implies that goods, services, and other things of value are distributed fairly. Marx seemed keen on this idea.

But I suppose there is hope. If systems like Amazon's recommendation system got good enough, and if perhaps AI buddies began watching you and giving you product advice at just the right time, advertisements could be a thing of the past. The key is getting the right product options to the right consumers at the right time.
I'm sorry, but your world view is very outdated. It's cringe worthy.

It's like hearing my parents talk about 'the blackies' or as my Mum once said about a parade, 'it's nice that they get out sometimes'.

It's the underlying attitude that they're different somehow, that you don't really believe in equality, you're just doing it for show. Using gay as a jokey insult says that deep down you believe there's something wrong with being gay.
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Yes, this is also the approach I was thinking about. Perhaps it is time somebody at Facebook gets the chance to develop the javascript variant of this technique, as it is a far more "correct" way of approaching the problem, from a Computer Science standpoint.
WAMP usually means the "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" stack. So creating a new "web technology" with the same abbreviation is a bit stupid. Your going to have a bad time getting search working.
There is no such thing as an unhackable system.
I'm thinking of taking this approach in future. I might not be the perfect dev yet but I have taught myself to build reasonably complex apps in 18 months and already have a track record of developing tech solutions to business problems. As a Junior dev I expect to be taught best practices and to be continually learning on a very steep curve for the foreseeable future. The fact that I have gotten this far on my own steam should say enough about who I am. The interview is useful purely from a cultural fit perspective.
"luxury times" ? Is fair-priced travel a luxury now?
Related news in English: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2015/09/novel-mal...
I've no idea what the licensing agreement was before they sat down to write the code, but if it was as informal as the handshake-that-wasn't, I'm gonna put forward the following idea:

By default, code belongs to the author of that code. Unless another agreement is in place, Bobby owns his own contributions to that project.

With that thought, the potential outcomes of this become a little clearer.
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A very good question here is, who owns the copyright to the code? If the devs weren't compensated then the devs should own the code.
What if one of the team members was gay? How do you think he would've felt about that?
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> Browsers, critical OS components, databases, etc. are security critical, while games aren't.

This is only true for singleplayer games. For multiplayer games security is critical, because they are exposed to the internet.
I'm currently in my first nix job after years with Windows. It's a larger company (15k+ people) and using RedHat for it's linux solution (solaris/aix is also present). Honestly, I don't understand the $$$ argument at the enterprise level against msoft. Not only are you paying Redhat for support but their RPMs are about a year behind what's out there (that's a lot of time!). I'm trying to get .net (coreclr) compiled now on RHEL to play around but having a heck of a time b/c of all the old packages (btw- if anyone has instructions for this, __PLEASE__ send along).

Are other nix shops using Ubuntu for their servers?
That's the whole point, in the Netherlands we use debit cards (known as 'PIN cards' to the locals) instead of credit cards. Usually these are Maestro cards. I don't know the exact number, but as a Dutch resident I guess that >99% of all POS transactions are done using such card, not a credit card.

Cashiers in most common shops probably don't even know how to accept a payment by credit card, so the'll just refuse.

Meastro cards are usually protected by a PIN and require a POS system to be used. This was a problem for e-commerce, so the Dutch banks participated in iDEAL. It's basically a redirect from the merchants website to the bank site of the customer, where they use their own cardreader and debit card to validate the transaction before being redirected back to the site of the merchant.
iDEAL covers nearly all the dutch banks (10 of them) so no 'per bank' payment systems. Creditcards are not accepted by brick and mortar stores except for some very tourist heavy areas, most people do not have a creditcard here.
I am not aware of any free-to-use national parks in NSW. There is a fee even for day use at the Royal National Park. I think State Parks are free, but I have had to pay whenever I have camped in NSW or Tasmanian National parks.

It is possible to buy an annual pass for all parks in NSW for a reasonable price.

http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/passes-and-fees
I would assume that - by default - all members of the team at that weekend have an equal ownership. And not just of the code produced - of the concept as a whole.
I didn't thought that the atmosphere would be so visible, after all it is estimated to be just about 3-300 µbar.
Oh gosh, puphpet and vagrant. Had a similar architecture with a Silverstripe framework recently inherited, it was well documented and all, but due to new versions everything was broken.

I ended up doing deployment with git pull.
What about services like maxmind-fraud and the like that authenticate buyers?

Are they too expensive per purchase?
> my card was practically useless

That's because merchants pay 3% or more for a creditcard payment, and something like 0.8% for a local bank card payment (with the online equivalent iDeal). On top of that, there is much more risk accepting the creditcard with chargebacks, while the banks guarantee normal/iDeal payments. So most merchants here really dislike creditcard payments, it "costs them" much more.

Of course I understand that this is not a solution for accepting payments internationally. What I say is that the whole creditcard payment system, as it currently works, should be replaced by something saner, something that looks more like iDeal.
Sooner or later Microsoft will just build his GUI on Top of Linux and sell that or sell the support like Redhat. That would mean a lot to the computing World.
When .NET runs on more Devices they could just port more and more compatibility.
> When Hitler ordered that Poland's capital be razed to the ground, the German military took him literally. After the war, less than 10 percent of Warsaw was left standing.

Here you can see how bad it really was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx3aGiurRbQ

It's a 3D reconstruction created by leading Polish computer animation studio based on aerial views taken in 1945.
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As an hybrid kernel, able to do asynchronous IO better than open source UNIX clones, adoption of C++ instead of bare bones unsafe C and an OOP ABI (COM), I look forward to the existence of Windows as server OS.

There are lots of MS only shops out there and I don't see any of the changing in the near future.
Venturing rather off-topic, but: young folks today learn the epithet "gay" as in "loser" separate from the homosexuality aspect. It's nearly a homonym now. Still, the potential for confusion is great enough that one should stop using the word "gay" to mean "loser".