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Yes, it's annoying, but it's not app compat. And dual-boot is pretty far outside the mainstream, I don't blame them for not building out other boot loader detection and integration. Other bootloaders change frequently, and windows install discs come out maybe every two years. It's better to have consistent behavior (windows install WILL wipe your MBR) than sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and when it doesn't work everyone says it worked for me, etc.
I don't see how those two things are in any way connected. The point they were making is that you might even be able take a Windows 3.1 app (but definitely a Windows 95 one) and run it on Windows 8.
You are being quite specific about American actions in WW2 being acts of oppression.
Bitcoin could do this 2007...
Gaps in expectation: why many under 35 are so unhappy
>It's a problem for Twitter when you're trying to run a top-brand. Clients who don't keep up-to-date actually make Twitter look bad to the public. It also makes it harder for Twitter to innovate, move quickly (and probably get usage stats), without coordinating with external developers

Yes ! But shouldn't we let the users decide that? If one of the clients implements the newer features and users like them, they would switch to the other client. That is assuming Twitter believes in competition. This makes it seem like they want to eliminate competition and consolidate control. Its rather anti-capitalistic.

>Your concerns are valid from a third-party concern but from Twitter's first-party concern they are distractions.

Yes, I'm siding with with the third parties. Twitter is a giant company with a megaphone to make their argument anywhere they want. Personally, I don't think anyone should care about Twitter's bottom line except Twitter themselves.
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Indeed. Try finding food containing little or no refined sugar in a regular supermarket. Good luck :)
Disclaimer: I enjoy Atom quite a lot, and it's my daily driver.

All criticisms on this page are valid. It has the memory footprint of many-tabbed-chrome, it has a number of odd API quirks. It opens slow enough that I'm certain to keep Vim in my back pocket for the forseeable future.

Here are some other things that I like about it that weren't highlighted ->

- A modern UI. (but I use vim for portability still..)

- The transparency of chrome dev tools and the familiar html environment for making misc style tweaks and plugin hacks.

- A chance to develop against new browser features without having to worry about IE6 and friends.

- A plugin language that I might actually use in the real world (sorry vimscript and elisp). Plus a shot in the arm from the absolutely awesome node ecosystem.

- Open source and free.

- Pretty good vim bindings.

Just my two cents. Anyways, I remain quite productive with it, despite the rough edges. That would be the most important part :)
Many people receive organ transplants early in life. A quick search finds this example:

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I recall story of leaked Win2k source code which was filled with profanity and ugly hacks. Surprising fact was how much effort was put in to make software suites work with windows [1].

Although these are ugly hacks but it is a general reminder that people who will buy the software won't see why some obscure bad pointer in MS Office is causing this but something that used to work perfectly fine in previous Windows doesn't work in the current.

[1]: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795
Wasn't there a way to endorse flagged stories?
And it should. Seriously, there are are less than 2% of users using Linux on the Desktop. Now a fraction of these users dual boot. Microsoft is a business, and it's bad business to spend money you could be using to make your product better to ensure that you play nice with every possible bootloader out there.
Not to defend Apple, but the flip side is trying to figure out which of Dell's 30 or so monitors are current (and which have which connectors). Apple has one monitor (a bit obsolete and a bit overpriced), but you can quickly decide for or against it.
You don't get to say there is no threat if almost every website today is vulnerable.

I didn't mean that literally the threat has been eliminated due to HPKP; it's yet another tool that can be used.

First, this is optional software that almost every public server in the world is currently not using. It's like saying just because executable whitelisting exists that downloaded exploit payloads on operating systems is no longer a threat. If nobody uses it, the threat still exists.

HPKP isn't software--just additional HTTP headers that pretty much every web server can be configured to send.

In addition to actually implementing it on your server, every single user still has to make a secure initial connection over a trusted network on every device they'll ever use to get to that site.

True; it's even described in the RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7469

Key pinning is a trust-on-first-use (TOFU) mechanism. The first time a UA connects to a host, it lacks the information necessary to perform Pin Validation; UAs can only apply their normal cryptographic identity validation. (In this document, it is assumed that UAs apply X.509 certificate chain validation in accord with [RFC5280].)
> One key strength is that triple stores have a "schema as data" approach

Schema as data is historically a fairly important element of the relational model.
it's so far out the mainstream, that people have been doing it regularly for 20 years now.

Grub is old enough to attend Junior High. Lilo would be in grad school. they both have windows compatability. Microsoft not reciprocating is evidence of their intent.
I am working on an implementation of Raft and that's a gold mine of issues to look for. It's also relieving to see testing tools for DSs coming up.

DEMi is written very clearly, and it's a pleasure to read the code: https://github.com/NetSys/demi . Definitely challenges the research "spaghetti code" stereotype.

Really cool. :-)
OS/2 is perhaps not the best example, as early on it was a MS/IBM collaborative project. And even afterwards it had the economic backing of IBM. So if MS got overt about it, there would likely have been a lawsuit.

There is less risk of such from Linux. Even at their current size, RH is a flea next to MS.
Triplestores are good for storing and processing graphs, which don't fit the relational database model very well. There is a variant of SQL called SPARQL intended specifically for querying triplestores: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL
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I generally find actual tangible evidence to support my claims, and I make no expectation of going unquestioned, lol, I think I'm good.
As previously noted, the always-on microphone probably has something to do with it. If it had come at a different, less paranoid time, I'm sure it would be looked upon as the Star Trek computer we have always dreamed of. Yes, Siri and Cortana are reasonably slick in their implementations, but they're confined to your pockets for most of their lives. To be able to ask an empty room a question and receive a response used to be cool, but now, not knowing who's harvesting your conversations is a real gamechanger.
I got #2 on AAPL on the first try. I ignored the scale and just bought based on dates: Bought asap, sold in late 1999, bought in late 2001, sold mid 2007, bought early 2009, sold May 2015, bought mid-August 2015.
So the amount of the existing developers are not enough!!
that source code is still available in torrent form. I have a copy somewhere.
Thank you! I struggled with that for so long, and ended up installing via brew after giving up on a source build. Weird that even that process didn't set up the rc file properly.
Somebody must've felt well enough to come to work at Houseman's, no? And like a lot of rebellions, this one comes with collateral damage, to the day of the employees who decided to suck it up and come on in.
I'm not from that world but I noticed that I read a new article every few months that iOS App Store is continuing to gain a larger and larger share of app store revenue.

Perhaps Google is worried about declining developer attention focus on developing for the Android platform. Network effects make markets like the app store a winner take all (more or less)

Latest article:
iOS App Store Revenue Now 80 Percent Higher Than Google Play, Thanks To China
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/15/ios-app-store-revenue-now-8...
I've heard people talk about it but I'm not aware of anybody actually trying it. I know that Rich has stated a number of times that he's not interested in working on Clojure-in-Clojure.
For the first 1M years we all heard the same stories; we shared a culture

Pretty much any anthropologist is going to tell you that culture used to be hyper-local. And still is, in remote areas.
From my point of view, that was the impression I got, and I agree with you, though we can see that this is not the case.

"Tikhon
Founder of Parse.com and Scribd.com. Investor."

That being said, I think where you are and who you are will give you a very, very different perspective. Reading something like this seems almost like gibberish to someone on the periphery (OK outside) of startup world.

It seems to me, though, that early in a startup process, if they aren't funded, they are taking on huge risk, and for employees to expect exceptional pay is asking for very much, considering the company hasn't proven it's revenue model yet.
I'm sure that some of that is true, but part of B and C's problem is that they might underestimate their own needs, too. There's also a bit of Dunner-Kruger effect there.

The difference between a $500 laptop and a $1000 laptop can be astounding. I suspect many purchasers of the cheaper laptop will regret it, where the purchasers of a $1000 laptop will have a more powerful, better built computer that might last them longer.

(And in fact, with laptops at least, some cheaper laptops are "more powerful" because they're thicker and heavier; and the expense of the faster components further contributes to their poor build quality. Many more-expensive laptops put more money into thoughtful design, rather than "Spec competitions" and you get a slightly-slower, longer-lasting one. Compare cheap Android phones to flagship ones, for example.

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"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-ri...
The second law of thermodynamics as applied to humanity!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
Are you Chris from MaxCDN or chris at maxcdn? Sorry I am case sensitive...
I didn't see myself jumping from Spotify/Netflix to this bundle because Spotify has a lot more niche content than the other services, but Google could gain a huge market if they collect the music library for the younger, YouTube-obsessed demographic who would care about PewDiePie's exclusive content.
Most companies will, understandably, shy away from letting you take your Salesforce info with you. Closed systems are beneficial to employers. Telling companies to throw away some of their competitive advantages (e.g. distribution lists, best customers, etc...) in the name of open-source, decentralized identity is, I believe, an impossible sell.
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Nah. Most of the managers I worked with truly wanted to treat their people well, they just didn't have the latitude or power to do so. They were given lots of responsibility with no authority, they got dumped on by the jackwagon MBA(s) they reported to, and they didn't have the power to do anything but serve as a conduit between upper management and the field. It was/is a culture problem endemic to many big corporations (and lots of small ones too).
My biggest pet peeve with this as well. I can't blame them though; in the public consciousness, # is the start of a hashtag essentially 100% of the time # is used.
> really difficult

You only need to reinstall grub/lilo. It's possible to even use Windows bootloader.
> On the other hand, information wants to be free

The original context of this axiom was that information will tend towards making itself free of confines, not cost.

The free-beerness is a consequence of this liberation, not the goal.
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What are they going to do about the ads creators do inside their videos? Unless they ban "This video is supported by..." type content inside videos there will still be ads, just not Youtube separate ads. And banning those ads will probably end many channels who rely on them to make up for Youtube's pretty lousy ad pay-out.
Added to RTC News:
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Personalized as in you'll "suddenly" feel the urge to buy that new 4K TV you've always thought was too expensive before, as you pass by it.
This is limited to BIOS-based booting, and there isn't really a whole lot of choice there. There's no standardised mechanism for bootloader configuration in the BIOS world, so you have the choice of either:

(a) overwriting the existing MBR, or
(b) knowing how to configure every single third party bootloader, or
(c) not booting

In the UEFI world, the Windows installer won't overwrite any files it didn't install.
Hmm yeah your example makes me think of fast-food as an analogy.

That is to say, there may be applications of sensing that benefit corporations financially, but don't help their users... Imagine an automaton that provokes couples into divorce though advertising, using sensed data (Instead of "You've got mail!" "you're having less sex!") as evidence.
One thing to watch out for with some CDNs (cloudfront & fastly for ex) is per request pricing. it was the biggest component of our cloudfront bill because we have lot of small resources (js/css files) which had to be served with short expiry times. We moved to edgecast and it was cheaper & faster but recently they seem to be having ISP/PoP level outages which we are not able to pinpoint.

So we are on the lookout for good CDN. Came across https://www.keycdn.com/ which checks a lot of boxes but I can't find any reviews of it. Has anyone here used it?
>for Japanese people, they're clothes, but Westerners see them as costumes

In urban Japan for the current generation they are very much reaching the level of costume - reserved for special occasions, festivals, etc.
In my opinion, there is. Android is more difficult to program for. The programming environment itself can present itself as a challenge, and working with all the different Android versions can be a pain compared to iOS.

It's a weird catch-22 as folks just end up going iOS only first as a result.
A clock that allows the entire galaxy in the wrist
I wonder if there are any applications in building biological robots? I don't know too much about the process so perhaps this is far fetched but if you could build a robot with organic appendages that could be "swapped out" once they are used or damaged I would image you could end up with something far more versatile than the mechanical equivalent with servos/solenoids etc.
What does Google do with developers who are 40 or 50?

What does age diversity look like at Google for engineering staff?

Sooner or later this issue is going to come to a head when all the 20-30-something year old Javascript hackers grow older...
Such a system exists for years and is called OpenID. You can use your own openid provider, or choose from an established provider —which is precisely what you do every time you login to a site with google or github for example.

Alas it doesn't use bitcoin...
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Pretty clearly just providing his email address in a way intended to avoid scrapers.
Disclaimer: I'm not the creator of this work.

What an awesome and simple idea. Instead of describing your UI via code, just show the system a few photos and it will try to deduce how the layout should be built. This makes a lot of sense and I'm kicking myself for never thinking of it.
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What do you mean "we"? 200 years ago, ~40% of the population couldn't read at all: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/literacy-rates
From my memory, the term for 'vegetarian' prior to ~100 years ago was 'pythagorian'.
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Packaging and distributing anything for endpoint devices is a profound exercise in pain and suffering. If your target is anything other than a Mac or a phone, multiply it even further.

It's a major driver of Internet centralization: things must be centralized to escape the deployment nightmare. It's exponentially easier to manage deployment on a handful of servers than it is to actually ship an app to users.

With our app, we test our Windows build on Windows Vista, 2008 Server, 7, 2012 Server, 8, 8.1, and 10, on both x86 and x86_64. It always passes before we ship. Then inevitably we get bug reports: the UI won't open, device drivers won't install, the app mysteriously crashes, etc. Investigation always reveals some weird little variation or clashing piece of software on the customer's machine. Every Windows machine is a special snowflake, and as Windows machines run they accumulate 'OS rot' and gradually become less reliable (due to the mutability of the OS and dependencies). To fully test deployment you'd have to test hundreds of thousands of VMs with different software install histories, etc. In the end we have to tell people 'sorry, we tested with clean Windows installs on eight different versions, you're on your own.'

Mac is the only tolerable deployment target and that's because it's a fascist dictatorship compared to Windows: uniform hardware, strict restrictions on OS modification, and enforced software conformity. Phones aren't too bad either but that's because they're also fascist dictatorships with locked-down OSes.

Basically the modern OS is broken. Things are mutable that shouldn't be, process isolation is a joke, etc. Server OSes are broken too but at least if you own all the servers you can make sure they're all broken in the same way. Even there the trend is toward statically linked binaries (Go) and packaging apps as entire containers with their own OS (Docker) to basically deprecate the OS and achieve predictable deployment.
Luxury dwellings. So no, there's still no market for just the devices, as such customers want a full-service installation plan, usually coupled with home theater and security, so it's all integrated.
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Just because some symptoms could be psychosomatic doesn't make them any less debilitating. Writing off peoples symptoms because you think they're psychosomatic seems a little cruel.
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I had exactly that problem with a digital photo frame. Company went out of business a few months after purchase, leaving no way to update the displayed photos (at least, not without hacking the device) as they were all pulled from a remote server that no longer existed.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I agree. Terminal, or console-based, player is a more correct description. Will update!
I'd imagine that rather than being "swapped out", a machine with components that could heal to some degree would be far more useful. But still an interesting idea.
This. It's damning. I was an attentive nerd when this and the Stacker scandal went down and I was outraged. I've been a staunch open source advocate ever since.

Microsoft's willingness to sabotage competitor's software is an established fact.

"The AARD code was a segment of code in a beta release of Microsoft Windows 3.1 that would determine whether Windows was running on MS-DOS or PC DOS, rather than a competing workalike such as DR-DOS, and would result in a cryptic error message in the latter case."

"The rationale for the AARD code came to light when internal memos were released during the United States v. Microsoft antitrust case in 1999. Internal memos released by Microsoft revealed that the specific focus of these tests was DR-DOS. At one point, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates sent a memo to a number of employees, reading "You never sent me a response on the question of what things an app would do that would make it run with MSDOS and not run with DR-DOS. Is there feature [sic] they have that might get in our way?"
With EMS, the symptoms are real whether or not those people can actually detect wifi hotspots. Similarly, it seems like the vampires genuinely have symptoms which are cleared up by drinking blood.

Now, if someone believes "wifi hotspots give me headaches", that's untrue. They only get headaches when they believe there's a hotspot nearby. This has been demonstrated in general, and it should be easy to demonstrate to any individual sufferer. After that demonstration, if someone continues to believe that wifi hotspots give them headaches, then it may be reasonable to call them delusional. But that doesn't make their symptoms go away.

What specific belief do you think vampires have, that you think has been demonstrated untrue?
It's well worth the effort to get uWSGI running under it's native protocol.

Here's a must-read if you use it: http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ThingsToKnow.htm...
I would happily pay ten bucks a month for youtube. Hurray!
I try to avoid SNI and thankfully find a very small percentage of SSL-enabled sites using it, overall. I sniff my own SSL traffic and can see all the domain names for which SNI is being used. Are you saying SSL leaks the domainname in every request?

What is the justifcation for SNI? Does it have to do with conserving IP address space?

Not sure I understand your comment about HTTP Host: field and plain text HTTP traffic. My question was that if HTTP traffic is encrypted (e.g., via SSL) then why not encrypt DNS, too?
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This is in the Debian bug list, not on the chromium bug list. The maintainer who replied is not a chromium developer, so I don't blame him that he doesn't have a lot of time to look at chromium's source code since a 'modern web browser' is really big. I have built chromium from source before. The android application alone is 44MB, not including the libraries, just saying, for one person to 'look' at chromium will take awhile to do so.

The person who replied did have a good comment with the 'chrome://net-internals/#sockets'. It will list specifically what this person is looking for.
Staffjoy launches: workforce scheduling for on-demand companies (YC Fellowship)
Project is alive. Latest update on blog [0] is only a week old.

AFAIR they have moved from Namecoin to Bitcoin blockchain some time ago.

[0] http://blog.onename.com/