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Oh, thank you mighty google for making the web free! Where would we be with you!

With adwords you are the internet's true saviour and not really the cause of the billions of spam sites, spam comments and spam blogs plastered with your useless ads trying desperately to capture extra clicks that you didn't catch the first time.

Man that really stuck in my craw. Google are fast becoming my new monopoly to hate.

The only possible application I can think of the Ads Preferences Manager is to deliberately choose things I hate/have no desire for so they don't even catch my eye.
Great idea. Now I can catchup on HN without being on here everyday. My productivity is sure to rise.
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In my recent ploy to get you upvoted, I'll point out that some of the most brilliant programmers I know break the generalization in the article and follow this philosophy. They work as consultants making 5x the salary of their full-time counterparts, with precisely your mentality: I don't care if you respect me or honor me with social motivation or whatever. This is a business transaction, and I'll crank out amazing code at amazing speeds as long as you keep paying me $250/hour.
I'm honestly a big proponent of fair use. I'm not sure tweets are long enough to deserve copyright protection.
Do you have that backwards? Conventional wisdom is the opposite so if you're correct this is actually quite interesting.
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I didn't mean to criticize. There were mistakes made - there always are. But amongst the list of mistakes, I would not put Slicehost's slow response anywhere near the top, and I'm surprised that anyone (particularly someone whose opinions I normally respect) could choose that as the lesson to highlight.

Anyway, when is Apache going to get serious about a bug tracking project? :-)
* Able to change the configuration to upload executable scripts

Not familiar with JIRA but... couldn't you prevent this by either changing the ownership of the uploaded files or configure the web server not to execute any files in uploaded files directory.
Well, if people can copy my tweets without permission I can't make a living anymore and I will have to stop tweeting...

Nope, that's not coming out quite right.

I dunno, where does the triviality boundary lie? If I put together green shirt and blue jeans, do I now "own" the style for having invented it? Surely not.

Maybe grellas will enlighten us on how long does a work has to be before it's considered "an original work".
Here is the list of productions edited on Lightworks...

http://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_content&ta...

Departed? Pulp Fiction? Oasis? Led Zeppelin? I'm in. My only question is were these and the others exclusively edited on Lightworks?
The speaker in the TED video didn't actually say that people weren't motivated by carrots in the tasks that required creative thought, just that carrots didn't improve performance in those situations.
It's a lot lot easier to exploit those weaknesses when your inside some of them.

The XSS exploit was like the stopper in the dam.
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We also had some streets after him in East Germany.
While lightning can handle classes of files, it's more aimed at abstracting full paths to their basenames. If you can give an example where fish shell do this efficiently, I'd be interested to know. FYI, here's a previous comparison on writing shell functions vs lightning functions: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bpodn/lightning...
If you're only using a small fraction of the total capacity

At any given moment I'm using about half the total capacity. I'm not regularly doing huge writes, but as someone who works with a ton of remote and local repositories, pulling/merging/etc. many times a day, I do end up doing a huge number of small writes nearly continuously; I'd be surprised if I haven't hit every bit of that drive at least once by now. And I haven't seen any dramatic, or even noticeable, degradation.

And this isn't just some kind of spin from Anandtech

It's more that a bunch of people skimmed the anandtech articles, then started spouting a lot of gratuitous "X25-M is the One True SSD, everything else is shit" hype, which later morphed into "never use an SSD in an OS that doesn't do TRIM" hype. Of course, the hype doesn't quite match the reality...
Not a top motivator: http://www.xach.com/img/doing-it-wrong.jpg
Dunno but I've read it as AskHell.com - heh, and AskHell.com is not taken!
I dislike the implicit presumption that people on the Internet owe it to you to shut down their server if (you say) they're attacking you. I strongly feel that you should presume that your servers are always being attacked, and it's not helpful to even think that you might be able to get attackers shut down.
Most of the things you listed are issues with JIRA and Confluence, not the ASF's practices. Everything else on your list has already been fixed.

The ASF infra group did almost everything right but they still got burnt by esoteric details. The sshd conf had PasswordAuthentication set to no, but enabling PAM auth caused regular password auth to work. Did you know about that caveat?

And your top concern was that Slicehost didn't immediately shut down a machine?

tptacek never said that. He said it was a little disturbing that Slicehost took two days to turn off an instance that was exploiting a previously-unknown vulnerability in JIRA.

From the incident report https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_04_09_2010 :

We notified Atlassian of the previously unreported XSS attack in JIRA and contacted SliceHost. Atlassian was responsive. Unfortunately, SliceHost did nothing and 2 days later, the very same virtual host (slice) attacked Atlassian directly. ( http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2010/04/oh_man_what_a_day_an... )

Apache's infrastructure group got their shit together quickly. The hacked Slicehost instance wasn't a threat to them anymore. Slicehost's inaction helped get Atlassian hacked, which I think is a bit disturbing.

Would it have really slowed the hackers down for more than an hour anyway?

Oh, you're right. Let's just leave hacked systems running. Shutting them down will only slow down hackers for an hour.
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As an Open Source advocating, anti-MS, java fanboy, I agree completely. C# the language blows java out of the water. I give MS a lot of respect for really evolving the language.

I do think, however, that the JVM is much more advanced than the CLR, and really the only one of the two that is truly cross platform and open.
If you're not interested in business-speak, here's a link to actual change log:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/tags/cassandra-0....

This is apparently a pretty big release. Included are significant performance increases, since memory-mapped IO is finally used on 64 bit machines. Also, reasonable Hadoop integration.
Any way to find out what "solid state drive" they've got?

In advance, no, they don't tell you.

However, up until now every SSD Apple has shipped has been either Samsung or Toshiba, and you can find out which it is by opening OS X's System Profiler. Look under "Serial ATA" and you'll see the drive's description, which will be in the format "APPLE SSD (manufacturer code)(capacity)".

Toshiba drives will have a manufacturer code of "TS" (so my 256GB Toshiba SSD shows up as "APPLE SSD TS256A", for example). Samsung drives will have "SM". When I was shopping around last year trying to find out about this, it seemed that most of the 128GB drives were Samsung, most of the 256GB drives were Toshiba. What they're using for the 512GB drives is anybody's guess, but System Profiler will be the way to find out.
If you've ever tried starting a debugger in a program that uses the Boost Lambda library you might disagree. My program was only a few hundred lines long, a toy, but I for the first time had to turn pagination on in gdb to view my program's stacktrace because the it filled two entire screens! Even worse, compile times on my program were ridiculously high and I was wasting a ton of my time in long compile-run feedback cycles. Eventually I threw my hands up in disgust and started hand-rolling my own structs. Compile times dropped to under a second and I was able to easily spot my mistakes in the debugger.

What was I doing? I was just writing a simple program to try to understand Boost's spirit parser, somewhat of a monstrosity in its own right, and thought I'd use the lambda library along with it. While we're on the subject of crazy DSL's in C++ templates, I ended up concluding that Flex together with Bison or Lemon are much more pleasant to use than Spirit if you don't need a full recursive descent parser.

Using C++ templates to implement crazy meta-languages might seem like a cool idea, and it is, but in practice I've found it to mostly be a waste of time and very unproductive.
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Despite the fact that two days later it was used in another hack?

Were I a server provider I would take such notifications very seriously; a trivial investigation would surely have uncovered the illegal activity and shut them down.

(we are seeing more and more use of services such as slicehost and EC2 to perform attacks. I doubt that is a tag those companies want to carry!)

who said anything about owing it to them? :-)
I've signed up. I think this is a great, counter-intuitive idea with some interesting digital/print mash-up possibilities -- like a Hacker Monthly forum where people can comment on and discuss the Hacker News comments and discussions it publishes.

The slick and weighty Bookmarks (http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/) magazine may be worth looking at as it does something similar with book reviews: gathering, compiling, summarizing, adding commentary, etc.
Except for the part where he's wrong:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262310

How to find out what kind of SSD is in an MBP:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262981
Isn't Apple to blame for not exposing the APIs to allow use of the graphics card from within Safari?
Sometimes physical goods ARE experiential as well, for instance a nice steak, or purchasing the hot tub outright.

The difference pointed out by the study is that the memory of the steak is likely to make you happier in the long run than owning the hot tub even though the steak is long gone and the hot tub is still there. After all, the hot tub will eventually become a chore (repairs, cleaning, upgrades, etc...) but the memory of that steak never really dies if it was extraordinary. It's counterintuitive, but it makes sense to me.

This study is why I've started trying to focus on experiences, rather than things, when buying gifts. So far it's worked out rather well for me.
I have never asked for much, or pushed for raises. I was motivated by other things and figured hey, my managers are good guys, they'll do what's right. Turns out that when you discover you've been lower paid for years than some complaining bozo, it can be demoralizing. Or motivating - to get another job.

Pay is another aspect of recognition.
Give all your programmers a ten percent salary cut and get back to me about how many of them were motivated by money.
Email for issue tracking hasn't scaled for me past the 200 customer mark, after that it was Highrise then FatFree CRM all the way. Way too useful to be considered an "extra".
Everything I've read is somewhere in the middle. Higher weight (85% of max) at 8-12 reps is the sweet spot for hypertrophy. I've seen that in lots of different places.
I think the budget part is the largest one -- the extremely low capital necessary compared to almost any other field. Paul Graham has an essay on, I think, things noticed in the startup culture by someone native to a different field -- who observed that you can found Google or Reddit for less than it costs to remodel a kitchen...
On a related note, a few years back the movie "Cold Mountain" was edited entirely using Apple Final Cut Pro: http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/murch/ The editor, Walter Murch, received an Academy Award nomination for his work.
The 8Gb RAM upgrade now is $400 - same price if you buy it on newegg.
You could argue that you will still have 4Gb laying around, but I personally have no use for that and can't be bothered to sell it.
Note that the title states that money isn't a top motivator for developers.
This might be useful to add under the "Jobs" link on this site. I know that it is meant for people looking for work, but I feel that it could work just as well in the opposite direction.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't feel like an improvement over customers having my personal phone number. I understand providing good support is important, but being able to step away from unnecessary contacts and work in your personal space when you are up against deadlines / emergencies is something I value more than being available for a customer.

This rant really only applies to the suggestion of using a chat client - the interface to see their customers' pertinent information (logged in, pages browsed, location, unique visits) does look very helpful.
I live in the Washington DC area (northern Virginia) and pay $45 per month for 25Mb/s on Cox cable, and something like $30 a year to Skype for "landline" calls from my computer. I could add a phone line through Cox for ten or twenty bucks, bringing it closer to your package, but I'm not sure why anyone would do that when VOIP is so cheap, if they already have reasonable bandwidth.
I love the way HN provides free load testing for Google Docs! Although usually we trigger the low bandwidth version. :-(
Interesting. The 5D is smaller and cheaper than RED, but not that much. I wonder if it was just an experiment for its own sake or if there was some deciding factor in favor of the 5D.
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hahaha damnation, I was going to go with - fuck all that, pay me.
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Wow - you're certainly living up to your username :-)

Shutting down a server doesn't stop the hackers using one of the other thousands of servers they have compromised. In this regard, trying to respond to an attack by shutting down the server is essentially a waste of time: the only winning move is not to play.

There were multiple mistakes made (and I'm not trying to cast blame), and I think we should be aware of the repeatable lessons for software development: hashes need to be salted, XSS matters, password lockout matters etc. If there's a lesson from Slicehost, it's that you shouldn't rely on someone else bailing you out.
The millions that Canon likely paid them probably had something to do with it.
It's not the same. This is about, "what brings out the best work/commitment in people?"

What you're actually talking about is presumably a perceived injustice, which might anger people if they felt it was undeserved.

If we're playing poker together, I'm motivated more by fun than trying to actually get your money. That doesn't mean if you take my money by cheating I wouldn't get upset.
Wow, very good, not the usual BS at all.

Read it to find out why having HR send out a memo that everyone wear shoes was an entirely good thing ^_^.
I agree. Personally the major issue I have with my current MacBook is the lousy screen, and it doesn't look like it has improved much with these new MacBook Pros. So sad.
I spoke to their web-dev - apparently the menu was built before Chrome was released, hence the compatibility issue. I've been assured that it's near the top of the to-do list.
I think it is OK, in the most inclined position it is about 30 degrees with respect to the surface and you can rest your hands on the edge of the device and the surface on which it is resting. Your wrists are up slightly so it could get uncomfortable after prolonged use. It is more comfortable than hunched over with the device in your lap and arms perpendicular to the device as described in the article and is closer to the position of a laptop setting on a table. It would be no problem to use it to interact with this site for example. I would see the bluetooth keyboard as a docking station.
"Alma Whitten is Privacy Engineering Lead at Google."

I don't know whether that means real influence within Google, but apparently this isn't a random employee.
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The 5DM2 has been getting a lot of attention recently being used as a HD video camera. Canon even sponsored a short being made entirely with the 5D after the most recent firmware update: http://hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2010/04/07/the-last-3-minutes...

It was also used in a recent Nissan commercial attached to a mini helicopter: http://www.blogmeright.com/?p=1059
I don't think you've actually used the iPad to browse the web. Personally, I block flash on my desktop and rarely find reason to unblock it, so the lack of flash doesn't bother me. Meanwhile, surfing on the iPad is in general so nice that I've been doing it even when near my computer.
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Agree. Also, experimentally verified.
And I truly wonder why people think it is so.

It may be true for small companies but Microsoft? Come on.
>The 5D is smaller and cheaper than RED, but not that much.

The RED approaches $20,000-$30,000 all in, no? Compare this to <$3000 for the 5D.

You can use any normal canon/zeiss/sigma lenses on either system.

The Canon is something that "regular" people have; several of my friends have them. You can walk into a fry's and buy one. This is not true of the red.

They're in entirely different leagues.
It could also be due to an increased experience handling the Canon product line, lenses and bodies.
Nice to know that even Microsoft employees can't get good answers about how Windows works. At least they can RTFS, I guess...

(But seriously, my guess is that only non-programmers are getting their IT outsourced. The HR people don't need the latest dev build of Windows, after all.)
Not a config option, but reviewers are marked as "verified purchaser" if amazon records show they bought the item there.
I think familiarization and adaption are the enemy. You should vary workout cycles so you're never a heavy weight/low rep or a low weight/high rep person. But rather one who always varies workout variables at least every 3 weeks. These variables: reps, weight, rest duration, big body exercise (squat/dead lift), specific body exercise (bicep curl), tempo, sets, reps, super sets.
I know. But it would be nice if "sort by ranking" only included verified purchases.
Bait and switch.
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See if you can spot any jellocam a la this:

http://vimeo.com/10796434

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This meme of the iPad as primarily a consumption device needs to die. On launch day you have plenty of very well designed drawing apps, some incredible music apps (including a very nice digital 8-track, http://www.sonomawireworks.com/iphone/studiotrack/) , and Apple's iWork suite. In the coming months I think we'll see plenty of other quality applications aimed squarely at artists, writers, designers, and musicians. The iPad is the first serious digital sketchbook, one in which you can sketch out many kinds of ideas not only visual ones.
At the moment the book has 28 1-star revs; 1 5-star review.

In 10 years of using Amazon intensely I've never seen such an overwhelmingly negative response!
I don't get it. When I look at that Camera on Amazon it looks like a camera for photographs, not for video. Why would they shoot a movie with this?
I find it amusing that Apple has come full circle and that their latest incarnations of computing portend a much more dystopian future than anything IBM had in mind in their 1984 Super Bowl commercial.
I own the 5DmII. The HD video really is amazing–especially with fast lenses (my favorites are the 35/1.4 and 135/2).

The main problem is that it's hard to handle and focus the camera hand-held. You really need a good rig and focus ring to get it right. And some of those from Redrock or Zacuto can cost almost as much as the camera body.

Here's a couple videos I shot with the 5DmII (again, handheld and I'm a terrible videographer)
http://vimeo.com/10768127
http://vimeo.com/5253857
Is this why it's taken so long for a new episode? Or is that just my AppleTV...
I see what you mean, but...there are a few things that make it different than a phone number. For one, you can just set an away status (when busy), which you can't do with a phone. And customers never get your IM screen name, they just chat from a chatbox on the page itself :)

Also, sorry if it came off as a rant - I actually agree with thafman that extra tools can help large organizations with big customers. For us, we deal with many SMBs and other small organizations, so email is more than adequate for communicating with those customers.
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(a) it shoots 1080p on a really good chip and (b) you can put pro canon lenses on it
SandForce is available in 200GB and 400GB and is as fast as Intel. If you want 512GB you definitely don't have many choices.
For those of you not familiar with what is going on in the DSLR world, everything shifted when the 5D Mark II came out. We are talking earthquake-like fault lines. It gave every indy film-maker an insta-hard-on.

It was just another standard hand-held photographer's camera until some gent got a pre-release version and showed the world its capacity to capture film-like imagery -- beautiful blacks, shallow depth-of-field, that 24-frames-a-second look, etc.

Even with high-end prosumer cameras, you couldn't quite nail the cinema-look without resorting to actual film. But this toy camera came out of nowhere and was capturing images several times better than anyone could have expected!

So each time we see a news story like this, it is validation of the technology and that in a very short time, all of us will have the ability to capture the types of motion images that normally cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And as is often the case with technology leveling the playing field, the winners will be the folks that are daring and creative!
There are hosting providers who openly advertise servers for sending spam illegally. The idea that you can achieve security by shutting down your attackers is ridiculous. Had slicehost acted more rapidly, Atlassian would have been hacked by the same hackers using a different server.

Obviously Atlassian knows this also, because they didn't even bother putting an IP blocking rule into their firewalls. If Atlassian didn't even think that worthwhile, pointing the finger at Slicehost is dubious.
Publicity for Canon? Create online buzz? Because it's a technical challenge? Less expensive? To get a different looks from other shows? Take your pick.
The real question is - would people be foaming at the mouth if this was an e-compilation that didn't cost you anything to download?
What's the return policy? Only 14 days? If not return that and eT the $50 restock fee it would be worth it in the end.
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Correct. A fully rigged RED will put you in the $50k range. The RED is 100% designed as a filmmaker's tool, it is as solid as a rock. You can't even properly plug a microphone into the 5K-M2. But at the end of the day, they are both similar tools that create amazing imagery. Ford or Chevy for you?
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Just to be clear that's not the point I was making.