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Non-transferable licenses are a great idea because makers should get paid for their work.

It's unfortunate the courts have ruled against this when the delivery medium (the disk) is sold on a store shelf. It's like making a movie theater let patrons resell their tickets to be used for a later show.

I expect the eventual result is that everyone will move their content online. See the rise of Steam, XBLA, and soon services like OnLive.
Well, Perl arguably has a nicer OO system with Moose... :-)
The phrase looked more like rhetorical device to me.
Several weeks back, Facebook started suggesting a few people from a mailing list I've lurked on for years. I've never posted to this list. I get how they'd suggest people with whom I've been in contact, even indirectly (e.g., via a mailing list); I want to know how they're suggesting people with whom I've never interacted in any fashion, that I happen to know (or at least know of).
F.C.C. Weighs Plan to Warn of High Cellphone Bill
"The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday that was seeking public comment on a plan that would require wireless phone companies to notify customers when they are running up unusually high charges for data usage, roaming or other uses beyond what is covered by regular monthly fees."

Why stop there? A "minutes meter" at the bottom of your screen could keep you aware of what you're using. Clicking could give you detailed reports, rollover minutes remaining, etc.

Unless of course, they're making money by keeping you in the dark and surprising you. But they wouldn't do that, would they?
I was in a team that actually built something similar at a startup weekend last year, but decided not to follow-up when plancast launched a week later. I've picked up a few relevant domains at the time which are unused now, so if you're still looking for a domain feel free to ping me.
Something that you can run right in your browser (flash based):
http://osteele.com/tools/reanimator/
Maybe they are just crowding out the other guys?
I'm fed up with the snarkiness from Apple lovers and haters. I have several Apple products, MBP, iPhone, and Airport Base Station and I have never touted that they are superior or better than other offerings out there. I just silently go along and do my own thing and still attract tons of negative comments. There seems to be an inferiority complex in both Apple fanboys and Apple haters.
Seconded. Braintree is probably the best vendor I've ever worked with.
> [Tangential: I want the Indian Government to come up with its own cryptographic protocols/algorithms like the NIST in the US does. Even if it is a variant of the prevalent crypto systems, it is better than nothing, at least for the top secret documents.

Why? They could just use the standard algorithms that have been proven hard to crack in the open.
Similarly, it is very easy and intuitive and horribly inefficient to write something like:

int countOfThings = DatabaseRepositoryType.GetThings().Count();

As it will go to the database, pull all of the matching rows locally, create all of the objects, and then iterate through them just increment a counter. Creating a .GetCount() method which calls down to a SQL "SELECT COUNT()" query is more work to write, but runs about a thousand times faster.
Unfortunately, Braintree's services are only available to US companies.
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Yes, government did produce few good things which you can count with your fingers. What about the myriad of failures? If you think about all the wastage done by government, these few good things actually cost us a fortune [it's our tax money after all.]

Also, you are under the impression that if it was not for Government, we would have never seen GPS OR Internet or cryptographic progress. I would highly doubt that. I am sure that market would have produced similar (or even exact) solutions without all the waste.

EDIT:

Yes, government provide us with GPS technology but it was free market which made it accessible to everyone. Can you imagine government being able to envision that one can fit navigation tool inside a phone which fits in my pocket?
I'm not sure Braintree is being all that different.

I've heard nothing but good things about them ... except that their minimum transaction level is high enough many/most/all??? startups can't meet it. So the latter obviously go to Paypal and when/if larger Auth.net.

Braintree is asking those companies to make it easier to "graduate" to Braintree. Since Braintree provides one of the highest quality services in this field, they're obviously not worried about too many customers defecting, or at least not until they get so big they bring it in house.

Which in the current startup capital climate is going to be very rare, I suspect.
Doesn't speech recognition require either massive databases or massively-parallel processing (or both?)

In most cases the speech would be used when connected to another server anyway, so it would be okay then to rely on remote processing. Unless I am missing a concept here.
Stellar! I just got into gardening, so you can't have my money because I've already planted.

You can have my money though, if I can choose what I've planted and then get a calendar of care instructions with email reminders!
Multicore CPUs move attack from theoretical to practical
I think people used to see IT as a goldmine. Get a degree in "computers" and you were destined to be a millionaire. What they've found out is that there are a lot of people making between $40-70k/yr, and working a lot of hours. While $70k/yr is nothing to turn your nose at, it certainly isn't "rich".

Was it ever different than this? I don't know, I'm young, but I can guess that wages in IT/programming have gone down as the supply of laborers has gone up. One huge problem that comes from this flood of workers is that some of them did it just for the degree, and don't really know what they're doing. It makes it a lot harder for the people who love it and know it and are good at it to stand out.
Is it just me, or is this site down? #microsoftfail
You could get away with passwords. There are some zero-knowledge protocols you can do with humans, instead of handing over a password.

You would probably not need a new operating system, since revamping logins (and similar) stuff would suffice. But you could get rid of passwords.
Another happy BrainTree user here. Their backing bank was a bit of a pain, but BrainTree themselves were great.

I'm glad to see them trying to make moves like this. It's one of the reasons that our business is with them.
Ha! You're confusing logic and human behavior.
Umm, I can't see a single source mentioned in the pluggd.in article, or the TOI article.(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/enterprise-it/infras...), or whether its a press release my Ministry of IT, or a blog post by an employee.
I got the link from you ;)
There are programs than can write programs. I don't want to compete with a computer that's smarter than me. Haha. I'll stick with my "right brain" work and hack some open source software when I need it.

Please forgive me, I'm currently reading "A Whole New Mind"
http://www.danpink.com/whole-new-mind

The author foretells that programming is becoming less important due to abundance, automation and outsourcing to Asia. India alone produces 350,000 Engineering graduates each year.
I'm not following why you are trying to specify the providers implementation of the list comprehension when it doesn't matter to the LINQ query you write. LINQ is working on lists and provides standard query operators. When you write a LINQ query it's turned into an expression tree. Based on the provider of the original list the query is turned into an actual implementation of your LINQ query. Whether this is ultimately translated to a SQL query, an LDAP query, assembly instructions, etc. is of little concern to the writer of the LINQ query. Of course, there are some instances where you do care if performance is of importance.

I believe that the point of author was that any time you are iterating over a list, you should really think about whether you can replace the iteration with a LINQ query. It really doesn't matter whether the list being iterated is an underlying list of objects, a table in an RDBMS, etc.
I totally agree, I'm guessing that the example included that just to demonstrate what was possible as each picture had a different dark box effect.

Other than that, this looks awesome, at least in Chrome on Mac.
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CPAN. CPAN is fricking awesome.
Adobe Browser Lab is nice too: https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/index.html?sdid=EWRQK&...
Slowing down trading seemed to exacerbate this situation. NYSE slowed trading, held onto buys while routing sells to other exchanges in an effort to boost prices. The net result is that prices tanked at other exchanges, while NYSE was frozen.

I'm not strictly opposed to trading halts/slowdowns under circumstances like last thursday, but they are a very tricky thing to do properly.
FWIW I find the LINQ far harder to read.

var developerNames = employees.AsParallel().AsOrdered()
.Where(e => e.Role == Role.Developer)
.OrderBy(e => e.LastName)
.Select(e => e.FullName)
.ToArray();

That's just gross IMHO. AsParallel() yuck. AsOrdered() eugh why are these functions being used to set parameters.
You'll have no lack of cragging options in Boulder, that's for sure.

I've not been to Seneca--we are tried-and-true boulderers/sport climbers.
Did you try contacting Apple about redownloading the music? I've heard that they're usually sympathetic to people who lose downloaded music when computers and hard disks die.
The example in the linked article behaves exactly as you describe, at least in Chrome on Mac. If I just fleetingly hover over something, it pulses up and down at the same speed for the same amount of time. It just looks right.
Google Earth requires iexplore.exe to work.
enthusiasm for Perl 5 is as strong as ever

That's probably something of an overstatement, but I've written Perl in the past months for gigs, even though I have long abandoned it for Ruby. I don't know that I'd call the general interest in Perl5 "enthusiasm" -- that's a word I'd save for Ruby/RoR and maybe Python and DJ Ango. ;-p :-)

Perl5 is mature. There are modules for anything you can imagine, and most seem to be well-maintained. It's still useful, if someone antiquated in feel.

Perl6: that's another story. It's DOA. People will point to this implementation and that one, but the lack of a reference implementation, along with the long development time, makes Perl6 the Duke Nukem Forever of scripting.
3TB Seagate hard drives coming this year?
Are you kidding me?

There was no money. It was a choice between raising taxes or cutting services.

And people like you respond to that with "You're such jerks for holding our services hostage!"

Arithmetic is not a jerk. It's just a fact. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

RE: the percentages, the deal is that the total local property tax take goes up by 2.5% a year. If your property increases in assessed value, you might see personal increase of more than that but someone else saw an increase of less to make up for it.
Perl usage on the web began to fall off due in part to PHP, but you're neglecting the huge amount of Perl used in text processing, system administration, automation, even the sciences.

PHP is (very mildly) comparable to Perl's Mason template engine, if Mason were the only way to use Perl.
Technology in general tends to bring out strong behaviours that seem to be based on cognitive dissonance.

Whether you're talking about Apple/Linux/Windows, XBox/Nintendo/PS3 or Canon/Nikon, you're going to see discussions branch out into quasi-religious debates.
Older people use it is because they don't want to change or learn something new. Especially in a company already entrenched in Perl development, their is little benefit to switching to a better language compared to the cost of forcing people to learn a whole new technology stack when they are more than content with Perl. However, new companies are much more free to build on whatever technology stack is most appropriate.

I've also noticed over time that lots of non-CS majors can and do program in scripting languages because they are relatively easy to pick up and get things done with. These people are usually more aligned with an IT career in that scripting constitutes only a fraction of their job. If they happen to learn Perl and PHP first, then that is what they stick with.

These people may like to program, but it is not the favorite part of their job and they have other work activities they enjoy more. More importantly, they know little to nothing about software design principles and are not interested in improving their software development skills. They would rather spend their time learning about something else that interests them more. Therefore, they don't even know how to appreciate the advantages more modern scripting languages offer. To these people, languages like Perl are more than sufficient to get their job done, and they are probably right.

However, as people who know better, I believe we should be encouraging better languages in a friendly way whenever possible. When my IT friends ask me about any questions related to programming, I usually try to point them to Python or Ruby for a solution. If they are asking questions they are probably interested in learning something new!

edit: changed wording based on reply from gamache.
Ok, then they have 10 servers on 10 locations. That's not resilient enough.
I've been a big fan of emusic over the last few years. The subscription based model can be a bit awkward but it does encourage you to check out music you normally wouldn't listen to.

[edit] and they're all DRM free mp3 files
It seems kind of lame to beg the incumbents to make it easy for you to poach their customers. The big evil guys have their customers by the balls. It's safe to assume there's no way they're going voluntarily let go.

They need angry former customers to do the talking. Maybe this raises awareness a bit, but what really resonates is horror stories. A few high profile former Authorize.net/PayPal customers that are angry and willing to tell people about it would probably go much further.

The sweet begging approach isn't likely to work.
Why deactivate? I just went straight for deletion. The only problem is I have to wait 14 days and will probably accidentally log-in, reactivating my account, and have to start the countdown all over. But, I have a solution which involves editing my hosts file to redirect facebook.com to wikipedia.org.
Funny. I can get to it with firefox but not chrome.
What? While charmingly nostalgic, none of what you said is the slightest bit relevant to the discussion.

The fact remains that what's happening in the smartphone market looks an awful lot like what happened with PCs. Apple wanted to control the entire computing experience by owning the hardware and the software. They shot for the moon, missed and allowed Microsoft to enjoy a couple decades as one of the largest companies in the world.

Here they are 25 years later trying the exact same trick with phones. And if you've seen the Android sales figures for this quarter, it's starting to look like they've already begun their slide into the comfortable little luxury market they knew so well for all those years.
I've observed the same behaviour in LinkedIn. It recommends connections to me based on one-time e-mail conversations I've had.
Effects like this should never be counted on for "all our visitors", it's really more of a progressive enhancement/graceful degradation thing. Example: hover effects won't ever work for people using touch-screen devices.
Then I picked a bad analogy. It was already bad: reading is not a sport. The idea here: if you spend your time on the internet reading short-form, you'll become practically incapable of dealing with long-form prose. To which I say: bullshit, concocted to sell books.
>> Braintree is asking those companies to make it easier to "graduate" to Braintree.

I think you hit the nail on the head.

I just looked at their pricing and we cant afford them, so we are stuck with paypal for now.

By the time we grow enough we will be locked into paypal.
"It means that Perl is used in a lot of unexpected places, and that a lot of critical things are "held together" by Perl. Even if you think your website is running on Java, some systems administrator probably has a cronjob written in Perl critical to its operation."

In the above sentence replace Perl with C/C++/awk/lua/Python/Ruby/almost-any-language and it makes as much sense. Which is probably another indicator that there is nothing particularly perl specific about "holding together the internet". If anything "holds together the internet" it is the (language independent) protocols that do it.
Cool concept. My wife and I are wanting to start planting our own vegetables.
EA is selling one ticket for a ride in a car, not the car itself.

Just because courts have ruled that the ticket coming on a disk means you can resell the disk, doesn't mean EA has no right to find a way to tear the ticket.
They do this for Yahoo as well. In addition, they go by IP or session or something of that nature---someone who created a profile on my laptop found many of my friends recommended.
Did you deliberately omit the 32 to make it obvious that you did the asciification in your head? (At least, I'm guessing you did it in your head, because the obvious ways to do it by computer would automatically include the space.)
No, I completely agree. But I work with some CSS purists and they would probably think the same thing. Ruined I tell you ! RUINED !
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I haven't tried google maps. But, neither would any locals out here. Google is number 3 out here for searches.

And as to how the semantic web would help, I think your suggestion gives the evidence. Google is automatically extracting info based on its semantics, ie if it looks like an address, attach that semantic info to it, and utilise it.

This also goes a long way to back up your point that the semantic web will probably start if we can do it automatically. Then I could see manual initiatives starting along the lines of wikipedia: someone has a cool way of adding semantic information via the crowdsource. That is when we will have a breakthrough in the SW
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If you use the iPhone app, it can sync your friend's pictures on Facebook with the corresponding contact in your address book. How does it do this? By having you upload all contacts to Facebook including their name, email address and phone number.

Your privacy is at the whim of those who you choose to communicate with, online or off.
I think the idea is really cool, but you couldn't pay me to give any of my personal information to that site, much less download and use a browser that comes from that site. Quite a few things come off as very suspicious:

- The lack of any styling whatsoever. It doesn't even have a stylesheet. I don't think I've ever seen a scammer/spammer put less effort into their fake sites. And I've definitely never seen a legitimate site do this. Congrats, you're the first ;-)

- Not only does the site have no info about what it actually does, but there is no meta title or description to tell me either. At this point, no explanation could convince me this is a serious project.

- No contact information at all, except for the free@face-me-not.com email address. Even a trip to WHOIS returns zero contact info (that's right zero!). Other interesting facts from WHOIS include a) domain was registered only yesterday, b) domain was registered for only a year, and c) domain was registered through a registrar who's tagline is "No bullshit" (this last fact I just think is funny and interesting, and doesn't affect my judgement of credibility).

- The domain name (face-me-not.com) isn't very good. I typically try to steer clear of hyphenated domain names if at all possible. For your own projects, it's difficult to tell people about it in conversation. "Yeah it's face-hyphen-me-hyphen-not-dot-com." For that reason, I usually assume sites with hyphens are not serious projects.

I do believe you took the MVP methodology to the extreme. I'm guessing you spent about 10 minutes on this, including time to register the domain and setup the email. That being said, if you get serious about this, definitley let me know, because it's a cool idea.
I am impressed by this. All I have is some contacts in there from college etc. I am just keeping it there with minimal information in it and only visit it when a friend replies or messages. Otherwise, FB is pretty dead to me.
Ironic how he singles out Spain as a country that was in a position to make itself into a shining beacon of fiscal responsibility, to be emulated by the rest of the world.
From http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ghcn-monthly/index.php:

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We have had almost speech interfaces on phones for a little while, though the phone doesn't really talk to you.

If you hold down the search button on an android phone and then say "Call Mom" it works reasonably well. It also does searches reasonably well but this interface isn't very natural for me. I actually really dislike talking to inanimate objects and on the off chance that I am going to have to repeat myself multiple times and feel like I am a fool talking to plastic in my hands I am even less likely to do so.

So speech interfaces need to reach the point where they are basically errorless in recognizing what people have said (which seems like an insanely hard concept) and the public needs to reach the point where talking to computers is normal.
I do. I think a lot of people play Farmville because it's "just there". The same way people will watch whatever is on TV, regardless of its quality. Some people are addicted. Many are merely entertained.

I'm quite certain they will instantly see a drop of more than 30% of their traffic. Probably significantly more.
We already have a name and domain name, but thank you anyway.
Many people find function chaining more intuitive to read, or enjoy it more after being exposed to it for a period of time. The reason that functions are used to set flags or parameters is one of the basises of functional programming, which is to remove side effects.

In the above example, the state of employees is the same after the execution of the statement as it was before, if you were to set the "Parallel" flag or "Ordered" flag before hand each as their own assignment statement, then you would have modified the initial object and created a side effect.

I am not challenging your opinion, but simply answering your question as to why.
Any time you see toy benchmarks, ask yourself what was left out. The potential performance issue with LINQ comes when you are accessing database data over a connection with non-trivial latency. Then it is easy to wind up accidentally issuing large numbers of queries, with a lot of round trips, that winds up being slow and unnecessarily hard on the database.

LINQ is hardly unusual in having this risk. It is an easy mistake to make in many environments with many toolsets, and it is not particularly hard to avoid it with LINQ. But the toy benchmark doesn't address it. And the article makes fun of a software architect who has likely had bad experiences with developers messing up on this.
Gardeners are ferocious, ferocious competitors. They are compelled to post pictures of their plants. Believe me; squeezing as much out of your plot as you can can become an obsession.

All that to say, bragging / help requests are going to be strong motivations for gardeners in the US, and I'm sure they'll be posting information if the OP wants to make a community out of the site.
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