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$137 for an 8" tablet opens up a lot of opportunities for a kitchen pc, or say a door-side pc, or home-automation control panel.

If anyone gets one please post your review.
Javascript can always be used to smuggle unwanted content into the DOM. And there are far too many badly-written sites out there for most users to be willing to block Javascript entirely.
iTunes is a poor media manager, mostly because it's focused on become a DRM System. Just think about what it really does, what it really syncs. iTunes handles applications, of all things. If you remain with Apple's ecosystem, everything will be fine. Go outside that, and everything starts to break down.
If I understand you correctly, you think programmers should say:

int i;
for (i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i) {
buffer[i] = 0;
}

Instead of:

memset(buffer, 0, SIZE)

Because it indicates better buffer management.
The bug picture on the error page (which I got fairly frequently) is too scary!
I have a site-monitoring service that emails me every-time a site is down and emails me again when it comes back up. I have setup a gmail filter for those emails to automatically label them and move them out of my inbox (I like them empty) and mark them as read. The idea was to see how often the servers go down. I checked about a month later (forgot about it) and see huge number of email on my site down/up labels. I counted out the hours the site was down (based on email time) and it was something like 6 hours in three weeks. Free site-monitoring services don't check often enough so who knows how many downtime notifications I didn't get.

I sent an email telling MT about the situation and I got the same email I got several time before. "We know the problem, we apologize, we are working on it." I blatantly asked them they used to give free months for downtime, what happened to that, he told me that they don't do that anymore.

Honestly, I don't want free hours or gift-bags, I want my service just to work. A lot of people argue that MT has extremely good customer service, which is true - but that has nothing to do with my server continuously going down.

I slowly moved out all my sites from MT and after this month, I am done. Going back to Slicehost.

When your server goes down once or twice, I understand. If it happens frequent enough for a long time, something is wrong and you are not doing enough to fix it.

Just check MT twitter feed, the number of times their site gets hacked or site goes down is unbelievable.
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As I pointed out above, in gcc you can explicitly mark variables as potentially unused.
You don't have to use concurrency or JIT in Rakudo Perl 6 now. These systems do take a while to stabilize, but they're not requirements for any Perl 6 applications. As for the GC, it'll always undergo tuning and experimentation. Even so, if it doesn't work, we'll know and we'll fix it.
Good answer. That actually makes sense with the Image example, but OTOH there's still cases where a separate factory class is used where a static method would work.
Because in boot code you generally don't care about speed, but size is a very important factor. I've personally had to rewrite standard library functions to be intentionally small and stupid just so a piece of boot code could fit into ROM. It's not fun, but there is a certain satisfaction when you rewrite putchar and think, I just saved 10k of code!
And the problem is? Users love this policy. Banks love this policy. Merchants don't, because they get screwed. And it's even worse. Not only are they out the product, but they also get charged, even if they provided a CVV in the transaction. So, you lose the cost of the product, the time involved, AND you get fined.
That's cool. I got the impression that it was communicating with people on the fly with little/no oversight.
While we're jumping down the architecture pedant rabbit hole, a simple loop like that will be trivially predicted, so the branch will be basically free. In addition, hardware prefetchers do a much better job at predicting linear memory access than manual prefetch instructions. On Core 2, iirc, if you have 2 or 3 L2 misses at fixed offsets either direction from each other, the hardware will automatically begin prefetching memory so it's there when you need. The problem with manual prefetch instructions is there high latency. They're best for hinting to the processor that you're about to make an unpredictable load.
On the last point, some regions have "coordinated review" setups where you can simultaneously offer a <$1m, rule-504 security across some state lines, within the region (you can also submit simultaneously to multiple regions): http://www.coordinatedreview.org/crscor.html

37 of the 50 states participate in one of the five regions, but California and New York are two glaring omissions.
This is sensible, until you realize it sucks for internet sites. Listen, the banks don't care. You can have the card holder call up, and tell the bank to cancel the chargeback, and they won't do it. I know, I've heard the conference call with my support staff try and do it. The customer was really apologetic, too.
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Isn't this more "celebrity gossip" than "interesting stuff"?
http://www.directi.com is another reseller with an API
She wouldn't be the first.
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Based on how many people on HN hate Arrington I am sure this will get tons of up votes, but to answer your question - yes.
I hate to imagine what it'd be like to browse a forum like that. Of course, I imagine RMS doesn't browse any forums.

It seems Craigslist is an example of about the most browsing you could really do, as it's only ever 1 link deep (if you form your own search URL's). Only problem there is time is always a factor on Craigslist. Well, that and Craigslist probably isn't open source. (I don't know the man very well. Would he refuse to use something like Craigslist if the code is private?)
Eye Opener..it's hard to believe but then you have proved it. Merchants need to take this up with banks.
I often wondered why Linux did not start a UX revolution. I suppose attitudes like Stallman's is the root cause, where attitude is given to "be-like-historical-me" rather than "lets-move-towards-the-future-together".
That's what "flag" is there for-- please do your part -- and if that part involves a greasemonkey script that auto-flags anything from techcrunch then more power to you.
I feel really stupid in this thread.
well the main reason I wouldn't use JRuby is because .. by programming in just Ruby, you get benefit of all the c extensions that you aren't able to use in JRuby and not sure about rails support on jruby. I would just use it without jvm. The other reason to go with groovy/grails is the grails plugins community is very active.
I put all of the auto-generated e-mails in my drafts folder, so I can edit, modify, or delete before I send on a case by case basis.

That is a great way to actually use the drafts folder, looking forward to the code so I can put that to use.
I like the RSS feed because even though it's a lot to consume, there's always a gem or two hidden inside the depths of HN that never reaches the front page...
Carol Bartz has done plenty of stuff wrong, or at least very much without the interest of the Yahoo! users and/or employees at heart in order to increase the bottom line.

She has destroyed rather than sold and shut down rather than set free those parts of Yahoo! that she thought were beyond salvage.

That said, I wouldn't want to be in her shoes, she can really only do wrong, Yahoo! needs a lot of overhauling to reverse the trend they've been displaying for the last couple of years and I never ever expected to be on the same side in any argument with her.

Flagged in spite of posting this.
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Open sourcing it may be an option... then someone else would do the dirty work for you.
does anyone know how to intercept a download IPC call in Chromium?
it should be memset(buffer,0,SIZE*sizeof(int))
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Only if it's a buffer of ints. I had assumed it was buffer of unstructured memory, which would be chars and of 1 byte each.
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I just use RSS. I agree that there are way too many articles to go through. However, I just skim the titles every once in awhile and click only on things that jump out at me. I have had years of experience filtering google search results, so I'm quite good at it :D
And what do you suggest for MSVC, which doesn't support attribute unused or have any comparable declspecs?
The url goes to a May 20, 2010, google cache.

Why? [edit: Okay, I didn't see that he could only find the cache. Just for future reference doron, at the top of the webshot is displayed the URL.]

Here's the URL unshortened and uncached: http://www.slowlab.net/slowmail.html
The golden days of game development imo were the late 80's, just enough computer power to make things interesting and not enough big money in it to make it hard to get in to for creative small companies.

It's been very much downhill since then, with the exception of a few interesting developments in the console market.
Well, Groovy has been around longer than Clojure, IIRC, and maybe longer than Scala, or about as long. So I'd guess that quite a few Java people who were interested in alternatives got exposed to Groovy before Scala and Clojure started gaining traction. And since there are only so many hours in the day... at some point you have to start building stuff instead of just learning new languages.

Also, Groovy's syntax is very Java like. In fact, Groovy is pretty close to a superset of Java, so you can often - if not always - rename a .java file to .groovy, and compile it with groovyc and run it. This makes it easy to leverage your existing knowledge of Java, while slowly working in the idiomatic Groovy.

All of that said, I personally plan to learn both Scala and Clojure as well; and will probably take my Scala book to the Triangle JVM Hack Night meeting tomorrow night and spend a couple of hours poking at Scala.
If you are planning to get a degree/take CS in college, It might be worthwhile to get the intro classes out of the way early, so you can more quickly focus on more interesting stuff in your degree program.

Unfortunately , working on projects dont usually earn you college credit even if said projects clearly demonstrate a level of competency above what the course is teaching - and you need the piece of paper.

If however you dream of doing a startup after college, then I would hold off on worrying about moving through your degree quickly and start focusing projects that could develop into a startup.

You can then take the college classes at a less rapid pace, enabling you more time to focus on startup ideas. I wish I had done the latter - I was to focused on getting courses done and going to grad school. In reality, doing a startup/software business is more interesting.
Interesting. It is the "click of death" that is one of the more recent incidents to cause me general concern with the brand.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050374/seagate-bar...

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/352816/seagate-hard-disks-suffer...
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I took it as saying you should remember how much of the buffer you have actually used. If you only read what you write, it doesn't matter whether the rest of the buffer is filled with \0 or not, so you can skip the memset.
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I completely agree. Most folks interested in working for a startup have founder ambitions themselves. When you really think about it, if you're going to ride the roller coaster, you may as well do it as a founder. Otherwise (unless you change your mind or happen to join a very successful company), you're going to have to do it all over again anyways.

EDIT: The moral of the story is that it's up to the hiring startup to convince you they will be a very successful company, beyond an exit that only windfalls the founders.
I think it was reasonably agile up to the mid 90s, at least in some areas. A lot of the top PC games of the early/mid 90s had smallish teams and smallish budgets: Quake (1996), for example, had 9 employees on it. These days a 9-person game company has little chance of breaking out of the "indie" category (though there's still some interesting indie stuff happening).
Interesting. The most recent OEM drive I purchased has a three year warranty, I think. (Their web site shows a bit less, probably because I haven't registered it, along with the sale date, yet.)

I should search to check this, but my vague recollection is reading about a backlash to the warranty reduction, which they subsequently at least partially reversed. Is that what ultimately happened?
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Why on earth would "this shake-up" be needed?

Perhaps once it crossed that line from being a money pit to a profitable division Microsoft decided it was time to put the "grown ups" in charge to juice up profits using all the marvelous techniques cut-throat business minded people excel at. That's a total guess on my part but it seems like something Microsoft would do.
It's no trick to play upon fears. It's not a useful trait in an advisor.
I'll give him a ping and see what he says, thanks
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Thank you! This is extremely healthy for the NoSQL community. Whenever I see an "XXXX open source project has closed down because we're duplicating tons of work from another project" I rejoice, as a huge problem in open source is fragmentation.
Yes, currently I am focusing on projects and consulting (google my username for more on that).
I'm willing to open options, so I may consider taking an AP
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Would I miss anything by reviewing for the test and taking it? Going through the review sheet most everything looks familiar, but I'm not sure if that's the difference between knowing from a working vs. a theoretical standpoint.
Ok, I'll settle for 'doom' as the cut-off :)

1993. (I was doubting about 'wolfenstein', but that only makes it one year earlier).

After that it really got out of hand.

9 people is already a fair sized team.

Compare that to Jeff Minter or Braben & Bell.
I would study for it, you seem like a smart independent learner, so that should be enough. The worst that can happen is you dont pass. Who will know? Go for it. And keep up the programming. I didnt get into programming until I was 28, I wish I had when I was your age.
Initially it did, but that went wrong a few too many times. :-)
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This is what I predicted back when it was launched, and I got downvoted :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1081479
This is a typical cut-and-paste programmer bug, the person took 'memzero', copied it and tried turning it in to memset.

Instead of special casing memzero as memset(p,0,count);
Excellent point! Indeed, modules are an excellent way to extend Drupal. The NYT could probably write any they needed, and they'd probably rewrite some of the (excellent-quality!) existing ones to fit their unique needs.

What would be the point, again, of working with Drupal? A better photo uploader?
I know, the web-server did not respond at the time of posting, that is the reason why i posted the cache, and therefore didn't see the reason to post the full URL.
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is that what this dispersant they're using does? I think I heard its keeping from surfacing, which I think is what happens when oil and water don't mix.
It's something more fundamental. When writing software for mobile devices, you really need to optimize for power consumption. There was a recent talk at Google IO about the new polling vs pushing for web services, and it's alarming. If your Android app polls a web service every 5 minutes, it'll use something like 10% of the battery in one day (just that one app!).

Flash apps are simply not designed for optimal power consumption. Flash is designed for multimedia apps, which are generally power hogs.

I develop Flash professionally, and I'd never run it on my phone.
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A lot of the AB test was learning Java (took it in Spring 08). Despite that, I loved the class because of my teacher, who taught us enough that I was running into things through my sophomore year that I learned from the class.

Unless your school has a particularly good teacher, I'd recommend self-studying it, since you seem to get along fine doing that.
They could make it so that it doesn't automatically load all flash on page, and only ones you activate.
Depends on what you want it to do! Give us some guidance here.
not surprising.
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Going off of this, it could also be the case that other languages are going up, while PHP stays steady (or grows at a lesser pace).
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I think you're confused.

We're talking about production levels. Let's talk oil for example. Look at this graph:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alaska_Crude_Oil_Productio...

This graph tells us that peak oil production in Alaska was in 1987. The annual production in Alaska will never again reach 1987 levels. That's the production peak.

In the exact same way, 10 or 20 or 30 years from now we'll be able to look back on the world oil production graph and point to the peak - the year in which we've produced the most oil ever. And we'll be able to say with high degree of confidence that we'll never reach those levels again. That's peak oil

After the peak occurs the prices will go up never to return to pre-peak prices. The quote you mangled is in fact this:

'End of $resource' is not the right phrasing.
'End of CHEAP $resource' is.
Did any of you catch the comment where the guy from Adobe criticized the guy in the video for picking random sites?

Seriously?

So, Flash runs great on the Android as long as you only visit the sites that Adobe hand-picked for the Google IO demo? Maybe I'm reading that wrong... but that's how it sounds.

Yes, it's beta. But don't hold your breath while you wait for it to improve. Flash is a big part of the web, and an expensive one too. Computers need to be fast to run today's Flash content. My netbook (windows) can't run Flash-based sites, neither can my Mac... so I don;t think we can just blame Apple for not letting Adobe optimize Flash.

I don't think we need to blame anyone.

The fact is that Adobe makes software that requires serious hardware to run. I am very skeptical that it will run well on low powered devices. If it does, it may only do so on "approved" sites which really isn't "choice" as far as I'm concerned.
Is this safe to let run all day? Logon is not https.
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Craigslist is interesting because it functions in spite of the fact that it is technologically unsophisticated. I can't imagine that there would be earth shattering trade secrets in it.
For a long time there was a resistance in the ipv6 crowd from doing something like this, due to the fact that it would make having an ipv4 only service an upside-only proposition (all ipv4 and ipv6 nodes can reach you) thus slowing down the adoption of ipv6.

Since ipv6 can't possibly be adapted slower than it is now shrug
I always Cmd+Click on the comment threads. This way I have a way of then opening the article, and then going "back" to the comments.
My sister-in-law is a hydrologist and gave me this great book called Cadillac Desert. All about the "The American West and Its Disappearing Water". It tells the story about how many awful projects were funded by Congress as a means of sending pork home.

Many made no economic sense at all, even after the ridiculous stretching of the facts used to justify them. There's even a river in OK or TX whose course has been continually changed, with all the work being done by a company in which the local Congressman had a financial interest.

Yep, a lot of that $13 trillion has simply been flushed down the river with no real benefit.

The book also talks about how Jimmy Carter tried get the states to pick up a tiny percentage of the cost. Suddenly, interest in water projects plummeted, at least until that silly idea was repealed.
We had a site that was hacked on MT. The hack inserted files that gave the attackers an admin like interface to manipulate things. The files also had permission and user that matched the MT web server (different from the user and permissions we had on our files). A couple of days after reporting this hack to MT (less than 2 weeks ago) they did a forced database password change on all of their grid service clients. I'm certainly less confident than before about them but I'm not sure who you can really count on. Even high priced options like Rackspace have had issues.
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I've always joked around my work that I can replace a certain manager with a shell script, kind of like this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations...

I kid of course but I've actually given it some thought and I think it could work very well in case of inefficient managers. A good manager does a lot beyond forwarding emails appropriately. However, I've seen many a bad manager simply forward and reply emails as the bulk of their job duties. Hilary's script could indeed work as an automated 'smart' bot if some politeness feature is added in. No need to save anything in drafts folder. Just send it out and have links (or bcc the smart bot) to flag incorrectly sent emails. This could train the filter better.
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They kind of paint Metacritic in a poor light. It's not Metacritic's fault THQ has the policies they do.
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