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How To Install BIKA LIMS Inkosi On Ubuntu Server In 15 Minutes
Please, less of this on the front page, even on Fridays...
I guess I'm an idiot user for preferring Gmail to anything else I've used while getting the additional benefit of having that exact same interface on any computer I use without having to install anything.
probability porn comes to mind
I use semicolons, and a linter to let me know when I miss them, because IE pukes all over itself if I don't. Same with trailing commas, IE HATES those.

Article ignores reality.
That's great if you happen to be studying in the US, but I suspect it's not going to work for those of us who would like to work on our startups full time.
it was the same with Windows 95 fifteen years ago. Apple is the new MSFT.
How to *really* hold the new iPhone
I don't use any flash applications that I want to store anything. In the past (in linux) I did:

rm -Rf ~/.macromedia && touch ~/.macromedia

which stopped flash creating the ~/.macromedia directory and being able to store anything on disk. This caused problems with the odd rare site that insisted on storing things, and the BBC iplayer would become unresponsive. Now I call my browser from a shell script which deletes ~/.macromedia whenever I close it.
the HFT systems detected the sudden price drop and automatically went short, betting on capturing the developing downward momentum

This is the scariest part
That's both hilarious and frightening all at once. Luckily static analysis tools catch that kind of stuff very easily now...
Yeah point taken. I guess what I mean here is that it removes ambiguity and separates logic (What the code is going to do) from display (How I like my source code laid out).

I wasn't suggesting that languages that don't have semicolons look ugly or unclean. I do a lot of assembly language but obviously there is no real issue there with semicolon/line endings, since the convention is to write a single instruction per line.
Element zero...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutronium
This article is so typical of sensationalism reporting. Individuals Like Mr. Musk, are able to take advantage of the separation of entities that a corporate charter provides. So while he probably stopped paying himself a good salary due to impending litigation. The source that has been providing the revenue has not dried up, all he has to do is turn the spicket back on, when he is ready.
NYC specifically has a large number of attractive women for the same reason LA does: a lot of industries based in the city which employ and are built on attractive women. There are people working service jobs (waitress, bartender, etc.) who really want to break into those industries, too.

In LA, it's movies and music. In NYC, it's music, modeling, fashion.

That said, I'd prefer a "6" who is super-intelligent and interesting, to a "9" with whom I have nothing in common.
Really? I feel nauseous when I have a Reddit window open. Is that why?
The Flash Crash of 1962
The winner of Group A was always going to play the Runner up of Group B shrug
The Seven Terrifying Side Effects of Useful Drugs
You have to read this interesting article. This is for your good.
> and stop abandoning them the moment you release them.
Well said.

I just perceive that company at least as customer unfriendly, maybe even -condemning.
Not sure about Blackberry, but on Android: Settings / About phone / Status / Signal strength
Neutronium
I fail to see the problem with minification. The minificator can insert semicolons by itself because the algorithm for that is known and present in every JS engine. Besides, it just looks cleaner without them. Less for errors too.
That Chris Blizzard fellow has some interesting articles here: http://hacks.mozilla.org/author/blizzard/
and blog here: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/category/performance/

I'm glad (some) browser developers are still focusing on javascript vs native speed.

I just upgraded from a 2ghz to a 4ghz PC and damn if this isn't going to ruin my attitude about trying to make web sites faster.

The problem is NOTHING is slow on this hardware and it was less than a $150 upgrade. (It also uses less power than the 2ghz hardware!)

I'm going to have to figure out how to cut the speed in half for testing. Wish we still had "turbo" buttons!
yeah, but I'd rather queue with you guys for an admission ticket to the Championships (Wimbledon) than for an iPhone...
Bionic feet for amputee cat
An info-junkie's list of 26 essential iPad apps
مشاهدة مباراة البرازيل والبرتغال
مشاهدة مباراة البرازيل والبرتغال
Agile Development: Where’s the Proof?
I just had an epiphany. Here's what I'm going to do when I need to make a critical decision about how to operate my business. First, I'll spend days doing market research to develop a keen sense of what would be the right and fair thing to do to make my customers happy. Then I'll throw that out and do whatever I think Apple would do.
on Blackberry it's under Options, Status
At least we are seeing incremental progress now, even with a step backwards here and there.
how to disable flash cookies

http://www.google.com/search?q=disable+flash+cookies
I wonder how large the genome would be if all the "junk DNA" was stripped out.
It seems like all these problems could be solved by tighter integration with browsers: add hooks for browser privacy features to NPAPI and support them in Flash. Adobe seems to already be heading that way with the new private-browsing support.
When they ask for your mother's maiden name, you should map that phrase to "your password, unique to this company" in your head. Now it's not quite as insecure.
The Firefox "Better Privacy" extension can delete these when you close the browser, or better yet on a timer, every few minutes. This allows you to use Flash sites that rely on them without most of the privacy issues.

(Note: don't play any long-term Flash games with Flash cookies disabled).
I think that's an unfair generalisation.

To bad managers, it's only about money, but it has been very well documented for a long time that beyond a certain point, salary is not particularly important to a lot of people.

It is also well documented that most employees do value things like flexible working hours, a few extra days of annual leave, and real support for training in new tools and skills to keep up to date. We also tend to get offended when companies try to take over life outside work in one way or another. Much of this comes down to maintaining a healthy work-life balance, so employees can enjoy the lifestyle they prefer without work interfering unnecessarily.

Smart managers recognise this reality, set their working conditions accordingly, and reap the rewards. It's just a shame there are so few smart managers around.
> I wonder how compressible it is, on top of that.

You can download a copy from Wikipedia and get back to us :-)
USA vs ALG 6 Missed Goal, plus the Winning Goal {VIDEO INSIDE}
Why I Don't Like Stock Buybacks
Impressive presentation. I like the slide layout quite a bit (after I zoomed out a couple times and got used to it).
> They're inflating perceptions of their popularity and their importance.

This is consistent with the reasoning behind naming their tech-support area the "Genius Bar" and the technicians "Geniuses".

When people call, say Dell, to complain about a laptop not working, they expect to talk to a clueless entry level technician. There is a bias for frustration. At the Apple Store, one has to make an "appointment", for the privileged of bringing forth your issue to a person with the corporate title of "Genius". People are less inclined to talk down to people who are important and smart.

In fairness to the Genius Bar, their standards for customer relations are higher than the typical support org. For example, Geniuses will get a mandatory review if they have received a low customer submitted questionnaire rating.
The comparison between this and NaCl is quite a stretch. NaCl has much further ranging implications -- being able to code in any language and having it display in the broswer is a true paradigm shift.
it's pretty different; for one thing, they want people to use it to pay for downloadables. You can, ~in theory~ sell downloadables through Paypal, but just try selling $100k in downloadables and withdrawing the money from your Paypal account...
Do we really want to heed advice when it's comes with obviously wrong advice like "Only people can detect and solve software bugs, not tools."

Static bug analysis is definitely not the be all and end all of software quality but definitely has a place. We automatically run FindBugs (along with unit test etc) on our code base every time new code is pushed by a developer and it definitely helps pick up quirky little errors much more cheaply than code reviews.
That's doing it right. Bangalore must be more of a world hub than I realized.
It's probably time I upgrade my speakers, I've had them for some time now. It's a Klipsch 2.1 set from about 3 years ago. I was under the impression that Klipsch was a reasonably good quality brand, but I guess they're missing these ferrite beads you speak of. Something to keep in mind for when I do upgrade, thanks.
These are not very intriguing experiments. I would have expected something a bit beyond keyboard shortcuts.
I have a programming job somewhat like that, except that I work full-time for (approximately) 9 months followed by 6 months unpaid leave during which I make comics. The people I tell about this arrangement usually say they would love to the free time but could not afford to earn less. Some would not mind reducing their expenses but are afraid to ask their boss because it could hurt their career prospects. In most jobs the idea of working part-time is unusual, does not bring direct benefits to the employer, and requires some coordination effort, so why would they do it? The one big upside for the company is the employee's higher motivation, but unfortunately this is not easily quantifiable. I was lucky to be hired by a director who was also an artist wishing he had more time to paint.

During the dotcom boom I had an interview with a software company founded by students where many programmers worked 60%. They had some coordination problems. The company went down in the dotcom bust. My previous job was with a company where everybody worked 4 days a week. They wouldn't let me work 3 days after they had tried it with one employee and were not satisfied with the results. Before I worked 3 days a week as an economist and it went pretty well.

There are other jobs where part-time is more usual or even the norm. Many artists become part-time teachers.
iPlayer is currently requiring Flash cookies, but long term they say they want to transition to not needing them: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/06/lso_flash_coo...
As a side note:

"This means that if, for example, you use the private mode to browse pornography..."

I like that private browsing is recognized for it's primary purpose without the usual hypocrisy (like: "private browsing is useful when you browse for presents for your family and don't want to spoil the surprise"). We all know why private browsing is there.

What I also find quite funny is that Apple was the first one to introduce private browsing. The same Apple that now wants to "free people from porn" (quote from a Steve Jobs email).
Supreme Court Rolls Back a Law Born of Enron
Wondering if instead of 1Mbps net connection you meant 1Gbps?
That's not a reliable way to do that. It should block.
Sleep(1) is very noisy on Windows machines. The time slice given by default is ~15-20ms [1], and calling Sleep(<15) relinquishes the rest of the time slice. Windows has a multimedia API that can be used to get intervals down to 1ms, but it requires system calls that increase your system load. So you usually just need to use proper synchronization anyways, which is what the Python guys should have done :)

This crummy Sleep() implementation has some nice effects on programmers. Those who like to solve problems with lots of copy/paste code are forced to think about using proper synchronization primitives when running high resolution loops that wait for events, or their code just won't run very fast.

[1] http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/clr/thread/fac...
Well, apple could have just added a telescoping antenna like the phones of 10 years ago, but that would seem to kind of break the aesthetic, wouldn't it?
The iDEAL system is very good also. It works like this:

1. You click checkout

2. You are sent to your bank's website

3. You login

4. You get a screen that shows the amount you have to pay, you verify this

5. You get an SMS with a code that you have to enter

6. Purchase completed

The nice thing about this is that it's very quick and the seller doesn't get your credit card number; steps 2-6 happen on your bank's website. And there is no intermediary: it's just the seller's bank and your bank. There is nothing to set up, you just have to have a bank that supports it (almost all banks in the netherlands do) The nice thing for sellers is that chargebacks are not possible. This is a much saner way to do online payments.
The thing that concerns me about this tld is the potential for more puritanical groups to attempt to push any and all "adult" content onto it, then legislate access restrictions. It has the potential to be a vector against network neutrality.

I hope this is really about convenience and not backroom censorship.
"If an application is removed in this way, users will receive a notification on their phone."

And honestly, you're trying to spin the removal of malicious apps as something bad? Really now?
Context?

That's pretty startling if it's real, I'd probably get representation.
ICANN Approves Dot-XXX Domain for Porn
Well, you have more time and patience than I do and that's fair enough. Video is wonderful so the notion that I 'detest it on principle' is silly. As I said, I can't paste from a video, no search engine can do anything useful with a video, there's no way for me to skip you earnestly telling me things I don't care about in a video. Using video for something that could just as well be conveyed in text and images is a sort of worst of both worlds. More than that, it actually breaks the web. Without linking, excerpting, indexing, there is no web. So I still think the Main Designer Kahuna of Firefox (a web browser) demanding 7 undivided, full-screen minutes of my attention is preposterous and sad, for anything short of 7 minutes of intricate interpretive dance or other information otherwise unsuitable for text and images.
They can remove things, that is the point. Today something bad is malicious software. Tomorrow it will perhaps be depiction of two men kissing or political satire as seen on the iphone, who knows ?
We build things intentionally so that they don't last long anymore. There's an entire realm of engineering dedicated to predicting failures of mechanical devices at a certain range. The ipod comes to mind of course, but there are many more all designed to maximize returns by having customers buy new ones.
Intel preps 'Android x86’ for netbooks and slates
http://markupslicer.com/pages/tos
Engineering is about trade-offs. Pro - Better reception and less dropped calls than previous iPhones, Thinnest Smartphone on the market. Con - some people are experiencing diminished reception when the phone is held in a certain way. If you think the cons outweigh the benefits, don't buy it or return it, it's as simple as that. Apple doesn't give a shit, there will be 10s of millions of people this year who will perceive the benefits of the external antenna design as easily compensating for its negatives.
This is a few weeks old right? Where did it go from there? Are we (linux users) all infected with lots of rootkits and file infectors and worms? No.

The interesting question is not "Are linux machines infected with a cloud of malware like Windows machines?" but rather, "What factors contribute to Windows malware that don't exist for Linux?". That is, on a technical level, Linux is just as vulnerable as Windows. Fred Cohen did his initial experiments on a a 4.3BSD machine in the early 80s, so we've know about the vulnerability all along.

Linux just doesn't accumulate the uncountable legions of malware that Windows does. It can't really be "market share", as even at 1% of all users, Linux desktops probably count higher than MS-DOS did in 1988, when the "Brain" virus swept through the population. So, this Sophos-employeed blogger should shy away from his name-calling, and start researching the really interesting "why" to see if it can't be applied back to Windows.
I think point 2 is no longer true if you're running Flash 10.1 and Firefox, Chrome or IE.
I also use this. Here is the link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/
Now I am really starting to feel for ATT. I can't help but feel that it might be the iPhone(3G and 3GS) that should be blamed for all the dropped calls and not ATT :P
Aha, so that's probably why JavaScript timers on Windows have around 15ms accuracy:

http://ejohn.org/blog/accuracy-of-javascript-time/
I understand the curly on the same line thing can bite you in Javascript, but man I find it so much easier to read when I can match them up by line of sight on a new line, that is one of my big pet peeves.
If you can't get a loan for $1000 (as mentioned in comments elsewhere), what makes you think that an investor is willing to give you $10000+? Even as a poor college student with little job history and no paying job I could easily apply for and get credit cards with $500 available. If you can't get even $1000 then I'm assuming there is negative information on your credit report then. If that's the case, it will follow you to investment as well (most likely).

And as for wanting an investor who will give you advice, let me just suggest that you not do any of this. Your questions/comments sound very naive right now. Getting involved with investors is serious business. There are lots of people who will take a piece of your business in exchange for advice. That doesn't mean that it is smart for you to do that.

My suggestion is that you research more about what is involved in taking on and seeking investors. There are many dangers in these waters, not the least of which is spending so much time learning/seeking investment that you let your business slide.
@Davidu, I understand your frustration but youth will always insist on learning some things "the hard way" - didn't we?

When you are hiring an experienced developer, do you ask what they were making at their last job? Of course you don't, that would be hypocritical.

However, other employers do ask what your previous salary was so they obviously place some value on salary as a metric. It's only reasonable for inexperienced candidates to go for the larger salary because they know it will be used as metric that will effect their income for many years to come.
If you enjoy Sherlock Holmes-type problem solving and forensic engineering, check out the user-contributed Sherlock Ohms series on Design News.

"Famous investigations into the most diabolical real-world cases in engineering."

http://www.designnews.com/blog/Sherlock_Ohms/index.php
I think both the original article author and the rebuttal get it wrong..

Hiring is process and much like any engineering adventure you are attempting to find tools and sub-processes that control this human adventure for a desired outcome.

There is no one magical one right way to combine those subprocesses and tools into one magical hiring process.

Its like any engineering process, you measure, verify and measure again and than make changes on those inputs.
The primary action of that button is tab-local. It's the secondary (or even tertiary) that isn't tab-local.
Most of "Junk DNA" is not junk. Think of it as metadata...
It is.

Remember the Amazon 1984 debacle?
Should I get internet at home? Should I be expected to pay for it?

You should get the same thing the co-founders get. If they pay for theirs at home, so should you. If you were not a significant equity holder then I'd argue that the company should pay if you were doing company work.

It isn't more/less important for the CTO to be online than the CEO for a web-based business IMO; both roles need to have available internet connection 24/7.
Regardless of the actual numbers, the issue doesn't appear when the gap in the antenna is taped over or it is otherwise insulated (like with a bumper).

That strongly suggests to me that this is something over and above normal loss of signal caused by picking up in a hand.
My experience with trying to disable cookies was that the (Flash) web became unusable. All sites with Flash content would just keep nagging and nagging.
Is there an announcement list for future events? I just found this thread...to late for me on this one.
One solid technical reason is that most Windows users run as Administrator (root) which eases the spread of malware.

In addition, the lack of uniformity makes it more challenging to write an Unix virus. You'd need to have the worm recompile itself on the target machine, as did the Morris worm in 1988. That greatly increases complexity and cost.

Many Windows worms target a specific client/OS pair. That means the worm will require you to run, say, Outlook Express and Windows XP. That sounds pretty specific, but the potential target size is so huge that the virus author can allow itself to be that restrictive.

Let's imagine a disease that could contaminate only one human being out of a hundred.

How fast do you think the disease would spread compared to one that can infect ninety human beings out of a hundred?

Why bother write a malware that has got - even if it's perfectly written - an order of magnitude less chances to spread?
Simple ePub OPS rules for Apple
no mention of Groupon Chicago based?
I saw that page. It still doesn't really explain it except to say that one neutron can only exist for 15 minutes by itself. But wouldn't putting multiple neutrons together prevent that?

Or is it something about being around protons that prevents neutron decay?
I seems Jobs has started falling back on "change the way you do things, not that big a deal", a little too often these days.

One of these days it will be that big a deal.
Purely anecdotal but when on site at Nokia and Sony Ericsson >5 years ago it seemed that nearly everyone used the wired headset so I started too. More recently I don't see that as much.
Wow. If I was a shareholder in your company, I'd be terrified.
If you've got 5 mins (make a cup of tea) there's a quick talk and live demo about this here, from Oxford Geek Night 17 (http://oxford.geeknights.net/2010/feb-17th/): http://ogn.s3.amazonaws.com/16-DavidSheldon.mp4
From Bootstrapping to the Next Online Experience
What is your problem with PDF?

Almost any browser other than lynx has a buitin pdf reader, and pdf can be created by just about anything.

Finally pdf is a format that allow you to ensure that no matter where it is printed, it is exactly as you wanted it to be.
Almost all phone manufacturers use headset cable as FM antenna. On the other hand there is almost no way how it could be used as antenna for anything other than FM. (antennas for GSM/GPS/WiFi/whatever bands are carefully designed devices with tight tolerances and not pieces of wire of some approximate length)
Another Firefox addon I've found ridiculously helpful is Vimperator. You can do everything from the keyboard except deal with Flash, pretty much.
Apple iOS 4 vs. Android Multitasking: Which Approach Is Better for Users?
So, is it the case that the existing risk was negligible, or would you conclude from the explosion in cellphone use in the interim (without a corresponding vast increase in such tumors) that the study was wrong?
That's fantastic. I'm assuming it's not the only power socket though?