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That was my point. It's open source and still it's not distributed under the Firefox brand, so users won't fill bugs in Mozilla's bugtrack.
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You still don't get it.

If you're installing item after item, then the odds are that at some point you're going to install the dependencies, and after that the tests will pass and mean nothing. So you keep on wiping, installing one thing, and testing. Fine. Now you have cases where package A conflicts with package B and you never find it. And now what? The number of combinations to test is incredibly large, and nobody is likely to have tested your exact system.

As for the unit tests, make them available, make them optional. That's OK by me. I'd opt to use them. Particularly since I learned the hard way that most of what I want in CPAN either isn't in Debian, or isn't up to date there. So I install things directly from CPAN. That means that when I install from Debian, there is a possibility of library conflict that I want to notice.
Zukmo and historious do let you search the entire content of the page.

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http://www.reddit.com/r/physics
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It isn't specifically the Patriot Act, it is a Treasury Regulation called "Know Your Customer (KYC)" aimed at preventing money laundering. We've had similar requirements for essentially forever, but they became more explicit recently. The specific mechanism is up to the individual bank / financial services firm.
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The article on zerohedge.com has more detail (and some nice but rough translations).

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/two-norwegians-face-6-years...
Ask Joyent: How do you feel about Oracle owning your toys?
So I was sniffing around the Joyent site due to all the no.de hubbub, also riak integration, and was wondering why Joyent is different, performance wise, from other virtual providers. From what I can tell, and do correct me, they use "os level" virtualization via Solaris and also use the ZFS filesystem. Which leads me to believe they are a Sun shop.

With all the Oracle v. Sun stuff going around (latest, http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/entry/and_now_page_2), I would like to know where this leaves Joyent. How has your relationship with Oracle/Sun changed since the takeover?

Any other predominantly Sun shops like to comment as well? Perhaps anonymously?
But then, you could always use ternary tables:

say do { ($grade eq 'A') ? 'Well done!'
: ($grade eq 'B') ? 'Try harder!'
: ($grade eq 'C') ? 'You need help!!!'
: 'You are just making it up!'};

I guess `given` with smart-match looks better when the implicit `~~` test is more complicated than `eq`.
CACM Erlang article by Joe Armstrong
http://clojurls.com/ is another good source. It's a bit hectic, but pretty comprehensive.
Notice the "imo". Atheists can substitute the following for prayer: "thoughtful consideration of what you feel is right". imo, these two aren't equivalent, but it's the best suggestion I know to provide.
Really? IBM refers to layoffs/redundancies as "Resource Actions", which is surely one of the most mealy-mouthed corporate expressions
Wie ist fick gleich phygg??
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Please note that imo my faith is a choice, it isn't "programmed in".
You don't think that it is embarrassing that package maintainers are given a set of unit tests that enable them to tell that things are correctly packaged, and they throw it away?

I'd be embarrassed by that!
Congratulations on your success and hardwork.
Wouldn't this have something to do with people opening HN items up in tabs and reading + commenting before moving on to the next one?
Correct, promotion will no longer be automatic because the semantics of primitive and auto-promoting arithmetic can't be unified (on the JVM with no fixnums, the return types are disjoint). However, missing from the blog post and discussion here is the fact that, should there be overflow, an exception will be thrown. We are not adopting the silent error strategy of C/Java etc.
Lessons learned:

1. Adding a feature to someone else's product is a risky business model. If it's popular, the product-maker will implement your feature, at which point your goose is cooked.

2. Adding a free feature to someone else's free product isn't even risky. It is among the surest methods of losing money.

3. Know when to sell. The missed opportunity here was search. With their data and methods, Xmarks was able to improve query results for a predictable fraction of searches. At this point (2008), they should have sold to one of the up-and-coming search engines -- Windows Live or Ask.
Oracle bought Sun to make more money.
Yep but the given/when is DRYer because you don't need to repeat the $grade eq

re: smart match & more complicated than `eq` - Yes you can push given/when quite a bit:

given (TheTime->of_day) {

when ('morning') {
breakfast();
make_packed_lunch() if $_->is_work_day;
}

lunch() when 'afternoon';

when ('evening') {
goto_pub() if $_->is_friday;
dinner();
}

default { say "Should be sleeping if its " . $_->{dt}->ymd }
}

ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3638892/what-kind-of-neat...
Cool. You explained in five words, what we tried to do with a hundred :-)
In general I'm in favor of moving things out of Oracle's control, since they have acted as an untrustworthy partner in many places, but why not use the existing fork?

The article dismisses Go-oo as not having enough support.. Why not give them more, rather than splitting the community further?
Oh man. I forgot about Sigur Ros. I know I have at least one of their albums.
Take all those answers with a grain of salt. Remember: He's saying "Feel free to apply" That's the same as a loan officer at a bank. They'll tell you to apply for a loan even if you're unemployed and 100k in debt. That's no guarantee that the application will go anywhere, but they want to keep the pipeline full.
Does it do PDF? PPT, DOC?
Ken Musgrave's work on Terrain rendering is worth a look. He did similar things. The book 'Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach' gives a nice explanation of a lot of the techniques and they used to give a course at SIGGRAPH on which the book was based but I can't find a link right now
"Libre" is probably better understood in Europe to mean "free" in its intended "free as in speech" sense.
I can't believe www.dead-link.com is being squatted. Who in their right minds wants to name their product or have their product be associated with dead link?
That sounds pretty awesome. I've got an idea for something kind of similar which I might try, but yours would probably be way better so please do it :)
Kudos to you. It is nice to read about a long-term successful company not looking for an exit strategy.
"Masters of Deception" covers this kind of stuff really well:
http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Deception-Artists-Optical-Illu...

In particular the cover was done by Rob Gonsalves:
http://www.discoverygalleries.com/ArtistGallery.asp?artist_i...

interestingly the same name was used by a hacker group in the 80s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Deception
You forgot Red Hat and Canonical, although I don't know how much they contribute compared to Novell.
Yes, really. PMs would publicly mock new-to-IBM PMs who used mid-90s business speak. When I was there they also referred to layoffs as 'getting rid of people'. It was a pretty good environment - honest and respectful. Perhaps your office was different.
It looks like just another generic Pligg website using the standard template "wistie"

source: http://www.pligg.com/
They certainly know how to sell their database. Whether this translates into an equal success with their Sun IP has to be shown. The good thing for them is that they acquired pretty mature products, so they can probably "coast" along and still make a reasonable profit. It's still open whether they can foster enough innovation to keep things going with Java, Solaris… Their track record isn't very good in that respect.

Of course, it all boils down to whether they need to innovate in the first place. By now, Java is well established enough in the enterprise sector, just as BEA and Oracle DB are.
I wonder if pointers confuse people because C's syntax for pointers is confusing. The confusing examples always involve arrays, where a statically allocated array's behavior is different from one that's dynamically allocated and not necessarily what you would expect as a beginner, or where the vagaries of operator precedence obfuscate the pointer arithmetic.

I think the C++ programming book I first used made it worse by equating pointers and arrays from the start, making it seem like they were interchangeable.

At least for me, no other languages including assembler seemed to generate this amount of confusion over such a simple thing.
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OpenSSL is an interesting case, because it's part of the standard Ruby library, and it should be available in every single copy of Ruby. But Debian faces export restrictions on OpenSSL, so their copy of Ruby is missing a number of important standard libraries by default.

Rubygems can't really clean this problem up, because Rubygems assumes it's running on an actual copy of Ruby, and not a half-broken Debian Ruby.

To get a working Rubygems installation on Debian, I usually 'apt-get install ruby-full', which installs a non-broken Ruby interpreter, and then install Rubygems itself from a tarball so that apt-get stays _far_ away from my Ruby setup.

I don't blame Zed for being angry about this. Debian's Ruby has often been pretty broken even by vendor standards.
Link directly to the article: http://binarybonsai.com/2010/09/27/chewie-stats/
If someone could buy a prepaid debit card for cash without showing ID, and add money to it without showing ID, and spend from it without showing ID, then Alice could buy a card, Bob could load $5000 onto it, and Carol could read the card number over the phone to David. To achieve the same kind of anonymity today, someone would have to accumulate $5000 in cash and put it in David’s physical possession.
One thing I don't see people talking about is utilizing donations while bootstrapping. The article correctly mentions that you need income (that 10%) to pay the bills in order to develop a badass product. Donations can give you that, as well as social proof that your idea is worth the potential act of paying for it. Meaning, donors don't "receive" anything (subjective, I know), but are still willing to support your great idea.
Read the article again - suggesting its those 8-hour companies that should institute naps.
Yes, all that there is at this stage is a slide show. (all projects start somewhere). More will come soon very soon (mammatus is already finished and release, the ui is getting there) There is no plea for community help (though of course help is always welcome) it is a plea for sysops to turn their finger service on so their users can use thimbl, and an offer to help where help is needed. As for the difference between a decentralized microblogging service and a bunch of blogs with fees... we'll leave that as an excersise for the reader. Interesting that you bother to post a comment when you believe there is nothing to talk about, but thanks for the feedback in anycase.
Can't you just do this in Digg v4 by following people who share physics stories? I don't really understand what the point of this is.
This is a Great program. It puts people directly in touch with very interesting an helpful advisors, and lets you ask them quick one/two paragraph questions.

Then, it shares the advice out so everyone can benefit from it as well.
Aut Larry aut nihil? As James Gosling pointed out just recently, IBM was the second option, not bankruptcy. IBM was thought as worse when it came to laying off people and outsourcing their jobs, but they tend to respect their IP and engineers more -- which is a pretty sad revelation, considering that we're talking about big ol' Inferior But Marketable[1] here.

[1]: http://www.etypewriters.com/hailto.html
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Sure Some software corresponds to Some math in a contrived example. That is well-known.

How about a disk driver? a network protocol? A game where you shoot a bunny with a flamethrower?

Some Computer Scientists occasionally gain benefit from applying math to certain algorithmic software. Is that the only kind that is being patented?
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It seems your argument could be extended to attack the whole enterprise of identifying and overcoming cognitive biases, not just this specific post by Yvain. To me this constitutes a reductio ad absurdum of your argument.
Many Reddit readers use the same reading technique and their time per page was still low.
I'm pretty clear on how ssh works. We can certainly add support keys as well, once we get the initial release out ;)
Of that I have no doubt, but what I originally thought they would do; use their business resources mixed with Sun's engineering resources, does not appear to be their plan at all. They seem to be losing all of the best Sun engineering talent and do not seem at all concerned about about that fact.

That leads me not to conclude they are failing at what I originally thought they were doing, but succeeding at something else and I am curious as to what that is.
This is totally off-topic, but how do they make the text on their webpage look so good? Is that a CSS thing?
Gentoo avoids making patches specific to itself wherever possible, when it does it's generally just to make it compile+work, the changes are straightforward, and they are applied live on your machine in a self-documenting way.

The build process is also sophisticated enough to be able to 'slot' potentially-incompatible versions of the same package so that they can be installed simultaneously. From my recent snapshot of the package repo I can install 5 different simultaneous major versions of postgres, with a variety of independent build options.
Probably something to do with the whole "don't be evil" thing. Google has always done a pretty good job of that. Sometimes doing the right thing isn't the same as doing the thing that's best for business. In fact, REALLY OFTEN doing the right thing isn't the same as best for business.

Also the vast majority of Google employees are probably open source users and fans themselves.
Ok, it doesn't work except when it does. You don't see the power of accountability? How Jobs personally carries the brand?

Agreed a name at the top of the email is not enough - the email should be From somebody.
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Nice. The thought of ".java" being a common document type made me smile. Guess we know what it's written in ;)
You asked for it ;) Sorry if I seem critical; it's intended to be constructive.

I imported my Firefox bookmarks. You've captured all the bookmarks themselves, but you seem to have discarded all other metadata, including (a) the hierarchical structure, and (b) tags and description. This is really unfortunate, particularly because your auto-categorization code seems to show a high degree of .... shall we say, creativity?

It looks like the only way to access this saved stuff is to actually visit your page. There's no way I can access it through the browser itself (as I can with bookmarks today). While you do have a FF extension, it doesn't seem to provide a means of accessing those bookmarks, only a way to add new ones. It may seem petty, but the need to open your web site to access a bookmark is enough extra rigmarole that I'm not going to bother.

As mentioned in another thread yesterday, I'm not going to log in using Facebook. It requires exposing my friends' identities, and I don't feel I have the right to make that choice for them.

For that matter, I'm never, ever, going to choose the option so that my new entries are posted into Facebook. Bookmarks (and other notetaking) is a tool, like turning a screwdriver. While I might post to a social site about the project I'm working on, I don't post about each screw I turn.
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Its just a name, will she really makes a fuss out of it?
I can't believe a team with so many users hasn't began charging them and when things get rough they want to shut down instead of charging because they think users will not pay?

Two million users? Sorry but they know nothing about business and it's worse for the ones who backed them... How on earth they're going to let this go this way?
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"Address of" is confusing, and is what confused me as a beginner, because there is no notion of type associated with an address.

If (&x) returns "the address of x," you'd be inclined to say that ((&x) + 1) is one byte higher than &x, even though the C compiler will calculate the actual answer based on the size of x.

If x is an array as in this example, you'd have to know that C does this arithmetic based on the entire length of the statically defined array, rather than a single element as it would for a dynamically defined array with a pointer to it.

This is completely non-obvious, at least to me.
I ask OO design questions. Experience with design patterns is fairly evident in answers to these questions, and sometimes that's good and sometimes it's bad.
Right, I know all that. What we're waiting to see is whether or not that's really what Google is up to. I strongly suspect that the poster has it right in thinking that this is what Google is doing. Like I've said, they've done a pretty awesome job of not being evil so far.
There are some negatives to Green Dot's business model. Here are a few things that were pointed out to me last week:

-Barriers to entry are pretty low. Walmart has already lowered fees from $9 to $5 for a new card and from $5 to $3 for monthly maintenance. NetSpend, AccountNow, Russell Simmons' RushCard are all in this business and more competitors appear to be sprouting up. Blackhawk Networks (owned by Safeway) just announced they are entering this business.

-50% quarterly churn rate. That means every 6 months Green Dot has to find an entirely new customer base to replace the one that left. My guess is the rate is high because of the monthly fees.

-A lot of people will be wowed by the company's massive growth rate (722k stores in 2006, 3.1M stores in 2009). But it is all almost entirely due to Walmart adopting their product. I am not sure if depending on Walmart for your future success is entirely beneficial, they have a reputation for bringing costs to the bare minimum. The variable costs for issuing a new card are so low that I think this is a major possibility.

-Then there is the outrageous valuation. 46x earnings, 25x book value. This is a pretty pricy company and I think competitors are going to pounce on their space, bringing down margins and customer activations. A 10% drop in pricing with a 30% drop in customer activations makes the company barely profitable.

In Jan 2011 the lock up on insider sales goes away. I expect during that time we'll see a ton of selling.

Also if you want to learn about this industry here are some great resources:

paybefore (magazine)

www.cfsi.org (Center for Financial Services Innovation)
Years ago (pre swivel, post quantrix/tableau) I made a competitor as well. We quickly decided once we went out and talked to potential customers that it was a no go.

1) Very few customers wanted to upload their data to the web. Even less were allowed by law.
2) Most had integration problems - i.e. they couldn't actually access their data because it was in disparate systems.
3) Most people didn't actually use the information for anything, it was simply to provide them with "evidence" that they were right before looking at the charts. As a statistician this makes me sad, but it was the way things were at least when we investigated it.

Over time we gradually realised why BI was priced so high; it needs system integration alongside it. Now it turns out that we may have been wrong (gooddata.com are doing a good job as far as I can tell) but I still think it's the tip of the iceberg in terms of potential market.

My advice: target a niche with a huge problem where the customer is unable to get at their data at the moment. Choose the niche which has 1-2 big vendors of data collection systems with 80+% combined market share and provide the solution to the problem. And charge.
Given the length of the article I guess that it's not only the most engaged, but actually the only ones who read it. I don't believe that article can be read in less than 5-10 minutes.
Something that's getting my attention lately is contextual and selectively targeted ads, but not in a good way. It's creepy to be pitched on something you looked at on Amazon, or something obliquely related to your interests constantly.

Ads like those will drive me to install ad blockers, which I've never before bothered with.
And after that he can explain how the freedom is really for the source code and not for her!
Unless your dog is uniquely talented, it is incapable of holding any philosophy, materialist or not.
That is probably true in Europe, but it definitely fails in the US. What I don't see is why the name has to be so damn literal.

Firefox was never named "Libre Interent Browser"

Google was never "Better Search Engine That Doesn't Totally Suck"

OpenOffice at least wasn't that clunky and got the point across.

This is a name by hackers for hackers. Why is that a good idea for a project with the mainstream reach of Firefox? This is a cross platform office suite, it could be used by literally EVERY PERSON WHO USES A COMPUTER, the name is extremely important. It doesn't have to mention a damn thing about open source, free software, or anything in its name. Most people don't care about Firefox's development model - they just like using it. OpenOffice should be the same way.
I hate this product. My relatives give them as gifts because our culture needs to wrap actual money in some level of indirection in order to make it feel "gifty."

The cost of that -- $2-6/mo -- is too damn high, and is the basis of the profit of this company.

Give cash. Help sink this entire business model.
Urgh, how depressing. So now we have yet another mediocre office suite being developed. If the various developers could get over the various political issues, there could be a truly kick-ass suite in action. But no - instead we have to have the free choice of several so-so suites as each team reinvents the wheel their particular way. sigh