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I keep it in backpack configuration. I'm tall enough that it doesn't drag on the ground and I find it useful in random, unforseen circumstances. Like two or three times a week the kids want to ride their bikes down to the park, which is a very exploratory park, so I throw a book in there, maybe a laptop, and ride with the kids. Plus I'm military and mine's brown, so, in uniform, I have to hand-carry it anyway. I thought about getting a black one for this very reason, but even then, I'm left-handed, and returning salutes is awkward that way, so I end up hand-carrying regardless of bag color.
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"Google isn’t deliberately lying, he said. However, the company created Chrome for a business reason, and Kovacs said that purpose is not “to free the world from any connection to Google.” Instead, the search giant wants to use the data gathered by Chrome to create a better, more personalized experience in search and other Google products, he said."

I dunno, I think Google just wants to make sure that the experience of using the web rocks as hard as it can, because the web is the platform that Google uses to deliver all of its applications.

The web is competing with proprietary technologies like iOS apps. If the web is perceived as inferior to iOS apps, then Google is held hostage by the owner of the proprietary platform (Apple). Apple can and will flex this muscle, as we saw when the Google Voice app was denied. So it's in Google's interest to invest into any technology that advances the state of the open web.

If Google just cared about "gathering data," it could save 99% of the work by just making search toolbars for other browsers that "phone home."
I'm just using my laptop at this point. I think it has a lot to do with what is convention. Why should I be using the slightly more powerful computer given that my laptop can travel with me?
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"At this point, you started out trying to improve your code-hygiene a little bit, and all you’ve done is spend the whole day creating a monstrosity that is almost impossible to understand."

At which point, your code is not reusable.
I feel like this article is kind of knocking down a straw-man. Of course you shouldn't refactor your code into a snarled tangle of functions. Code should convey ideas.

Refactor your code into ideas that make sense and combine well with the other ideas in the rest of your code. Then you can check the ideas for correctness, as well as the ideas and code that implements those ideas. If it is all correct, the code is correct. If the ideas are implemented well, they can be reused.
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Extensive proxying? MITM? There's no reason they wouldn't put their own root certificate onto the machines. For most work on Wall Street one probably doesn't even need to be connected to the internet.
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Or maybe (as has been happening with me) a growing realization that life is too short to give a fuck about many things.
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Of the handful of languages I just checked, a fair number of them—especially the popular ones—treat integers starting with 0 as octal. Python 2.6, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Scala, Java and D all believed that 010 == 8, while GHC, GNU Prolog, GNU Smalltalk, Scheme (Guile and Racket) and Common Lisp all treated it as being equal to 10. Python 3 actively rejects it, because they've changed the octal literal syntax to 0o10 to prevent this from sneaking up on people.

Some of the other complaints are valid—for example, I dream of a sensible module system when writing in C, which would alleviate #13—but a lot of the complaints are sort of petty, and I'd argue that this one, being true of many more languages than C, falls directly into the petty bin.
I'm a Mozilla engineer, but I tend to agree with haberman's comment. I haven't seen any sign that Chrome benefits Google web properties any more than the web in general.

"If Google just cared about "gathering data," it could save 99% of the work by just making search toolbars for other browsers that "phone home."

...which of course you have done, for a long time. But as far as I know Chrome has succeeded in gaining more users than the toolbars ever did. So maybe building a browser is a necessary cost of total world domination. :)

(P.S. Hi Josh!)
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I tend to agree - a small volunteer organisation I'm involved with just shares a single Pro 50 account among a few people. We'd upgrade to a small teams account if it was only a bit more expensive.
Yes. "For example, you could stream terabytes of data off of a genomic sequencer as it is being created, store the final data set as a single object and then analyze any subset of the data in EC2 using a ranged GET"
In short: make life easy for skilled migrants and your economy will do good.

I'll say it's simpler than that: make sure immigrants get to sustain themselves through work rather than welfare. This creates a direct incentive for them to learn the language and actually integrate into the new society.

The great problem Europe has with migrants is not the inherent "poor imported stock", but the lean welfare rules and strict employment rules. This ensures a toxic proportion of new arrivals simply don't want to or can't integrate. It also means you get second-generation immigrants with no better prospects than their parents.
S3's REST API supports the HTTP 'Range' header to pluck bits of an object out (with a similar facility in its SOAP API).
Just my take on going to a nice place to work.
I'd be curious to know if his political leaning shifted going into and out of his "stupid" period.
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A direct link to the blog post: http://blogs.worldbank.org/allaboutfinance/the-most-effectiv.... It's a lot more balanced than the repost linked in the submission. For example: "Such gains do not come automatically. The latest Nobel prize in economics was for work on the process of job search and matching in labor markets. While these are difficult enough for workers in the same economy, matching the supply of willing workers to the demands of employers becomes even more difficult when the process takes place across borders."
Those aren't necessarily traits of slowness. It might indicate a heightened awareness of your senses and to the feelings of people around you.

When I was younger I identified so much with my racing brain, it crowded out everything else. I couldn't even enjoy a flower, or art, or respond to the happiness of a small child.
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Thanks for clarifying that. The journal series has otherwise been quite illuminating.
I've often considered myself a genius at being stupid. My stupidity aptitudes are staggering across all categories.

Fortunately this has lead to some spectacular failures and the burden of knowledge that comes with. I think I've successfully managed to leverage my multiple stupidities effectively.
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You're supposed to use chars for character data, in which case it's not supposed to matter whether or not the integer representation is signed or unsigned. All you generally do with characters is store, compare for equality, and print. Those should all be safe to do without ever knowing if the underlying integer is considered signed or unsigned.

It's only when you start doing arithmetic on characters, or just want to use char to mean "byte" (or "octet") that it matters, and then it's a very good idea to be specific and say "unsigned char" if that is what you expect.
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It's funny how the poster of that article came to the conclusion that a relatively new and not well-known filesystem was safe to use after two reboots and one battery removal.

If something is twice as fast as something else, with all likelihood, the faster thing to some extent does less than the slower thing.

If "less" in this case is stuff for which there is no need on a small device with low storage capacity, then, fine, he's right to use it.

If however "less" is less protection against data loss in edge cases, then this was a risky choice indeed.

He should at least have tried removing the battery while the phone was provably busy actually writing to the filesystem.

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I hope "elif" wasn't mandatory though, people using #define to modify C's syntax are weird. :)

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This seems interesting and a lot less 'illegal'. There has been 1 arrest so far that I know of, a 16 year old kid from the Netherlands has been arrested for being a part of the MasterCard DDoS. [0]

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Well, for one I know I'll never write any spectacular piece of software that will really make a difference. My only half-decent contributions were to port a library from one language to another.

As you rise in rank, you are associating with people who are all of higher intelligence. I made whatever i could on dint of twice the effort and reading a lot more. I am fortunate I was able to save enough money since i reached a stage where I knew i could not continue to be employed. I was too old to be a continue at middle management, and too stupid to move to higher management. I've retired and lead a slow life living on savings. I do programming for fun, but no-brainer stuff.

Sometimes I do think i am blessed with stupidity. Most intelligent people i know are miserable, spending their entire lives chasing wealth or becoming something to be happy.
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The dedicated flash filesystems are designed to run directly (or separated by only a very thin layer of abstraction, e.g. the mtdblock you mentioned) on flash chips, so they take care of wear-leveling and use flash-friendly data structures.

Most modern phones these days run off sd-cards that take care of all these issues, and it looks like the algorithms embedded in these small cards, combined with normal off-the-shelf filesystems deliver better performance and better reliability than what the special-purpose filesystems could.
Chrome uses webkit, which is open source and is used by safari and iphones, and androids too I believe.

Webkit is opensource and is rapidly evolving; it's basically pushing the edge of what the web can do.

Totally different from IE. A closed, old, non-standard browser only used by people not savvy enough to know what a browser is, and most importantly, it's holding the web back.
If you wanted to relate to the topic in the article you should have said Anthem. It gets most of Rand's ideas on collectivism into digestible form (which is surprising, considering Rand might be one of the most long-winded writers I've read). I made it through that one, Atlas Shrugged, started on The Virtue of Selfishness and decided I'd had enough. While Anthem is easy enough, I couldn't suspend disbelief for Atlas Shrugged, and it just would not end. After reading it, I had no desire to read the Fountainhead...as I wasn't sure what else Rand could write that wasn't both new and contradictory to something she wrote down in Atlas Shrugged. To me, the whole thing felt like a religion than it did a philosophy, where the God was an amalgam of wealth, actualization, satisfaction, indulgence, personal growth, and whatever else Rand said was good. Is the book without any merit? Of course not. Can you get that merit somewhere else? Probably.

My Feelings on Atlas Shrugged in Retrospect:

WARNING SPOILER ALERT. I AM NOT JOHN GALT.

Unbelievably perfect protagonists (your disbelief probably won't be suspended) battle for personal freedom by sticking it to a group of bumbling antagonists bent on taking their toys (read livelihood) away. Insert lots of dialog for the author to repeat what she wrote in her non-fiction pieces where stupid antagonists can't come up with decent comebacks from buddies of protagonists who don't ever seem to shut up. All the while another protagonist is constantly mentioned by everybody in the book, yet nobody knows who he is, but he's chilling underneath some kind of holographic forcefield in the mountains somewhere WHILE HIS BUDDY floats around on a pirate ship (wait, what time period are we in?) blowing up shipments of copper. The main characters are either trying to build a railroad or trying to drive fast trains while wearing simple, yet elegantly fitted clothing. All of this boils down to a speech that lasts a hundred pages and put me to sleep multiple times because anybody can see where the book is going from three miles away (it's a huge book, like 1200 pages or something). The ending flips from some film noir type scene to something out of the Twilight Zone and I could no longer stay interested.
Technically AWS is a separate company: Amazon Web Services LLC. Presumably Amazon.com is the only shareholder, though.

I doubt AWS will go public, though -- it's too central to Amazon's existence. Amazon has never really been about books.
Regular/daily use is definitely demotivational, at least in the long run. This can (but certainly doesn't necessarily) lead to depression, which can be a serious illness for some.

One major effect is that use makes things more interesting. This can be beneficial - it might allow an artist or programmer to dive into their work or help in music appreciation. This same property also masks boredom which can have serious consequences. Someone who is bored with their life often seeks to change it for the better, a person bored with TV may turn it off.
This particular piece isn't so much dealing with skilled migrants as it is with migrants who are willing and able to work and can do something as they're seasonal workers who normally come to work in orchards etc.

New Zealand has a significant advantage in that case where the people coming in on this program are islanders with a strong cultural imperative to work hard and send money home to their families.

Your points are good ones, they just don't really mirror what's actually happening in this case.
> OOP is about taming complexity through modeling […]

But, what kind of programming isn't?
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Well said, and furthermore, linking to the Posterous post is explicitly discouraged in HN's guidelines: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm curious if we will see the URL of the submission updated by a moderator.
You'd have heard a lot of incorrect information. People have no idea what attracts them.
Without wanting to detract from a fascinating read, s/stupid/high on C02/ is another interpretation.
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Maybe Oracle's doing the right thing for Java afterall. Assuming Ownership.
Classes exist only in our minds. Can you give me a single real-world
example of class that is a true, physical entity?

Sure I can ... before building a car, you need to have a blueprint first.

I know that OOP is no panacea and that it has problems and so on. But personally I haven't learned anything from reading this article.
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I'm sure you do. I am a "ContentID criminal" for the same reason. Youtube isn't really the place I would choose for hosting my content after dealing with that...
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I've read the "best of" coverage of the leaked cables, and honestly, speaking as somebody who usually doesn't have a problem getting interested in world affairs, it didn't seem like there were any big revelations. The coverage was all along the lines of, "Everybody knew this, but it's humorous/scandalous/juicy that somebody got caught saying it." If Anonymous finds anything shocking in the cables, they will make the MSM look lazy and incompetent.
The military could issue USB storage devices and identity tokens that keep their information internally encrypted and which only work on sirpnet-trusted computers.

Scenario:
Anything copied to the USB device is internally encrypted, offline, with one of the military's public keys. This process requires no network-side authentication, but would require the soldier's "identity key" to also be plugged in and "sign" the contents.

Putting the storage device in a non-trusted computer means the contents are not retrievable.

To decrypt the contents of the device, you have to first authenticate to sirpnet from a trusted computer. It's then and only then that the computer is allowed to unlock the information on the removable drive.

This method is not safe to hardware reverse-engineering, but should be safe enough for operational use.
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This is a roast, so picking it apart is to spoil the fun a bit :)

But: "If we go back to the origins of Smalltalk, we encounter the mantra, “Everything is an object”. Except variables. And packages. And primitives. And numbers and classes are also not really objects, and so on. Clearly “Everything is an object” cannot be the essence of the paradigm."

Even in Smalltalk, packages, numbers and classes are all objects. Primitives are methods, which are objects.

In Self, variables (in Selfspeak 'slots') are also objects.
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He mentions that in Smalltalk, everything is an object, "Except variables. And packages. And primitives. And numbers and classes are also not really objects, and so on." This statement isn't quite correct; for example, both classes and numbers are objects in Smalltalk, as are all the primitive types such as booleans. In fact, Smalltalk's if-then statement is achieved by sending boolean objects the ifTrue:ifFalse: message with code blocks as arguments, e.g.

(5 < 6) ifTrue: ['yes'] ifFalse: ['no']

which returns the string 'yes' if the 5 object returns true after being sent the < message with 6 as an argument.

The problem—as Paul Graham pointed out—is one of terminology. "Object oriented" means different things to different people, and what would be appropriate for an all-you-can-do-is-send-a-message system like Smalltalk is not going to be appropriate in a weakly statically typed, early-binding system like Java, which makes reasoning about all of OOP at the same time a difficult proposition.
This is probably the best piece I have read in a long long time.

No matter what one might think about Assange the person and his style, his systems thinking is brilliant.
Is it just me or does this sound like an old, bitter man raging and remeniscing old times, when things were simple and procedural?

I'm not saying OOP is perfect. It's not. But to say procedural programs are easier to understand than OOP ones I have to simply disagree (based on the real world cases I have seen).
And yet, note that this comment continues the discussion-about-the-discussion, rather than focusing on the specific 'unconscionably unethical and criminal' details.

Nothing wrong with that in this context, but it highlights how hard it is to do anything else. It's easier to talk about the reactions and dissemination and censorship and rhetoric. Those are actually more universal topics, and they're unfolding now.

The nitty-gritty of the cable revelations is subject to a interpretation and even more acrimonious rehearsed-roles debate, so (as here) it often just gets mentioned in passing, with a hand-wave and nod to its importance.

Of the cables' revelations, many that people are 'shocked, shocked' to hear are what was already assumed to be true or partially reported -- covert military strikes in other countries, attempts to downplay fatalities or wartime actions in error, frank assessments of shady regimes.

And it seems to me many people are just seeing what they wanted to see. If they already bought into a Chomskyite view of the US as the scheming amoral fount of all evil in the world, there's enough in the cables to feed that view. If they think the US is just another powerful but bumbling country pursuing its interests, fighting several wars, striking balances with sordid situations not entirely under its control, there's enough in the cables to feed that view, too.

What's the one or two things in the cables you found most surprising?
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The one thing I hate about OOP is that it is so ubiquitous that many manager-types think everything must be done in OOP.
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Eyebeam is amazing. Or, that is to say, the group I worked with was an amazing group of people. There were lots of creative people making the shops hum, teaching classes, and sharing ideas. Though, the group of people using it as a work/research facility changes almost entirely every six months. It's possible that the personality of the group changes substantially with it.

It's universally guaranteed to be brilliant. There are also a lot of dramatic transformations the whole place goes through as different people change the gallery spaces to suit their projects. While I was there working on Fairytale Fashion it changed from a formal art gallery, to a small faux bookstore, to a museum, to a fashion runway. It was sometimes like watching mushrooms grow in fast motion.
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If anything I would expect a highly skilled worker (doctor, programmer etc) to be taking an income loss coming here.
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I think this is understating the difficulties, and the underlying issues, the military faces. The problem comes from inherent tensions between two goals: secrecy on the one hand, efficient data dissemination on the other. You can have one or the other, but not both at the same time. So the state of the arts moves back and forth between the two.
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List your site on the Chrome web store. It will at least double your traffic.

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