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It is becoming increasingly rare to work on an island away from open source. A lot of companies use open source in some way and having an in-house developer familiar with the projects they use or relay on can be quite useful. And the improvements that the company is willing to pay for but aren't a competitive advantage can be committed to the open source project. It's a win for everyone.

Do you work on an island?
> "One of the MBAs gets in the way, makes a decision he has no place making, and hands one of HP's competitors a major competitive advantage."

This is kind of mean spirited. Why hate on the MBAs?
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Or more solar? Increase efficiency? Or use less?

False choice.
I am sorry, but event-based programming is the wrong way to tackle the problem of scaling up blocking I/O code. Event-based programming more or less forces one to write in CPS style, which soon becomes a nightmare to reason about. I speak from the experience of having written several thousand lines of such code.

A better solution is to pick a language that has light-weight threads (Haskell, Erlang, ...), and let the language handle the events (and call-stacks!) under the hood. Cf the caffeine/percolator paper (even though they do end up using heavy-weight Java threads).
I think the King comparison might be the most apt yet. Most people view him as a Crichton/Tom Clancy level populist, but his Dark Tower series really is an impressive literary piece.

WRT the sports thing: do you think some of that difference could be ascribed to the simple fact that we don't play the same sports as they did back in the day? While sport isn't a modern invention, the particular sports (and the fierceness of pursuit due to the money, fame, etc.) are new.

And finally, I'm not sure if my comment further proves your point, or if it means that we can only compare literature to sport in comparable times. If you accept the idea that sports used to be less important (possible due to the physical nature of regular work and the lack of leisure time), then you can really only compare sports (nearly exclusively happening in the 20th century) to 20th century literature.

In short, sports have just started to catch their stride.

Further, it could be argued that the ethos of the warrior was the true analogue of athletes in premodern times. Hercules, et al.
I did GSoC under The Mono Project in 2005, and it was a great experience. Especially because Miguel is extremely awesome, on both a technical and personal level.
Your experience does not mirror my own, I'm afraid.

The failure mode of not separating out /var from the rest of the system is interesting; spool, cache, lib, and log can be particularly problematic, depending on the purpose of your system.

Not separating filesystems for hobby systems and home computing is perfectly reasonable in the name of simplicity, but there's a reason longbeards like me prefer to do things this way.

(Sadly, I was cursed with fair, slow-growing hair, so I have never quite reached my bearded potential. My poor attitude about your new-fangled gadgets will have to suffice.)
When you play the AI in FB Tetris Battle, the player's name is A.I. Other than that people are just really good at Tetris.

It seems like the issue with blockbattle is that you might get dumped into a fresh lobby with no players yet, although active players are in other lobbies. Perhaps "Find Opponents" should always dump you in an active lobby and an option should be added to create a new lobby?
Many major network system vendors rely on NetBSD as part of their devices (Force 10 and Cradlepoint being the ones that come to mind) - I'm wondering how this will affect them.
We were seeing some high load times earlier this month because of increased traffic. but earlier this week we added a bunch of boxes, cached most pages, and generally improved the speed of the site across the board.

if you are still seeing issues, let me know.
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Ideally the transcribed characters would have an "assurance rating" indicating how sure they were of its accuracy.
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Team Notifo ordered some for the company.. office necessity. When we were working out of the garage, we had a ritual of making coffee (no temp control on the machine) then digging into the ice chest for a cube or two. We would hear Chad's aunt call us wimps for using ice when she heard us open the freezer haha.
That's exactly what I thought, a "Facebook Like" ripoff with a nerdy name.
Server side code is what they have the affero GPL for:

“The GNU Affero General Public License is a modified version of the ordinary GNU GPL version 3. It has one added requirement: if you run the program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the program that it's running. If what's running there is your modified version of the program, the server's users must get the source code as you modified it.…” — http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html

presumably they dont want the back end of gmail being proprietary either but its not the point of the article?
You might want to be careful about using the Tetris name or doing something smilar. Tetris owns the copyright. There is reason why only one tetris game on AppStore. Also remember OMGPOP? They used to have tetris..
I can't disagree too much, upload speeds are really disappointing. As one other poster pointed out, this can have a negative effect on entrepreneurs trying to bootstrap businesses from home.

As for why upload speeds are awful, my experience has been that it is a trade-off that has been calculated by the ISP. But not in the way I suspected. Any link level device that uses a single (simplex) medium (wifi, fixed wireless, mobile wireless, cable modems, DSL modems, etc. as opposed to Ethernet, which is generally duplex) only has so much bandwidth available.

At the WISP I worked for, we used to use Canopy 900mhz radios to provide fixed wireless service as well as backhaul for our city-wide mesh network. Since these radios only had ~3.3mbps aggregate bandwidth, we had to decide how to allocate it. In our case, we chose something like 5:1 download to upload ratio. This was a conscious choice about how best to use the available spectrum/bandwidth. I believe the same is true for cable/DSL media. Please feel free to correct me.
A homogeneous environment that doesn't have formal package management is the only use case I can envision.

It was a good idea back in the SunOS days (and it's probably still workable to a limited extent for the BSDs, and perhaps folks like Gentoo) when local storage wasn't as plentiful as it is today, but I think we've safely moved on at this point.
It sucks when companies start to impose crapware on consumers and defend it as useful.
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> With the new IIS you have a lot more control over the threading context (you can even run things straight on your IOCP thread if you want).

I am curious about this, can you provide a link or reference with more information?
Carrying on with the recipe example, there are dozens of ways to cook most recipes, which do you choose? How the variations differ may not be immediately obvious, however if you have extra information, such as your aunt's recommendation then the choice may become easier (your aunt shares your taste in cakes for example).

Social recommendation is useful when there are lots of right answers.
Where is it called tetris? All I see blockbattle and tetriNET
The original Pre was a bit slow, but the Pre 2 is very fluid. I recommend you to try it out.
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While it is largely based on the context of the job, I'd think some demonstration of fundamentals, like sorting (even if it's just bubble sort :-)), is important. It's another way to see which mental tools the candidate can use when debugging problems and they're forced to drill down through the layers of abstraction provided.
One of our supercomputing clusters does run with a shared / and a separate /var that is local to the machine. /var is local to the disk because the nodes are stateless but we would like a persistence store for things like logs.
The main point that you're missing is that there is a huge demand for liquidity during a majority of market hours. On average, 7 billion shares of US equities are traded every day. That is a monumentally large number if you think about it. According to the TABB consulting group, roughly 50-70% of American stock trades are done by HFT [1]. Let's assume that 10-20% of trading is non-profit motivated (utilitarian, you could say). That means that roughly 1 billion shares are exchanged every day by utilitarian traders. That in itself should be clear evidence that there is a large demand for liquidity.

HFT market makers play an important role in those transactions. Specifically, they make it cheaper to buy and sell stocks by (1) tightening the bid-ask spread and (2) providing more quantity at each price, so that the average cost of executing an order is less. Not only that, when markets become tighter, they actually enable transactions to occur that would not have happened before. In other words, previously where buyers and sellers would NOT have traded because the transaction costs of crossing the bid-ask spread were too high, those two parties can now trade. Specifically, without HFT, there would be far fewer than 1 billion shares traded by utilitarian traders on a daily basis.

To address the other point of providing liquidity "when the markets need it most", let's take a step back. When you say that "market makers should step in to provide liquidity [for society's benefit]", you're implying that there's some externality to lack of liquidity in financial markets (if so, this is yet another reason that we need HFT on a daily basis). Suppose that this is the case: there is some negative externality to society when markets are illiquid, as is oft to happen when things go crazy in the world. During those times, volatility is insanely high because the risk of being in any position is also insanely high. Remember, market makers get compensated (on average) for holding risk that you don't want. If risk is higher, naturally, the compensation should be also. This is manifested in higher costs of execution: spreads widen and the available quantity at each level decreases.

If you want to force HFT market makers, which are private corporations, to step in to provide more liquidity, then you are forcing these companies to pay for that externality. In effect, they would take on huge risk for far diminished expected returns. That doesn't make any particular sense to me. However, if society as a whole has this view that some private corporations need to pay for public externalities, then that should be a matter of regulation. But if that's the case, why pick on HFT in particular? Why not force McDonalds and Whole Foods to give food to hungry people during famines? Surely, there is an externality to the food industry NOT stepping in during periods of extended hunger, "just when people need it the most."

[1] http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/10/yes-70-of-us-e...
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Oh sorry. How does "Mono announces participation in SoC," strike you? It's mundane any way you slice it, but of course I'm quibbling.
Lol, and force all app developers to use their email newsletter software...
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Google slapping social features on search is eerily similar to Microsoft adding internet capabilities to its desktop applications. Neither of them got it right the first time.
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Thank you, Scott.

I did not intend to imply an eBook was the only medium. That said, another HN user wrote the following to me by email:

"After thinking about my experience more, I feel a print book is actually not such a great idea for a programming book because things change so fast that the matter gets dated very quickly."

And use a print-on-demand service such as Lulu for those who really desire a hard copy.
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Joanna Stern left yesterday, apparently, as well: https://twitter.com/#!/JoannaStern/status/52731217791041536

I appreciate that each editor has written a big long blog post saying that they're not leaving because of AOL, but I think it's pretty apparent that something is going on (The sheer number of editors leaving at the same time is a little too convenient).
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There should be some verification/filter. Lot of users will enter just anything to see the idea.

Registration/Login will discourage users to use the site, so I recommend better filter out the ideas in backend. i.e. do not put them in the swap list unless verified.
Are you sure the presence of plutonium indicates a containment breach at a reactor? Remember that the fuel at the reactor 4 SFP is probably damaged and was sprayed with water.
I think that last thing is inaccurate. Because of better efficiency, simpler plant design, and no fly ash disposal natural gas generated electricity is a little cheaper at current prices. This was a surprise to me, because coal can be 15-70% the price per BTU vs natural gas (coal prices and energy density vary by region).

Nuclear may have the lowest number of deaths/power, but technically the Space Shuttle was the safest way to fly from 1977 to 1986.
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Maybe if you can add a login and also a way to track and get feedback on an idea. Maybe someone is already working on it and would love an extra hand.
The corollary to Poe's law[1] is appropriate here: Even the most sincere fundamentalism will be confused with with parody by a cynical enough audience.

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Thanks for the sarcasm: "awesome super top-secret code".

Realistically, the code and details of are covered by NDA. The task solved, the huge difficulty of same, the overall success of the task being solved, demonstrable fluency in related but public areas of computer science, and the commercial success (modest or otherwise) of the code would not be.

If you don't understand this, or couldn't say the same things about what you're doing, maybe you're not working at the same level, and you are welcome to go fire up the GitHub account and solve tic-tac-toe in Haskell or whatever the hell it is that's meant to be so impressive.

The closest analogy I can come is - say you wrote a pile of LEDA (not a invite to debate if this is a good product, but it's certainly substantial) and you've got references who are in a position to know that say, 'yes, Joe Bloggs really did write all the graph algorithms or geometry algorithms or whatnot in this package'.

Well, you're within your rights to 'not believe a word you've said'. But this falls into the thing I'm complaining about - the whole pathological distrust of programmer achievements. How do you think engineers or commercial research scientists in other fields ever get hired, for fuck's sake?
You're point that market makers provide liquidity by flash orders is entirely false. You clearly have no understanding of how market makers actually go about their day to day business. Please don't pontificate as if you do, or if you plan to, acknowledge that you're only speculating based on marginal facts and poorly written articles (yes, even the NY Times has horribly inaccurate articles) you've gathered on the internet.

In fact, that entire paragraph is pure specious reasoning. The main point that really drove it home for me was:

Being able to figure out the limits on the buy/sell orders is simply icing.

I can gather you have not actually tried to find a statistical trend in market prices. Simply put, it's difficult to do in practice.
Interesting hack, but if your coffee is scalding when it's being prepared, something is wrong and it's going to taste bad anyways.

I also hope there's a disclaimer attached to the packaging that warns of the dangers of gulping down your coffee joulies.
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I was considering it a long time ago. It was fun to poke around Win32 internals and you could (potentially) make a lot of money.
This is absolutely the right way of thinking about the problem. If you can afford to be picky, this filtering saves you time and doubt.
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well if it was this vs the ISS, then they made a fantastic decision, just look at the ISS now!

But too bad it had to be one or the other and not both.
And in some states (like washington), by law, work done on your own time with your own equipment that does not directly compete is yours too. (And the law even says you have to put it in the contract!)
Wow, didn't know this. While there are still some good writers left, this probably completes the set of high profile editors on Engadget.

This looks suspiciously like a new site is about to hatch with a lot of ex-Engadget writers working.
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That statement was probably written by a professional speech writer under advice from a legal team and a PR company.
Mozilla. About half our employees are remote.

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I respectfully disagree. Notice how I'm replying instead of downvoting. Downvoting something you disagree with is just pure laziness. You're too lazy to reply so you just downvote, which contributes to burying the opinion of someone else.

You should focus on upvoting. Downvotes should be reserved for abusive, trolling, or spam comments.
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Arthur's languages are awesome, no doubt about it. But the fact remains that they are proprietary and prohibitively so. As much as you romanticize k/q, I bet you can't even afford to run it on your home computer, let alone do any real work on it.
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Disagree. A quick google shows most sources claim the optimal temperature for brewing coffee is somewhere between 195-205F (92-96C) which is certainly hot enough to cause first degree burns in your mouth.

Now certain herbal teas on the other hand are brewed at lower temperatures to keep from scalding the leaves. That may be what you're thinking?

I'm curious, what's your optimal temperature and how do you brew your joe?
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Probably because they generally do not administer business at a master's level.
Handled one. It's quite nice and I'll be getting one along with the TouchPad and Veer when they come out.

Also, the Pre3 will be a world phone in 2 flavors:

1) CDMA (US) + GSM (RoW)
2) GSM (US + RoW)
Moving to a longer cycle also has the benefit of being friendly to people who purchase the iPhone with a service contract. It's tough to be in a two-year deal for a one-year device.
> Or an LTE chipset

> Would any of those justify an event?

Yes.

LTE would be deserving of an event, especially if the launch of the iPhone coincides with the launch of LTE from ATT.
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My wager for this summer/fall is an "iPhone 4S" with the A5 processor, with almost no other hardware changes.

Plus a launch of iOS 5, with a revamped notification system, more developer API's, and possibly some UI reworks (iOS is looking pretty long in the tooth compared to things like Windows Phone 7)
> When you and I choose to write code that is locked away in somebody else's vault, we ought to charge extra to compensate for the fact that we might as well have been surfing Oahu.

I like that idea. Part of the value from working on open source projects for companies is the public nature of your contributions: It's easy for you to take your commits to Chromium and show it to Facebook or Apple when looking for a job there.

Companies may not like that idea, however.
It seems the more options we have for a mobile OS, the more persuasive a web application vs native application becomes.
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I spent 5 minutes typing in a thoughtful idea and making it fit within 150 characters and got back "eat vegemite and cheese" - I feel like I got punk'd.
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Found it odd how often it mentioned the linkedin API.
Agreed, but the timing might not be this summer.

Apple has been known to wait until the chipset hits their power envelope requirements - witness the original Edge-only 2G iPhone when cheap phones of the same vintage were already 3G.
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Super-sucks to be in the placebo group on this one if the vaccine really works.

It reminds me of a study done in IIRC South Africa (although it's been a year or more since I heard of this so it could be anywhere in Africa really) where they circumcised a group of males to see the effect on HIV contraction and it was so great (due to HIV's severely limited lifetime outside the body compared to over viruses and bacteria's) that they ended up circumcising the control group.

Hopefully if this study goes well then they'll do the same. I'd sense a massive lawsuit if scientists caught major wind of a guaranteed vaccine and sat on it for the sake of evidence for 5 years and let X-many people get HIV.
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