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I were thinking of complexity of patching the software and keeping up with upstream (i.e. maintaining a fork).

I just have a feeling (highly subjective, sorry) that some major GNU/Linux distros (especially Ubuntu) are turning from a distribution of loose coupled exchangeable components to monolithic tightly-integrated products.

Well, Debian seems perfectly fine in this regard, so even as Ubuntu user (for now) I don't care much about the situation. Sorry - I were wrong writing like this was about the whole GNU/Linux ecosystem.
No, the owner of the car is not always liable for the ticket. Car rental companies will not pay fines you accrue just because they are the legal owners of the car. The dog ownership analogy has even less merit. A dog is not a sane person in the eyes of the law so as a guardian you are responsible for keeping your dog in line. On the other hand, a person who is using your WiFi for whatever illicit purposes is responsible for their own actions.
I agree completely. These results shouldn't be simply taken at face value if they're to be used for further analysis.
going to the pub and talk (about technology) over a beer is what became a social hack.
What is holding back the D language from wider success?
The D language http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ is exciting. It's a bit like C++ but better, incorporating many of the best ideas of other programming languages and resolving many of the historical problems and issues in C++, and its fast, compiling to native code.

There seem so many advantages to D over other programming languages.

So what's holding it back from wider success? Why have so few people heard of D?
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>>>why not disable all plugins by default and then set it up so that you can click to enable as needed?

Care to elaborate? How do I do that?
The first advanced DIY crimeware kit aimed at the Mac OS X platform
Notes to a young computational biologist
It's unfortunate most people need drinks to say what they mean. That doesn't have to be the case. For better or worse, my partners tend to be people who need to try hard to not say what they think.
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/affect-versus-effect.as...
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Because they havent got nearly as much capacity as they sell.
subsequent commit messages from the same author should never be identical

I violate this one sometimes. I'm not a VCS magician, so sometimes I get commit errors, and wind up having to make a second commit. I figure identical commit messages makes it pretty obvious the two commits were intended to be one.
It seems that strategy will get you a co-founder that you like. The risk here is that you typically like people you have a lot in common with. When you are looking for a co-founder a complementary skill set is typically more useful than someone that you have a lot in common with.
Never let yourself, your loved ones, family and friends be cataloged by any company other than the mandatory government citizen list.

Call me paranoid, but there is absolutely no reason for a social network at all. Social engagement and links, and poking and other shit is not a benefit to me. It's not a benefit to people even though they like to pretend it is.

In return for handing over all that information you have gained a monitored, controlled, censored and limited way of communicating. There is a reason why speech is protected. Why put a secondary layer of control on how you choose to express yourself.

Taking a page out of a way-back-machine, making links between people for complete eradication of opposition during WWII, was key in killing off most of noble and intelligent opposition in Poland.
The DLL is a compilation output, it's not to be in source control.

Mmm... I've been working in a medium-sized group project, and we've been having pretty good luck with source controlling our driver .lib file. The intermediate object files are discarded, but it's really nice not needing to recompile the library every time somebody updates the library code.

(This is a 'project' that produces a library rather than an executable, for inclusion into other 'projects')
Agreed. Never, ever skimp on the PSU, even for a budget build. It's a false economy (which, in the worst case scenario, could result in you replacing the PSU and every other piece of hardware too).

If you're not sure if your PSU is good or not, pick it up and see how heavy it is. If it has a fair bit of heft, it's probably good. If it feels light, it's definitely bad.
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This is major goodness...
A new SUSE Linux, separate from Novell
I wonder how IPv6 adoption is going to affect this. NAT is still available under IPv6, but most won't use it and your MAC is by default a part of your address.
Can someone explain why the carriers even care? Bandwidth is bandwidth; isn't it?
They could easily "flash" when the sound begins if it's not the active tab. That would be useful, and that wouldn't dedicate any unnecessary space. Especially useful if you have sound turned off. (Similar feature in Ubuntu: when sound is turned off and an application wants to play something the sound icon turns red)
I pay for github, great decision :)
If you want a fast introduction to lots of different philosophers for a hacker audience I would start with watching The Matrix trilogy and then the documentary Return to the Source about philosophy in the films, while they miss out lots of things it's still pretty good, it's on YouTube here-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysbczEYvKY

there are also various books about philosophy in the trilogy.

The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real by William Irwin

Like a Splinter in Your Mind: The Philosophy Behind the Matrix Trilogy by Matt Lawrence

More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded by William Irwin (Feb 8, 2005)

Philosophers Explore The Matrix by Christopher Grau

Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and the Religion in the Matrix by Glenn Yeffeth and David Gerrold

Also personally a few of the books that I had me think about my philosophy-

Poker Without Cards: A Consciousness Thriller
http://www.pokerwithoutcards.com/

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse

The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, Jests, and Donkey Tales of the Beloved Persian Folk Hero

Also you could check out Robert Anton Wilson documentary Maybe Logic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gp4dha42ZA

Oh and I'll leave you with some weirdness from Timothy Leary on How to Operate Your Brain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQq_XmhBTgg
To clarify: I feel screwed because my previously spam-free mailbox had dozens of messages from recruiters and people wanting to "hustle" (get feedback on their projects, etc.). I generally believe in good karma and offer feedback on HN or Forrst. I am annoyed that people are taking advantage of the TC mistake.
Honestly, I don't think turning down an offer is ever a real problem. You can always ask for the offer again; does a company as big as Microsoft ever have enough smart programmers? People come and go every day. There is probably room for you somewhere.
> "...everything in startups takes a lot longer and is a lot harder than you think it is. So even when you imagine this really tough and difficult journey lasting for years, it's probably going to be worse than that."

Never a truer word spoken.
Ask HN: Why is healthcare IT so screwed up?
This information would be much more valuble with data for a "normal" day. For example, Is the main bump around noon just a regular lunch high?
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1416#c150 states that Bluetooth PAN is in Honeycomb.

Since Android 2.2 I've been able to use my Google Nexus One as a WiFi hotspot so that my laptops can use it's data connection.
If you want to get a good sense of what modern philosophy (mainly English speaking) philosophy is all about, then you should work through Scruton's "Modern philosophy". For the most part it's a superb introduction - Scruton is profoundly conservative, but his book is extremely useful as a primer. The strength of this book is that it's organized thematically rather than in terms of the "great thinkers" (although Descartes, Kant, and especially Frege - if I recall correctly - come out as the great heroes)

If you're interested in taking a historical perspective, Anthony Kenny's new history of philosophy books (in 4 parts) are fantastic, and a much better overview than you'll get from Russell - for all it's idiosyncratic worth.

From there you'll be in a position to appreciate both the original texts and other introductions (much of philosophy is getting back to basics, so you'll never be rid of introductions ...)
The German School of Lisp ("Fluchtpunkt Lisps")
Maybe this is why all the top search results seem to give away scare-ware or the "Your PC is infected now!" and offers to infect it some more....
I just got a physical and the dr's office told me the only way to get the results was through post office mail. So I called Anthem, a huge healthcare company, and asked if there was a website that allowed me to select doctors that email results to the patients and they said no there is nothing like that.

It would be so easy to require dr's to give a little information about how they cut costs and Anthem could deliver that information to consumers online.

Instead Anthem does nothing. Why is Anthem such a big player? They suck.
That seems downright stupid.

"How often do you use 1/3 in your calculations. Base 10 is a number system where 1/3 can't be accurately represented."

If you need exactness, use rationals. Don't just use a number system with more prime divisors. If you don't need exactness, use base 2.
I'm getting tired of all of the "geek humor" everywhere ( unicorns, ponies, lolcatz, etc.) however... I fit this description of a "poet" to a T.

At one start up a few years ago, my title on my business card was even "Code Poet".

I also happen to have an undergrad degree in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry.

IMHO, studying poetry gives one practice in saying only what you mean and focusing on the semantics and syntax of language both technically & aesthetically. I also think that one should have an education in Liberal Arts to truly understand great design; whether that's software architecture, visual design, or business models.
Efficient JCR node management with BTreeManager
some systems just can't route sarcasticout to stdin
Gotan Project.

Is a sort of Electronic Tango. Will get you on the mood right away!
This is the one:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

referred to in the BBC story here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13257330
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You're right. I haven't been able to run every type of comparison yet, but in the meantime you could check out the other graphs that I've made that cover normal days: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robhawkes/sets/7215762573356079...
Beyond already compiling to Javascript as udp mentioned, the author (Brian Ford) is a frequent contributor to Rubinius and has already written other languages on top of it. Makes quite a bit of sense, in that regard.
Should you be scared to be Intellectually Honest?
Are you ready to leverage the Mobile Internet?
How did the U.S. confirm the body was Osama bin Laden's?
Building Your Own Dropbox Equivalent
Semi-unrelated, but I listened to the audiobook version of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks, and it's a very nice book. The audiobook version, specifically, is better, because it's narrated by the author, as far as I can tell, and his narration is as wonderful as his writing. Highly recommended.
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the networks don't have the capacity to handle as much as they say they do. Add on to that that someone on a laptop is probably going to eat up more data. Multitasking is easier (I generally only look at one page at a time on my phone, but I might have five tabs loading on my laptop at any given time), and there are more applications available that can chew through a connection (MMOs, torrenting, etc).
That's true, but this article is specifically about the Android market limiting access, and I was reporting my experience with it.
How long do DNA tests take to perform and would such tests only conclusively affirm the body was some family member?

Was he 'put to sea' 24 hours after being shot in the head?
>Where should these files be kept? In a plain folder where each revision gets its own subfolder named as the revision number?

Yes. Although revision number naming would be problematic if youre using git as it uses SHA1s to identify revisions, naming them with date.branch.author.sha1 might be better.

That means updating two separate locations with each build, using two different interfaces...

It just means having your VCS do the build and create the directory in a post-commit script.

Or you could just actually get a real CI system.
That was a low-class downvote....
You can't imagine until it happens. Think about possible worst result in that case, even just to get a few secs bonus from stunning when it really happens. In that sense, it is a good article to read.
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I think that's secondary to them not wanting you to do something for free that they would like to be charging you to do.
hmm. someone should write a "virtual poland" application that analyzes a set of facebook pages, and figures out who to "neutralize". i think that might get some attention.
I think the post was published in 2008 but it was talking about events from a year earlier:

"2008 is a leap year. That means that three hundred and sixty six days ago, almost to the minute, I was sitting alone in a booth at Zeke’s Sports Bar..."
Price discrimination. Some people are willing to pay more while others aren't. If you can find a way to charge extra to those that will pay more, or less to those that can't afford it at the higher price, without letting people jump between tariffs to make a mockery of your scheme then you can increase your total profit and better serve your customer base. You can use the same system to more efficiently gouge a captive audience as well though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Are you posting that to agree with me? Because the link does.
Paper Folding Project from Graphica Obscura (14 Steps)
This is all true, but completely orthogonal to the story.
It was there in "stock" 2.2 as well, on the Nexus One --- but disabled in almost all carrier builds.

And Google does have some leverage, if they choose to use it, in the Market compatibility requirements --- there are minimum requirements for both hardware and software if you want to get the Market, or Google's other proprietary apps. (Which, say, the Nook Color flunks --- no camera.) It might be a bridge too far for some of the carriers, but from the outside, it's not obvious that they're trying.

(And looking for other carriers is not a hugely practical option in an environment where there are basically four, and the one with the most generally consumer-friendly policies, T-mobile, is up for buyout by the one with the least, AT&T, which is the only one to ban sideloading altogether.)
Few companies can afford the up-front CYA that comes with dealing with 'sensitive' information, nor the initial investments required to integrate with even a few legacy systems out there. The continued requirements and restrictions serve to keep established players established, while the barriers to entry get larger.
Combination of two factors. A) the obvious one, that they are overselling their network capacity; and B) that given A, it is much better to reclaim bandwidth by fucking over the 0.1% of tetherers by discriminating against them at the margin than it is to fuck over 100% of normal users by throttling/changing pricing plans/etc.

The carriers have put themselves into a corner where they have to make someone unhappy. All customers are paying the same $30/mo. Given the choice what would you rather do, make 10 of them unhappy or 1000 of them? Subscriber volume is your lifeblood, it's a numbers game.
Most doctors work in small offices. They don't have the resources to come up with a good electronic infrastructure and make sure it is properly secured. It's much easier to use the mail than to risk exposing patient information online.
D seems interesting, and it shows up here and on Reddit's r/programming occasionally. But to unseat C++ or Java from their entrenched positions, it needs to be more than "better" - it needs to be _way_ better. This from the D FAQ is telling:

-----

Why aren't all Digital Mars programs translated to D?

There is little benefit to translating a complex, debugged, working application from one language to another [...]
What you are seeing is minimum wage laws in action. They drive up unemployment during difficult times (recession) and should be lowered according to economic theory. But they aren't as its a sign of weakness. If the minimum wage was $2 an hour say, a vast number of currently unemployed workers would quickly find themselves with work to earn honest money, delivering you delicious home cooked meals.
The carries hold all the cards really, and their power is only to get bigger and more consolidated.
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There are tools to solve this problem. And these tools are not source version control.

In my company we setup the following workflow :

-> commit code

-> code is built and tested using Jenkins

-> generated artifacts are stored on Nexus

On top of that, daily we deploy everything on an internal pypi (we do mostly Python). Deploying the code in production is then not much more than running a script that easy_install everything from this internal pypi...

[edit] typo
That's what I was thinking but my doctor entered her information into a netbook.

The data is stored digitally. For some reason or another her office only sends the data to the customer through snail mail.

I've heard on a few web sites that they still do it the harder way, as opposed to email, to get extra money from the healthcare companies.

The system, as it is today, does not encourage players to be efficient.
World record: 109 terabits per second over single optical fibre
Either author has narrow definition of what "app" is, or he forgot a lot of apps.

I could remember CPU-intensive applications (for example, number crunching of all sorts), cryptographic applications, OS-integrated applications (VPN, network filesystems of all sorts, process monitoring, and whatever else needs to be integrated with OS), all sorts of plugins and so on.
How is their cloud storage? I was comparing prices between services the other day and it seemed pretty competitive, but haven't yet tested latency and such. Wondered what other HNers have found compared to Amazon and Rackspace in terms of service/issues. Thanks!
As tech guys, is it really safer? What's to stop a shady postal service worker from making money on the side by looking at peoples mail?
Still no matte display option, I'm sticking with a Mini + Dell display combo.

To explain a bit more: I have owned a 27" iMac for about four days. The machine was great but I couldn't handle looking at it for more than five minutes until getting eye strain, this, and on darker backgrounds the screen really ís a mirror - and I'm no narcissist.
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The standard models' CPU:
3.1GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with 6MB on-chip shared L3 cache

That's no Sandy Bridge for the new iMac ?

The more expensive models allow you to configure Intel Core i7: "Configurable to 3.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, only at the Apple Online Store."

That's still a little vague ?
What Ben is getting at is that a truly good designer is a person who has little aversion to what medium they're working on. Additionally, I think he's also coded in a bit of a slant toward most of the businesses out there that are hiring who only associate design with certain products or languages. An honest mistake, sure, especially for those who don't know about design.

But we're beginning to enter an era where if you run a business and your adement about having a well-designed product, then you should be willing to take the time to develop a cursory knowledge of the industry. Be able to differentiate between buzzwords and the all-too-familiar "insert development platform here" designer. Although his argument is a bit understated, Ben's point is clear: don't waste time with people who aren't absolutely head-over-heels about design. They cost more and sometimes require more resources, but the return on that investment will surprise most people. Even if they don't believe it, people respond to good design.
Or the favicon could be swapped for a little speaker symbol?
Amazon building a Color Kindle with FFS display. Shipping for holidays 2011?
The term hack on this forum is highly inflationed. Going for lunch or for a drink with colleague or friend or client or possible mate-partner is what people do all over the world.
€1 per gigabyte is pretty reasonable as overage charges go...
Yes. I upvoted you too, not like anybody can tell.
I keep all dependencies in ivy (.Net/C++ shop). If I don't need to hack the source it goes in ivy.
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You will be very successful! You have something here.
Everything's easy until you have to do it
This is very true, just want to add the caveat that the notion of low cost of foregone opportunity you are talking about could apply to mature-stage companies, not necessarily fast-growing ones.

Also there is tremendous selection bias in which of these "I turned down X to do Y" stories get told, of course.
>愛

It's funny because you picked the Chinese character for "love". I'm not sure if that was part of your point but it adds another layer of interpretation into your reply.
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May I ask why you want matte display? I am not missing it at all but I might be missing something.
"10. Dependencies need a home too"

I agree with this statement, but that home is definitely not with your code. There are tools better suited for that. For instance nexus & maven.

Nexus store artifacts (which are really any piece of data: a jar, a tar.gz, a zip file). That's where you put your dependencies. Maven manage a project's build, that's where you tell what are your dependencies.

But really, there are many other tools out there to handle that (ant, nant, pypi, etc.).
A dinner plate that measures radiation levels in food (joke)
Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 137
Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 137: In El Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 137 that aired tonight Bernarda who felt betrayed by El Alacrán, have plans to take revenge. In addition to about Bernarda, El Triunfo del Amor Capitulos 137 also tells the story of Victoria who held Padilla in a warehouse.