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Damn dude, I do the same thing, just not as.... extreme. Been using FF4 a bit lately, once Firefox gets tab/process separation I think I'm going to be on my way back there. I miss noscript like nothing else.

Here's mine, I've been having a fun time trying to figure out half of your bookmark bar, damn man.

http://i.imgur.com/mLKd5.png
You know what I mean. Even in EDA, having a reference "user", as long as they are using the product, is a major achievement that will be leveraged [to death] with future [paying] customers.
FSF's insistence on "GNU/Linux" has always been childish, but now it's just silly really. For years the proportion of GNU software that actually gets run has been dwarfed by the code from Mozilla, KDE and/or GNOME, and other major desktop software vendors. The GNU/Linux argument has never been persuasive and I'd say it's high time they let it go.
I think when Other is the majority, it makes it less meaningful.
I'm actually very curious to hear from someone who has real world experience in this. $800 a year ( California ) is a big expense for me when I don't have a finished product, but I would hate to go bankrupt because someone like Lodsys rained on my parade
Finally we know what's going with iLBC codec. For more than a year it's been in a limbo.
"Is this 'grey' ? In the sense that it can be interpreted as 'shady' ? Hell yes. But is it "wrong" ? I don't think so."

I post a listing on Craigslist specifically saying it's not "ok for others to contact me about other services, products or commercial interests" (an option in Craigslist) and then a business tries to convince me to use their site using a disguise DESPITE clearly stating that I don't want to be contacted?

No, I'd say the true test of whether something is ethical or not is whether it violates rules and/or the choices of a user. Then again, I'm the type that actually wants businesses to respect my decision.
Just makes sure you don't use the command line.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a patent problem...
INALE - Given the claims regarding the nature of their license made in Apple's letter, it would appear that LodSys's pursuit of developers could easily be construed by competent attorneys as a violation of Apple's license with at least enough plausibly to get Lodsys into court and keep them there over the short term were Apple so inclined. Obviously either Apple is not so inclined or the description of their rights under the license with Lodsys is based upon a less than conservative interpretation of the agreement.
Isn't that just the default dock? i.e. in the screenshot the guy has just created a new account for himself, and is deleting the original owner's account?
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It's actually very easy to prove, because the same email was sent from several different accounts: you go after AirBnB directly and shoot for discovery, get them under oath to answer whether they did this or not.

If you have ever been questioned under oath, you know how tough it is to lie (ping me offline for details).

No point in chasing the gmail accounts themselves, that would be a dead-end.
The whole argument around the "GNU/Linux" terminology is that the FSF deserved part of the glory because they contributed the userspace to Linux's system code. I think the persistence of those pushing this point of view is a projection of their disappointment over Hurd and demands for subsequent glory "because we deserve it!" This is a really childish stance from the start.

A kernel is of course useless without userspace. However, almost since its inception the percentage and importance of the GNU contribution has been steadily dwindling; in the course of a normal day, my wife, who is a KDE user, uses much more software provided by KDE e.V. than software provided by GNU/FSF. Should we call all of her Linux installs KDE/Linux?
'iPod' is perhaps unlike any of the others - even iMac - in that even though 'pod' is an everyday word, the resulting product name is almost completely opaque.
Unethical? possibly. Does it piss me off? Sometimes. Do I care? No.

I generally expect to receive spam from CL when posting or responding to ads.
It would be nice. I know quite a few people who sync their iPhone very rarely and would love Albums at the very least in the Camera app. Apple's attitude of "just use iPhoto on the desktop" is very old-fashioned.
Give or take, 20,000 per year. Almost no scholarships. Yes, USA. No, not Ivy League.
I think it's more useful to look at the impact of a contribution. Apache, KDE, and GNOME are a bigger deal than GNU by that metric. But I also think it's a bad idea to try and put one over another when they all do their part.
agreed [when are the points coming back - 2600 to 1600 is a pretty clear vote]
Likely not a lie, rather a broken promise.
You could write that if you wanted, using __call, would be like 10 lines of code or something.
And you make sure not to use a desktop environment, or a web browser, or an office suite, or a mail application, or a music player, or a ..
If Java is a tool that provides the functionality needed for a particular developer, why investigate a new language? Seriously? It isn't just a case of the developer and the language features that matter to a commercial business, there are the IT folks running the thing, their familiarity with the tools, the logging facilities, etc.

Tools are great and learning new ones is a good thing. But articles like "X should look forward to/embrace Y" are short sighted unless they take into account the simple fact -- what is the end goal. If it is shipping product, the whole team needs to be on board from design, implementation, running, and maintenance.
As someone noted, this only applies for the old standalone mode, as Prey needs to store your SMTP password in order to send the report via email later.

Most people use Prey + Control Panel nowadays. :)
I use the command line a lot, but really, how big of a contribution is cat, ls, find, etc.? It's not like these are extremely complex or difficult programs; the GNU version is still the dominant one mainly because it works fine and it had momentum. I acknowledge that these have grown to be relatively advanced and it may not be an overnight job to rig up a replacement, and I appreciate the effort that has been put in to them by GNU developers, but it certainly wouldn't leave us desolate if we all had to stop using GNU code for some reason. There are non-GNU implementations of these programs already.

Other than that, how much of my normal CLI usage is attributable to GNU? I'll give screen. What about OpenSSH, Python, htop, pacman, etc.? I use these a lot and they are not from GNU. If I am primarily running Python programs on my Linux box, should I call it Python/Linux since the Python Foundation is the most significant contributor to my userspace experience?
I have a couple friends from undergrad who are pretty tight. I really learned a lot in my undergraduate days as an education and in a social arena.

Programming I've taught myself, in general. =)
Was not able to find any sources worth reading but I am interested to know the comparison between American Universities, and free universities in Europe. It would be interesting to see how each system works for students during, and after college.
Some friends of mine were working on a project to make a non-GNU linux distribution (well maybe not actually for distribution) just to see if they could: https://github.com/burke/non-gnu-linux/wiki

I don't think much has happened with it recently, but they were working to build the kernel with icc (the Intel C compiler).
It's a fun little visualization but it's also worth noting that a chi square test would achieve the same result but in a much more quantitative manner. Using his example, we'll generate N integers ranging from 0-9. Let n(0) denote the number of 0's we get, n(1) the number of 1's, and so on. Then our expected value for n(0) is N/10 and likewise for each of the other n(i). The distribution of n(0) will be Gaussian for sufficiently large N and the standard deviation will be sqrt(N/10). Then if we take the sum over i from 0 to 9 of [(n(i)-N/10)^2]10/N and call this quantity Q then it can be shown that Q will follow a chi-square distribution with k=9 degrees of freedom (one less than ten because the tenth is determined by N and the other 9). If we then take [(Q/k)-1]/sqrt(2k) then this tells us how many standard deviations away from our expected chi-square value we fall. If there's a mistake with the distribution of numbers then the number of standard deviations will tend to drift farther and farther from 0 as N gets bigger, a rule of thumb being that if you're more than two or three sigma out you might want to run a few more times to double check and if you fall five or more sigmas out then there's most probably a mistake in your algorithm.

EDIT: I tried to figure out how to make an asterisk and not just italics but couldn't do it.
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I think that the GNU+Linux attribution is accurate and deserved. The author of this page thought it fair to use SLOC as his unit of measurement; I think that "fundamentality" is a far fairer unit.

Anyone that thinks that "GNU" should be dropped from the "GNU/LINUX" should be using alternate cp, rm, ln, etc. Or just use NetBSD (do this anyway).
That's against the spec. json_decode() will not even decode this.

http://www.json.org/

I know some browsers allow it, but it's not true JSON.
If the point is supposed to be "why insist on calling it GNU/Linux when xx% of it isn't even produced by GNU?", it's an ill-made point. Most of the userland (and certainly what we could call the "core" userland, especially in terms of development tools) is GNU software. The system would be pretty unusable libc, gcc, ld, make, etc.
Seems to be happening for over a year so far.

> It never fails that I get at least 20 marketing emails a day from airbnb when I post a property on craigslist. I hope they do more of these PR stunts than filling up my inbox with unsolicited messages.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/21/airbnb-brian-chesky/
My 2 cents :)
The article gets right both the inflation and the corruption problems in Argentina. However, it seems to be a bit biased, as it shows only one real case of success and several failures, and the fact that one of the interviewees is the son of a former Minister of Economy of Argentina (Domingo Cavallo), whose economical model was the main cause of the 2001 crisis, which the author seems to have forgotten to mention in the article.
I've worked in both argentinean and US founded companies here in Argentina, and the reality, at least from my experience, is that the economic environment isn't as hostile as the article describes. I've been in companies that made millions (dollars, btw) and I've also seen some that lost everything (specially in the 2001 crisis), but the truth is Argentina is a cheap country for investment and with a lot of highly qualified man power. I have to agree, investing in Argentina is kind of a bet, and making your company work well involves a lot of work, but, specially if your objective is to export the product/service, it might provide an awesome ROI.
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Actually the GTalk update that was released with 2.3.4 uses Neon-specific code rather than the actual video API that Google wrote themselves. It makes no sense and it's the reason that GTalk doesn't have video chat on other Gingerbread phones.
And it's perfectly okay to build and improve tools that regular people will use.

It is, unfortunately PHP resists changes that most of the rest of us consider improvements. I think at this point we might be better served by putting our efforts in to replacing PHP rather than improving it. The replacement need not be the ultimate web language, but should try to be a good language while maintaining a low barrier to entry.
Did we read different articles? He doesn't make the argument about the negative side effects of linking pay and advancement to student evaluations in the article that is linked.

Perhaps you are thinking of another article by the same author? I have read that argument before and it's obviously a good one, but it's not brought up in this article here.
Because we all hate that damn comma... What is the Damn Comma?

[
"a",
"b", // <---- this is!
]

{
x: "x",
y: "y", // <---- so is this!
}

If you came to Javascript from PHP or Python, you no doubt feel much as I do about the damn comma. So here is a quick hack to make you feel that much better about life.

How Does it Work?

By introducing a little trivial preprocessing into require() and JSON.parse() to smooth away the damn commas. See /example for usage.

Why Would I Even Use This?

Because you enjoy losing an annoying language feature and gaining the nebulous uncertainty that comes with introducing possibly deep and unexpected bugs. After all, who doesn't enjoy preprocessing the source code before it goes anywhere near a compiler or interpreter, such that it bears no semblance to what was written? Why, some of the most successful languages in history are practically built on that foundation - you'll be standing on the shoulders of giants!
But wouldn't you say that's a bit unreasonable given that if you listed your apartment/house for rental on Craigslist - it can be safe to assume that you are interested in renting your house/apartment, no ?

I think every 'savvy' user always checks those boxes, but if there is an option that allows you to actually fulfill your original intent - i.e. you got no hits on Craigslist, but with AirBnB you have tons of requests and make a ton of money, wasn't that a win/win - even though they used a 'grey' tactic to reach you.

You say you don't want to be contacted, but that's to protect you from emails from the Nigerian prince and the blatantly obvious annoying spam. But things that are targeted at you, and can add value - I think it would be safe to say it makes sense in those cases.
Competition is a _very_ good thing because it means there is a market for what you're selling.

Sure, you might have come up with the one great idea that nobody has thought of, but probably not. If nobody is doing it, there just may be a really good reason.
You can't do medicine without seeing that there is a problem, correcting the problem, and then verifying that the problem is solved.

No one is debating that. What we're debating is whether chiropractic is medicine.
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=)

(I don't have a web site yet, nor any code preview, but it going to be written in python, mostly)
Hm, I don't think so. This post is dated May 3rd, which predates the Skype deal's announcement by 7 days. Also, the WhatWG group for RTC's mailing list was first posted to April 12, 2011. So that potentially indicates this was in the works beforehand. Since Google purportedly put in a bid for Skype they no-doubt knew Skype was on the market, though.

I would guess this is more likely a response to FaceTime. Apple's core business is around getting people to buy iPhones, and FaceTime is exclusive to the iPhone and other Apple products.
When someone put a hammer through my car window in an attempt to steal it at 3am, the cops took about half an hour to respond - they know that the one place the criminal isn't is at the site of the crime. Do a drive-around first looking for suspicious activity, then move in.

If there is no 'hot pursuit' or current danger, then it doesn't matter much whether they arrive there in half an hour or in four hours. The stuff is gone/damaged/whatever and the police won't gain much by interrupting their current task.
Systems comprised of vast numbers of highly interconnected, constantly self-modifying feedback loops exhibit chaotic behaviour. Who'd have thought it?

Ummm...how does that explain sites that stayed more or less with a range for many years? This is what Amit Singhal said, your site is "high quality" one month, junk quality the next and then back to "high quality" and deserving of better rankings without changing a freaking thing. In fact they are sure that they called everyone's demoted site "low quality." That's the truth.
As you'd know if you'd tried it, it then redirects back to the https version - or at least FF & Chrome do, too late to actually check the headers.
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"Having our passwords in plaintext is more secure than obfuscating them precisely because, when a user is not misled by a false sense of security, he is likely to use the software in a more secure manner."

I must say I don't agree with the Pidgin devs. They think that the user will use the software in a more secure manner because they assume he's aware that the password is stored in cleartext.

That may be true on 1% of the cases. But the other 99% of the people probably don't have a clue, and they wouldn't even know where to find the accounts.xml file in the first place.
I tried hard to not make it about that but about the fragmentation of the sources of software in a modern distribution. But to your point, now with llvm we're increasingly at a point where libc, gcc, ld, make and many other gnu staples actually do have very competent replacements. As I pointed out in the post of any of the big gnu projects only gdb really has no replacement.
I make no statement on the "GNU/Linux" terminology, only the methodology of the article.
GNU's argument for why it deserves specific recognition over other equally and more significant contributions is uncompelling. Repeating it isn't going to make it more so.
Does anyone have any ideas what the timeline for browser support is likely to be?

The website currently says they've been working closely with Mozilla and we expect to see WebRTC support in Firefox and Chrome soon!.
This is fascinating. I'm already pondering how to use the same technique for other domains of analysis. Way to go.
Things in other are basically all individual projects. So they're not included in any overarching project or grouping. And I actually find that very interesting as it means that development is highly fragmented and distributions do an essential job in putting it all together.
No expert, but I always thought Ubuntu was probably the distro least likely to have a large % of GNU thanks to all the extra stuff that comes with it. Would be interested to see this for Debian or etc.
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BSD libc and BSD make are pretty much drop in replacements for glibc and GNU make. LLVM is a drop-in replacement for gcc.

It seems like it would be pretty straightforward to build a Linux userland without GNU.
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> and have been asking for it for years.

Which is why it's being brought up again for 5.4, since this vote took place in 2008.

I really don't see the issue here.
> It's OBVIOUSLY impossible for Johnny Coder to be aware of every patent

There is no requirement that you be aware of the patent to infringe upon it. In fact, awareness of the patent may entitle the patent holder to increased damages.

Disclaimer: I write software for a living. I'm not sure where I stand on the idea of software patents but I suspect they do more good than harm. I think that someone suing small, independent developers who made the mistake of using an Apple-provided API in an obvious way and who lack the financial means or legal expertise to defend themselves is reprehensible.
I wonder when Safari will get WebRTC support?
By this rationale one ought not include descriptions of a criminal's race, height or hair color for fear of offending them. Facts are facts; how they make you feel doesn't make them any less factual.
There must be prior art.

Telephone voting on the Eurovision song contest?
Customer helpline numbers?
Comment cards in restaurants?

Forgive me if I've missed something here.
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What about gcc?
... Assuming he does not consider Danny Sullivan a nutjob. ;-)
The thing to bear in mind is that a lot of 'Mac Antivirus' software has overwhelmingly consisted of signatures to stop you passing on Windows malware, rather than necessarily much that will protect your system.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm not saying this was necessarily negligent. I'm saying that time will tell how good any of these packages really are - assuming of course that Mac starts to get real malware rather than what I'll call trickware. That prediction has come and gone with little to show for it in the past, but it may not last.
Yeah, but even the few people who do use it, it's implementation is limited, solving problems that would otherwise require excess code.

The people shouting "don't use it!" are thinking of a limitless goto. It's a shame, but not surprising really.
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Php arrays don't act as objects and have no methods, so I'm not sure what you are suggesting.
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I hadnt heard about anything like this from the airbnb folks, but I do know they have had successful advertising campaigns since over a year ago. So the basic premise of this article, that their growth source is a big mystery, is false.
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AirBnB is less reputable, and this incident is why.
Yeah, keyword arguments/named parameters.

The most common way that we get to implement (hack) it now is by using an associative array, which then hides parameters in the implementation of the method as opposed to exposing it in the interface which helps both with reading someone elses code as well as provides for parameter initialization and type hinting (which assoc arrays remove).

I agree with you about argument inconsistencies, and named parameters would help with that, but it even goes beyond that, e.g. how many times have you seen this:

function foo($bar = true, $baz = 5, $qux = "change me"){ ... }

foo(true,5,"this is what i wanted to change");

when all you should have to do is:

foo(qux="this is what i wanted to change");
I've always wanted something like this.
Cool! Something else to block in my hosts file besides those insipid Facebook comment URLs.

It's nice that google and facebook are putting all of your inane comments at easily-blockable URLs.

Thanks Google and Facebook!
I possibly did. I worked 3 jobs while mostly putting myself through school. My parents helped a bit in the first and second year, I took a semester out, and ended up taking out a student loan the last year (and still had some credit card debt as well).

I had friends in classes, and we'd hang out sometimes, but this notion of 'lifelong friends made in college' just doesn't seem to feel very real. It also doesn't seem to be the case for many of the people I know. Yes, they made friends in college, but for the most part those friendships have about the same impact as high school friends - typically, not much after you leave the shared space.

But perhaps I'm just too cynical...
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Why? It is a reasonable proxy for how long it would take to replace something, and it's the effort to replace something that is core to the "you wouldn't be where you are without us" argument. How would you measure contribution?
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Worked on OSX just fine w/ FF4. Great job so far! Can't wait to checkout and play with it on a Windows box later.
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Pros: Readable

Cons: Unreadable

What does that even mean?
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