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It was forked because while performance improvements are great to have, API breakage with no replacement for long-standing APIs is not.

At the end of the day, people need a working environment and not everyone has the time of day to be updating every library out there that used a previously stable RubyGems API to use the new "better" ones (though I've yet to see a case where the API changes were little more than renaming a class and adding a couple class methods).
Great to see a company out of Waterloo get some well-deserved recognition. Definitely agree that it's sad to see them all get moved to MV, but such is life. We still have Kik and RIM though :)

Kudos to them!
Isn't this the exact moral qunadry that the author faces right now?
India (and China) benefits from what I call as human subsidy. The living standard on average for general population are low which lead to reduction in cost for manpower, which makes stuff cheap. Sure if you are in top 10-20% of the earners, your life is amazing, you can have all the benefits of developed world at the price of developing world. I am not saying that people who live in other place are free of such guilt, consider Americans buying Apple products, made by Chinese workers who live in poverty. However for Indians the guilt is significantly higher. At least Americans can invoke Us vs Them argument, or point out the fact that actually buying the products might be the best thing that they can currently do considering their government.

Regarding India,there would be significant inflation in next decade, the main problem will start when our generation enters later thirties. There would be significant stress on India's healthcare system. (Indians might make fun of US healthcare, but Medicare/Medicaid is amazing and there is no equivalent in developing world). Worse India does not even has large army or pressure to grantee energy security. Unless there are groundbreaking inventions in energy/healthcare (which are quite possible) the next two decades are going to be challenging. India's best bet is that its demographic dividend and ageing population in US/Europe, pays out.
I know it's popular to hate lawyers here but enough is enough=> Entertainment Industry Lawyer: The Public Domain Goes Against Free Market Capitalism

Copyright is not bad. It has gotten out of hand, but the principle is good. Limited (again, it isn't really anymore, but it should be) protection. Just like if you built a car, created a drug, or manufactured any other widget and someone stole it after you expended the time and effort or production (yes, I know this example has flaws; sweat of the brow etc.)

Lawyers also are not universally bad. Though I agree with you there are many I cannot stand. There are dirty cops, crooked politicians, cheating mechanics, lazy doctors and stuck up IT guys and yes, even annoying hackers.

You want to bash copyright, fine. You want to bash lawyers, fine. Just don't make blanket statements. A lot of us are on your side.

Lawyer for the entertainment industry != copyright lawyer.

In my best Han Solo, "sorry about the mess."
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What a fascinating topic, it's too bad that Gazopa (mentioned at the end of the article) just announced that they're shutting down their CBIR service:

http://gazopablog.blogspot.com/2011/05/shut-down-notice-from...
I agree that information isn't education. I disagree that the internet doesn't make education available -- you have to know where to find it.

Now that you told me what college isn't about, what is it about? And why must it be threatened by a modern business model?
To qualify my friendship with Ryan and Eric, it consists of meeting them at conferences once in a while and having some positive conversations with them. That said, I am absolutely biased here, I like them despite their flaws in the way they manage projects and their tendency to easily get embroiled in unnecessary personal conflicts.

I left a more detailed comment on your blog, but I don't think we need to have a meta-personal conflict, so I'll leave this rest here.
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Not sure if these are along the lines you're looking for:

http://www.builditwith.me/

http://collabfinder.com/

http://www.interhoods.com (only in select cities)
The example that immediately comes to my head is Runescape. The game is free for everyone. If you want more access to the world, you need to pay for a monthly subscription. Note that this is not like the item mall games because in Runescape you pay for access to more content. You still have to work to get new items/skills like the free players. (although you can sometimes accomplish things more easily compared to a free player)
Maybe we need to have a Godwin's Law for Ponzi schemes.
Maybe "professional/amateur" isn't the right dichotomy here. I think it's more accurate to describe it as "peer/tiered". In Facebook/MySpace/SO users are all at the same level and communicate roughly as equals. In most Apple products, there are a small number of special broadcasters (creators) and a large number of receivers (consumers).
Wouldn't it be possible to override this with a user agent stylesheet?
Nice!!! I always knew of such things but never thought of these places from research angle. Working on those problems itself is challenging. May be I could keep an eye on such competitions going ahead so that even if I have to take up a less interesting software job in future, I might be able to at least satisfy the urge to work on something interesting by working on those problems with brilliant people.
Dilbert on How to Disagree
lol! No, apparently vimgolf just hit the limit on the free mongohq account. Upgraded - back to normal. Enjoy the golfing! ;D
Congratulations! You're more profitable than Groupon :-)
Presumably there is a degree to which the local community is willing to be taxed; the more rebates they can expect, the more you can increase that tax.

My point is that reducing taxes with rebates, and keeping those revenues, amount to the same thing economically.
Spam is really a theft of someone elses time. Because they only steal a little time from every victim, spammers may see it as a "small" theft. Shoplifters use a similar rationalization when stealing from a large store.

My revenge fantasy is to have spammers serve prison time equal to amount of time they have stolen from their victims i.e. ten seconds a day per victim * 1 million victims sounds about right.
Pure free market capitalism would be if I could buy your book the day it's released, make photocopies, and sell them outside the bookstore for cheaper.

Pure free market capitalism would let me make a fake Rolex. It would let me reverse-engineer an iPod and sell it with the label "iPod."

There are downsides to this, and that's why we have IP laws. But those laws are not free market capitalism; they are restraints on it.
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As a mediator, I never intended to cast myself as non-biased about SlimGems. I started my involvement by specifically calling SlimGems a really bad idea, and I still stand by that point. Here's my first post:

http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/rubygems-nerd-rage-is-op...

What I said is that I'd collect the concerns of the Ruby community and present them to the maintainers and try to get changes made on their behalf. I've done that, and will keep doing that.

As for no longer being a mediator, I also already made it clear that I can't be unbiased about this, because after investigating, I've seen enough to form some strong opinions:

http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/the-rubygems-drama-conti...

In the end, I'm not worried about how this makes people who think a hostile fork is a good idea feel about me. I've received more thanks than criticism, but most of it was quiet and private, rather than loud and public. I believe in the work I'm doing, and will keep it up, but hopefully through more code and less talking.
background, somebody? Who is Loren Segal?
Second, the key derivation scheme it uses makes every passphrase, no matter how carefully chosen, drastically weaker.

I'd just like to repeat this point because it's so important. The password verification method in JungleDisk is fundamentally broken and needs to be rearchitected immediately.

For non-cryptography people, this is similar to the vulnerability that allowed passwords to be retrieved from the Gawker database hack a couple months ago (just not quite as vulnerable).
Stallman’s “The Right To Read” Becomes Dreaded, Insane Reality
> I disagree.

Based on nostalgic feelings about the 2000s?

Warren Buffet and his daughter wrote a whole book on how to go over a company's P&L statements line-by-line and determine whether or not it's a value. Groupon fails that test. That quote is about buying companies that are doing better than the market thinks they are -- and his methodology is a way to find and prove those cases on paper. Not with hunches.

Can you back this sentiment up with anything more than vague comparisons to Google?
The article is more interesting than the juvenile title makes it sound.

tldr:
Lambdas provide more flexibility but are more complicated to use. Blocks integrate with objective-C better and are simpler to use.
You're talking about front-ends / websites.

None of your examples are built with HTML and JS on the backend.
Are you confusing an SDK with an IDE? IIRC, the Palm launched an SDK early on, with a full device emulator. I don't see why an IDE is a basic requirement. I've been on and off IDEs for the past 2000 and, quite frankly, I am perfectly happy with Emacs.
I honestly believe that people who can't figure their way around wget, tar, chmod, etc have no business trying to install and administer Wordpress or PHPBB or any of the other common web apps.

They are too often attacked and exploited, that anyone who attempts to run them really needs to know what they are doing, and at least have basic knowledge about infosec and Linux.

It's cruel to give those people the tools to (in 90 seconds) lead them down a path to getting owned.
Congrats to the PostRank team - but I selfishly hope that Google's famous secrecy won't stop Ilya from blogging and releasing awesome open-source code!
Ask HN: How would you get traffic for a new startup?
What methods do you use to get new users for your startups? Facebook, twitter, SEO, Paid Ads, ...?
Force your Mac to update malware definitions
I know little about the API changes, but have been burned by just about every single release since 1.3.7. So much so that I now have to patch RVM every time I bring up a server so I can lock down the version. One could argue I should have been doing this right along, but I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to believe that new versions of your library loading software will continue to load your libraries.
https://github.com/lsegal
Personally I don't get why there's so much negativity. I love GitHub just as much as the next guy, but I don't see why that makes SourceForge insignificant or irrelevant. Haters gonna hate, I guess :(
In a nutshell: we aggregate user activity from dozens of social hubs, and use that data for analytics, benchmarking and so forth. So, if you think of links as "votes" as the core-data for Google's PageRank.. Than at PostRank we're extending that graph with dozens of other gestures: bookmarks, likes, comments, etc, and building our ranking on top of that! I'm sure you can imagine the myriad of ways of how that data can be applied in different contexts.

Super excited to join Google and take it to the next level!
Missed the word "right" in "The thing Jungledisk (does) right is". Sorry!
You would literally have to amend the tax code every time a disbursement check was issued. If you did this monthly, or quarterly, it would be impossible to raise taxes in accordance with tickets.

Or, you could just require community service instead of money for all tickets.
Unlike the other tech IPOs, this is a dot-com, and I worry they are going to take the good companies down with them.
Boy, do I prefer how lambdas in C# work.
Also politicians likely get kickbacks from the big players in gambling to the little guys down.
Thanks guys! Rest assured, I have no plans on retiring from keeping the blog going -- it's what got me here in the first place!
I'd go as far as saying that (Obj)C blocks feel right at home in pure C (where I actually used them more than in ObjC) whereas C++ lambdas fit in, well... C++.

I just wish the actual passive-aggressive fight between the FSF and Apple would resolve and blocks could finally make it into upstream GCC C compiler.
There is one thing that the article points out however, that's very important:

"College is expensive. The College Board Policy Center found that the cost of public university tuition is about 3.6 times higher today than it was 30 years ago"

This is insane. Public university tuition has inflated about 360%, while salaries have stayed flat or declined, and unemployment is on the rise.

I agree with others that college benefits those who take advantage of what it offers, but when you come out with 6-figure debt, the cost/benefit of "investing in yourself" is seriously in question.

The societal fabric in the USA has been under assault by the rich and elite, and public schooling (both k12 and collegiate) is merely one of those threads that's becoming unraveled (by the excessive burden of the profiteers/leeches).
Big US gambling houses pay politicians to protect their business model, it seems.
Just posted on Quora about a similar topic.

Here's what we did to launch Meeps:

http://blog.meeps.com/post/4588034501/bb

Got quite a lot of buzz and traction because it was something unique that tied into our core concept.
>this is exactly what Reagan did to the Russians.

So Reagan decreased the price of oil in the mid-80ies? :

http://www.wtrg.com/oil_graphs/oilprice1947.gif

Calling an evil empire an "Evil Empire" has especially dramatic effect when the evil empire is just plain running out of money :)
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Long Hairstyles,Long hairstyles are always a great look. For those of us with long hair, it is very precious to us and hopefully most of us keep good care of it with shampoos, conditioners, and special treatments.
Thanks Omar! Definitely couldn't have done it without all the support from the local community and friends - Waterloo is an awesome place.
Linux ruined the market for operating systems. The dot-com business model is to get viral and popular, then figure-out how to monitize. LoseThos is public domain.

I tried shareware with SimStructure. 6000 downloads and a grand total of $20. On top of that the big boys fucked with me by taking my untrademarked name.

Fuck with the man a little too.

I've had about 6000 downloads of LoseThos over the many years.

I've had well over 70,000 views of my video. I think that's worth $700 from YouTube. Obviously, not gonna make much that way.

A more important problem is my model of reality is broken. Download numbers don't obey the statistics I would expect. Fucken live in a contrived reality in many other ways, so it's natural to speculate it's all rigged by angels or something.

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I attend Baruch College in NYC, which is a city-funded school. My tuition is <$6000 yearly, and I am extremely happy with my classes. Required courses for the business school include business law, micro and macro economics, calculus, statistics, accounting, and other highly useful courses. The school is in the city, so I've found it very easy to get a marketing position at a start-up while in school. I've gotten to meet and speak to the CFO of JP Morgan and Tommy Hilfiger, and got his daughters input on an idea. Connections with professors have been very useful, and often fascinating. The emphasis on communication intensive courses has noticeably improved my skill.

I am extremely happy with my college experience, and would certainly recommend it for the opportunity cost.
There is a growing dissonance in college: one group of people are intent on having a career in the academics. The other are getting their bachelor's as only for the fact that it's the new high school diploma: just a necessity to keep up.

This leads to confusion for a lot of young people. The ones who are more ambitous will have thoughts that college isn't enough for them, and will consider their dissection
that college is a beauracratic sheepfarm to be brilliant, and they will have convincing
thoughts of leaving which is unfortunate.
It is unfortunate because there is another realm which a lot of these young people might find a lot of challenging enjoyment and that is the academic world. Unfortunately again, though, the first two years of college have been dumbed down to accomodate the new trend of having college not mainly being for aspiring academics.

I have to wonder that if these students stuck it out (and perhaps with the choosing of a rigorous major) they'd find their life leading a whole new direction by the end of their upper division courses.
We are located in San Mateo, CA btw.
I'm curious to see the success rate of entrepreneurs without college degrees vs. those with degrees, however you might define success and over whatever time horizon. What do you think?
Not likely. Apple's moved to a clang-based toolchain, haven't they?
GRPN IPO imagined as GroupOn Deal of the Day
I would call the Rolex/iPod examples fraud, wouldn't you? "Free market capitalism" is only rarely conflated with anarchy. (don't get me wrong, I agree that Intellectual Property is the opposite of "free market")
Don’t be a douchebag...good luck. make it rain.chamath
Having seen other comments you've made throughout this process, I really think you're overstating the importance of having been involved with something for 4 years. Seniority does not and never has demanded respect in all but the most draconian of organizations. On the other hand, being at the head of a failing organization usually means you need to be removed in order for proper recovery to occur.

Simply put, the quality of one's work should be judged by the quality of the outcome, not the time put in. Otherwise you end up in a situation where newcomers are never welcomed. You end up in the situation we're in now. And I've yet to come across a project that hasn't benefited by a smart, driven guy providing new insight and perspective. Marginalizing that feedback to save an ego is a major disservice to all.
Not everybody who makes incorrect statements is a liar. People may not know better or may skip details ("all birds can fly", "three times three is ten"), either because they have learnt to be not too nerdy to people they do not know, or because they know leaving out details sells better. I meet many more of either of those than outright liars. So, the primary rule could be: in general, people do not lie.

Also, you should never rule out that your 'pretty good in depth knowledge' is not broad enough and/or not pretty good enough, relative to some people you meet.
The C++ method doesn't give you a trivial way of capturing variables rather than values, where those variables go on to have a life that matches the lifetime of the closure created. You have to work rather hard to get that, by wrapping things up in little holders which are captured by value, but don't do a deep copy when they themselves are copied. It reminds me a little of how arrays are sometimes used to capture final variables in a mutable way in Java anonymous inner classes.

What this means is that whenever you pass off a lambda to a function, and that lambda captures a variable, you need to be aware of whether or not the function keeps a reference to the lambda someplace, so that you'll know if it's safe to capture by reference or not. If you capture by reference but the function keeps a reference to the lambda, and it gets called after the captured variable has gone out of scope, you'll get into some nasty trouble.

And this is why I don't like the C++ spec as it stands. It requires a kind of global knowledge to work with correctly in local contexts, in such a way that the compiler can't really help you either (it may have been possible to annotate types to indicate closure lifetime, but it would be painful without more powerful type inference than C++ has).
I love quotes like this:

they were never Groupon revenues in any meaningful sense of the word. But, optically, Groupon revenues look high — which they use to raise a financing round at a high valuation.

The idea that investors aren't able to fundamentally understand that 50% of revenue walks out of the door is just insane. I've raised a bit of money in my life and never once did I run across an investor who wasn't far better at understanding my own financial statements than I was.

It's not so much commentary on the article itself, but it shows a supreme lack of understanding of how the whole fundraising process really works. Surely Jose already knows that?
Why CFB vs CTR? Is there some reason parallelization is unneeded or impossible?
MIT faculty reports on Fukushima [pdf]
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There's also the huge network of people you meet that help you later in your career. I've lost track of the number of people I know who have been given job offers from old friends/fraternity brothers/faculty they kept in touch with.

I have my current job because of an alumni from my school. There's a lot more to the college experience than just the diploma.
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Loren created YARD, which is easily the best Ruby documentation generator out there. His attention to detail and concern for release management is pretty much unparalleled within this community. He's also a recipient of a Ruby Hero award.

Full disclosure: Loren and I have collaborated on projects before. We co-authored the current version of rubydoc.info, the online doc host for Ruby gem and Github projects. So yes, I'm biased, but I've also seen the quality of his work first-hand.