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Make no mistake, you are only judged by your true intentions. People,and life, is imperfect and endlessly flawed, what was intended is really all you have in the end, all that really matters to the truth. Yes, results change circumstances and end pain, but the true measure of a man remains his thoughts. Not his wallet, or his treasures or his effect on his environment. What he is inside is what he would be with the power to do as he intended, because the truth wants only to know what he is with great power, because it is the wielding of power that determines the good, and usefulness of a man, to both individual people and to the whole truth of societies singularity.
Some alliances are, as a means of protest, banning players who buy the new vanity items.
I like my phone, but I don't pull it out to be advertised to while I'm outside, I almost always make up my mind about where I'm going before I arrive there, and a physical sign at a store is still more efficient and user friendly than a smart phone coupon.

There was a smart phone only offer for free popcorn at the movie theater the other day. It was advertised with physical posters all over the theater, directing you to Yahoo for free popcorn. I figured "why not," got out my phone while riding the escalator, got the evil eye from my wife for pulling out my phone in the middle of a conversation, got weirded out by the Facebook requirement, and gave up.

I remain unconvinced that local advertising / coupons is something that is worth using a cell phone for.
I am reminded of an old Billy Joel interview:

"It's kind of weird--the values. Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine. I'm probably worth a lot more than Jonas Salk. That's pretty weird. I didn't cure polio; this guy did. I walk into a bar and a whole bunch of people know who I am. Jonas Salk probably can't even get laid. Now, figure that out."

http://www.piano-man.de/archiv/detail.asp?ID=93&Artikel_...
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The thing that confused me most about #inject was the term 'memo'...
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Yeah, also maybe some ownership to, to most reading wikipedia it appears as a data source that all comes from an unknown source. Sure you can dig a bit and see who added what to each article, but maybe it would be good to list contributors, especially if something is primarily the effort of one person somewhere prominent in the articles.
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Isn't this just a disconnect between how the enterprise sees the version numbers and how Mozilla uses them?

The enterprise in question sees FF5 as something "completely different to FF4 whereas if it was called say FF4.01 they've only too happy.

Time for enterprise to understand what the numbers mean - that they effectively need to see FF (and perhaps Chrome etc) as a "thing" rather than a specific version.
I love the idea of that change history for each 37signals app.

We're trying to be very open with our own product, but often very small fixes or changes don't make sense as an announcement on the blog.

Does anyone know where Basecamp links to this change history page? The only link to it so far I can find is from their blog: http://productblog.37signals.com/products/2009/10/basecamp-a...
>... demand tax withholding on the shares, valued at fair market value ...

Income tax is only due on the portion of the asset that is not subject to a "substantial risk of forfeiture". Thus a letter claiming certainty of instant forfeiture cannot also claim income tax. (FYI, other limits to property rights, such as a lock-up agreement after an IPO, are not considered a forfeiture.)

So why did they lie to scare you out of doing something that would have been pointless? Because if they had been forced to buy back the stock at the exercise price, they would have had to pay income tax on the difference from the fair market value.
Oh, that's awesome. My home button sometimes requires pressing twice before it does something, I'm definitely taking it in now.
If a bunch of assholes can't control their habits and OD or start stealing for fixes, why should everyone else suffer? It's not as addictive as you think, and I feel like some people use demonization of drugs to excuse their own fuck ups. It's just so easy to blame everything on a drug, isn't it?
I wonder, did you read about this on hacker news or some other blog first? Are you guys monitoring the forum/bugzilla/support requests, or you just wait until it gets to the HN frontpage?
Threat of LulzSec reprisal keeps Telestra from installing net filters
BDB shout-out. It's fast, efficient, and very minimalist in it's featureset.

For many use-cases, a full database isn't needed. And 5~10 years ago, "NoSQL" databases didn't exist: You just used a BDB as your key-value store.

It's not new and sexy, but it backs a lot of things.
My company pays a whole hell of a lot more for a far far more complex and way over bloated system. I applaud 37signals for their choices and sticking to it. The author here needs to just get over the fact that his needs outgrew the software and to seek another solution. No need for the dramatics.
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So why wouldn't they just have the denomination embossed in braille?
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I partially believe that CCP will end up being okay after the dust settles just because I have never known of any gaming community to have a truly successful protest. The sad part is that the precedence this sets is antithesis to good customer service.
Aren't they by definition not offering market value if they're having a hard time finding people?
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I go to a small liberal arts college, so our CS department is rather lacking in course breadth (although that is made up in 1-1 interaction), and so I haven't been privileged with being able to take classes on web technologies. Are you saying that all courses on things that aren't web-based are bogged down with useless crap?
Watched the original 3 movies with my kids during the week. They hadn't seen them before, but loved them. I thought it would be interesting to dig up old reviews and see what people thought of them when they first came out; before they'd accumulated 30 years of hype
Not at all. It's great, actually. My toonies, loonies, quarters, etc go in my change jar. My wallet is for bills (>= $5). I never carry change with me, and so don't have to worry about the hassle, and when I run out of money I have easily $50 in my change jar, which is enough for a frugal grocery trip. The proliferation of self-checkout stands also makes paying for $50 worth of groceries in coins slightly less embarrassing.
Use of LSD would be terrifying for governments with strict hierarchies like China. But I think that for countries where social mobility is encouraged (like US) psychedelics would not ruin anything. Example: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both admitted to use of LSD.
To help you make an informed choice, this summary of the Configuration Management Summit may be useful:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2010-10/openpdfs/Co...

To help you get started with Cfengine (my specialty):

http://www.cfengine.com/pages/tech
http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/cfengine/cfengine_examples.t...
That's damned cool. Presumably only commercial software would be affected? That is, I assume GIMP works fine for scanning bills.
The http://nces.ed.gov/pubs93/93275.pdf National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."

It also estimated that 14% of Americans have extreme difficulty with reading and written comprehension.

Only 19% have a high level of literacy, 31.4% have a moderate level of literacy and 49.6% a low level of literacy.

They may have developed coping skills to manage everyday literacy demands but they find it difficult to face new challenges, such as job skills.

In this http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-01-08-adult-lite... USA Today article they stated that "about one in seven [adults] are saddled with such low literacy skills that it would be tough for them to read anything more challenging than a children's picture book."

The http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/274/21/1677 Journal of the American Medical Association states that "46 percent of American adults cannot understand the labels on their prescription medicine."
Telstra Fears LulzSec Attacks, Hesitates On Internet Filter
Cfengine has tripwire-like functionality. There is an example in the default promises.cf that ships with Cfengine 3. (Look for "tripwire".)
From punk rocker to Sony exec (James Williamson of the Stooges - video)
Just to be clear: this is about consumers, and doesn't apply to employment. The unequal part is about the balance that the term in question creates e.g. "if you unplug your PVR you will owe us all lost ad revenue and a reconnection charge £1000". From reading your post I had the impression that it applied to all contracts where the parties have an imbalance in power.
Where is your evidence for any of that?
I think the logical conclusion will be a YC '13 startup that aggregates and streamlines all your different karma/points/favs/likes/checkin accounts and implements NFC into it all for points across the board. Integrate it IRL by giving points for things like "I brushed my teeth twice", "I filed the TPS report", "I got my sister a birthday present". And by then, IPv6 would be fully rolled out and everything (right guys?), even your toothbrush, would have its own IP and small nano chip with a minimal TCP/IP stack to tweet/checkin/+1 your life-game account on namb.ly (YC '13). The line between what is Real and what is part of the great RPG of life we all become part of gets further blurred with the further advancement of augmented reality and its ubiquity in our phones, glasses, contact lenses, electric car windshields, and holographic advertisements everywhere. The future is going to be a blast.

But as always, things progress and get amazing and we live in yesterday's future, yet no one is that impressed. I fear the day we go meh to the RPG of life that will inevitably develop in the future. Only then will we reminisce and wonder, "what was it like to be truly human?".
We don't need to "imagine" not being able to divide up money past the 5 cent barrier. Here in Australia, pennies have been abolished and everything is either rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents.

New Zealand has already taken it one step further and has abolished 5-cent coins as well, rounding everything to the nearest 10. There's talk of doing that in Australia as well.

Keep in mind that the Aussie dollar is worth more than a US one, and Kiwi dollar is worth only 20% less, so we're talking similar amounts of value being rounded up/down.

Now, if only Australia hadn't compensated the abolishment of 1 and 2 cent coins with the GIANT 50 cent coins, my wallet would be very happy.
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In the open source community, there's certainly a bunch. The FFMPEG h.264 decoder consists of big chunks of assembly. WebM will require more to be written as it becomes production-quality in various decoders. JIT for Javascript is causing the browser developers to be working on low-level code, but of course that's very contained. LLVM is another project that gets a lot of attention that involves assembly programming.

I just spent some time writing ARM assembly for some operating-system type things. The rise of ARM is causing some work to has to happen here, as a lot of legacy x86-only stuff will need to be replaced.

All the low-level stuff still has to happen, but there's very little happening in the startup-type crowd that tends to be around HackerNews. The only startup that I can think of offhand that would require that low-level type code is inPulse, http://getinpulse.com/ but I'm sure there's more around.
All you talk about are emotional boosts, which you can also get from cocaine and amphetamines. Do you recommend those drugs as well?

(As an aside, I don't take YouTube very seriously on the whole unless I happen to know the specific person who made and uploaded the videos.)
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In Five Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley
Just a reminder that this ("this" being the California Money Transmission Act) is still happening. I've written about it several times now, but sadly I don't think anyone with serious political influence has been doing much to address the issue. For my part, I've met with my California Assemblyman's staff, called my California State Senator, called the Governor's office, called Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, and met with the California Department of Financial Institutions.

I'm still not sure whether or not my company (which operates https://www.facecash.com) will survive, but regardless, entrepreneurs should be concerned about the impact of regulation on their businesses, not to mention the impact of interchange fees, which affect everyone.

For background, see...

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/In-Fifty-Days-Payments-Innovation-Will-Stop-In-Silicon-Valley

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/In-Thirty-Days-Payments-Innovation-Will-Stop-In-Silicon-Valley

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/Why-Im-Furious-with-Silicon-Valley

And yes, I am pretty furious. I knew about the political risks and I did my homework on the regulations before getting into the payments business, and was told in early 2010 by the CA DFI that the regulations now looming did not apply. Now I'm facing the actual prospect that ten years worth of productive and important work are about to be made suddenly illegal.

Call your California state senators, assemblypeople, and United States Senators and Representatives. We're about to give Visa and MasterCard a monopoly forever.
Australian currency, which is made of the same polymer and has transparent windows as well, seems to handle it just fine. No matter how strongly I bend and abuse it at the window, it doesn't lose transparency.
And for those reasons 'vbtemp' I fully intend to apply once my pre-reqs are fulfilled.

My plan is to double major: Finance+CS.
Wow, I must admit I would probably never invest so much into a place I am just renting. Your landlord won the lottery.

Still, it makes me feel uncomfortable. Yes, society is cheering on the people who sacrifice themselves (just watch any movie from the US, that message gets driven home with a sledge hammer). But I doubt that is for the best of the individual. Of course people are cheering if they get something out of you for free.
TinkerGraph is close (https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki/TinkerGraph) -- it used to be an in-memory only graph, but you can now persist it. Also look at GraphML (http://graphml.graphdrawing.org) and the full TinkerPop stack (http://www.tinkerpop.com).

Gremlin (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki) is a graph query lanaguage and one of the main discussions groups for general graph database stuff is the Gremlin Users group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gremlin-users) -- ask your question about the portable library in there -- the group was created by Marko, the guy who wrote TinkerGraph.

Here's a 10 min screencast on Gremlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wpTtEBK4-E

Rexster (https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster/wiki/) is a REST server that has Gremlin built in, and it interfaces with most of the graph databases, Neo4j, DEX, OrientDB, etc.

There is an open-source Python persistence framework in the works called Bulbs that connects to Neo4j through the Rexster REST server, and there are binary bindings in the works as well. There is also a Python open-source Web development framework for graph databases called Bulbflow that is based on Bulbs and Flask. Both frameworks should be released in the next few weeks.
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Primarily just those which result in dopamine production are addictive. Psychedelic drugs do not, and are generally not addictive.
I found http://gitready.com really useful when I was starting out with git.
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I think the story of Stallman's influence over the committee is interesting.

The general template is, there's a bunch of people that discuss the ideas endlessly, but leaving certain key issues, or perhaps the main issue, undecided.

The strategic choice, if you care about the outcome, is to ensure you are present at the bitter end, when the committee is writing down its final recommendation, and then persuasively suggest the solution you favor.

The non-strategic choice is to join in the endless debate at the other end of the process. You will tire out, possibly get angry, and lose your position as the neutral arbiter which you will need at the end.
Yes, I must have. I certainly don't remember any along that particular topic.

I'd be interested to see them if you still have links.
investing in restaurants is a great way for a rich guy to become a poor guy. One case of food poisoning and you'll be dealing with lawsuits that will force you under.

plus it's not scalable, so it's difficult to make a lot of money, unless the food is so good or unique that you can franchise it. But I'm guessing the appeal of Elan has more to do with the atmosphere than the menu...

Anyway, it doesn't matter, the reason the landlord is raising the rent is because he/she assumes that there is someone willing to pay more for the space, which indicates that there is a more economically viable operation that can be run in that area than that particular restaurant.
If i understand correctly collect is more like map from functional programing languages and inject is a fold. One maps a collection of one type to a collection of another type, and the other reduces a collection of one type into something of another type (which could be a collection itself) in that case MapReduce does not quite translate to ruby's collect and inject. In fancy language the reduce in MapReduce is not merely a catamorphism nor is the map actually a collect. The types do not align. I learned of his from a hackernews post by grav1tas http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477238. In there he links to a paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.104....

If you look at the types implicit in his code you should see that the essence lies not with collect or inject which are incidental plumbing but the nature of the hash and in particular, the act of generating the intermediate collection for each key. What is called map is actually more a reverse reduce. The pedagogical emphasis on map and foldr actually belies the true nature and power of algorithm in parallelizing.
I'm running Eclipse on Ubuntu (x64) on OpenJDK and it works fine. My hardware isn't particularly fast either. I might reboot one a week or so. I do have 8GB of memory though.
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They do publish at least basic pageview data (which is how http://stats.grok.se/ works). But absolutely, they should make detailed metrics much more visible, which would help.
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He is actually saying the opposite. He is saying that your CS department is doing you a disservice if it hasn't covered the basics listed by the original poster (OS hacking, theory, making a toy language, etc.). My schooling covered all of that, and they even had a web development elective (separate from low level networking and database classes). I was also told by my professors that when the CS college first started, OS, compiler, networking and database classes were mandatory (now they are just part of a large pool of electives), so this is pretty standard stuff.
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Assume a case like TrueCrypt's hidden volumes, where multiple keys decrypt different content. Could you use the key to decrypt the fake content, and then when asked if that key was the "real key", refuse to answer on Fifth Amendment grounds?
Graphs are a much more elegant way of storing relational data. With graph databases you don't have to mess with tables or joins -- everything is implicitly joined.

And Neo4j rocks -- store 32 billion nodes (http://blog.neo4j.org/2011/03/neo4j-13-abisko-lampa-m04-size...) with 2 million traversals per second (http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/02/neo4j-10), and you can use Gremlin with it (the graph traversal language), which let's you calculate PageRank in 2 lines.

Neo4j is open source, and the Community Edition is now free (https://github.com/neo4j/community). I recommend pairing it with the TinkerPop stack (http://www.tinkerpop.com/).

For tabular data, relational databases rock. But the relational model doesn't align well with object-orientated programming so you have an ORM layer that adds complexity to your code. And with relational databases, the complexity of your schema grows with the complexity of the data.

The graph-database model simplifies much of this and makes working with the modern-day social graph so much cleaner.
Graphs allow you to do powerful things like find inferences inside the data in ways that would be hard to do with relational databases.

Check out Peter Neubauer's introduction to graph databases and how they compare to RDBMS' and where they stand in the NOSQL-movement (http://www.infoq.com/articles/graph-nosql-neo4j).

Marko's website is a great resource too (http://markorodriguez.com/) -- he created Gremlin, the graph query language.
Okay - if this is true then it's really quite astonishing. That these groups might be having a deterrent effect on corporations is pretty incredible.

I wonder if all those ISPs considering implementing draconian piracy controls are fearing the same kind of retribution.

Could it be that it will be these few and scattered children which arrest the slide into fascist information control toward which we seem to be headed? It still seems incredibly unlikely - yet for the first time it suddenly seems possible.