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There's a certain amount of novelty in seeing what pictures other people took who were once standing where you were. Imagine seeing what your neighbourhood looked like 50 years ago.

Now, whether or not Color is the best place for that to happen, I don't know.
I don't have much experience beyond the basic with Sequel (DataMapper is my drug of choice), but a simple test here shows that require 'sequel' makes my IRB memory consumption jump from 15.2 to 18.6 megabytes, while require 'dm-core' makes it jump from the same 15.2 to 26.6.

Of course it is by no means a scientific or fair comparison, but still makes me wonder.
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According to this article, Lodsys is asking for "0.575% of US revenue over for the period of the notice letter to the expiration of the patent".

In other words, if you accepted the offer, you'd end up paying Lodsys $100 for roughly every $17,000 that you make. I'd guess you could count on one hand the number of devs that will ever be on the hook for more money than a good iOS consultant could make by booking a single day's worth of work, which is at the very least the amount of time that will be spent figuring out what the hell to do to fight against something like this if you end up taking it to court even before legal fees (unless you happen to be an expert on patent law to begin with).

"Lodsys needs developers to think it is cheaper to settle than it is to fight."

Well, it is probably cheaper if you include lost time, even if you win in court, and that's the whole problem - as a pure business decision, it's a no-brainer, especially when you consider the stress of being sued and having to think about this garbage when you'd rather be coding...

I only hope that the publicity of this crap means that enough people are pissed off to fight it at a loss instead of paying up, and they make Lodsys lose money on this tactic overall.

But I worry, I worry...
There are a lot of things that America does to other countries that would be taken as acts of war if they were done to America.

Is this the foreshadowing of a second Cold War, albeit with a different super power and in completely new battlefields? The only problem, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread is that unlike conventional warfare, spoofing the origin of these "weapons" is relatively easy.

Does anyone know of whether people have thought of things like Mutually Assured Destruction in the context of e-commerce and the internet?
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It's interesting; those machines were very different from consumer gear of the time. Especially the lack of necessity around the video card and local keyboard/mouse. You could just as easily boot with console being a serial port.

Modern PCs can use EFI over a serial console so they're a lot closer these days.

(Fun fact: Sun once made a 386-based workstation.)
With iCloud Apple will potentially make money off the service because some customers will pay cash for extras (more space, more services, etc), but that's it.

Apple is a weird company because for all the eyebrows they raise with talk of closed systems and hubris and whatever else, they primarily make their way in the world by selling goods to consumers for money. The infrastructure enabling that is a crazy thing, but the heart of it is pretty old fashioned.
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For introductory material you may want to take a look at some of these courses:

Shalizi, 35-350: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/350/

Shalizi, 36-402: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/402/

Ng, CS229: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/materials.html

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Kumar, EECS6898: http://www.sanjivk.com/EECS6898/lectures.html

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Jaakkola & Collins, 6.867: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.867/lectures.html

Hamilton, CS831: http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~hamilton/courses/831/

Girolami, MLM: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~girolami/Machine_Learning_Module_2...

Bengio, IC-49: http://bengio.abracadoudou.com/lectures/

Lin, CMSC838: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/cloud-2010-Spring/syllab...
Finally, an interesting Bitcoin thread. I hate to say it but it's pretty difficult to feel sorry for the guy.
What kind of people do you think would be able to survive with not specializing in either but are still passionate about computers? What do these type of people usually work on? Asking from a personal perspective.
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Not Azure per se, but Microsoft did try to bring cloud to consumers. Does anyone recall Livemesh

http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mesh?os=other

Am not sure how much traction it finally got
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There are a lot of things that America does to Americans that would be taken as acts of war if they were done to America.
Also covered here:
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"Instant Pages will be available on Chrome Beta in the next week and for adventurous Chrome Canary users today, with a Firefox version also in the works."
I'm guessing the third party services are for data hosting, and the data center does CPU and database intensive processing.
No one tells the military "no".
Interesting article -- somewhat less "DIY" than "salvaged", but still interesting.

Also interesting how, all other politics aside, we're not likely to see such an article detailing the improvised weapons of Iraqi Rebels.
you are ignoring the fact that China (a powerful recent player in math and physics), Russia (long time math and physics powerhouse), or any number of criminal elements have known about these security problems and have possibly been taking full advantage of them for some time, just skipping the publicity bit. LulzSec is, among other things, shaming the companies into tightening up.

Red teaming is a good thing.

Edit: to be clear, I agree there's no red-team value in DDOS. Though some have ascribed a "sit-in" utility to DDOS in certain circumstances (eg: Anonymous vs MasterCard after Wikileaks broke CableGate).
But how he assigns the three titles is almost entirely arbitrary. He might as well just call them Type 1, 2, and 3 programmers instead of trying to artificially force distinctions between developer, programmer, and computer scientist.
Yeah, but ASP.NET sucks. Don't get me wrong, it was great in 2001 when it was released, but the Viewstate/Postback model really sucks judging by modern standards and it was a really bad idea when viewed in perspective.

And ASP.NET MVC is different and whatever compatibility it has with ASP.NET is actually hurting, IMHO. I mean, here's a framework with potential, but it has to carry the old bagage of ASP.NET from the start.

I get it that a framework like Rails moves TOO FAST for its own good, but nothing compels you to upgrade right now. Lots of people are still on Rails 2.3, it's a stable and reliable version and if you'll look around many projects have 2 branches, one for 2.3 and one for 3.0. And some of the projects, especially Rack middleware, don't need 2 branches.

It kind of sucks from one perspective - the 2.3 branches are going to receive less patches/upgrades, but you have the source code. If something really important is missing, or there's some unfixed bug, you can go ahead and fix it yourself.

You can't say the same thing about a binary DLL. I remember when I first tried out ASP.NET 2.0 - it contained an annoying bug related to their CSRF protection (if you clicked any control before the page loaded, it triggered an error since the CSRF token was getting loaded right before the </form> tag, at the end of the page), and it took a service pack and 2 months to get it fixed.
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Why so disparaging? He's more successful than most silicon valley engineers ever will be, he can do whatever the hell he wants. Go raise emus or whatever strikes his fancy.
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The only real advice he can give is "talk to a lawyer", just the same as advice you'd give to someone complaining of health issues with "talk to a doctor", whether you're a doctor or not doesn't matter. It has nothing to do with him looking after his own.

Your advice is to simply pay the license fees?
>DDOSes must be intrinsically black-hat, right?

No. While I agree there's no red-team contribution in a DDOS, quite a few people regarded Anonymous DDOSes on Wikileaks detractors (MasterCard, et al) as the digital equivalent of a sit-in. That seems a bit of a stretch to me also, but certainly there's some application of DDOS that's not purely black-hat.
I wonder what America's Cyberassault on China looks like?
It will be interesting to see if this complexity affects closed-source software more than open-source software, or if AS/400-style bytecode-compilation schemes catch on again.

(The AS/400 (now iSeries) world compiles COBOL and RPG source to a very stable bytecode that has been the same for the lifetime of the system, AIUI. When the program is first run, the bytecode is automatically compiled to machine code and the machine code is stored alongside the bytecode; all subsequent runs either just use the machine code, or regenerate the machine code if the bytecode is newer and then run the machine code. When moving software to a new system, the machine code is left and only the bytecode (and, possibly, sources) gets moved. This works well enough IBM has been able to migrate AS/400 people from CISC to RISC hardware without any more pain than using OS/400 stuff usually entails.)
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You need an idea with "substantive want" behind it.
PG's coveted shirt with the statement "I built something people want" is clearly the Hacker's Pulitzer Prize.

As I read the post "Build your business around an idea" http://warpspire.com/posts/idea-businesses/

I had this voice screaming in my mind that the concept of basing your business around merely an idea just rang hollow and as a kind of kitsch inspirational poster to hang in some corporate board room or vast expanses of cubicles.

Excuse the cynicism, but I've heard lots of ideas and aspirations that, for their grandeur and loftiness never get translated, and there's nothing sexy about a beauty never revealed to anyone. On the other side nor is there about the ugly one that gets revealed to everyone, all the time, to the point of inducing vomiting and other instinctual purging reflexes.

Yes an idea beats the heck out of just a product, but if your idea sucks then you'll be hard pressed to get a good idea out of it, as well as on the other end, if you have an overly 'good' idea, good to the point of fantastic--as in fantasia, fantasy, la-la land, then you'll keep building your towers to heaven.

There are lots of things people want that you can deliver via a start up, and then there are lots of things you simply can't.

Seeing things as they are, contrary to pithy idealistic reveries, is the first step to discovering things as they can be.

Don't get me wrong I'm as apt to be Quixotic as the next guy, One of my favorite lines in the musical "Perhaps too much sanity is madness . . . but maddest of all to see things as they are and not as they should be"

I'm all for envisioning a better world. I'm all for seeing things as they should be and not as they are. But even Don Quixote operated within the bounds of plausibility. You could see a shaving basin as being something that could be worn upon the head, you could see the windmill tilted at as having massive arms as a giant would have. But the story, nor the idealism, would have been the same if his delusions saw the Golden Helmet of Mambrino in a pile of entrails or if he'd seen a giant monster when it was just a sock on the side of the road.

Yes there's a big problem with people only grasping at product straws, but there's the other end of the spectrum that have beams in their eyes that they mistake for ideas, ideas that they think you can base a business on.

The great variety in evolution leads many to believe that 'anything is possible' when the reality couldn't be further from the truth. Yes the viable variations are many and should be explored BUT there are paths that never produce anything, there are things that are perennially and, on a meta-fitness level, never fit.
There's something that's just...well, for lack of a better word, special, about being the on the same playing field as everyone else, but working under a completely different set of rules and deciding for yourself how the game is scored.

The best example I can give is how my brother used to grief Counterstrike on TK-enabled servers - he didn't do this by killing his own teammates, or by cheating against the other team. Rather, he would lure his teammates into killing him often enough that they got auto-banned from the server; his rationale was that everyone was too freaking good at CS anyways, might as well make the game more interesting and difficult for himself, at least. :)

When you decide for yourself which game you're actually playing, sometimes the lulz are just too tasty to resist...

That said, DDoSing a bunch of game servers for games that are completely unrelated and haven't done anything in particular worthy of retaliation is moronic. There's no poetry there, just a bunch of children playing around with the 2011 equivalent of AOHell (and yes, I realize that most of them are probably to young to even know WTF I'm talking about).
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If I recall correctly, Marco prefaced any advice he gave with "speak to a real lawyer if you're actually in the situation, and don't act solely on this discussion," though maybe I'm superimposing that after the fact.
A nice idea but I don't think it's really practical. Humanity itself doesn't really have the capability to bring that level of energy output and control to bare on a planetary scale.

Moreover, I don't think it's really a very interesting problem. To use an analogy, your idea is similar to the approach used in AI in the 70s or 80s -- computer scientists trying to build a complete artificial intelligence from scraps. In the past 30 years we've learned that this isn't the right approach to a massive problem that we don't truly understand. Instead, we should focus on building small advances -- pieces which get us toward our overall goal. Instead of attempting to control the weather, we need to focus on smaller goals like practical fusion power, a highly advanced national electrical grid, or advanced solar power.
A great use for this would be to connect to a remote X-server and have the applications execute there. Then he could use a mix of remotely executing apps and native local apps to get his work done on this awesome machine!
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The problem with that is that linguistic terms are defined over time and can change through how everyone understands and uses them. For example, see the words gay and hacker.

For the category of career types, definitions can only remain constant to an upheld ideal when there's a professional body that enforces what the term means. The professional body may or may not be successful in its efforts. For example, there are a lot of P.Eng folks who dislike it when software guys and network guys call themselves engineers.
They pulled the Android app from the market and it has not returned. Odd.

It was really, really terrible, but you would have thought that it could have been fixed up by now...
True cloud computing is when we have nothing but a display device that simply follows instructions on how to display the GUI that it receives from the cloud. The browser is a simulation of this future device.

Installing an app on a device is still the old way of doing things. All aspects of the application should come from the network - including the UI.

Why? Because then we can focus more on the nature of HCI itself instead of focusing on developing for different devices like we do now. Developers should be developing for screen sizes - not devices.

IMHO it's inevitable that we will all use one global standard for the client UI in the future. The web is the beginning of that and it's a powerful concept.

And let's not forget that every single one of Apple's iDevices will have Safari installed.
The original article would be better:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html
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> Tor was invented by the NSA

Actually, Paul Syverson, Roger Dingledine, and Nick Mathewson orginated Tor, and Dr Syverson did the original onion routing work at the Naval Research Lab.

https://www.torproject.org/about/corepeople.html.en

I don't recall seeing "NSA" anywhere on any their resumes, in their papers, etc.

Syverson has made it pretty clear Tor is not so good for serious security, eg, trying to evade nation-states. Evading nation-states is what PGP is for. Fundamentally, if you want a pizza, the pizza delivery guy has to know your address, no matter how many intermediate stops he makes. Also, have you used Tor? Speed is a major issue.
Makes me think how much of this is going to be used as a pretext for new legislation.
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Microsoft shines when they provide infrastructure, not finished products (with a few exceptions).

Services like Azure are what Microsoft should be about.
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All of the coins have unique identities. It would be possible for merchants and exchanges to blacklist those coins would it not? (simply refuse to supply cash or goods in exchange for them)?

The community is still small and there are few ways in or out of it via product or cash. A cooperative effort could still deaden some of the impact of this kind of theft.
Oh, OK. The sarcasm in your previous post was a little ambiguous, so I wasn't sure what point you were trying to make.
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I wonder if this caused the demise of Nokia?
The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that they were going to go the service -> API -> platform -> advertiser platform -> data mining -> $$$ route. Or something like that.
I think this is the most common definition.

Largely because it is self-enforcing: most "Developers" don't like to refer to themselves as merely "Programmers", because programming is only a subset of what they actually do. People who just code have no problem referring to themselves as "Programmers".

You also see this reflected in the way companies communicate: companies for whom the people writing code are at the bottom of the food chain will commonly refer to them as "Programmers".

Basically, the term "Programmer" has over time become the IT-equivalent of "grunt".
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This argument is nullified by the fact that computing power continues to fall in cost, size and power usage.

The user does not and should not care about where his or her application logic is being run so long as this device is affordable.

The vision you present adds questionable cost savings and substantial latency: (NY->SF->NY)/c will always take 32ms, best case. Taking this trip asynchronously instead will make sense for a very long time.

Apple understands that shuffling data between devices is a real burden to users, so they've attacked that problem instead of chasing an esoteric one.
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Can you give an example and counter-example to your 'substantive wants'?

I can't imagine that you wrote that post thinking that somebody was following an idea that they felt had no value or wants. That should be obvious.

You may have valid points hidden in there, but I am struggling to comprehend what you're really trying to say.

I'll try to take the obvious counter to what I think you are saying.

Nobody 'wanted' twitter. if you had described a vision of twitter, I think it would have gotten a solid 'meh'. Yet, it has proven to be a viable business and in some ways is creating great social value.

What was the 'substantive want' of twitter, foursquare, etc. etc.

Or are you suggesting that people are trying to build towards ideas which they have no chance of completing ' have beams in their eyes that they mistake for ideas, ideas that they think you can base a business on.'
I'd like to help, but I have no idea how to build Python modules for Windows any more. I once figured it out by following some guide that was linked to from python.org, but that broke when more recent versions of Python required more recent compilers.

If you can create a build environment on your workstation, IIRC there is a bdist_win (or similar) setup.py target that will build a .msi package that you can load on your webserver. That's about the limit of my Windows Python knowledge right there :|
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The mono C# compiler should pre-evaluate the loop and just set x to the computed value. You'd have to look at the bytecode to verify, but i would be shocked if mono didn't do that.

Still, it should take the blink of an eye, not a chin-scratch.