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> If you want to learn to code and build stuff and you’re starting by asking someone else what you should do, you’re already thinking about it the wrong way.

If someone asks for help and this is the first thing you say, you're already thinking about it the wrong way.

What is their background? Their aptitude? Why do they want to learn? How do they learn best? Are their expectations reasonable? In short, what would be the smartest way to help this individual? One suboptimal way is to post essentially a multi-paragraph lmgtfy and assume that everybody will hound down the knowledge they need with the same geeky obsessiveness you would.

Edit: I meant to mention that remark about getting a Mac. "Embarrassed" to have considered anything else? I'm a big Mac fan (Cocoa developer) but that is ridiculous enough that I'm tempted to see the whole post as a joke.
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well, here is a new TC story

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973357

basically a TC guy made a honest joke about HP and TC censored itself.
why don't you allow to withdraw bitcoins?

Isn't bitcoin built because it's easy to make transactions? Why withdrawal can be done only through mtgox redeemable codes in US dollars?
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Google is the company that first played ball with the Chinese government first and pulled out after the Chinese hacked them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8455712.stm

It had nothing to do with 'government-sponsored censorship', in fact, google showed different results to Chinese nationals on the other side of the line and the rest of the world for specific queries for a long time.
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I dont really know what the big deal is. If you have a file that is top secret dont have it on the internet whether it be your email, in dropbox or even on your own aws/hosted server.

Keep it on a flash drive and have it stapled to your arm if you want to transport it. For images that you want to share, or files that you kinda dont give a rats about if they were to get compromised or disappear, place them in places on the internet that match their confidentiality requirements (email - for secure, dropbox - for kinda secure or your own private server - for very secure)

I think arguing whether a new solution is required because dropbox can't do the job or whether dropbox can keep your files safe is a moot point. If your files are on the internet they are never 100% safe. Just keep your most private files on an external hard disk and have that disk detached from your computer and the only risk you run is if someone robs your house.

I personally think dropbox is great for what i use it for, i put images that i want to share, i transfer files to friends overseas and we all happily share our stuff easily and seamlessly and if i wanna access it i login through the browser or install a new client. WIN. No other service at the moment does it this easily for me. If any of my files where compromised, well whatever, a few holiday pictures or some itineraries.

The legal responsibility is put on Dropbox to keep your stuff safe, but I think the "common sense" responsibility is put on the user to decide whether s/he thinks dropbox is the place for a specific file.
>You have access to the code that ships, which is the requirement of viral open-source licenses.

Except we don't have access to the code that ships. The code shipping on Honeycomb device is not available.

>You don't have access to the "very latest code" for the Linux kernel either

Using an 8 month old version of the Android source is not the same as not having access to kernel code that is still being written. With the linux kernel you can access code as soon as it is committed to kernal.org, with Android you only get to see it after an entire new version of the OS has been released (and sometimes not even then). It is perhaps difficult to draw a solid line here, and pedants will complain that you don't have access to code that still only exists in Linus' brain, but there seems to be a pretty clear difference to me.
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It takes lots of different kinds of people to make a success. If the company you start can't hire people because everybody thinks like you do you too will fail.

The attitude that you can't be 'successful' in life unless you start a company is really out of touch with reality, I'd argue that it takes all kinds for everybody to even have a chance at achieving their definition of success, and people that do not achieve your definition of success are not automatically failures.
Android is open in the same sense that the Lua programming language implementation is open. Lua is certified open-source software, and distributed with a very liberal license, but PUC-Rio is in complete control of all the development.

It's certified by the OSI, whose definition of "Open-source" is available at http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php. To summarize, open-source means (1) The software and modifications can be redistributed freely, (2) The source code is available, (3) Users are free to modify the software. Android meets these requirements.

The software is open-source. The project development is not open: See http://www.lua.org/license.html

> Lua is free open-source software, distributed under a very liberal license (the well-known MIT license). It may be used for any purpose, including commercial purposes, at absolutely no cost. Just download it and use it.

> Where does Lua come from?

> Lua is designed, implemented, and maintained by a team at PUC-Rio, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Lua was born and raised in Tecgraf, the Computer Graphics Technology Group of PUC-Rio, and is now housed at Lablua. Both Tecgraf and Lablua are laboratories of the Department of Computer Science of PUC-Rio.

and http://lua-list.2524044.n2.nabble.com/Lua-open-source-or-not...

> An "open-source project" has one meaning, an "open-source software" has another. The project is not open source, the software (the result of the project) is.

Few people have had a problem with this principle as applied to Lua. I'm not sure why this is confusing or newsworthy when it's applied to Android.
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The problem lies on margin accounts. If you use any Forex brokerage platform to trade Euro, for example, you won't get the actual Euro anyway. What you get is still US Dollars when you close your positions.

Of course, it's easier to withdraw in BTC. But it isn't too difficult to redeem in Mt. Gox and buy Bitcoins as well.

I'll try to see if BTC withdrawal is useful. But by any means, Bitcoinica is designed for trading (both investing and speculating), and the accounting currency is always USD. This makes margin trading, short selling and all kinds of complex orders possible.
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This is why I avoid out-of-tree modules. At least someone had to glance over the in-tree module before I run it on my machine. When you download random kernel modules from the Internet, they're probably from people too lazy to have their code properly reviewed. And if they're too lazy to have their code reviewed, they probably don't feel too bad about disabling all page write protection, either.
But those are all things like parallel port drivers. This is for an Internet meme!!!!
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I fully agree with you. I too can not do with partial information, especially in such matters - when the news is disturbing like death.

Particularly, if its a case of a young person dying, not knowing the reason can haunt you for some time. And few times, I have felt the shock has diminished a bit, once you know the cause of death.

But that said, if the family and friends conceal something because the deceased person wanted to, then that's also perfectly understandable.
So many 'zomg stupid patent' articles are like this. It's like they read "Method and system for transferring information over copper wires" and think "how can these guys expect to patent any and every conceivable system for transferring information over copper?" And then write an inflammatory blog post about it, without actually reading specific claims, which might be genuinely innovative.

Of course there are plenty of patents which are silly, but framing things like this as "someone's patented building snowmen" does a lot of damage to the larger debate, imho.
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> Using an 8 month old version of the Android source is not the same as not having access to kernel code that is still being written. With the linux kernel you can access code as soon as it is committed to kernal.org, with Android you only get to see it after an entire new version of the OS has been released (and sometimes not even then). It is perhaps difficult to draw a solid line here, and pedants will complain that you don't have access to code that still only exists in Linus' brain, but there seems to be a pretty clear difference to me.

You're right, there is a difference. But the difference is one of process, and isn't really related to the openness of the software itself.
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Just been looking at Tarsnap. It looks good but I'm curious what happens if the author/creator/owner/maintainer (singular) gets run over by a bus?
I'd go with option D - if your app takes off, you'll be making enough money to buy the "proper" domain. That, or use a random word generator to create a brand name. Protip: if you go down this road, do a Google first just in case it means something unexpected :)
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Yes, one thing that is not apparent from the documentation is that a "bucket" is merely a namespacing thing: Internally, all data is stored in one big bucket, with bucket names prefixing keys.

This means that if you have buckets A (1 million items) and B (5 items), sequentially scanning bucket B will take just as long as scanning bucket A -- because Riak has to scan through the entire store. In other words, it's not enough to say that one should avoid scanning a bucket because it's slow when you have lots of stuff in a bucket; it's always too slow to be practically usable in any situation where you have more than a few hundred keys.

I think calling buckets is a big mistake because they create the expectation that they really are separate things. "Namespace" or "keyspace" would have been more appropriate. (Can buckets have different replication semantics? If not, that's even worse.)

Cassandra is loosely based on the same tech as Riak, and supports sequential range queries very well, I hear.
I'm the creator of Bitcoinica. I'm not so established here. To be honest, I'm only 17.

You're 17 and you've already created something like this? I see a very bright future ahead of you :) Well done, great work!
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You're right, http://ifttt.com/channels/ is full of services I don't use either.

However, it does have RSS, Gmail, and Date and Time triggers, and actions like send an email or make a phone call that are quite generic.

Gmail isn't exactly a trendy new service anymore, but I think it would be a huge improvement if they allowed you to configure ifttt to trigger or mail from any POP/IMAP compatible account.

Also, a channel for power users like "run this script" or to make a new channel would be awesome.
Maybe I'm old-school, but Notepad + Dropbox works fine.
The easiest way to undo a commit is to treat git just like you would Subversion or Mercurial: Use 'git revert $COMMIT_ID' to reverse the generated commit, or simply fix things by hand and commit again.

Sure, you can edit the broken commit, if you value a pretty commit history. But again, this requires understanding git well enough to predict the effects. What happens if you run 'git commit --amend -a' after pushing the original commit? What if another user already pulled? How will you fix the resulting mess?

If you can answer these questions, then you'll have no problems editing history. If you can't, then you may be signing up for a lot of pain.
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> Some parents out there are not at all OK with Disney content

Too bloody right. Here's a helpless girl that needs rescuing by a man to live happily ever after? No thanks.
I'm surprised noone commented on the "as a percentage of my income" bait. So I'll bite :)

It is in no way obvious or written in stone that what matters are "percent of income". For many centuries, per capita tax was the norm. Indeed, you could argue that what matters is the actual, absolute amount taken from an individual, by threat of force, and not some abstract proxy metric. There, arguably, Buffet delivers more than you?

The amount delivered without the threat of force (charity) is yet another thing.
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I don't get your argument. It seems that you're saying that if something can't be made 100% secure, then there is no point trying to make it more secure than it already is.
Could someone explain why goombastic is being down voted? I am unable to figure out what is objectionable about his comment, unless the provider he mentioned is known to be bad.
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To be clear, the patent owner also holds a patent on the wheel: http://www.ipmenu.com/archive/AUI_2001100012.pdf
Doesn't pretty much everything call into libc to open() things rather than invoke the syscall directly?
The original article complains that Android is not open enough. So apparently if you go closed source, nobody cares, but if you give away your stuff, people feel entitled to more.

As for what makes OSS better: you can check what the software does, and change it if you don't like it. I think you can find lots of articles about the benefits of OSS. However, I don't care what kind of software you use, so please spare me the discussion.
This downvoting is weird. I am in no way affiliated with Namecheap. I am just an arbitrary guy who had to research, find alternatives and move due changes at Everydns.
I'd love to see what you say about http://tweetingmachine.com :-) (and hopefully implement some improvements)
This seems far more advanced than usual for Bitcoin. Nice!

I have little insight into the security of your software, but I hope you have also considered the peculiarities of Bitcoin. To name just one thing that would be far harder in a normal market: open a Bitcoinica account, deposit $10 000, buy $50 000 in Bitcoin, sell BTC really expensively at Mt Gox as the system frantically tries to rebalance. Given the volatility of BTC, this may be profitable even if[1] you subsequently abandon the Bitcoinica account (which is likely to hold $-40 000 in dollars and less than $40 000 in BTC at un-spiked prices...)

[1] EDIT: Actually, it's only profitable if you can get the Bitcoinica account into the red. But given enough ability to move the market, that's definitely possible.
Personally I've moved to GratisDNS a long time ago. I've never had any issues with them and they are always happy to help. It helps to be able to read Danish though.
Can you name such a module?
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I think only alternative is tradehill, and their interface/features suck.
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Can you relate some examples that you found off putting?

I thought - for example - the whole CrunchPad thing was quite interesting. It was an interesting product, and the posts gave a lot of insight into how hardware businesses worked.
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Ahhh, these are the types that will never have a side project. Ask for side projects at the next interview and you shall find those that love solving problems. What your interview process is selecting for currently is the traditional salary hopper.
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> Few people have had a problem with this principle as applied to Lua. I'm not sure why this is confusing or newsworthy when it's applied to Android.

This is why people have a problem: http://twitter.com/#!/Arubin/status/27808662429
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I would still be worried about the domain.

If my DNS provider messes up, I change to a new one and I am back within 72 hours (at most). If the mail provider messes up, I change to a new one and I am back within X hours (where X is the TTL set for the domain). If my webhost messes up, I am back within X hours (because I of course make offsite backups), etc.

The only part where one needs a 100% reliable business partner is domain registration. And after hearing all the horror stories about Godaddy, I would not trust them, not even if I was wearing your methaphorical condom.
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I agree, in retrospect my comment was totally inappropriate.
Cost to spam is probably lower than the effort to avoid nofollowed blogs. Also, there might be just enough idiots clicking links manually to encourage them to persist.
Android is open source software (after the fact), not an open source project.

iD Software open sources their old 3D engines as well; no one considers iD Tech to be an open source project.
I'm running a low-end linux myself at home for years, with surprisingly similar characteristics (no FPU either):

lloeki@slug> cat /proc/cpuinfo ~
Processor : XScale-IXP42x Family rev 1 (v5l)
BogoMIPS : 266.24
Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp
CPU implementer : 0x69
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0x41f
CPU revision : 1

Hardware : Linksys NSLU2
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
lloeki@slug> free ~
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 28844 27212 1632 0 2372 10496
-/+ buffers/cache: 14344 14500
Swap: 121076 10272 110804
lloeki@slug> cat /etc/debian_version ~
6.0.2

It has been tasked to do quite a bit of things, including:

- imap+smtp server (smarthost)
- out-of-cloud mail mirror
- having a permanent, "immutable" diagnostics access point
- securing untrusted wifi connexions with a vpn
- tunnelling through even the worst http proxies (httptunnel+openvpn)
- hosting a sixxs tunnel and a radvd instance for my LAN
- IPv6 everywhere (via the openvpn TAP if)
- NAS
- networked Linux rsync hardlink delta backup (Time Machine style)
- private file sharing (kinda like megaupload/dropbox links...)
- mpd host
- DNLA server
- WOL packet sender
- ssh hop
- alarm system (cron+aplay)
- LAN DNS
- mDNS/dns-sd
- WAN v4/v6 uptime monitor with history

Debian/arm provides a huuuge number of packages. The biggest constraint is actually not the CPU but the RAM, 2x or 4x that amount would be nice.

Many of those have been phased out when I replaced my wrt54g (v5, dd-wrt) with a Time Capsule, but it saved (and still saves) me time (or even my ass) quite a lot.

Total cost: ~100€ + 5W max. Well worth it.
How long until patents never expire either?
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As long as it's illegal to shoot people who place money over other things, the disease will never be cured.
With LD_PRELOAD you can hook any _function_ call.
A syscall is something different.
It depends how the syscall wrapper within the libc is coded.
Some can be hooked...
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I'm amazed that a company the size of microchip would actually respond in a non-flippant manner to something 'some guy' wrote on his blog.

http://dangerousprototypes.com/2011/08/30/editorial-our-frie...
What's wrong with that tweet? It fits the definition of open source that your parent post described.

I think a lot of people's problem comes from Google having not yet released the Honeycomb source code. It's one thing to say you're open source, provide all your source for each release, but develop in private. It's another thing to say you're open source, develop in private, and not release the source code to your released software.
How does that disagree with the parent's point?
> The linked message says zero about the reason beyond a simple direct voting.

The linked message is a single posting from thousands to an internal message list, of course it doesn't. A quick search for "git" on the PHP internals list shows lots of posts.

> So, for no reason they decided to have a voting and ignore the reasons why people vote whatever they did?

Jumping to conclusions much?
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