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Steve Jobs dead
In an official CBS Twitter account, it has tweeted a false report that Steve Jobs dead.

According to reports, CBS CBS web series “What’s Trending” set off an Internet panic when it tweeted that there were reports that Apple Chairman and founder Steve Jobs had died.

Fortunately the tweet posted by CBS was wrong, Steve Jobs is NOT dead.

Steve Jobs who resigned as CEO of last month appears to be so thing in his photos after resignation posted to various news site.

“What’s Trending” deleted the tweet about a minute later, but the rumor had already been propelled into the Twitterverse by some of its 11,000 followers.

The tweet was sent by the official Twitter account used by "What's Trending," a CBS show hosted by Shira Lazar
After CBS removed the tweet, the company sent another one: "Reports of Steve Job's (sic) death completely unconfirmed."

Read more: http://www.newtechie.com/2011/09/cbs-false-report-steve-jobs-dead.html
They should make it count down to the Amazon Clock Apocalypse in 12012.
Or you can take the hardcore approach, make your own CMS, your own SQLite database, search system, comments system, sharing functions, etc.. from scratch. On the plus side, I never have to install WP security updates! ;)
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Perhaps if the article were more accurate - "Microsoft developer releases side project into the wild" - this would be better received?

The Garage is a loose collective of people building things in their spare time. It's not a formal organization and people who work on Garage projects come from all over the world. Those who are drawn to ambitious side projects would probably fit in pretty well here. Kudos to this project for maturing as far as it has!
I disagree, it's perfectly possible. My side project started last year and I didn't quit until my revenues matched my salary. Now I'm on course for 250-300K in revenue this year. You just need to scale the startup appropriately. An groupon competitor just is not appropriate for a bootstrapped startup, in my opinion. Whereas something like an iphone game definitely is.
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From the video it doesn't sound like 20% time ("nights and weekends")
This "increase with seniority" that's so common in the US makes no sense to me. (At my current job at the kindof-sortof-federal government, I get 12 days as a new employee.) Do newly-hireds work less hard and need less time to relax?

Plus, since the time to max out usually is quite long, it really penalizes people who switch jobs (which I guess is what you get when the vacation policies are set for the good of the employer as opposed to the employee).
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I use `..` to go upper directory, `...` to go up two levels, I added this to bashrc:

str='..'
level='./../'
for i in `seq 1 10`;
do
eval "alias '$str=cd $level'"
level=$level'../'
str=$str'.'
done

Note, seq is not available in Mac, should use jot instead.
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It's well known that !! is a sweet little helper in case where you forgot to sudo a command. However, I find that for those cases I usually use `Up-arrow CTRL-A` to get the previous command and then go to the beginning of the line where I can type `sudo`. Is there any reason to prefer the !! variant?
An observation.

There's a bizarre inconsistency in the videos coming out of Microsoft. The video for this (pretty bleeding cool) evening-and-weekend side-project couldn't sell anything, but that's not the point. The Mango video[1] looks and sounds pretty good, like it was made by professionals. But their Windows 8 videos[2][3] are unbelievably slipshod. This is so counterintuitive.

Obviously, the Mango video is intended to give some dearly-needed promotion to a fledgling product in a fiercely competitive market. But Windows is their flagship product! The [3] Win8 video was watched by 10x as many people as the [1] Mango video, so obviously these early Win8 previews are getting a lot of buzz. But the more recent [2] Win8 video shows only subtle, insignificant improvements over the earlier [3] video (the sound is better-recorded).

I would love to know why such little care is given to the public unveiling of a product that's tremendously important to their customers, and their bottom line, while absolute TLC is showered on something that doesn't even have a foothold in the market. They obviously have the tools and talent to do better, so someone decided not to exert the effort. This fascinates me.

[1] Mango: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP30F3ZxTmw

[2] Win8 boot time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ia3zBs42cc

[3] Win8 metro preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I
commandline and vim have easily got the most powerful, yet the most rage-inducing key mappings – ever.

The worst, and most easily rectifiable aspect is the way command pairs (eg move back/forward a word) require two totally separate commands (esc + b/esc + f) instead of having one command + a generic 'reverse' meta key.

In the future I hope someone has the balls to do away with this legacy tripe and popularise some more Donald-Normanesque keyboard shortcuts.
THere is an app called .PyPad that features a working implementation of Python, although it lacks any IDE features except interactive mode.
I agree with this sentiment. I like that Emacs has one language for its plugin and extension architecture as opposed to Vim's duck tape system of whatever language you want.

Elisp may not be the best at everything but as an editor scripting language it's quite great.
When I was at MSFT there was an internal tool call Magic Mouse that did what Mouse without Borders does. Magic Mouse had encryption so I would venture a guess that Mouse without Borders does as well.
The physics community was already converging on the special theory of relativity when Einstein published it. All the signs were there --and had been for quite a while--, but someone needed to add 1 + 1 together and accept the implications. Einstein did that and his explication was very clear, making it immediately undeniable (which doesn't mean that it didn't take some time for people to acknowledge that). However, if he hadn't, one of dozens of others would have. The time was ripe and the evidence was clear.

When Einstein published the General Theory only 2 other
people were able to understand it.

This is an urban legend. There were dozens of people that immediately understood it and hundreds that understood it after some additional explanation. That doesn't mean they accepted it in the absence of experimental confirmation.

However, the General theory was a far greater achievement than the Special theory, because the idea of mass influencing the geometry of space-time was far less obvious and it may have been a decade before anyone else would have investigated that possibility. Nevertheless: someone else would have come up with it. Einstein was no greater than any of the other great physicists of the time, who each had brilliant idea. Einstein just happened to have one that became widely known.
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This is a real problem, if you're from the school that believes that processes can crash. But it is also an issue if you believe it is possible to overload a single process on a machine where multiple processes could better handle the load. Nodejs runs a single v8 instance on a machine, or if you're running multiple ones in parallel they don't really cooperate as they aren't really aware of each other. So, if one gets behind its hard for the others to take up the slack.

Here's a concurrent answer to this problem, that a future nodejs version might consider adopting (and is the basis of the nirvana web platform I'm building):

Distribute requests across a series of javascript virtual machines running on a collection of compute nodes. Multiple vm processes per node, and multiple nodes per cluster.

Thus, if any one V8 process dies for whatever reason, you don't lose many requests.

In fact, I believe losing even one request due to the crashing of a V8 process, would be considered a bug.

My solution to this involves using erlang at a fundamental level to distribute load, and passing the requests off to various instances of a Javascript Virtual Machines to handle the requests. The web developer writes their application in coffeescript or javascript, and the platform takes care of distribution, concurrency, etc.

The downside of this, of course, is that given that js isn't a really concurrent language, there is a bit of an impedance mismatch... but I find that this is equal to or less than the hassle of dealing with event driven code in the first place.

If you're interested in my solution, we should hit alpha soon after Riak (the underlying platform) hits 1.0 later this month. Follow me on twitter for updates @nirvanacore (that twitter account only talks about the web platform, no noise.)
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If you need a bit more, that is, todo lists, planning, etc. while keeping a way to easily edit text documents, you also have Org-Mode http://orgmode.org/

Do not try to setup Org-Mode if you are new to Emacs, you will feel a bit overwhelmed (at least I was), but once you get used to Emacs and Org-Mode, it is a pleasure to use it. I use it for GTD, day planner and notes taking like here: http://notes.ceondo.com
I used Vim for a quite a few years before switching to Emacs and I was fairly proficient at it. Although similar to Unix and Emacs it would take a lifetime or more to know everything about it. I still use Vi(m) today when logged in to a remote server or for small editing tasks, but the more advanced usage has slipped from my memory... I don't even know how to use keyboard macros anymore.

There's one big 'if' to my Vim usage which made me want to try out new editors: I never really like the modal editing paradigm.

Upon getting interested in Common Lisp I switched to Emacs because I also wanted to be able to use ILISP (Slime nowadays). Once I made some customizations and implemented some ideas which I thought would be cool for an editor to have I never looked back[1]. Modern day IDEs haven't really been able to impress me either and Emacs' customization language being a Lisp was a pro as well.

However, I have customized a lot of my keybindings. While the basic editing commands are okayish the more complex "chords" are hideous and all the additional modes add more and more complex chords. By custom there's one prefix ("C-c" IIRC) behind which the user can put his own keybindings but I just ignore that and override everything to fit my keybindings.

(Even more fun: I recently decided to change my keybindings to fit in more with the more custom keybindings found in other applications found on Unix, Windows and Mac: Ctrl-o for opening a file, Ctrl-f for search, Ctrl-r for replace, Ctrl-w for closing a window/tab/buffer, etc. etc. It's not been too bad actually and seems like a keeper.)

I've never found it hard to switch between them (apart from the occasional 'ZZ' in Emacs) just like it's never been hard to switch between QWERTY and Dvorak for me.

[1] Being able to customize and try out new things without have to recompile or even restart is very nice. (ie. the Lisp way)
Neal Stephenson's novel, "Anathem", was partly inspired by this clock.
Depending on what you want to do, Riak is a NoSQL database that uses javascript for map/reduce.

erlang_js is a competing javascript VM (embeds spidermonkey)

And I'm working on a new web platform based on Riak that allows the developer to write their apps in coffeescript and I use erlang (and parts of riak) to distribute the load around a cluster of machines each of which is running multiple javascript virtual machines. (But this is not yet released... follow @nirvanacore on twitter if you wish to keep up to date.)
I have the following in my zshrc for sudo. It adds sudo at the beginning of the current line or writes sudo !! if the current line is empty. I've aliased it to alt+s

run-with-sudo() {
if [[ -z $LBUFFER ]]; then
LBUFFER="sudo !!";
else
LBUFFER="sudo $LBUFFER";
fi
};
zle -N run-with-sudo;
bindkey '\es' run-with-sudo
If a single web site will be responsible for the backlash against a/b testing it will be Amazon. The amount of cruft is mind-boggling, so much in fact that I used a custom CSS to make it usable again.

Here's how the page for a single book looks like when comparing Amazon's with my own CSS:
http://imgur.com/a/lhWr5

Yes, it's the same page.
But that is the point of the graph - to show the ratio of history that has happened has happened recently. Or in other words, the point is not to show the growth patterns, but to show the nominal value.
Actually, Bill Gates has simply built gates and extracted a toll for using them. His products were rarely acceptable alternatives if evaluated on their own merits and sold largely because of strong-arm deals with the OEMs.

Gates is a tremendous example of modern capitalism - ie leveraging regulatory capture. Microsoft, as an unneeded but forcibly installed middleman, has been a drain on the economy. Broken windows for everyone.
"All employees at MSFT get more than one machine connected to many screens"

Just out of curiosity, why does everyone need more than one machine?
I think there's a lot of potential here. If it grows a lot, I could see a lot of cool things you could do with the data. I'd definitely be interested in reading a blog sort of like OkTrends (http://blog.okcupid.com/) for personal goals.

Also, I wasn't able to access any of the forum posts. I wasn't redirected to the login page, so I'm not sure what's wrong.

Good Luck!
Agreed. And it annoys the hell out of me if I fire up my Android browser and end up on a Hebrew home page, again.

Somehow I thought that we already had a mechanism to negotiate the language between server and browser. Ah well, let's just ignore Accept-Language, shall we?
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I've been in charge of tech interviews at a large corporation. We quickly discovered that people lie on their resumes, like listing technologies they really only know how to spell. After that I stopped reading the resumes. We're looking for a candidate with a certain skill set, it doesn't really matter where you went to school, or where you worked. It's not like we will skip the whole technical interview if you worked at google. So we ask the same questions, and see who does better.

The only downside is that previous candidates would leak our questions to recruiters, who, in turn, would leak them to the new candidates.
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Same in IL - came from DE with 28 days, now I'm down to 18 and that's considered generous..
> to do
Different audience.
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It would be interesting to know if you have anything to add or remove from your ideas for startups.
I think the key thing about Org-mode is to not read the documentation. All you need to start is stars and the tab key. The docs have a way of dumping keybindings onto you. Org mode has a lot of features --- don't try to read the manual through. Just start using it and every time you think of a feature you would like, look it up in the manual.
That is nice explanation. As our ancestors used to say - Clarity is an evidence. ^_^

There is another simple point - who on earth will ever publish a study which proves that the whole ready food and fast food industry makes us sick, that the whole idea of office work (and driving a car!) is deeply wrong and that just vegetarian diet and regular exercise, e.g. agriculture work, and community of our equals is what we need because it defines what we are? ^_^

Of course, the study that shows that common sense has some sense will never be widely pushed through media. First, who will give you money to prove things that everyone knew but forgot? And corporations, who need to push more crap to get more profit, will stop it on very early stage, because that is the best strategy for them.

So, yes, diet, exercise and proper state of the mind (avoidance of stress, attachments, passions) together makes us healthy and younger, but people knew this for aeons without any Wikipedia articles. ^_^
Joomla has very extensive community issues. I've written a bit about it over here[1] and you can check out Johan Janssens (Joomla co-founder in exile) blog[2] for more in-depth analysis. The bottom line is - take a look at Nooku[3] - especially if you're looking for a framework that makes sense (a corresponding CMS is underway).

[1]http://valanx.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti...
[2]http://johan.janssens.me/
[3]http://nooku.org/
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The major Microsoft products are Windows and Office.

Windows is a better corporate OS than any of the alternatives and Office is an awesome piece of software by any standard.
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While this is mainly about technical issues, it does mention Acquia/Dries, so I'll give my 2 cents to that part:

There is a lot of FUD these days about Dries and Acquia's role in Drupal. Dries wrote some blogposts that try to answer the most common questions people have.

The criticism about the bug count explosion in Drupal has already been addresses with an "Issue queue thresholds for Drupal core":

http://buytaert.net/issue-queue-thresholds-for-drupal-core

The role of Acquia in all of this: "Does Acquia suck up all the Drupal talent?":

http://buytaert.net/does-acquia-suck-up-all-the-drupal-talen...

"Why Acquia acquired Cyrve and GVS":

http://buytaert.net/why-acquia-acquired-cyrve-and-gvs

Full disclosure: I work for Acquia. Not directly on the Drupal codebase, but I have a tech position. They really are a good people with the best intensions for the community and Drupal. They try to give back by e.g. free trainings, sponsoring camps and hackathons, having "gardening days" where people work on anything (old modules, new modules, core bugs, ...) that they think is needs some work, free hosting for any Drupal community project/blog/website and many many things more.
Yeah, this article seriously rubs me the wrong way. The tone throughout is "Rich Nerd Buys Cool Toy." And in that context a lot of the talk about the clock's "greater purpose" comes off as bootlicking.

If I were Bezos, I'd be particularly upset about what the writer puts into his mouth about the Gates Foundation and other charities - "Well, Bill Gates has already cured AIDS and malaria, so all that's left for me is to build a fuck-off huge clock!"
> This is an urban legend

This is true, I stand corrected. However outside of Hilbert and Einstein no one was looking at Reimannian Geometry for answers.

> The physics community was already converging on the special theory of relativity

They had the Lorentz equations for decades but were not getting anywhere close to the final result apart from Poincare. And even Poincare inspite of getting almost all equations lined up, seemed to miss the fact that there is no absolute time and that time is only partially and not totally ordered. Einstein hit the nail on the head inspite of the fact that Lorentz/Poincare had been working on the problem for possibly decades. It still seems likely that Poincare could have arrived at the result.

This is the reason I cited GR. As far as I know, no one apart from Einstein/Hilbert seemed to ave been working on it.

In hindsight special relativity was "obvious", but Maxwell's equations had been around for decades and the Lorentz transforms emerged in 1887 and yet no one was able to make the mental leap required to re-interpret the nature of Time. SR could have ended up taking decades more to sort out. Einstein hit the ball out of the park in his 20s when the scientists working on the problem had spent decades on it. And GR could have only followed after SR.
I have the feeling that hard work on browser is still a bad idea.
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You might consider reading http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/popper_falsification.htm... before making comments like this in the future.
They don't. Perhaps all devs get more than one machine, but not every employee ("blue badge") gets a 2nd or more system. My sole company-issued computer is a ThinkPad.

Note: I'm in Ops at MSFT.
In terms of lines-of-code "maintained" per day, yes. In terms of actual constructs debugged, I doubt it.
Have you considered these aspects:

Issue #1: Singapore MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
Although your company is in Delaware you are running a business operation in Singapore, for which I'm sure you don't have a work permit, as you are in Singapore as a student.

Issue #2: Singapore MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore) I'm willing to bet these guys would want to get clarifications about what you are doing. You are running what could fit either the Security Exchange category or the Gambling Establishment category. I assume you are not registered for neither of them.

Issue #3: Citibank Singapore
You are receiving business payments into your personal bank account at Citibank in Singapore. Again, I'm willing to bet somewhere on the Terms & Conditions you signed when you opened your account, it says you cannot use the account for business.

Note that in Singapore, failing to solve any of the 3 issues could result in:
#1 - Your student visa being revoked
#2 - Legal prosecution

I'm surprised that you having lived in Singapore don't know how strict the Singapore government would be about something like this. I can tell that you are technically gifted but I think your 2 'adult partners' really ought to have informed you about these issues.
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Wow...I am really glad Ford decided to do this. There is a huge advertising market in radio right now that a potential partnership between Ford and Spotify will expose. For people will no access to smartphones/data plans, this will finally be a chance for them to listen to what they want whenever they want on the road!
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> Actually, Bill Gates has simply built gates and extracted a toll for using them. His products were rarely acceptable alternatives if evaluated on their own merits and sold largely because of strong-arm deals with the OEMs.

While I have cited Bill Gates as a weaker contributor than Einstein/Gandhi, I think you are being far too critical here and missing a few key things. The fundamental insight that Bill Gates had was that software is king and the hardware is the add on. Even Steve Jobs credited Bill for the insight at D5. All other competing OSes at the time were a hardware and software bundle. Bill realized that what was of essence was the software and the hardware wasn't as important. He licensed the software and commoditized the hardware industry into a fierce race to the bottom that saw PC prices dropping every month. If Apple/Amiga had won that round we would be spending a couple of grand on a PC even to this day and poorer economies wouldn't have been able to afford computers as freely as they do now.
Sounds like what they need is a wycats type figure to ride into the breach and clean house for them. Rails could easily have ended up in this situation if it weren't for the efforts of yehuda, and obviously others.