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This is different than "people should write their operating systems to proactively disallow installation of non-free software."

Note that the FSF even produces and distributes builds for Windows. Here's an example: http://www.gnu.org/s/mit-scheme . Most FSF projects that don't produce Windows builds directly provide information on where they can be found.

Stallman may not want people raising the profile of proprietary software, but he certainly doesn't advocate cathedral-style control of a users' computing platform.
First time I've heard etiquette equated with ethics.
It's rather plain. And the font is too small.
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This would not necessarily affect back end development as you would still want high availability for the application by using an active-active setup across two availability zones in EC2.

With regard to your question on data structures, yes - they would have to change. MySQL and most other databases use b-trees since they were meant to live on disk. Just running MySQL on memsistor-backed storage would result in a considerable waste of CPU and storage capacity (b-trees are not very compact).

Running a database like MemSQL on memsistors would make the most sense since it uses data structures meant for DRAM.
Isn't it quite easy to block USB storage devices at the OS level? I mean hiding the stick is clever, but it shouldn't really matter. If you only allow HID devices, the mouse still works without getting access to the data on the stick.
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Since you are probably not privy to your employers actual financials, there is no point speculating.

Just go ahead and ask. If they tell you there's no money, or that they think they're already paying you enough, try to negotiate a re-evaluation in 3 to 6 months.

Decide for yourself if you can live with not getting a raise. Negotiating directly with the CFO beats negotiating with him through an HR person.
Is there a version that doesn't reside on facebook.com?
It was amazing to watch him write the flawless LISP code.

The project itself is interesting, but very niche.
Shoulda used Kickstarter. Preorders like this are their bread and butter.
past chance to edit: my timeline is out. I think I was on 60GB for 3 years or so, not 1-2. I can't quite recall, but the increase was slower than the above comment suggests
> Try and explain how to boot a MacBookPro from USB stick to someone

You hold down the Option key while booting.

> Or explain how to dual boot a Mac with OSX and Linux

Install rEFIt (comes in a nice, standard OS X installer package), use the nice GUI Bootcamp or Disk Utility apps to make a partition, insert the Linux CD, reboot while holding down C.

If you're incapable of following these instructions, I seriously doubt you can manage to boot from a USB stick or dual-boot Windows and Linux on any typical PC.
One issue with Paypal's microfinance stuff is that you have to have a separate account for that. I see a fair number of $4.99 sales, but also a fair number of $50 sales, and in practice I have to have two accounts, which is probably against some internal TOS. However, it's a risk I take right now, as I'd be paying hundreds of dollars more running everything through one account otherwise. It would be nicer if they'd just give you the lower rate for lower priced purchases.
I wasn't even aware there was a contest.

But, for the sake of argument, let's say, it wasn't over, and I didn't submit anything. Does it mean I can't criticize it? With that kind of "argument" you can dismiss pretty much any professional art critic.
Wikipedia disagrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-intermediate

"In computational complexity, problems that are in the complexity class NP but are neither in the class P nor NP-complete are called NP-intermediate"

"Under the assumption that P ≠ NP, Ladner explicitly constructs a problem in NPI, however this problem is artificial and otherwise uninteresting. It is an open question whether any "natural" problem has the same property."
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If you like this you may want to check Fluxus.

http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/projects-using-fluxus/

And impromptu:
http://impromptu.moso.com.au/
Off-peak times vary betweem ISPs. But you can also vote with your wallet. I'm with Internode, which is a little more expensive, but they don't have peak/off-peak (among other advantages, for me at least)
Carrying around and insisting on using your own mouse is more plausible than doing the same with an extension cable.
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I didn't read anything about being kept from "using, developing, and supporting free software".

I did read: "Even though I contribute to the open source world in my own small way and see the importance of it, I find myself caring less and less about the philosophy behind it".

Please enlighten us, what level of support would you deem acceptable? Anything less than complete and exclusive acceptance of the goals of the FSF?

I'm sure a middle road exists.
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That'll probably fit into a suitably modified _cable_...
Mostly off-topic, but...

>The reason we mourn when a loved one dies is precisely because that means they are gone.

Not true! If I knew my close friend or family member was moving to a remote location such that I'd never see or hear from them again, I'd be sad but it would be a lot less sad than if they died. When someone dies, we don't just mourn the loss of their interactions we us (wouldn't that be a bit selfish?), we mourn the fact that they are aren't experiencing life anymore.
The thing that really hits home with me (and is important to the tech world in general) is that a products success isn't driven by what people say they want. It's driven by the unsaid wants. We should strive to give the customer what they want but dont realize that they want. Of course, companies today are struggling to even give the customers what they want (ahem dell, hp, any pc manufacturer today)
Interesting how his command line glows and shows CRT-like distortions. Is that actually how it looks, or is that post-processing applied to the video?
thank you for being so honest.

A full answer would take a whole book, but could you outline what part of the process was unwieldy, and what you had to rewrite as you learned more about the user experience?

In particular, since you are using WPF, would you have altered your prototyping process so that it was more user experience focussed?
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I'm visiting the bay area for SiValley CodeCamp, what are the must see destinations before I head back to FL tomorrow? I was excited to see the highway signs for Cupertino and Mountain view, but don't wanna just drive aimlessly after the conference :)
This is great. Thank you. If you're interested in this stuff, also take a look at ChucK, a project out of Princeton's CS & Music departments. I've been extremely happy with its results when generating backgrounds for videos, for instance.

http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu
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oh, my. If Google doesn't capitalize on that when Go 2.x DOES hit the streets, I'll be very disappointed.

Well played.
I think it's a little of column A and a little of column B.
"Customers cannot tell you what they need."

Don't tell the lean startup guys that.
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The open source world will also be better off when everyone stops using the word "FUD". It's a knee jerk term that allows the speaker to ignore criticism as lies. I am speaking from experience. The sound issue happened to me about two years ago. About six months ago I tried dual booting Linux on my MacBook and couldn't get it to shut down without hanging.

You're making my point. I (someone who works in the software industry) had a problem with a piece of open source software. If the open source world is going to go mainstream, the reaction can't be "That's FUD." It has to be "That's unacceptable, we need to fix this immediately."

Don't do it for me. If I decide the tradeoff of effort vs. benefit is worthwhile, I can eventually resolve the problem myself. Do it for my mom, who just wants the printer to work so she can print handouts for her students. Do it for your grandparents who just want to check their email and look at their grandkid's pictures. Or just tell me I'm an anti-open source propagandist and dismiss me.

I've made my decision. Computers are made for people, not people for computers.
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It is common that fugitives, American citizens, are shot dead. For example, last week Aaron Bassler was shot dead in northern California [1].

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/02/us-fugitive-califo...
If on OSX, you may be interested in this:

http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
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For the purpose of the video, it was probably transcribed from existing code.
The purpose of "copyfighting" and undermining traditional publishing via technology was to liberate writers from the establishment. Now it appears that the real end result is to make writers dependent on wealthy patrons or on the fickleness of the mob.

The author of the article points out:

> Many aspiring writers fantasize about the audience they’d find if interlopers like publishers and agents would stop coming between them and the reading public. Publishers, they complain, fixate too much on superficial assets like a mediagenic face or personality, influential connections, an established name or a promotional “platform” instead of just concentrating on literary merit.

> To judge by what works on Kickstarter, however, democracy won’t offer any improvement. Those flashy garnishes are exactly what the public cares about. The most successful book projects have an already-established audience, an attractive creator, a high-concept premise and/or an affiliation with someone famous. Above all, as Rob Walker observed in the New York Times, a stand-out video presentation is crucial to sealing the Kickstarter deal.

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I own 3 Steelcase Leap chairs (previously owned an Aeron and didn't care for it). The one I'm sitting in now, I've owned since 1999. It's survived 4 cross country moves and numerous transports to job sites and back.

I originally bought one for work (as I didn't like the "ergonomic" chairs that the company I was at provided) and liked it so much that I eventually got another for my home office and my wife got one as well.
Wasn't that better? And it communicated
substantively the same thing

Personally I'm tired of people kissing ass and sucking cock, delivering shit in chocolate coating with a cherry on top.

No, that isn't better and it does not communicate the same thing.
The irony is, the core of reality TV is not to show reality. Everything is exaggerated, every prejudice about "Startup Junkies" will be exploited until there is nothing left.
I'm guessing he had emacs open in a "Cathode":http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ session. The extra warping at the end of the video can be achieved by fiddling with the "distress" parameters in Cathode's preferences.
So you're after short-term profits instead of long-term gains? Supporting a locked-in system now strengthens that system, but supporting an open system may take longer to get to 'effortless', but you'll be able to do more down the track.
Sounds excellent - would love to create an ObjC server/client library to take advantage of this!
Also, Tornado, which may be twice as fast:

http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado/browse_thread/...
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Sounds like you are against pretty much all forms of public protest, due to 'inconveniencing'.
Are you talking about RMS or about Jobs?
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Agree that it wasn't the product. The product had a very vocal, loyal following.

But it wasn't just 'marketing'. They'd touched a massive audience. Many just didn't 'get it'.
The show wasn't meant to have universal appeal. Certainly not the generic sitcom audience. Especially not on a large network.

This brings up a vital question lots of companies often have to face. What happens when growth declines, but you still have a powerful following?

Stir up a little controversy. (2.5 men) Re-brand for expansion. (syfy, cougar town), Give up on the current business model, perhaps try a new one & cut down costs. (dvd sales, movie -- arrested dev. as an example) etc.
Every one who's ever treated me (or others I've been around) this way has failed miserably, mostly due to this type of character flaw.

What this says to me is that Steve grew out of this just in time and with a little luck and a lot of self improvement, became better. Good on him.
Can you point out the way Jobs try to called troll the non iDevice products?
Cool, thanks a lot for the recommendations, I'll check it out!
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Yes, but that isn't necessarily a good enough safeguard. See bigiain's comment about the USB Rubber Ducky... It would take more than a simple USB stick, but a device like that could disguise itself as a keyboard or mouse. Even if you blocked new disk volumes or something, a device emulating a keyboard could send keyboard signals to, say, open a terminal and copy files to/from a remote location.
This is just one of Apple's ways to deal with a patent troll. Why are people not seeing this? Everyone hates patents here but as long as they exist these kinds of ridiculous patents will be filed. No need to rail against Apple (or even Steve) here.
Now I'd like to mention a pitfall: Just because it works for product development don't mean it makes sense for customer service/support/retail and similar job where there is not a product with a clear design to create and perfect, in which case direct top-down control don't make sense. For example, Apple was guilty of making this mistake in response to Mac Defender. (see http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apple-to-support-reps-do-not-... for an article describing this)
Though probably not the same extension cable he was talking about, it reminded me of this article from back in 2008:
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/usbkey

Which spawned a commercial item that ThinkGeek sold for a time, and Bruce Schneier talked about in this post:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/12/disguised_usb_...
Going by death count, political purges in officially atheist communist nations

Be careful how you phrase this - these purges were not done in the name of atheism. They do not compare 'death from atheism' to 'death from religion'. It's an important distinction that needs to be made.
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This pdf (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/theory/complexity/ipchap.pdf) which is a draft chapter from a book by Arora and Barak, shows that if GI is NP-complete, then the polynomial hierarchy collapses to the second level. Collapse to the first level is when NP=coNP. So this is slightly weaker even than that.
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I am not sure I totally get the author's point. Many commercial compilers had already implemented and shipped many of the optimizations later found in GCC before GCC did, although these compilers were often for a different class of machine than the average desktop Linux PC.

Is he saying that GCC implemented them just as they became viable on lower end hardware?
You don't get it - it's not only about content, it's also about identity.

It's about owning your own domain such that links spread through the web (that also added to your ranking in search engines) will not be invalidated when shit happens.

Your content should be your property, including the URL as that's an important part of said content and comments too.
Very nice! It doesn't feel to me that it's really hidden though, since plugging it in will give everything away.

How about a hidden switch on the mouse without which the USB stick isn't connected to the hub? Or how about a mercury switch that will only connect the USB stick when the mouse is upside-down? Not quite as good but less likely to be detected.
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What an excellent way to make your point: with an ad hominem attack!
And I stick by my point.

I can't control the weather, earthquakes, the financial system, or other cars on the highway.

I can take actions to protect / advance myself and my interests, particularly if I've got a deeper understanding of what's going on and why.

Don't buy or rent in flood zones, slide-prone hillsides, or fill. Keep my sleeping area free of objects that might fall on me. Drive sanely, buckle up, get a car with airbags, keep a defensive distance between myself and other vehicles, avoid vehicles that appear to be rolling risks (unsecured loads, generally poor maintenance, cell phone usage, erratic driving patterns). If stocks look to be at a long-term high and are at a period of decades of continuous growth (as they were in the late 1990s), odds are good that gross appreciation is going to be minimal (as it has been from ~1999 - 2011 ... and counting). If peak oil is true and its implications bear out, living closer to where your life happens (work, home, recreation, shopping) is going to be more sensible than having a 100 mile daily commute.

If a company consistently appears to base its actions on the interests of its OEMs and business partners, rather than its end-users, shun its products (Microsoft, among many others).

Sure, you could just not care. But applying some reasonable intelligence to the process offers benefits.

It's helpful to operate on the assumption that others don't care. Shouldn't mean that you should adopt that approach yourself.
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Do I have to enable Java to use jsPerf?
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If going with this means adopting a specialized library with its own format, sticking with a fixed schema, and giving up human readable formatting, why not go whole hog and use protocol buffers instead? It'd be cheaper to convert and store.
To add to this, there is a false perception of paypal's actions due to excessive visibility of one half of the equation. Paypal has to deal with fraud, phishing, money laundering, international organized crime, etc. Overwhelmingly every aspect of that is hidden from the public. No fraudster is going to make a post on reddit of how paypal shut them down. And paypal isn't going to publicize it because of legal issues. So all we have are these little glimpses of people who have no experience with merchant accounts being affected by these anti-fraud policies and everyone sympathizes because somehow it's become normal to assume that worldwide digital money transfers should be hassle-free and inexpensive.

Paypal isn't perfect, but the biggest reason why so many people are upset with it is because there isn't a suitable substitute.
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Interesting. Seems like a rare instance of increased computing power hurting individual programmer productivity.

Then again increased computing power in general enables more complex software with more specializes software. I have heard that Safari is the product of a very small team, but that's the exception.
I think I’m justified in saying that someone is clueless about communication if that person honestly believes that a statement by a very public spokesperson in any public place – no matter how obscure – will or should remain obscure.

That’s not how communication works. Sorry.

I thought that was sort of implied by my comment, no need to explicitly say it, because it’s so damn obvious. But I’m sorry if you though that my comment was nothing but an attack.
Hi HN,

I've been working on this thing for a good eight weeks now. I've written a little bit about it on my blog[1] as well. If you'd check it out and give me your honest feedback I would really appreciate it. Everything is fully functional, so if you want to sign up and give it a whirl that'd be great too.

[1]: http://bugsplat.info/2011-10-08-remindlyo-is-a-go.html
In principle you could do even more clever things, such as powering up ports on the hub based on external conditions, or timing, or counters. The sky's the limit.

Imagine a storage device that only enumerated when it was upside down, or in darkness, or at 2:30AM-2:35AM on Thursdays, or at just above freezing?

I wonder how large the market for something like this is?
I'm not following your logic, how does this help them against patent trolls?
I'm reminded of this SMBC cartoon: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1898
I have been told by people at PayPal that there is no issue with having multiple accounts for this purpose, and by someone high up in the digital products division that they are working on unifying the process. (In fact, I believe they already are with the new adaptive payments flow, but I haven't had time to look into it yet. I am totally willing to believe that they haven't gotten to it yet.)

On that note, however, if you are doing US transactions, Amazon Flexible Payments is amazing: the fees are, again, worst case, the Stripe fees, but they automatically select the payment bracket that makes the most sense for the transaction at hand; they can scale transactions down to fractions of a cent.

More importantly, with Amazon Flexible Payments, they charge you a different amount of money depending on how the money was transferred: their risk profile is different for credit cards, bank transfers, and account-to-account movement, and they expose this directly to you, decreasing the costs for less risky transactions.

(Of course, unlike PayPal and Stripe, Flexible Payments isn't quite as integrated a solution: they do not support things like card-present transactions, for example, and require all purchases to go through their payment flow.)
Why do people keep doing this to JSON?
This is the second news related to Paypal disappointments I have seen today. I am taking this as a sign, and for our project we are going to be removing support for payments via Paypal.

The Paypal related discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3087322
It is trying to appease this exact demand that has saddled the modern world with spineless, do-nothing politicians, who have a teflon public face which doesn't reflect how they actually govern.
Yeah, exactly. On the other hand, are there any good JavaScript implementations of serialization formats like Thrift/Protobufs?

Any new project like this that wants to be taken seriously should really provide metrics comparing both wire size and decode speed (ideally in 2 or 3 browsers) versus (at least):

* Raw JSON
* Gzipped JSON
* Protobufs or some similar format