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Without Linux, maybe Free Software would now be forgotten. Without RMS, maybe nothing like Linux would ever have existed.

Both RMS and Linus changed the world; I'd argue they've both changed it considerably for the better.

Why does it have to be just one or the other?
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Watch Puss In Boots Online is written by Tom Wheeler and David H. Steinberg which is produced by Latifa Ouaou, Joe M. Aguilar, Andrew Adamson, Michelle Raimo, and Guillermo del Toro. This is edited by Eric Dapkewicz, under DreamWorks Animation studio, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. This movie is due to be release on the 28th of October, 2011 in IMAX 3D and Real D 3D.
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Ok, so I'm Bulgarian, male. Life expectancy 69 years - 10+ years less than the average for the western world.
Poor me...
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If you are looking at Thrift, you should take a look at ZeroMQ too: http://www.zeromq.org
ZeroMQ provides only ways to send/receive messages over several transport mechanisms (sockets on steroids) and address them to specific clients. It does not define what is the content of the messages, so you can send JSON/BSON/Protocol Buffer or whatever you come up with.

I work with it every day and it is a pleasure every single day.
Japanese parliament hacked
I wouldn't mind a Chrome/Firefox extension to play around with extended CSS, but in production, I'm on the side of higher performance in Web Browser, which comes from simple style syntax.
Nikon interested in buying WebOS from HP (rumor)?
My lecturer would explode if he saw this.
Or how about you produce a module, I see the module, recognise that I could make it substantially better, but with a non-legligeable investment of time. I would like to be compensated for making the software better, or I'm simply not going to bother. I, as a developer, do not have the right to develop a module of software that uses a GPLed module of software, and then sell it as closed source (to stop someone else from packaging up my work and distributing it for free).

Yes, if you've released your software under the GPL, collecting money by granting access to it in exchange for money is not a feasible business model. There are other ways, though. Think along the lines of providing support. You could also sign a contract in advance, exchanging a GPL application for a mountain of cold hard cash.

What threats? What do you think the GPL is? It's a threat to use legal remedies if you don't play by the rules of the GPL. Without that implicit threat, we could just ignore the GPL as a rather boring piece of irrelevant text.

This is true of any contract or license. I've not heard the FSF or Stallman argue for the abolishment of contract law.
Security Charlatans Making Money Off Wikipedia
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dont forget to count the fallen..
Could this explain the dreams and desires of the formal owner after a transplant?
display:table / display:table-row / display:table-cell ?
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I've found that SES is pretty vague for managing complaints against the sender. The metrics that this provide are useful, because someone with limited technical skill can monitor complaints and adjust course. If the email system you're writing provides an admin UI to change the particulars (from email, subject, various headers), then complaint management and tweaking can all be done without a coder.
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As a new customer of SendGrid, I'd be VERY interested in this. More specifically, I'd like to learn about possible integrations with Mailchimp and SendGrid. Sendgrid is super cheap and allows me the ultimate flexibility in email customisation, but I'd like to be able to use the boss-friendly UI and advanced segmenting features of Mailchimp (w/o having to write it -badly - myself).

Many of our email campaigns turned out to not need extensive customisations, which is why we started off doing it in-house. I'd much rather let the business folks be responsible for turning off/no campaigns than having to wait for me. Plus that darn chimp is cute!
If I am to judge by your other reply to me in this thread, you yourself know that it's quite deceitful to say that I can charge money for GPLed software. Yes I can charge money, but I'm obliged to supply the tools needed so that any half-competent programmer can undercut me by 100%, meaning that I can't actually receive money by selling my software, because you can always download the same software legally for free.
Agreed. Readability version: http://www.readability.com/articles/vbcgecjs
yeah, it is quite a bit roundabout, and it gets tricky when you start organizing your code into separate files. But it is way easier than retyping. That might be a downside for eduction, but I don't think it is a terrible tradeoff compared to the retyping that you point out.

I am so pumped that it reminds you of homecomputers though, that is the way the ipad should be, not a closed box that you can only play games on.
Poll: Your preferred music for working?
What's your preferred music for working? (whatever you class as 'doing work', be that hacking or designing or just normal office/bureaucratic stuff)

This poll is entirely to judge opinions, not to find the 'best' music for working.

(Feel free to vote for more than one if you work with more then one kind of music.)
"Classical" (Medieval, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th/21st Century, etc.)
Jazz (Ragtime, Early Jazz, Bebop, Swing, Cool, Modal, etc.)
Rock-and-roll
Classic Rock
Hard Rock
Geek pop (Jonathan Coulton, MC Frontalot, etc.)
No music -- I work in silence
Yes, exciting that Gird Layout is shipping in IE10. Hard to believe MS will be the first to ship a true CSS layout solution.

Solutions like display:table enforces source order, which to me is pretty undesirable (e.g. when A/B testing layouts by switching a CSS file).
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O valor do guarda roupa embutido é um pouco mais elevado, variando de empresa e matéria prima utilizada. Mas, como sempre, o melhor é fazer pesquisas e escolher a opção que caiba no seu orçamento.
Welcome to Xbox 720 review site
55LW6500 Features and Advantages
LG 55LW6500 is not known because of its elegance only but because of great features. If you are looking for good picture quality and many entertainment choices, 55LW6500 is HDTV you are looking for.
The reality is that there's no such thing as CSS4, and no such thing as CSS3 either: starting with CSS3 the spec was "modularized", meaning it was broken up in a bunch of separate and mostly-independent "modules", which are grouped in a "level" but are specified on their own[0].

So the situation is that TFA talks not about CSS4 but about "Level 4 Selectors" (a draft), talking about "CSS4" is language abuse. The specs I linked are Level 3 specs, but independent of selectors and of one another (columns are a CR, grid is a working draft).

To sum up, your question does not really make sense. Grids and columns are part of "CSS4" insofar as they are part of "CSS3" through being Level 3 specifications, but that's completely meaningless. Level 4 selectors could become recommandations before (level 3) grids reach that state, or not. There's no dependency. (columns are already supported by all modern browsers except MSIE).

I'd recommend using (and abusing) http://caniuse.com/ to see the implementation state of each spec, it's become especially important with modular level 3 specs as implementors are free to add one level 3 spec and ignore an other.

[0] You can see a list of specs at http://www.w3.org/TR/#tr_CSS, note how some Level 3 specs are Recommendations, others are Candidate Recommandations, yet others are Last Calls or Drafts.
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Most of the developed world has now got a lower than replacement birth rate (except, typically, the US):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility

Can't we extrapolate and say that in a few decades that's going to happen to the developing world too?

In other words, that graph is nonsense?
Web Monkey calling this "CSS 4" seems a bit misleading -- it's a spec for Selectors Level 4; I don't think there is a monolithic "CSS 4" in the same way there isn't a monolithic "CSS 3". I assume the wide variety of CSS3 modules will be mostly unaffected.
5 Reasons why Android Tablets wins over an iPad - SkotGat
> I'm on the side of higher performance in Web Browser, which comes from simple style syntax.

Constant parsing and replacement would add pretty much no overhead to CSS parsing in the grand scheme of things.
Sony to Buy Ericsson’s Stake in Handset Venture for $1.5 Billion
This is true, Sikuli can be used to hack together things like auction house scripts but OCR can be an issue.
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I know that electricity in northern Sweden is relatively (very) cheap due to the effective water power plants in the area. They work all year and I can imagine that they are cheap compared to solar panels. So: cheap electricity + neutral cooling = happy zuck.
"As a user, I want to know what information is going to be requested of me prior to commencing completion of the forms."

What you want doesn't necessarily correlate with what will make a business the most money. I'd bet that significantly more people complete the forms when they're split, and people don't have a significant negative reaction to being "tricked" into a multi-step sign up process.
My first computer cost me just under a months wages (on special offer) as a recent graduate. Now we're looking at offering a computer with a similar performance to people on the official poverty line for just over a months wages ... seems like good progress.

Aside, I wonder how good these are at being repaired.
You can’t strategize your way past the hard stuff - on getting that first sale
I have this theory, see, about the delays.

The longer the delays have gone on, the more the Greek government has had to actually implement austerity measures - the more political capital those who want to see austerity and proper financial liberalization have had to force those through...

So by the time some breathing room has been introduced, Greek society has undergone the necessary but painful changes towards a better long-term solution.
HTML5 context menu - How to use it?
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Writing Modular JavaScript With AMD, CommonJS & ES Harmony
I managed to have a play with a friends N9 on the weekend. Frankly I wasn't expecting very much, but the N9 and MeeGo really impressed me. Everything responded quickly and easily to touch, the hardware was nice and the OS very slick. There were a number of innovative features I haven't seen in other smartphone OS's. For example, swiping from outside the screen is picked up by the OS to perform actions, such as task switching, while swipes the originate inside the screen are sent through to the running application. Thanks to this the N9 manages to get away with no OS level 'home' or 'back' buttons, either physical or on screen.

I came away from using the N9 feeling more than a little sad. As a consumer competition and innovation are good. As a programmer its great to see new ideas blooming and another platform that will further drive innovation.

We are all a little poorer for MeeGo being cancelled. For some reason the words of John Donne seem strangely appropriate: "any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. "
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this app also brought out some other options, check out paragraf where you can write glsl pixel code. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paragraf/id422685475?mt=8

It is the complete opposite in terms of ease of use, but it is still executing code. Also broken glsl code is way more likely to hard crash your phone than broken lua code.

There are some other options mentioned here: http://digitaltools.node3000.com/blog/3310-coding-ipad-coder...
Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
This is pretty interesting, I was really hoping they did this along time ago, seems it was the only thing missing to their Messaging Products after they introduced SNS and SQS. I've been using Postmark for about two years now, and I love it. I'm even beta testing one of their upcoming features for inbound email handling. One of the reasons I prefer Postmark to other services like SendGrid is their awesome simple and inexpensive pricing. Even though they don't have fancy features like unsubscribe links and all that, those features aren't that hard to implement yourself. I'm seeing that SES is more comparable to Postmark than to MailChimp(which really ain't for transactional emails) and SendGrid(with all the fancy features). SES is cheaper than Postmark with just $0.10/1000 emails instead of $1.50/1000 emails.
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Correct, as far as I know.
The world population has DOUBLED in my lifetime. That is a fact that I hadn't realised nor ever wanted to realise.
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I wish it had links to the GapMinder graphs for your country tagged with your years. http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth...
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Depends what country you live in.

In my country the Constitution was enacted for the very purpose of restricting what areas of law the federal government is allowed to weigh in on.

Plenary power is retained by the states.
>That idea is flourishing and is what really should scare content creators.

The only one scared by this is the content industry, aka the publishers, and the unfortunate people who believe their propaganda and lies. Free culture is a good thing. The internet, for the first time in human history, has made the dream of unlimited sharing possible. Creators will not die out because the industry that imposed copyright on them in the first place is no longer needed.
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Hackers could have taken over AWS
Regarding 4 (see other's reply to 3), I still don't understand why companies should be required to deliberately lose money in overseas subsidiaries.

Why not just not give out tax holidays, and allow foreign companies owned by US companies to leave profits overseas forever? Granted, this will reduce investment in the US, but we don't care about unintended consequences.
We use both thrift and protobuf, and my experience with both has been very positive. I feel that protobuf is more mature and has better performance for the most part, but thrift does provide built in RPC support, which protobuf doesn't.

I think if I wanted to implement RPC I'd use thrift again in a second, and if I was sure I wanted only message passing/serialization, I'd go with protobuf again.

The other main factor is language support - while they are both very good at this, they have slightly different support, and if native PHP support is important to you, Thrift is a better choice, as well as for a few other languages as well.
Apple is leading the way if you're talking about mobile phone sales in the sense of making money. The lead by a great margin in both revenue and profit.
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I hope they introduce variables/mixins/functions (Akin to SASS or LESS)
From reading the title I thought it would be jail sentence for the blatantly incompetent people in charge of security.

800k user accounts stolen ? If negligence is proven, C-level guy goes to jail. Would definitely put some selective pressure into the system.
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Great post! I'm an MSc Tech Entrepreneurship student with a software background and would either join an existing startup or launch my own. I'm actually attending the silicon milkroundabout event this Sunday.

I can relate to the problem in the following ways:

(1) Culture - The UK and Europe in general does not have the same 'entrepreneurship spirit' like they do in the
US. The vast majority are looking for stability, rather than risk and rewards (both personal and financial). A
recent article published in the telegraph stated that my university (UCL), has the highest number of graduates going into self-employment, and the figure was still just 2.4%, so you can imagine the rest. http://tgr.ph/tTMHaJ

(2) Value - There not so many people from a software background in my course (around 10%), so I tried to reach out to undergraduate Computer Science students in the same department in order to organise something similar to the silicon milkroundabout, but just for students on campus, i.e. match up budding tech entrepreneurs with developers and aspiring hackers. We received less than 3% interest, which kind of reflects the newspaper figure. I don't think they see the value of joining a start-up at the early stage. http://econ.st/uOw02e

(3) Presence - In the last few months, even though the term has just started I’ve received a lot of emails about recruitment fairs on campus with banks, financial institutions, large corporate IT companies etc. These are normally oversubscribed and I'm sure a lot of these graduates will end up in those companies, as they are recruited whilst still in their final year. Perhaps finance might be a factor as well. A lot of people can’t afford to work for ‘shares and equity’ after graduating with thousands of pounds in student debts, they would rather clear or reduce those as quickly as possible.

So, I would say, if you want to get more students taking part rather than established developers, you would need to come to campus and organise events there. Maybe do a tour around UK universities. Someone I met at a recent techmeetups event is actually founding a startup that teaches kids in school how to write python code. If they start early they are more likely to do it out of interest, rather than to get a secure job with a bank.
Ask HN: C with lambdas?
I was wondering if there was a language which would qualify as C with lambdas. To expand on that notion, I'm specifically looking for a language with manual memory management like plain C, functions as a first class citizen and eventually closures (although I'm not sure how that would fit with the manual memory management).

The reason why I really like C is that it's possible to finely tune data structures and optimize both for spatial and temporal complexity. However, the inability to use more abstract constructs such as lambdas and closures are in some cases a real PITA.

If this hasn't been done, any ideas why ? Is it technically feasible ?
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I wasn't being intentionally deceitful, I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear enough.

With regards to "charging money for GPLed software", I agree with you completely: if you write GPL software, it is almost impossible to make money by selling that software on the open market. The first customer you ensnare is given access to the source code, as well as the right to redistribute your work under the same conditions that you do, blowing up your entire business model.

I hope I'm not being too pedantic, but let me quote your original post and explain why I don't feel the above detracts from my point:

I would say that your position is diammetrically opposed to Stallman's stated goal.

The goals of the FSF (and thus Stallman, if only by his function as president) have nothing to do with money. The fact that there are ways of making money in the sofware world that are compatible with the GPL license is evidence of this. I mentioned some in my other post. This may not be as profitable as straight up selling (or renting out) the right to use your software, but that is merely a side-effect, not the ultimate goal.
India here [1]. A couple of interesting things:

1. That's a lot of births, and a lot of deaths :-O

2. 68 people leave the country every hour?! Woah, that's some serious brain drain going on there. (assuming a net outflow against 'immigrants' would primarily be natives of the country)

[1] http://i.imgur.com/Mv3zl.png
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Do you have any examples please?
It might surprise you to know that is the standard length of advertising in a one-hour block of commercial television.

So I imagine you do sit through 18 minutes of commercials for a 42 minute show.
$4 / $8 cpm? Isn't that a tad high for websites which use gmaps and rely on advertising revenue?
If you're looking at automating tasks, have you seen AutoMate and similar products?

http://www.networkautomation.com/

They're very impressive, not just mouse and keyboard "macros".

I've heard people use these to implement computer game "bots" (in particular Magic: the Gathering online trade bots)
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There's a fine line between genius and madness, and in my opinion, rms treads it rather nicely. As I said, if anything, you have to acknowledge him for sticking to his beliefs no matter what. Whether that's obsession or dedication is subjective and for everyone to decide for themselves.
In summary: no, they're in CSS3; but it's all modular and might not be implemented at the same time.

There is incentive for MS Grids to go forward soon, they're important to MS for use in Windows 8.

Also, they're cool, or rather they're a sane layout scheme and it's awful that CSS hasn't had one up to now.

The irony is that Firefox and Chrome will implement them at about the same time that they become official. But we won't be able to use them widely until IE7,8 and 9 have faded from the web. MS giveth, MS taketh away.
seeing as you seem to be defending the GPL,
how I'm I supposed to collect my $50

You are putting words in my mouth. I never said authors should only license their work under GPL or compatible - my whole freaking point was that it is in their right to do whatever they want.

This opinion is not however opposed to my other opinion, that all software should be free. Because all software should be free by choice, not by law.

Also notice how I explicitly mark these as being opinions, that's because I leave room for considering errors in my judgment.

I am also not holly - I work on proprietary software all day long right now. I also think products in general ARE OK for now to be proprietary, but the platforms themselves ARE natural monopolies, going against what capitalism is about and are the scourge of this industry.

Of course this is not the opinion of Stallman which thinks absolutely all software should be free right now -- I can't blame the man since he's been warning us about all the dangers of closed software since the 70'ties and he must feel tired repeating the same thing over and over again, while being right and ridiculed at the same time.
I listen to all those genres but it's always classical and at a relatively low volume. I never play Beethoven as his music is too emotional.
I'm sure it is, I wasn't suggesting otherwise; just concurring with the poster I replied to that Apple have used the term for a long time and that they certainly used the term long before OS X was released.

Programmer, by the way, referred to their wares as 'software' and 'programs' (hence the nomenclature), not just apps. Your observation that "marketing and legal" call the shots is trite. And wrong. The issue, as with everything, is accountants and money men.
C++ has lambdas.
I do find it odd that they encourage you to use the same account to sign into Amazon the store and AWS. That seems a bit like asking for a Subway loyalty card to buy a gun.
this would be great stuff indeed, but the restrictions you mention seem like a killer to me: you basically can't share any program that was written on this app. so how can this ever be more than a toy?
Did you compare bare bones PHP with Ruby or PHP with a library such as Zend?

I curious because I'm considering recoding a large part of a website and are trying to avoid scaling issues.

Thank you for the answer.