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Hmmm. I agree with the sentiment, but talking about India's lack of infrastructure and then quoting Ronald Reagan seems a bit silly. In most of the world, the state, rightly or wrongly, takes care of the infrastructure. To say that a particular government is bad doesn't justify the generalization that all government is bad. What about Germany's infrastructure? Sweden's? Japan's?

Personally, I would prefer more privatization of infrastructure (e.g. toll roads), but I have enough sense to realize my rather libertarian views are the definite minority and they have not been implemented on a wide scale to the point that I could demonstrate that I am correct.

Generally, speaking if you're thing is being a businessman it might be best to stick to talking about your company, your market, and your customers. Veering into political statements generally just undermines the very positions you're trying to support by making you look uninformed. Just like when politicians talk about Silicon Valley.
"When will the FAQ section be completed?

Soon, we promise."

I found this funny yet painfully unprofessional.
I guess I'm confused about the whole issue. Personally I hate Unity, which is why I installed Gnome 2. Isn't that the point of Linux? Being able to customize it to your liking?
The world's first movement based on exhaustive study to figure out exactly what people wanted to hear before telling it to them. Exactly the opposite of what wee celebrated Steve Jobs for, isn't it? Are marketing gimmicks really the soul of the new internet generation? Not real products that male people's lives better?

I met a marketing analyst who used incredibly sophisticated Machine Learning techniques to figure out which banking customer segments are more likely to respond to a mail campaign that was addressed to "Our Neighbor". It's disheartening that marketing tricks are what so many are putting their best thinking to, and these successes are what we celebrate..
Negroponte: "We'll throw OLPCs out of helicopters to teach kids how to read..."
The Age is definitely a broadsheet in terms of print size.
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_Tenth_Rule
SQL is not a bad language. However, it's far from flexible and reusable. The biggest issue I always have with SQL is the fact that I can hardly reuse any piece of my code.

Let me give you an example.

select vendor, model, avg(price) as price
from allCars
group by vendor, model;

So far, this is simple and clear. Now let's imagine someone has a requirement to calculate this for different set of cars:

select vendor, model, avg(price) as price
from allCars
where vendor = 'BMW'
group by vendor, model;

or

select vendor, model, avg(price) as price
from allCars
where year > 1990
group by vendor, model;

This approach only works if I'm always selecting from the same table - allCars, and I know all the condition in advance. To reuse the actual code which calculates the average prices (select ... group by) I'd need something like this:

select vendor, model, avg(price) as price
from $cars
-- $cars is a variable with at least three attributes (vendor, model, price)
group by vendor, model;

This way I could write my own relational operator which calculates avg prices of cars per vendor and a model no matter where the cars are coming from.

Does anyone else have the same problem as me or am I just not smart enough to figure out how to do it in SQL?
I don't see Amazon opening up an AU datacentre for a very long time(and probably never). They have Singapore now which will cover a much larger market then Australia will ever be for them.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car_manufacturers_of_th...

OK, that's probably 700+ manufacturers after duplicates are counted for. Which is great!

But I can't figure out how to tell how many of them meet my original criteria of manufacturing outside of "freestanding factories". Spot-checking the links from Wikipedia turns up several references to converted bicycle and motorcycle factories. No references to "two guys in a garage" which kinda makes sense considering garages probably came after the early automobiles. :-)

No doubt some of them started in barns, but again, I don't think that was a huge part of the economy.
If it crashes when I click on the biggest button I can see, it's not working.

I can make exceptions for edge cases (press a 6 key combo to trigger crash, etc) but if it can't even load, then no.
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From the "Coders at Work" interview in 2009, JWZ says that he mostly writes Perl scripts for small one-off tasks, and every now and then a new screen-saver in C.
You're quite right, while malware is a threat often the biggest issues come from unforeseen bugs. Users with a long memory may remember the iTunes 2 update fiasco. where Apple's own update script was responsible for wiping user data.

The below link explained the error, and how it only occurred on certain volumes:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/itunes2_erased_drives.html
I agree that the backlash is partly just aversion to change, and partly the fact that we're in a usability canyon because of the transition, but that the integration with the G+ sharing model means a better, more granular future for sharing, which is good.

I wrote a whole post defending the change here: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/12261287667/in-defense-of-the...

Regarding the visual design, I hope they'll take cues from the Gmail redesign, which hit a really great balance between clean whitespace-full minimalism and density configurability.
>Lets look at Alt+Tab functionality, which now in Unity (and Gnome3) switches between "apps" instead of windows.

This is THE reason I will not touch Unity or gnome shell.
No, the privacy issues aren't negated.

If you opt in, you have no privacy.

And if this does become ubiquitous (I suspect it won't, but that's just me), opting out will be painful. Very painful.

No thanks.
Really neat! Can you add a "next" button though?
Great work atnan.

Cat's out of the bag, may as well make public my experiment to enable WebGL on all webviews: https://github.com/rpetrich/WebGLEnabler
C++0x has lambdas and that is the nearest language to a C Language admirer..... and just using C++ doesn't implement using OOP practices... C++ doesn't force you to do OOP it just avails you the privilege
No one seem to see that the real problem here is not Ubuntu, Unity or Gnome X.y. The real issue at stake is putting the designers on top of the decision hierarchy. It have worked well with Apple, it was in its DNA, but it is not at all in Linux DNA (neither in Google's or Amazon's or Microsoft's).

I do not mean to say design and UX and usability is not important, but still, it is a matter of priorities. If a designer decide to have transparent flapping buttons and if this make the code behind it extremely complex and if it makes impossible to customize and configure manually any parts of the system, then I would say it does not belong to Linux.

Maybe it is a case with Ubuntu. Maybe Ubuntu is a Linux for designers. Then I am wrong, and will switch to another distro. For me Ubuntu was an easy to install Linux with few driver issues, and my first step after installing it is to remove the useless Visual Effects in preferences.
Ok, so I'll raise the ante.

What happens when you're chillin' on the street, and your arch nemesis has hacked your favorite coffeeshop's PoS system, nabbing your account details, phone identifier, and photo, and proceeds to stalk you all over town from a distance of 100 feet?
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Why would you think that? That was their first FPS released way back in 1992.

If you are thinking of Return to Castle Wolfstein, that was C as well, using the Quake 3 engine. But id didn't even make that game.
Not exactly innovative? Interesting.

Would you mind telling me what gave you that impression?

The most common reaction we get is that we should sell off our tech and not bother being a service provider. Mostly because we are, at the end of the day, a tech company.

Just to take a moment to explain.

From the point of view of the consumer:

- I want to make a virtual server on demand. It must be HA, must have hard disks that are reasonable and I need out of band management in case I lock myself out.
- I need a proper virtual network on demand. I need to be able to set my own ip addresses, use multicast (say for db replication for rack), etc. I want to be able to have multiple virtual networks, attach multiple networks to the same machine. I want to be able to connect up over MPLS or a crossover into one of these virtual networks.

Basically, people don't want randomly crippled servers. They want a virtualised datacenter. Can any other provider do this, at scale? We call this the virtual datacenter paradigm and we think that this is the future for cloud.

It's also basically impossible to build, which is surprisingly convenient.

Disclaimer -> I'm Alex Sharp, VP Development at OrionVM.
I appreciate the direction Canonical is taking Ubuntu. I neither condone nor condemn it; it is a valid direction to take software development.

However, the direction does not seem to line up with typical open source hacker goals (it's very hard to adjust unity even in the smallest ways, and there seems to be some number of breaks from typical conventions, e.g., breaking xscreensaver), which is one of the key values of the Linux world. That, I believe, is the controversy here.

I use Bodhi at home, and have been real happy with it.
Since late 2004 I have been lucky enough to have either worked from home or at an office no farther than a block or two away from my house.

I can't stress enough how much time you will reclaim by not having to commute and the money is only the half of it. I have a relative who travels nearly an hour and a half each way to work. That works out to something like 30 calendar days EVERY YEAR.

No work-situation is worth losing a month a year to. We don't live very long - wouldn't you rather spend that time on something else?
> Is Apple going to eventually make the app store the only way of installing apps on a Mac?

Why would they? What benefit would that bring?
> The Linux kernel, Subversion and PHP are pure C. And don't get me started on the BSDs or binutils... ld and libbfd are pure C and its C++ replacement (gold) is still not widely used.

Please pick gcc to mention or, indeed, any other C program ever written, before libbfd ;)
Tried it out, excellent execution. The Linkedin import is a killer.

But, what's the use case for a product like this? I mean, I had my CV on Linkedin for ages. Same goes for most of the professionals I know.

How does a product like this one - and the others mentioned in the comments - position itself in a space dominated by Linkedin and personal web sites (such as flavors.me)?
Well, I disagree with your assessment of 'apps' making no sense, I personally prefer how OSX itself handles apps & windows. It makes vastly more visual sense to me than different copies of the same process sharing nothing.
It's always seemed to me that weather clouds don't seem to move as much as evolve directionally. That's where this intuition is coming from, though I suppose I'm not honestly surprised to find that gross motion is predictive as well.
Plug: I built a Chrome extension called "GitHub Feed Filter" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jcpkhafkpnaljjbgdg... precisely for this reason. The notifications are just too many when you follow too many projects.
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I've had the pleasure of integrating your Granny SDK into our engine at the indie iOS shop I work at and it's been a total pleasure to work with and a perfect example of solid C interface design.

Now when can we get telemetry support? ;)
I am looking forward to the IPO. I expect big things from Square.

They are really kicking butt.
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"this entry is singling out Google for some strange reason"

Nothing strange, it is the normal dumbing effect of Apple fanboyism: one become blind to anything else.
Do you have stats for the different IE versions?
Barcode scanning is another good option to speed the initial account-identification.

I suspect in coming years, multiple systems will all work together to train users to bring up barcodes on their handhelds for specific purposes (as with boarding passes or "Jonathan's Card").
Bounds checking is just for library functions, and there isn't something like automatic array bounds checking, right?

Still, whoa -

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> default: cbrt, \
> float: cbrtf)(X)

Fun stuff.
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I am also keen on those interactive tutorials. In my opinion it is the most effective way to learn basics in some topic.
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> I'm confused. Did C stop being taken seriously at some point?

On social news sites, bashing C has been trendy for years. Bashing C++ was also trendy, but that has diminished somewhat since the new standard, and I suspect the same will happen for C. Basically, if something seems new and shiny, people like it more.
We use cmake to build our software and libraries and I agree with he author, it's much more viable than autotools, would it be only for visual studio support.
This. Very much this.

I remember Rob Pardo reflecting on criticism World of Warcraft received before initial launch. A lot of the Everquest players thought getting to max level was too easy and didn't require enough of a time sink. Rob pointed out that there was little value in focusing on players who had that much time to spend on a game, and they had to let those players go. It's tough, from a commercial and critical perspective, to say he was incorrect. WoW brought MMOs to the masses in a way nothing else has.

Letting go of users can be hard. Being the user that's getting let go of is harder.
> the developer communications don't appear on a public list. There is no visible public help forum or mail list

http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.comp.lib.glibc

Seems public to me.
This is very interesting. I (yesterday, coincidentally) finished reading Masters of Doom, the book about id by David Kushner. While generally a good read, it had a very fanboyish tone towards both the Johns. It really portrayed Carmack as absolutely superhuman when it came to coding. Given the tone of the rest of the book I'd assumed he was exaggerating — it sounds like he wasn't after all, about that at least.

I don't know C so I can't, let alone appreciate, the source he's released to judge for myself.

Thanks for sharing.
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My only tip would be to make standard this plugin, make it look right, and have it remember its settings on a feed-per-feed basis: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/khbjahpecnkenngkid... (Super Full Feeds)

note - the Chrome Web Store has also taken a usability hit, in my view. YouTube was done fairly well, and I think that team should be moved across to do other products, or train other teams about what and how to do things.
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Given that WebKit has support for WebM, I wonder how much work it would take to do the same kind of hack to enable WebM support for the video tag? (More, I suspect, since iOS probably doesn't ship the required libraries.)
Any application that interacts with untrusted data is a potential vector for malware. Ignoring that is the worst kind of arrogance a developer can display.
[Warning] Google Reader no longer reads RSS feeds unless force refreshed
So apparently in the midst of changing Google Reader for Google+, they stopped Google's auto-checker for RSS feeds. Now, it appears that Google Reader only checks RSS feeds when a user force refreshes them (Bug Reports [1], [2], [3]).

For popular feeds, this isn't a big change since so many users are refreshing the feed that all items get caught by Google Reader (which archives the feed). However, if the feed is less popular, some items might pass through the feed between force refreshes, which means Google Reader never sees the item.

These are common for forum post, craigslist search, and custom reddit stream feeds. So if you have a reddit feed for your own subscriptions, be warned that Google Reader will now likely miss many items that pass through the feed. This also apparently affects academic aggregate feeds since they are update continuously but only refreshed by a few people during the day.

To clarify: It previously wasn't a problem because when you didn't have the Google Reader window open, it would just auto-check the feeds for you and archive the new items so they would show up unread for the next time you opened Google Reader. However, this new behavior means that Google Reader only checks/archives feeds when you have the window open and refresh the feeds. So if you close Google Reader and go to bed, you'll effectively miss all of the items that pass through the feed overnight (if no other user refreshes the same feed).

[1] - http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/reader/thread?tid=2863171aa7229dab&hl=en
[2] - http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/reader/thread?tid=1840691c4a4f3004&hl=en
[3] - http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/reader/thread?tid=1ebb324fc70aa1f8&hl=en
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I'd give you that.

Our VC market is very good for farms and for mines and for not much else. It's changing, but slowly.

Going to SV makes this so much easier, but it means that you have to basically expand out of Aus, which is harder said then done.

Here's to hoping things get better in the future :)
Will this have any effect in practice or will it just be the same as the different trust levels in .NET? The functionality for sandboxing is built in it's just that nobody uses it or knows how to test or enforce it. (with the exception of sysadmins).

In any case i welcome all sandboxing, this is even something i would consider switching from windows because of, given that it actually works out good. Let's take an example from yesterday, i want a simple pdf-merge program. As it is now i have to spend 20 minutes researching a program on forums and other sites before i even install it to see if it's safe and everything. Compared to just installing and see if the result works. This is also why web apps are so popular, you can try hundreds of them with 0 risk for your other data.
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Hi, I'm Joseph. Another of the OrionVM Founders. :)

To add to what Alex said above..

I think the major misconceptions are caused by the fact that most of what we are doing is done much like a "stealth" mode startup.

We -are- a service provider, but under the hood we are very much a tech company building the next generation of IaaS technologies. That is not to say we won't just be a service provider in the future - but only there is much more happening here at OrionHQ.

For instance we have developed a fully distributed block storage platform on Infiniband that does away with the scaling and performance issues of EBS, traditional SANs like HDS/Netapp etc. It is also a fraction of the cost to build and maintain, along with having a ton of other benefits.

We very much pride ourselves on being an innovative company and I just wanted to communicate that we aren't an Amazon clone. But this post is getting long in the tooth and I don't want to come off as a "butthurt founder". :P

Welcome to have a chat with anyone interested in what we do, we are also hiring btw! :)

Capt Obvious Disclaimer: I am an OrionVM founder.
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Usually here people just seem to email me with their questions. Either I answer it or point you in the right direction.
If this means that I can be reasonably certain an application that I purchase from the App Store will be prevented from screwing up parts of my system without my permission - then, as a user, I'm all for it. One day, in the future, apps will run in a chrooted/isolated virtual environment, with some actual guarantees that they are _incapable_ of touching anything but their sandbox, regardless of developer intent. Until that day though, this seems like a reasonable evolution to that world.

Perhaps it speaks to my paranoia - but I've always been unnerved by the concept that an application can basically do anything to the OS that I can from from finder/shell. I have to believe that this sandboxing will reduce the potential for malware doing damage to the OS.

The question I have is - will I be able to give applications like "Backblaze" the ability to read (but not write) from my entire set of user folders? If so, then that's the best possible case. Puts the power to control damage that an application can do in my hands.