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Nothing is ever flawless. If you focus on refining one technology too long, the world will change around you and it'll become obsolete. Imagine Microsoft patching Windows 95 for 15 years.
I actually don't think it's that expensive per port, I'm not a networking expert, but I've done a cursory look at a few numbers and Arista is relatively inexpensive...maybe even very inexpensive comparatively. :)
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It should be fixed now
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The post should be back up now :)
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BSD kernels have had numerous exploits over the years. GCC is a massive hairball. gzip has had exploits (http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/381508 for one).

Care to try again?
Dylan does, and my language Slate (http://www.slatelanguage.org) does, as well as its related younger siblings, Atomo (http://atomo-lang.org) and Atomy (http://atomy-lang.org). And all of these implement them in the context of an object model, rather than carefully avoiding CLOS dependencies as in CL.
Set up a table on a college campus and offer anything for free (beer, t-shirts, soda, candy) in exchange for a resume.
Do any other languages really lend themselves to the one line command tools like perl does?

The only one off the top of my head would be ruby but I don't have that much ruby knowledge to judge.

This kind of thing however is perl's bread and butter.
I believe Mesa did. On the other hand, Stroustrup claims (in the Design and Evolution of C++, I think) that the Cedar system written in Mesa basically never used the ability to restart as a reason why C++ doesn't have continuable exceptions. I've never been able to track down more information about that than his claim though.
I always felt that extremeness (extremity?) is not necessary in the statement of Poe's Law but I could never find a good example. What you said sounded like a mockery of the YC process, but I'm not sure. The 2 have something in common... attention to detail? (Poe's Law: the parody and the parodied are both outrageous in their own ways.) In light of your discovery, I might restate Poe's Law thusly: no parody can be so ardent that it cannot be mistaken for what it parodies. What do you think about punctuation to indicate the state of being serious?
Don't obfuscate reality to lend credence to an all-too-familiar anti-Apple rant.

Microsoft is utilizing ridiculously old, unrelated patents to force Android manufacturers to pay up.

Apple is using designed in house, relevant and modern patents against what it feels is intellectual property theft.

What's the difference?

Apple is suing companies for what it feels is unfair use of the technology that Apple feels it made.

Microsoft is simply forcing companies to pay huge fees for using software that Microsoft never made and has no claim to.
Well what's so fascinating about it? I personally started dabbling in coding at the age of 12 and at the age of 14 I started to earn money from it. I believe many among us followed this path.
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No, because they are all civilians who don't even carry GS rankings. Mitre is just a government contractor like everyone else in that space, but they are different because they are a not-for-profit corporation. They serve contracts for the government, but so do people like Lockheed and Northrop. Like those other two, the government couldn't just shut down Mitre.
"Have you known anyone personally who's comitted suicide?"

Yes. My cousin did by jumping and my sister attempted by overdose. Though I called an ambulance which saved her life. I won't argue that people shouldn't intervene when they can.

'I doubt you'd merely say "well, it was their choice". I bet you'd rethink your statement and your position.'

Not really. She's gone through a lot of shit. Meds. Psychiatrist. Friends. Hobbies. Boyfriends. Family. They help but they aren't the answer to everyone. And so if she attempts to commit suicide again and is successful I would be deeply saddened but at least know that she found a peace that she couldn't find in life.

Hell, even I experience that same lows. What is the point of having someone suffer through an existence which there is no solution that corrects the problem?
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My experience is that it more or less depends on your goals. I tried to do the 4 hour workweek thing and it worked... kind of. As others noted, it probably is possible to support yourself in a frugal lifestyle in 4 hours, but you're still left with the question of what to do with the other hours of the day. I've seen enough startups up close now to pretty confidently say that if you want to succeed in the startup world, its gonna take some 100 hour weeks. So, if you want to do a startup, you'd better make sure you love what you're doing.
I had this exact idea but scratched it due to lack of demand (as tested on adwords). How's it going for you?
Well, this explains why incognito mode doesn't have the features I want: I mostly use it because I don't want website X to know (via web bugs, syndicated advertising, etc.) that I visited website Y, or what my account name there is.

And what I hate most about Chrome's implementation is that you can only have two profiles (i.e. portfolios of cookies) at once (one normal and one incognito), and your incognito cookies persist until you close all incognito windows simultaneously. It would make more sense if each incognito window were its own profile.
A new app I've been working on for groups to evenly divide chores. Good for households, shared workspaces, teams with regularly-occurring tasks, etc.

Check it out and let me know what you think!
I find it is significantly easier to work two eight hour jobs than it is to work one sixteen hour job. The context switch is refreshing.

Unlike Dorsey, I have never attempted to maintain that schedule over the long haul, but over periods of time at least, it is not as difficult as it sounds.
Even shorter, as -l appends \n to all prints:

$ perl -MLWP::UserAgent -le 'print $LWP::UserAgent::VERSION'
If you're a learned professional (matching all of the three criteria on the page - one of which is salaried), artist/creative, teacher, law/medicine practioner, or are highly compensated (making > $100,000/year) overtime doesn't apply to you.

At least, that's what I got out of the page.
Seeing Google AdWords on my fridge trying to sell me stuff or alternates to things I am almost out of is going to be an experience.
Selling is only a means for "Generation Sell". This fan of David Brooks is off the mark, mefeels. Millennials are not Mad Men. They want to create culture. (He mentions it offhand, in the article, though, so he knows it at some -- probably subconscious -- level. I gather that, as a self-described bobo -- he's kind of envious.) Creating culture -- that goes well with OWS.
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Same here. Also got nothing for 'inline' or 'block'.
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Exactly. This is sort of a stretch of a metaphor here, but consider the predator having a server system that provides an API. The ground station is just a client putting out requests to that API. The ground station computers had the virus. That whole series of articles in the press was kind of stupid. If I use github, have a virus on my computer, it doesn't mean that github has a virus on their computers.
I'll admit that it isn't the most detailed comparison. But we're talking about iOS "looking" tired. Multi-tasking, wireless sync, background processes etc. really don't have an impact on the way the OS looks.

If they got the springboard right, why change it? For the sake of change?

I think the larger question is "did they get the Springboard right?". I don't think it is exactly the zenith of user experience, especially on a platform like the iPad.
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IBM also contributes to many open source projects. Many major open source projects are staffed primarily by developers from companies like IBM. So this may just be what dev output looks like when a company embraces open source; a good thing.
I'm against these regulatory bills as much as the next guy, but this particular assertion seems overblown and unlikely.

And worse, the author is remarkably uninformed about Internet basics:

Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf--you know, the guy who invented the Web?

Cerf was certainly a father of the Internet, but Tim Berners-Lee "invented" the web. The web != the Internet. Jeez.
If you are concerned with your books being DRM'd and Amazon disappearing (as corporate megaliths do from time to time cough SGI, Sun, DEC cough), I would suggest downloading them onto your 'real' computer, saving off the files, and then unwrapping the DRM.
Apparently everything on there is fake.

I clicked checkout after looking around and fake adding things to cart and nothing happened.

I'm also unlikely to use facebook to login to a site to buy things.
We are using Icinga to monitor stuff around our office.
Its nice and robust, but sometimes you have to work around the architecture to do what you want. Like, maybe you don´t want icinga to poll data, you would rather send data to it.

Anyways, Ive forked the Greplin-Nagios-Utils to address this issue and added some stuff to read from Memcache, now your super importatnt services can supply data to Memcache, Icinga will then do some haxx and poll the data when it pleases, so you will end up with the data in your frontend. Its in an early stage.. But hopefully I will have the time to make it better, faster, stronger.
https://github.com/simonjohansson/greplin-nagios-utils/tree/...
Glad I am not the only one with that reaction. Now I must find out and clean it if necessary.
>The point is that MSFT might pay more into the MPEG-LA than it gets precisely so it can influence the MPEG-LA to take actions that are beneficial to Microsoft's other business interests.

I don't see how it's Microsoft's choice to pay more or less. The terms are pretty clear and the same for all.

I also don't see how paying more will allow it to have more influence on the MPEG-LA, they're more like a customer. That's a pretty torturous argument to make.
Backend / Server software, build tools, general scripting (using escript).
I think you haven't kept up with recent developments in AV software. These days, they continue to monitor all those passengers even after they've gotten on the plane. And remember, there are a lot of different planes -- each of our individual machines -- and the AV software has also improved in its ability to see something bad on one of the planes and quickly notify the rest of us.
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Problem is, CPV only works with clear sun. i.e. it's best for deserts. My hunch is this is targeted at off-grid homesteaders, who tend to live where there's vegetation (and thus clouds).
That might be true but hes not doing this alone. Hes the one making the decisions and the strategy but Square has >100 employees and Twitter has like what ? 600 ?
This would be true if a big percentage of all the employees would be putting in these kind of hours, but i highly doubt thats the case.
Also it doesnt factor in luck, which is a big part of startup success. Could Jack have pulled off Square as a nobody without the help of twitter ? I guess not.
You could have started a Square Competitor at the same time as him, working even harder with all your people and even if you had the better product, you most probably wouldnt have won.
I have a chance to present thorium power to the U.N.
MIT has an annual contest to crowdsource solutions to global warming. I've made it to finalist with an entry that advocates liquid thorium reactors, and various related technologies.

At this point, a winner will be chosen by popular vote. Anyone can register and vote. My entry is here you're so inclined:
http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/5/planId/15204

That's under the National category. I have another proposal, in Global, which is also a finalist. It's a combination of several things that are also in the National proposal. If I win with both, I'll devote most of my National presentation to thorium. Here's the global:
http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/4/planId/15203

Last year I was a winner in this contest. We went to the U.N. and had a nice roundtable discussion with the Secretary General's personal advisory team on climate change. The next week we had a more formal presentation to congressional staffers. That'll happen this year too.

Right now I'm about 100 votes in the lead on National, but a team in India has picked up around 70 votes so far today. Under Global I have a slight lead. Voting lasts through Tuesday.
Even shorter!

$ M=LWP::UserAgent && perl -M$M -le "print \$$M::VERSION"

Even even shorter!

$ M=LWP::UserAgent;perl -M$M -Esay\$$M::VERSION
Research has shown that humans really don't need 8hrs sleep to work at their optimal best and 4-5 hrs of sleep should be more than enough.

Citation please? It's my understanding that losing even 1 hour of sleep a night will add up over time and cause all sorts of cognitive problems.
I just found out about it today. But I've been willing to try the CryEngine 3 SDK for a long time...
I'd very much liked if someone called bullsh*t on the Microsoft's patents and then prepared joint lawsuit of all companies against Microsoft's "agreements". They look more like racketeering than cooperation.
Swedish startup Stardoll strikes deal with Barbie doll maker Mattel
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Very cool. I have been wanting to do something similar for youth sports leagues. Nice to see Erlang in use. Are you open-sourcing the code?
faster? I think it's less practical since it needs you to add a new bookmark (and I have way too much of those)
Nagios development has stagnated somewhat

Understatement of forever.

Nagios is stuck in 1995 and refuses to advance. Cacti is stuck in 1996 and refuses to advance.

We need a unified monitoring/trending/graphing/alerting/prediction platform for everything from servers to application level metrics. No single product or service exists enabling you to actually understand your platform performance.
That's nice and all, but most humans in the world (including the western world) don't have the luxury of being able to let themselves be unsettled daily :/
Works in Chrome but not Firefox, as I've come to expect from this sort of thing.

Doesn't hose my CPU, though, as I've come to expect from this sort of thing.
Ah, thanks--I've been meaning to fix this. Should be working shortly.
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The paid apps blocked all malware apps from being installed, even those that were not spotted in the manual scans.

How does that make them useless?

This is one of the key advantages of the iOS App Store - the process of analyzing app capabilities and security is offloaded to Apple - users don't have to care about it.
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I guess the reason that they use Kaczynski in the text is because is is very well known with the public. The other thinkers of the same paradigm are probably lesser-known philosophers. After all, going against technology is really unpopular.

I vaguely remember reading that one of the reasons the Unabomber did his terrorist acts was to get attention for his manifesto, he thought killing was the only way to get through to the media and the populace...
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I thought a JSON document had to have either a top level object or array, which would make a bare null an invalid JSON text. Granted, we might not be that strict all the time.

See section 2, paragraph 2: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt?number=4627
I dont understand this. According to some believe exceptions should be used in an exceptional context.
Can anybody define what exceptional is?

I use exception to get the context in which the error happend. Call stack, variables, stuff like that. I can log it, i can give good error message to the user. I never think about if an error is exceptional.
Did you really just ask that question? Unless somebody says: "Yes, and he even work more" you are not gonna get someone saying "No he doesn't work that much".
This seems completely disconnected to me. Why should we 'thank' Apple for the walled garden, if the walled garden is unable to protect the security of the people inside?

Miller was only caught because he displayed the vulnerability in a presentation. Had he not done that, his app would still be in the app store, and he could be malicious in using the security whole to access data of those who installed it.

How does the author jump from the security whole being exposed and Miller being kicked out, to this being a good thing because Apple is 'protecting' their users. The users weren't protected.

Worse, I think people expect the apps in the app store to be safe, but it appears apple is unable to guarantee this.

When downloading an app from the web, I think their is a bit of an understanding that the app may not be secure. But I thought part of the reason for the approval process was for Apple to ensure everything was safe. The App store is Apple's seal of approval.
These results are unsurprising to me. But then again, my startup is building a cloud-based mobile-malware detection service to address the inherent limitations of anti-virus on mobile devices. :-)

Here's the problem: "Anti-virus" in general is limited because it relies on static signatures. Therefore it can only detect known malware and is vulnerable to evasion (polymorphism / metamorphism). On mobile devices AV is even more limited because of resource constraints (namely, limited battery and cpu).

By doing malware detection in the cloud, we have plentiful resources to do heavyweight analyses. We also get a better overall detection capability by using behavioral analyses instead of just static signatures (we actually run the apps).

If you're curious about the technical details, we presented at Black Hat in August. https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Daswani/BH_US_11_Daswani...

P.S. We’re hiring :-)
I think of myself, and enough other people have considered me, as having been (at least some of the time) a 10x programmer.

And yet: one afternoon (many years ago) I came in to work, and my boss called me into his office. He was holding a copy of Time magazine, and looked angry.

"Page 23."

Woops! The border around the picture at the bottom was glitched. Turned out to only occur for pictures with vertical line count of the form 4n + 3: even line count or 4n + 1 were fine. Luckily, the bug had been noticed before millions of copies had been printed.

"The only reason you still have a job, is that the compression routine you added let Time push back their photo deadline by a full day." [I believe that at the time, the communication between their headquarters and their regional printing plants was over 4800 bps leased lines. Note that the compression routines achieve ~50% lossless compression, looking at only one scan line at a time (core was tight in those days: some of it even was literally core).]
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You might be one of those who knows what an API is and either has already set it up or is going to do it in the nearest future. You probably know about developer documentation you must prepare to describe your API. This is what we do.

Turnapi is all about managing API documentation.
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Henry Blodget on how to value Groupon
Is this designed to work with multiple people doing same chores, how interaction should be done?
25 fps in Chrome and stuttering. Is there something limting the frame rate or is this the best my 2630QM and GT 540M can do?
Practically anything is possible. And like everything else, without knowing you or your cofounder, your back story, etc... the best answer I can muster up is a "it depends".

Having said that, the following answer relates specifically to me so take whatever I have to say with a giant grain of salt as we are probably different people. Regardless of the reasons, regardless of the back story, relationship, etc... If for any reason, I have any hesitation or doubt about who I'm working with, it stops there. That's just how I am.

There is a difference between doubt and an issue that can be resolved.
No matter your opinion on Groupon, I feel this is an excellent article/insight on how a "pro" values a stock.
I would have posted the same thing, so thanks!

To add to that: I do feel Apple's lawsuits are a problem. But if we're going to make any meaningful progress, we must start with software patents.

Microsoft's dealings with Android manufacturers offer a golden opportunity to set the precedent that could invalidate software patents in general.

That's too big an opportunity to miss.

Apple's patent suits are (unfortunately?) relevant and modern patents... it's harder to get a foothold against what Apple is doing. Or, in other words, since my viewpoint is not the only viewpoint, I don't see as clear a case that we should invalidate Apple's suits. They have some merit.
So...you flagged the story because it comes from a site you don't like? You didn't explain why this particular article is off-topic or even low quality. And then you commented about flagging it, which is against the site guidelines. And then you insulted jfruh because he only posts articles from this particular site that you don't like, and which you admitted does have interesting and on-topic stories every so often.
Does cold calling produce better conversion rates than emailing? What are everyone's thoughts on this?
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If you have no grid, then about $1000 of batteries will cover you, and need replacing every 5-10 years.

This is wishful thinking, both on lifespan and cost of a household battery bank sufficient to run average household appliances like air conditioning and electric water heater and such. Even deep cycle batteries in this sort of working environment will need replacing every 3-5 years (and past 3 years, you'll probably be working with maybe half the capacity of what you started with). The workload of a household running off of batteries during periods when power usage far outstrips power generation is really hard on batteries. There are very expensive batteries that are rated for 5 years or more of use, but they cost two or three times what regular deep cycle lead acid batteries cost, making the total cost much higher. You'll also need more than $1000 worth of batteries for an average American household that uses air conditioning and electric heating devices.

I live in a motorhome with a $300 battery bank (a motorhome has far fewer energy users than a standard home, and I don't run AC, microwave, or electric heaters off of the batteries; I have to crank the generator to use those), and solar on the roof. I'm very familiar with the limitations of batteries, and lead acid battery technology is extremely unforgiving of discharging beyond 50% (even beyond 75% leads to degradation, but most people in RVs accept that because the weight of carrying more batteries to be able to run at 75+% charge at all times is more costly than replacing batteries more frequently).

But, I agree with you that selling back to the grid is the way to deal with this problem in a home on the grid. It's more cost-effective and more environmentally responsible.
But that virus might steal the password for my github account. Or even delete one of my repositories.

And by deleting a repository I mean firing a Hellfire missile.
He didn't build Twitter working this way. He's now managing its current course/growth this way.