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You can make this argument about any nice domain name. Does Facebook Inc have tacit ownership of the concept "facebook" (collection of photographs of people, in case you've forgotten the real meaning)? How is this greatly different?
All server based vcs are push based. Certainly they can be used pull-based, where others diff code, send the patch, and a committer then integrates and commits. Git, on the other hand does two things differently. 1) it makes it vastly easier to create, submit, and integrate patches (because it was designed for it) and 2) it makes it vastly easier for the people making the patches, who don't have commit privs, to maintain their changes in their own repo, while still syncing with the master.

svn does not offer these features, which means that when you dont have commit privs, its a PITA to track and maintain your own version. I'll say that again: it makes it massively frustrating to maintain your own version. The result is that people dont, and the number of potential hackers is vastly reduced.

git, like svn, allows a small community, such as ASF, to manage and control a project - addressing legal and operational concerns. committers can push just as easily as with svn. but in addition, each committer can (if they so choose) also maintain relationships with a much greater community, each member of which can hack away on their own with a fully synced, fully versioned repo of their own. hackers get their own repo. committers have a really robust system for integrating patches.

If ASF wishes to do no more than have a small number of committers working on a project then indeed, svn suffices. its "good enough". the point of mikeal's post is that this is missing out hugely on the vast army of hackers.

I said in an earlier post that I had no skin in the game. that's true. now. i used to track tomcat. but it was such a pain in the arse to handle merging my code with the official code that I gave up. it just wasnt worth it. git would have solved every problem I had. perhaps by now I would be a committer on the tomcat project. who knows? svn made that a certain "no".

an organization like ASF needs a finite number of committers. git allows keeping that group small, yet engaging a much greater community.

but as mikeal says, its not about svn vs git. its about the mindset that sees no need for git because it sees no need for more than just committers.
Do you have Perian installed? Does http://www.youtube.com/html5 report that Safari supports WebM? If so, then what you’re seeing is YouTube preferring WebM over h.264, even though h.264 decoding is hardware accelerated rather than the software decoding that Perian’s WebM support provides. You can try temporarily disabling Perian, relaunching Safari, and then watching a video again to see whether the performance is more in line with your expectations.
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What would be an online source for learning the basics of software project management?

My usual projects only involve myself, so I haven't had the following issue so much.

At work, I'm responsible for a software project.

I am the only programmer (although I'm more a researcher in this role). I have to manage expectations with my boss.

There's a time limit to the project.

There's a vision for how this 'big' system would work, but a small prototype I created already exists.

It's difficult to find a way to break down the features being suggested, with the amount of time they would take. Writing little descriptions in a spreadsheet row doesn't seem to be descriptive enough.
> Is that format even still used?

http://httparchive.org/interesting.php

34% of images on the web.

The Web needs education first, not another image format that those websites won't use...
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The straightway is not self-policing because the dangers are not as obvious. Maybe there are animals crossing, or some other thing that is not immediately obvious to a driver.

While it is physically possible to go very fast in a straight line, which you mostly can't do on a winding road, it does not mean that you should. If you are within city limits, there are usally more pedestrians than elsewhere, and a small difference in speed can mean a huge difference in safety.
Meet SparkBotMe (SparkBot is taken by an evil robot creator).

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Interestingly, I recognized the handle DGG from the article partially because he is a notable inclusionist.
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It doesn't work like that.
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Wikipedia does employ UI experts. You can see them here:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors

I have met some of them; they are smart and competent.

People's expectations about Wikipedia's development speed are all out of whack. The main problem is that Wikipedia is run on a shoestring compared with any other top site. A major contributing problem is that for much of Wikipedia's history it was run by a handful of people, all of them struggling mightily just to keep up with traffic growth. That means a lot of work has to go into paying down technical debt.
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is there a project you have used this for?
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You might want to bring this up on the IRC (freenode/#mediawiki or #wikimedia) or on the mailing lists (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l or https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l).
If you were looking at a painting it would sometimes not be stupid at all to say "the house is bigger than the sun"
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When a government institution or another controlling body yielding great influence coerces a media outlet into censoring something, even though that's not required by law, then I also consider that censorship. As such, I clearly consider the case of Wikileaks to be an example of a modern censorship attempt.

However, I also believe that the liberty of the press has to go both ways. A company should be free to deny the publishing of something, after all you can just start your own newspaper, or your own web engine that indexes content in this case, or whatever. It's not like your life is threatened, you just have to move your ass off your couch.
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You're not really offering significant benefits to the hackers. We're talking about a few thousand dollars cash value. Salaries in silicon valley for sharp engineers are easily six figures. And someone who is relocating to join a startup with no funding or traction is definitely "doing it for the love/risk". I mean, if you can get someone to take those terms, awesome, you rock. But most of your applicants are going to be people who can't get jobs elsewhere, or who just want vacations in Hawaii (what incentive do they have to work hard when they get there?) -- so buyer beware.

I would focus on getting one engineer who is committed for the long term, and that you are 100% comfortable with -- someone that you could share good times and bad times with, for the next 3-5 years. I'd give this person a founder's stake with 4 year vesting (and I'd take impose the same vesting on myself.) I'd wait as long as necessary to find this person, and if I couldn't find them, I'd try to raise enough money to have competent consultants build a MVP at market rates (after vetting said consultants very, very carefully.)

Also FWIW, you are definitely breaking US law if you don't pay them minimum wage and possibly overtime, and the penalties for this are severe (personal liability of directors, treble damages, all kinds of nasty.) You will be in a precarious position if they sue you, because there will be a clear paper trail from your intellectual property assignments.
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Fair enough; I should do better research :)

My comment about taking forever was not really to do with the lack of developer time (which, as a developer myself I totally understand!) but more about the difficulty of meshing two communities of people.

In much the same way that an outsider struggles to understand the Wikipedia system, many Wikipedians have difficulty understanding how development works, and how to interact with developers.

This disconnect means that requests for even simple things can take a while :)

I can highlight this disconnect; the idea given in the GP is smart and sensible and would help make the deletion review process a lot easier for newbies. This would certainly help with editor retention as well as being widely useful.

On the other hand, one dev recently wrote and deployed "WikiLove", which is a script for helping people give each other "Barnstar" awards.

Ok, so perhaps the GP's idea did not come up in discussions of "what should we improve next". But if the WP community proposed something like this it would probably sit gathering dust whilst the next WikiLove would appear on our screens.... :)
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To be fair, the vast majority of the web is built and never touched again, so I’m not surprised about that figure.

Regarding WebP, it’s nice to have options, but ImageOptim is getting PNGs down close in size for me :)
Anatomy will draw in a lot of undergrads who want to go to med-school but don't have anatomy classes at their universities.
My vote is evil, not evil genius.

There's a million ways of tricking customers, and a million ways to rationalize it. But if you have ethics you won't go down that path.

If you care about money more than your character, then by all means though.
Me too. Here's a radical idea: what would happen if you fixed it so that people could use the site without logging in at all?
I'm vandal pratroller myself. Speedy deletions have an extremely strict criteria. Only very clear violations of policy are allowed to be speedy deleted like vandalism or recreating a page that was already AfD'd.

Notability is naturally one of those that is hard to do hastily. In a rew rare cases it's obvious, like if some trying create a page about their dog or local lawn care business, per SNOW (not a snowballs chance in hell) the page can get speedy deleted.
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Wow that's shockingly many still. But that statistic is to be expected somehow, there's a lot of old sites still around. Still it's a horrible, incredibly restricted format.

I come from a computer graphics background an thus am interested in image formats and how they work... whether the web "needs" webp doesn't really come into it.
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The thing that really kills me about your comment is that you seem to think that your off-the-top-of-your-head points are somehow novel, as if no Wikipedian has ever mentioned them before.

And that's exactly the mistake Sullivan makes, too. You're both wrong, of course: discussions on these topics go back years, with hundreds or thousands of smart participants.

But at least you haven't done like Sullivan and a million others by following up your naiveté with outrage that you aren't being respected for your genius, insight, and expertise.
So they are "professional" because the are part of the standard career track that eventually leads to someone getting a formal "professional" qualification? That would suggest that an MBA is not a professional degree, although it is a vocational degree, because MBA graduates don't typically go on to become formally professionally qualified (e.g. unlike lawyers, medical doctors, etc.).

[NB I'm in the UK and while I know plenty lawyers/chartered engineers etc. I've never heard anyone talk about a "professional degree"].
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Quite clear LZW: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/LZW_compression#Haskell

Perhaps not compatible with GIF standard, but very clear.
I think you're horribly missing the point here. No-one doubts that many, many people who are heavily active in Wikipedia are doing their best to follow the rules. The objections is that the culture is such that the intersection of subject matter expert and reviewer is nigh on the null set. Moreover, the rules do seem to produce perverse results sufficiently often that perhaps someone ought to re-examine the processes. Unfortunately, the very people able to do so are the very people who think there isn't a problem.
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Thinking about it, this might be one of the most effective SEO campaigns for her name ever. Now she has become notable for being deleted from Wikipedia.
I don't think matching algorithms will EVER work, short of human-level AI. The only matching algorithm that works is the human brain.

So, I think that the right way to go is to just increase the speed and accuracy with which a human can look for matches. Some ideas here: http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-dating-site-slideshow-a...
I forked a version of Kaminari a few months ago to solve this problem for me that I just updated with the latest upstream: https://github.com/joshcutler/kaminari

I added a class method for Mongoid::Documents called limit_max_count_results_to that limits the size of Kaminari's total_count
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Sure, but if you were currently paid to make music then I think people would consider you a musician. You might be a shitty musician, an inexperienced musician, or whatever, but if you actually made your living doing it then I don't think that people would begrudge you the title.
To apply anatomy to a human body, you must first know what to look for and how to describe it. So I imagine they'll be spending some time on getting the Latin terms down, which help reduce the ambiguity.

Example: how do you describe the direction your thumb is pointing in? In anatomy they base it on the bones in your forearm, rather than saying 'outwards', because if you rotate your hand its no longer valid.

As for the testing: there are so many bones, muscles, nerves and organs in the body that it will take more than 10 weeks to cover them all in detail. Besides, knowing the name is one thing, knowing the function another.

A sample question I got in college: What are the effects of a unilateral paralysis of the femoral nerve? Ten points of karma if you get it right.
I am the author of the paper on G-Free.

G-Free does not modify the assembler, or any other component on a system. It is a completely independent layer between the compiler and the assembler. And its performance overhead is indeed surprisingly low.

Even then, there are numerous reasons I can think of why it won't immediately be included in a production environment (as won't most cutting edge research).

The first reason being, by definition, G-Free is a compiler based solution. You need the source code in order to build gadget free software. This may not be the best fit for an already established production system. However, I can imagine this system being easily adapted into a binary loader, so that it does its trick when loading a binary into the memory.

Then, you have the issues of compiler verification. You are right in saying that research quality code does not equal production quality. We do have a prototype implementation that works nicely, as described in the paper. But who am I to say it is perfect? Well, we compiled a full system with it, and have been running it without problems since then. But you never have the assurance unless you do some formal verification. I would not compile a critical piece of software (something running on an aircraft, for example) with just any implementation, without having solid ( = formal) proof that the implementation is perfect.
It's been dead for a long time from what I can tell
Agreed. -214%, the way I interpret it intuitively, would mean the new value flips sign. -XXX% where XXX is bigger than 100 therefore looks strange.
How much programming have you learned so far?

There are a lot of free resources available online:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books
http://www.khanacademy.org/#computer-science
http://www.codecademy.com

Attending local meetups is a great way to network and perhaps find a job. You can find them here: http://www.meetup.com/. You can also google for "* User Group" like "Python User Group" or "Ruby User Group".

Many startups love it when you apply for a job with example code. If there's a company you like with a public API, try building something with it and send it in with a resume.
Just don't compete with them at all.

For example, the kid of your friend of your buddy can create you a web site, cause he learned that in the school. And he will take only 2$ per hour ;) Do you think that no one will pay 50$ per hour after that to professional web developers?
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Anybody who's a serious Wikipedia editor can happily work the discussion pages. So a standard discussion system wouldn't benefit them at all. Novices who are smart and willing to put in a little time are also fine with it for basic use.

So a standard discussion system really only benefits people who aren't smart or who aren't willing to put in a little time. But in making it easier for clueless noobs to express their opinions, will that help Wikipedia? Or will it hurt it by soaking up the time of people who do know what they're doing?

As an example, consider Danny Sullivan's experience. If it had been easier for him to kick off a deletion review, he would have done it. But that would have been a waste of time, as he didn't have anything to say that would have changed the outcome. And that's true because he wasn't willing to take any time to understand what was going on.

Or as another example, consider YouTube comments. How does it help Wikipedia to make it easier to let those people comment?
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No they are professional because they are required* as part of the license in that profession. To be an RN you have have to have a Bachelors of Science in Nursing. A CS major couldn't become an RN but an RN can become a software developer. It is the same for accountants, doctors, surgeons, etc.

Professional degrees are very specific and single focused. An MBA is just an MBA, no career requires it, but it is a nice to have. It is not considered a professional degree although many professionals do have it.

[*] and when I say required it is a felony to work in that field without the proper degree or license.
Oh, yea! You were at code camp! I didn't make it this year, but you did some pretty good talks at the one last year. I won an e-book copy of that book, then my nook broke.
Everything has it's limits. Google and Facebook don't release much without testing internally for a while. Neither does Twitter.
I know who Zach is, but I didn't realise spark was written by him - I just liked it because it was clearly explained and both fun and obviously useful.
Good read. I just noted that Wikipedia also has quite an elaborate description of the GIF format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Example_GIF_file

as well as for PNG:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Techn...
Well gifs still have two main use-cases:

- with the rise of AJAX a gif is basically the default format for the animated "loading" spinners

- crappy low-res instant versions of youtube videos

Is there an alternative format?
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He probably read the really beautiful paper by Edward Tufte (http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...), maybe played with a sparkline generator from the command line, and at some point made the all-command-line connection.
Simple, because the execs are the one who negotiate the lockup, not the employees.
I may be being harsh, but the comment sounds like a troll to me; he's describing horrendous, show-stopper bugs like failure to respect basic search filtering criteria which the apparently large number of HN readers with accounts on OKC have failed to report. I don't find the post in any way credible.
Same here - I'd suggest moving the design justification to a separate page and having the project home page start with a less-than-10-line usage example of something useful you can do with it.
Precisely.

I sell adverts on my sites via https://www.buyads.com/ ( iSocket ), and I decline all adverts which are cheap and tacky, but approve adverts which are tastefully done and will appeal to the sector I'm in.

Point is: I'm in control.

Which is great, as I value my community and it would reduce their experience to take tacky adverts, but if it's something that they want and it integrates well, I'd definitely approve it.

The publisher is in control, Patrick gave the publisher the exact kind of thing that they want. Both parties benefit, as do the users. This IS the way to do advertising, where everyone in the equation is very happy with it.
Thank you for pointing this out, once I get the time to sit down on this for a while, I'll have to take a look at all the action on Doom3 in GitHub. Things have really gone crazy, there's literally hundreds of commits on Doom3 in the first 48 hours after the open source release. It's great that they put it on GitHub and not just on an ftp server. This way we can see all the action going on with it.