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And how many businesses really need support for geographically redundant GitHub clones with continuously updating software and configuration ?

If anything, them having this option at all makes no sense, as the real value of GitHub is in the collaboration and discovery tools it brings, useful for contributors working remotely.

Unlimited users, unlimited public repositories -- I have that on my own VPS. I just configured my own Git repository. It's a piece of cake. Even companies like Adobe get along just fine with a Wiki and a Perforce repository.

Basically when selling a product or a service, you do have to ask yourself: how big is the market for this? And I'm not seeing many companies really needing private installs of GitHub and that market is even smaller if the product would be open-source.
FTC regs are backed by truth-in-advertising law.
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But you wouldn't want to refeer to copyrighted software like of of those pirates, would you?
Maybe, but one careless sync from a cafe WIFI might undo all that diligence.
I didn't like Ng's course on ML too much, it is very good if you just want to implement the algorithms, but it gives no insight on why they work.

I enjoyed far more Tom Mitchell's lectures, they gave me a much better understanding of the algorithms described:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/lectures.shtml

There are some comments on HN about it

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3199718
Grooveshark is highly successful on facebook (much more than spotify and pandora), and its been gaining even more fans lately.

http://99like.com/music.php
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One pattern that this guy misses is "better to be clear than to be clever". His "a == x || a == y..." example is a case of verbosity being a good thing, and probably the reason why most languages don't have a == (x or y or z) in their syntax.
And then, if this isn't convoluted enough, he hides it behind an abstraction, which is another anti-pattern: Whatever you need to hide, you need to refactor. Hiding your cleverness away from the user is never a good idea. He even excuses it with "This refactoring allows others to read the code in context to the domain, without having to comprehend the internal logic."
Sadly, this "Don't make me think" attitude is very common.
1) But they set themselves up as a direct competitor in the ad. Their phone versus the iPhone. This image makes them look quite similar to Apple to the lay person.

I like that they make multiple phones. But at a certain point, they're overextending. Surely you agree they need to pare it down, even a little.

You're right- when people want a phone that's not an iPhone, they will look at the Samsung phones. But consumers who want a phone because the image they think it will portray will get the iPhone. It's a status symbol. A Samsung phone doesn't have the same effect. But with this ad, Samsung looks like they're trying to become an alternative to Apple. They need to get their act together and decide who they really want to be.
The issue is not the existence of advertising.

The issue is (primarily for me) the new wave of popup ads that don't let you view the content until you find the 30x30 pixel close area. And secondly the sites where ads have become more important than content (reflected in the design.) And thirdly the dozen social media buttons on every single page.

Non-horrid advertising should be possible for any respectable website. Advertising that abuses your users is only going to be tolerated for so long, and pushes more people to use adblock.
This has been the future of reading on the web for about the last 10 years. It's now so bad that my default browser setup (the one I use for sites I've never visited before / known offenders, as opposed to my online bank) is Firefox + AdBlock + RequestPolicy + NoScript + FlashBlock. Yes, I know some of these overlap. Yes, I probably want to look at Ghostery too. I also run a fairly aggressive filtering proxy on another server on the LAN and all LAN HTTP/HTTPS traffic goes through that by default (with exemptions for some sites that fail to cope). I don't care about your ad dollars. The chances are I don't actually care about your content either, but it's something to do to pass the time. If you want to throw up a paywall, knock yourself out - if the content is good enough, I will pay.

Around this time of year, every dickhead with a WordPress install seems to discover the same crappy JavaScript snow plugin, so that gets a special regexp all to itself in my filtering proxy. I didn't pay for a fast quad core CPU so you can animate snowflakes / leaves / puppies in the most inefficient way possible.

Amusingly the mobile experience is actually better in some ways - a double tap to zoom often fits the actual content postage-stamp-sized region to the screen, and I don't see the rest of the page...
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I recently switched from various settings.yml files to a bash script. I can't believe I hadn't made the move sooner! Such a huuuge improvement.

A few good reasons:

1) Language agnostic -- I can use common configuration for Ruby, Node.js, Makefiles, Bash scripts, etc. Without having to find/use a parser for my config file settings, nor worrying about executing a Ruby script from a Python process, or whatever.

2) Real programming constructs -- I can easily test a boolean condition, interpolate variables, and otherwise minimize copy/paste between configuration sections.

3) Available at bootstrap -- Don't need to install Ruby or Python or anything like that. The very first scripts I run can use the environment without compromise. Particularly useful because machines are bootstrapped with Makefiles, which play well with the environment.

I modeled my app env script on the behavior of the `env` command (in fact, I delegate to it). See an example script in this gist:

https://gist.github.com/1388478

Note the examples. By delegating to `env`, you get a few features for free:

1) Executing any process within the environment

2) Passing additional environment variables on the command line

3) Printing of environments (great for diffing!)
Hm. You must be one of those people who likes that Spotify forces new users to use Facebook.
Why should the laws be ridiculed? They prevent companies from promoting their trade marks as generic terms and then claiming a monopoly on them - rather like the old days when people would sneak patented technologies into IEEE standards and the like and then demand royalties from everyone who implemented them.

If the cost to society of preventing this is limited to one mildly absurdist press release per company, it seems like a pretty good law.
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Having a generic brand name doesn't mean other companies can do that, as there is no legal term defining generic brand names (i.e. a brand name that became synonymous with a product).

Actually, it means exactly that-- as you can tell by the number of companies selling "aspirin" or "cellophane" or "linoleum".

Trademark is precisely the protection that prevents others from selling a product with your name (or one so similar as to be easily confused.)
Sorry about following your OT here, but it's a very interesting thought - That the great firewall might be a factor in over-representing the uniqueness of your own work if prior art is censored from your view.

This reminds me of a video I saw a while back where they showed Chinese students the iconic "man in front of a line of tanks" picture and they failed to recognize it. I wonder whether irony will eat itself in the future - maybe some "capitalist" country will decide to use tanks on its people and they will try to stop it with a human shield. Cue "look at the failure of capitalism - using tanks on their own people who bravely stand up to it!" comments from Chinas statesmen.

Shielding your citizens from material that encourages dissenting thought is a cute plan, but you may end up making them look like fools on the international stage.
At the very least, I'd expect instructions for things like saturated addition
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And we all know that EU Antitrust Commissionner is never shy of some disrupting fines to calm down big companies tampering with the rules of competition.
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Don't think he actually wrote that many SF books - I think I have them all now but maybe I'm mistaken.

In my opinion, he wrote quite a lot of them -- almost 30 fiction books, half of them being novels, and other half collections of stories. Apart of that, he published over 20 non-fiction books, but they were rarely translated to English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Lem#Works
That doesn't seem to be the case when I've looked into the firmware updates. The reason they have different iPhones for ATT and Verizon is they are using completely different radio systems. The firmware updates aren't carrier specific or else the online jailbreaking guides (many include ipsw checksum) wouldn't work in different countries.

Since what CarrierIQ is doing is considered illegal in many countries I'm fairly sure Apple wouldn't want to open themselves up to that type of liability.
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It's a reference to a previous article that specifically called out Microsoft and Apple as tacit SOPA supporters by virtue of their membership in the BSA.
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The copyright law differs between countries.

For example a piece of work that is not copyrightable in one country (even if it is the country of origin) may be copyrightable in another. Also in the US any work published before 1923 is in the public domain, however other countries are not bound by this year.

As far as this discussion is concerned, it is also debatable in some countries if the author is allowed to put his own work in public domain. Basically, there's no such thing as putting a work in the public domain, unless you don't mind limiting its usage (because if a piece of work is not accompanied by a license and is not in the public domain of the country you live in, you have no right to use it).

So if freedom is what you want, new-BSD or MIT are best. Plus, you keep getting the credit, which is nice.
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Side question: are "SW guys" satisfied with the tools/languages available for multi-core development?

I really like Intel's Threading Building Blocks for multicore programming in C++ and I really like Clojures take on time and concurrency, but overall, I feel language support is very limited and library support doesn't mesh as well with the languages as hoped. I would like to see a practical dataflow-centric language.
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There are two powerful techniques here.

One is basic refactoring purity. The idea is that you progress in steps such that at every step the program still works as expected and passes unit tests, implementing the classic "build replacement, switch client code, deprecate old code, remove old code" cycle.

The other is the idea of feature flags, which allow you to turn on or off various experimental code paths configurationally. This technique is especially powerful when used on high-traffic web sites (google, amazon, and facebook use it extensively). You can basically roll out new features or even backend changes slowly to a percentage of your users at a time, with the ability to roll back as necessary. It's a very powerful risk mediation tool.
I remember all these people who told me that no web browser will ever gain market share on Internet Explorer, because "Dude, it's preinstalled on their computers" and "people don't even know what a browser is".

I sometimes wonder how the world would look like today if Steve Ballmer had the power back then to simply reject Firefox. Or if Apple had to ask Sony for permission to release a new smartphone.
I may be being dumb, but is there a good tutorial for LuaTeX?
The company where I currently work, which is highly successful (ranked 9th fastest growing software company by Inc 500 last year) has a management team filled with PhD's, MBA's, and Management Consultants.

Some ways in which the MBA/Management Consulting mentality has really helped the company:

-Extreme customer focus. HN talks a lot about knowing your customer, but the management here takes it to a much higher level. The exacting level of detail of how well they understand users, as well as the amount of time/money they're willing to invest in training their employees to understand their customers is astounding, and pays in spades.

-Really good Sales/Marketing

-Since we started out with consulting, the company has always been profitable, and always had a very clear line of sight as to what brings in the money

-Very well thought out, long term strategy. The company has the next several years planned out, yet the strategy is flexible enough to take into account new technological innovations, data from customer responses, and even new exceptional employees

-Very well done hiring. I haven't met anyone at the company I would consider stupid-in fact, I haven't met anyone I wouldn't consider smart

-Excellent resource management...even as the company has grown money and people are assigned to the projects that consistently provide the most leverage, rather than being tacked onto the emergency of the day

Now the MBA/Management Consulting strength is not the only thing that has allowed the company to succeed-we are roughly 60% hackers and our CTO is absolutely phenomenal. But having management with such strong business skills is a MASSIVE force multiplier.
I don't get this... I'm all for abolishing design, software and other patents, but isn't the whole point of a patent to create a monopoly (supported by law) in some area? Patents are after all supposed to forbid others from competing with you by reusing your ideas...

It looks to me like antitrust idea colliding with patents idea in practice, rather than the commissioner going after a specific company...
This one ? http://www.infoq.com/interviews/beck-implementation-patterns
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You're not allowed to have a gun at home in NYC, either. It's the worst of both worlds.
This is just the beginning guys! Big web properties are becoming more like a TV Network. They interrupt you with an ad because they think that if their name is not some power of 10 then they have to use this TV-like experience. Maybe they're right but if this "platformization" thing catches on then you will _not_ have option to block them out!

I don't know the solution but I'm (we're) trying with our startup.
Have you read the entirety of the first amendment? It has some bits about peaceable assembly and press in there too.

Been to NYC lately?
Well, I guess the "How did you even know there was an opportunity?" bit could be considered "selling", but all of the rest of that is stuff that needs decision making and agreement on both sides before the bill gets paid. And somebody other than the developer is going to have to do and/or manage it all. Who's paying for that time?

Or do you honestly think 6 hours worth of coding @ $100/hr is all a job like that requires?

Have you ever worked with a government department?
I'm still hoping that something like Flattr can work. It should be possible to have a middle ground between "everything is ad supported" and "everything requires subscriptions or credit cards", especially for niche "small" content (that don't take months or years to produce) where the audience can appreciate the work done and its value.
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I don't know about most people, but I don't read many articles from the same source: I read a few from some online newspaper, then some from another, then a blog post, etc. Now take NYT.com: the minimum subscription is $15/month - it's absurdly expensive for the three or four articles I might read there.

You need to solve micropayments to make paywalls work.
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That's a pretty nice hack :)

I believe the point of that article is: Get out of your comfort zone.

When we get out of our comfort zone, we learn :)

Same with traveling I guess :)
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in the UK offset mortgages are one solution to this problem: say you have a mortgage of £200k remaining, and £50k in a linked instant access savings account, then you only pay interest on £150k (no tax to pay on that effective interest either).
The tucking-away of current_date and current_day inside discount_day? is a mess. If either change between calls to discount_day?, suddenly discount_day? is returning the wrong value. That method returns different values given the same inputs; it's not a good candidate for being memoized.

(Furthermore, it's harder to test, as now current_date and current_day need to be stubbed out. It's also less obvious which day is being checked with regards to being discount day or not.)

I'd recommend having discount_day? taking a date as the argument, and having it invoked as discount_day?(current_date). (The day can then be calculated from the provided date.)
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To quote the review (which I've read more than the source):

The Zone Memory Allocator(common.c: Z_Malloc, Z_Free,
Z_TagMalloc , Z_FreeTags) is still here in Quake2 but
it is pretty much useless:
Tagging is never used and allocation/deallocation is
build on top of malloc and free (I have no idea why id
software decided to trust the C Standard Library at this
point).
The overflow detector (using the Z_MAGIC contant) is
never used either.

So, unless I totally misunderstand things, it is half C stdlib, half Hunk allocator?
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At what point did it ever say it was about "his discoveries in depth"? The programme was what it was, the fact that it wasn't the programme you wanted to watch meant you should have read the description or switched off earlier.
That sounds pretty plausible to me. Remember that the BSA is an organisation that is in constant danger of looking like a cartel. To avoid giving this impression too strongly, it's quite likely they have a fair degree of autonomy over copyright enforcement policy. After all, the whole reason the BSA exists is to keep its harassment of small businesses at arm's length from its members.

That being the case, it's not entirely surprising that the BSA would support anything that appears to make copyright enforcement easier for them. Nor is it particularly surprising that some of its members would find SOPA in conflict with their other interests and request that the BSA adopt a more nuanced position.

I guess that's just not as much fun as some of the other conspiracy theories I see in this thread.
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Only if that's your business model.

The New York Times paywall seems to be earning them a fair bit of revenue, and they're more than happy to give you the three or four articles a month you'd read there for free-- you're not their target market segment.
Thanks for sharing your story and giving a different angle.

Don't give up and don't let yourself get down by a momentary setback.

If you were good for that contract, you probably still are as good or better now, and you'll get another one as good or better hopefully.

I'd advise against getting drunk but that's me.
Your are focusing on classic applications only.

The GA144 is so different from the classic way of computing that it requires new approaches of development. One very interesting feature of GA144 is that all 144 cores can share instructions over I/O lines. That means every core can send instructions to their neighbors who execute them directly without conversion.

I/O ist fast enough. I guess it should be possible to have (someday) an external interface to SRAM which circumvents the low memory problem.

> They offer no compiler from high-level language like C.

That's right, and that's the real weak spot of GA144. Almost every microcontroller board today comes with C or alike. Mr. Moore loves Forth but I doubt that there are many developers out there who like to be forced to learn Forth just for this single platform. I know Forth, it was one of my first languages I ever learned. It is perfectly suitable for embedded systems but you have to learn a lot to master it.
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Code Academy is not a consulting or contracting company. Code Academy doesn't really work like anyone else works.
Well, we have to add to all that stuff a step 0) get a freelance / remote job that pays in dollars, euros or pounds.

That's what I'm looking forward to, at least :)
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Especially if that wealth comes from your SO and not yourself, making you totally depedent. That's even worse than just being bored without work.
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You asked for proof that the data is correctly and securely used. That is what cannot be proved, regardless of your trust in the company or lack thereof.
You have to be kidding me. How hard is it to distinguish Code Academy from codecademy in Neal's comment? Neal just referenced Code Academy multiple times in this comment, but you put codecademy?

Not only that, but the two companies couldn't be anymore different. If you truly love what Neal is doing, you would know that you have not completed the program, because that would mean that you are a student in Chicago who is currently 8 weeks through the Code Academy program.

We can disagree about what approach is the best to take when teaching people how to code, but we can at get the names of companies and what they do right.
So it's been more than 6 hours since this was posted. There must be a few clones of the Android version by now. Links, anyone?
It would be interesting to see what proportion of apps are bought by people who buy the low end Android phones that are actually cheaper than iPhones. I suspect the answer is not many.
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I had no idea about Stainslaw Lem till now. Just because of that doodle , I'm gonna read his work :)