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I love Dragonriders of Pern the way I love Redwall. The plot(s) are predictable beyond belief, but the easy readability and sheer volume of the series fed my ongoing obsession with science fiction and fantasy through childhood and sharpened my love of reading. I owe a lot to the good storytelling of people such as McCaffrey.

May she rest in peace.
According to this page (http://www.bsa.org/country/BSA%20and%20Members/Our%20Members...) Apple is a member.
I really hope these have a good application for DSP. I can imagine the sweet homebrew synths that people will be coming up with.
One of my favorite things about this ad (which I like for the most part)is the 'See more at facebook.com/samsungmobileUSA' Now there's something Apple would never do. It's a generic, silly idea. I never want to go to a FB page to learn about a product. How about an official website?

As a few previous bloggers have pointed out (http://digithoughts.com/post/12962540298/apple-vs-samsung-pi...), Samsung needs to seriously simplify its message and product line if it wants to compete.
Less than 1% has JavaScript turned off. The answer to your question is the same as to if a website should support Netscape 3.

I would say the answer depends on what the target audience is, what kind of site it is, and how much time it will save.
This is a great feature of open source hardware! Arduino has shown that there are plenty of platform plays in the physical world. The MakerBot builds on the RepRap mostly, and makes money doing the leg work of getting the parts to you easy / quick / cheap. Now the tons (10+ projects?) of clones coming out build on this platform.

Excited to see the future of open hardware.
As I've said elsewhere, conservation of incompetence seems the likeliest explanation. The companies have better things to do, so no one in charge realizes that they're dues paying members of an organization that's advancing a truly moronic cause.

Until the press gets involved, then things get escalated and straightened back out.

Assuming that's in the neighborhood of truth, it highlights the importance of a press free from government and corporate interference.
I'm curious as to the average age of committers by project under the ASF vs. popular projects on github. My hypothesis is that they would be older by a significant margin.
One of the coolest things on that list is the "RE<C Initiative" http://www.google.org/rec.html

Some of it's videos have 8 (now 9 I guess) views. I'm confused as it's not a major project and hardly anything to cancel. This must be the most press it's ever had.
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"What’s more, the company is demanding that Eckhart inform Carrier IQ of the names of all persons to which Eckhart has forwarded the training material. The company also wants Eckhart to send “written retractions” to everybody who has viewed his research in hard copy or on the web."

Insane.
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Social Media Marketing is exactly what it sounds like, doing marketing activities by using social media sites.

Unfortunately most people stop right there. They will ‘friend’ or connect with as many people as they can and blast their affiliate links to
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That sounds like an awesome way to carve out a niche. Best of luck to you!
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This is great news. I think HN and it's members probably helped a lot in making this happen. Give yourselves a pat on the back, you're enacting change!
And juuusst as the anti-SOPA movements were giving me hope.

Way to go, Universal.
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Most game projects do end up having to write a custom allocator, due to very specific memory budgets, deterministic malloc/free perf requirements, and issues with fragmentation.
Scala doesn't permit operator overloading, it doesn't even have operators.
As a web-based company we felt it worthwhile to write an open letter to Congress about the Protect IP legislation that could dramatically affect the ability for companies like ours to do business. While the bill aims to disrupt piracy, most experts have agreed that it will do little to actually battle piracy and instead will impose radical censorship on the Internet in a way that could potentially kill off start up companies like ours.

Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and many other web firms have spoken out against the bill, but with entertainment groups outspending the tech industry in lobbying by more than 10-to-1, this is a hard fight.

I was hoping you could take a couple minutes to read the short letter we wrote: http://www.startupsforopeninternet.org If you feel strongly about supporting it, we'd love your signature and any help you can provide to help get the word out about this legislation.

If it passes, the Internet could potentially stop being the free and open arena in which companies like ours have been able to flourish.
Why should they simplify? I mean, they are certainly are competing: leader in global market share for smartphones, have nearly 30% of the profits of handsets in general. They must be doing something right.

I never get this "Not like Apple, must be bad" mentality.
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Certainly no one would buy the enterprise version of Github if it was free though. Just a thought.
Much of this is pretty unsurprising, especially for people like me who watched the attempted transition of OOo to Apache.

The way the article puts it is that the ASF is trying to solve problems that don't exist anymore, which is true to an extent, but the deeper problem is that the ASF has a particular view of how open source development and project management work, and attempts to impose that view on far too diverse a community, even as it tries to absorb more and more communities.

The ASF is simultaneously trying to be "big tent" and unified, and the balance is all out of whack. It's easy to draw parallels to recent political problems in the US and EU. In all three cases, there's going to have to be some transformations, probably in both society/community and structure, to come back to a place where the institution contributes to the greater good, instead of being a source of unending tension and meta-arguments.
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Sorry, I missed the point about "caring more as a local". I concur with that.
Some of the comments from people in line are funny - it's a clever ad. I just don't think it's gonna do all that much to stem the Apple/iPhone juggernaut any time soon. The ecosystem around the iPhone is enormous - the cases, adapters, accessories all will fit and work with pretty much any iPhone from the last couple of years (tens of millions of them). Some hotels you go to now have alarm clocks with iPod/iPhone docks in them. This is a device which is being ingratiated in to society. A cute ad talking about a bigger screen is probably not going to do much to sway people. Samsung coming up with a truly different experience - say, in the way people buy the device - would get converts. I'm thinking specifically of selling the device with no contract or "subsidized" pricing schemes - just saying, hey this is $199, then taking a cut of sales from an app market (bundle a kick-ass Samsung marketplace app and start courting devs, for example). Or promoting Kindle on the bigger screen and taking a few cents from each Kindle.

Or something - something different from what we've had from phone companies for years. Model XYF573 - rev2! Now with more colors! Oh, and 4G! Then 2 months later that model isn't produced any more, and we're on to rev3, which is a different form factor... wash, rinse, repeat. Yes, I exaggerate slightly, but I got tired of trying to compare all the various specs some time ago.

I was a linux guy for years, and got tired of things not working, not being mainstream, etc. I was a Linux guy when Windows was cool, then Linux when Mac was cool. I finally caved in and went Mac. It's good - nay, just easier - being part of the majority for a while. It's not that I don't think about my tech choices, I just spend more time thinking about stuff at another level of abstraction (get an iPhone, now decide which of the X thousand apps I want to use to make my life better). Getting device X solely because of specs (bigger screen!) generally won't make my life easier/better.

Apple is on top right now, just like MS/Windows was in the 90s. Something will displace them in the next 10-15 years, but it won't be the Samsung Galaxy $MODEL, and it won't be this ad.
If the EFF announced support for a bill that would negatively change the entire landscape of the internet as we know it, would you still be a member of the EFF? Would you continue paying dues and remain silent on the issue?
>We are now to the point where we have almost more gates than we know what to do with,

limits of von Neumann architecture (and its underlying mathematics of recursive functions) as a mental framework for our thinking about computing.
> Samsung needs to seriously simplify its message and product line if it wants to compete.

This comment makes no sense to me for two reasons: 1) They're doing something wholly different than Apple; they're not trying to make The Phone (TM), they're trying to make a bunch of phones that fit different needs, and 2) They already compete. And quite well, I might add, since they're the global leader in smartphone sales for the most recent quarter. http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/15/gartners-q3-2011-smartpho...
Are you going to argue that there is a sufficiently low barrier to enter the mobile phone market? At some point the costs to enter a market are so large that a disruptive force can't feasibly form. In that case, free market forces can't act, so it becomes impossible to have a fully free market.
I hesitate to divide the world into "FPGA guys" and "non-FPGA guys". It's a continuum of computing power; CPU<->DSP<->FPGA, and one moves up and down it as the task varies and technology changes.

If anything defines an "FPGA guy" is choice of language. Historically FPGAs have been programmed with an HDL, such as VHDL or Verilog, because these languages are concurrent meaning they handle parallel systems.

My prediction is that as mainstream multicore CPUs develop we will see the rise of concurrent versions of mainstream languages, which will supplant HDLs. Just as DSP's are now programmed in (almost) vanilla C/C++/..., we will see FPGAs being programmed using the same languages as micros and DSPs. It will then be possible to write code and (almost) seamlessly run it on any platform, depending on how fast it needs to run.
I fail to see how a merger such as this will create jobs. Wouldn't a merger give the companies an opportunity to reduce redundancy? For example, there are many T-Moblie retail locations within a mile or so of an AT&T location. There is an opportunity for consolidation there. Additionally, they could consolidate customer service and billing operations and reduce redundant positions there as well. Where would they be adding jobs to make up for those losses?
You would probably want to buy the Evaluation Board which lets you control the machine using USB ports and an ASCII console.

The thing is, it's just a computer. The real value of this is hooking it to hardware to actually do something. So I suggest starting here instead: http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/budget.html and learning how to work with hardware as well.
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For hackers The Ship Who Sang is probably the seminal work. Trans-humanist before its time (1969).
Indeed, it actually is widely viewed as a genre for 'hacks', so much so that I assumed he was using the old, non-stupid connotation of the word. See: last Sunday's episode of the Simpsons, which mercilessly mocked Harry Potter and its imitators. That being said, I enjoyed McCaffrey back in the day.
Providing value is nothing more than fulfilling someone else's desire, whether that desire is for a shiny new car that accelerates very quickly, or a new way to communicate, or something pretty to look at, or something delicious to eat, or etc., etc.

Luckily, human beings have essentially unlimited desires. For this reason, there will always be sufficiently valuable things for people to do.

If there is truly nothing valuable for an entire population to do, ie if machines can fulfill every desire we can dream up, it means humanity has finally created utopia.
This is probably a myth.

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You can get some debugging information using:

http://www.google.com/?lem-debug&lem-show-performance

If you press [N] you can skip the scene. [T] simulates a hit in the canon scene. [Space] fast-forwards.

Source (readable after using a beautifier):

http://www.google.de/logos/2011/lem.2.js
I think you can download the mp3 files with the netvideohunter or other downloader add-ons for Firefox.
It kind of has to be less performant, just because ECDHE uses more bignum crypto primitives.
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As I understand it, this is exactly why the contracts and grants people where I work like it...
I work as a gov't contractor. I just installed it on my iPhone, it works fine. Good job.

Also... the contracting process is similar to what he describes anyway, in fact it is better. For example [SBIR](http://www.sbir.gov/) (I hope hn uses markdown) are small business requests for R&D on everything from software to engineering. A small amount of $$ is given up front, and then more if the project becomes field testable, more if it becomes usable.
Very well said. I was going to write something like that but don't have to. Yay for up votes!
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And once enough of its members kicked up a fuss, it would probably change its position on that matter.

Sound familiar?
He was travelling writing, programming and having the best time of his life. Now he is just programming....Is that supposed to be a happy ending or sad ending? I couldn't tell from reading his post.
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No, and no. But when did the BSA announce support for SOPA directly? I may have missed this, but I never saw anything of the sort.
Hmm, I have been meaning to make a tutorial on something Android related. They tend to bring in traffic to my blog :p
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Indeed, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Mini (5570) for my girlfriend here in Uruguay, and it's amazing... all you'd expect from a smartphone at a developed-world affordable price (U$ 200 unlocked).

If Samsung can win the bottom of the pyramid from Nokia, they don't need to compete directly with Apple, and it's a far bigger market.
I have made a clone of Sproutcore implementation of their TemplateView but for Backbone.

You can find it at http://github.com/juggy/backrub

It gives almost the same functionalities of knockout.
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Well written.

I wrote a similar article recently as well...

http://lookfirst.com/2011/11/contributing-to-open-source.htm...
I second this thoroughly. I was was almost driven to start blogging last week by ASF's poor job of maintaining its projects. There was a small bug in Solr. I was not the first to find this bug, and someone had not only reported the bug, but filed a patch on the bug tracker a year and a half ago. The patch was never merged in, nobody provided any feedback as to why the patch wasn't merged in.

One huge plus with Github is that if the official steward of a project would like to hand it off to someone else, or is failing to maintain it, it is trivial for someone else to take over the project.
"Damn this cube."

I immediately had a picture of a mime.
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(I'm not Pernese myself, though I am a drake. But it seems fitting.)
Only took 8 minutes and 22 seconds to compile this, I was quite surprised. Going to have some fun over the next few days that's for sure! Thanks Carmack, heh.
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I think one reason they've been luckier legally is that they sold a fair fraction of the company to record labels for a pittance early on.
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This is awesome. I'd take you up on this. I've worked at a YC startup as a first non-tech employee and have self taught myself a good amount of Python/Django/HTML/CSS. If there's any add'tl info you need to make your decision, feel free to contact. Email is zain.allarakhia@gmail.com
As far as I know, the cores aren't clocked. Instead Chuck designed his own transistors using his own OKAD II VLSI tools to be efficient on the CMOS process node with switching speeds being dictated by the transistor type and interconnect electrical properties, then designed the cores so that they're only switching those transistors when they do actual work.
Seems to be a port of http://hackertyper.net/
Yeah, I was quite confused by his comment for a few minutes, what with calling it a hack genre and praising it, all in the same comment!
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>freeing up mental capacity.

another way he seems to have found to free mental capacity - his text is suspiciously lacking mentioning of abstractions and design patterns. Switching between implementations? There is a pattern for that!
Damn, somehow I missed hearing about Diana Wynne Jones. Sad few years.
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Wait a second - there is no mention of "Apple" at all in this article (or the one it references).
Sounds like an amazing opportunity! If you were in Portland, I'd seriously consider quitting my job to dive in.

I'm a non-programmer slowly trying to teach myself in my off time, but it's slow, lonely, hard-to-stay-motivated going. I've contacted a few local web dev companies to try to come in as an unpaid intern to at least try to get into a more conducive environment, but haven't had much luck.

Please keep us updated on how this goes! And if anyone knows of a similar opportunity in Portland, I'd love to hear about it.
Wow, thank you for mentioning Diana. I read some of her books a long time ago, and they are on a very short list of books that have stuck in the back of my mind. I just couldn't remember the author or the titles, until now.
Just because you can't 'see' the fork with subversion doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I'm sure plenty of ASF projects are 'forked' within companies and the code is never shared.

What I've been advocating for a while now on the members@apache list is that the ASF look at using Github (either they host it or the ASF does) as the basis to build a new type of community that the ASF has never experienced before. Something that isn't tied to the old school.
From the article I assumed we were discussing...

'Holleyman's stance marks a reversal for BSA, which originally supported the bill. In a press statement last month, Holleyman said the bill was "a good step" to "address the problem of online piracy."'
Internally at Google it was a lot bigger deal, mostly because of the huge power budget of data centers.

Personally, I'm surprised they killed it. The team was fairly small, and they had made some good progress on various initiatives. Perhaps if they had moved them under the Google Power company [1] it would have made more sense.

[1] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/google-applies-to-b...
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BSA's members only kicked up a fuss once people like you and I started making noise.
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Maybe not anymore with storyboarding and ARC in iOS5 ;)
I dunno about that. Spotify offers pretty much the same service, and is legal.
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Then fork it. It's open source for a reason. Or raise a fuss on the mailing list. That's how open source works.
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You're a quick couple of shell commands away from stripping them off yourself, if it's that big a deal.
Yes, a member but it is not mentioned at all in this article.

yumraj's original point still stands.
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#1 and #2 are annoying. They need to stop it.

#3 I do not want to mouse over everything to find out what button to click. I'd prefer it if they labeled the buttons.

I prefer interface design that isn't stupid.
Similar thoughts here. That I've grown beyond her stories is something I have to give her stories some credit for.
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I'm going to be honest and say that as a developer my policy toward Android web users is similar to the one I have for Internet Explorer users. It goes something like, "Eh, they're used to the web looking shitty."

This is all barring those specific users and/or cases being called out in my site requirements documentation, of course...
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I was deliberately using the now-mostly-archaic sense of the noun referring to dragons. It puns nicely on my given name, among other reasons.
Self-enforcing, assuming you have assembled a decent list of companies you are recruiting for. You have created Joe, a new valuable job candidate, and if there was just one company looking for a guy like Joe, then they would make him eat the cost of tuition (reduce his comp), but since he is a great guy that five or six companies are competing for, the offers they each give him have to be competitive.
So the issue here is not that the TeX codebase is messy, but that it doesn't conform to Apple's App Store guidelines, right?
I've worked with several projects where a TCMalloc based allocator (threaded) was used to great success. A simple switch to DLMalloc (non-threaded) can also provide a significant performance boost.

Moderate usage of STL can do nasty, nasty things to memory performance. In one case a game I worked on ran at 5-10fps and a simple, fast change to DLMalloc instantly took perf to 60fps.
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