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I have no knowledge of the hybrid or backbone, but knockout is open source and has a significant mind share. If it did go away, it would be for something as good or better that existing apps could port to. If you didn't port you could fix any bugs yourself; I don't see that as more difficult than implementing the library's features yourself.
I think the fact that Accelerator funds are going global can only be a good thing- each Accelerator's value can vary, of course. But overall, a net positive for sure
There was a patent issue; this delayed the release slightly whilst it was removed.
Tip: they added direct URL cloning a while ago, so you can copy/paste without adding .git:

git clone https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl
Reason for working on a PRIVATE repo?: Committing code to side-projects during work hours.
They're going to need really good import and export tools. If they can provide those, then most of the objections to the change go away. If they can't, then I doubt it will gain traction.
I had this problem when I was living in Thailand. I just set up OpenVPN on my linode, problem solved.

http://library.linode.com/networking/openvpn
Just in case anyone else was put off by the horrible web fonts and absurd claim in the very first sentence, I'll just add another comment that on balance this is an interesting piece if you stick with it.
That's not exactly how I had pictured it, but I can see how my wording could be interpreted the way you saw it. I'm not proposing the APIs be the ONLY way to get the information. Government websites can be useful when done right. What I'm suggesting is that instead of getting into the smartphone app business at this point in the market, have the website be accessible to anyone (maybe with a mobile hook around the site) plus APIs for all the sources the site can give you. That way there's a free and established method of getting the information where you want it, while there can also be a closer-to-bleeding-edge version available in a more convenient format if you so choose.

I didn't really mean "that the government never engage itself in building frontends", I meant that the government, at this point, refrain from building smartphone apps. Until the app market is as standardized and established as the web, it will always be a waste of money to build apps for one platform, and a money sink to include them all.

Sorry for the miscommuication.
My Personal Experience With Sensory Deprivation
The Propeller chip http://www.parallax.com/propeller/ is another embedded market chip in the same vein although nowhere near as many cores. Having something like this make for some interesting embedded designs.

Also, check the site for the arrayForth stuff.

On another note, it would be interesting if something like these existed in the 64-bit size. Larrabee is interesting, but if it was a simpler stack machine at around this price point then perhaps some work could be done on different ways to do parallelism.
There's One more here, again from Minnesota interested in this course.
Not sure if it's a legitimate "problem" or not, but how about the availability of single chips, or 10-packs?

Assuming someone wanted to produce a prototype board, but didn't want to purchase 1000's of CPU chips, are there many CPU chip makers who offer low quantities like this?
The MIT license has no patent release. I think this alone should eliminate it for all but the most basic of projects. Yet the author doesn't even seem to realize this.
Given the size of the codebase, you most probably want to use ctags, or something like Intellisense for Windows.
US Senator Hosts Meetings with 'Cold Fusion' Inventor
I don't understand why the CEO was uploading illegal files. Seems like the worst possible thing he could have done -- really kills any "we're trying to provide a legal service; not our fault our users are uploading copyrighted material" arguments. The safe harbors won't protect them if this is true.

I remember hearing Shawn Fanning say he never shared anything illegal on Napster.
Startups for an Open Internet
> Wacky XML, fixed length fields, unique fields that aren't really unique.

If you've ever done enterprise integration, sadly, this is far from exceptional - in fact, it's the norm.
Will upvote as well. What I would suggest--to get even more attention--is have some sort of trailer or 'short' to get people interested.

I think the focus as suggested above should be on making a raw, "real," depiction of start-up life (Peter Thiel is making a video supposedly with the same general idea...but it's very likely it will be too "hollywood").
Signals with Urwid for Python, Ncurses Library
I'm a user of Backbone, Coffeescript across several projects - and generally a fan of your work. However, your comment makes me feel like you are missing what your users are saying and falling back on your opinions about code vs considering the actual utility of the library.

You can't say "we're talking about the style in which you think", and then say "the UI is your business", and then be disheartened when developers handle the UI with a library like knockout.js.

I write apps to provide a user experience and backbone only provides a conceptual model for a portion of this (specifically the model, collection / syncing). Its extremely clean and elegant.

However, backbone does not provide an elegant conceptual model for the UI/DOM. Using declarative bindings and JS generated templates is just fine from a coding point of view (I've built a few apps this way), but frankly its not a very powerful mental model - nor is it necessary consistent with the design patterns in backbone that make it shine.

I'll tell you the conceptual model of using a view model to control html templates is more empowering. I don't like the syntax and a lot of things about Knockout - however to me knockout is a nice abstraction on top of jquery event bindings, much like Backbone.sync is a nice abstraction on top of $.ajax.
It appears that CM's intent with the F18A core is to create an extremely low power processor that scales the number of cores to the complexity of the problem being addressed -- look at the reference sheets about what the requirements are to maintain core states.

The design makes more sense when you stop trying to think of it as an ARM or AVR competitor, and more like a replacement for FPGA's.
Had a rough look on it's instruction set and didn't see anything resembling DSP instructions. So i'm not sure it would be great for all those uses.

On the other hand, picochip sells a 200-300 core DSP , that is being used for the wireless industry.
Amazon should open physical stores
Jeff Johnson's Non-Stop Traffic Formula
Kinda wish they would keep FriendConnect. It is a nice container to run Javascript apps on 3rd party sites (it proxies your requests so you can call your home server and serve up data). Also, the polling and newsletter apps that are baked into the FriendConnect toolset was sure nice.

Also it kinda sucks that I trusted them to handle the sign-in for my community. 12K users. {Sigh}
Google runs about 3% of all the webservers in the world. They have a very vested interest in cheap and clean energy.

I don't think it's arrogance at all to launch a program to explore solutions to the problem when they'd be one of the prime beneficiaries of such a program, and given their corporate culture of "fix things that haven't been done right yet".
Metrics that Matter for 2012 (one page PDF)
I've always loved fantasy literature. I've grown to see it as a kind of hack genre – it can discuss social issues which readers might find boring or even repellent by creating a world so fantastic that the story's tempting anyway. Lazier readers (myself included) who aren't so interested in realism can pick up a book for the cover or the story or the world and walk away with a lot of thoughts about a lot of things. There's truly a magic to fantasy writing.

Sad that slowly the writers I loved as a kid are dying. Last year was Diana Wynne Jones, who wasn't as popular as McCaffrey but whom I always loved the most. Now this. I couldn't often get into McCaffrey's style but she influenced many of the authors I loved, to the point where I can't think of dragons without thinking of her.

I hope that her life was joyful and her passing was peaceful.
Caring for your canon sd780is digital camera
IGC implements fast realtime garbage collection for ios5
iGC™ is an innovative run-time fast garbage collector designed for IOS.
Possibly because it's patented. There was a dispute with Creative Labs about the method.
That defeats the point. You want to get the attention of the people working at the desk of the congressman, not the people working in Cannon/Longworth/Rayburn/etc.

The people working in the congressman's office are the ones who actually have the working relationships with the elected officials (to the point where they can sometimes pressure them if they think that constituents are feeling a certain way, based on calls/letters).
I've done many write-ups on this if you look under my profile. Basically the idea is that most of the big problems in software engineering can't be solved easily in a serial fashion with current methodologies, and many of the existing parallel solutions are either too expensive or two complicated to advance the state of the art. I wish I had this chip 15 years ago...
this is a brilliant idea, kudos to you
Good idea, but I don't really feel comfortable building a business at constant risk of some new whim from Apple's security algorithms. I know quite a few other iOS devs have made this work but I feel like I've had the better part of a year's work yanked out from under me and I don't want to take a chance of that happening again.
Sorry, just out of curiosity how much (in average) a Junior Rail Developer can make in San Francisco or in New York. Thanks
This is definitely hacker-bait. Cue up all the folks complaining about wasteful government, then cue up the hotshot programmer folks who will tell us they can code this in 2 hours while drunk, then cue up the FOIA folks, then the folks who feel any critique at all of government is indicative of right-wing extremism, and so on.

I remember when the IRS spent 4 Billion on a new computer system and had nothing to show for it. The joke I used for a week was "Hell, they could have paid me $2 Billion and still not had anything to show for it -- and saved half their money."

The problem those of us with lots of internal government experience is that most "normal" folks have literally no idea how much waste there is. Yes, it's like a big university. Yes, it's like BigCorp. But no, it's so far beyond those concepts that if that's the only frame of reference you have, you've missed it.

I love my country and love paying taxes for it to do useful things. But there simply is no system in place for shutting things down. It just keeps growing. In the private sector the measurement is "does it do something that folks will pay us for?" because if it doesn't, folks eventually stop paying, and the company goes away (although it might take decades). In the public sector the metric is "does it make a politician look bad?"

There's a reason Congress delegates all these powers to all these agencies. It's the same reason we have so many "Tsars". Nobody is directly accountable. It's all set up so that if there is a problem, some poor schmuck gets hauled before an investigative committee to get the riot act read to them. That way the guys who are supposed to be really responsible -- the Congressmen -- get to play the part of the person looking to fix things. Politics. It's a beautiful thing.

So at the end of the day I'm not really sure this is newsworthy. I could tell similar stories involving tens of millions of dollars, and I bet we could come up with a list of hundreds of these things. Anybody remember the FBI case file system? This is just way small peanuts. Perhaps the "Android app" part of it is enough to be newsworthy, but in my mind that's a benefit: today there are a lot of people pleading to move away from COBOL systems in some government agency -- and losing. I feel really sorry for those guys.
Visualizing success also isn't positive if you aren't prepared for the emotional downfall when you don't get that success... it's like your hopes are boosted to such high levels that anything but success will lead to depression
RIP Capitalism. It cracks me up when people here in Australia cite America as a shining bastion of capitalism, when purchases are regulated 'in the public interest'.
Tilera does a 64-bit CPU with 64/100cores.If they would offer access to it using a pay-per-hour model, that would be interesting.
Production Error Tracking

Concur. It is an immensely useful tool, simple as it may be to set up. There are services that do it for you (getexceptional), but it literally takes only a few hours to throw your own together.

Issue tracking is probably moving too much into management territory for this list, which is why I think they left it out.

It's probably for the same reasons that they don't touch upon server management/configuration, but I have personally found puppet (or other similar tool) very useful. It's basically source control for your server configuration - once you start using it, it seems reckless to not have.
I give it a week before someone forks and adds it back in, just to spite Creative.
Looks like it terminated.
That's less "core" than what Tom seems to mean. By looking at the examples he provides, the essential distinction seems to be this:

If somebody found the code, would cloning your business be the obvious thing to do with it?

This isn't true of Grit. It is true of the core GitHub app, and it is true of the GitHub Jobs app.

Interacting with Git from Ruby is not the core business value of GitHub. It's just something GitHub does in the process of providing its real core business value, which is the awesome interface and collaboration features they've built on top of Git.
From this article it sounds like gate-first is the reason for the very poor yield GlobalFoundries is having.

Everyone else has switched to gate-last. GlobalFoundries trumps gate-first on their website, but to me it sounds like a negative.
From this PDF http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB001-100... GreenArrays seems to think it would support DSP

"SUITABILITY: The GA144 is designed to support the largest and most demanding
computing challenges that can be addressed with a modest sized die in a relatively
inexpensive and easy to use package while still using well less than 650 mW in most
practical applications. The geometry allows for generous numbers of parallel paths
and/or pipeline stages, or for complex flowgraphs in control, simulation, or DSP
applications. Clusters of nodes devoted to functions such as cryptographic
algorithms are easily placed in the large array, and the cluster needed to control
external memory and run a high level language from it is well out of the way but has
good surface area for interaction with other functions. Use it also as a universal
protoytping platform for applications destined to run on our smaller chips. "
all of these are also good for you, but the senescent cell model was the first one to suggest a mechanism of action for hormesis to me.
I heard Kent Beck talk about this technique in an InfoQ video years ago. Not to belittle it though; it’s a good technique, I’ve used it a few times.
I was never a fan the way I am with other authors, but she was a deeply influential author. RIP.
Cons is short for construct and comes from Lisp which has weird names for things; things like car and cdr.

It means construct a new list.

A cons A (or A :: B) means create a new list with A before B, where B can be a list item or a list itself and A is a list item.

The :: operator is right associative so "Jim" :: "Bob" :: Nil actually works like ("Jim" :: ("Bob" :: Nil) ) (Actually all operators that end in : are right associative in Scala.)

For more see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cons
If having experience and dedicating entire lives to the subject was the requirement for success, I think it would be easier to build great companies. 'Experience' can in many ways prohibit innovation because it constrains ones horizon.
the quoted study seems to be specifically about visualizing attainment of a goal as opposed to successful execution of some skill, which is the context that I'm familiar with these visualization techniques being useful (ie making free-throws rather than winning a trophy).
Definitely interested. It sounds like you're living the life I want to live. Damn this cube...
How can you say this when every item in your list is currently supported? Unicode, open type, pdf, etc. are all currently supported by new distributions.
As an extension to this, have you validated the idea? I ask because your phrasing is "what I think our app should do," but this could easily mean "my interpretation of customer feedback/iteration."

This doesn't matter to someone who is going to just code it up on a contract, but if you're looking for longer term or to give equity they will probably ask, or at least should.
They have and the tracks pop back up*

*According to the leaked emails.
Candida Cures
I think the assumption was that the uploading of files to Grooveshark was covered by the DCMA's fair use clause. I guess he was confident of their model and its legality.
The source for the physics engine (https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl/tree/master/neo/game/phys...) looks rather interesting. Might contain valuable additions for other physics engines to pick up.
Netflix to sell $400m of own shares, lose money through 2012
Better something than nothing.

Cache all the things!
Hey -- it's great to have the discussion. You describe a "nice abstraction on top of jQuery event bindings"... I'd be very curious to know, without any particular implementation in mind, what would you consider to be an ideal API to work with in JavaScript, to control these pieces of HTML UI? Do you have any (pseudo)code you could share?
In my experience (over a decade consulting to government in Canada), not charging enough can sometime put you at a competitive disadvantage. The purchasing decisions are often made by someone who doesn't understand the technology and their prime concern is risk. They don't want to be "the guy who chose the vendor who screwed up". In government, as often as not, you may not get promoted for doing something great so much as by not doing anything bad.

A lot of cost can be added through management of non-technical aspects. The wording may have to go through rounds of approval, goals and features may shift, etc. The cost of writing endless detailed RFP's and the long sales cycles increase the cost.

That said, there are also a lot of "consultants" who really are just crap. It made me embarrassed to be in the same business and that is part of the reason I don't work for government clients anymore.
Forget Shopping, Friday Is Update Your Parents' Browser Day - The Atlantic
Live Audio Streaming and Recording for Conferences (Or Anything)
yeah, that's no Peregrine falcon! Some sort of condor sounds about right
Depends on many factors. US-wide it's 75k on average.
In SF and NY quite a bit higher.

http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-junior+ruby+on+...

http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Ruby-On-Rails-Web-Developer-l...

http://www.quora.com/Ruby-on-Rails/What-is-the-salary-range-...
CBT does not "basically" teach a person how to "fun."

Educate yourself with Robert Sapolsky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
Ask HN: Is the web ready to require JavaScript?
Until now, I have considered it an absolute requirement that websites will work even if the browser doesn't support JavaScript. Graceful degradation, progressive enhancement, and so on. The only exceptions have been sites specially targeted for iPads or similar cases.

But now, people I work with are making the claim that JavaScript can become a forced requirement for all future websites. In this world, if you're without JavaScript, you might only get a minimal, unstyled skeleton page via HTTP, so that search engines can index the URL and social sites can share it. Or even a blank page, if those things are handle by APIs.

The majority of the UI is then to be implemented with Backbone/Spine, Underscore templates and similar technologies. It will be fully HTML5 compliant, elegant and accessible, but it just won't work without JavaScript.

My question is, do you think the web is ready for this transition? Are there compelling reasons, other than just "historical principles", for this not to happen? Can we consider JavaScriptless users an increasingly ignoreable relic like IE6 users? Are there other key points to consider - are we throwing out some baby with the bath water?
Yes; dollars .. i really hate to don't have access to some services just because i'm not from USA.
Pittsburgh just made an impression when I worked there. :p
The packages are text files, not executables.
If 1400 picoseconds is the time it takes for a clock cycle (and therefore the minimum instruction time for 1-cycle instructions), that'd be about 700 MHz, which actually seems pretty high compared to what I would've guessed.
SubGit: smooth svn to git migration
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Talking to strangers: The Why & How
while the compilation does technically terminate it is doing so with a StackOverflowError which along with the resulting stack-trace most likely indicates a non-terminating recursion.

It only terminates due to a finite limit on the size of the stack.
I knew it. The name "Moore" sounded suspicious to me immediately. Now I know his real name is Chuck Testa!!!

On a more serious note, what we need much more of is not the processing speed. What we need much more of is what I call "memory processability", which roughly means "how many times per second can you process the whole memory" - or something like that. Basically how much CPU is there per RAM. Indexing is a great hack, but a hack it still is. Memory and processing cells must be merged into a single, massively parallel chip.
The program is 5 days a week, 8 hours a day.
Why not come the bay for a couple of months?
It's obviously bad for music labels, but whether Grooveshark is bad for artists is debatable.

http://torrentfreak.com/why-most-artists-profit-from-piracy/
Yep I have a 3 and a 6 years old and working from home is VERY difficult. Its usually worse when we travel.

ALso we did consider homeschooling but the kids really react differently when its someone else than their parents teaching.
Xtw: OSX menu item for Taskwarrior
That boils down to Chip's opinion that master/slave is the One True Way to do replication, despite its many demonstrated disadvantages. I see your Chip Salzenberg and raise you a Werner Vogels: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2008/12/eventually_consi...
So despite the oversimplified title, the value of this article for me lies in the last two paragraphs; which speak to me off a balance between practicing 'critical visualization' when we need to achieve and 'positive fantasy mode' when we need to reduce stress and anxiety. Both of these activities being useful to success.

I sometimes wonder why some people tend to feel the need to come down hard on one extreme or the other of an issue when so often in my experience the optimal path tends to be the middle road. I think it's because extremes are easier to grasp and seem more definite, more solid. But I also think this can be an indication of lazy thinking and should be called out more often.
Tweader - Now an Amazing Little Twitter Reader app
I've heard the best way to tackle the Quake codebase was to pick a 'component', such as the renderer, and start to understand how that works. Work your way out, one component at a time. Eventually the bigger picture comes together. The same would probably work for this, though unless you're well versed in game and graphics programming nomenclature some of it will go over your head, which is expected - when you see something like that, think of it as an opportunity to learn a new concept and look it up.
Microsoft, Apple and Others Withdrawal Support for SOPA
Oops, yes you're right!