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A funny story - how I got my first Stanislaw Lem book from a Washington Square park bookseller..

Guy had a table with a wide range of second hand books mostly sci fi. I carefully picked over the pile and chose some of my favorite authors - some that were quite hard to get.

When I went to purchase about three books, the guy said "OK since you are obviously a man with taste in SF I'm gonna let you see my other 'special' stock" - and out came a small tray of books from under the table. Not previously on sale. Maybe it was just a clever marketing ploy - but this is how I found my first Stanislaw Lem book (which he recommended).

Since then I've always tried to buy Lem at SF second hand stores but actually very hard to come by (in English). I did buy a brand new copy of 'His Master's Voice' the other day and was not disappointed.

Don't think he actually wrote that many SF books - I think I have them all now but maybe I'm mistaken.
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If you click his wing he cycles feather colors and hates and shoes.
Google has similar guidelines:

http://developer.googleapps.com/branding-guidelines
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What a great opportunity! For someone like me who lives in India, this is a fantastic opportunity to learn from Steve Blank himself.

His book has changed the way I work but I feel there is a whole world of difference in actually learning from him in a class room format, doing exercises and taking it step by step.
I'd really get in deep on the PHP platform, with an emphasis on performance. For example, if you have not looked at them already, take a look at the APC cache for opt code and user data, then distributed caching via Memcache (and the PHP clients for this), and I would also spend some time looking at PHP-FPM. Also HipHop if you're doing something really large scale. There is a lot more to modern PHP development than people realise.
Nope, ASF actually provides and enforces a reasonable governance model for projects it adopts.

I wrote something on why this is important: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/open_source-free_software-what_we_...
* Use the trademark only as an adjective, never as a noun or verb, and never in the plural or possessive form.

[... the very next line ...]

* Use only Google-approved artwork when using Google's logos.
Less likely to terminate. (Like if you happen to use a Common Lisp implementation which doesn't optimize tail calls, heavy recursion can signal an error. Which some people consider a good thing, signaling they may have a bug rather than merely a long-running computation.)
There is also a mirror on GitHub: https://github.com/apache
You are right, there is no reason why the ASF can't own its own "legally authorative" git repo.

That is exactly why the ASF is conducting experiments in exactly that. Assuming those experiments are a success and representatives of ASF users are happy (which include business folk and lawyers, not just developers) then the ASF will role Git out to all projects that want it.

This whole argument is moot.
Please do! I find these stories very inspirational, in a life hacking kind of way.
Nobody wants to be the next linoleum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linoleum#Loss_of_trademark_prot...

When I used to read writing magazines, the backs always had a number of paid-for messages saying things like, "You don't xerox a xerox on a xerox".
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If you want to read LEM, start with "The Star Diaries". It's concentrated. Each story is just 20 pages and is packed with futuristic ideas.
Non-news. Ofcourse things will be different at Apple.
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> Stanislaw Lem is probably my most favorite sci-fi author. He's very popular in Europe, but not so much in the US it seems. His works are hilariously funny, philosophical and have a certain magic to them.

I last read Lem 15 years ago, when I was in high-school, but it had such a huge effect on me that this doodle gave me goose-bumps when it first started, I cannot explain exactly why.
I fucking hope not.

Amazon are the most developer-hostile company in existence.

They make Apple's App Store look like a utopia of freedom and openness.
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Some easter eggs (and spoilers) by the designer: https://plus.google.com/101765089097091765365/posts/1MaYwxJz...
I did install g++-multilib and a few other packages in order to get the build forward. My build finally failed when trying to link the "doom3" executable due to the lack of 32 bit libs for zlib and curl (maybe others too).

I tried to use a very unofficial Ubuntu utility called getlibs (http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy) but that didn't really help, the library search path was wrong and the correct libs were not found.
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Disregarding the weird tone, the letter makes some interesting points.

None of us is the best person out there.

This whole notion of someone out there being the best programmer (or person, or whatever) is fallacious. While there are certainly many degrees between "awesome" and "failing", it's important to recognize that either you're indeed awesome at what you're doing right now or it's time to move onto something else. Of course, the definition of "awesome" is completely subjective so you have a lot of room for introspection there.

That’s irrelevant! Because we are best for each other.

This is an important sentiment, certainly one of the most crucial ones in a co-founder relationship.

I have seen what it looks like when it's not working out: we were friends before the startup, we liked to talk about crazy ideas all day. But a while into the startup, all we talked about was money and disappointment. This created an atmosphere of misery and failure, long before the actual failure of the company. If I were to do a startup again today, I would look for this kind of synergy the author is describing. It's important. It's not enough to just be a bunch of dudes hacking away at stuff.
This is a result of trademark law rather than any particular idiocy on the part of Adobe. Guidelines like this get made fun of on the internet fairly regularly, but it's always the company that's ridiculed rather than the laws. Ultimately, any company that wants to hold on to its trademarks has to do something like this.
Why would anyone want the Amazon Appstore? It's horrible.
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They are basically required to do this by law or they loose the trademark.

So now you understand organizations just a bit better.

Always remember: People are rational. If you don't understand them it's usually because you don't know something. (OK, not always :)
Hang on. You mean you've removed your marriage, children, pets and caring for elderly relatives from your life?
I took each of your points, and either ceded them (audio applications) or provided a specific technology that could cover them nicely (HTML5 offline storage, Web SQL, and cache manifests), all of which are easily found in the specifications using Google, if you don't believe they exist.

Your response, which actively ignores all of that (and in fact snips it out of the reply text), is pretty much "I haven't seen it used, so it isn't true"; the only (unrelated) argument you added was "rendering speed" (as if a news reader was limited by that? citation?).

In juxtaposition, I must say you have a convincing argument: it had not even occurred to me that these technologies I and my coworkers use everyday might not actually do these things that they seem to do; certainly not the things the code for them (which is open source) seems to look like it does.

So yeah: I'm sorry. In the future, I will avoid making arguments that respond to points, and instead I'll just say "worked for me: you're not a true scotsman", as apparently that's all that you are capable of seeing in my text anyway.
European here, I think there are plenty of good reasons to bash European healthcare, chief among them being the long queue you end up in when you have health problems, people die waiting, this is not an opinion it's a fact, and here in Sweden, we're looking to cut down the wait as best as we can, but people keep falling through the cracks.

Anyway, it's important to remember that it's hard to get a deep understanding of everything in a country just because you've traveled there / lived there for a short time. Most information you get while traveling is important, but ultimately a lot more shallow than the information you have on your own country/culture.
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My nickname (Tichy) is from Lem's books. Definitely one of my favorite authors ever.
Badly worded title, should be "How to learn Ruby on Rails for $150". The author points out that it rightfully takes months of your time as well so depending what monetary number you value your time at, you could be very misled into thinking its better to do this than hire a professional.
I like to imagine how awesome github's potential UX could be be if they decoupled, open-sourced and allowed contributions to their front-end.

Something along the lines of stable and opt-in unstable UI branches with frequent releases.
i think that's a pretty bad metric. there's absolutely no reason that working on the most important problems in your field won't end up being a complete waste of your time, because you are ill-equipped to make any real progress on them. i prefer feynman's philosophy, as expressed in a letter to a student who felt that the problem he was working on wasn't "worthwhile" enough:

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. ... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

-- Richard Feynman

read the whole letter, it's very inspiring: http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2008/03/what_are_worthwhile...
As a primary visual thinker, I cannot express my gratefulness enough. This is just the best visual explanation I have seen. Concepts intuitively stick now, after 10 years of struggling with version control.

I have read so many books/guides/etc to grasp VC to try to achieve the level of understanding to the point where one would wake me up, and get a thorough explanation of VC. I have never been closer to intrinsically understand what's going on.

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maybe there's a startup sales model in there somewhere ;-) the next groupon?
Yep. They want to avoid it becoming generic. They're far too late, though, to stop photoshopping from becoming a verb because these guidelines have been completely ignored by almost everyone for a long time now.
> They want to avoid it becoming generic.

I don't understand why would they do that, though.
...That's because Doom 3's engine is not an "open source project" as we know them ;)
Only Solaris is available for Kindle. I hate when that happens.

Update: Actually Solaris is not available either. I was misled because there is a Solaris 'Study Guide' available for Kindle.
I struggled, but ultimately succeeded in not throwing up in my mouth whilst reading this.
Because once it become generic, other people can start selling products called Photoshop. Suddenly, there'd be Microsoft Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop and Canon Photoshop and who knows what else, and they are afraid they'd lose their dominance in the market.
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The deformable part based model is pretty much /the/ state-of-the-art object detection model. There is absolutely no way it should be attributed to "Liu Liu". It's creators are Felzenszwalb et al.[1].

The performance of DPMs far surpasses any other basic model such as a Viola Jones syle Haar cascade. Also you should find with DPMs that you are able to detect faces with far higher degrees of deformation - i.e. 3/4 profile faces, rotated faces etc. DPMs are far far more robust than haar cascades but with greater computational expense. Check out the papers at [1].

[1] http://www.cs.brown.edu/~pff/latent/
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It kills the trademark. Once something becomes generic, anyone can use it. So a competitor could say "we produce the best photoshop software" because the term is now simply a word for editing photos digitally rather than for a specific product from Adobe.
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Not really, it's underpowered and mining lends itself better to vector-oriented processors (like GPUs) rather than CPUs.
Nor was it closed source as we knew it. I wish I got paid to work on code that nice...
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They'd probably end up like how it is for most Linux distributions. An acquired taste.
While we're on the subject, I found this a very good source of material on the topic, if you don't want to wait 'til March:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0910/InfoTheory/

No video lectures, though..
I only google with Bing these days. Though I've been hearing good things about this new google called DuckDuckGo.
Spot on, excellent points and I could not help but wonder about the article... most people would consider "apache" to be synonymous for the httpd and not the ASF, so the headline is clearly fishing.

Then, OP argues ASF's processes are broken and a github project with one maintainer is so much easier... you really have to consider the scale of the average sourceforge (back in the day) project vs. apache even back then - and they have only grown from there, so no wonder a project hosted on github now is more "fun" to contribute to and work with because processes are probably pretty much non-existent and communication-paths and hierarchies are pretty much flat. The same goes for working at a small start-up vs. working at HugeFatCat Inc.

But one thing I cannot stand: arguing git over subversion. Yes both are great revision control systems but they are just meant for different applications. Where I am working, I would take subversion over git any day if all I really want is an absolutely sure-fire way of having a simple and easy to use central repository. I am in the unfortunate position to having met and working with quite a few people (programmers non-the-less) who have a hard time coping with basic CVS/SVN update-commit cycles - with git and mercurial offering you the option to commit but to your local changes first before actually committing your changes to the repository you checked out from (or another repository or...), this would have literally created havoc and confusion for my small team here... I know them, yes it sounds ridiculous, but I know I have saved myself a hell of a lot of trouble and headache. SVN is an absolutely perfect tool for the job if you do not need the de-centralization, on-the-go-commits and all the possibilities of creating custom processes in git with all its flexibility and features and options. SVN works just fine for what it is.

git and mercurial are not better,newer,shinier substitutes but different beasts altogether. (great, shiny, powerful and useful none-the-less) So could be please just let them peacefully co-exist and be thankful someone made them for us to make our lives easier?
Sure, github may bring more things into the open, but it is ultimately just an aid to a community of people, who must communicate about the project. You can't just dump the code on github without communicating with other people working on it.

I agree that outsourcing some of the infrastructure to github might be an interesting idea.
Where to start with this blog post? It appears that the author has seen a couple of private emails and thinks he knows all about the internal workings of the Apache Foundation. He is wrong on so many counts.

His entire dislike of the Apache Foundation appears to be predicated on the fact that the organisation did not force every project to move to this blogger's favourite version control tool. Making a change as large as this requires many different things, but in particular:

1. Community change. How committers interact with each other when there are lots of forks is quite different to the current situation. That suits some projects and not others. Not every project at Apache will benefit. Some will. All who change will need to think long and hard about release processes, merging strategies and much more. Git encourages the idea that every commit or fork is completely equal to every other fork or commit. The Apache Foundation is built on the concept of meritocracy: commit rights are given in response to demonstrated skill. This is not an intractible problem with git, but new challenges need to be solved.

2. Legal change. Right now there is a simple process for signing off intellectual property for contributions which were merged from external contributors (who have not signed a release). That changes with git and becomes more complex. There are solutions, but they require careful planning.

3. Infrastructure. Hosting a large git repository with the level of downtime acceptable to Apache isn't something you do quickly. That needs planning and maintenance.

4. Toolsets. Lots of things in Apache are tied into subversion. From mailing list commit hooks to build servers and much more. Changing those things takes work.

5. Splitting the community. Right now the entire organisation's intellectual property is held in a single repository. Everyone knows where everything is to be found. Changing this simplicity requires a very good reason.

So what do we have now? A blogger who (it appears) doesn't actually contribute code to any Apache project. Telling other people how to run their organisation (which is wildly successful). And that they should change to this blogger's favourite new tool (they should have done it in 2008!) or face irrelevance.

If Apache moved every project to github tomorrow would that satisfy this blogger? More importantly, would that have caused this guy to commit high quality code toward one of the Apache projects? Or is he just blowing a lot of hot air about something he knows little?

And what brought on this great complaint? That the Apache Foundation is currently underway with trials for one project to see how git would succeed for their workflow. And to then evaluate its suitability for other projects across Apache.

Apache is not Github. That is, Apache is much more than a website, a couple of tools and a repository of code of random quality.

Disclaimer: I am an Apache member, but not speaking on behalf of Apache
People aren't using good toolkits. People are open-coding everything. You might have gotten it right, but Joe JS Developer isn't.

Have you considered slimming down your walls of text? You seem to be using lots of words to say "no u," and it's tempting me to draw parallels between the simplicity of the JS-less Web and the relative complications of the JS-ful Web.
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Hey Adobe, you might want to revise your icons then…

http://i.imgur.com/9xoAI.png
Oh yea. Anyone still has the old code? Would be interesting to make a diff between the alpha and this one. Not to see specific line-by-line fixes but more just to get a general impression of how feature complete it was back then.
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In the words of Señor Chang. GAYYYY! Seriously, the letter is a GREAT idea but the gushing and sensuality will make MY co-founder think i'm in love with him or something. Tone it down a bit and it will be perfect and much needed too.
If they go down, I´d love to see them open source all the tech behind their site... maybe as a way to say Universal "now there are 1000 more sites like us, fuck you".
1) Apache Software Foundation and GitHub are two totally different things. Who cares about their internal preferences and bureaucracies. They're both producing outstanding open-source projects which are used by hundreds of thousands of companies and people.

Open-source (and the world) has only gained positive things out of these communities.

2) If you're suggesting that ASF needs to change its bureaucracy, I disagree. Frankly, I feel the bureaucracy has worked, given the success the foundation projects have had.

3) I'm not sure what other points your post brings, but if you're simply just saying that ASF needs to keep itself up-to-date with new tech (dunno git?) then this is also a totally absurd argument since the tech being used in Apache is totally amazing and new.

I feel like your outcry is referred to general institutions... you should probably refer to governments and other political entities instead of bashing on a foundation that has given the world amazing products.
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No, you can go pretty far with a default of not trusting an organization until its action prove it worthy of trust.
google.ru has it as well.
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I got that from a lot of people, trust me it's cultural.
Actually I think it is either:

a) a complete misunderstanding of how and why the ASF operates the way it does

or

b) a desire for sensationalist blog pieces with almost no factual content

The ASF is working with Git, it has been for years. It doesn't yet provide a canonical repository from which to make releases. This is due to a number of non-trivial technical issues introduced by the processes adopted by Apache projects.

The Apache infrastructure team believe that they have now solved those issues and are testing them in CouchDB. Assuming the CouchDB experiment is a success the ASF will be rolling out Git as the canonical repository to all projects that want it.

Once the ASF has mapped the tools to the processes we can all move on and stop wasting our time with this spurious argument.

Disclaimer: Unlike the author of this blog I do have access to all the discussions about Git in the ASF and I am one of the mentors of PhoneGap, a project mentioned in the article.
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Here are some original pictures by Mróz, whose style inspired the doodle:
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