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Since the page seems to be down/loading slowly for me, here's the changelog:

General

- i386-softmmu is no longer named qemu but instead referred to as qemu-system-i386 for better consistency with other targets. A new tool is likely to be introduced that uses the qemu name so distributions are advised to not undo this change.
- QEMU now uses a separate thread for VCPU execution. This merges the biggest difference between the qemu-kvm tree and upstream QEMU.
- A new memory dispatch API has been added internally. A new monitor command "info mtree" can show the hierarchy of memory regions in the guest.
- QEMU now has a build dependency on glib and makes extensive use of glib.
- QEMU now can run on more hosts. Hosts without a native code generator can use the TCG interpreter (TCI). See Features/TCI for more information.

Block devices (disks)

- QEMU now supports I/O latency accounting in the monitor command "info blockstats".
- Errors are now tracked per device and are shown by the monitor command "info block".
- All image formats now support asynchronous operation. IDE and SCSI emulation will use this feature, while other devices (notably floppy and SD) will not.

IDE/ATAPI

- A large number of bugs were fixed regarding CD media change and tray locking.

SCSI

- Memory management errors could crash QEMU when scsi-disk encountered I/O errors. Many instances of this problem were fixed.
- The accuracy of error handling for SCSI emulation has been greatly improved.
- SCSI devices can now be addressed by channel, target (id) and LUN. Not all emulated HBAs will support this feature (in particular, the LSI controller will not).
- Block device pass through is now supported through a new scsi-block device. The scsi-block device works with block devices (like /dev/sda or /dev/sr0) rather than /dev/sgN devices, and is more efficient because it does not consume arbitrary amounts of memory when the guest does large data transfers.
- SCSI CD-ROMs now report media changed events.
- SCSI CD-ROMs now support DVD images.
- Bugfixes for IDE media change also apply to SCSI.
- SCSI devices now report a unit attention condition when the system is started or reset. This may cause problems with old firmware versions.

VDI

- Now supports discarded blocks in dynamically-sized images.

User-mode networking (SLIRP)

- SLIRP can process ARP replies and gratuitous ARP requests from the guest.

ARM

- QEMU now supports the new Cortex-A15 instructions in linux-user mode (via "-cpu any"): VFPv4 fused multiply-accumulate (VFMA, VFMS, VFNMA, VFNMS) and also integer division (UDIV, SDIV).
- The vexpress-a9, versatileab, versatilepb and realview-* boards now have audio support.
- QEMU is known not to work on ARM hosts in this release. (ARM target emulation is fine.)

pSeries

- sPAPR VIO devices can now be created with -device.

Xtensa

- QEMU now supports DC232b and FSF xtensa CPU cores.
- QEMU now supports sim (similar to Tensilica ISS) and LX60/LX110/LX200 machines.

Migration

- QEMU now supports live migration using image files like QCOW2 on shared storage
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Good points!

I was mainly thinking in terms of things like funding, visa and registering a company. Maybe it's time I check out HackerspaceSG. I've done some googling and checked SG government websites, but it's always valuable to hear others experience.

Anyway, my side-project(s) are not going to "startup"-phase anytime soon.
I think timtadh's jab about you not knowing your tools wasn't about the structs with a type field but about the .(float64) in

case float64:
fmt.Printf("%f\n", v.(float64))

which can be simplified to

case float64:
fmt.Printf("%f\n", v)
"whilst it removes our obligation to fund other regions (of whichever Union...)"

Of course, it is worth pointing out that if Scotland had been independent we'd probably be as rich as the Norwegians by now...
This.

Cyanogen is still harder than jailbreaking an iOS device, but the gap is narrowing.

As that edge reaches more casual users, who aren't just tech-heavy people, there's no reason Cyanogen couldn't be the Ubuntu of Android phones. It could have a large base of converts who want an alternative but don't want to have to spend all their time learning how to use their software in (for us techies) awesome ways.
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Lately Switzerland seems to have a small right-wing problem, first banning the construction of minarets and then voting to deport criminal foreigners. A few of my Swiss friends found this quite embarrassing and attributed it to the vagaries of direct democratic processes and voter turnout.

But as you say, each place has its crazy idiosyncrasies, and in the grand total, Switzerland scores pretty highly in the list of countries to live in. Unless you hate mountains and/or chocolate, of course. (Or they won't let you in, which might be an issue)
From the article:
"There were other consequences from the adoption of Auto-Tune. Hildebrand tells the story of a music producer who jokes that once he used to look for good singers, now . . . it’s pretty faces."

This is the reason that a lot of recent popular commercial music is crap to my ears. A lot of the real talent is hidden by "cosmetic imperfections" and isn't suited for the mass marketing machine that desires pretty faces. If you go back before the modern era of digital manipulation, you'll be amazed at the vocal talent that is represented.
if your traffic is tiny then shouldn't you be doing marketing and promotion?
- Brazil.

- Fullstack webdev, BA in Computer Science.

- I can node.js, rails, php, jquery, css, html, tableless, SEO... I'm just not so into business(but i have a rather BIG interested in it, also to run a company, own the world and stuff).

- I'm up to anything... but I have a good idea that I would like to discuss about.

- Something related with food, I can't detail much it here.

- As much as I need, but I would like to keep it 20h before we find that something we did is in the lines of: "Ok, this is big!".

E-mail and stuff in my profile, have fun. I would prefer somebody that is the jack of all trades, master of none, that hacks solutions and somehow get things done. OR a business guy that can make me work and think that he's the alpha-boss of the world(good luck). But feel free to contact me if you are something else.
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http://www.quora.com/How-much-was-StyleFeeder-acquired-for

Sure, fashion search/bookmarking is a commodity - that's why those sites don't succeed.

I think discovery services are more nuanced than this and it's easier to understand the value they bring both to users and retailers, so we positioned ourselves as a "personal shopping engine." The goal was to shift users away from the Google search box towards a service geared towards shopping. I'm sure you can see value in that.

Hot company du jour is Pinterest... probably headed towards 3B pvs/month and recently closed a round of funding at $200-250M. Keep an eye on them if you think it's all still a commodity. It just depends on what lens you look through. Part of the challenge is putting aside one's cynicism and trying to positive about what your company _can_ be or _could_ be if people take it seriously.
"Microsoft Word has experienced random invisible bits of formatting stuck in the text somewhere"

In following the links to the paper on Femke, I found in that paper this expansion of the acronym Femke: "emphfunctional micro kernel experiment". I had to look at it a while before I realized that the markup had leaked into the result.

Then I though that "emphfunctional" might just be a very useful neologism, perhaps one that well describes the primary article's idealistic shell, but I'm not sure what it should mean yet.

These are the questions that plague the mind that is having trouble focusing on its work.
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My agency is hiring an entry level PHP/MySQL developer.

We're a WordPress shop (we do some really insane stuff with WordPress) and we're design-driven, so any experience in those areas is a bonus, but not required.

We're in a big loft in Rivermarket. We have good hours and beer is in the fridge. Complete job posting is here: http://voltagecreative.com/announcements/hiring-junior-php-m...

Feel free to PM me directly or send a resume and a link to something cool you’ve built on your own time (doesn't have to be PHP/MySQL related) to devjob_1 [at] voltagecreative [dot] com
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Didn't know about gitbox, just bought it, well done. I can cross "make a simple, sane git GUI" off my 2012 to-do list.

Not to obsess over details, but the window resizer draws over checkboxes. Would you consider adding a thin footer bar to the bottom of the window, like Safari, or reduce the width of the content pane, like Xcode?
You must be joking right? Except you're not, which makes it sad instead of funny.

It must be very comfortable to not see the endless opportunities in increasing traction for your service after launch. Not even bothering to commit code any longer, since it was perfect at launch. Or doing marketing, sales, community and customer support, PR, ops, paying bills, sending invoices, handling complaints, bookkeeping, etc etc.

I never ever had the problem to keep myself busy, the problem is always prioritizing among the plethora of tasks you need to do and accepting the fact that you never will be able to do all of them.
Very true... it depends on how you look at it...

Also, it seems you sold StyleFeeder at the right time: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stylefeeder.com/ Looks like Time Inc isn't doing a great job with maintaining and increasing users.
The whole "Volksverhetzung" thingamajig, i.e. you're not allowed to deny the Holocaust, display swastikas etc. The US has its hate crime laws, but these usually don't restrict free speech in the same way.

A few European countries share these specific restrictions by the way (or at least some of them). Including Switzerland.
Somehow drill a hole in the glass tile and take a photo through the hole?

I know from trying to drill glass in the past, that even with glass drill bits it is prone to shattering/cracking.
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Ahha, thanks - and you're right, /:user would look cooler. I'll add it to my list of things to do.

I might add a quote from you to the homepage saying "I god damn love this", if that's ok?
Thanks for suggestion. It's only an issue in Snow Leopard. However, I will add a bottom toolbar, but for other reasons.
"UK has big brother issues and crazy libel laws"

Nitpick: England has crazy libel laws.
If he was a US citizen, he'd by on my short list of deserving recipients for a MacArthur Genius Grant.
"Lips/Emacs"

I love Emacs too, but so far I've managed to constrain myself to caressing it only with my fingers.
> I assume you are citizen of USA.

> Would you like USA to join countries like Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Kuba, Wenezuela, Peru, and others to form one huge country with common political system

I'm a citizen of the EU, and that's the kind of stuff I'd welcome. There are risks to it (leveling the resulting country to the bottom instead of the top), but it would make "globalization" far more accessible (and beneficial) to the common man.

> That's how many people in EU think about EU becoming one state.

That's mostly how people in the UK, historically "eurosceptics" and fearing a loss of power by the more populated and powerful (in their own right, but even more so when paired) franco-german pair, think. Interestingly, had the UK invested more heavily into the EU instead of going with the US they might have been able to create more balance by making the current DE-FR pair into a DE-FR-UK triplet.

> new official language

The US don't currently have an official language, only states do. And it's about half-half there (27 states have established English as an official language, including Hawaii and New Mexico which have a second official language besides english — respectively Hawaiian and Spanish)
I thought of that, but without the flash, how will you get any light when the box is closed? I guess you could rig up some kind of external flash.

Maybe you could just affix mirrors to the camera somehow.
This is fantastic. Here is mine - http://hackerbuddy.com/users/2875

In fact, I'm adding it to my own laundry list of links on my blog and elsewhere. Really, great job and idea, and you implemented it well.

I love the very easy use of HTML editing on profiles, and I've already reserved my vanity url id (Dylan). Speaking which, it'd be fantastic if you could make the user profile url's /username (as others have commented). It would be more easily identifiable than a set of numbers, especially if you're building a network of hackers.

I also suggest adding even more social features. Not on par with a social network, but maybe forms for the typical information you'll find on a professional profile.

You did the back-end as well as the design, or it was a split effort with a hackerbuddy :p?
This idea is based on Secondlife. But I think a reliable grid could be used for more than massive multi player games. Several terms come from Secondlife, but there are some differences in my concept, when it comes to region, yield and commit.
I think it's about the same in San Francisco if you're watching a 3D Imax flick. I'd love to move to switzerland, but I've heard it is difficult to get a visa.
Since I can't reply to your reply, I'm answering right here.

If someone does that and it messes things for other guys, it just takes extra 5 minutes to teach him/her how Git works and what to do. And everybody benefits.
Cool. I wish you guys would make that more prominent. A lot of other "online schools," both programming and non-programming, will charge for BS courses, and I'm usually very skeptical of online offerings unless I know the source (MIT OCW, Stanford, Open Yale, etc).

Anyways, I will definitely apply then. This looks sweet!
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To be good at something you have to make sacrifices, but it doesn't mean the sacrifices are the kind of things we can look with contempt.

Take for example a Formula 1 driver, or a violin player, or a guitar player. All they need to do is practice, and practice, and practice a little more.

In fact, right now, I wish I wasted less time in my teens and twenties trying to be 'normal' and meeting girls and going to parties and all that stuff, I should have invested more time doing weird hacking stuff and learning vector algebra and physics.

Normality is very overrated. That's what I'm going to teach my children.
I'd imagine once they have ACH on lock they'd start issuing their own plastic.
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It's an interesting idea, but needs a filter of some sort. "Web site owners" = slightly more competent bloggers, traditional businesses with a web site, purely web based eCommerce, and finally web "destinations" where the surfer is actually the product to advertisers. And I'm throwing out all the bloggers and media sites that are on hosted platforms because they don't "own" their site.

The idea could be good, but needs some filtering of "who" they mean and after that what do you have other than a niche social network? Feels like an advertising funnel, so it really needs to provide value, otherwise why, why at all?
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Only one of the photos in the link above uses flash, the others use light leaks, candles etc.

You could leave a torch or led in there at any angle and it would picked up.

But yes, and external/remote flash would work, or just drill another hole ;)
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I think most programmers and engineers have personalities that constantly question their own competency. This is predominantly a good quality as it leads to much more rapid talent development, but it also leads to irrational actions like recreating libraries out of fear that you're "not a real programmer" if you use the work of others.
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That's the price you pay for direct democracy. Sometimes really, really bad laws get accepted by the population in a referendum.

Actually the Swiss Popular Party (SVP, the right wing party) didn't do too well in the most recent elections. While they hoped to achieve > 30% of the popular vote, they're hovering around ~26%. A lot of their candidates for the smaller house of parliament (Ständerat, would be the Senate in the US) got actually hammered.

So from a perspective of reason things actually seem to be looking brighter.
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Yet another Bellard production (originally, anyway).

Let's list a few things he has done:

- QEMU: code from which has been used in Xen and KVM amongst others (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU#Integration_in_other_virtu...)

- FFMpeg, which almost every free video tool uses in some form

- The fastest known formula for calculating Pi

- The x86 Javascript emulator

That doesn't include things like his self-compiling C compiler which won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. See http://bellard.org/ for more.

I find him simply inspirational.
Bah! How's about all the spline types, broken down into immediate-to-use code, with easy to understand explainers showing how they are all related?

http://www.cubic.org/docs/hermite.htm
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Abstractions leak. By all means provide them, but don't assume that a sophisticated user won't complain if they can't get at the guts when the abstraction (or its implementation) gets in their way.
I don't hear a lot of negatives about Switzerland

It's probably one of the most expensive countries in the world to visit.

They probably hide a lot of the money of corrupt governments and world leaders.

Also this might be good or bad, but it's all very neat and tidy. All the roads in rural areas are all very good and all the grass is clipped. Makes the place feel totally tamed. (Though good roads is a plus, just makes for some not-as-interesting motorbike touring)
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We're getting way more traffic today than we're used too so the site is a bit slow.
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Switzerland has Direct Democracy.. with the result that - as far as I can see as an expat now living in CH - the government seems to respect the peoples wishes.

Yes, it's quite odd, but very good!
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The node by itself gives a 30% boost. It also enables a dramatic increase in the number of transistors, which can be leveraged to also provide a dramatic increase in performance, if there are known gains to be made.

It's far easier to be the second or third company doing something than to be the first. A large part of the increase in performance that ARM enjoyed was obtained by learning from the successes and failures of Intel & POWER & Alpha and all other performance trailblazers.

Now that ARM is getting closer to mainstream performance, that kind of momentum is going to be much harder to maintain.

But mostly I've learned to never bet against Intel. Many have done so, and the landscape is strewn with their failures over the last 30 years. Certainly NVidia & Samsung et al have some very impressive engineers that might be capable of beating them. Eventually Intel will stumble, and it might be this time. But I'm much more willing to bet on Intel than against them.
I built an online news service in 2002/2003 with zero coding knowledge, $100, and a bootleg version of Adobe Illustrator.

I put every spare moment I had into it, skipping lunches and dinners and sleep (though I never skipped church) all for the sake of keeping it lean before keeping it lean was cool.

5 years later I sold it for a paltry sum, mainly because I didn't add enough people fast enough.
This is almost a TL;DR... But it's so interesting that I ended up readingt the whole thing. Like anything that relates to politics I take it with a grain of salt, but I think this is an awesome insight on the inner workings of the Occupy movement, how they were born and how they continue to evolve. I learned a great deal about OWS today.
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Justin, you probably meant revenue and not profit :-)
And in the U.S. you aren't allowed to advocate the violent overthrow of the government, to shout fire in a crowded theater, to distribute child porn or to conspire to blow up airliners.

The only difference is that U.S. culture teaches you to believe that those exceptions "aren't covered by free speech", i.e. they don't count because we said so ... just as o1iver thinks about Holocaust-denying.
I've heard that tale a thousand of times.

Successful men usually have wifes who support them in their hobbies/jobs/whatever, and vice-versa.

This is for me the meaning of 'Behind every great man there's a great woman'.

Our personal choice for a significant other should take this into account.
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I took a measurement of the number of non-comment non-blank lines of code for each std c++ header file. I'm now experimenting with writing replacements and wrappers for the classes that require the larger ones. My theory is that I can get by just fine with the 80% of the features that I really need, and end up with 20% of the code.

https://github.com/marshray/qak/tree/

For example, my simple implementation of min and max<T>(a, b) amount to just a few lines of code. But using them instead of std::min/max means you don't have to #include <algorithm> ... a savings of 39274 LoC!
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You are talking saner than any of the world governments.
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I have built Iconfinder into a profitable service while having a day and studying at business school.

I still do some work next to the startup, but it is basically paying for servers etc. plus a salary for me.
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Getting a visa in Switzerland is extremely difficult (for non-EU nationals). The employer needs to first prove that they cannot find an adequate candidate in Switzerland, then they must prove that no adequate candidate can be found in EU countries. Once that's proven, they're free to choose from the "rest of the world".

That's step one. Then there are (naturally) plenty of other factors that go into the acceptance process, but those are generally easy.