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Poor choice of words on my part. It's not "poor code" but "inadequate code". The Android graphics API is, overall, inadequate for avoiding GCs at all costs. Java on the other hand, is not necessarily inadequate. The issues with GC and the Bitmap class are a good example: Bitmaps aren't designed to work at the lowest & fastest level but at the highest and easiest level.

Nothing beats primitives and buffers - the performance gap between the two methods is huge, that's true, but it's not a showstopper.

I don't recall gcs in other processes hurting my apps performances though. With that said, if I'm going to write a game, I'll make sure none of the threads in my process will trigger a GC past the loading/splash screen. This means no instanciations of any additional iterators, collections, Strings... The overhead of allocations is almost as bad for the framerate as the GC anyway.
And at that point it's just easier to hire
local developers.

No it isn't. Even if you're in the Bay Area, the local talent pool is small, as demand outweighs supply. If you're not Google, or Facebook, or a startup with the potential of being the next Google or Facebook, then you'll get scraps.
It can be a rational or irrational choice depending on the available treatment and the specific case. A blanket statement that says "do not resuscitate" ignores cases where resuscitation could have been successful and where the chance of revival outweighs the risk of undue pain and suffering.

In a world where the only available treatment is blood-letting or getting your limbed sawed off by a hacksaw, a "do not resuscitate" policy is clearly more rational than in the Star Trek/sci-fi world where treatment consists of a doctor waving a magic iPad over your head and nanobots cure you painlessly. Since we're somewhere in between those two it becomes more complicated, but evaluating the risks and benefits and making an as informed choice as possible based on the available information still seems to me to be the rational way to look at it. Making future medical decisions based on an emotional reaction to individual cases, on the other hand, seems to me to be irrational and counter-productive.
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Why wouldn't it get better? Their speech recognition and ability to understand certain contexts will almost certainly improve over time as they gather more and more data. It's surprising to me that people dismiss it so soon. Does no one remember how poor google voice used to be at recognition?

It's too soon to call Siri 'meh'.
similar to the recent US version http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3295856
> Nearly every post you quoted is a rational opinion which deserves a fair refutation

Not they are not. They are mostly emotional attacks presented without any evidence.

> It's insulting for you to aggregate these comments

How so?

> as if we should all put on the kid gloves when applying criticism to her blog post

The comments I quoted weren't criticising her blog post they were attacking her as a person.
another interesting older project along the same lines is gnuwin32 [http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/]
If, by "very secure", you mean "keeps your list of sites on which you have accounts on in plaintext", then yes.

$ strings ~/Library/Application\ Support/1Password/1Password.agilekeychain/data/default/* | less
> makepasswd

4igNxz1g

I believe that substantially less than 5% of Americans with a banking account would either a) recall or b) have recorded that when asked for it two weeks later. I have no citation for this other than "I have spent the last couple of years helping people log into their Googles and they frequently volunteer their passwords to me, often in the form 'My password is either kittens or kittens1 or kittens!' They overwhelmingly care about things in life other than computers, password security, and password security on their computers."
I'd rather suggest to rename 'NoSql' to 'NSQL' meaning 'New Structured Query Language'.

CoSql doesn't stand up the test of aggregation, as KV nodes are distance apart and sometimes partitioned too. Map/Reduce is kind of a substitute for aggregation and this fact can be somehow reflected in NSQL.

Also, NSQL should reflect the fact that more advanced filtering queries cannot be run against KV stores, like when referencing secondary indexes in other nodes.

All-in-all, there is little remaining of original SQL in KV-stores and NoSql currently makes sense. But as the products continue evolving there is a definitive need to have a ground level logical model for data retrieval and then some sort of NSQL will be born.
Emacs org-mode (http://orgmode.org/) seems to provide most of your requirements. Haven't used it myself, though.
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Unfortunately, I left such services due to this. It makes me think their system security is poor and asking to be broken into. No matter what 'security' marketing speak they use, I'll assume they have a similar if not same password policy for their IT department.

Much like how they're trying to save money, it's expensive for me to spend time trying to get my money back. Especially since they want to minimise support costs.

Edit: They should provide an option for power users to give an impression of 'strong secure access' while allowing 'secure convenient access' for other users. I've never seen this option before.
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Yeah, I might switch to something like that in future.

But, I still have a HUGE pile of legacy cruft containing valuable notes.
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The message is that there is another choice.

I read it as giving people a different perspective on end of life care. The system is heavily biased toward all out medical care. This article show the other side, using as examples people who have a better understanding of the tradeoff.

This decision will always be a personal one, there is not right or wrong answer, just different possibilities.
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First point the title is rude.

One of the biggest problem in India is culture. Right now we have a culture where companies like Wipro & Infosys go to campuses and hire 100-500 graduates , majority of them are from fields other than CS where the companies provide 3 months on training. Why do they do this? Coz someone somewhere needs to get workdone at cheaper cost, and 9 out of 10 times it cuts quality. Quality of code for the client and quality of hiring for the company.

The other major issues is culture. Indians push their kids to be Engineers and Doctors and kids do it even if they dont like it. more than half of my class of 2006 is no longer in the Software development fields coz they never liked it.

Edit:

Also you can get bad programmers everywhere , its just that India , due to the population has a large number of them which makes finding good people & companies very tough.
It's funny and sad when you realize that you care more about knowledge, learning etc. when you're out of school. Or maybe I was just not mature enough to appreciate it.
If downvoting, an explanation of why you feel this article doesn't contribute towards negative attitudes towards Indian people would be appreciated. While the title refers to the place, not the people, the implication is the same.
You could run through the sites you grab the thumbnails from and take an educated guess if they should be shown or not.

Most adult sites have an rta meta tag. You can use that along with Alexa and scraping the keywords + domain name for usual suspect text fragments. Might help block out those horrific images that cant be unseen..

Otherwise, love this service and I'm pretty sure I'll be using it
Well said. There are dev shops here in the UK that are just as bad. The problem is using developers with little interest in what they do, being over sold by some sales man claiming they are experts in their field.

Even some of the largest consultancys here in the UK will get grads from non tech background, send them on a few Java cources and hire them out at £1000 a day.
Indeed. I really don't understand the purpose of the post.

What seems to be annoying most people here is that the comments could apply equally to men or women, yet the author assumes the issue is sexism without explaining why. By doing so, the author effectively dismisses the experience and opinions of men who have been in similar situations (based on the description) and believe the issue to have a different root cause. She's making the claim that this would never happen to a guy which is clearly directly contrary to the experience of many male readers, and it's unsurprising this is going to piss people off.

Note that I'm not disputing that the post MIGHT have represented a case of sexism, just that since the post doesn't explain how the author determined their position it's useless to myself and other readers.

Let's flip the question around: how do you know when your manager is being sexist and when they're just presenting their opinion, which is fair criticism? The post appears to imply the answer is: "If the recipient of criticism is a woman, then it's sexism; men never receive this kind of criticism." This is a bold claim, and if accepted, it's impossible to disprove because any attempt to disagree will see you labelled as sexist - which is the second source of frustration among people with a different opinion on this thread.
Similar to any other business, part of the valuation of these companies relates to how much growth is expected. Dividing the price by the number of current members is therefore not very meaningful. The forecast of future growth is mixed in with that figure.
FWIW, Graylog2 will be switching to ElasticSearch backend from the existing MongoDB, citing lack of performance constraints(and lack of better FTS functionality) specific to MongoDB.
Find the entire comment here - http://groups.google.com/group/graylog2/browse_thread/thread...

This is something I am working on right now, which is to have a centralized logging system in place for the production servers. Logs will get indexed in ElasticSearch(pretty awesome project, imho!!), where I can run search queries against the indexes.
I am using logstash for parsing, routing logs from production servers to elasticsearch instance.
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I'm getting a bit fed of of the spam on HN.

I just clicked on a link and was taken to a porn site. I'm at work, and much as I like HN, I've found myself increasingly frustrated by irrelevant and downright stupid links.

Can we have moderators à la stackoverflow please? Bad stuff just gets closed out quickly.

Anyone else have any ideas?
Its imperative nature (mutation, side effects) and potential non-termination makes it unattractive as a catch-all hypertext document language.

By using the language of Least Power (timbl@w3c.org) that still accomplishes your task, you achieve a more concise and more analyzable document.

I wouldn't call that "nothing to do with TC".
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The article actually addresses this point quite intelligently.
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That software already exists and is called org-mode :)

Some reasons to use org-mode:

* Org-mode is part of Emacs, so you can extend it in Lisp. If you so desired, you could record your weight each morning by sending yourself an email and scheduling an Emacs function... But someone has probably already done that in the 35 years of Emacs' existence. If not, Emacs macros are very easy to write, because they emulate the actions you would take yourself. (See my 9 liner for incrementally searching for keyboard shortcuts: https://github.com/aantn/castle/blob/master/home/.emacs.d/cu...)

* All org files are plain text

* All "items" in org files are part of a foldable hierarchy

* All items can be tagged

* TODOs are really just items whose headline starts with "TODO". Org-mode adds features for toggling, finding, and visualizing them

* You can extend org-mode any way you want. For example, I added a DEFER status for my TODO items. (https://github.com/aantn/castle/blob/master/home/.emacs.d/cu...)

* You can scatter your notes across as many files as you want. Org-mode can parse them to build your daily agenda (http://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Views.html)

* Org-mode displays formatting without hiding the markup (e.g. everything between two asterisks is bold)

* Org-mode exports to LaTeX, pdf, and html. (Embedded LaTeX is rendered too.)

* Org mode allows awesome links of all kinds (http://orgmode.org/manual/Hyperlinks.html#Hyperlinks)

* Code snippets can be embedded in org-mode and even executed

* Org-mode supports tables with formulas. It also includes a ledger for accounting. (http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-l...)

See my comment below for a discussion on organizing notes and searching in them.
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7 hours ago foxhop just said: "Yeah, sorry about that."

Well sorry about never using your website again. I've just seen things I never want to see again.

Tip: Never launch a site after a day of work. Always launch it when you start your work day. There will always be some problems you like to fix immediately.
Why do people keep linking to GitHub repos instead of official websites?

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FaceTime is the primary way in which I communicate with my parents nowadays. The voice quality is significantly higher than via the phone network, and the video stuff is nice.

(We're generally doing iPad2<=>iPad2 or iPad2<=>Mac rather than via iPhone though)
And here's the salient sentence: "Do we break embargoes? Sometimes. Do we break embargoes even after agreeing to them? Sometimes"

In other words,

"You cannot trust us"
With the most recent update from Verizon, Skype is installed on my phone as an 'Android System Application'. As a normal user, it can't be uninstalled. This sort of placement seems advantageous, and certainly provides MS with a good phone foothold on Android and iOS. On the other hand, users hate apps that can't be uninstalled, but aren't quite part of the system software either (code_duck glances at Blockbuster or VZ Navigator).

Also, to clarify their services, accepting landline to Skype requires a subscription. I wouldn't call it landline though, since it's actually a connection to the normal phone network which includes cell phones. You can also pay Skype to send SMS messages and provide voicemail.
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Sure, I'm convinced. But I still have tons of legacy data.
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Was the link on /newest or on the front page?

I think it would be helpful if usernames on the new page appeared in green not when they were created within the last week, but when they had never submitted a link that was subsequently upvoted past a threshold.

I don't know whether HN does e-mail--style spam filtering on submitted pages, but it seems like an obvious thing to try if not.
From their explanations I learned something. Use mostly symbols and uppercase letters in your passwords, make them long, by putting for example 14 dashes into your password.
Most people use lowercase only, and some digits. Attacking programs have the best chance when they systematically first try to attack lowercase and digits.

If you use non qwerty layouts (I use the Neo-Layout) you might be able to type unicode chars, such as λαμβδα (lambda) or √Ω³ and can put that into your password too.
Also worth noting that the iPads in the Apple stores are normally stuffed with apps for people to try, rather than just plain installs.
I did all this actually. I blocked imgur, so the majority of the posts were from Tinypic. The whole community has changed.
For anybody else interested in reading this already slim article, the tl;dr is: Make good software so that Apple features you.

Whoop-de-frigging-doo.

No by-tool-tried investigation of what /they/ might have had to do with getting you to the point where you are featured. Actually, every tool investigation dies after a very slim paragraph.

I actually now wonder whether there is an additional paragraph coming:

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Posted a link to my kind-of hamfisted report

on tracking my marketing attempts. Didn't put

too much effort into that after the Apple cash

train rolled in. All I got back was snark and

a couple of hits.
I realised a while ago that the most problematic logins for me were the ones with the most onerous password requirements. OK, I know this isn't great, but I do reuse passwords. The ones I care about least have the least adherence to good security practices, because it so vastly improves the user experience for me. Other solutions have been tried and cause more problems than they solve.

Between news sites like HN, content sites like BBC iPlayer, Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter, eBay, different financial services websites, multiple email accounts, various topic specialist forums, standard and admin logins for each of the three computers I personally own, database server root passwords...... There's just far, far too many for me to be able to tie a unique password to each that complies with their length and character mix standards (and, in some cases, their re-use policies), particularly when the login page (sensibly) won't remind me what their particular complex requirements are.

I'm not at all convinced the end result of their aggressive requirements is more secure. Several of them I end up using the password reset function waaaay more than 50% of the time because it's enormously easier than memorising their particular onerous code.
That's the kind of worst-case scenario I can live with.

Suddenly, there's somebody out there in the world who can not only post comments to Engadget as me, but can now upvote stories on Reddit as though they were me.

Honestly, you could give out your password to 90% of the sites for which you have them and it wouldn't affect your life at all.
I think "reason" here is implying "show me how you think (that is, your reasoning).

In fact, I was impressed at how open-ended these questions were. For instance: "Leonidas, Pausanias, Lysander" is about as open-ended as you can get.

I for one, would just create a list of interesting anagrams. (eg: Paranoia Saleslady Snide Sun) I figure it would show my moxie.
EDIT: Something about Bradley Manning, double standards, journalistic integrity, grudge hacking and PR. Sorry.
This is the point I am making. These sites do not matter. I have no attachment to them. I have no need to keep them secure.

If one site lost its database. Lets say I have 60 accounts on various sites. Based on my 3 passwords 20 or so would probably be compromised. Apart from maybe my name and email address these sites have almost no other personal information. What is the worst that could happen? The account gets banned? A phishing attempt for a site I don't care about?

I don't need to change the password. If an account gets banned or the password changes I will just make another account. I would rather do this than not know passwords and rely on some third party service to make and store secure ones for me.
It isn't all or nothing. You can open all your old files in org-mode and slowly start taking advantage of org-mode.

It's all text. No conversion necessary.
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This holds true for all kinds of pricks, sexist or not, in tech or not; that's what makes them pricks to begin with - their inability to recognise their flaws and a lack of willingness to change.
I'm not a dev, but doesn't Apple's Open CL come into play here? is there silicon in iDevices in addition to the GPU which can be used for HW acceleration, whereas Android can only make use of the GPU for this?
Sure, but what I need to do then is to write a semi-automated converter which just shoves everything with a clear tag formulation into org-mode and asks me what to do with the rest.

Thanks, this actually sounds doable to me now!
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This article reminds me of the one where MacDonald's returning CEO finds out that they have lost the recipe of the special sauce. It was kept so secret that they finally lost it, and but for the CEO knowing the guy who formulated it, brought him out of retirement to make one more batch, we'd never have it on our Macs today.

Software projects are like this too. After a few years, a lot of memory is lost if people leave.

I enjoyed the reference to "alien technology". Indeed it is.
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I think using the password alone in the bank is a stupid idea in the first place. If all that stands between my dollars and miscreants is a few characters - this is careless to say the least. Think trojans/keyloggers.

My bank gives me a small card reader (not connected to PC), where I insert my debit card and need to put in my card pin. This gives a one-time code which I enter together with my password to login.

However, this is not all - in order to do anything meaningful (aka transfer money), I need a confirmation code, which is done by me typing into the little machine the amount, part of the account number being credited, and of course my banking pin to begin with. So, I effectively sign the transaction, and having the reader totally offline makes me somewhat confident in its security even if my linux laptop were compromised.

Of course all of this needs to be matched by the proper security rules on the backend, which, given their cluefulness with frontend, I trust them to have.

p.s. That said, indeed now I remember that the password rule they had is kinda stupid. But I have only one bank and I can make the exception for them, given that they have done their homework otherwise.

p.p.s. and no, I would not like to have my bank operations protected by the unlocked private key - the added convenience in this case is not worth the risk at all.
Its imperative nature is unrelated to TC.

Non TC languages can be sufficiently complex as to make analysis difficult.

I don't see any of the risks of js as linked to TC in any meaningful way beyond a very hand-wavey "TC tends to lead to complexness".
Making a great app is not enough - being "featured" is not a guarantee from making a great app AND it's not sustainable, as you'll soon enough drop out of that position. You need to get on at least one "Top" list for Apple (Top Free, Top Paid, etc there are lots of these lists for different categories). However, to get there and stay there you may need to use ALL of the techniques the author tried (ads, emails, tweets, etc...). They all work together, and should work something like a symphony.
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