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And certainly flies in the face of the whole "women at startups are a liability because they could be pulled away from work by having babies" arguments we were seeing last week in the discussion on "STFU About What Women Want" piece.
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I suspect it has something to do with NTFS updating access times by default. So every time you do anything with a file, it gets its access time updated (not modification time, access time). I don't have windows to test on, but you could try the suggestions [1][2] below.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms940846(v=winembedd...

[2] http://oreilly.com/pub/a/windows/2005/02/08/NTFS_Hacks.html (#8)
No I was running a web browser and a chat program.
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You can build almost any Visual Studio project with out using visual studio at all. Visual Studio project files are also MSBuild files. I've setup lots of build machines sans Visual Studio, projects build just fine with out it.

MSBuild does suck in that there is little implicit parallelism, but you can hack around it. I have a feeling that the Windows build slowness probably comes from that lack of parallelism in msbuild.

As for directory listings it may help to turn off atime, and if it's a laptop enable write caching to main memory. I'm not quite sure why Windows file system calls are so slow, I do know that NTFS supports a lot of neat features that are lacking on ext file systems, like auditing.

As for the bug mentioned, it's perfectly simple to load the wrong version of libc on linux, or hook kernel calls the wrong way. People hook calls on Windows because the kernel is not modifiable, and has a strict ABI, it's a disadvantage if you want to modify the behavior of Win32 / Kernel functions, but a huge advantage if you want to write say, graphics drivers and have them work after a system update.

Microsoft doesn't recommend hooking Win32 calls for the exact reasons outlined in the bug, if you do it wrong you screw stuff up, on the other hand, rubyists seem to love the idea that you can change what a function does at anytime. I think they call it 'dynamic programming'. I can make lots of things crash on Linux by patching ld.config so that a malware version of libc is loaded. I'd hardly blame the design of Windows when malware has been installed.

Every OS/Kernel involves design trade offs, not every trade off will be productive given a specific use case.
But most Linux distros do this by default as well. You have to mount with noatime to get rid of it.
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I think the fact that is hot in cache may have influenced things here.
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Do you mean like one of the sites that has the file on a server somewhere in Sweden and lets you watch in crappy quality in a flash player? Or do they mean Netflix or something. If the former, then this legislation might be effective to stop them. If the latter, then they have the economic means to pay for convenience, which is the whole point of SOPA: make piracy inconvenient.
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Let me guess, somewhere in Eastern Europe?

I know people who are closer to computer neophyte than computer nerd using DC++ successfully.

Reason? Network effects and availability of content not available on torrents.
Now, I'm hardly a vim expert, but isn't :w! force write? I believe :q! is exit without saving.
That's not the point he's trying to make. Smaller cluster sizes leads to larger amounts of file-system metadata keeping track of where those clusters are laid out on disk, as well as the overhead of generating, accessing, and updating those data structures.
You only did one test, so you have no idea what the complexity curve is. Do at least three tests, with 1000, 10,000 and 100,000 entries and graph the results. Three tests is still pretty skimpy to figure out what the curve is, so do tests at 10 different sizes.

Also, Joel's complaint was about the Windows Explorer GUI (specifically, opening a large recycle bin takes hours). Cygwin `ls` is using a completely different code path. Your experiment does suggest that Joel's problem is in the GUI code, though, and not the NTFS filesystem code.
And IA64 brings what to x86 or x64?

For example on the Microsoft front there are problems, if one targets MSVCRT.DLL (then one has to link with a specific object, found in the WDK, that hanles 4 or 5 different exception schemes that went into the different MSVC compilers over the time).

And then mangling of the filenames is totally different, but at least gcc can keep on reusing it (or does it)?
Anyone checked out the Kindle version of the first book? Things with lots of tables and charts often don't work out quite so well on the Kindle...
Also, they might not be very keen to participate in such an immoral system ?
Maybe this has something to do with the file indexer? 2 years ago I heard a lot of XP users complain that Windows was suddenly getting very slow. After some digging around I noticed that they turned on the file indexer by default after an update.
Since then I always turn it of (properties of your disk) and shut down the service (Indexing Service).
What is preventing you from using MinGW? That way, you could use the GNU toolchain (Make, GCC, Binutils etc.) and still have full access to the Win32 API. You could reuse almost all of your Unix build scripts, and the rest boils usually down to making your scripts aware of different file extensions (.exe/.dll instead of /.so).

Even better, you can do cross compiling with MinGW. So if your toolchain dosn't perform well on Windows, just use GCC as a cross compiler and build your stuff on a Linux or BSD machine. Then use Windows for testing the executable. (On smaller projects, you usually don't even need Windows for that, since Wine does the job as well.)

(Full disclosure: I'm the maintainer of a Free Software project that makes cross compiling via MinGW very handy: http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org/)
Clearcase had two new additions: Branching/merging made easy(ier?) and the source code under version control was seen as a file system, a drive letter on your windows system.
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Along the same line, I've never understood Windows' propensity to swap out the kernel. I might have tons of free memory and half my kernel is swapped out. In fact, I've never figured out how to get it not swapped out, no matter how much memory I put in.
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Unfortunately, all I have is n=1 anecdotes. As I'm fond of saying, we have no newspapers here, so it's hard to get data!

But I liked the state-mandated individual plan enough that I've told our CFO we'd be better served by having no health coverage. With only 10 employees, we don't qualify for anything but a low-tier HMO, and apparently risk pooling (i.e. business-association group plans) is no longer allowed in MA.

I think the individual plans might be a worse deal for families, though, which is of course a big consideration - I have no dependents.
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Final fantasy ticks all the boxes mentioned. And I'd say its as great a game as Zelda (though en large maybe not quite as "polished").
Why only Google ?

At a first glance, it seems to me that these patents would also cover Microsoft's Bing and Apple's AppStore(tm). So why target only Google ? Are they perceived as the weakest link or are they siding with Microsoft/Apple ?

They also have these patents for long, why attack Google now ?
Love the netbooks=WMD's metaphor!
Indeed. Quite amazingly someone told the author in a comment only 2 years after the post was published in 2008 of this error.

Too bad the author didn't bother to correct this fatal flaw.
This surely isn't an independent opinion because I work for another search engine (but not on search).

This might also explain my bias against telecoms and toward internet companies, so my opinion perhaps isn't relevant at all.
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So what you're saying is that after a decimation of their economy, Germans were angry at the economic elite in their country. They then listened to the entertainment industry's pressures to remove their freedom of speech, and other civil rights.

Sounds about right.
How is a 100 byte file a valid refutation of what you quoted? It quite clearly states that you should leave the cluster size alone if your files are typically small.
Good to hear that canonical is addressing this.

I had complaining customers on my SatchBook. Battery life got worse with every release recently.
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I think this is a direct investment at least according to WSJ, "Twitter spokesman Matt Graves confirmed the investment" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020479110457710...
I agree about your msbuild points, in fact I don't think it's that bad of a build system and just under-utilized (hidden, for the most part/most users, behind the shiny GUI tools).

Access times: According to the comments on that blog entry (and according to all search hits that I could find, see for example [1]) atime is already disabled by default on Windows 7, at least for new/clean installs.

1: http://superuser.com/questions/200126/are-there-any-negative...
Ummm... no? It'll come out at roughly the same speed (less if the moment it came out there was still energy trapped in the form of compressed marbles when it emerges). Why would it be otherwise?
I hade my gripes with .data too:

<div id="test" data-foo="bar"></div>
<script>
$("#test").removeData('foo');
console.log("#test").data('foo'));
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The thing is removeData is pretty much useless because it only removes data from the jQuery cache, but if the data is missing from the cache jQuery will look in the DOM anyway.
I'm not sure if it is related, but the fact is that file system operation on windows are much slower that on Linux. I remembering that copying large ISO image from one windows partition to another windows partition using Total Commander under Wine on Linux was faster that doing it directly on Windows.

I also remember that I was able to create file copy utility in assembly as a homework assignment that was couple times faster than windows/dos copy command.

The only two reasons I can think of that explain this are:
1 - noone cares about windows fileystem performance.
2 - someone decided that it shouldn't be too fast.
One important difference: with a lottery ticket, you have no effect on your chances to win whatsoever. With a startup you do, armed with several decades of your experience.
If you apply those strict standards of similarity to Mario as you do to Zelda, then not one of those games listed is the same as Mario, and Sonic the least of them.
As posted elsewhere and as someone pointed out in the very comments of the article: That doesn't seem to be the case for Windows 7 anymore.
"This knowledge isn’t superficial in a survey-course sense: It is about both deep structure and practical applications. Knowing about, in this sense, is crucial to understanding a new problem and what must be learned in more depth in order to solve it."

I am usually of the school that finds more value in deeply understanding a single thing than having good knowledge of a lot of things.

When it comes to start-ups and hackers, do you think it's more important to have a deep knowledge of a few topics or a fair understanding of a lot of topics? I think it's more beneficial to have the kind of knowledge that the article described, than a true bare bones understanding of programming.

You don't need to know compiler languages to code the next big thing. It just gives people an indication to how smart the founders are, which means a lot.
Surely what the world needs is finance for _Greeks_ no?
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Linux has defaulted to relatime since 2009.
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Yes, Eastern Europe.
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That is a good find but it is not dispositive. For various legal reasons many people want secondary market transactions in securities that are not registered to happen through the company. So this may still be a secondary market transaction, but I am sure we will find out soon enough.
No need to invent a new conspiracy - closing and reopening happens regularly and for a lot of reasons/subjects.

Just - add a vote to reopen it, if you feel that the question is relevant. I just did.
I just wish the "many eyes" phenomenon worked equally well for device drivers.
In fact nowadays most (all?) linux filesystems use relatime as default, which carries most of the advantages of both atime and noatime. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148

I don't know if something similar exists under windows (I suppose it doesn't).
Then explain. I don't get it.
> He was unable to fix any of them, and in fact contributed to furthering the power of these interests.

the passage of the health reform bill would seem to refute your statement. it's chock full of fixes and attempted fixes to what many people felt was broken with the legacy health system. perfect? no. better than what you've done or I've done? hell yes.
tldr; no one at Google uses windows, a lot of time was spent optimizing the linux build, zero time was spent optimizing the windows builds.
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Hey, thanks for your feedback, what's do you mean by continuous behavioral test instead of integration builds ?
I used that all the time back in school. You'd often recognize the names that turned up, students in the same course, TAs, etc. Occasionally you'd get stuff like this:

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and it was hard to resist the urge to take a peek at what jsmith was working on. Practically no one bothered to set proper file permissions, leaving their files readable to anyone who knew how to find them.
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How does that compare to bitcoin? The distributed append-only data structure sounds like it is similar to the bitcoin block chain.

But the article says this structure is "semi-centralized". Is there a good reason why the sovereign key system isn't fully distributed like bitcon is?
FF has turn-based non-precision battles, unlike Zelda, so that fails the test according to the article's list.

(I'm actually surprised the article didn't mention FF at all.)
can you please explain further? You are making me feel like an idiot. I don't see anything wrong with the tree. What exactly is the joke in here?
Also, i'm even more confused because it doesn't even seem like a "redesign" at all. Not even sure if these two pictures are from the same location. The backgrounds are different.
From the article:

> Your version of Linux is essentially the same as mine. If you try to charge too much of a premium, I will undercut you on price, [...]. Open source companies tend to operate at lower gross margins. That doesn't mean that open source can never work as a business model. However, no matter what anybody says, if two companies have the same risks and operational costs, the low-margin company is a lot harder to manage than the high-margin company.

I get the impression that the author is somewhat stuck into the common thinking of software only as a product. The statement above is true if you try to sell licenses. However, there are lots of more clever Open Source business models out there.

For instance, you could treat software as an infrastructure like a street or a computer network. You get paid on improving parts of it and/or providing services around it.

Of course, software is neither a product that is first designed and then mass-produced in factories, nor is it a street on which regular roadworks are necessary. However, treating it as the latter seems to be more suitable for Open Source software.
To those wondering if this is a secondary purchase, the keyword I see here is 'Invests'. It is very different from "Saudi Prince buys $300m worth of Twitter shares".
The article addresses this part clearly: the "RP" in "RPG" doesn't really define the category, since most (all?) character-based games are "role-playing": in a racing game, you're role-playing a race car driver, in a military FPS you're role-playing a soldier, etc. But I wouldn't call those RPGs by any stretch of the imagination.

RPG has pretty much come to mean a very specific thing: quest-type game with turn-based combat. I would never think of Zelda as an RPG.

(As an aside, remember Super Mario RPG? They mashed standard Mario with the kind of RPG format I describe above... funny that they explicitly acknowledge the format in the title of the game.)
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Interesting that as US institutions are ramping up their online education offerings, the UK government is cutting funding for the Open University (open.ac.uk) which is probably one of the pioneers in the area.
A microcosm of the UK's involvement in technology in general I think.
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Yes. You can specialise the implementation without breaking semantics. Lua, PyPy, and some Javascript VMs are examples of that.
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> Once you go down the ORM route and that means sacrificing database engineering for use of the ORM

This is where you're wrong. This is an all-or-nothing argument that isn't based in reality. The reality is you make choices at every level, and an ORM like ActiveRecord doesn't do much to prevent you from using the full database feature set at your disposal. Granted, if you do everything with stored procedures and foreign keys then you won't be able to use all of ActiveRecord's features, but you really can do things any way you want.

> then what benefit do you get from using an RDBMS? Wouldn't NoSQL be better?

Now assuming you lean more in the ActiveRecord direction and don't do much heavy database engineering, why no use NoSQL? Well, take your pick from the usual reasons. RDBMS systems are mature, performant, extremely rich for ad-hoc querying and, easy to administer, etc, etc. Just because ActiveRecord only explicitly uses 20% of the features of the typical RDBMS doesn't mean those features aren't extremely useful per se.

The way I look at it is that using an RDBMS for almost any new project is a smart hedge, because an RDBMS is the most type of flexible data store. It will allow you to pivot more easily compared to a NoSQL store where things may be extremely scalable in the dimension that you foresee, but if you need to pivot your data model you are in for a massive rewrite. People complain about adding columns and indices to SQL databases vs the "agility" of just adding keys to Mongo or whatever, but honestly it's just a little busy work most of the time, it doesn't really hurt until your data gets huge, at which point you are going to be running into unanticipated bottlenecks anyway.
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The article told you - licensing. They've been trying to get Google to license the patents.

Presumably Microsoft and Apple have already licensed them, or come to some other arrangement.
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Relevant reading is Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice, which makes this insight as obvious as it should be.
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VC++ generates significantly better code than GCC. Enough so that performance-minded projects usually wouldn't consider MinGW/GCC for Windows code.
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Yes, I saw the redirection. But "dir" is an built-in command in the Windows shell; is the speed of that command a benchmark-able number? Is the point to compare the speed of "ls" vs "dir", or the underlying OS/file-systems (i.e., posix vs. win32 /Ext3 vs. NTFS)? If someone tells me that "dir" is slow, I'd agree -- but that -- in itself -- doesn't imply that the filesystem is slow.
I would have thought the opposite to be true.
Yea, that IE8 bug is unfortunate.

Here's an example of text-align: center and margin: auto side-by-side: http://jsfiddle.net/wH5Pd/

Try making the window narrower so that the html pane in the bottom right gets horizontal scroll bars. (In the real world, there might be a two column layout, such that the textual content fits in the narrow window, but the full width of the content doesn't.)

Even when the window is narrow, all of the content in the top div can be accessed by scrolling horizontally. In bottom div, the left hand side of the content gets clipped because it is positioned to the left of the window, and scroll bars don't extend into negative offsets. If you're positioning an adornment which doesn't actually need to be visible, the negative margin trick might be OK. But for normal body content, margin: auto is the way to go.
The fact that the article is from 2003 may have something to do with it, since SaaS wasn't as big then as it is now.
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