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Have not been to Chicago in a while, from my older (several years old) recollections it is not drastically different from Baltimore. However: Moscow is definitely cheaper than its usual "top 5" ranking. For a middle class visitor or city dweller, anyway (cannot say for a very short-term business visitor). Caveat: knowing Russian would help greatly but is not mandatory.
No, I'm not, and I didn't represent myself as one. I'm not sure what you find objectionable about my comment. I was wondering if the person I was replying to actually knew more than me or if he was speaking with undue certainty, so I asked.
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A ton of my real life friends are starting to use Twitter more than Facebook because Facebook "isn't cool anymore."
I looked through the docs, but couldn't find anything interesting regarding exchanging data between nodes. Everything seems to be isolated and the only real exchange seems to be possible in local script generators. How do you do stuff like "find all running frontend nodes and put them into this config file", or "find a database node and create a config with credentials valid for that node" using cdist?
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Fair enough point and I do agree that this guy's article is perhaps lacking in proposing solutions or fully explaining the problem.

The problem as I see it is that technology allows someone to avoid paying those "other authors that specific price for their work" as long as they are willing to spend some time and energy to pirate it. I believe people with more time than money will always exist. SOPA may make piracy more difficult, but it's not going to stop it, just as killing napster didn't stop music piracy. Is it really going to create more jobs other than employing people to respond to the new SOPA takedown requests?

I think iTunes/Netflix/Rhapsody-type services are the right solution to this problem. Sure, a college kid can always pirate stuff for the sake of pirating or because they have no money, but most busy people that can afford to pay for it, as long as the asking price of the studios is not too egregious, they will usually pay it happily as long as it's easy. Simple paid options are the real solution here.
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This guy ignores the fact that Microsoft has a fair bit of experience being the latecomer to a ( admittedly less dynamic and crowded) party.

The first Xbox was just a stake in the ground, a declaration of micrsofts intention to play in a field that was already quite competitive and saturated. It won a few people over but it didn't win the market. Then they released the 360 and the main consoles in the market are now in a 3 way battle, instead of a two way one. Microsoft are, I hope, playing a long game that recognizes that people don't stay with their current phone forever.
Have not tried yet, but thanks for the link! Salt seems to be comparable to Mcollective - except, where Mcollective uses middleware (ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ or Apollo) which comes with its own server (broker), Salt uses ZeroMQ, with a built-in broker.
If only we were as compassionate towards, say, starving people.
Most notably, the new Thinkpad T-Series (Tx20) has 16:9 screens instead of 16:10. You think they got smaller? No, they have the same size, just a large part is covered in plastic where vertical screen space used to be. Did I mention that it looks retarded?
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Contractor, i guess? I dont bill by hour because my work productivity highly depends on my mood, so hourly rate would be unfair. A project wise prefixed rte s what i look for.
> one that uses Unix commands instead of ruby libraries, for example - will probably eventually replace Puppet (and Chef, and the others).

I hope not... There's a huge value in being able to operate on proper data types easily. I can get a hash and output a corresponding .ini-like file in a couple of lines in chef. This would be a nightmare to do in shell.
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Well, deterministic deallocation is difficult to combine with non-deterministic garbage collection.

Going out of scope is deterministic, but the object that has gone out of scope might still be referenced from somewhere if the reference has "escaped". Sometimes automatic escape analysis can work when references escape, but not always.

Would you like the object to have its destructor called even though it might be still be accessible? What would happen if the program subsequently tries to access the object?

Most languages are naturally uncomfortable with tidying up some resoure while it still might referenced. For this reason languages prefer to leave it up to the programmer to explicitly manage destruction themselves.

A perfect example is C#'s IDisposable interface. The language obviously "knows" that a disposable object needs cleaning up after it is used - that's what IDisposable means - but it cannot work out when this should happen. So it lets the programmer decide when that actually happens. If a programmer wants destruction based on scope then she should use the using statement. If she wants destruction based on some other condition then that is possible too. The language cannot make this decision.

I hope that answers your question.
When people say this, I usually hear "Would Google've". It looks horrible that way, but captures the intention. I might use it orally (or in fiction dialogue), but not in writing.
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Re: 1. iOS runs the Unreal Engine 3 as well as iD's RAGE engine. Look at games like Infinity Blade [1] and Rage HD [2], then try telling me that's not serious gaming.

Re: 2. Yes, iMovie for iOS has been out for 18 months [3]. It's pretty darn good.

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As someone who has worked as a consultant and hired them, it's hard to imagine a piece of work that I'd be willing to pay an outside contractor a continuing percentage for. Products,definitely, but that assumes a more or less tu rn key solution that I am not responsible for maintaining. But code rots, marketing is forgotten, and business practices must continually adapt in the face of changing realities on the ground, as it were. If I'm paying you for your expertise, I'll leave the money on the nightstand , but you're not getting half my stuff. ;)
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"""The researcher will prioritize scientific rigor, and the web programmer will prioritize practical use of resources during their implementation."""

Yes, but in the end, you can't escape theory, you have to know it, even if less rigorously and systematically.

Consider the example of the web programmer that stores monetary transactions as floats in some db, blissfully unaware of the issues. Hilarity (or huge lawsuits) ensues...
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I started my professional career more than 6 years ago. I started at a small company (less than
10 people). We were mainly a mobile development shop. I was known as 'polyglot guy' and 'Moving
MSDN' working with the various technologies (C++, C#, Python, Java) on various platforms
(Symbian, Windows CE, Windows, Java ME).

Then the company met a lot of management and financial problems. The manager made a lot of mistakes
and later closed the company. This was very hard for me considering that I'm responsible for my
mom & younger sisters after my father died. I worked there for 1.5 years.

Then I moved to another small company, working on ASP.net. I was able to learn it very fast & become
productive with it, performing very well at the beginning & used my good points (learning fast & using
various technologies well) but I met some problems when I was responsible for a whole project for
the first time. We ran very late & the quality was very low. Adding to this that the company was
really bad when it comes to collecting their money, it was financially unstable. I had to leave
after 1.5 years, though I liked this company very much.

For the next 1.5 years I worked in 3 small companies, 6 months in each one. This was really a
horrible period of my life. We were always overloaded with work, project scope was rapidly
increasing with the same cost. We were working for 16 hours a day. We were treated badly.
Everything I tried to do was not enough to save any company.

I didn't try to fight till the last possible moment. I had enough of small failing companies. I was
convinced that to create a successful software project I should focus on management, not the
technical side

I went to work in a large software company, not as a senior programmer (as I used to be) but
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reasons

1. It is financially stable
2. To enhance my communication & management skills
3. This was the only way to grow

Contrary to my previous positions, I had manage many small interdependent tasks. I wasn't good
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times to do anything. All the time. I'm always blamed because I'm responsible. What makes me angry
is that it's late because of somebody else. The only parts that went well were the parts that I made
myself, or any tool that I made to automate a manual process. I'm much slower than any other
colleage in my team & the whole company, even people who are much younger than me

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and work on a more technical position, but they said there isn't a vacant place for me. Later I
asked for a communication skills many times, which I got finally.

I don't know how to grow in my career. I don't want to work on management, but I alsp want to feel
that my work is valuable & affecting the company positively. Here in Egypt the only way to grow is to
go the management path.

I also want to work with Python. All the companies here either use C#, Java, C++ or PHP.
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Agreed. I can't remember the last fixed-price project I did in which the client and I were both satisfied.
Simple paid options may be the best option for all involved, but again, if someone makes their product difficult or expensive to get, nothing says every person ought to still be entitled to have it however they can get at it. Saying that you can't stop this behavior completely is irrelevant to whether you should aim to reduce it. None of the laws we have made something go away completely just by it being illegal.
I'd suggest three things:

1 - subscribe to http://codeyear.com/ (or similar)

2 - take a couple of hours every weeks to do pair-work (not only programming, but also estimating etc) so he get a better idea of the daily tradeoffs

3 - let him pick a couple of screencasts at times (see http://www.learnivore.com/ for instance) to follow from a high level view at his own pace

If you do 2, be ready to question your own assumptions; you'll likely get "fresh" questions that will teach you just as much as him.
I don't believe the reason why people don't go to facebook is because it's too crowded. As an earlier commented noted people don't necessarily friend someone who they are close with so they can be bff's. They friend them so they can keep tabs on them (or casually stalk them).

The thing I don't buy as much is whether mobile/app only social networks will provide long lasting value. I feel it's more a novelty than a real strategic advantage especially since mobiel web browser technology is catching up.
A physics teacher of mine destroyed one in class by putting it in acid for an experiment.

Funny fact: at that time it was illegal in my country (France). This law has been abrogated since then to allow machines that crush coins to make souvenirs.
I'm not saying they shouldn't do it. I just don't believe that the vast majority would do it
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Why don't more people practice TDD?
The left/right brain separation is a myth, just like "we're using only 10% of our brain."

http://donaldhtaylor.wordpress.com/writing/modern-myths-of-l...
OTOH, refcounting is one of the main reasons why it's virtually impossible to eliminate the GIL, which is a showstopper for many multi-core usages of Python.
I think that this is a highly Angst-driven approach - I used to feel the same, but I decided that I have to put more trust in people not trying to screw me. Of course, your BS radar has to be finely tuned to not engage with potential troublemakers.
They have. Kinectimals, Fable, Crackdown and Need For Speed all have Windows Phone mini games/apps that allow you to earn unique achievements and items. Halo has a 'dashboard' app, but not a game, afaik.

See also "Xbox LIVE Extras" (messaging, scoreboard and avatar editor) and the "Xbox Companion" (Xbox remote control).

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Live/Mobile/Home
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/search?q=xbox
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The bit about shifting budget dollars around is an accounting issue. many (if not all) advertising businesses have "house ads" that they run for their own products.

It's similar to when you see an ad for an NBC show while watching a different NBC show, or an ad for Consumer Reports auto pricing service in Consumer Reports magazine.
Honestly I tend to feel like any social network based on symmetric following relationships is broken. This is a lot of why people have such ginormous "friends" lists on Facebook - they got in the habit of "adding" any damn person who asks so that they can see their posts.

I don't WANT to have to ask to subscribe to someone. I don't WANT to have to give approval to everyone who wants to watch my stuff. I don't WANT to see every post from everyone who thinks my art and writing is cool. I want to broadcast, not narrowcast. And when I go see what people are up to, I want to see the tiny number of people I'm I interested in, not everyone who thinks I'm cool.

I just tried Path today. My reaction? Pretty UI but I need another place to build a wholly-private friends network like I need a hole in my head. If any of these social networks becomes popular, people will be complaining about the EXACT SAME PROBLEM because these networks are designed in such a way that these problems are INEVITABLE.

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do people with masters or PhD STEM degrees make much more than people that only have bachelors in similar fields? I thought that the gain was fairly small. Even in the same area, I know a literal rocket scientist working as a rocket scientist with a masters degrees from MIT who makes less than your average programmer/sysadmin.

As far as I can tell, once you make programmer, having a bachelors vs. a masters doesn't seem to make much difference. (Once you have the job, lacking even the bachelors doesn't seem to make much difference; but those of us who have the job with out the degree are relatively rare, which to me points at the degree helping you to get the job, even if it doesn't change your pay all that much once you have it.)
Yes, you can do this but I usually just end up using the helper functions i.e

System.IO.File.AppendAllText(path, "This is some text in the file.");

Also, why are you writing text to binary file instead of just writing the text as a text file?
On Unix, a new process is supplied argv[], an array that contains the executable name and invidual arguments. Clearly, supplying call() a list of arguments is the right thing to do.

I seem to remember that on Win32, all you get is an argument string, and the process is required to do the parsing itself. This is simply a different model, and the Unix way is cleaner and easier to work with. It seems to me reasonable to optimize for the saner (Unix) way of doing things instead. I confess I don't understand your analogy to Word.
In the UK at least, the 10 DRM-free downloads no longer apply for new Zune Pass subscribers. Those who already had that type of subscription will keep it, from what I understand, but it's no longer an option for new people.
Brad's post and the industry at large is accurately describing the outlook. Right now. It's a mistake (IMO) to ignore the long term.

The Nokia angle is huge - people have and will buy a Nokia device just for Maps and Drive. Nokia know this so have spent a lot of energy in getting it right on the Lumia. Their killer feature is directions using public transport. This will pay off for them, and consequently for Microsoft.

Some comments here say WP7 should aim for the gaming market. It already does. I watched a 12-year-old kid pick up a WP7 phone a few weeks ago - he went ballistic when he saw the Xbox tile on the home screen. His dad bought him a WP7 for xmas.

Some comments here also say that WP7 should aim at the business user. This it also already does. WP7 and the forthcoming Windows 8 tablets are going to the the only phone/tablet combination that intergrate natively with Active Directory, System Centre, Office and Office 365, DirectAccess, and so on. That is a very compelling sell into a corporate market that is finding it difficult to integrate and secure iPhones and Android phones in "the enterprise."

The last point I think is worth making is that for app developers WP offers a very profitable marketplace.

The five-year plan is very familiar and comfortable territory for Microsoft, and has historically shown it's effectiveness (IE/Netscape, Word/WordPerfect, Xbox/PS, and so on).
In fact, one can claim that mark-and-sweep is one of the few garbage collection algorithms that actually collect garbage.

Many others collect non-garbage. Because there typically is way less non-garbage than garbage, that is what makes them competitive with alloc/free.
Even something counterfeit is worth something, so the seller is still entitled to sue (for the value of the counterfeit good). The object would then be re-valued during the trial and the seller liable for the full amount. Is this correct?
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I think that the problem is exactly that paypal and credit cards try to solve the trust issue, but they do it in a simplistic way that heavily favors the buyer.

Let payments be payments like cash, and solve trust issues separately with things like escrow services.
Heck, with ones made of precious metals you can even actually destroy them and still make a good buck selling the gold.
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Great point, making something illegal doesn't stop it, but it just raises the price. Drugs come to mind as I read this. It becomes a problem to me when making something illegal raises the cost to society overall versus actually solving whatever problem it claimed to solve. Again, drugs is a great example because we have great costs as a society for law enforcement and prisons dedicated to making drugs illegal versus quite possibly less costs if at least some drugs were legal.

To tie this back to the issue, I think SOPA taxes the Google's, Facebook's, etc of the world in an attempt to deal with piracy, which will only increase our costs as citizens for those services and not really solve the problem. Similarly, we also pay taxes to imprison drug offenders whilst drugs continue to be consumed at will.
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WW II had a couple of unfortunate local consequences for France.
Most of the list of things you mentioned might be perfectly irrational to name in a letter. WW I or II are good examples for 'Wow, it survived' remarks on local pieces of craftsmanship or art.
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Good on you? Come on, I'm no MG Siegler but even I know Google isn't doing this out of the kindness of their hearts.

Google simply can't afford to worsen their positions in courts should they have to do any serious battles against antitrust/monopoly allegations.

Dumber still, is that Google Chrome is in the 50th position? The second most popular web browser comes in at #50? Penalty or not, that makes no sense.
Not a total lurker here, but I have mainly 2 reasons why I don't participate as much as I probably would/could/should...

1. Time. A discussion typically only lasts one day, and after that its mostly silent. Alongside my job, I simply can't find enough spare "thinking-time" to really write a thoughtful comment in that time frame. I feel that my comments would be more of a knee-jerk reaction than a real addition of value.

2. Language. My mother tongue ist german, not english. While I've been told that my english is quite reasonable, I still feel insecure in it, especially when I read incredibly well-spoken comments. And I do regularly make some mistakes, especially in grammar, and I don't like making mistakes in public (I guess nobody does).
And of course, it takes longer to write a comment - see #1...