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I think you might be thinking of Habeas Corpus, which came about in part through common law and later in the form of the Habeas Corpus Act, some 400 years later than the Magna Carta Act.

The most important part of the Magna Carta Act is the guarantee that you will be tried by your peers. In civil cases at the moment in the UK there is a strong resistance to have secret evidence even though the current Justice Minister suggests that some evidence should be withheld from the accused! So common law cases, like Habeas Corpus actions, are still tried in front of your peers with open evidence. This may change if Ken Clarke, and according to some accounts lobbying from the US CIA, have their way.
One thing that can work, if you only need a day here and there, is to get a motel room to use as a meeting room/conference room. Even fewer distractions than an office and you don't have to pay for it when you aren't using it. (We did this a few times in the 1980s/90s when I was working for an architect, when we needed a meeting place near a job.)
An MBA probably won't help you and may even make it worse.

The first step is recognizing there's a problem and seek help, which you've done and I congratulate you for that. I think you just have to be more patient and humble.

Even if you think you're the smartest person in the company, you have to learn that others can bring something to the table also. Just setup what the goals are of the meeting at the start then give people a chance to speak and withhold your own opinion until after you've heard everyone else talk at the end. Again don't try to interrupt too much and give everyone a chance to voice their opinion, and use it as an opportunity to try to learn something from others (ie. respect that others have something to teach you as well). And sometimes you'd be surprised at learning something you didn't expect or know beforehand that would change what you thought should happen.
They could both be correct; it depends on how you slice it.

For example, the article notes, "Aircraft, motor vehicles, vacuum tubes and telecom equipment were next on the list of top exports."

In your list, both aircraft and motor vehicles are are grouped under "transportation equipment," making it a much larger group.
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PyPy has higher memory usage than CPython for two main reasons: A) JIT-generated code, B) pure garbage collection lets dead objects live longer than CPython's refcount/GC hybrid. Neither of these is going to go away, although it's reasonable to expect the gap to narrow over time. More importantly, much of this extra memory is a fixed cost, so while simple programs will see a 10x increase, real-world programs should see a less dramatic impact.

FWIW, my own tests of pypy 1.7 have shown the memory overhead to be about 3x: http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado/browse_thread/...
Plus, the summary missed a key point -- waited till laid off to do something about the feeling bad about it part.
I remember seeing one of these at a summer 2008 Y Combinator pitch session. The person driving it in the back room was able to catch a ball and do some fairly complex actions.

That being said -- I am extremely skeptical of this being used in some sort of tele-present leadership function as it completely destroys any of the presence and personality a dynamic leader has.

Isn't the more obvious use for things like dangerous labor or other more physical functions? An iPad on a Segway would probably do better than this thing as some sort of weird telepresence thing.
I'm not sure. Games publishers have been at this for many years yet, they've experimented with price points, different forms of DRM and various online strategies.

I don't think there's any real evidence that cutting price affects price in any major way. Entertainment products are fairly price-inelastic* and collectors' editions are almost Veblen goods.

*Although they obviously respond well to sales and temporary price drops, permanent price cuts don't seem to help much.
Probably won't ever happen -- that's a little too obvious. But approval from some giant corporate entity that is thoroughly in the pocket of the government, and approves or denies applications at the government's whims? That's not very hard to imagine.
Pointing to something which doesn't exist anymore is usually bad thing. NPE's come to mind.
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Why is it all the "experienced" database people I encounter remind me of flat earthers? Are you really so hung up on yourselves that you'll watch the entire industry pass you by rather than admit the traditional models might not always be the best models for every situation?
Are these really exports to other countries, or do shipments intended for or directly to US forces in Iraq, Afghanistan etc also count as exports?
So TRESOR needs to submit an acceptable patch to the nice kernel.org folks, and then it can ship as a distro default.
DeSOPA is a nice yet simple tool which I could recommend to others or modify if necessary should the need arise.
Stop kidding yourself and stop feeling sorry for yourself -- this post is needlessly melodramatic. You were not working with the 'smartest people in america' nor where you really hurting or helping anyone to a great degree. You were helping some people maintain (read: not lose) their wealth -- you'd be surprised how bad people are with money.

You also contradict yourself, saying how you feel implying that you feel bad that you helped rich people get richer, then at the same time say that you didn't really help anyone do better than the market (which in 2011 closed at near 0 growth)

I work in finance for a much larger bank than you do, and I take that paycheck (which isn't any higher than what an well paid engineer gets in the valley) and invest it every night in a home, food, and debt. Then I take the spare time I have left over and design software to help mentally and emotionally disabled children.

You can sit around and blog about how sorry you feel about the money you have in the bank, or you can do do something responsible with it and turn it into a real contribution.
I'm hoping that Raphael will get higher level API. I think g.Raphael went in that direction but more needs to be done.

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> For a time you could simply buy your way to a knighthood.

You still can.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/new-year-hono...
Happy New Year!

Wishing you all the best in 2012.

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Yeah, how dare people like what you don't like?

> It has been criticized a lot [...] but still for some reason it's so popular

Since you provide no data or sources for "criticized a lot" it's no surprise that you don't provide the same for "so popular". I assume you mean "I've seen some headlines on Hacker News about it".

> incompatibility with virtually any non-x86 CPU architecture [...] no way to run the original code on any big-endian CPU architecture

Huh. Maybe that's only a problem for people on non-x86 CPUs then?

Look I'm really not a fan of Mongo but "It has been criticized a lot [...] but still for some reason it's so popular" describes every technology ever. Get over it.
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without explicitly defending this decision*, i'd like to point out that mongodb was never intended to be deployed as a single node living on a single machine.

it was designed with concurrency in mind, the concurrency you're looking for comes in the form of sharding and replica sets though.

edit: meh, got bored, decided to defend it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3412283
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> Maybe that's only a problem for people on non-x86 CPUs then?

actually it's a problem for application developers. I cannot rely on a backend system with limitations like these. So I'll have to go back to the RDBMS backend or look for other nosql alternatives, but definitely mongoDB is off my list
The card reminds me of the American Express Black Card in its exclusivity. It's Like a certificate of achievement and a nice item to have even after you spend the money.
Second that. Speed is not something I ever even considered to be an issue.

If it were me (which it's not), it's the QR code feature in combination with the existing idea of URL shorteners that I'd be promoting as the differentiating factor — i.e. "Qik.im — Short URLs with QR codes". I think introducing the concept of speed into the copy detracts from what's cool about it.

Nice work!
Haha what! Is Richard Branson really a member of hacker news?!
This is a well-meaning gesture and I'm sure that Facebook can't track transactions just because they commissioned the card.

Still, I can't imagine security researcher types are going to like the idea of making daily purchases with a card commissioned and owned by Facebook!
The world runs on x86. You might have some legacy systems running SPARC or POWER, but those systems are unlikely to reside in MongoDB's target market anyway.

Arguing everyone else should ditch code that happens to not work on your pet architecture is a pretty self-centered worldview.
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Disclaimer: I'm a vacation rental owner who advertises on nearly all the mentioned sites, and before that I was a customer who stayed at vacation rentals.

One of the worst travel mishaps is accidentally double-booking a space. This is something that happened with frequency in the old old days - prior to the rise of large hotel chains - often enough that it is a plot device often seen in books and old movies. The protagonist finds they have to quickly arrange another place to stay, hijinks ensue.

Since hotel chains have come along, double-booking has become almost unheard of. They have many identical rooms, they're overbooked counting on people not showing up, as airlines do. But with this slight reversion (people are sick of generic hotels with little character and few amenities; the rush to stay in houses and apartments commences) the nightmare of double-booking is a possibility for the traveler once again.

On reviews via the vacation rental sites: Nobody is happy with the current review system at the vacation rental sites. Nobody. Search the http://community.homeaway.com forums to see the owners' side of this. The owners feel HomeAway is geared far too much toward helping the guests, who aren't the ones paying big bucks to use the site. The guests feel the company isn't allowing their voice to be heard when there's a true problem. As in this instance, good guests find they can't properly review a property. And good owners find they can't stop a wayward review from appearing on the listing they paid a lot of money upfront for. Both ends of this are exploited by the few bad apples - the owners and guests who lie for their own ends.

Yelp's model of reviews, on the other hand, has its own similar problems. Fair reviews by genuinely happy or pissed off customers end up filtered. Unfair, spammy reviews (whether owner plants or one pissed customer writing 12 reviews) don't get filtered. There is no 100% way to get around this. The companies whose websites accept, review, and host these reviews have to do the best they can, and keep working at perfecting the filtering mechanisms.

Having said all that, I think the author has a right to be pissed off. Finding you have no place to stay because the owner made a mistake is a nightmare. And he should be able to say to others looking at the property that the owner made a mistake and double-booked him (but paid him back on the spot - obviously, situations exist where the owner gets snippy and refuses: new level of nightmare). The fact that he can't state this publicly is a fault in HA's review system. But they also have a point - that's all he could say, because all that happened was that his space was double-booked. He didn't actually stay there.

What's the solution? I don't know. In a matter of dispute, a dispute resolution where an agreed upon statement of fact could be posted in the reviews might work. The place this idea would fall down is when dealing with the true psychos - the liars who are out to take your money (on the owning side), the liars who are out to threaten you into giving their money back (on the guest side).
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"so much emphasis on looping in the remote people"

You mean "the team"?

"screwing around with the video camera, trying out this video service, etc, etc."

A team of programmers and you don't have this sorted by day 3? Are you going to tell me you really tried to make it work and failed? Is it possible that, deep down, you didn't really want it to work?

"ended up going with a contracting company"

oh.

And don't say it's too hard to interview remote people. I once got a job at a local company, but they still flew me to their head office to check me out face to face.

"there's no one to have a beer with after work and talk about the latest coding issue, problem, point of interest, socialize"

There's lots of people. They just don't work with me.
This seems like a good idea, I'm curious what OpenSSL or other crypto libraries do to keep secrets from being paged out to disk by the virtual memory machine? That seems like a legitimate attack vector.
I agree. I've worked for years, sometimes with people that I've never met in person, and had great working relationships while learning very little about their lives. I enjoy having separate work and social lives.
> First with UEFI

I want to point out a couple things here, since there seem to be a lot of misconceptions. 1) UEFI is not the problem -- it's one specific feature called 'secure boot'; UEFI is a very good thing overall, so we should point out the bad part and not the awesome whole, 2) MS isn't requiring that secure boot be required, or even that they have a signing key for it -- they're purely requiring that it be on by default, 3) the reference implementation and all known shipping versions of secure boot have a switch to disable it if the user so chooses, so it's not much of a lock-in facility -- it could be in the future, but it's not now, and MS isn't making it into one.

That said, despite being a huge Windows fanboy, Windows 8 is seriously making me consider switching back to Linux. This sort of lock-down is terrible for everyone, most people just don't realize how bad it is.
That's pretty interesting. What features did it offer? Just a grid of cells, or some crude facility for summing/counting rows and columns as well?
The article says they can withdraw cash from ATM's.
Isn't it already the case that many scanners, printers and image editing software have built-in restrictions to prevent the copying of currency?

How are those restrictions implemented? I don't mean in a technical sense, I understand the dot pattern recognition. But how is it that the vendors build it in? Are there legal requirements? (and if so, how do Open Source implementations manage) Are they purely concerned about liability? Are they paid to by the proprietors of the technology? (so that the can sell it to mints).
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Sure it might be useful, I just don't think it has longevity in it. In other words it will be surpassed by another system, aiming to solve the same set of problems, but designed with concurrency in mind from the start. MongoDB developers will end up spending all their efforts to retrofit concurrency, and the community of users will simply move on.
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A "ruby vs. perl" fight is the furthest from my mind, I'm just speaking anecdotally about what my friends who, like me, were heavy perl users are using in it's place now. If the "measurably" bit refers to how the runtimes benchmark, yes, absolutely, it doesn't make sense.
I would guess that someone switched NAICS code 33411 "Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing" for NAICS code 334411 "Electron Tube Manufacturing," but that's just a guess.
To provide a counterpoint, I've lived my entire life in smaller cities with little to no public transit, so all the things you've mentioned are just second nature to me. Never run out of gas because there's always a gas station nearby (and I don't let it get that low anyways). I check my tires about 4 times a year, and I pay attention while driving.

On the other hand, when I visit a city with public transit it usually makes me very uncomfortable. Is the station open when I need to go? Do I need tokens or a card? Will the vending machine take credit cards? Will I just miss barely the train and be late to my meeting? Will the train be late because some dude got stuck in the door (this happened to me in London)? Is that shady looking fellow at the other end of the car going to mug or knife me? What if the engineer is texting, misses a crucial signal and plows into the back of a stopped train?

Each mode of transit has its plusses and minuses. Public transit is great if it's convenient, quick and safe. Cars also have a cost as well as the article illustrates.

For me, I like the flexibility and feeling of control I have from having a car. And, frankly, I like driving. :)
Just realised that G+ has a daily limit for adding people to a circle. Will have to try again tomorrow.

Also getting the message "Error Loading People" on G+ when I try to view/add a circle with 440 people
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To be fair Steve Jobs got his start at Atari, so they sort of owe them one... ; )
actually the number of ARM processors is growing, and not only in the mobile sector. There have been some efforts to bring ARM architecture into the server market. Also China is building its own MIPS-based supercomputer. Also the SPARC architecture is actually developing, although it's a pity to see it swallowed by Oracle. IBM is still shipping PowerPC servers.

besides, there are huge SPARC-only datacenters still running.
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I'd agree with you if you'd replace "phone" with "communications device." I'm not convinced that voice calls will remain the dominant interpersonal communication medium once we're a (human) generation into ubiquitous smartphone deployment.

Anecdotally, I'm sure we all know people who just use their "phone" as an email/SMS platform, and I could easily imagine a near future where palmtop devices primarily do various forms of text messaging, and then additional addons (perhaps a headset and a voice plan) are required to make voice calls over the legacy PSTN.
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If you would kindly refrain from personal attacks, we might have a productive conversation, and hacker news might continue to be a place to have such conversations.
> Since you provide no data or sources for "criticized a lot"

there have been tons of discussions, also on HN, very easy to google
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There was a poxy operating system a few years ago. It only ran on one 32 bit architecture, didn't have multi-processing, had limited device support and a rather bizarre set of dev tools. Then they tidied things up a bit. But when they added multi-processing these morons just used a single big kernel lock. What a bunch of idiots. Obviously anyone using that operating system was blind and stupid and there were far better solutions.

That operating system is Linux. It started out very simple and was good enough for many people and then kept evolving. Nowadays the alternatives are mainly footnotes in history.

MongoDB is also simple. Its locking approach does not give wrong answers. Its users are happy. Your assertion that the locking can't evolve is bollocks because you have no clue how the database works. While your statement has many elements of truth for a relational database, it is meaningless for the current generation of schemaless/NoSQL databases. Did you know that MongoDB has auto-sharding and replication, and doesn't need locks for that either?
That's indeed an interesting example because, by any standard, this is terrible code.

It's not nice to criticize without being constructive. Care to explain why the code is bad, and offer better suggestions?
I can only HOPE that the author meant, "What if the most important thing TO THE DRIVER is texting?"

Then it's a matter of readjusting said driver's priorities.
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Reading document from Apple is the best way to start.

For books, I found the following are very helpful:

1) Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (by Aaron Hillegass)
2) Cocoa Design Patterns (by Erik M. Buck and Donald A. Yacktman)
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So one core is processing one request at a time, right? If it spends any time at all being queued up on disk IO or network traffic or anything else, that core is burning up XX watts for no good reason. A more efficient system, designed for concurrency, will have higher HW utilization and lower cost.

For a sign of things to come, I invite you to take a look at how relational database vendors are fighting to squeeze single-digit percentages from their engines to beat benchmarks such as TPC-C or TPC-E. NoSQL will get there too - fight for efficiency.
Understood, but nothing seems to add up to the given numbers. Nor do the categories used seem to be based on any standard I can find.

Its pretty easy to make almost anything you want appear to be the "biggest" if you can arbitrarily manipulate the category system used.
This is from 1996, and has been submitted at least 3 times. What value does the discussion really have?
> There have been some efforts to bring ARM architecture into the server market.

None of which have really gone anywhere.

> China is building its own MIPS-based supercomputer.

You think a lot of supercomputers are going to be running Web-targeted NoSQL datastores?

> Also the SPARC architecture is actually developing

So its partisans have insisted for the past decade. The real world doesn't much care. Sun/Oracle was less than 2% total market share for servers in 2010, by the way -- and that includes their x86 sales.

> IBM is still shipping PowerPC servers.

How many? To whom? They had 13% market share in 2010, and they sell a lot more x86 servers than POWER.

> besides, there are huge SPARC-only datacenters still running.

There won't be much longer, and the ones that are mostly run legacy infrastructure.

There's not even a convincing case for 10% of new servers running not-x86. Greenfield systems don't care about not-x86. It's just irrelevant to pretty much everybody. There's no reason for the MongoDB guys to make it any sort of priority.