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I gather GHC actually used to do more-or-less this[1] (delete your source if you had type errors). Now that's a way to build discipline :)

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kmk6q/the_best_ghc_...
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"""Anyway, that's my take on it. I know that there are people who will always choose to steal rather than pay, but most of society would happily pay if only we were allowed to."""

I don't buy that. There is and will always be ( as far as I can tell ) the simple fact that I can get an album that costs x dollars for 0. Itunes and Amazon make the purchase of music about as easy as possible, but they still can't beat free.
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Don't generalize artists. Of all the artists I know in person (a couple dozen; many of them published and touring) none of them support this legislation, and some are radical opponents of intellectual property.
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If he ran it, maybe he would do that. TPB might have a different take on the issue.

As for pragmatic concerns, maybe they're considered less liable for the content they host, since they don't monitor the content to remove "accessible" content?

Also - something might be digitally available in the US, but not in other countries.
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> I am a huge fan of the republic that America used to be before the Civil War

Where men were held as slaves and women didn't have the right to vote? For all our problems now, I think we are a much freer country today than we were in 1860.
Society can function with unlimited theft from bike shops, so theft from bike shops isn't really theft.
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure about the additional education thing either. Most teachers I know are spending a fair bit of time on that, but I'm not sure how that translates into the +15, +30, etc system of points...
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Why is it a loophole? At no point does using correct verbiage affect the argument at all. The same action is still occurring. The debate should not be "is copyright infringement stealing?", the debate should be "is copyright infringement wrong?"
A lot of that isn't available internationally, due to market segmentation by the movie/music cartels. I have no idea how much of the world TPB serves as compared to US only markets, but I suspect it's pretty ubiquitous anywhere there's broadband - whereas legit access to that media is not.
As someone that hasn't followed this very closely (and is not more than very vaguely familiar with the OPEN act), I wonder if SOPA and PIPA were never intended to pass, but only to make the OPEN act seem positively moderate by comparison so that it would fly right through the process.

Ironically, I think this tactic may have had the opposite effect -- raising awareness and willingness to take opposing action, ultimately resulting in a more anti-OPEN sentiment than if they had just started off with it in the first place.
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I'm the author of this post. Note that it's entirely adapted from the talk done by Attila Szegedi (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/JVM-Performance-Tuning-tw...), who deserves all the credit. I just filled in some of the gaps and reworked it so it flows in textual form.

I'll try to update the post with any comments I get here. It's definitely not ground truth as I was a bit fuzzy on some parts of the presentation.
I'm sorry, but the reason such a legislation of this magnitude is floating around congress is because of sites--like The Pirate Bay. I mean the friggen arrogance of justifying such a thing as "free speech" or whatever they like to call it other than what it really is, stealing, let's not BS ourselves now. And they exist because they operate in a safe haven (Sweden) which seems to have "sane" copyright laws, is that right? SO THEN, HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT GO ON PIRATE BAY DOWNLOAD THIS GLORIOUS SWEDISH ENTERTAINMENT/SOFTWARE? 'CAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE MOST OF THE STUFF PEOPLE GET OFF THE SITE THAT'S WORTH A DAMN COMES FROM A COUNTRY WITH "INSANE" COPYRIGHT LAWS, ISN'T IT? GEE, I WONDER WHY?
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Maybe you can try to explain customer that it is needed to improve your productivity? I think any sane customer would understand that.
Amazon was an important pioneer in selling DRM free MP3 files, but they couldn't break the back of the whole industry like Apple managed to.

As for the App Store DRM, I'm not sure how that's any different than Steam, which everyone seems to agree is a great model for both customers and developers.

Apple's App Store and Steam both allow you to install the same application on multiple devices.

I'm not sure if you can point to a better model that's been successful in the past. Some indie developers have done alright with DRM free games, but they depend on community goodwill to keep themselves profitable, something a large corporation has a much harder time doing.
Hmm, the proposal to do away with the leap second seems yet another instance of humanity's practice of taking decisions that are expedient in the short term but will create problems in the long term (sun rises at noon in a few thousand years?!)

Every computer in the past several years I've installed (Windows, Mac, Linux) has had NTP enabled. Almost every cell phone ships with "set time from network" enabled. Wristwatches sales are way down => few people set their watches manually.

Keep the leap second! :)
What are you surprised about?

While we can argue about whether the benefits from said restriction are worth the costs, it's clearly the case that copyright is intended to restrict expression and necessarily does so.
Your premise doesn't seem terribly strong for a few reasons.

1) Artists have memories. When I was much younger, I worked as a telemarketer. It was probably the worst job I ever held in my life. It was soul-crushing. Even though I am now a reasonably successful software engineer, I still remember how difficult it was to go to work knowing that unless I was lucky, I was going to be rejected all day long. Even though I've been with my partner for more than a decade, I remember how chaotic, foolish, and frustrating the dating scene was. Anyone with a few years under their belt knows that a bad memory can jump out at you and make you feel exactly the way you did when it happened.

2) An artists music evolves over time. Look at the Beatles. "With the Beatles" is an astonishingly different album from "Abbey Road." Just because you start out as one thing doesn't mean you have to be that thing for the rest of your career.

3) Look at artists like Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, and even Billy Joel to some extent. No matter what your opinion of their music is, it's hard to argue that they are not iconic representations of the "everyman" in music. Most of their output was produced while they were some of the highest paid performers in the world. Even a guy like Jay-Z hasn't been poor or street for a very long time, but if he puts out another record, you can be damned sure that there will be millions of people who buy it because he knows how to write songs that relate to the kind of person he used to be.

Don't put too much stock in the idea that you have to be street level to write good music.
So sad. All this effort because they spent years ignoring technology and trying to do innovation via outsourcing and customer dis-servicing business development.

I know first hand :)
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That's useful and info that the article did not have, but so I know where the start and end of each popcount count region is At which point you know the width of each row and can keep a running total for the progress bar as the row finishes. Again this is only important because randomly assigning threads significantly degrades performance.

"The code I came up with has one single-threaded code, of O(N) time, and after the final barricade. I don't see how any other solution has less contention."

//I will assume your O(N) code is basically N=numer of fingerprints, B = number of OS level threads.

for (x=0, x < N, x++) {for (y=0, y < B, y++) { total[x]+= arraylist[y][x];}}

It's easy to turn this into multi threaded code because each x can be calculated independently. The other optimization where worker threads that run out of job add up their totals to each other which is then added to the end result is the other multi threaded speedup. With it's own set of tradeoffs.

PS: You can always optimize more, but it's midnight and I am not staying up to think about this any more. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
I'm not saying at all they support SOPA, I am saying that I'm sure most of them would like you to pay for their music instead of downloading it for free, just like you or I would like to be paid at the end of the day for our work.

Also I'm not sure why I'm being down voted, but why is it that everyone believes artists/musicians etc, just in the last 10 years or so don't deserve to be paid now that their works are easily duplicatable via the internet? Just because we don't like the big music companies and how they do business doesn't seem to justify not paying for music. We all seem to hate Comcast and AT+Ts service, yet we still pay them because there isn't an easy way to get free cellphone service, or free internet to our houses. So using piracy as a way to 'stick it to the man' sounds like a cop out and a reason to get free music, otherwise you would be boycotting Comcast and your cellphone company too.
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My intent was not to re-fight the Civil War. But just like the Iraqi war it was not all roses and liberating the Iraqi people. A lot of good came from some of the issues surrounding the Civil War. A strong federal government was not one of them. We are well served to remember the things lost when tallying the things gained. The cultural issues of the day where not the product of a republic nor where they a product of a federal government. I can be a fan of the system of government without advocating for a return to the cultural norms of the time.
Compromise with people making unreasonable demands has a special name: appeasement.
> Those ones and zeroes belong to the company and you have to pay the company to get a copy of the ones and zeroes.

They certainly own the ones and zeroes on their own hard drives, but they don't suddenly own the bits on my hard drive if they happen to fall into the same arrangement.

What I always resort to arguing is that ideas and creative works are not property and it doesn't make sense to apply property rights to them. Think back to why physical theft is immoral: it's not because the owner put time and effort into making or earning the property, it's because you can't take the property without depriving the owner of it. That isn't the case for an arrangement of bits on a hard drive, and that's why I don't think copying is immoral.

> If you are going with your argument, any company that makes software should only be able to sell that software once and after that, anyone should be able to copy it.

Any company that relies on selling something that can be effortlessly copied and obtained for free on the Internet, and then lobbies the government to create and enforce increasingly strict rules specifically designed to prop up your business model that is not profitable on its own, does not have any "right" to profit. Note that this is not a dismissal of software-for-profit: there are plenty of profitable software companies that either avoid piracy by providing non-copyable value or by thriving despite piracy.
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This is the reason I've come to like them. The travel is super short so you can kind of just tap at them instead of having to hammer down. Older membrane or mechanical keyboards would require some serious effort to fully depress the key, and if you didn't develop a heavy-handed habit you'd often miss letters.

I have a pet theory that Apple's iterations of shorter, thinner, lower travel keyboards is just training us slowly for the day when a glass keyboard is the de-facto standard.

The only trouble I have with the iPad-sized keyboard, which is virtually the same in terms of layout, is that accidental taps are much easier. It's like handling a loaded gun, you can't leave your fingers lazying about. If it required a certain amount of force, just jog the motion sensor slightly, and had a slight tactile feel to the keys, it might end up being even better.
About 600 of them we're generated from people using my site: http://www.piparollcall.com/ =)
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We're talking about a simple legal definition here - copyright infringement is using some kind of intellectual property without the proper license to do so, while theft is depriving somebody of their property.

This isn't an argument about what's morally right - all that is being argued is that no legal system in the world classes copyright infringement as stealing.
Thanks @raj , there is lot involved, specially when you have more than million users for your app every day then you can not just build and push it to market.
If someone sincerely believes that piracy is theft, then they should simply demand that piracy be equated to theft at all level. This would then imply that piracy would be dealt as any other theft is dealt.

This would involve the owner making a police report about this theft, and state machinery getting search warrant to find the "stolen" article. Once the stolen article is found, it will be "replaced" back to the owner.

This would then be also beneficial to defendant, because now he would have the right to lawyer, and if he is unable to get one, the state will provide one. He would also have presumption of innocence, and if found guilty, his punishment would be jail time. If there is fine, it would have to be proportional to the "theft", and not some $250,000 for immeasurable damage.

Very likely, three strike laws and such would also apply, which ensures that anyone committing "theft" repeatedly will most probably see long sentences.

Why have different laws on book, if piracy is theft and can be dealt as such? And what about all the expiration of ownership? My great-grandfather's ring is still with me, and its ownership did not expire 70 years after his death. Perhaps all literature should still be owned by the estate of the dead, after all, it is property that is being stolen in plain sight everyday.
I must say I'm quite enjoying these "SOPA protest boring and ineffective" stories published by media companies.
Here's another way of looking at it:

We can get Congress to vote down SOPA/PIPA, or alternatively get the next Congress to repeal it, but there's a fundamental flaw in the way that we, the consumers, do business. Yes, our Congress is taking severe steps in the wrong direction, but we contributed significantly to that direction as well.

The permanent solution is not to stop one law or even a multitude of laws in perpetuity. The permanent solution is to change the methods by which we create (and allow to be created) copyrighted material. That means encouraging the use of Creative Commons and Free Software licenses like the GPL, Apache, BSD, and WTFPL (to name a few). We, as consumers, need to make shifts that not only deny these laws to affect us to our detriment, but also deny the companies supporting these laws the money to push them through.

In short, America and the rest of the world contributed heavily to these actions by Congress. Even as these laws get voted down, we must start to take steps that prevent them from happening again.
Yes, Hollywood money, and the entertainment industry unions, which are well-organized.
"Of course I can do a better job distributing hot dogs than the hot dog guy if I just put out a massive table of hot dogs I got for free and let people run up and grab one without paying for it. But that model doesn't work if I have to pay for my hot dogs."

I'm not arguing for the Pirate Bay, but there is an error in your logic - to make that analogy fit into an online distribution situation, you would have to postulate that you only have to pay for one hotdog, and the rest can be duplicated and distributed for close to zero cost.
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The official documentation seems to clearly contradict you. The pricing calculator doesn't let you specify a value of less than 1KB. Who's right? Or maybe I'm just not understanding what either you or the official pricing doc is saying :)
I don't about the conspiracy behind timeline , but timeline just made it difficult for em to read through my posts , some stay on left some on left.
It would be good , if they keep whole month's content on 1side and next on other . It helps me viewing .
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That's still stealing. If I break into your house, take your computer, and leave behind $1000 dollars, I have still completely stolen your computer regardless of how much it is worth.
you're right to fire a gun within city limits is (most likely) effectively limited by gun control laws. your right to use your gun (property) is also limited by laws against murder. I could keep going.
Those rare tech companies that have come out in support of SOPA are not merely criticized but barred from industry events and subject to boycotts. We, the keepers of the flame of free speech, are banishing people for their speech.

One small nitpick or a large one depending on your position, but the author seems to subscribe to the concept that corporations are people. Never the less, even if one subscribes to it, I as a individual have a right to boycott anyone I want to, if I don't like a person, I can ask them to leave my property and I can not engage in commerce with them. If they are adamant about their right to speech then they can stick to their guns. There is nothing about the right to free speech that protects revenue for supporting a position that is in direct contrast to others rights. I find the conclusion draw in that sentence to be dubious.
'Theft' and 'non-theft' are bad words to use.

Of course piracy is like theft in one way (you get something for free without compensating the author), however its not in another (unlike smashing a window and taking a diamond ring, nobody loses a diamond ring - or a window).
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When exactly are you supposed to do these shows and performances if you have a day job?

Copyright is one of the things that allows artists to get in a position to go on the road and do these shows.
> I found a comment on Martin Fowler's personal web site claiming that Kent Beck coined the term "refactoring" in the mid-'90s, for example

No, I didn't. Sorry. I had read something similar in several other places, and when I did a search (since Fowler's site itself was blacked out) the resulting excerpt was truncated in a critical place that made it look like the above was true. Still, there are plenty of people who have claimed that the Agile movement originated ideas like refactoring in on-line forums and the like, so aside from setting the record straight regarding Fowler's site, my original point stands.
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"But Britain, along with Canada and China, would like to keep the current keeping system, arguing that, in the 40 years that leap seconds have been gracefully inserted in our midst — most recently in 2008 — there have been no problems to speak of, and the worriers have greatly exaggerated the potential for havoc. Remember Y2K?"

No problems? He must not be aware of the 2008 adjtimex() bug in the linux kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/2/389

This bug brought down nearly 100k systems for my employer at midnight UTC, worldwide, in unison. It was not a fun evening.
Why should piracy just be expected and accepted to the detriment of an industry?

You don't need a huge budget to make great films, but why encourage an environment in which there is no choice but to make low budget ones?
Since your audience includes people who hope to be paid from their creative efforts, your argument that not paying for said creative efforts is perfectly fine may meet with disapproval.

TL:DR; it doesn't matter what semantic games you try to pull, if you're a cheap bastard you're still an ass.
I love how the TV ad plays on people's patriotism. Or, at least it tries to. It really just reflects their oldschool ways beautifully.

This isn't the baby-boom generation anymore. You can't just control young minds by saying "if you don't do (whatever), you aren't patriotic."
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Really awesome idea. Use democratic ideas to save information freedom. You really should propose this on Reddit as well.
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I'm not necessarily disputing that, though I note that you have changed from TDD to merely test-first development, which I don't think is the same thing.

My point is that TDD, like several of the other practices in XP that do seem to have originated with those people during that time period, is to this day not proven as any better practice than the alternatives.
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The people you're arguing against are taking a utilitarian view of the problem. You're arguing from unexamined principles. Provided that companies exist as legal persons, shouldn't they be allowed to vote too? What about incarceration in the event of wrongdoing (manslaughter)? Isn't the treatment of corporations as arbitrary in these cases as in the one you refuse to make?

Clamping down on corporate political speech would hardly restrict the speech rights of individuals. It would simply force organizations wishing to fund political activities into funneling the money through individuals with no legal recourse if the funds ended up used for something else. And it would increase the cost of the activity as compared to the present since individual recipients would be taxed for the additional income at progressive rates depending on the amount spent.
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This post gives me hope. I've been struggling with burnout over the last year myself. I wonder if there are enough burned out developers to form a support/meetup group in the Triangle.
I'm wondering why people are trying to get the leap second removed from UTC. If people have situations where leap seconds are problematic, why not just switch to TAI which already doesn't have leap seconds?
The constitution does not give the federal government the power to limit interstate commerce, only the power to prevent states from imposing tariffs on it.

The regulations in question allow the government to censor websites, something that they are not given the power to do in the establishment clause, and are also strictly forbidden from doing in the first amendment.

If the bills simply entailed the power to require websites to take down IP violating content, then what you say would be true.

The fundamental ideas are not constitutional. I suggest you read the constitution. (Seriously, it was meant to be read. It doesn't take lawyers or judges to interpret it, it is written in pretty plain language.)
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