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Apple Tells Developers To Stop Using White iPhone Images
Reading the post, a lot of what he says is that XFS scales better than ext4 due to better algorithmic implementations of various "things".

Why not just get active with ex4 (more likely 5) development and work to introduce his performance improvements into the main line file system already in use?
I'm with the above poster, I generally avoid Facebook logins.
Looking at the comment again I guess you can read it either way, though to be honest it reads more like he was talking about Netscape the company, not Navigator the browser.

As for long term, after taking out Navigator the browser market stalled for 6 years until Firefox started gaining traction. That's why it was a Bad Thing long term.

MS entire strategy was to hold up the development of the web as it made less from that than desktops, thin clients running web apps frightened it silly. It worked. Hence long-term bad thing due to stagnation.

Who knows what version HTML we'd be on if the browsers had stayed competitive for those 6 years. Instead we're almost at a point where maybe rounded corners will be available to all soon.

I never said I thought IE5/6 was crap when they came out, I myself have rolled out the old XmlHttpRequest innovation defence.

The stagnation of IE was the impetus for FF to rise and start MS developing IE again, not Navigator's open sourcing. Had someone been able to make good money on browsers I'd argue we'd be further down this path.
Because their prices are amazing.
Is the site down right now?
If you are lucky, processes would crash. More likely there would be silent bits of data corruption.
Yeah, because random Flash ads are way better than text ads that possibly add value for the user. https://skitch.com/masnick/g6fn9/hotmail

I understand that Google needs to make money to provide a great service like Gmail for free, and I appreciate that they aren't shoving animated shit down my throat. If they have to algorithmically read my email to do that, so be it.
New Media Consortium Names 10 Top ‘Metatrends’ Shaping Educational Technology
Oh, I see. I agree. I wouldn't be surprised that a government tried to enforce positive law, the same way I wouldn't be surprised if the Mafia trashed your store because you failed to pay for protection. Just because the powers that be are wrong doesn't mean that their threats are any less real. To disagree would be naive.

It's also great to meet someone who knows that legal positivism is not incompatible with the existence of valid but unjust laws. Seen too many first-time philosophy of law students who don't seem to understand this!
Is this made by Curebit guys?
Anonymous cities are also wellsprings of progress because of their tolerance of eccentrics who were stifled by the judgmental conformity of villages and tribes.
Rumors of a February Apple event debunked
This was in response to XFS developer Dave Chinner's complaint that:

"ext4 is supposed to be primarily the Linux desktop filesystem, yet all I see is people trying to make it something for big, bigger and biggest. Bigalloc, new extent formats, no-journal mode, dioread_nolock, COW snapshots, secure delete, etc. It's a list of features that are omewhat
incompatible with each other that are useful to only a handful of vendors or companies. Most have no relevance at all to the uses of the majority of ext4 users." and "do ext4 users really need a new, incompatible, difficult to test on-disk formats to solve problems that most people will never hit on their desktop and server systems before they migrate them to BTRFS?"

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/30508
The Tipping point summarized
The Quickest Way to do Nothing
Yes, I'm the original commenter. I was talking about the browser. Actually, my point had very little to do with Netscape itself. I was merely pointing out that an analogous situation has happened before, and ultimately, the browser market (can we call it a market) didn't turn out to be that monopolistic distopia. On the contrary, from the consumer point of view, many browsers are easily available for free. What's to say that it won't be the case with the online maps and GPS systems?

Maybe it's my fault, I expressed myself awkwardly. Or maybe it's the fact that you'll always find some pedantic know-it-all on the web to accuse you of implying a certain position or harnessing some theories by "reinventing history".
Thank you everyone who is providing intelligent rebuttals and not just downvoting me.
You've described exactly why I started using pinterest. Things that I previously would have bookmarked in delicious I now pin on pinterest if they are sufficiently "visual".
I think IBM could be a great addition to this market. It seems like they're due to get serious about some sort of product again and some sort of service application suite seems right up their alley.

Now it's a for profit venture out of the gate, no free use for ad impressions or anything like that, but I could see them bringing some novel concepts to the table. That's assuming they are serious about it. Integration with other enterprise apps and enterprise cloud apps, in a single app suite with the best uptime and reliability around. It's not super sexy but I could see a market for it if they're serious.
In fairness, isnt office 365 different than hotmail?
I would agree if IllestRhyme was about reading stuff related to hiphop. Instead, it's about _creating_ stuff related to hiphop. There's much more of a focus on user interaction. A user gets far less out of the site if all they do is read (and this is pretty obvious from the minute you get on the site).
I've seen, in my decade of experience in tech, that a well-worded and keyword-packed marketing ploy is as irresistible as gravity to many. As the seductive promises and successful toy examples accrete around the neutron soup of buzzwords, a marketing mass finally reaches an influential Schwarzschild radius. Businesses that come within this radius are pulled in and obliterated, but they have no knowledge of their destruction. They've passed the event horizon and are now in a place where causality and reason have been up-ended. Their demise would only be detectable outside in the faint Hawking radiation that is drowned out by the background noise of self-congratulatory back-patting.

These pie-in-the-sky companies are necessary in the tech galaxy. Their primary purpose is to weed out those businesses who don't have the wisdom or tenacity to take on the challenges themselves. Their secondary purpose is to teach future tech leaders a hard lesson: there is no silver bullet.
This situation was most encountered by Rails developers trying to access the ID of an ActiveRecord object. Since they changed the method to object_id in Ruby 1.9, calling id on a nil object should just give a NoMethodError instead of that slightly cryptic warning.
Gotcha, so it would just depend on what bits in RAM were corrupted (data versus process instructions)?

I am curious about a couple of specific use cases that I can think of where this might affect me (and, most likely, would be common points of failure for others):

1. data in the MySQL tables (stored in memory) is corrupted. Would mysql crash? Indicate table corruption, and I could just reload it from disk? Write corrupted data to disk, and permanently trash my data collection?

2. large process that's running data analysis (say a big python process with tons of data in RAM). Would one of my variables (say an int with value 4) turn into another number? Would it become unreadable?

I appreciate the effort to explain this. I know, in theory, why ECC RAM is useful, but I have difficulty visualizing real world scenarios.
Yes maybe, but given the harmless text isn't ACTA actually a fiasco for the US private interest groups?
Isn't this a evidence that there is effective political resitance and effective counter negotiation?
Compete has some details here http://blog.compete.com/2012/01/05/affiliates-pining-for-pin...

Pinterest uses Skimlinks to turn all links to retail sites into affiliate links (and in turn they get affiliate money). From the article it looks like this is a good amount of traffic.
I found it refreshing -- an official didn't try to downplay the issue. The reporter likely included the comment verbatim for that very reason, as in, "OMG, this is super serial."
I've tried his free trial for ms word and it was pretty good.
What would be the advantage of highly realistic physics though? In some cases it would improve gameplay (I remember the Newtonian physics in the Independence War games resulted in relatively novel gameplay) but in a lot of cases I don't think it would. Minecraft especially is kind of abstract, and it already struggles a bit with performance on some larger multiplayer games. Super realistic physics would just make this worse and not add that much to the gameplay, IMHO.
You can use long passwords with Hotmail. Also, I get a lot more Gmail spam than on my old hotmail act, but that could be because I use my name with Gmail so bot's can just guess it.

PS: Both companies integrate your email act with other services. So I have been doing a side to side comparisons for a while and while I like Gmail's interface a Significantly more, Hotmail seems to have a better backend.
OK fine. But the used arguments against ACTA are obviously wrong.
No one will win a fight against arguments with idiocy.
It must seem very strange to you that most filesystems don't do data journaling and that they have options which increase the risk of data integrity problems.
Ok, now the worst should be that you have to build the app AND to pay to build it. I will post an ad like that somewhere, to see how it goes.
For you?
Icrontic: OCZ RevoDrive 3 review
Hi TomasSedovic!

> Anything in particular you want to ask?

Just wondering how much dvorak gets in the way of vi/vim. Lots of wonderful answers showed up in this thread! Looks like dvorak is a small obstacle (because of hjkl) but not a show-stopper.
This ad is for Office 365, whatever that is.
Complex UI - There's a Time and a Place for that.
I didn't know about CloudFare, thank you!!
isn't this an ad for Office 365, which is a different beast than hotmail?
In big cities in the US it's very common for many businesses to either have a minimum for card purchases, or charge extra for small purchases, or offer "cash discounts" -- regardless of what the actual law is.
Another day, another APT reported by some company integral to the technological infrastructure of the US (and the world in this case). When will we take real, substantive action on this issue?
Contractor pricing
We are thinking of hiring a contractor or elancer. Looking around the web, I see hourly rates from $20 to $250 per hour. I realize, it would depend on experience but how can elance.com contractors charge so little? What price range should I expect to pay for a contractor to work on UI and back-end work?
Sixteen and a half cents: the current state of social game monetization
It's an effort to harmonize international law with US law. It's essentially the DMCA in treaty form, and important provisions of the DMCA find no close analogue in most nations' laws -- or indeed almost any nation's laws until very recently. Certainly they are not universal to Europe.
If you're connecting from a *nix-y box, you may also be interested in sshuttle: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

It gives you most of the benefits of VPN, without requiring tun/tap and without needing root on the remote box -- all you need is the ability to run python. Very useful if you're on an insecure network and you want to tunnel everything over a secure connection, or if you have SSH access to a box inside your firewall and want to access other resources without having to specify each port individually.
As said other places, they have ECC servers to: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex6
Port forwarding is a good trick to know.
Fixnum values (numbers smaller than native one machine word minus 1 bit) are stored in an object pointer. When you do object.id it returns the address stored in that pointer.

For Ruby to know that the value in a pointer is a Fixnum (and not a pointer to an address), it will tag the first bit w/ 1 and shift the integer value by one bit. So storing the value 7 will be done like this:

(7 << 1) + 1 # => 14

This is why 7.id == 14.

You can see where this is implemented right here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/include/ruby/ruby.h#...

For true, false and nil they are also stored right in the object pointer using special values defined here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/include/ruby/ruby.h#.... You'll notice that those 3 values in binary format all end with 0b...10. First bit to 1 means Fixnum, second bit to 1 means special value: true, false or nil.
That sad part is that a lot of what was perceived as data loss from XFS was actually due to bugs in apps & the kernel that XFS exposed. These same issues would show up with ext4 & btrfs, but XFS has already flushed them out so they've been fixed.
Am I supposed to believe that none of MS' online mail properties do the same things?
What Makes People Click on Hacker News Links?
Hmm, Firefox 9.0.1 scored 0% (with Ghostery installed); Forefox 10 scored 60%. They both still score 95% in the Acid3 test. I'm not uninstalling Ghostery, whatever the score.
This seems to be a common tactic of the shady backers of the global censorship. They gain support for their dark laws by obscuring real intentions and fooling politicians into blindly supporting them. True, there are those who understand the real picture, and support nevertheless. But there are also those who are simply not responsible enough to understand clearly what they support. And they are exploited by the real culprits who fight against freedom. That's why they are so scared of publicity and push hard to pass this laws in secret. They know that public review will quickly reveal their evil intentions.
> The problem is with how it got negotiated and signed

How is it different how ACTA got negotiated and signed and how copyright policy in general is being negotiated and enacted? How is ACTA less democratic than stuff like life+70 years and big scale filesharing prohibition and mass lawsuits?

Democracy is generally completely shut out of any decision regarding copyright. This stuff is and always was decided _completely_ in shady backroom deals behind closed doors for the sole benefit of special interests and then enforced against the majority. It has zero connection to peoples will, the natural sense of right and wrong that should be basis of any law, especially laws broadly enforced against the people. I dont think there was ever a case on this planet where any population was actually allowed to vote on "intellectual property" in general. The idea behind it, the decision making process and the enforcement has always been purely autocratic, from the top down, like this thing called democracy never happened.
I learned the bare minimum required to use vi. Insert, find, override-save... That's pretty much it. When vi is the only option, it's good enough; otherwise I'm free to use different editors.
>But on the other, Google is clearly using their billions made from search advertising to dominate another unrelated industry.

That would hold water if the products they were "dominating" were competitive in any way, shape, or form. The competition frankly sucks. I'd believe Google was killing them if they weren't busy killing themselves by offering a completely and totally inferior product at a much higher price.
As a small addendum to "Copying files", you can also copy entire directories:

$ tar czf - foo | ssh remote "cd /where/to/unpack && tar xzf -"

This is often significantly faster than rsync, e.g. when copying a directory with many files for the first (or only) time.
I would also mention the following 2 articles that constitue an absolutely amazing TODO list:

What every CS major should know (http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/)

12 resolutions for programmers (http://matt.might.net/articles/programmers-resolutions/)
is it a raster image recognition, or a vector/gesture recognition?
I agree completely with Wayne Yeager.

More than that, I'd probably use some type of landing page technique to help gauge demand for your top 10 ideas. Create simple landing pages with a tool like unbounce to see who will click the signup, download, or buy buttons for each idea and drive targeted traffic with adwords.

This is probably the easiest way to narrow down to your best idea w/ some market validation.
>Everything in there is already law in Europa.

Wow. Easy there.

#23 counting compensation ammounts is different from basic EU laws, it suggest summarizing the costs of copied products, not the actual losses of the victim which now have to be claimed and proven in court.

#8 is against 'de minimis' rule.

#27.2 violates indentity data protection laws in EU.

#12 let violators be punished bypassing the actual legal system procedures of their countries.

I could embed quotes, but what I'm reading right now are translated quotes with interpretations, so I mentioned only the section numbers
New super-Earth planet found that could support life
Maybe you didn't use Vim with much depth? I know plenty of people who claim to use it but just stay in insert-mode all the time, don't use text-objects, etc. It doesn't really count if you actively avoid most things that make vim unique.
Don’t trust satellite phones – The GMR-1 and GMR-2 ciphers have been broken
The problem is that you need to have all the three boxes on the same rack wired up to a gigabit switch. Hetzner can do that for you but you can't add or remove servers easily.

I have found that OVH has a virtual rack that can accomplish this. After years with Hetzner I think it is time to move on
Harvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe
I would add the use of the ControlMaster and ControlPath options for connection sharing, as well as keepalive settings for those cases where connections drop when idle.

The remote port forwarding feature can be very handy. I've used a combination of ssh and daemontools to set up remote access to a machine behind a particularly nasty firewall.
I had this happen once too. As I recall, the machine lost power after a cached write and before the data was actually written to disk. The file was zeroed and all its former contents lost. My friend, who had borrowed the computer to write a paper and lost hours of work was very upset.

I switched all my XFS filesystems to something else that day.
You are being as superficial as metinalista. The line Everything in there is already law in Europa was used to try to legalise software patents in Europe: EPO exists, Nokia et al. already had filed software patents.

The argument, that it will not change anything is bogus: if it were the case, there would be no need for ACTA. ACTA was needed to legitimize current illegal de facto status quo.

http://ffii.org/
I was sad to see that List of lists of lists of lists was created, but deleted. Arbitrary limits on tree depth make me a sad coder.

Given that this is clearly a tree, I'd prefer they just have a WP:Lists, with each of the relevant groupings of lists listed there, and so on.
At this point, VeriSign might as well be an instrumentality of the US government. The answer to your question is "When we take substantive action on the brokenness of the US political system".
Why venture capital is going to be ruled by a new class of megafunds
You missed pointing out the huge ad at the top telling you to "Get Hotmail on your Smartphone" in your picture. I mean, this is what like 10%-15% of your screen devoted to ads in hotmail? It's like we're back in 1998.
I suspect you're getting downvoted because your suggestion suffers from the free-rider problem: everyone who chooses to continue shopping at Carrefour free rides off those who don't, yet they still obtain any supposed social benefits.
No, it is unstable. The striding means that two equal elements can easily be reordered. For example, after 2-sorting [(2,a), (1,b), (1,c)] by the first component you get [(1,c), (1,b), (2,a)].
nice summary, and sshfs looks cool.

here are my 2 cents:
http://txlab.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/call-home-ssh-scripts/
Even if Google doesn't start to charge high fees once the others are driven out of business, it would still be bad for the industry. Since no one can compete with Google's deep pockets, they have a monopoly on any improvements, changes. The barriers to entry are high; raw mapping of large land areas is hugely expensive and complicated. So the industry would shrivel as a result.
300kb in an average HTML page, 47kb/s top transfer speed. It's physics.
Try VsVim if you're on VS2010.
For a competent full stack developer with a good reputation unless they are based in some very low cost area they will probably be charging upwards of $100-$150/hr.
Although I realize that this is entirely private, but it would be incredibly awesome if you could share some vague ranges of how much you paid for both this startup and the other "web apps" mentioned in part 1. This info could put it into perspective of what it would cost to buy the idea and work, as opposed to having to incubate it yourself.

You make interesting arguments about how buying saved you time and effort, and also reduced risk, but ultimately everything is a trade-off and knowing the range of $$$ would make comparison a lot easier.

Thanks for a great post too!
Important background detail: the author is the Slovenian ambassador to Japan. not an (indirectly) elected politician. I think it is very courageous of her to write this, since traditionally ambassadors never publically reject their home country's domestic policy making.

I also like it because it debunks my image of ambassadors as conservative seniors who prefer signed letters, LPs, and fax machines.
After watching the video, being able to rotate my windows N degrees as the main showoff feature does not seem like a big selling point to me. Maybe I'm old school, but sideways and upside down windows seems like a bit of a waste of time to lose the stability, drivers and network transparency of a working window system.
Here's Lea Verou's (the creator) blog post about this:

http://lea.verou.me/2012/02/exactly-how-much-css3-does-your-...
I upvoted this because, a few months ago, I had a hell of a time sifting through the sheer number of similar, but inoperable/poorly documented Django backends. In the end, I rolled my own, but I wish I had known about this project.
haha, I wrote an article exactly about this (see my other comment)
I never meant to criticise, I saw that they have ECC-servers as well, I just wondered what the implications would be if running a database on a non ecc server, as I've never really understood how much damage it could cause.
Are Your Titles Irresistibly Click Worthy & Viral?
The answer to most of your questions is 'maybe', unfortunately. Reasoning about the things that could happen when memory errors occur is very difficult, because they occur outside the mental model of computation that most programmers (and systems administrators) use.

Let's use MySQL as an example. A bit flip in the memory which holds the code may cause it to crash. A bit flip in the 'metadata' could cause the table to become corrupted, potentially recoverably. A bit flip in the data itself could turn 'Travis' into 'Trbvis', which might go undetected depending on where it happened and which storage engine you are using.

The use of memory for OS page caching (less so in databases, which often use O_DIRECT and more so in other programs) means that arbitrary corruption could happen to pieces of disk data your program didn't even touch, if you touch data near them.
So all I have to do is admit that I'm incompetent and everything will be OK?