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I'm on Linux and macosx interchangeably. The problem with sticky notes (and I tried them both on paper and computer desktop) is that you have to remember to look at them. I just don't. I was thinking maybe an app that displays growl notification every ten minutes with the next note could be a deal breaker. Of course, it would have to do this when I'm not busy writing code, so as not to distract, but rather when I'm chatting or reading emails. Do you know any such app?
As was already pointed out, you're often better off relying on the OS disk cache.

One situation that I've had a good use for tmpfs was when watching videos on my non-SSD-equiped laptop on a long flight. I'd copy the video to tmpfs and then force the hard drive to spin down. It had a measurable impact on battery life.
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Also LEO data terminals use commercial LTE these days.
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Your comment seems to imply police are never punished for misconduct and yet that is obviously not true. Internal Affairs is a very real thing.
This seems like a good move but they have a much greater need to copy Chrome's auto-update for Flash, both to deal with the massive legacy install base and to make any successful escalations from the sandbox less long-lived
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Its important to note that one of the main things that differentiates between platforms is the quality and quantity of the available content. If you want to build a platform the first things to do is build great development tools for that platform at making it a platform that is attractive to developers and power users. This strategy has been critical in resurgence of Apple and I doubt that they would want to become a less attractive development platform.
>BSD licenced software surges. News at 11.

Actually if you listened to the GPL fanatics that are all over some tech forums (note: I'm not implying that all people using GPL are fanatics, just that there is a subset that's fanatical about it, ironically they are usually technically ignorant) this shouldn't happen - instead everyone should just "steal" BSD software and not contribute (let alone create) stuff back.
I love my Mac because it's NOT iOS. I just can't see how all-software-from-the-app-store would be able to support the beautiful mess of tools I use every single day.
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Is that a deliberate misspelling?
Replace 'police' for 'people' and we find out that no one can ever be held accountable.

"The police" is not a single body, there are multiple police forces which are mostly independent. I don't know the US system very well, but at least where I live the cops that work on the street have a completely different chain of command than the detectives who investigate them if necessary.
I'd tend to agree, though I think it's far more painful if you're in a VM with bad video perf versus a native machine with a good video card.
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"Lions are just fruity tigers."

My question is whether this article is setting up straw-men, though not intentionally, based on a fuzzy perception of the meaning of words like "stupid" and a narrow look at what developers/designers/photographers/artists/etc are _trying_ to say with words like "stupid." "Stupid" and "idiot" aren't precise words, so we shouldn't build arguments around "ideal developers" who use "ideal language." Helps no one.

One could easily write a follow-up, "What Designers' Really Mean When They Cry 'Stupid!'" And it needs examples.

Surely "stupid" doesn't only mean "this person lacks intelligence in my field," and even if it did, it wouldn't reflect the usage people take on it in everyday conversation. Unless the article author means to suggest that "design sense" is actually in some way given to all intellects, and it's just a matter of nurturing it, as Socrates would, say.

I usually assert that a client is "stupid" when they overstep bounds. That is, "stupid clients are stupid." I want the client to respect their role as a client. For points like "graphic design," it should be handled in the contract, to some degree, how to deal with creative freedom and UI decisions. The client has input: most developers give their clients input. It's when the client realizes they have input but are unsure of the scope of it: (1) because they're not hired to do review wireframes, etc to produce a holistic picture (they're the client) and (2) they're trained at being untrained critics (meaning, as a designer, e.g., one trains or practices at being a trained critic: a client is hiring _that_: so, I assert the stupidity of the client when the client lacks the sense to understand _what it is they've purchased_ by hiring me).
I don't get it. We recently had a recession which many people blame on mistakes made by people working in the financial sector. Doesn't this highlight the importance of the financial sector, and suggest that we need more smart people entering finance? People who might spot the next bubble before it becomes large and create new financial instruments to bet against it?

I wonder - after Challenger and Columbia, did anyone claim that fewer smart people should go work at NASA?
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I was listening until he started condescending Obama about socialist "spreading the wealth around" policies like the British government of the 1970's. It's totally out of place; he mentions the Labour party so might as well take a crack at Obama.
There's also some speculative research that 4 years is about how long monogamous love of a wife can last barring other factors. It's been a while since I read about it, I think it was reasoned that presumably because in the old days when you fell in love you had a kid and by the time the kid turned 4 they didn't really need the full support of the father anymore to survive, so the father can start looking around and try to spread his genes further now the initial investment of the one is complete... I didn't find much evidence supporting this view at the time, and indeed the notion of "monogamous love" was itself poorly defined. But it's still fun to speculate on why 4 tends to show up so often in human activities.
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Don't forget religion: that's an intellectual position that is (in most countries) freely chosen.
Show HN: Favicon alert bubbles
A javascript library that allows easy manipulation of the favicon to include nice looking alert bubbles. This means that users can pin your site and still see when their attention is needed!

It's been done before, but in my opinion not in a way aesthetically pleasing enough for production use. This library also falls back to the standard number in page title approach for browsers that do no support canvas / dynamic favicons.

Thoughts welcome.
The birthday paradox kicks in when you have a set of objects, and a collision between any pair is interesting. Here, only a collision with 0 is interesting.

Suppose that the sequence of values you have after each ack is A, B, C, D, E (five acks total). So long as A, B, C, and D are all nonzero, we're OK. With the birthday paradox, we'd be looking at A=B, A=C, A=D, A=E, B=C, B=D, etc. -- many more combinations.
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Well you might not be wrong but you're maybe reading it a little too literally. I fought for months to get management let us think about migrating to Git (from CVS!), and it never happened. (I left less than a month ago, before it ever was agreed upon). I think it's a similar situation, because although I'm not a C++ programmer, I believe STL is pretty heavily used and is not "cutting edge technology". I would argue Git is in the same boat, but even if you disagree, CVS is ancient technology. If you find yourself in this situation, and you're a programmer, "call your headhunter"! That's what I should have done months ago, and instead thought things could change. I think there are probably others like that and that's who this post was talking to.
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What Mozilla also needs to address is the fact that Firefox update is now totally broken on a "normal" user account in windows, it will not even inform you that you are out of date. Before they changed to the "rolling release" model, it worked fine, hasnt worked since 4.0... So now there is going to be a non-insignificant number of windows users stuck on firefox 5 6 7 ... forever.
The birthday paradox concerns the chance of 2 random elements in an entire set being the same. There's no set here, so there's no birthday paradox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

Hilariously, you got your equation right (which isn't the birthday paradox equation btw) but got your result wrong. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%282%5E64-1%29%2F%28...

So the chance of success after 2^32 acks is >0.999999999, not <0.5.

It takes about 2^60 acks before there's a significant chance of a mistake. That's a lot of acks, so it will take an insanely long time for a mistake to be made.
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Hmm... GeekTool for OS X might be able to work for something like that. Or you could always go the super lo-fi route and create a folder of images and set them to rotate as your desktop background.
A good rule of thumb is if you are working in an industry where, if everyone agreed to work half as hard (or half as frequently), the end results would still be the roughly the same, you are in a largely zero-sum waste of time job.

Latency arbitrage: if the underlying price change in gold commodities takes one millisecond to be reflected in the stock price of gold-holding/gold-mining companies rather than half a millisecond, utility to society isn't going to go down anywhere near half. And since the awards are meted out solely based on ranking, not on absolute gain in speed, there is very little relationship between how much utility is provided vs. how much the provider is rewarded.

Index arbitrage: if an index fund is priced +- .001% off of its underlying basket of securities rather than +- .002%, utility isn't going to go down by half, and you certainly wouldn't want to pay some HFT guy to make it happen--he ends up charging you one cent to flip a fair dime on every trade rather than flip a fair quarter for free. Who do you think wins in that scenario?

Lawn care/car care/dry cleaning/etc. etc.: if everyone's grass got mowed/car got cleaned/clothes got ironed half as frequently, there probably wouldn't be a 3% drop in the utility provided (if your neighbors kept up the pace though, it wouldn't be the case).
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Tinycon is a javascript library that allows easy manipulation of the favicon to include nice looking alert bubbles. This means that users can pin your site and still see when their attention is needed!

It's been done before, but in my opinion not in a way aesthetically pleasing enough for production use. This library also falls back to the standard number in page title approach for browsers that do no support canvas / dynamic favicons.

Thoughts welcome.
Or use a different shell, like ksh or zsh.
Every year someone comes up with an idea for a ridesharing website. There are over 100+ out there, so it's not like chris123 had this idea first. Some get traction, some don't. Many successful ones are companies you may have never heard of because they sell custom versions to government agencies instead of marketing them directly to end-users.

I had launched a website similar to RideJoy 4 years ago, although I gave up on it before getting as far as they are now since mine didn't get much traction. I even returned Craigslist postings in my search engine similar to what RideJoy does.

I came to realize that with all of the ridesharing systems out there, we really should start working together to keep the userbase from fracturing into too many systems. Any useful rideshare system requires a critical mass for it to be useful, and I worried that having too many websites, each separated on their own island, would divide up the userbase by too much.

The answer to this: Share data between services, or otherwise aggregate searches on multiple services. If we did this, then it wouldn't matter how many new rideshare websites launched as we'd still be able to search the aggregate of trips posted instead of dividing up the pie even further.

A few years ago I invited people from the rideshare industry, then developed and evangelized OpenTrip, a common data exchange protocol for sharing rideshare trips among the various systems.

I had some backing from a government agency at first. Unfortunately, this too didn't end up taking off. Perhaps I was too much of an idealist to think "open sourcing" carpooling could take off.

I am happy to see new interest in this with RideJoy. I hope you guys are successful. I would especially like to see you guys take on Zimride as I feel that they have too much of a monopoly on the university market, and haven't done a very good job innovating. (For example, they've yet to develop a mobile app.)

I'm still interested in this niche field and would be glad to talk with you guys sometime, as I'm also here in SF.
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I agree. The day that happens is the day I (sadly) go back to Linux for my dev environment.
Also worth noting, osx uses bsd versions of various utilities like grep and sed, instead of gnu counterparts

Interesting sidenote:
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My understanding is that NCR provided a service to Blockbuster (which simply branded it, and provided the consumer relationship, aka took payments). DISH Network is now the owner of Blockbuster, and I don't think they are the only consume-facing operator of these kiosks.
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My last job was as a compiler guy at a large Electronic Design Automation company. The product I worked on was written mostly in C++, but we weren't allowed to use the STL. The reason was that the early versions of the product were written before the STL was stable across all platforms used at the company* (which included things like IBM AIX, HP-PA, etc.). So the original developers (back in the late '90s) wrote a number of container class templates that were used instead. Of course, once those were in place, you had to keep using them, as mixing STL and non-STL containers would have been a maintenance nightmare.

I would suspect there's a lot of old C++ software that falls into this category. Especially if cross-platform compatibility was/is important.

(*Actually, it was often insinuated that the STL is _still_ not 100% compatible between Linux and these more exotic platforms. I have no idea if this is true.)
More likely they'll just switch to a new default shell. Perhaps that will be zsh, or perhaps they'll just go back to tcsh.

Or perhaps Terminal will no longer be installed by default by the time they complete their purge.
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Is it not possible to re-write a B-Tree once it doubles in size?

For example, suppose you start off with a B-Tree with size 1000. Once it reaches 2000, re-write it. This way, the query performance remains good. Next time it reaches 4000, re-write it again, then at 8000, and so on... This way, you get good query speeds even in the presence of random inserts.

You need not re-write the B-Tree on the 2000'th or 4000'th insert. Instead, you can start the re-writing process when the size of the B-Tree reaches O(n/log n). This way, for the last O(log n) values, every time one value is inserted, we copy O(log n) values from the old tree to the new one. When we are done, we have an almost sorted list of values that we inserted in the new B-Tree!
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Homebrew is warning about it, but should still attempt to compile. There is also an homebrew recipe for installing GCC v 4.6 so you can always install that...
I've never heard the recession characterized as resulting from a lack of intelligence in the finance industry but rather, right or wrong, as a lack of morals.
I know that sounds really paranoid, but I meant it in the context of backdoors

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Also video game companies. Maybe not the management part, but there's a lot of resistance by game programmers to STL because of:

* Poor support in console environments, which often lag significantly behind their desktop equivalents (I'm not sure how relevant this is for PS3/X360/Wii, but it was definitely the case for the previous generation, and some things get deeply ingrained)

* Poor debug performance for some implementations

* Less control over low level implementation details, vs. rolling your own. Game developers stress out over this. STL is a general purpose library. Sometimes a special purpose library really is what you want.

Here's a relevant stackexchange discussion: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/268/stl-for-games...

And here's a paper discussing EA's STL replacement, with lots of justifications: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...
Well you would be better off with an Atmel SAM9 or the Marvell chip (used in the Pogoplug). Of course the BeagleBone [1] (OMAP) is $89 and runs Linux (and its shipping now, has a great community, blah blah blah.) The key being the documentation of course. I was hoping for a machine with a usable HDMI implementation that I could run a custom software load on. Can sell a million of those. R.Pi is not that board apparently. I'm looking at the STM32F [2] which is a Cortex M4 design which I am pretty sure I can get a Linux kernel running on (no video) and it should cost about $30 configured as I'd like (ethernet, serial, USB (for hard drive), and an extra 128MB of memory using PSM ram.

[1] http://beagleboard.org/bone

[2] http://www.st.com/internet/evalboard/product/250863.jsp
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Actually it would hurt their iOS market greatly. iOS devices are worthless without their third party apps. And these apps can only be produced on a Mac. In fact, I bought my Mac so that I could build iOS apps. If not for 3rd party apps, it would simply boil down to the device, the software that Apple ships with and the browser. Android devices will clearly win hands down in such a scenario. Initially it would be the case of worse is better but over time it would overtake iOS devices in terms of features and sales.
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I believe this installer is missing some headers (included in the OSX GCC) which will break the install of various Ruby libraries.

If that's what you're into.
Same here, hence why I assumed it was standard gcc. In fact, I just did "sudo port install python27 py27matplotlib" which pulled in a lot of code and there were zero problems.
aka, a documented chip is better than an undocumented chip- but an undocumented chip is better than no chip at all.
They will ship with a different compiler, clang, and then with homebrew you can compile and install GCC to your hearts content.

For all of my personal projects and projects at work I am using clang because the errors and warnings it gives me are clearer, pinpoint the problem and it compiles my codebase almost 30% faster than GCC.
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It is a whitewash. The treatment of the homosexual community at that time was horrendous. Pardoning his act because it's non-objectional today is stupid. Why not pardon all the Jews of the pogroms for having the wrong ethnicity.

It's whitewashing because the act of doing it is more offensive than simply leaving it as is. Pardoning Turing would be pardoning him for being gay and makes no correction for the horrendous treatment he received, which was the point of the apology.

An apology is what Turing deserved. A pardon is an insult to his memory.
Or move on to another shell. Such as zsh, or tcsh, csh or countless others that exists.
Cool, great job using a timer in the demo to show how it can behave dynamically.
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If your spec is good, it's rare, because you're most likely to see a showstopper appear 10% or 20% of the way into making the 80% solution - and that's early enough that you can rearchitect and continue.

The cases where it becomes almost impossible tend to come from the "reuse something written to a different spec" projects where you're forcing things through the wrong architecture. The warning against over-focus on genericity at the end of the article is directed at exactly this - when you aim for generic you can often find yourself building to a spec without concrete goals, thus the actual problems are poorly dealt with.
They can feel bad about it, but money talks. There's a reason why so many of their peers agree to go into the financial sector.
To protect themselves, to protect their IP, and to save time and resources. Good documentation takes effort.

Plus, have you seen the pattern that played out with the open source drivers for ATI cards? "Oh, if only those ATI bastards would release documentation!" (ATI releases documentation) "Oh, if only those ATI bastards would release example code!" (ATI releases example code) (etc)

This went on. By that point, it doesn't seem like a loss to not bother, unless you're suggesting they could fire the driver team and have the open source community do their work for them.
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