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>'The GPL isn't so much fostering or creating an atmosphere for open source development, it creates traps and makes it harder to use the end product. '

Of course it is, it actually ENSURES that the source code stays OPEN. 'traps'??

>'Isn't that the opposite of what you'd want as an open source developer, isn't the idea to spread your code as far and wide as possible, to have people use it no matter where?'

I believe a huge amount of programmers want to provide open source code to open source code projects, not for proprietary projects. Which is why GPL is such a popular licence.

Apple wants to incorporate open source into their proprietary products, that is why they don't like GPL. Apple sponsoring Clang/LLVM development makes perfect sense since they are stuck at gcc 4.2.1 due to not accepting GPLv3, and they will eventually need to update their compiler toolchain (gcc 4.2 branch is old).

Don't take me wrong, I think Clang/LLVM are great projects and although the compile speed advantage it had over GCC has diminshed greatly it's error reporting/diagnostics is really 'best of class' amongst the compilers I've used. The speed of the generated code lags behind gcc however, and it also lacks advanced optimizations such as pgo (profile guided optimization).

I look at it as a great alternative, but GCC remains my main compiler toolchain, partly because of the licence which ensures that all the enhancements done to it will be available to me as an end user but also because of the strong developer support it has from companies like Red Hat, IBM, Google, etc employing full-time developers working solely on GCC.
This is definitely a plus overall, even if there are one or two potential flaws. What's concerning for Startup Visa proponents is that the Visa risks being overshadowed by these changes or seen as a bridge too far by wary politicians. I think if you're a Startup Visa supporter in or outside the US, then you can agree that the Visa is far more significant for the US tech startup industry than these current suggestions.
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I think he was suggesting that C++ without STL was a mil-aero thing.
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I am now on my third project using coffeescript together with BackboneJS.

On the second and third project, I am also teaching coffeescript to 3 people who had never written any coffeescript OR BackboneJS before.

Granted, there is a fair amount of coaching involved, but the quality of the code produced is top notch, and the maintainability is _vastly_ improved compared to anything we've done in plain javascript before.

This may be due to Coffeescript, and it may be due to Backbone adding some much needed structure, but I'd like to believe it's a combination of both and even using one in isolation should yield an improvement.

If you are familiar with Javascript, picking up Coffeescript should be a breeze, and in my opinion, the benefits are there.

On a closing note, you say that JS is ridiculously powerful which leads me to believe that you feel using CS means sacrificing some of that power. Since CS translates directly into JS, I think you'll find this fear is unwarranted.
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Cut out one layer of middlemen do-nothings trying to deliver the product of the rank and file as their own effort and any industry could easily afford it.
Thanks is just a word, yet, all my apps, servers, desktops and smartphones, been well supported by stack exchange sites and community.

With StackExchange, getting the correct answer is one post away, and that is a revolution!

So I will use that word of "thanks" to express my gratefulness towards Jeff and Joel and all the community members(!), and want to wish Jeff the best of time with his kids.

Thank you StackExchange!
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Things are changing and schemes like UID combined with Food security bill, direct money transfer to banks etc would bring a huge change in the social fabric. UID will serve as a basis for all future social programmes.
Would creating 60 jobs polling the same URL at 1 min intervals translate to the site getting polled every second? Or is there batching/coalescing of the same-URL jobs?
Gcc binary is the gcc+llvm, but you also have gcc-4.2
gcc --version
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.1.00)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

but gcc-4.2 is the real deal
gcc-4.2 --version
i686-apple-darwin11-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> British system

Nitpick, but there's no such thing. You mean the English legal system. Scotland's legal system is completely different (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_law), as is that of Northern Ireland.
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Can't agree more... Getting all the govt. bodies to start using UID could well take 5 years....
Do you think you could skype and walk me through how you are managing your finances in GNU Cash? I'm a long time linux user and just started my own business and I'm trying to figure out how to manage everything!

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An important feature of SO is that it's been open: crawlable by search engines, readable by anyone without an account, etc.

In those same four years Facebook, Twitter and the likes of Quora have exploded, and made the Internet worse. Yet at the same time all the Stack Exchange properties resisted this trend. I'm very grateful for that too.
The Sherlock Holmes Museum is not located at 221b Baker Street.

That address does not exist, but any mail addressed to it is redirected to the Museum, which is technically 239 Baker Street (since it sits between 237 and 241).

They do have a special dispensation from the City of Westminster to display their address as 221b Baker Street though.
The crons are spaced out over time.

This is actually why i took so long to launch the site. I've used the prototype version of this for a long time. The app is written in node so it is incredibly fast, like destroy the internet fast. That is why email confirmations are required and accounts are limited to 5 crons each. I will add a captcha on account confirmation shortly as well.
Have you heard of an ultrarun before? It's a run that's longer than a marathon, maybe 50 miles, maybe 100 miles. It's all dependent on the local geography.

You don't run those at a fast pace, you complete them in like 8-11 hours. Perhaps that's a better metaphor.
I also sincerely wonder if it's not possible to just slow down a bit? If there's no parental leave where you live, take time off and then return to your job after 1 year or so, at 80% speed?
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Safari's ClickToFlash/ClickToPlugin is absolutely awesome as it replaces the basic placeholder with a (apparently QuickTime X) player with an overlay offering source format selection (including Flash object, and a download option). Chrome has a similar plugin, although less advanced (and generally more flaky). Firefox's FlashBlock is so limited and looks like a stab in the eye in comparison.
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Waffling on which is appropriate gets you nowhere. After all, the whole debate around this article is whether Apple choosing one side of this argument is equivalent to a malicious action. To say "Well, the GPL is appropriate sometimes and not in other cases" is completely unhelpful either way, and nearly a tautology anyways.
Very cool. And kudos on the clean documentation.
Your comment merely serves to affirm falsehoods which we, as a society, have come to accept without question. There is a good amount of "child porn" which does not injure the subject.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1030_3-6139524.html (Federal case may redefine child porn)(2006-NOV-30)

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/02/tuscaloosa_county_photog... (Tuscaloosa County photographer sentenced to federal prison in child modeling porn case)(2011-FEB-09)

Both articles are about Jeff Pierson, and his case is just one of several examples that I can give regarding the misuse of child porn laws. What about bestiality? Is it cruel and/or illegal because animals can't give consent? We eat animals much more often than we fuck them, yet we don't care that they can't consent to being killed. What about those "bum fights" videos, where homeless guys are paid to fight each other for our entertainment? Is that "cruel", or "criminal assault", or "unlawful injury"?

I agree that children should be protected, and that animals shouldn't be hurt unnecessarily, but the crux of the matter is that there is a big difference between the act, and the recording of the act. The former is illegal, whereas the latter is just information, which in itself cannot harm, and which should thus not be illegal. The bottom line is that we've been made to believe that there is no difference. There used to be the Iron Curtain, whose purpose was to control people through political ideology. Then we got the Moral Curtain, behind which we still live, and which consists of child porn, bestiality, and all things "obscene". Now we are busy constructing the Copyright Curtain.
I've always wonder if the reverse could exist, i.e. an xterm that could render html?
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He's probably talking about stop orders that lots of people put in for outsize volatility because the regulators do rollbacks. That means liquidity dries up, right?
real life also has a habit of letting people in similar choices make the right one after seeing someone make the wrong one. The lesson of the film is pretty clear, sorry. Not it's dramatic arc, just its lesson. At least to me. But hey, if you want to keep chasing that last season game on an impossible budget, go ahead bro.
I was working on some XML stuff and put superhero names in the test XML file. A week or so, some QA guy asked for sample XML and I gave it to him. Before I knew it, my test file was circulated in QA and Business Analysts for testing.

I guess they didn't read what's inside or didn't bother.

Then our client came and the BAs gave demo to them, using my XML file (I didn't know if they're going to use that!). The client were very upset with it.
Do tell me you are checking robots.txt then. This has a great potential for DoS, email confirmations or not.
After finally getting over my fear of client-side programming, I finally built a project in JS last week.

I feel exactly the same as you: Javascript, as a language, just does nothing to help you. You've done a better elucidation of it than I could, I just always felt JS was being unhelpful; be it getting the value of an object, be it the inheritance syntax (I have no issues with the prototypal aspect, just the way you express it), lack of good ways to move through a list, the somewhat difficult to understand scoping of 'this'...

It's not that any one thing is especially broken, it's just that all added up I feel like it's not finished, and I'm not Getting Stuff Done as I do with Python.

Google Closure seems to go some of the way there, but I get the feeling that's probably just adding some syntactic sugar to make swallowing the bitterness a bit easier.
>'Sometimes it doesn't make sense and in those cases GPL forces the company to reinvent the wheel which is counter productive.'

Same goes for a company taking BSD/MIT licenced open source code, enhancing it and not releasing those enhancements back. In order to have those enhancements reinventing/duplication of effort is needed here aswell.

Also by dual-licencing your open source code you can provide it under GPL for FOSS projects while also offering a proprietary licence for companies for a fee. x264 makes good money this way.
Since I'm doing something similar in an enterprise environment I suggest you to add , to each cron, a dates black-list. I mean a list of dates in which you do not want the job to be executed ( Christmas , Easter etc). Kudos for the clean documentation
For what it’s worth, the guy who writes Rixstep.com is a vitriolic asshole who has been periodically bashing nice projects for incredibly lame reasons for a decade now, and who seems to bear unreasonable grudges and fixate on them.

What he’s saying in this particular example might be legitimate, but he’s just not a credible source, in general.
He's mocking the concept of a 'sprint' [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(scrum)#Sprint
While the source code for the OMAP GPU drivers appears to be available, it's not Free Software [1].

[1] http://omappedia.org/wiki/Graphics_SDK
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Hard to picture corrupt politicians allowing this to go through.
It's linked in the first sentence of the article.
This is a prototype service and I am watching the activity closely.

I appreciate your concern.
Eek! Multiple inheritance is not implemented in most programming languages for good reason. In general it is wise to favor composition over inheritance.
Why the link of Hack News is not "open in the new tab"
It is annoying to right click and chose open in the new tab.
Congrats on everything you've accomplished over the last two years. I'd love to read a blog post (or more) dedicated to this topic:

"Through our members' generous feedback and often tyrannical suggestions for improvements they gave us the ability to see the software we embarked on through their critical eyes. Boy, they kept pushing the boundaries by redefining our quest for simplicity and user empowerment but it’s a relationship that continues to work and we value it immensely."
Welcome to javascript, where everything is a hash table.

Arrays? Secretly hash tables.

Objects? Well, yeah, them too.
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I've been a Apple & FreeBSD user for decades and it really looks to me like Apple is coming up for a long cycle of public and embarrassing security failures because of this...

Apple isn't going to allow Mac OS X security to degrade. Apple does a lot of behind the scenes activity with security that they don't talk about much.

Every Mac OS X and iOS update addresses many security vulnerabilities; here's the list for 10.7.3 as an example: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
We don't take much Apple code into the FreeBSD kernel, because it simply isn't a good technical fit. Userland code, on the other hand, we take plenty of -- and at the last FreeBSD devsummit I attended, the people Apple sent were begging us to take more and the holdup was FreeBSD developers (myself included) not being sure that we really liked the solutions OS X had developed.
The title of this post is amusing. Only "less memory leaks"? None would be nicer. (Also "fast" is relative. When you're known for one of the slowest interpreters getting large performance increases is easy. It would be better to bench against something that really is fast, like the JVM for example.)
Minor nitpick: the fact that something uses more memory does not mean that it "leaks", using the common definition of the word "leak".
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For some data, I could wait a week. I take pictures and movies that take up a lot of space; I don't want to ever lose them but they are not mission critical in any way, shape or form.

I store everything on a NAS + another NAS as backup; it's a fairly safe setup as long as my house doesn't burn down, isn't flooded or burglarized.

I would love an offsite backup solution that would be cheap because of very slow reads: if my house burns down it'll be some time before I can access those backups anyway.
Great to hear.

I appreciate your vigilance :)
Why is the title talking about memory leaks? The listed benchmark is comparing "PHP/O+ memory usage". Memory usage isn't memory leaks.

Just because something uses a lot of memory doesn't mean it's leaking memory. Only when that used memory never gets freed or reused you can talk of leaks.

The linked benchmark isn't taking this into account /at all/. It's just measuring memory usage.

From my own experience with PHP, while it's using a lot of memory at times, it doesn't usually leak it, unless you produce code that cause it to leak (circular references before the GC days), but that's really the programmers responsibility.
Your sacrifice may be worth it. I only have a tiny glimpse into your situation, but you may want to reflect more on what you'd like medium and long-term, to avoid short term decisions that might not help. Life involves tradeoffs and sacrifices, and the best time for some of them is before relationships, children, family. The money you've made could very well help you spend time with your relationships and family.
Thankyou. That sounds like a needed feature.
er, that sounds exactly what you would expect from a security researcher :)

More seriously, these are certainly not hypothetical attacks (the DigiNotar thing was just a few months ago), and the fact that that "1%" can figure out how to see your passwords just by googling "master password firefox" shows exactly why this isn't a security issue (in some strict sense).

You could certainly make it slightly harder to see them than clicking a few buttons (with the same reasoning you put a confirmation dialog before someone deletes their life's work), but there are good arguments on both sides about the utility of that kind of security theater.

This doesn't work for everyone, but I personally set up a guest account on my computer and enable fast user switching. I can worry a lot less about multiple aspects of my 5 year old cousin using my computer, then.
Ahhh, and I didn't know there was an investigation, thanks for that!
I think it also needs to store the output from the page request. If it is being used to centralise scheduled tasks you would also want to centeralise the output from the tasks.
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Inheritance is usually the tightest form of coupling in a programming language. It is also usually misused horribly. A component/plugin architecture for game objects wins hands down.
I think it’s about time to start Shit HN Says.

Did you really just say that the distribution and ownership of child porn should be legal? I think you just did.

I refuse to argue vile shit like that but I have to tell you that it is indeed vile shit.
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unless I'm missing something, there are no good
cross platform IDEs for C/C++

For C++ there are no good IDEs period.

Not only are the IDEs buggy, not knowing what to do on even simple cases of auto-completion, but working on huge code-bases like that of Firefox is completely unfeasible, unless you deactivate all features that you'd expect from an IDE, which is why many people working on such huge code bases are better off with simple text editors, such as Vim and there are Vim/Emacs enthusiasts even on the Visual Studio team, which says a lot.

Also, when comparing XCode to Visual Studio, well Visual Studio at least runs on more than 90% of all desktops / laptops out there. And you are allowed to install Windows in VMWare or other virtualization tools. And so you can do development in Visual Studio even if you are on OS X or on Linux, granted with some hoops along the way, but it is doable. AFAIK you are disallowed by the license of OS X to install it as a virtual machine and even if possible, companies such as VMWare / Oracle / Microsoft don't even make attempts at fixing the problems with OS X, as that's not a use-case they can support.

At least many of the underlying XCode tools
uses are cross-platform (clang, git, ...)

Visual Studio has one of the most potent plugins ecosystems out there.

There is Git integration with Visual Studio available: http://gitscc.codeplex.com/ ; Also, you can build your Visual Studio projects with GCC or clang for example. There's even commercial support available for debugging with GDB: http://www.wingdb.com/
Nicely done Cedric, this is a great start.

Have you had a chance to show it to any wedding organizers yet?
Interesting project. Might add options not only to corrupt the JPEG file, but also to compress the text inserted and to add the steganography capability, where the text is inserted in the image without corrupting it.
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Why dont they just change to an open source rdbms?
The cost was my thought. I genuinely do go back and forth between "it's too expensive" and "cheaper to do it now than later".
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?

The problem was caused by an imbalance between the intelligence of the people building sophisticated and dangerous ways to use leverage and the people policing them, so unless these grads are going to work for the government ... the problem is just building on its self and will certainly re-occur as the government stays one step behind the geniuses Goldman Sachs et all hires to create money for them

I wonder - after Challenger and Columbia, did anyone claim that fewer smart people should go work at NASA?

This is a bad analogy because the Space program is not a for-profit exercise, the motivations are entirely different.