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I go to the kitchen because I need to stretch my legs, not because I actually need the coffee. If the coffee came to my desk, I'd have to find another excuse to take a two minute break and walk around. Take up smoking, perhaps.
So who made Stuxnet?
For a $1,000 laptop, Motorola is demanding that Microsoft pay a royalty of $22.50. That is 2.25%.

According to reports, that is roughly the royalty percentage Microsoft is getting from Android phone sellers ($5 to $15 per phone $15/$500 = 3%).

http://www.mobiledia.com/news/107165.html
I see what you did there. You made fun of a company that's in the slumps to promote your own little product. Too bad Yahoo Pipes works, and your product does not.

So should we say that Yahoo Pipes is like cerrio, but works?
Same thing with job interviews.
But not for someone who's previously had their account locked, someone on usage-capped broadband, someone who doesn't know if their PC is up to scratch and knows that they can't get a refund...
Imagine if you stored a murder weapon in a safe. A search warrant will almost always open a safe (either by voluntary capitulation or by force).

There has been a lot of debate over whether a court should have to issue a specific search warrant just for a safe, or whether a search warrant for your property is enough to allow them to open such. The authorities always attempt to apply a search warrant for your house to mean your safe as well. You'd need some kind of pre-emptive action to try to stop that, and even then, good luck.
I wasn't questioning apple's business decisions, I was questioning their emerging monopoly on digital content that is making the digital market even more homogenous than the physical market was. At least in the physical market anyone could open up a music store because there were independent distributors whose sole incentive was to move product, now the incentive is to extract margins on product as Apple and Amazon negotiate directly with the labels and shut out competitors from being able to properly compete because they can't get the content. Some platforms are doing ok in this (bandcamp) but most aren't as the reality of music retail is not the long tail but the centre of the bell curve.

I'm also an Apple developer.
> is definitely stored in plain text in the googlesphere

have a source for that?
> In plain English: Does this mean an encrypted hard drive CANNOT be decrypted by law enforcement and the contents of the drive cannot be used in court to convict?

Not exactly. It means that the defendant does not (currently) have to provide the decryption key in cases where law enforcement has had no luck accessing the volume via other means.

Not all encryption schemes are created equal, and in many cases, law enforcement will attempt to circumvent or retrieve the key otherwise (i.e. volatile memory, disk controllers, etc).
VS2010 is still a 32-bit app. This puts a limit on just how much RAM it can use. I for one might be a little less alarmed by (though probably no more happy about) its carefree attitude if it were a 64-bit app.
http://www.chromium.org/spdy - contains some great and in-depth research motivating SPDY.

Original whitepaper: http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper

Here's a good tech talk to checkout as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNBkxA313kk

Draft 3 has also updated the dictionary, here's the research paper motivating the change: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~amer/PEL/poc/pdf/SPDY-Fan.pdf
It's a popular image macro by now.
I use coffee trips as an excuse to get up and move around, as opposed to sitting at my computer 10 hours straight. I would probably drink more coffee with a waiter, but I would still invent excuses to get out of my chair every now and then, if only to stretch.
If you think I'm advocating pandering to the lowest common denominator and reinforcing ignorance, you are mistaken.

I am pointing out the fact that within a system of social organization which allows "material capital" to be easily convertible to "social capital" this type of behavior will always exist. Moreover, in most cases it will be a superior social/business strategy.

Consider a hypothetical example. Evil Company X can do a "socially harmful" thing Y and make Z dollars or a "socially beneficial" thing W and make V dollars. Well, if Z - [the cost of whitewashing] > V, why not do it?

Furthermore, should the CEO of ECX opt to do V and forego greater profits, investors of X would be well-justified to vote for his removal at the subsequent board meeting. After all, the CEO was not representing THEIR best interests...
> With a safe, however, the government does have the recourse of breaking out a blowtorch and cutting the safe open (which has been done in order to circumvent the 5th Amendment issues of compelling a suspect or defendant to open the combination lock).

It's also worth adding that a safe can be forced open physically within a reasonable amount of time. A drive, encrypted properly, may not be able to be decrypted our lifetime, and this is what leads law enforcement to attempt to 'force' the suspect to provide the key themselves.
Sorry, I'm surely abusing the proverbial "we". I just feel that your attempting to discredit anyone who dissents as using "free speech" when this really (as you point out) isn't about free speech at all.

For the record, I do use my own platform and don't really ever use Tumblr. The sorts of things I write about don't really attract the "repost"/"like" style of Tumblr and I don't think the audience would be relevant anyway. I can say that if I ever decided to start a photography blog or something where mass audiences and such were important, I would be much less likely to use Tumblr knowing that this is their policy.

I guess I feel like your defending Tumblr from some sort of attack by me. Like I said, Tumblr is free to do whatever they want and their users can leave or stay. I just think this policy is a turn-off and I wouldn't be shocked if in 3 months we see "Tumblr bans tumbles(?) about drugs/rock-n-roll, etc" posts.
You're right, but I think your point is aside from the issue of slippery slope.

A king may be a jackbooted oppressor, but he's consistent and more or less unwavering. A mob of peasants protesting the color of the flag is unlikely to get him to change anything. That's the point I was trying to make - Tumblr is the king, and is unlikely to change their tune dramatically, and thus, little risk of this new policy creating ever more new ones.

Is it desirable to have this much power in one place? Maybe. Maybe not. But whether or not this is a desirable or fair system is quite separate from whether or not this system is easily susceptible to slippery slope attacks.

Keep in mind that Tumblr is also not almighty here. Tumblr rules over a kingdom where people can emigrate effortlessly. It may not be democratic, but this presents a natural check on its power.

> "Or I guess I feel that increasing the number of people that have influence on the decision decreases the chances of their being something "arbitrary"."

I think this is where our philosophies diverge. The more cooks in the kitchen, the more arbitrary the meal is going to be, as each one is out to craft their perfect meal.

This might be ok if every person has equal influence on the decision, maybe (cue argument about tyranny of the majority, etc), but in a community-driven voice-driven case, it's less about community consensus and more about which tiny minority can rally the strongest army.
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Are you arguing that setting a precedent of censoring some views Tumblr considers harmful does not make them more likely to extend that to other controversial opinions? Or did you just see the phrase "slippery slope" and assume that any argument containing them must be fallacious?
You know it's become a huge internet meme right? http://www.google.com.au/search?q=x+all+the+things&oq=x+....
Sure, I'm OK with the implicit extension by 0 to the left. No, my problem is with the statement that ΣΔF = F. Indeed, since Δ annihilates constants, it's not possible to recover a function from its Δ-image, by Σ or any other means; just as it's not possible to recover a function from its derivative. For example, ΣΔ1 = 0.
Isn't that an argument for asking people to leave their axes at home? Rather than bringing it to work and saying, "I own this company so all my users are going to have the same ideas of morality and appropriateness as me."?
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very beneficial!!

I would love to hear more about the "lots of programs that deserve consideration in europe".

Could you create a list these under recognized programs for the benefit of the global community?

I have been all over Europe (and love it) what it lacks in the tech community it makes up for with the nightlife.
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I think you're being a bit too liberal in your understanding of the word 'anything'.

I am all for free speech, but there is a long list of things like child porn, state secrets, copyrighted material, etc that I think we would all agree is not in Tumblr's best interest to not be shared effortlessly.
"For people with ADHD the mental cost of focus-switching seems to be much higher, because doing so requires constant re-contextualization. Imagine looking at the world through a pair of binoculars or a telephoto lens on a camera."

Spot on.

I've tried to draw comparisons before to ADHD about what I can see with / without my glasses being extremely nearsighted. If something's close enough to my face, I can see it very well. If it's not, finding that thing is hopeless.

In fact, I can see tiny details that most people go without noticing like: single-pixel oddities in font rendering or anti-aliasing, and I am so bothered by 60 Hz refresh rates on monitors that I'm unable to use them.
> 1)Increasingly the only places to talk are privately owned.

What public places did we have to talk in forty years ago that we don't have now?

> 2)Private interests can control and prevent speech if in their domain.

If you own an newspaper/magazine/website/whatever you have a right to exercise editorial control over it. That's always been the case.
The look and feel of the ad is publisher's responsibility. Can't blame Google for that. Rest, Google gets the blame. Before I get down to that, however, I would be suspicious of the veracity of a publisher who tries to blend the ad and the content so closely.
I assure you that it's true. I haven't reprofiled in that much detail since but I suspect that the numbers look even better now. Partly because computers are faster and partly because of software improvements.
"It's talking about optimizing something that takes less than 1% of the vast majority of an application's cycles."

What takes the other 99%? Did you measure?
I consider suicide extremely sad, and would not feel particularly inclined to watch the video. Why are we even thinking about censorship in this hypothetical scenario? What good would censoring the video do?

Put a warning on it saying that it's NSFL, maybe run a free banner ad next to it for a suicide prevention hotline. Those things are reasonable, productive responses. Censorship of the video would be as symbolic as waving a flag, and about as useful.
"we need to" hey, what about you go ahead and do it yourself?

that's "simple"! you've to solve the certificate issues. Easy as pie. I'll be waiting.
Let me try and cover most limitations by saying this: a spreadsheet should basically be an interface to a Lisp interpreter. The ability to define new functions (within the spreadsheet itself) is the biggest thing, I guess. But if the spreadsheet is just an interface to Lisp, you get everything else, too.

Another problem is that you're stuck working with tables. Tables are great, but I want to be able to edit other data structures in a spreadsheet-like way.

Especially trees. Trees are everywhere. Mathematical functions, HTML, code in pretty much every programming language, XML documents (which include Word and Excel). All trees.

Joel Spolsky claims in his Trello post (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html) that Excel is about simple creation of tables, and great mass-appeal products are about the data structure they revolve around.

I think trees are underserved. I want to be able to write a tree, not 2 + 4 * 5 / 6, or <html><head><body></html>, or (((()()()))()())))(()()()())).

Plus you don't have to give up tables. Making a table out of a tree is easy (think HTML tables). Modeling a tree with a table is more clunky, in my opinion.

I think that a well-designed product along these lines could drag millions of "non-programmer" spreadsheet users all the way to Lisp.
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Mongeez is a tool that allows you to modify the structure of your documents and replicate those changes in unison with your code across all your environments from QA to production.
By definition, since Google can index email and mine it for keywords, they have access to the contents of it, which makes it isomorphic to plaintext.
To be fair, Jeff Atwood recently left Stack Exchange (amicably, of course):
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/farewell-stack-exch...
Interesting. I find myself agreeing with you almost 100% but I guess ultimately I think a slippery slope has a fine chance of existing even with a monarch, to continue our analogy. Maybe "slippery slope" is the wrong word for it, but ultimately issues will come up and it will be up to one entity to determine whether its acceptable on their platform. I mean, eventually something else is going to get added to that last because someone at Tubmlr deems it "cruel enough". It may not be a STEEP slope, but it is still one in my opinion. That, and what will happen if Tumblr continues to grow and Good Morning America does a bit on the "drug Tumblrs that your kids may be looking at!"? Maybe I'm being alarmist, I don't mean to. Either way, I appreciate your comments, it's fun discussion and I'm enjoying this mental image of a reddit mob attacking some castle ruled by a Tumblr king.
In a perfect world, sure. But people with an axe to grind have a habit of finding all sorts of reasons to bring it out.
Yes, of course Tumblr is acting within its rights. I've checked over the thread, and I don't see anybody suggesting otherwise.
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Sorry, that's a bit different than what I'm asking. One of the ways the "safe" analogy breaks down when talking about crypto is that safes can generally be broken open by force but well encrypted data cannot be. I'm asking if there have been instances in the past where police could not break open a safe by force and so instead compelled (or tried to compel) the defendant to reveal the combination in court.
Funny that this was written after Jeff Atwood left Stack Exchange.
I take a slightly different view in that one should never have to cooperate in any way in his own prosecution. Except for computers, nothing else is mandatory; if you refuse to be arrested, the cops will taze you (bro), if you go on a hunger strike in prison, the guards will tie you down and feed you through a tube, and so on. With all that as context, it seems absurd that you should have to type your innermost thoughts into a laptop so that the government can send you to jail.
Yes they're probably libraries, but in the language of the future that covers everything up you wouldn't know such distinctions.

Why can't a lib/lang cover it up? You tell it how much data will be stored and transferred. It will benchmark various approaches, having separate DB nodes or not, determine how many users each setup can support. The developer would need to be aware that 5000 users can fit into a $10 per month box. When he wants more users, he gets more boxes. If he wants more users per box he must cut expensive features.

Amazon DynamoDB does something along those lines by asking the dev to specify how much data to store and how many transfers to expect. The details of setting up nodes, how many nodes, how they're sharded, hashed, are hidden.
Wow! I can get 11 more minutes of sleep a day, simply by calling myself an Engineer instead of a Computer Programmer.
>the homebrew patch for larger active cards

I had missed this one. Thanks for the heads up.
Two comments:

1) If you have a better idea for drug development then the current patent system, I'm all ears.

2) Do you really think Shire likes selling a drug under DEA regulations? Do you have any idea what a burden that is? Companies fight tooth and nail to keep their drugs off of the CSA schedules.
Googling it says limit user processes via /etc/security/limits.conf http://goo.gl/RJJhN

Is it not that simple?
It's too bad this refers to SSL. There are sometimes good reasons not to use SSL, but there is rarely a good reason to send emails that contain any business, financial or security information over plaintext. Anyone who gets mails that amount to more than "Hey what's up man" should provide you with a public key for mail crypto.

Also, it is very smart to use full-disk encryption and also encrypt sensitive info on that disk in a separate encrypted file (often preferably with something like TrueCrypt that allows plausible deniability via hidden volumes) if your computer is used for anything important.

Think of the extent of damage that would have hit HBGary or any of the many other companies that have found themselves in a similar quagmire if they had employed some of that computer security knowledge to encrypt mail and required digital signatures before doing anything important (hint: the answer is 0).

You may have a competitor hooked into your mail server for years before you know anything has happened, while you scratch your heads and wonder why they always beat you to the punch on new products and steal your big clients.

You may have a hostile government agency after you for completely innocuous things, like downloading public domain research article. In this case, lots of encryption is going to buy your lawyers lots of time even if the judge eventually orders you to decrypt all of it; hopefully the real goods are hidden somewhere where they won't find them (like in a TC hidden volume, perhaps "in the cloud" in an encrypted file on Tahoe-LAFS over I2P).
And Yahoo Pipes had always worked for me, when I used to use it.
Wow I think they got one right. It will be interesting to see how the government continues. Since currently its only a decision in the 11th circuit. If the government appeals, it goes to the supremes and if they hold that its a violation of your fifth amendment then everyone in the country gets to claim the fifth rather than give up the key.

While I hate evil doers just as much as the next person I dislike the loss of civil liberties even more.
I find this really interesting. The term "ill-informed" is often used as a dramatic simplification for "someone who has different views than I do" or "someone who makes poor choices".

Here: I'm a smoker. Do I know that smoking is terrible for me? Yes, absolutely. Is there any possible way to make a case that I'm "ill-informed" about the effects of tobacco? Not at all. And yet, I live with the fact that, every day, I choose to smoke tobacco. Yes, I'm addicted to it, and yes, I'm going to quit smoking it (because I know it's terrible for me), but... I'm not quitting today :)
I've lost enthusiasm for my startup
I find myself doing things for the startup out of obligation to the investors, who have been awesome. When people ask me if I'm excited, I can't honestly say yes. I still love the product and love the process of creating a company, we are not doing badly (but not exploding either), but I don't really like the people I'm working with anymore. I also just broke up with a long term girlfriend, which was devastating, so maybe that is influencing things.

What should I do? I'm not sure if my reason for a lack of enthusiasm is because of the people I have to work with, it is just one of the first things that come to mind. I still need these people and their skills for the startup, though.
I think you don't fully remember how different 2000 is from today.
How long does my safe have to be uncrackable in order for me to have to open it to incriminate myself?

I personally have no ability to crack a safe, and that makes all safes out of reach to someone at my skill level. If I'm all the police have to crack your safe, do you have to incriminate yourself? If not, then what level of competence do the police have to demonstrate?

Full-disk encryption is theoretically strong, but actual implementations are not likely to be as secure. If you tasked the world's best cryptographers with getting data off an encrypted computer and gave them five years, I bet you'd get the data. And I'm pretty sure that the Constitution doesn't say: "No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, unless the government is to cheap to do a proper investigation."
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Which are all illegal, thus (in my mind) it is implicit. In fact, bans on the things you've listed have probably been in their Terms of Use since they turned their server on. I mean, those aren't allowed anywhere, they're almost completely out of the realm of this discussion which is explicitly about banning things simply because someone doesn't like them.
map is a pretty bad example in python due to it being eager while for can be made lazy with yielding instead of returning. Further, list comprehensions and generator expressions tend to be (at least in my experience) fewer characters than map/filter. To get lazy map/filter you need to go out of the core into itertools.
As a lover of bazaar, how did you manage to do that? I always feel so dirty when I have to use git because everyone uses github.
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Not sure he's accurate when referring to Github users, but I think he's probably not far off for git users in general. I mean, most git users aren't the people hanging around here. I don't see a reason to expect that more than "the simplest thing that could possibly work" to be commonplace.

When I use git (I tend to use hg more because it's more friendly for Windows projects, where I often find myself), I generally work on master for personal projects where I'm the only committer. It's easier for that use case. Branches are primarily valuable, IMO, when you have multiple people bashing on it at once.
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If you need to visualize pre-order, in-order or post-order binary tree traversal, you might want to check it out. Create any binary tree, save, load (not BST, that may come later). Cheers.
Yes there's nothing new here, except a public explanation about WHY everyone is pretty well convinced Natanz was the target. And it makes for a pretty interesting watch.
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Of course. This was just one illustration of Excel as an augmentation tool. There are probably thousands of such special applications out there, some commercial, some not, that used Excel this way.

The greater point, perhaps, is that making things prettier at the expense of raw functionality isn't always the best idea.

For the record, on first inspection I like the outer appearance of VS 2011. I like the pictographic icons and clean uncluttered appearance. I hope that this effort did not come at the expense of function elsewhere. We'll upgrade when it comes out of beta and see.
Why would their product marketing manager be bashing Git with accusations like Windows support is a "completely separate project" when it's the first download link on git-scm.com?

This is a very thoughtless article full of issues of personal taste and FUD towards Git. I was starting to really like Atlassian since they added free private Git repos on bitbucket.org. We've been considering using JIRA and other paid services from them where I work, but this gives me serious pause.