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On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Keeping compatibility is easy enough that it looks like it is worth doing, but maintaining 30+ years of backwards compatibility

Stop right there.

This is not about some arbitrary "30-year backwards compatibility".

This is about your patch BREAKING EXISTING BINARIES.

So stop the f* &^ing around already. The patch was shown to be broken,
stop making excuses, and stop blathering.

End of story. Binary compatibility is more important than any of
your patches. If you continue to argue anything else or making
excuses, I'm going to ask people to just ignore your patches entirely.

Seriously. Binary compatibility is so important that I do not want
to have anything to do with kernel developers who don't understand
that importance. If you continue to pooh-pooh the issue, you only show
yourself to be unreliable. Don't do it.

Dammit, I'm continually surprised by the idiots out there that don't
understand that binary compatibility is one of the absolute top
priorities. The only reason for an OS kernel existing in the first
place is to serve user-space. The kernel has no relevance on its own.
Breaking existing binaries - and then not acknowledging how horribly
bad that was - is just about the worst offense any kernel developer
can do.

Because that shows that they don't understand what the whole point
of the kernel was after all. We're not masturbating around with some
research project. We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole
and only point was to make a usable system. It's why it's not some
crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing.

Really.

Linus
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Well, the first guy is submitting a patch to the linux kernel source that would make program binaries (executable files, sort of) compiled for an older version of the kernel break. This same guy looks like he is about to argue that it is not worth to maintain compatibility with 30 year old binaries.

And then Linus (the guy behind Linux) goes on to explain that the OS should serve its users, and that keeping compatibility with existing programs, no matter how old they are is of utmost importance for users to be able to use that system.

I don't know if I helped, or if I addressed your doubts. I hope so :)
From what you're presenting here, you're using significantly more vertical than other lispers generally. Why is this preferable to rainbow parens, ShowParenMode or parenFace (there's probably lots of other paren highlighters for emacs), to match open/closing delimiters?
I'm all for accurate clocks, but isn't this a bit extreme?
Agree. There is no reason to launch a service for this. Sounds a little suspicious to me.
How do they ensure that PayPal do not do chargebacks, as they do with other electronic goods, once the buyer has recevied it?
If you claim that you "never had to upgrade Windows to be able to install some other random app" you probably haven't used Windows much then. There are games that need explicit version or newer of DirectX. You can't even produce from the C or C++ sources the binary application that runs on any Windows XP with the latest Visual Studio (11). Any C/C++ application built with Visual Studio 2010 won't run on Windows 2000 or XP prior to SP3. We developers try to build the applications that run on as many targets as possible, but even MSFT doesn't support us enough for that, seeing the older versions as the competition to their newest "shiny thing." Which is not funny considering millions and millions of users still running Windows XP.

See the various opinions on MSFT intentionally removing the binary compatibility which already existed in their libraries here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3648209
I just tried it out and no, they host it. You upload a file, set a price and then when the payment is made the customer is given a download link (with a 5 download limit).
As a user of and sometimes contributor to fabric, I would like to point out that fabric is really good, but not perfect. No software really is. There are times I have chafed against fabric -- sometimes I would like it to be "heavier" doing more things automatically, and there are others I would like it to be "lighter", getting out of my way so I can just do my stuff. I will still reach for fabric first when I need tools, but it is nice to have alternatives available for those times I need something else.

Similarly, it frequently benefits all projects to have a few alternatives and different implementations for the same concept. Ideas can be explored independently and features can be borrowed back and forth. If nothing else, and provided that shovel gets to a fuller development stage, this could be a good thing for all.
You are pissing people off and what do you have to show for it except a few hollow victories?

Budget increments. This is basically the beginning and the end of the story.
Looks cool. Small bug: When you search for something and hit the "back" button, you get stuck at a "searching" modal dialog that can only be cleared by hitting refresh.
Start the clock for seeing how long a fix takes to reach users .... now.
The face musculature is incredible. But so is the writing and direction of the piece.
I had a very similar experience. I heard about Loopt on here when they first launched. It seemed really interesting and I wanted to sign up but it was only for Boost Mobile at the time, which neither I nor any of my friends used.

I just shrugged and closed the tab.
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Let's hope this puts some pressure on Amazon and Microsoft. The current prices are very high, compared to hosting using your own server.
Hang in there - you never know. Plus, I could not find a link to your app on your blog post. To say it in your own words: you aren't yelling loud enough. Keep hustling!
Then you're lucky, because plenty of applications required you to install the Service Pack 2 on XP to install them, .NET application often required newer versions, same with games and DirectX, etc.
I wouldnt say that's true. LedgerSMB 1.3 when it shipped last year supported PostgreSQL 8.3 and higher, Perl 5.8, etc... 1.4 will probably require Perl 5.10 and PostgreSQL 8.4...... We specifically target older versions to make it easy for adoption.

In fact, usually when we run into problems, it's a new version, not an old one.
What? Jee is a open standard, there are open source and closed source implementations of that standard.... The idea being applications are portable between different vendors. If anything it's even more "open source" than most open source frameworks.
Oh wow, I linked to it right at the top, guess it wasn't as obvious as I thought! I'll edit to make it a little more noticable, thanks for pointing that out.
Really? Entitlement? The rest of the developed world has faster, cheaper, and in many cases unlimited data, and you're calling me "entitled" for being incredulous about claims of the "ever-increasing cost of data transfer".

But, thanks for the insults. This place is really friendly!
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>>>The problem with these arguments is they boil down to "I will never pay more than $x for product type y" when these prices should really be dictated by the market itself.

Wait a minute. He is the market! And so are millions just like him.
So with IE 5.5 on Windows 95 I'm safe, right?
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Dependencies are bundled on Windows. It means installing App B doesn't affect your App A. It also means that security bugs must be fixed at the app level, not at the library or OS level.
> Also with digital goods, once you purchase them, you get a life long license to download them from the vendor.

Who says so? I know it's true for O'Reilly, but most music providers, for example, don't work this way. If a vendor doesn't want to take this responsibility, then it can just simply state what access it is willing to provide.
What a bizarre comment to receive downvotes. Here's Marco's explanation:

http://www.marco.org/2011/12/07/standing-up-for-android

(he's also made the same point in his podcast)
Yeah, I think this is a case where the founder is desperately trying to exploit demand for products whether it exists or not. I don't know how many axes he's sold, I hope he's sold a lot, but there is something about the copy and his messaging that suggests that he is falsely earnest about quality.

If nothing else, it is a blatant ripoff of Coudal's Field Notes.
To me, this seems really smart. I may be wrong, and I may be nuts. But there definitely seems to be a dearth of in-depth analysis in the world of journalism and media. Everything is short-form, sound-bite, of-the-moment, disposable information these days -- the sort of thing Twitter really nails, but for which traditional journalism is not well suited.

There's probably a place for both forms of information in our world. (And it'd be nice to see the long-form media not trying to bastardize themselves to compete with short-form; that's always seemed like a losing game to me). And, frankly, a bimodal world containing short-form, timely content on one end, and long-form, thoughtful analysis on the other, would be a nice change of pace from the muddy middle of clickbait, content farms, quasi-spam, and endless recombinations thereof.

Now, say what you will about the New Republic as the particular choice. I think that's a lot more debatable. But the business idea is intriguing.
JSF2 has definitely improved compare to the previous version but I suppose JSF (1/2) is more akin of ASP.NET (component oriented) which might put off a large number of developers who prefer simple templating with pure JS.
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Right, you expect children to be more interested in learning about gravity from a textbook over a game they might have fun playing? Most of the best learning tools I've seen are presented as games with a solve problem get reward mechanic.
One more in an increasingly long line of hypocritical actions.
Assume they got 5% of the company for $20k.

It's very plausible they walked with between $500k and $1m. That's an awesome return on $20k.
In 2005, there was no other choice but to work directly with the carriers if you wanted your software widely distributed on mobile phones. At the time, Sam was acknowledged for having the chutzpa to go negotiate directly with the carriers and succeed.
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I'm not surprised Apple is switching. They bought Poly9 and C3 and down the road we will see a brand new Map app in iOS.
It does. http://www.instapaper.com/extras Search for "Kindle automatic wireless delivery". Haven't used it myself though.
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Why people pirate? Because what people get from this, be it entertainment, information or whatever is more important to them than to follow a law or whatever could be the reason for not doing so. It's usually not like you need to pirate to survive or are doing anything good to the world if you do.

Usually it all boils down to egoism and I am using that term in a neutral way. Like it is egoism to drink coke, have an iPhone or have sex.

Of course some people have a philosophical view on these things, that morally tries to justify it or even make it a virtue (sharing and resharing information is a good thing to do to me), but this hardly ever is the real, primary reason.
Many people, myself included, are keeping exercise data with sports-tracker / Endomondo type apps. It quite nice to have this history.

And I'd love an app that collated calls, email, meeting data from varous points over the longer term. I guess for most people this will be Facebook.
No offence Google, but I think I'll take my game middleware from...y'know...people who make games for a living.

In seriousness, this has no hope of contending in an already crowded space.
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While it is slightly different - it is not dramatically different than Pogo Plug.

All of these similar solution always beg the question, "why does dropbox need to be changed"? It is simple, and just works. This makes it attractive to the masses.

While I don't necessarily subscribe to "if it 'aint broke, don't fix it" I wonder how any company can dethrone dropbox by offering such a similiar service. It will likely appeal to the tech crowd...but the masses? They will have to convince the masses that they are missing something using dropbox. Is this not one of the reasons that sites like Identica will never be as popular as facebook (maybe Identica has never had such lofty goals).
Well, there's at least one:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?mlat=50.813611&m...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_giant

More seriously, there's "questionable" data in Google maps too like the fictitious town of Argleton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argleton

A geekier explanation of how it happened is here:

http://www.systemed.net/blog/legacy/131.html
Pretty much there with 3.5 release.
Well, a great idea, but I don't agree that they've crossed the "uncanny valley". Quite far from it.
This sounds suspiciously like the time machine that kip ordered off the internet in napoleon dynamite.
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You made good points about the data not lying, took me a while to learn that one (actually I'm still learning it)

I up voted you to help your hustle efforts!
Does this get you what you need? http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/powerpivot.aspx

I build the modeling and what-iffing systems for enterprises as a living, and we see some use of this for decentralized modeling. SQL Server Analysis Services does heavy lifting if you have enterprise data to worry about.
I agree, but it is hard to get noticed in the Apple App ecosystem. I don't get the impression that many people type in what kind of app they want into Google. So stuff like adwords fall flat. It's great to get noticed in tech blogs etc but hard to get noticed really since they probably get plenty of "press releases" from nobody first-timers (no offense). Getting noticed by Apple is the biggest pull you'll ever get.

I know of an iPhone product that was released and got initial attention from Apple under what's new and some kind of small feature (maybe Canada only). After those peeks subsided they exclaimed that it's really going to start because they were going to start hitting ads and social media...

But good news is that he's getting some attention from this HN post.
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I don't disagree with his desires, however, these points make him appear as an avaricious 10 year old who deserves anything he wants.

>Now, I don't care when, where or how you release it. If I want it, I'll get it.

I really like the new 911 Turbo S Cabriolet, but I know Porsche has a huge markup on it and I'm only willing to pay for the cost of materials. So, I'll just go to a Porsche factory, steal the car and place a pile of cash in it's place totaling the cost of materials. That's essentially what you're doing when you pirate music, software, movies, etc... You're not "stealing" it because the original copy is there. Well, I'm offsetting the cost of materials and they still have all of the original designs, manufacturing processes, etc... that they worked on. I don't think the hours they put in to design and manufacture the car is worth it's price. Same goes for that movie you downloaded. You clearly don't think the time the actors, directors, technicians, editors, etc... put in was worth the price of the final outcome.

Obviously it's not something that you could get away with as easily as downloading files, but do you see my point?

Try doing the same thing with a consulting company. If I get their advice and dislike it, does that mean I don't have to pay them? Better yet, what if I really like what they have to say but I still think it's too expensive? "I'm only going to implement half of what you told us, so we'll only pay you 50% of your fee."
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Not how it works since with later rounds you have both dilution and probably a liquidity preference

The figures here work out almost exactly to Sequoia and NEA getting their 2x (they invested a combined $17M) and plus the employee pool (2 x $17M = $34M + $9.8M = $43.8 - the announced sale price was $43.4M)

That is just me speculating, but I would be surprised if it isn't far off.
Nintendo's biggest blunder was letting Rare go. Whatever they needed to do to prevent that, it would have been worth it.
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Just because I don't want people pirating software I may write, doesn't mean I agree with the stance current governments take on copyright and it's enforcement.

Nice strawman though, if a bit lazy. You could have gone with piracy supports terrorism or something along those lines as well.
i buy lots of things i can just pirate.
I wonder if this means TNR will move away from neoconservative foreign policy. Historically, TNR has supported the United State's involvement in various Middle East conflicts and routinely advocates for war with Iran.
The thing is, TPB is not only a collection of torrents. If it was just that, it is already mirrored several times on bitsnoop, isohunt, torrentz.eu and other places.

What is interesting about PirateBay are the comments, the description and (why not) their name and status.
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JEE has improved, and I'm considering it over spring. Everything's annotation based compared to what jee used to be. Just use an annotation for a ejb, a persistence context, to get request any object you require via DI like a user service object for handling user profiles. Add a annotation and you've got your self a web service that implements rest etc
Thanks! I've been a big Gary Vaynerchuk fan for a while, he's all about the hustle. To an insane degree. Check him out if you want to go more in-depth about it.
That is very impressive. After Heavy Rain, I've been rather let down feeling by other modern games that frankly just weren't keeping with the pace for getting people 'right'. Skyrim was leaps over Oblivion, but still the people could be best described as 'weird' looking. Mass Effect 2 (haven't played 3 yet, but graphically it doesnt look much better) had some really nice looking face stuff sometimes and then super awkward other times- as if the QA team wasn't paying attending to that type of detail.

I look forward to the day that we can combine Dwarf Fortress style AI and personality with Kara-like visuals.

Now i just hope my console doesn't 'wake up'.
The original claim may be floridly expressed, but I don't think you can write it off as baseless.

Wouldn't you agree that one of the primary functions of government is to ensure social stability?

It would therefore be strange for governments not to try to control substances that had the potential to upset this. No conspiracy is required, just pragmatism.

Given that LSD advocates in the 60's and 70's loudly proclaimed its power to transform society, whether accurate or not, it would have been irresponsible for governments to ignore this.
Buyers only make up 1/2 of the market, only this guy only speaks for a sliver of that segment (as evidenced by prices being what they are).
The design you can achieve on top of OSM is beautiful. Map design can and should be part of your service's brand image, if it forms a big part of your service. Not everyone wants to look like Google Maps. The new 4sq maps go nicely together with their branding now.

And although Google now offers map styling, it is still pretty limited and brings your free quota down to 2,5k requests if I remember correctly.
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Interesting that you mention that. This is the first site I've ever seen that is upfront on their home page with the risk and implication of giving them your password.

I won't (and wouldn't) do it - I don't even trust OAuth providers - but refreshing that they're promoting informed consent.
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If you are selling software to make a living that strawman just took money out of your pocket. If you are surfing broadband in your parent's spare bedroom it's different.
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Good ideas. Probably go API first...
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bodog.com was shut down because of charges of illegal gambling and money laundering. They are accused of deliberately offering illegal (in the US) gambling services to people in the US.

The assertion of the author of no jurisdiction might not be as neat as he'd like.
That's a very valid concern. The effect of this can create a boom cycle especially since allows a mass of less experienced players into the market. We've seen this with buying stocks and the property market. That said, I also wouldn't have it any other way , it's really about reducing barriers to new business and something that's needed. It would be nice to see this sort of thing in the UK, but I think it is unlikely.
I dislike Facebook and the New Republic for the same reasons: they're both run by apparent sociopaths and each claims a mantle of semi-divinity. I know that Hughes isn't involved in the day to day at FB, but he influenced it into being the swamp that it is now.

If he had a sense of decency, he'd at least get rid of Peretz.
500 years ago all human settlements on Earth had always been agrarian economies with different levels of development but primitive nonetheless, until the industrial revolution started.

What if it had never happened? Now we now there were previous attempts at industry, like steam engines and chemistry, but there was always a war, a drought or some other disaster that destroyed the framework where said developments were made, and sometimes even killed the people making them (Archimedes for example).

What if the universe is just like that? what if we're the most advanced species and all the aliens out there are either animals or still haven't even figured out how to build clocks or engines?

If that's the case then all the knowledge that ever existed would die with us.
This was a good interview this morning. I was in the car thinking that I needed to look up who this guy is and how he had money at 28 to buy a long-standing magazine. During the interview he cited how browsers(websites) are a big distraction in obtaining and fully consuming the ideas behind a piece of news -- I get no value from what my friends post on facebook.
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Indeed law enforcement does not have free hands to decide what laws to enforce. They are being puppeted by big business and government pressure. This issue is less about the law, and more about big business pressuring everyone and their momma to protect their business interests.

I have always thought about The Pirate Bay like a gun shop in the US. Gun shops sell guns and ammo...they help facilitate killing human beings...but we never hold the gun shop responsibile (so long as they comply with licensing laws etc). Why dont we look at The Pirate Bay in the same way? They supply a tool that can be used for wrong doing. It can also be used legitimately (as in the case of guns).

How is this arguement so different?
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