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"Ten years ago, most computer users were young people or professionals with lots of technical expertise. When things went wrong – which they often did – they knew how to fix things. Nowadays, the average user is far less sophisticated, perhaps a 12-year-old girl or a grandfather. Most of them know about as much about fixing computer problems as the average computer nerd knows about repairing his
car. What they want more than anything else is a computer that works all the time, with no glitches and no failures. Many users automatically compare their computer to their television set. Both are full of magical electronics and have big screens. Most users have an implicit model of a television set: (1) you buy the set; (2) you plug it in; (3) it works perfectly without any failures of any kind for the next 10 years. They expect that from the computer, and when they do not get it, they get frustrated. When computer experts tell them: "If God had wanted computers to work all the time, He wouldn't have invented ‘Reset’ buttons" they are not impressed.

For lack of a better definition of dependability, let us adopt this one: A device is said to be dependable if 99% of the users never experience any failures during the entire period they own the device. By this definition, virtually no computers are dependable, whereas most TVs, iPods, digital cameras, camcorders, etc. are. Techies are willing to forgive a computer that crashes once or twice a year; ordinary users are not. Home users aren't the only ones annoyed by the poor dependability of computers. Even in highly technical settings, the low dependability of computers is a problem. Companies like Google and Amazon, with hundreds of thousands of servers, experience many failures every day. They have learned to live with this, but they would really prefer systems that just worked all the time. Unfortunately, current software fails them.

The basic problem is that software contains bugs, and the more software there is, the more bugs there are. Various studies have shown that the number of bugs per thousand lines of code (KLoC) varies from 1 to 10 in large production systems. A really well-written piece of software might have 2 bugs per KLoC over time, but not fewer. An operating system with, say, 4 million lines of code is thus likely to have at least 8000 bugs. Not all are fatal, but some will be. A study at Stanford University showed that device drivers – which make up
70% of the code base of a typical operating system – have bug rates 3x to 7x higher than the rest of the system. Device drivers have higher bug rates because (1) they are more complicated and (2) they are inspected less. While many people study the scheduler, few look at printer drivers.

The Solution: Smaller Kernels

The solution to this problem is to move code out of the kernel, where it can do maximal damage, and put it into user-space processes, where bugs cannot cause system crashes. This is how Minix 3 is designed."

From http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2009/99/Minix-3
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Mark's response is kind of bogus: it's true that Fedora shouldn't be lumped with RHEL unless you lump Debian with Ubuntu, but you can't say this for CentOS. It's literally RHEL with all the branding removed (and no support from RedHat).

However, the graph does point to a decline in the willingness to pay lots of money for a server Linux distro, which is an interesting trend.
Is there any particular functionality you're missing? Chrome Dev Tools are really comparable in my opinion. I would like a way to tamper data sent in POST, but I don't think even Firebug has that built in.
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Send an email to Mark Shuttleworth as instructed here:
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Or post a comment. Mark will likely respond personally (he usually does on his blog).
This.

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You mischaracterize the slotting process, which is now largely gone anyway (and you should know this so I'm not sure why you're bring it up as if it were a present problem)

I said that they got rid of it, but I think the fact that such an obviously bad idea could get in the door in the first place is symptomatic of out-of-touch managers, and the same people are still there-- just coming up with new bad ideas (like the 3 word mission statements) that will linger around for 5 years.

The fact that performance is peer-driven is overall a good thing. It means your relationship with your peers matters and this isn't just an arbitrary managerial decision.

In theory, this would be true. In practice at Google, manager-as-SPOF is as much in force as it is in any other company. Actually, I think it's more the case at Google than at most places, because managers can unilaterally block transfers and because HR does nothing about abuse-of-process issues.

What Perf does is that it gives more reasons to deny promotions, not more avenues toward success. Managers can block promotions, and so can influential peers. So, in some cases, can trigger-happy idiots who abuse the unsolicited feedback feature (which does nothing but breed distrust, especially with the "manager-only feedback" feature, which is, at best, a quarter-step up from "XXX is a slut" gossip in fraternity bathrooms).

See something that needs fixing? Then fix it.

If you try to fix managerial, cultural, or product problems you just make enemies of the people who are invested in bad ideas and stupid decisions. It's really not worth doing.
If anything is bloated, it's typical linux userland. The linux kernel, with uclibc, busybox, dropbox, and other userland tweaks, can fit onto an embedded router with 4MB flash and 16MB ram.

Linux caches in RAM pages of files it reads. It will evict them at the drop of a hat if it needs to.

Sadly, no matter how many blog entries appear on the subject, people still expect to see free ram, and think linux is bloated when they don't see any.

If you don't like that behavior, I don't know if any OSes leave "free" ram untouched. They might call it free though, even when it's used by the OS for caching.

On the issue of microkernels vs monolithic, I prefer microkernels for their elegance in theory. If one appears with performance in the ballpark of linux, that glibc supports and that will run linux userland with no problems, I'll switch. I will not, however, give up functionality in the name of ideology.
also there's at least two more measurements missing from the spec graphic--the distance between the M and the arrow and the distance between the arrow and the right edge. i assume those are both X, but it doesn't actually say....
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Deep down in the report it is revealed that that 5.2% consists of a third of the class improving by 10% or more... and the rest remaining essentially flat. So it appears to me that it's particularly effective for a subset of learners.

Also note: the teacher doesn't have to really lead the class. The report says that the teacher spent most of their time 1 on 1 helping students who were stuck. Teachers may see value in simply having to do less work to achieve the same (or slightly better) result.

Also, this class was only a couple months. There is a question whether the small improvement would have continued and would have become wider when applied over a whole school year.
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>Selling a child $99 worth of cartoon pony feed is mere cretinous larceny

Who's to say the person using the app isn't an adult? See for example Farmville, or Smurfland (whatever that goofy app is called). Are you seriously suggesting that the majority of purchases made there were from kids who don't know any better?

I find it very funny that you chose cartoon ponies as your example, when the internet at large currently has an obsession with the My Little Pony franchise. All ages, mind, not just "children".
What we are effectively doing here is balancing the costs and benefits of extradition. My argument is that both the severity of the alleged offence and the situation of the defendant (including but not limited to their age) are relevant factors in determining those costs and benefits, and thus whether extradition is an appropriate course of action.

If I understand correctly, you are proposing that age should not be a factor. In order to do so, you raise the example of a murder suspect, and point out that popular sentiment would not differ significantly towards 18-year-old and 23-year-old murder suspects.

I would argue that your example is an exceptional one, in which the severity of the alleged offence (murder) is so great that age becomes irrelevant (at least over the age of legal responsibility).

In this case, the alleged offence is nowhere near as severe. As I mention above, it seems it is not even an offence in the United Kingdom. Hence the potential benefits to society from having O'Dwyer extradited, tried, and potentially convicted, are much less.
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It's interesting (to me at least) that we have largely dispensed with the Unix privilege model in production and replaced it with running an entire unix system for each application, virtually hosted on the real one. I wonder if, had there been more emphasis historically on reliability and decoupling, we would nowadays be running more than one service on a host instead of running them in individual VMs hypervised by that host.

I suspect the answewer is "no, not entirely" due to other limitations of the model: ports under 1024 are root-only, regular users can't call chroot(), etc etc - but there have been solutions proposed/designed/implemented for most of this stuff , they just haven't had much uptake.
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unable to find it now. it was in one of techcrunch articles. 76 to be exact. now it says half of it.
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I don't understand if Git has anything to with it. Simply because Linux and Minix differ on their views on kernel design, it doesn't mean Minix shouldn't use a better scm :)
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I hope we can wipe poverty off the earth soon.

Most of the industrialized world can be said to have done that.

Western Europe, Japan, probably Canada too. It is easy* and requires only low levels of corruption, good law and order, combined with mostly free markets. Wealth in terms of natural resources is NOT a requirement, Switzerland is resource wise very poor. (Unless you count scenic views of the Alps as a resource.)

*When I say easy, I mean possible and requires only changes in human behavior - so super hard in fact.
Firefox shouldn’t be massively slower than Chrome for day-to-day use. The usual advice here: turn off extensions that you’re not actively using. If it’s still slow then you could consider making a new profile, which usually speeds stuff up.

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles
I stand corrected then. Process must be different when they call.

You are right about the human nature. Marketing is also to blame. You read "Accept money now ! click here and be ready in 5 minutes." so that's what you start doing, and it works great for a moment.

And then, that's why layers make fortune I guess.
This looks like a insanely juicy target for pirates and drug lords. Incredibly easy target to take hostage, with lots of cash, rich people, passwords, intel, hardware, and lots and lots of real state to grow coca or poppy. Static, big, protected by few and very stressed PMC, and no fear whatever of retaliation. If they resist, just threaten to sink it down with one torpedo, or a cheap SCUD.

Hell, this is looking like an elevator pitch for a "counter-startup". Anyone interested?
Most profitable? Citation needed. Profit margins are higher in the tech industry--companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google all have higher margins than pharma. In terms of nominal profits, pharma does not come close to the oil and gas industry.
Nobody is going to extradite you for putting a link on your personal website to The Pirate Bay. In fact: they can't; even if that link technically does establish contributory infringement, your liability for posting that link is civil, not criminal.

That's not what this guy did. He made 15,000GBP/mo placing ads on a site that prominently featured first-run movies and included promotional copy he himself added suggesting that the site would save you money because you didn't have to go to a theater. It's the running a business on copyright infringement that gets you charged criminally.
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Careful! You're openly talking about "Th3 Pir4t3 B4Y"! If someone looked up the site mentioned in your comment, they might infringe, and you've contributed. Giving the name of the place to find pirated material is a very short jump from an http link.
I know the feeling.

Last week, Google decided to ban my Adsense account and refund advertisers because my website was a risk. The money was there for years and I removed Adsense from my blog YEARS ago. I can't contact anyone about it and can't enter Adsense now for any new website I would make.
I found http://di.fm really good but I'm using http://grooveshark.com more these days at the recommendation of a colleague. Grooveshark has both radio stations and the ability to pick 'n choose the music.
Because he made it easy to charge him. Unlike many other link sharing sites, the defendant here exercised direct control over who could post links. Also unlike many other link sharing sites, the defendant here wrote promo copy that directly referenced watching first-run movies for free.
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Love the graph. Would love to know the sample size of the data.

I assume you posted this at the "best" time possible, right? Its performing OK i would say but I guess you cant always rely on the data alone...
Hmm, I disagree. In my opinion, 'clean' web design means the now sadly old-fashioned approach of: have some text, marked up to indicate emphasis, headings etc., then let the damn browser decide what it should look like.

We had that, it was called gopher. We didn't like it then, why would we suddenly want it now? It's not as if design, from typefaces to colors to everything else, does not complement the content.

If anything, the kind of non-design you seem to want is a regression to even before not just the web, but writing itself. Graphical elements, colors and design touches were part of the written word since before Gutenberg (from the ancient egyptian hieroglyphics, to the arabic ornamental manuscripts to the elaborate scrolls of the middle ages, to William Morris).

As for the advice about using a grid, that should definitely have been accompanied with the caveat that your design should still flow to the browser's width. Fixed-width web pages are _evil_, where by evil I actually mean _stupid_.

I'm not sure. Fixed-width is better for human consumption for several reasons, not just because books and magazines are fixed width. For one, we like to read a number of words on each line, not everything that fits in a huge horizontal lines of text in a 30" monitor. Second, we like the text we are reading to have some proportional relationship with the figures, images etc that come with it -and those images are fixed-width.
Catering to multiple widths is less of an ideal, and more of a pragmatic necessary evil due to varying computer screens. Let's not make a virtue out of necessity.
They can't, which is why you can't easily be extradited from the UK for foreign crimes that aren't also crimes in the UK. Unfortunately for him, the crime he's charged with is also 1:1 a crime in the UK.
If you're think of this as a Linux vs Minix 'war' then you are looking at it the wrong way. Minix is intended for research/education. Its not going to replace Linux because they do different things.
I'm a backer, and I'm super-excited. I'm probably a weird one, though, because I don't think I've ever played a Tim Shafer game before.

One of the projects that got me really excited was Nataly Dawn's:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/555488012/nataly-dawns-f...

She wanted to raise $20,000 to record her first solo album. Nope, she got $104,788. This is the kind of thing that can change someone's life, and it's exciting to see it happen to independent artists.

Plus, people aren't "voted off the island" each week...

I'd love to see stats about Kickstarter - for each category, what are the percentages for funded or not. For each category, a graph plotting how much people asked for, and how much they received. Stuff like that.
So I guess everyone has given up on the paper-free office ideal now?

It seems like only yesterday I had to sit through a two hour meeting to convince us that printing things is a needless expense now we're all supposed to be using laptops and iPads! Wait a second....it was only yesterday!
"there are some real turds in Silicon Valley", understatement of the year. Gimme some time, I'll eventually rant about this on my way out the door too.
My opinion is that this is probably what is happening when people claim to have many clear memories from a very young age, though I dare not suggest it since they tend to take offense at having their reality challenged and I don't have data to back up my suspicion. The correct term for this is "confabulation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation) and is related to "false memory" and "source amnesia".

I'm sure most people have a few legitimate clear memories (the single one I have is indeed of a traumatic, though amusing, event) of the 4-6 age range, and of course you have your savants; it's the unusual number of people who claim to vividly recall their youth pre-3 to 4 years of age who I'm skeptical of.
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Yet another example of how hard it is to predict how a product/technology will be used or what societal benefits/detriments it might provide.
Slight nit-pick, but I doubt that the 2010 edition is the zenith. Not sure which is, but I would expect it to be from somewhere before the internet started making it redundant.
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"I have my doubts that mob mentality and viral marketing will prove to be reliable diviners of good investments."

You are not a mob when you are in your house browsing Kickstarter, you are a person and if you can think for yourself, you will.

We had crowd funding for centuries, it is called "the stock market". As you said, now we can cut the middleman (and their abuses).

Those middleman had been abusing the system too much, e.g Renting your own shares without your permission to speculators (short selling)
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Isn't the reason they've released it for free before retail so that they can find out stuff like this and adapt the UI to how users react?
>Picasa is about lock in.

Really now?

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At the risk of sounding ungrateful, can we please get a new download manager? I remember getting excited almost a year ago when an update for it was announced, yet I'm still stuck with this infuriating default which makes me want to smash my screen.

Yes, I'm aware add-ons fix that, I don't want an add-on for something that should exist as a part of Firefox.
The interesting question is how much management one could get away with trimming.....
I didn't intend to sound the way it seems i sounded. Sorry for that! Btw, the focus of Minix 3 has changed and it is no longer intended just for research/education. Minix 3 was publicly announced on 24 October 2005 by Andrew Tanenbaum and it is comprehensively redesigned to be usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for applications requiring high reliability.
Ironically, the site is down: `Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL`

<snark>Maybe there should be an article on connecting your web frontend to MySQL</snark>

Is there a cached version available?
Thanks for the link. I just sent him a message.
While I do see it being possible sometime, I agree that it's probably true that we won't see that for a while. The Ikea model would work well at this stage where you'd expect a small booklet that guides you along the way: "When the printer's green light is flashing, open box A5 and place chip on the area shown in Figure F2. Then press the green button on the printer's console."
I agree with this. PG responded that he believes in the idea because they already did it, but it doesn't seem quite accurate.

Teams initially accepted by YC were accepted on the basis of an idea. I am going to take a bit of a leap of faith and suggest that a significant portion of self worth was placed in the nurturing of that idea. When it came time to pivot or in some cases completely alter their business plans, I suspect that a lot of that initial value was then grafted on to the new plan as a way of salvaging ego meaning that the same level of devotion then seeded the second idea.

Will this work? Who knows...it is certainly an interesting experiment. To be frank, it seems like a step away from the wild west toward the corporatization of start-ups. Essentially hiring talented people, pushing them in a direction and seeing what they develop.
Did Schrödinger's cat just meow? People will try to submit their stuff during good times and skew the data soon.
by same token if you show up in hoodie I can assume you are drug dealer ? Not a kind I would like to do business with
>Hmm, I disagree. In my opinion, 'clean' web design means the now sadly old-fashioned approach of: have some text, marked up to indicate emphasis, headings etc., then let the damn browser decide what it should look like.

What you're describing isn't clean web design, it's HTML without CSS.

>Did these designers ever stop to think about blind people relying on text-to-speech? It's obvious how that should render <em> - with emphasis - but what does it do with "letter-spacing:110%;"?

Yes. Check out the concept of the semantic web. It's the idea that the structure of the page should give some semantic meaning to the content. Which is why the use of <i> or <b> tags is eschewed in favor of <em> and <strong>.

>Fixed-width web pages are _evil_, where by evil I actually mean _stupid_.

Depends on the content. If I'm reading a something text-heavy, I want the width of the page to be relatively small - I find it much more comfortable to have a vertical column of words.
The problem with this one is that once you make more general by removing embedded effect and make it black and white only, it does not look that good any more.

Personally I like this one the most http://dribbble.com/shots/424394-Markdown - as the dashes are really reminding me Markdown.
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