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Yes it is correct that asynchronous replication is the only way Redis handles replication, however replication and durability are still in topic: if the master burns in fire, the slave will contain your data ;)

However there are people that turn Redis async replication into synchronous replication with a trick: they perform:

MULTI
SET foo bar
PUBLISH foo:ack 1
EXEC

Because PUBLISH is propagated to the slave if they are listening with another connection to the right channel they'll get the ACK from the slave once the write reached the slave. Not always practical but it's an interesting trick.
It has very valid points. It reminds me a classic Plato's Gorgias[1], where Socrates has described in length "the art of oratory".

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgias_(dialogue)
You could charge a one-time fee and offer yearly paid updates.
How is this better than something like 1Password? The only difference seems to be that instead of entering my master password in the browser extension, it's on my phone and I have to do extra work to log into the web site... I don't see any real security advantage, and the UX is much worse. Maybe I am missing something though.
Cool implementation. Were you inspired by the Google 2-factor approach to log in to Goog websites that was pulled?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_launches_qr_code...

As others said, I'd love to see an android version. However, before I use it for my important Web service accounts, I'd like the ability to encrypt my passwords both on the phone app and the browser plugin with a key known only to me so I don't have to trust your service with my cleartext passwords.
"The Code Book" is great. Very good read and very insightful in the toppic.
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I do not expect a party to rant like Fefe does. You can't neglect the fact that the position of the pirate party about ACTA is crystal clear: They don't want it to become reality. They wrote press releases, they organized demonstrations and there are ongoing discussions party-wide.

If you think ACTA is a bad idea I see no reason not to vote for the pirate party - they have done more for the anti-ACTA-movement than any other party. It could have been more but this does not make them unelectable...

Thank you - I like your nickname as well. .)
Cross browser headless testing is kind of a misnomer. You want automated cross browser testing. There are a couple of options:

1. Use Google's jsTestDriver (https://github.com/larrymyers/ichabod)

2. Roll your own (My take on a solution: https://github.com/larrymyers/ichabod Node.js + selenium)
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Perhaps if you indicate what industry it is in or who your customer base is, you should get specific replies relating to your business.

Feel free to show your prototype, you'll get lots of feedback on next steps and it will be specific to the challenges you're facing.
> It's a pile of tautologies and common sense.

I was about to say the same exact thing, but was too afraid to because of the backlash.

That book has little to no use. It's a book you would give to someone that's a -1 level programmer on a 1 to 10 level scale, to bring him up to a 1. Really, it is.

I've always wondered if its recommended because people were not reading it, or if there is a case of general incompetence (the type that would get you fired, or not hired) in the general programming pool.
From the title, I thought he would do just that at first! But I guess since the HISTFILE is being constantly read like that anyway, you could just use rsync or similar means to keep it in sync across multiple machines.
Ah, I didn't know Scotland had MMP. Good for you. I was thinking of the U.S., Canada, and UK main parliament.
Primary source:

http://www.quantumnano.at/
How is WP7 worse than the others? How does the tile interface "fall down"?
Seems to me the MS employee was cheating to begin with by choosing a task the phone was already configured for that is not a normal use. The guy even realized this at that moment when he felt he won out of pure luck. The challenge might as well have been "let's see who can display a logo of a Microsoft product on the screen first".
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Just to play devil's advocate, would you permit an accused pick pocket to use funds from stolen wallets to pay for his defense?
That idea is pretty awesome, but why limit employee compensation in such an unflexible way?
Let me start by saying that although I work in academia in a field where I work with these issues from time to time, I am by no mean an expert in any sense of the word, although I do work with people who are - but in those cases I just do what they say, we're not 'equals' or anything. I'm just saying: I'm not arguing from authority here, no do I want to give off that impression.

The link to the original source in your link is dead, so I'm not quite sure which paper they're talking about, but it sounds like the conclusions in the 'third phase' that I described. Issues are obviously much more complex than just 'make 1000 USD more to feel a lot happier', but I'd be surprised if the study would find a real plateau after 75K, rather than a tapered off increase per dollar amount. Some studies have plots that show relationships on a logarithmic scale (after a 'baseline' cutoff point, e.g. 30k or 50k), making it much move obvious that there is a continually rising correlation (or, to put it more bluntly, that yes, more money does make you 'happier', for certain definitions of 'happy'). Of course there are all sorts of methodological issues at that point, comparing between regions, across cultures, etc etc.

Let me put it this way. There are studies who conclude that e.g. people who own 5 million are happier than those who own 100k. This is easily explained: 5 million makes you 'independently wealthy', taking away the stress from having to hold a job to provide subsistence. Do people who make 75k a year typically have 5 million? No. Would it be reasonable to assume that somebody making top 1% in a community would have the same level of happiness than somebody else in that same community who makes double? Yes. So it's all in what you measure and compare. I'm sure the authors of the article referenced in your link acknowledge that, but that they just had a much more narrow research question; a question that lead to the magic number of 75k within the confines of their research. Those nuances get lost in the AP summary, then again in the WSJ summary, then even worse in the headline. I mean the WSJ blurb even acknowledges that happiness does continue to rise even after 75k.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this, just that your link does describe an increasing effect after 75k and not a 'hard' plateau, so yes it's consistent with what I posted before.
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Agreed and understandable. For years Microsoft has had to sell product upgrades that weren't needed by most users. There wasn't much new to show so all they've had has been gimmicks, fud, and bs. It's in their marketing DNA at this point.
C programmer are so used to terrible code that it doesn't even stand out to them.
No. I read Oracle's version in the Oracle article, which is the subject of this discussion after all. It's been many years since you couldn't connect to a wifi network or configure printers without anything beyond your own password, a properly configured sudo and a sensible set of permissions. In fact, I haven't entered a root password on any of my machines since 2008 or so. It's been a while since any of them even had a root password.

What Oracle is bragging about is that some parts of Solaris 11 are saner than OpenSuSe's. Having deployed to SuSe machines a couple times in the past, that's one thing I don't find particularly hard to believe. I have no direct experience with Solaris since version 8 or so. I did enjoy using OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana for a while and would consider deploying them on my home server, as soon as I build it.

I also find Linus' attitude towards fixing the problem rather than ditching the distro commendable. I wouldn't give most distros a second chance after giving me a tiny fraction of the problems he describes in his own rant. After the problems I experienced, I didn't even give OpenSuSe a first chance on my own machines. Life is too short to bitch on Bugzilla.
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Great idea, Dave!
http://betakit.com/

Betakit just launched a few months ago, but it looks good so far.
histappend is a must for me for any decent bash history usage; I like to set HISTCONTROL=ignoredups along with it to keep things clean and I increased HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE from the defaults.

A good bash history can often save your behind when trying to reconstruct what you did or when you have to run that one magic command you last ran 5 months ago...
Wix Launches HTML5 Site Builder as Flash Declines
Thank you for reading it. It is a long post, takes some patience and interest to read it.
Grandma sues Apple for $1m after breaking nose on store's glass door
That's what I meant. Apparently, the old is the new fresh, or something like that. :-)
What I expect from them is representation of civil rights and personal freedom in society. And you don't even have to be part of the government to do that in Germany.
Just one question, you are from Germany, aren't you?
You can't parse context-free or context-sensitive
languages with regular expressions

I didn't say that.

Also, to add to your point, current regexp libraries have capabilities that far exceed the concept in the formal languages theory. Features like capturing buffers or look-ahead assertions cannot describe a finite-state machine.

Also, Perl has had support for recursive regular expressions. Perl 5.10 even has support for recursive capture buffers.

To be able to produce a grammar specification
for the parser generator you need to understand
formal grammars

IMHO, that's the same as saying that in order to be a programmer then you need to know lots of math, which is in general bullshit. Even before the formal theory was available, people have been building compilers the good-old fashioned way - by writing top-down LL(k) parsers, without necessarily having a name for this technique.

But I also said that one should remember some basics from its theory of computation class, as it is helpful to know what a pushdown automaton is and the difference between it and a finite-state machine.

All of this is vastly more involved than just
anding regular expressions

It involves functions calling each other, sometimes recursively and loops and switches and remembering where you are in the text and doing repetitive transformations. It's as if you're doing real programming.

You probably meant parser generator, parser combinator
is a different thing

No, I meant parser combinator.
¿? I don't want you to sympathise or comment on my case, why would I?. I'm just saying that's how any Microsoft contest works, they use people and when things don't turn out the exact way Microsoft wants they screw them.

My point is this is not an isolated case, it's Microsoft policy.
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I'm not sure what your point is. Are you saying that absolute numbers give off the wrong impression because the population overall is declining? If so, you're flat out wrong, because global overall population trends are still pointing up, more pronounced so in the areas where there is the most poverty. Or are you hinting at issues with using PPP as the metric? If so, what's your problem with it?
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Writers swear by practice, and the discipline that enables it. Churning out words is practice; there's a saying that you need to get the first hundred thousand words of crap out of your system before the quality of your output improves. See also NaNoWriMo — No plot? No problem! — where the winning condition is simply to turn in forty thousand words at the end of the month.
Rails + REST: avoiding the views nightmare
You know, Sun Microsystems stock ticker was SUNW... The W was for Workstation.
Minecraft Has Made Almost as Much as Angry Birds
Guilty until proven innocent? Surely it is not unreasonable that if found guilty, the criminal would be required to produce that money or work to pay off debts.
Um, how, exactly, is what I said wrong?
Yes, due to presumption of innocence. Because they may not actually have acquired these funds from picking pockets after all.
There appear to be some non-infinite limits on some components of standard of living, though. For example, if you extrapolate the resources Americans and Western Europeans use per capita (water, electricity, oil, etc.) to the entire world's population, you at the very least have some serious technological challenges to avoid hitting limits. If technology isn't able to keep up fast enough, it could introduce a bit of a zero-sum element, where a wealthier developing world would put downward pressure on the developed world's standard of living, in that the amount of resources available to an average American might decrease faster than can be offset by technological improvements.

That's some of the current worry with oil, that increased consumption by China et al will mean that oil is more expensive in real terms, and alternatives won't appear fast enough, meaning that Americans' overall standard of living will decrease, as they're forced to either make do with less oil (and stuff oil is an input to), or forego other luxuries to pay for the oil (and indirect-oil).

Past poverty levels, "wealth" becomes much more relative in that it involves wages, imo: a measure of whether you're "well off" is whether you can afford to pay people to do things for you, whether it's clean your house, serve you in a restaurant, tend to your cruise ship, design your website, or work for your company. That definitely depends on relative rather than absolute numbers, with a bigger differential meaning that you can buy more hours of other people's time.
Linux 3.3: Finally a little good news for bufferbloat
Megaupload made money through premium accounts which "many" were used for 100% legal purposes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but people paid for the service, not the files.
What is the best programming language to learn first?
Child abuse images hidden in web stores, says IWF report
I was working on this when google tested that feature. I actually started the project as a 2 factor authentication system but scaled it back to this version of the initial release at least. There's a chicken/egg problem with getting websites to adopt without needing the browser plugin.

I like your password idea, its a nice feature. I'll add it to my idea list. Thanks for the feedback!
Nice little project, thanks for this
(blogger)

if you haven't read The Code Book by Simon Singh (as I recommended), you'll be surprisingly pleased by its depth. Everyone loves it. It was the book that inspired that spreadsheet; it clearly contains enough info to go and try and implement an Engima machine :) It also covers Lorenz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_cipher) and such. It covers lots of both older and newer systems too, and even has a puzzles section.

If you want more of the human side, "Code Breakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park" is a dry non-technical memoirs by a those who were actually there.

I would like to know more about Dilly's attacks on Spanish Enigma - http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/03/rare_spanish_e... - anyone know a book with any detail? Anything on his earlier work too, even?
RBAC appears to be a bit richer of a concept than group based authentication. In particular, role assignments can be session dependent and role assignments can be constrained to live in a particular hierarchy. The latter is useful for situations where you want to make it possible for a user to have role A or role B but not both at once.

Edit: Just to add, the key thing that they appear to be bragging about is that they use RBAC to grant the user logged into the system console the "Console User" profile which by default has permissions to modify printers and wireless connections. Once you have this role, you don't not need to authenticate further.
Texas researcher adds 'Enemy' feature to Facebook
He ran a legal business with a valid service. If they can't separate the money into legally acquired and illegally acquired, then in my opinion, they shouldn't freeze those assets.
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I have been asked that question many times.

I recommend you start with Javascript, or Python very simple to write and read programs then continue to C++ or Java (:
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I write the first drafts for my blog often on the iPad. And Keynote does some pretty good presentations as well.
Same. And actually, having used this method without knowing it had a name, I can say it’s a great way to write. Crystals grow naturally, but distillation is laborious.

Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight changed the way I write—it puts special emphasis on being able to clearly state, in a sentence or two, precisely what your story is about. And there’s hardly a better way to find out than to know at the outset!
>could it be, the west needs to suffer economically for developing parts of the world to prosper?

Very, very unlikely. The most relevant example of a modern fall from economic grace is the descent of Argentina, from the seventh-richest country in the world in 1900 to somewhere around 50th today. However, if anything, this had a large negative effect on the economy of South America (which stagnated as Argentina fell), and the modern economic rise of Chile and Brazil seems to be helping the countries surrounding them, or, in essence, prosperity is contagious, rather than conserved.
Well, they are just accused, so yes. If I was not a pickpocket however was accused of being one, I'd need to have the financial means to be able to defend myself.
I use Inkpad to sketch out vector graphics for my various projects. Then sync to my laptop via Dropbox and use inkscape to complete and the CLI tools to generate pngs. For simple things I can do all the vector stuff on the iPad.

I use penultimate to pretty much replace my note books to sketch out new ideas.

Task paper to plan projects.

Numbers for various little spread sheets I still have to keep, e.g. tax, bills.

Tab toolkit for well, tabs.

One day I will get better at guitar again and record something on Garage band. Until then I use Garage band and the Apogee jam to replace all the effects boxes I could never justify buying.

I've started drawing again thanks to Brushes.

Occasionally Textastic to review code on the go. I can fix small things if I have to or write up pseudo code that I fix up when I get to my main machine.

Some of this is not technically producing I suppose, but my iPad is now a very convenient part of my process.
As a long time Redis user, source code admirer and spectator
of its evolution, I have to say that I learned quite a lot
about open source project management.
Sure, I'm just pointing out that their existence greatly diminishes the motivation to write a good (free) text editor for OSX. There are plenty of nice GUI editors for OSX, but most (all?) seem to be paid editors.

The end result is that you either fork over the money (not entirely unreasonable for a tool you use so often) or learn to work the excellent free editors that exist.
I don't think the parent post was suggesting you completely avoid dynamic allocation just minimize it. Because it's not a question of dynamic vs static memory but # of allocations / second / thread. And often it's a question of delayed optimization where you suspect what your doing needs to change, but you avoid optimizing until you have some performance data.
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Well I meant 'less posts, but of higher quality', but I admit that my wording was unfortunate to the point of indefensible.

I guess we're going off topic here and into a not so interesting discussion, but with the advent of universal access to heaps of data, the old ways of thinking are becoming less relevant. What we need is data and evidence; facts, not talk. Now you and I are from a country where it is a high good to let everybody have an 'opinion' (I dislike that word and the concept because opinions are like assholes: everybody's got one and most of them stink) about everything, but luckily we're now beginning to realize the detrimental effects of the excesses of that, and are curbing it. Many scientific fields are moving the same direction: less vacuous talk, more substance.
Having had experience with recruiters who were either clueless or merely rude/unprofessional it is indeed a good idea to try to produce something aimed at hackers (or at least moderately intelligent people) which hopefully isn't completely lame.

However, a quick review of the site didn't uncover anything which I wouldn't find elsewhere. Describing it as a UK jobs site, then allowing postings for jobs in Germany seems off topic.

Why do job-related web sites often suck? Usually it's that the job descriptions are too vague, are ineptly categorized, don't describe what the application is, or are excessively wordy and packed with 'buzz' terms or other meaningless fluff. These descriptions are often asking for highly capable people, but seem to have been written by someone who is only semi-literate or who only has the vaguest idea of what they want.
AOL's Tim Armstrong Just Did A Very Smart Thing ("Selling Patent Portfolio")
(I see, my bad. Habit of mine. Thanks)
Absolutely. This is part of the reason I’m rather more productive on my netbook—the processor and screen size make idle browsing less tempting.
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Please understand that I am answering this from experience - four years working as a full-time dating coach - rather than as what "should happen":

The answer is the first, and also, the second guy is kidding himself.

If you want to be an awesome confident guy that gets women, be an awesome confident guy that gets women. If you're seeking to define yourself by Living Like A Samurai, you have a weak model of self, and need to learn that life happens in shades of grey, rather than in absolutes.