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Redis can only perform asynchronous replication because it uses a single thread. It cannot block the main thread waiting for the network and have acceptable performance. This makes replication as good as "appendfsync no" as you have no guarantees as to what happened on the network write.

The upside of the design is that it makes things simple (e.g., transactions, append only file).

(This is my understanding, please correct me if I'm wrong!)
This is great. Best canvas fireworks I've seen so far! I was thinking of building something like it for a while... The last particle engine type thing I built was with the old DirectX 7 back in day (well maybe 10 years ago). Just out of interest, how much time did it take you to build this demo? (assuming the author is around)
Can you tell me how many hours, minutes, and seconds there are left in the timer on this page? Can you also tell me your timezone? Thanks!

http://test.fezzl.com/deal/1270066/?preview=yes
If by smart wrapping you mean indented wrapping, yes, it does. Set you preferred wrap mode to Indent in Settins, Preferences, Editing, and then toggle Word Wrap from the View menu.

SciTE, with which Notepad++ shares the scintilla editing component, has quite a few settings for wrapping:

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDoc.html

(Search for “wrap” in the page.)

I haven’t looked into how many of those are supported in Notepad++, as I don’t use word wrap myself.
It sounds like the plight of one of my coworkers. He started on a team that had to know significant details about how dial up worked. This was great work when dial up was big. One aspect to dial up were fax calls, and nobody wanted to work those issues. He stepped up, learned fax, and earned quite a bit of notoriety due to his specific fax knowledge. Wrote a book, some RFCs, promotions, etc.

The only problem? He 10 years later he still sits around fax machines, listens to users who still use faxes (problem customers), and talks about one of the true dragging edges of technology. And it doesn't port well to other newer technologies.
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The same group has proposed an improved version of the experiment with 1,000,000 amu gold clusters or larger.

http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/13/7/075002
When I wrote my first novel I spent a lot of time at my neighbours house using their old 486 and notepad. They didn't have internet access and the places was quiet other the cat that I was cat sitting. Needless to say, the situation turned out to be very productive and without distraction.
How can we monetize this concert calendar?
It will be fascinating to see the transition between the small, definitely-quantum realm, and the intermediate, quantum-effects-get-washed-out-by-X realm.

X = ? Size? Internal entropy?
Wouldn't watching TV have the same effect as a Europe trip?
I rely on LiveReload (http://livereload.com/) for my day-to-day web dev work. Point it at a repo folder and a browser window, and any time any files are changed in the repo it'll intelligently update the browser window (full page refresh for HTML/JS changes, partial refresh for CSS-only changes). It can also be configured to auto-compile SASS/LESS/CoffeeScript/etc, and/or execute arbitrary shell commands on save. The Mac version costs $10 (haven't tried the Windows port yet), but it's unbelievably fantastic.
No surprise about the weakness of the charges. The goal has already been accomplished. Megaupload has been destroyed without a single valid argument being upheld.
Vim and emacs are not for everyone. This may come across as sacrilege to some, but I personally don't like keyboard-driven interfaces. I want a mouse-based ui, with shortcuts for the stuff i do often enough. I want to move textblocks via drag and drop. I want to trigger a refactor command by navigating a menu with the mouse. And fundamentally, it's because my memory for remembering keyboard commands isn't good enough. A mouse-driven ui lets me focus on the code, instead of "what was that sequence of keys again?"
I wasn't planning on it, but I feel somewhat spoiled by your warning, actually. Maybe I shouldn't, but I can't help make certain assumptions when given a character's name and that there are major spoilers on the level you've described. : /
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+1

I never thought of doing this, but seems like a brilliant idea!
Ask HN: going to tech meetups
Does anyone have any tips on how to secure a spot at tech / startup related meetups? By the time I get the message about their existence in an email, the meetup is maxed out with sign ups.
There's a browser extension (Chrome/Safari/FF) that does the hookup. Basically it talks to our server to request a QR Code. When the code is scanned, the users credentials are encrypted on the phone, sent to our server which passes them along to the browser extension.

I do have a version that doesn't require the browser extension, but that does require the website to add some javascript and do some backend work to enable it.
How big an object can get and still be subject to quantum effects is still a matter of debate.

According to the the Copenhagen interpretation once you reach some unknown threshold the waveform will collapse and objects above a certain size won't create a wave pattern if they go through a double slit. The Everett/Many Worlds interpretation, on the other hand, would say that you can have quantum effects in objects of arbitrary size.

There are other interpretations too, of course, but I can't speak with any authority on them regarding this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mech...
Does Paul Allen actually whine, or is it just that other people whine on his behalf? All the quotes I've read from him have been classy, or at least reserved.
I really dislike using Facebook for login and always look for an alternative (and even cancelled my premium Spotify when they tried to ram it down our throats), but the bottom line is that in a lot of markets this is a killer feature. Facebook Connect and social widgets are successful because they work so well. If you want to take a moral stand against them, more power to you, but I don't think it's a smart business move.
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The problem with Vagabond is that it's not finished. I read Musashi after reading Vagabond because I didn't want to wait for the chapters anymore. Both are great and you should know there are mayor differences specially in Sasaki Kojirō character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagabond_(manga)#Differences_wi...
See there: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754747
Isn't he in a great position to disrupt, or at least provide information that other people need to disrupt?

People know the reasons why faxs suck. What they're not so sure about is why fax is still being used; what problems fax solves.
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As a nice side effect, the criminal guy with the same name will suddenly find it much easier to find a new job.
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Are there any links to Hitler going off on Living Social on Facebook? No. Facebook is useless.
http://devcodehack.com It's not all startups, but there will definitely be more startup and YC stuff to come.
Yea, that's like saying Google pays $1M/yr. I'm sure they do to some people, but that's only after a key player has been headhunted by Facebook or something.

At least one of the betahouse guys did a JD/Phd at Harvard and passed the bar in NY and MA, but still by all accounts seems to indicate that he's significantly happier programming than lawyering.

I don't think its about the money, but rather the environment, lifestyle, and culture. Being a freelance software dev in Cambridge isn't a bad gig as long as you've got stable incoming projects.
I'd guess that it's a lot easier to rationalize away what you see on TV ("it's just a made up story, selective editing, propaganda etc.").
I wonder why they don't apply
http://tedwvc.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/how-to-get-visual-c-2...
to fix it and keep it runable on Windows 2000, even though Uniscribe might still show some bugs with Arabic text, etc.
I am starting to regret that I gave my child only two first names. What would be a reasonable number for the future? Maybe 10, or even 100?

The idea being that you can switch your "official" name easily...
The problem isn't that Linus isn't aware of sudo (of course he is), but a stupid implementation in of the printer tool in OpenSUSE.
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This is not "emulation", he's re-writing the engine in C++ using the original ROMs' data as input. Of course, by reverse-engineering the machine code to the required level of detail, plenty of bugs in the original game are found. Very impressive.
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when i submit the link , i get please try again error.
Entertainment companies are also taking the opportunity to sue: http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/23/valcom-sues-megaupload-for...
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I think his article may have been a desperate plea for such people to come out of the woodwork. I implore you to contact the author and refer those people.

I've actually had the pleasure of meeting both of them in real life and they're great people -- honest, smart, fun to talk to -- I imagine they would be great to work with.
Android is in the plans. The main reason I started with iOS was that I had access to the devices.
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This seems a bit out of nowhere with no proof...
Google bombing usually means artificially trying to get a webpage to appear #1 for a specific keyword. This technique is not about trying to rank, but trying to get a phrase to appear in the search suggestions. Not many SEO blogs have even touched on this...
I'm from germany, but I'm not sure if I would elect them.

In last months there were so many chances for them, but they missed every one.

For example they organised demonstrations against ACTA, but I never heard anything directly from the pirate party.
I can't get that to work :(
"And, supposing you are serious, what would you replace it with?"

He wants to replace it with what every anti-capitalist wants to replace it with: a government controlled economy with ridiculously high taxes.
Either I went incredibly fast and just stumbled upon the most recent essay, or it was never posted. Either way, I think his point is very valid, and in my experience, completely correct that it is how you say something and not how you say it. If you say something with enough passion and vigor, people will associate that with correctness and importance, even if it completely wrong.
Anti-copyright group... That and the "everything for free party" are the most common discriptions media and the established parties are trying to pose on the Pirates right now. That and the misinterpretation that an opposition to an attemt to simply block child pornographic sites when you try to access them from germany equals a support of said sites.

They are anew party with some, IMHO interessting fresh approaches. And if we have a party in the parliaments of one of the biggest economies in Europe oppossing the most wierd initiatives from the content industry, well that can only be great!
This is good news. However, I believe the reason we think poverty is bad is because we associate it with a poor quality of life. In this vein, poverty is only one slice of the pie. Other factors must still be considered such as, do these people have sufficient medical resources available to them and are they living in middle of a war? What goods are they deprived of and what evils are they plagued by?
Study On Open Source Software Used By 50% Of Fortune 500 Companys Is Not Secure
Rewriting games and applications based on a disassembly is an impressive feat, considering the amount of hacks which end up in production code.

Similar projects i can think of off the top of my head:

OpenDune, OpenTTD, ScummVM, OpenTyrian
Maybe Dotcom should run for New Zealand's Senate, too.
I primarily use the HyperSpec.

CLtL2 is more amusing but less rigorous. Since the prose is more fun, and since it's a physical book, it's easier to read cover-to-cover, but I would not recommend it as a reference.

I'd love to make a new physical book from the ANSI draft sources, but I don't think that will happen any time soon.
And if Linux isn't that great on the desktop, Solaris is a catastrophe.

Eh. I worked for a (small) company where Solaris was -the- desktop OS. Windows only made inroads because some clients required we do CAD work on tools that were Windows only.

It wasn't so bad. As a sysadmin ... I kind of miss it.
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Copyright discussions played little role in the Pirate's successful campaign, however. The party instead focused on issues of social and political reform.

Has anyone with real political influence (so, not them for now ;) addresses this issue? I suppose this was relevant before, but with more targeted parties like the Pirates, I think the faults in our election system seem more pronounced.

The reality is that a party like this is doomed to either lose votes for not having a position on anything else besides copyright, privacy and such, or lose votes by alienating the people who disagree with them on other issues.
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There are several press releases about ACTA on piratenpartei.de: http://www.piratenpartei.de/category/pm/
You could try craigslist or the equivalent in your area. Also, if you do get a project, ask for a % of the money up-front. All of the non-serious people will go away.
First of all let me say kudos on the launch; I'm giving this feedback because it was my reaction and others might have the same:

The two claims in your site header made me curious:
"Dealing in only the finest jobs for the finest people in tech" and "Post a Job It's free and it only takes 5 minutes." This made me scratch my head... how are they offering only the best listings if I can post in 5 minutes? Does that mean anyone can post anything? Because that doesn't sound like it will be a collection of "the finest jobs."

I did a test[1][2] and sure enough, there is no process of vetting the jobs. This, to me, says that the site will have all the same issues as e.g. Craigslist; perhaps more because craigslist actually charges to post a job in Boston. Basically: another random assortment of good jobs, bad jobs, scams, and time wasters. If you are claiming that your site deals with "only the finest jobs," you need to back that up with some actual mechanism to filter out bad jobs.

To your credit: the posting has been removed in the time it took me to write this comment. :) (Unfortunately most spammy/scammy/crappy job listings aren't as obvious as mine.)

[1] http://hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs/2012/3/26/best
[2: screenshot of 1] http://i.imgur.com/d0r7E.png
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It really depends. If you see programming itself as something that gives you joy - then planning something out of course will remove some of the exploratory joy out of it.

However, there are also times when you have a larger goal in mind - say to build something of immense scale and power. In that sense - the micro level picture takes a backseat.

To me - shipping is the ultimate goal, so I don't see planning as taking the joy away from programming - it only gives me more satisfaction.
Show HN: Heroku file hosting for Rails apps. Now in open beta.
If you believe that sleep's purpose is to weaken synapses/reset the brain, it's entirely possible going through less than three or four REM cycles before waking would be undesirable in that it may take more than one cycle to properly "wipe the slate clean". Granted, it's impossible to do much more than speculate at this point given the (relative) lack of research/knowledge on the topic so far.
Debian/Ubuntu doesn't create a root login (by default) at all, so there is no root password.

Linux already has RBAC - if you look in /etc/group, you will see a group "lpadmin", if you are in the group, you can add/configure/delete printers (after authenticating with your user password). To the best of my knowledge, this is what Oracle is bragging about, and is equivalent to Microsoft's UAC (with Win7, they finally made it as convenient as linux).
http://eqldata.com I knew it!
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SimCity Classic had airplane crashes removed after 9/11
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You missed the last space after her name.
[raises hand]

I've read it cover-to-cover, twice -- the original edition, and the 2nd edition. Brilliant stuff.
The underground can keep Bitcoin. I would rather not have to worry about losing profits after the Bitcoin->dollar exchange rate dropped 30% in a day.
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this is something we built in our spare time. Any suggestions on where we can better it?
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Why would I want to do that? Updates are more difficult and I most likely won't be able to charge a monthly fee.
Did I miss something? quoting http://gwan.ch/en_scalability.html :

15 years ago, IBM acquired Apache – which is still the market leader today.
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A couple of points based on reading Japanese news reports:
The reports are vague (at least to me) as to whether the injunction covers autocomplete itself or just the particular result. They say Google was ordered to stop the 表示 (hyouji, lit. 'display'), which I think could mean either, but seems more likely to mean the particular result (otherwise I suspect they would have said 'function').
In any case, it should be noted that all the reports seem to be based on a press conference by the plaintiff's lawyer, not on any court documents. Also, the English reports are reporting it as an injunction, but the Japanese sources have 仮処分 (kari-shobun, an interlocutory injunction), i.e. this is a temporary order and the case itself is probably still ongoing.

(I am not a native Japanese speaker, but professional J>E translator with legal translation experience)
This tactic is not new, and has worked in the past. I'm thinking of a piracy crackdown about 20 years ago. Back then it was a network of dial-up bulletin boards, and people who would commit phone fraud to upload and download data, operating as couriers, in groups. The boards would often fun their hardware through credit card fraud, and many of them made money selling tapes full of pirated material. The crackdown involved raiding the boards, getting the user details, tracking their phone numbers, and getting various people raided in the various countries. A lot of the time the cases would collapse in court on various technicalities, but it would be a year before people would get their seized computer equipment back.
I sort of wish this were true, though it doesn't sound like something Knuth would say, but apparently it's a myth: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/don-knuth-steve-jobs/
For the political hackers: note that these victories are made possible by Germany's proportional representation system, which guarantees seats in parliaments to any party which gets more than 5% of the popular vote across the state/city/whatever. Thus parties with broad but shallow support do get represented in government.

The electoral systems in the UK-derived nations (geographic districts only, first past the post) expressly prohibit such broad-but-shallow movements from ever being represented in government. If the Pirate Party in a U.S. state got the same percent of the vote, they would end up with precisely zero seats in the legislature. Even if they got double that percent of the vote, they would end up with precisely zero seats in the legislature. Triple? Still zero. The U.S. electoral system is an extremely conservative one, which prevents new political movements from ever being heard in government. There are better ones, such as Germany's.
When I worked as a dating coach, one of the most common mental tics we had to work to get out of students was an obsession about being "in the right".

This manifested in all sorts of ways that would totally kill social interactions: correcting a girl on some factual detail in some story she was telling; saying hateful things to girls to "reject them first" at the first sense that she might not be totally interested; not being willing to take chances in social interactions; a complete unwillingness to touch girls, ever, for any reason; and most importantly, an inability to HAVE FUN.

The above is fact; my conjecture about /why/ (which possibly isn't) was that often these guys had been battered about mentally and socially by people, and their mental refuge for their self image was the "correctness high-ground".

Anyway:

- If you want to live a life full of "being right" and not having much fun, these rules look excellent.

- If you are unable to discern between eating great food from time to time and total all-out gluttony, if you follow these rules you will avoid gluttony. The same applies to most of the others (avoid pleasure for pleasure's sake?! Get a grip)

- If you get a geek boner at the idea of being a samurai, print these out and put these above your bed

There are many, many great spiritual books encapsulating the small amount of good advice in this list, but really the above is a recipe for navel-gazing piety.

Going to excesses of gluttony or austerity are for the mentally weak, rather than winning life philosophies.
Probably, the key part of what you said, is "couple of comments". Makes a huge difference if the same convention is on,say, 100,000 LOC, and the people who wrote it didnt give proper comments and left the company! :P

Speaking on naming conventions:
This is the name of a class in Chromium source code (C++): 'BufferedSpdyFramerVisitorInterface' .
The codebase is that meticulous! For a guy who wanted to learn about browser implementation,and downloaded the codebase,this is good.

These meticulous naming conventions- has it anything to do with using a full-blown ide vs vim?
I think including air drag in the model would make it look more realistic. Normally subtracting a term that is quadratic in the velocity from the magnitude of the force vector does the trick.
SRT technology (x50 I/O speedup with SSD aux disk) works only after dirty hack
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This is something we built in our spare time. Any suggestions on where we can better it?
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Only the first 2 leads to game over. The last 2 just leads to a dip in productivity but can be tolerable if you're ramen profitable.
> It shouldn't accelerate against gravity.

Why not? It has to go up somehow, and without acceleration greater than g, it would be hard?

EDIT: you probably meant it should disable engine (use up fuel) in the middle of the flight and slow down from there up.
One of my friends had an interesting weekend figuring out why his brand new ASUS motherboard with the Z68 intel chipset didn't want to cooperate with the SRT technology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Response_Technology ). Well, he had to resize a random partition, than restore it back to the original size. The reason for this is still voodoo AFAIK, something related with toucheing the MBR maybe.
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TextMate gets a lot of love and supports regex: http://macromates.com/
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I think this goes hand in hand with the decrease in front-page quality. It has become normal to see a link-bait title voted to the top...and then the first ten comments lamenting about how horribly linkbaity the title/article is.

A lot of the times the article is only tangentially related to the sensationalist title and this irks a lot of people.