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Don't forget: Offloading almost all freight traffic that can't be done by rail to automated vehicles between 1-6am daily.

Airplanes fly constantly, because each second they're on the ground is a second they're not paying for their capital cost. Ever see how barren a 6 lane highway is at 3am in the morning on a weeknight?
Normally enum is better.

Here enum is not a good idea if you have a switch case like:

switch (val) { /* val is uint8_t /
case OP_XXX: break;
case OP_YYY: break;
case OP_ZZZ: break;
}

Looks nice, but in debugging, you have no idea where we are going when you set a breakpoint at the switch. because the val is not an enum type, so debugger can't make the job easier for you.

Now it is much better:

switch (val) { / val is uint8_t /
case 0: / XXX /
break;
case 1: / YYY /
break;
case 2: / ZZZ */
break;
}
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Wow, now that is a very cool idea! I'm really looking forward to the game.
No, it's designed to run on a VM that provides a lot of high-level support. If you want a Lisp compiler for ARM, it'd be much easier to start with one of the mature free Lisp compilers.
I was waiting for someone to notice. UPvote :)
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Because in our app, if there are bounce-backs or deliverability issues we want them to come to us, not to our user who is trying to send an email blast.
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Found on Bruce Schneier's site: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/04/the_battle_for...
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Whether you think the JOBS act is a good idea or not ... people will get burned by it. Think Groupon minus the SEC disclosures and corrections they've had to make in recent weeks. Or a company pitching a flying contraption using that video that even Wired magazine couldn't determine whether it was real or fake as their pitch. That's the potential brave new world of investing this opens up.

Maybe it'll work. Maybe the intelligence of the masses will establish better oversight than the federally funded version that arguably does a pretty shitty job with listed securities. But people most definitely will get burned, and hopefully some amazing businesses will come out of it to keep things in balance.
So the what the people in those Palm Pre commercials had...will soon be real!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLYmzszg3nM
> This virus spreads from visiting malicious websites or websites with malicious ads. Since not much browsing happens on servers, there is no reason to target them.

Servers have a lot more information (thousands of credit cards, email addresses, passwords, etc.) than desktops. Criminals who seek personal gain rather than just mayhem would target servers.

> Does that mean that some Windows viruses were written by Mac fanboys to make Windows look bad?

No. To use sociological terms, Windows was the dominate group, Mac OS X the subordinate. When Mac OS X was starting to come into vogue in the first half of the 2000s, there were many fanboys that kept bragging about how their computers were infinitely better than "PCs", and everyone who grew up in the 90s and 2000s has surely had conversations with Windows users, often gamers or early /b/ users, who had almost a religious vitriolic hatred towards every aspect of Apple--Mac OS X, Mac computers, fanboys, "one-button mice", etc. Now that Mac OS X is accepted as a well designed OS, those fanboys and that hatred seem to be much less visible, although now lots of people dislike Apple for becoming the new Microsoft with regards to patent lawsuits, but I digress. The point is that whenever such vitriol exists, there are people dying to prove that they're right, in this case that Mac OS X wasn't immune to viruses like the "mactards" (that's one of the terms they called Apple fanboys) claimed. Did you really not witness this phenomenon of hatred in the early 2000s?

> How? Can you explain what you mean by Windows having a unique vulnerability that is not present on a Mac?

Mac OS X is essentially the Aqua window system atop Darwin, the OS's underlying system that descends from FreeBSD. As a form of UNIX, it does not give non-root users direct kernel access. Windows doesn't have this very logical restriction, and more and more ways are discovered to exploit this. Windows Vista and 7 have tried to mend this flawed infrastructure by asking users to explicitly authorize everything, but we all know how that's worked out.

> Again, this is a drive by exploit from a web page, not social engineering.

Escalation was allowed from the JRE vulnerability, but it was my understanding that initial authorization had to be given to run it. Edit: I just reread the article and it appears that this was a self-installing trojan. If that's the case, that certainly shows that vulnerabilities that allow self-installation as opposed to just privilege escalation do show up in Mac OS X from time to time, but from my limited experience, the main way to make use of trojans targeting Mac OS X is to use social engineering to install them (e.g. take advantage of the fact that Finder hides file extensions by default, and then change an executable's icon to that of an image, and then preserve the metadata in an archive) and then take advantage of a security vulnerability that allows privilege escalation. Such vulnerabilities are incredibly rare in Mac OS X since unlike Windows, kernel space is isolated from users.
We have a rather high threshold for pain if it leads to better customer service and relationships. (Eg, what's feasible depends on the perceived benefit.)
> Perceived decline in search quality.

Perceived? Result #2 in my industry features a site with 10 inbound links, while result #3 has #13. I can't start to imagine how much black SEO those companies are engaged in, but that is generally indicative of first-page results, which feature none of the paid and free services people actually use.

Maybe search is a "hard problem", but the reason Google gets crap over its quality freefall is that the company has the aggregate anonymized data to tell webmasters how long visitors stay on their sites keyword-by-keyword. And yet the company refuses to use this data to prune the garbage from its results, and instead seems focused on mining individual search data to compete with Facebook.
The Lumia 900 is about 2 generations behind. That's the problem with WP7 and will always be. Microsoft needs to first choose a chip once it's out and then make sure it works for as many companies as possible. By the time they release it, it's already at least one generation behind.

The problem with Lumia is two-fold, because Nokia is also behind in using the latest technology. I haven't seen them put the latest specs so far in a phone, whether it's Symbian, Meego or WP7, and I don't think they will for a while.
One thing that sticks out there for me, the email mentions putting customers first while the article mentions putting "users and advertisers" first.
http://onlinehut.org/2012/04/assembler-for-dcpu16/ Yup, on the front page now
Coming out of college, I used to be a "Boglehead" like this - had a job at a top 3 management consulting firm and put as much as I could into Vanguard index funds, up to 80% of my net income in certain months.

After a year I realized the real psychological reason for my extreme saving habit was that I hated my job.

The lesson I learnt is this: If you calculate every expense in terms of hours of life worked to attain it, you probably don't like your job very much and you are better off (in the long run) by quitting.

Edit: Now that I run my business, I will spend lavishly on my childhood boy dreams once I can afford it. For me that's cars, and compared with employing people stuff like leasing a top of the range BMW (400 pounds a month deal on a 640d 2 months ago) or even stuff like participating in the Volkswagen Race Cup (15K pounds for second hand race car, 10K pounds a year to run and it's televised advertising) are really very attainable. It also makes for a more interesting life story.
That's the entire point of the service being discussed, no?
Would it make sense to charge sales tax on sales done through affiliates but not the rest of Amazon? Or maybe it's already done that way?
I think the tech bloggers need to harden the fuck up. The whining is too much to bear.

A note from Hitchens:

“Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.) Avoid all narcotics: these make you more boring rather than less and are not designed—as are the grape and the grain—to enliven company. Be careful about up-grading too far to single malt Scotch: when you are voyaging in rough countries it won't be easily available. Never even think about driving a car if you have taken a drop. It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.”
Runs in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera, all of which are free. You are simply using a browser with outdated technology. No one here can fix that for you. If you, or your company, insists on using IE, that's not something anyone here can fix. The rest of the web is going to move ahead without you. Sorry.
Happiness in small things...
There's an interesting idea, and one I wouldn't object to.
One way to measure the utility of a language is to see how its users perceive it. Both in the times of technology hype and otherwise. If I look at the Java world, I see most programmers come there because they need a job. I would program in Perl even if I would not be paid for it, just for the fun of it. Its like painting, or playing the piano, or drinking fine wine. I would like to do them, even there is no direct benefit from them.

Some languages get a special distinction that its users just love to program in it. Languages and tools like Lisp, C, Perl, Vi, Emacs etc they just never go away. Because someone somewhere is always discovering some goodness in them and is using it. And that process is timeless. These languages have managed to last for decades sometimes their adoption drops, sometimes it peaks, sometimes there is a constant line of usage. But they don't go away.

If you read the mailing lists during early days of Perl on comp.lang.perl.* and other writings by people like Tom Christiansen. You will see some unique tone of passion and excitement. The golf competitions, the discussions on one liners, the growth of CPAN, the occasional gems posted on Perl Monks. Great books like Programming Perl, Higher Order Perl and Modern Perl Book and Perl's extreme practical approach and emphasis of 'Getting things done'.

I guess for people on Unix platforms who had no other respite but to use C and a mash of other Unix text processing utilities. Or for Java programmers who have to write 10 classes to open a file and do trivial operations.

Perl is almost like giving Ice water to somebody in hell.
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Android was an acquisition....
From Wikipedia:

"A core competency is a concept in management theory originally advocated by CK Prahalad, and Gary Hamel, two business book writers."

No doubt the phrase was used before then, but I've never heard anyone suggest that the very specific business meaning it has now existed before their article.
I use http://freedns.afraid.org. It's a great service.
And the answer to ineffective regulation is to toss it out entirely???

That's like saying "the fire department is sure doing a bad job putting out fires, we should just disband it"
It's not at all clear. It's deliberately ambiguous. If they wanted it to be clear they would have said "Macs are only susceptible to a fraction of the number of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers."
First read K&R C and get comfortable writing C programs. Then pick up the latest edition of Patterson & Hennessy and learn the MIPS ISA. It's a very simple instruction set that avoids most of the pedagogical distractions imposed by x86 or some other more complicated architecture.
I would absolutely love to read this when it's done. Having never officially studied any of this I feel my knowledge is really lacking.
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There have, in fact, been attempts to collect similar taxes in the past. They were always shot down by the courts.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us...

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us...
You already live that life on the Internet. Why is it so hard to imagine it following you into the real world?
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Pics of tiny apartments in expensive cities like this make me downright claustrophobic, no matter how cleverly they've been arranged. I'd much rather take the salary hit and live somewhere quiet with a yard and a few rooms.
I would posit that the secret sauce is the integration of Google maps and street views. The driverless car isnt just reacting to its sensor inputs, it has a pretty good idea of what is coming up including potential problems.
I wouldn't be able to help with the more modern stuff but given DCPU-16 is designed to be an 80s-era CPU it suits my experience quite well :-)
Surely you're oversimplifying and playing a bit dumb. The fact that an in-state business has to collect sales tax, and an out-of-state entity doesn't, coupled with the fact that it's not feasible to enforce sales/use tax against individuals, means that out-of-state merchants get an relative price advantage.

At the end of the day, it's a lot like what's happened to the recording industry. The internet disrupted a long-established model that had been built up around physical artifacts. In the case of sales tax, consumers used to spend most of their money with merchants in their own state. This made it easy to establish and enforce sales and use taxes, because the state government had jurisdiction on both parties to the sale, so they could devise a collection mechanism based around the relatively small number of merchants (as opposed to trying to track the relatively larger number of individual consumers).

In the past 1.N decades, a lot of that economic activity that used to be intra-state has become inter-state. And this has, predictably, caused a very real problem for state governments who depend heavily on those sales/use tax revenues.

Tax reform is absolutely necessary. In this case, the smartest thing is probably to abandon sales taxes in favor of higher state income taxes. The benefit there is that income taxes are more progressive anyway. But the states need to weigh the risk of capital flight.

The other, less palatable, option, is federal intervention. Unlike Colorado, the Federal government does possess the power to regulate inter-state commerce. It's possible that a bunch of states-other-than-california could get federal laws passed that would force merchants in any state to collect and disburse funds to satisfy the sales tax statutes in the purchasers' states.

That latter option would probably end up leading to bad unintended consequences.

I'd rather see the states find ways to replace the lost revenue by abandoning the sales tax and increasing income taxes.
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I've done ~15 Windows reinstalls in the last few years

So what? I've reinstalled Windows three times since Windows 7, and it's never been due to a virus. The last company I worked at was a Windows shop that also had 0 malware problems. Anecdotes are pointless in this discussion.

I didn't know about that until I was in the room while my brother was using the machine and I saw a dialog that looked an awful lot like Windows reminding you to install AV but not quite right. No way anyone else would have noticed that the background gradient was just a bit off.

Yes, your brother was the victim of a social engineering attack, the exact technique used to infect these Mac users. Windows systems aren't inherently less secure, and every terrible ailment described in your post is the result of voluntary action taken by the user.

I don't have statistics, but if you're going to claim OSX has fallen as far as Windows in terms of infection rate, I think the burden is on you to show some data.

No. The onus is on you to demonstrate how Windows 7 is inherently less secure than OSX. You're making vague assertions about how Windows is less secure but you haven't given specific examples of why that is true, only anecdotes that anyone can counter (or bolster) with personal exeprience.

The bottom line is, short of 0-days, both systems are equally secure.
Apple creates bombs all the time: the G4 Cube, iPod Socks, iPod Hi-Fi, iAds. They create enough other things that don't bomb to make up for it.

But you're right that Apple's way is only one way, and it's non-obvious how to go about replicating their processes even if you wanted to.

If anything should be learned from Apple, it's every aspect of the experience should be considered part of the product, including anticipation and expectations. That can mean a big media event unveiling a top-secret project, or it can mean launching a developer wiki before the product is even finished. Either way, managing the experiences of your customers, even pre-purchase, is part of the job.
Like companies in every industry, some porn companies are sleazy and some are not. On average, it probably compares favorably to investment banking and the domain name industry.
Honestly, it's not useful to me until it's cross-platform, and your one "killer feature" that other enhanced JavaScript wrappers don't have is explicitly against Apple's developer TOS.

I would worry about releasing this feature publicly at all, since it might jeopardize your existing apps when Apple realizes you're able to push changes to code. They used to ban all scripting languages in large part because they were worried about developers pushing new code to apps; after a lot of pressure from various directions, they relaxed the scripting language restriction, but it's still quite explicitly against the developer agreement to ever download new code to an app.
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I don't think anyone would dispute the fact that the sensory processing isn't to human levels yet

And that's the exact problem Google is working on, and where all previous efforts have failed miserably, no matter how good their "rules of the road" state machines were in theory. Saying Daimler-Benz solved autonomous driving years ago is like saying SHRDLU solved natural language processing.

The advancements that have been made are in different types of sensing devices that eliminate the need for heavy post-processing of data

There are exactly two new kinds of sensing devices used on the Google cars AFAIK: small automotive radars and the Velodyne spinning LIDAR. The latter owes its existence not to giant defense contractors or car manufacturers but to a small loudspeaker company, of all things. Furthermore, it absolutely does not eliminate the need for heavy post-processing of data.
I think we could start putting self driving cars on the road today that would lower both the number of fatality's and accidents. We don't need more processing power, better sensors, or lower costs. What we need is slightly better software and the willingness to put it into production.

After-all the 'worst case' in a car is basically solved 99.9% of the time by staying in the correct lane, obeying stop lights / signs, speed limits, and simply hitting the breaks if your going to hit something. Sure, you could improve on that, but get that to work reliably and your already doing better than human drivers, who get distracted, drunk, tired, impatient, angry, and just plain overwhelmed.
That is absolutely mind-blowing. I had to double-check online that it wasn't a concept mock-up or a joke, but it turned out to be a real product. I have no idea how well that screen looks in RL, but if it's half as good as in those promotional videos, then it's pretty impressive.

I thought it was going to cost a few thousand, but it's only 300/400, wow.

I can only imagine what a company with the talent and resources of Google could do with more advanced iterations of HUD technology.
Clutch.io would be even better if they offered the ability to easily do A/B testing.
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Second Hennesy & Patterson. Read it 12 years ago, still remember it vividly; everything made more sense afterwards.

It's expensive though; you might do just as well with a used older edition.

A somewhat perverse alternative approach: get a book on how debuggers work (like "How Debuggers Work").
I think the problem with even your guarded optimism is the general principle "bad money drives out good". Get enough people hawking too-good-to-be-true schemes and not being debunked and it will get hard to sell realistically-good schemes.
I've used apple products for about 7 years now. My take on this is good on android users. I don't see much point in taking sides on hardware/software platforms though so I'm probably an outlier.
I'm not really looking to learn as a means to expand my field of working expertise but more for the sake of it. My programming experience has been firmly rooted in higher level languages and I think this is a perfect opportunity to learn something new and potentially useful. I don't like the idea of having the lower levels of programming remain a black box as such
I'm saying that speculating about what Google can and cannot do to competitors in public is definitely not Communicating with Care, and that your comment history is littered with borderline cases like this one. Just stop.

Further, you don't actually need to respond to every stupid, incorrect statement on the Internet that's written about your new employer. Really.
A/B testing is def on our roadmap
Odds are it is market forces that will set such a standard. So if AdBlock is stronger in moving the market, then AdBlock is a better avenue towards a privacy standard.

There may be a peculiar outcome though. If AdBlock manages to decrease demand, will that increase the cost of advertising or increase its effectiveness? Those not adblocking would be the ones easily sold.

Advertising profits not dropping could be enough of an illusion so that, with enough adblocking, one could try a Groupon in reverse.

@wmf: one business model would be users paying for privacy themselves.
This is a car that transforms into a plane. This is a vastly different consumer experience, we are still no where near a flying car in the sci fi sense (a la 5th element).
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Yep, no flash plugin, no silverlight, and no java plugin on my macs. Java is disabled and only used on chrome if I need to use it. Which has been once in a year, and only to get results for the bufferbloat project. So basically, not all that useful outside of clojure/jruby/etc...
Why the latest edition? We're using the 2nd edition (from 1998) in my computer architecture class this semester and it seems just fine. Even better was getting it off Half.com for <$10 after shipping.
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