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I think you've bought into the hype here prematurely. The odds that this issue will be in any way significant to the outcome of this case seem low.

Did you read Oracle's reply[1] or just the caricature at the original link?

"Google argues that the entire Java platform is necessarily the “work as a whole” because that is what was registered with the Copyright Office. Courts have soundly rejected that argument.. As explained in Los Angeles Times v. Free Republic, supra:

Defendants contend that plaintiffs' “work” is the entire daily newspaper because their copyright registration covers the paper as a whole rather than any particular article. Thus, they assert, copying an individual article constitutes reproduction of only a small portion of the entire work. This proposition is not supported by the case law. See Texaco, supra, 60 F.3d at 925-26 (copying an entire article from a journal where the copyright registration covered the journal as a whole constituted a copying of the entire work); Hustler Magazine, supra, 796 F.2d at 1155 (finding that “[a] creative work does not deserve less copyright protection just because it is part of a composite work” and holding that the copying of a one-page parody from a 154-page magazine constituted a copying of the entire work); Netcom On-Line II, supra, 923 F.Supp. at 1247 (“although many of Hubbard's lectures, policy statements, and course packets are collected into larger volumes, and registered as a whole, they may still constitute separate works for the purposes of this factor”); Lerma, supra, 1996 WL 633131 at *9 (“we find that the Works at issue in this case are combined in ‘collections' and that each subpart must be considered a ‘single work’ for the purposes of fair use analysis”)."

[1] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120426075025438#9...
X220 here.

I had some problems with the trackpad in 11.10 (I use the nub, mostly).

12.04 has been nothing but rock solid the entire way. Everything including the above that you said is a problem. Sorry that I can't commiserate, but basically, the X220 + 12.04 are the near perfect setup I've wished for quite some time*

*only thing I would like is a higher resolution screen on the X220.
Except that this line of reasoning assumes that the people who run the acquiring company are morons. This is quite a strong assumption to make without any further evidence. I think neither of us knows enough about HP's fiances to make that claim (I presume you were talking about Opsware).
US House passes CISPA
Chrome: 3x slower
Recently I programmed an animation in javascript, css, and html. It uses the DOM model to scale images. This animation is riding a motorcycle through the woods, and as such everthing is coming at you, being scaled. There layers that overlap for each movement, 3 tree layers, 3 whoops layers, and 1 roadsign layer. The other objects are static. I developed it on my amd phenom x4 machine, with a ati graphics 6450 card and 8 gig of ram. The animation runs 8 seconds using firefox at a 20 f/s. rate. I have an older linux mint debian edition desktop, 64 bit. So it looked great, really like the woods, fantastic.

But oh nooooooo..... I moved to my windows system, same machine. Tried the animation using IE9, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari browsers to test it all out. Here's my results:

Opera	under 8 seconds

Firefox	8 seconds more or less

IE 9	just over 8 seconds

Chrome	24 seconds!

Safari	24 seconds as well.

Well okay it had to be the windows edition of chrome, I can't update my mint desktop, support ended.

Well okay I have another computer, amd 64 x2, 4 gig of ram, and onboard hd video from nvidia, with the new linux mint desktop, which isn't bad, but not my daily driver. new results...roughly the same. Firefox stuttered a bit, not suprising given the quick frame rate. Chrome, 3x longer easily.

So it wasn't the OS. I moved the javascript file and stuff to my Windows 7 desktop. I disabled all but one of the layers that scales, it made no difference at all to the speed of the rendering on Chrome. The other browsers all seem to render it at 20f/s
(except Safari, big suprise).

So I have to wonder what the problem is.

Here's a link to the file:(update:sorry no hard link)
http://sjer.org/dual_sport/animation1/animation.html

Try it for yourself, comments are appreciated!

How can we move forward with the web with performance like this??

node.js, won't solve this problem.
Just the last one I remember.

It's not a straw man. The guy you so plainly think is a legit source for information is literally paid by one of the litigants. May as well be recommending people read Oracle's press releases for some good information.
Thanks. I responded to you on the blog, but i see what you're saying. I'll look into that further. Glad you share my frustration though, as do probably many others.
it's a result of the startup scene shifting HR roles to technical people who often don't have the soft skills necessary to deal with such tasks effectively.

On the other hand, at least you found out up-front that this particular company probably wouldn't be a good fit for you.
You can do that today without selling equity.
For those that don't know 2+2 is a long time publisher of poker books and has ran the main poker discussion forum for probably 12-13 years.
As an old balding guy working for an East Coast non-profit, I have to ask: how much of this goes on? Is there enough to be a problem, or is this just a meme that has caught a lot of people's attention, and will disappear once we lose interest and get excited in something else?
There's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution. Perhaps you could break your requirements apart and use Redis for some of your needs (e.g. queues, which shouldn't be terribly RAM intensive) and MySQL for key-value storage.
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I don't know why you feel the need to hate on his success because he doesn't have any employees. It's as if whatever he built counts for nothing. Whatever you did while you were a sophomore in college it probably wasn't anything close to what Dan has achieved. From his blog: "a little app I built in a few days to review websites that's grossed a few thousand dollars to date" and "I programmed and sold apps for BlackBerry and iPhone including the first BlackBerry anti-theft program called FindIt". So yeah, he's made money.

I know I was still finding my way in college at that point, cruising by in my classes without much to show for it.
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We can't compete with being a founder on equity.

Why not? If you need quality developers OFFER THEM FUCKING EQUITY!! They'll listen, trust me. Offer them 0.07% equity and the most talented developers out there will brush you off and joke about you while downing beers with their friends on the weekends.
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That's a valid concern. One of our design goals has been 100% compatibility with GNU make, specifically to reduce that friction, so you don't have to fiddle with your makefiles to switch from gmake to ElectricMake (emake). The converse is also true -- you can switch back to gmake if you like. You lose the benefits of emake, but the makefiles still work with gmake.
This 'app' is technically more of a background process. 2.2% for a background process is a lot. Considering the fact that there may be up to 100 background processes, if they were all running at 2.2%, that wouldn't leave much CPU for anything else. Furthermore, this application is not doing any heavy number crunching, which begs the question, why is it using 2.2% of a CPU? The average CPU load on my MBP is 1.1%. We are talking about bumping that to 3.3% to do virtually nothing, and I'm already running dropbox. 2.2% seems like a lot.
No association with the Dabble of 2006.
Aside: Why have separate domain names for all your products? I didn't even realise you had more than just Boomerang Calendar until I read the other posts in this thread.

Even going to the about page, didn't have an obvious link to the list of products (http://www.baydin.com/). Just a link that says "see our other products" would be great.
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We want to increase the number of women in software development.
Interesting, thanks. Maybe Pinterest just don't "sanitize" shorturls yet.
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terrified that youngsters will get their social networking fix from other services.

The thing is, this is all but guaranteed to happen. I would say that history has shown us that Internet users tend to be fairly fickle, and that mass migrations away from specific sites (like Facebook) are fairly inevitable. In fact, I'm surprised Facebook has remained as dominant as it has to this point. But I'd still bet that a sea-change will happen sooner than later and that Facebook will be the next site to be abandoned en-masse.
Someone should confirm this, but my understanding is that HFT typically monitors events on the stocks themselves to drive actions. I also believe that HFT is something that happens with response times on the scale of microseconds, which obviously scraping CNN.com for content isn't suited for.
Campus wifi? A central server running Moodle as the VLE in each school? It could work very well for them. The further education college in which I work has Windows, but they have installed GIMP, Inkscape, Audacity college wide. Some great work with Audacity, people find GIMP a bit harder. Inkscape isn't used much (but then neither is Adobe Illustrator).
We were just featured on the AppStore!
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Chad, us South American Erlangers are few and far between. =)

I could not believe that your (Inaka's) posts on Riak and scaling Erlang had not yet been submitted to HN. Very useful stuff!

I also really enjoyed the edis preso, that's what got me to the blog.
It's a fair hypothesis.

I know a few rape victims. I was able to get ahold of two of them and talk it out.

Their opinion was the described interview tactic does not sound like something they would want to go through and it is reasonable to speak against them. Both also mentioned that gang bangs are not equivalent to gang rapes, differing in consent.
afaict this is android only. took me about 10 minutes to figure it out, they were super sneaky with the wording of their press release. thanks for wasting my time :(
U.S. House passes CISPA
I also want an example page and dont want to have to install it on my server before even knowing the quality of the product... should you ever get around to it, a demo would help a lot. otherwise, the screenshot looks cool. happy coding!
I doubt that. Let's go to the WABAC Machine, Sherman:

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http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/community/forum/index.php?...
That is because yahoo has its own servers and yahoo.com is the only website at that IP. For mere mortals like me with a dreamhost account or something, there's probably dozens of sites on the same IP, so your computer has to first connect to the IP then send the HTTP "Host:" header to say what site it wants.
Took KJPJ69WRAN33. I think the interface could be cleaned up a bit. It's sort of confusing navigating around. At first glance it seems like a Quora clone.
I think the problem is with publications like Wired and Fast Company. They tend to gush and over exaggerate the achievements of their subjects while glossing over real problems. Everything is 'world changing', 'revolutionary' and 'disruptive'.

Fast Company is the worst offender. They rarely critically analyse anything.
The House passes all kinds of crazy stuff, the Senate is where legislation goes to die.
So much for the theory that the threat of a veto is as good as a veto.

Anyone willing to bet Obama won't sign this?
OT:

If my name were Jason Freedman, I couldn't bring myself to name a company "42Floors", since a guy name Jason Fried has already made "37signals" a household name.
Did the China study account for whether the meat was grass fed, or corn-fed + hormones?
Why is it okay to exclude men?

Are black people allowed or will there also be a sign that says "NO COLORED PEOPLE"?
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ps. the actual number of frames is 150, so it should be just under 8 seconds.
I had fun foiling it. Here's my best (12 vertices) maze with "no solution found",

https://gist.github.com/2503989
> hard to take anyone seriously who pines for the good old days of 1970's and 1980's trade execution.

I've just read through the entire thread and I don't think anyone has suggested that.
Just a reminder: many (maybe most) of the Dems who voted against CISPA did so because they favor a more intrusive intervention: they want the government to establish standards for "cybersecurity" to apply to private industry systems they consider "critical infrastructure", and then for the government to deputize specific firms (read: Raytheon, SAIC, Lockheed) to conduct mandatory audits of those firms. Privacy is a fig leaf here.

Also remember: under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, none of the information disclosure "authorized" by CISPA was already unlawful. 18 USC § 2702 (b) (5): private companies can voluntarily disclose private customer information "as may be necessarily incident to the rendition of the service or to the protection of the rights or property of the provider of that service". Without limitation. With no check on the what the government does with that information afterwards. CISPA added restrictions (albeit weak ones) on sharing; it didn't meaningfully broaden what could be shared.

Regardless of what EFF says about this (unfortunately, I personally believe EFF's interest in CISPA is largely about fundraising), you probably should be careful about cheering CISPA's demise.
168 / 248 = 0.67

Overriding a veto could be quite easy if this gets sent back to the House.
"Our Mission - Our mission is to teach people software development in order to help them pursue their passions."

Doesn't it stand to reason that if their passion was software development, they'd be doing it irregardless of their gender?
Say that Dan were to sign up tomorrow. Right now, 42Floors has a five-person team. While I'm not entire sure about the company structure, it looks like Jason and Alex are the cofounders.

Let's assume a pretty optimal funding scenario: YC took 6%, and the next 400k cost them 9%. Figure the employee stock pool is somewhere around 5%, leaving 80% to split between the two cofounders.

Dan may be awesome, but I don't really see a spare 10% or 20% in there for an employee. Dan may be awesome and talented, but you don't bring in people post-funding at that kind of equity stake, unless they've got some insane track record (and rolodex) that justifies it, and even then, getting the board to greenlight things would be a tough sell.

There's only so much room in the CAP table to hand out equity to employees.

What they can offer, and what is a big deal, is giving Dan the freedom to maximize his own potential, and to get paid for it.

That's not a small offer, and even with the small mountain of opportunity I have on the table right now, I would think very deeply about working at 42Floors if they approached me like this.

It's classy, and honest. I like that.
Most of the larger schools (Middle/High) already have campus wide wifi. Some of the larger elementary schools do as well.
The big push right now is for VM Ware. Some of the counties are going to a district-wide WAN for serving up VMs from a central NOC.
I've worked with the two fellows starting this program. I'll publicly vouch for their seriousness and competence in seeing this project through. Whatever your thoughts on these "bootcamp" style training programs that have been popping up around the country (see: Dev Bootcamp, Code Academy, Hungry Academy, Hacker School), they have a real potential to bridge the unfortunate chasm between the educated underemployed and the desperate and ever-growing need for software developers and perhaps eventually replace the broken system of CS education in this country.

If anybody can do it, David and Christian can. Best of luck guys!
Yes, just as the majority of the world's mainframe apps run on COBOL. Similarly COBOL won't be retired anytime soon.

Those facts don't make COBOL something you'd want to write apps in. I hear there's a new COBOL DI framework so you can write XML instead of COBOL.
>Felix Salmon is a journalist.

Exactly. Not being a successful VC does not preclude you from criticising a successful VC.
+1 for QlikView. A lot of banks, amongst other companies, use it and it's very good for an interface for end users (so IT people are out of the loop for tweaking reports).
You can even cut that hour down to 30 minutes of high intensity, 'bursty' exercise with no breaks. Art de Vany talks about this in Evolutionary Fitness.
There is significant code in the Java libraries that was first written by people outside of Sun/Oracle.

Back in the Java5 days some APIs provided by Java were simply javax.something wrapped around org.apache code.
"did major markets ever really have a huge problem with lack of liquidity, 20 or 30 years ago before HFT?"
Burst workouts, whether 30 minutes of lifting weights, or 30 minutes of sprinting, interval swim training, etc. strengthen your heart more than long cardio marathons.
Totally and completely agreed, David and Christian are both great programmers and great guys.
Seriously who gives a shit what the house does? It's basically a filter for the real issues in the Senate.
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Yes, thank you. The CISPA fear totally ignores the fact that all of the stuff in CISPA is already legal. You don't have a privacy interest in all of that information you give to third parties every day. Maybe you should, but that's a matter for a Constitutional amendment, because as it is that information is fair game.
I have no faith in an Obama veto. I feel confident that whatever changes are made to the bill before it passes the senate will be used as an excuse for Obama to sign it.
No, it's not voluntary on the part of everyone involved.

Hint: the people doing the trades are not brokers.

>And even if we assume flash orders are evil, I think it's disingenuos to mention all of the SEC drama surrounding them without mentioning that several leading exchanges have voluntarily stopped the practice, and that flash orders make up a tiny percentage of total trading volume.

So you're going to argue, in the same post, both that flash orders are not front-running and that several exchanges, to avoid liability, have stopped doing them? Intriguing.
Probably because people are reading the parent post completely differently than how you interpreted it. Nowhere did I think he was suggesting inequitable power balances. I'm pretty sure he just meant good social, sales, and marketing skills are more important than coding skills.
Well you get the same 'slanted' coverage from Florian Muller, except he is directly paid by Oracle and Microsoft. I don't know if Groklaw has ever recieved any money but I doubt it.

Like someone else mentioned, Groklaw has had strong track record when it comes to predicting the outcome of these types of lawsuits.
Listening to this on cspan was...frustrating.

These are people who only learned what the terms "network" and "line of code" mean a few months ago, using them as if they are an authority on the topic.

And to hear some of this nonsense, about China being "an organized crime syndicate", or all the negativity about Russia.

Or about how they're doing all of this because they need to protect citizens from "cyber threats". FFS, guys, no. Look at the complete disaster of security that is the TSA. You're telling us that you're the ones that are going to protect us? Your understanding of what you're talking about is so limited that it took shutting down wikipedia, reddit, and countless other websites for a day to keep you from completely breaking the DNS a couple of months ago.

I think we're doing fine protecting ourselves from "cyber threats", guys, thanks.

[And yes, of course I realize that the "we're doing it for you!" is just nonsense.]
I was afraid this would be some sort of contorted framework to let you use C++ to write Lisp. Glad I was wrong. Carmack is spot-on here:

"My pragmatic summary: A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. In a multithreaded environment, the lack of understanding and the resulting problems are greatly amplified, almost to the point of panic if you are paying attention. Programming in a functional style makes the state presented to your code explicit, which makes it much easier to reason about, and, in a completely pure system, makes thread race conditions impossible."

Too often I've seen functional proponents, when asked why we ought to use functional languages, rely on facile arguments such as "it makes your code more concise, therefore easier to hold in your head" or "it makes your code more mathematical, and therefore easier to reason about". Like Rich Hickey, Carmack gets it right.
That's not how the math works. It's 2/3 * 435 = 290, so they're still 42 votes short.
This is awesome! I took a class in motion planning and we did similar things... have you heard of kinodynamic planning? (probabilistic roadmaps)... it is a cool technique if you want to do multiple queries.
I sincerely hope that this is not what people perceive to be the problem with it. (It's also wrong. Sexual harassment claims require repeated offenses that generate a climate of hostility. Yay, corporate sensitivity/harassment training ;)

The bigger issue is that - should you have a woman on your team - you just told her in not so many words that you perceive women more as a piece of visual stimulation than an actual person. That hurts.

The even bigger issue: You subtly say to all the attendees of your talk that you consider it OK to look at women that way. Enough people do that, you have created a climate of harassment - it just stretches over an entire industry.
>The HFT appears to have prevoyance vis-à-vis slower market makers

And also because they have paid to get the information 0.5 second sooner, so that they could trade on their insider information.
If any of this blather is an attempt to prevent me from giving my money to Google instead of Dropbox, mission failed. Pay 2 to 4 times as much for the same service? I don't think so. Google wins, T. K. O., pwned with a capital P.
Before complaining, you must ask the quintessential iOS development question: "is there an allowed API to accomplish it?"

The Android corollary is: "Does it work on my ARMv6 Android 2.1 toaster? And can it use the hardware acceleration features provided by Qualcomm processors?"
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Seems to me mediocre or even merely competent is the new terrible.
Agreed. Sorry I phrased my comment poorly.
This isn't the first time either. They've been targets for years and, IIRC, it was in 2010 that their database was compromised and user/pw info stolen.
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Hahah very good! It would be hard to drain that piece by hand without some very quick turns.

Future work in the algorithm is going to look at rotating the piece at any arbitrary point in time (to any arbitrary angle). At first this seems like a combinatorial explosion of the search space but we have some ideas on how to make it manageable. so maybe one day that part can be drained as well!
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"new ones" could include pretty much anything. "raidi's [source|scripts|recordings|photography] by Google!" The "limited" purpose is so broad Google could resell your video archives to Netflix or your photos to Getty.
It was actually one of the design goals of UTF-8. As much of a pain as dealing with it is, it certainly had a lot of forethought put in.