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One of Buffett's mantras is stick to what you know.

He stated that he won't invest in tech companies as he doesn't know them.

I'm sure there was a man that knew horse and carriages, and didn't know anything about cars.
Which protocol is that?
They would probably be willing to pay a little money. $600 is not a little money for normal people. Pointing out that it's not a lot of money for rich people seems a little beside the point. I don't think anybody's all that worried about the wealthy.
Tell us more! Blog link about it?
An error isn't just about what went wrong - it's also about what you were trying to do when it went wrong, so you can do something appropriate. If you handle exceptions several stack frames up, then you lose that information. Doing things the Go way also means you can make nice error messages that reflect the task, rather than a stack trace that only makes sense if you know the source code.

Yes, every intermediary must agree on the error type - it's the language-defined error type, which defines a single method, Error, which returns the error as a string. There's no need for any further agreement.

Functions encapsulate errors. If I call a function, it is entirely up to me how I wish to handle that error. "The code that finds an error" is the code that calls the function. All the context is local. There's no need to know how that function first encountered that error - that's part of the implementation detail of that function. At every stage, we make error handling decisions based on local context. This makes the code more maintainable, because there is genuine separation of concerns.

If you really want exceptions (a classic example is a recursive descent parser where you don't want to check every call), you can use panic and recover, making sure that callers will never see it - it's a local contract only.
When will it happen? Is it behind schedule or is the 4:12 CT time wrong???
Thanks for the update - where'd you get that snippet of information? I tried to find a schedule of sorts but had no luck...
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nice summary of shortcomings. but for me the biggest one is missing: highly special search queries (yesterday: about erlang, rebar and obscure release building failures) return virtually no usable results. google was way better.

somehow related, i like that they include links to google below their search results.
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According to the image that's currently on https://spacex.com/ , coverage begins at 4:30am PT.
Anyone have any sort of commentary or chat? I can only stare at a blinking light for so long ...
Rule #4 is a nonsense. Why should the data you pass to a class to initialise it be publicly accessible on the class afterwards as a matter of course?
Interesting that they even put this number forward as (a) it was pretty obviously going to be dismissed, but more importantly (b) exposes the nonsense maths that is being used in these situations.

There is I think increasing awareness that the RIAA and others are making demands which, let's put it politely, rather distort the real picture. If I were them I certainly wouldn't be doing things like this that bring attention to these numbers with little real benefit.
this story is old, and the case was settled for substantially less than all the money in the world:

"A trial to decide on the eventual amount of damages owed by Limewire to thirteen record labels, including Warner and Sony Music, all of which are represented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), started early in May and went on until on May 13, 2011, when Gorton agreed to pay the 13 record companies $105 million in an out-of-court settlement.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeWire
Now don't get me wrong, I think that selling music in the internet age is a fundamentally broken model, so much more than the donate one.

The comment was quite explicitly arguing that selling content (music) is fundamentally broken and can never work. I disagree. Additionally, distribution is not always easy or straightforward, and charging money to host content and process payments (i.e. handling distribution) is not wrong either (morally or functionally).

If someone wants to sell their own music that is fine (and quite possible nowadays), but arguing that selling music via a store is fundamentally broken is proved wrong by the popularity of stores like Amazon and iTunes, and I see nothing wrong with those intermediaries who take a cut for providing a service (storefront). You can argue with the cut, or particular terms, but distributors will always exist because not everyone wants to deal with the hassles of distribution/sales. Some people just want to create and make some money from that.

That either of the above two things can be done badly, does not make them wrong or impossible.
I'm really not sure how you imagine doing away with a notion of citizenship will convince a group of people to allow "others" into "their" group if the others don't offer the group something it values.

That's a fair point and I don't know what would happen if we eliminate citizenship. It might be replaced by something just as bad. I'm just pointing out why I dislike the concept, how it is similar to nobility.
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Thanks for the link. Off-topic: the charts at http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/ should make the day of sociologists.

In countries that fit in a single timezone, one can find interesting activity patterns - e.g. I see a lunchtime dip and a post-dinner peak.
They pipe up occasionally, just not so much idle banter, as they don't want to be talking when someone vital says something, and step all over it.
> You should have been auto-updated a long time ago.

GSU has been banned from my machine (since their GSU/Google Earth shenanigans), and Chrome has no built-in ability to update without GSU (or even say that there's an update available). So it gets updated when I think about updating it.

Not that I care much about it, my primary (if not only, due to tech demos like this one) use for Chrome is as a flash player.
After a certain number of attempts even the account is locked out of being logged into for a period.

Also after being logged into from multiple IP's in a short period it will be locked.

You guys seriously act like Blizzard just fell off the turnip truck here.
There is value in aggregation, and more specifically curation.

This is essentially what paper news does at the moment, and people are willing to pay for it.
This is nothing new, nor does the article add much insight IMO. Every news site that reports this seems to say the same thing, that they are sued for "more money than exists in the world." The world GDP is ~$60T, but GDP is a long shot away from the total amount of money that exists in the world. There could be $600T in the money supply but if nobody spent their money, GDP would be $0.
So what kind of content is Microsoft asking for takedowns of?
We should also automatically correct the spelling of the word used as the password. /s
Your argument implies you disagree with the concept of copyright (artificial scarcity). Do you, and have you thought through all the implications of this?

You are arguing that nothing digital should ever be sold.

I disagree, and would assert that information does not magically lose its value because of the support medium being easy to copy. Just because you can copy information easily, has no bearing on whether you should. Society has rules to enforce not copying the intellectual labour of others, and has done since ideas could be copied easily on bits of paper.
Actually what you're describing applies to any service company, including companies separately founded by Thomas and myself on different sides of the globe. Creative service businesses and tech startups are a bit like chalk and cheese, which perhaps is part of Thomas' argument (not wanting to put chalk or cheese in his mouth though). However, one thing is certain, the guys that are pushing out this company and looking for investment are at least doing something about it, and I think that's good enough for me.
I watched the Nasa feed until 3am last night and now I'm up again watching it.

Seeing this gives me hope that we'll eventually get back to exploring the moon and space.
This is the only one which gives me actual video (though it's just of a computer screen atm, a deathstar-like graphic) - the others had voices, and no video but a small blinking light and vertical bands near the bottom of the screen).

uh oh, now it's also showing a blinking light and bands...

EDIT at last, Dragon sliding across the earth, from the ISS. Amazing seeing one spacecraft from another. Later, a thermal image of ISS from Dragon. But they're mostly showing people in front of computers...
I believe that they also now allow authentication over SMS.

Edit: it's not quite an authenticator: http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/battlenet-sms-protec...
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That's the same feed. That graphic was the exclusion zone around the ISS, now we're back to the blinking light.
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The Oracle of Omaha doesn't bet on tech because he knows he doesn't understand it. His money has been made by only investing in businesses he fully understands.

I think he would think of "free news" differently if he had a better understanding of technology.
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From https://spacex.com/updates.php

"FRIDAY MORNING - Final Approach, Dragon Grapple

Around 2:00 AM Pacific/5:00 AM Eastern NASA will decide if Dragon is GO to move into the approach ellipsoid 1.4 kilometers around the space station. If Dragon is GO, after approximately one hour Dragon will move to a location 250 meters directly below the station. Dragon will then perform a series of maneuvers to show systems are operating as expected. If NASA is satisfied with the results of these many tests, Dragon will be allowed to perform the final approach to the space station.

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Well, they do offer http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/battlenet-sms-protec... which provides an extra (but different) layer of security.
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now that's nice. i did not notice, as it depends on javascript. but very nice! something to copy i guess ;).

(that alone is worth the article. the "real" content is just misunderstanding of unix i'm afraid)
But that's exactly what is interesting about his investment in newspapers. He generally stays away from stuff he doesn't understand. If he's betting on something that seems so obviously dead because of competition with tech, then I'd like to believe there's something valuable there.
One more thing: there are multiple definitions of "gallon". A lot of Canadians live near the USA border, and many cross the border to buy low-tax gasoline. The volume of a "gallon" differs by nearly 20% between the two countries.
You'll see the Earth behind in a few minutes when the ISS crosses back into day:
http://www.isstracker.com/
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html
I never said anything about rich/poor people. In fact, the hobbies I mention are all "poor people" hobbies that I and lots of my friends indulged in back in our <$40k/year days.

Also, take a quick glance upwards and notice that it's $400 for VS.NET + Everything Microsoft Makes. So if you would have otherwise spend $189 to have Office bundled in with your computer, you can think of the IDE costing ~$200.

Or four video games (as in, one per year). If programming is something you value doing, that's not a lot. Poor or otherwise.
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Lots. Incredible amounts actually.

We don't have any problems at all. In fact it's really easy.

We use nservicebus and share by communicating rather than communicate by sharing. We use concurrentqueue class in the framework and all is solved.
Looking at the screen with the cross-hairs it seems like the bottom right set of figures shows the distance to ISS, which was sitting at around 255m, and should go down to 235m (EDIT: was originally supposed to be 220m) before the crew on ISS tells dragon to head back to the 250m mark.

Here's hoping that they keep showing these shots from the ISS monitors throughout - kinda like watching someone coding but on a whole different level!
Not sure about Diablo but one of the reasons I can think of why some web site's password is case in-sensitive (it is not uncommon) - they are checking the user password directly with MySQL, e.g.

select * from users where user = 'john' and password = 'PASSWORD';
-- the password is actually case in-sensitive if your table collation is ci (which is the default)

Of course this also implies the site is storing the password as plain text..
Note the author is talking about SVN and not git. I haven't used SVN nearly as much as I have git but from what I understand git is likely better suited for combining many different change-sets into many combinations efficiently (according to Git's Wikipedia page it was designed with "non-linearity" in mind), which would seem to mitigate the some of the issues around merge conflicts the OP brings up with respect to SVN.
OK, I can see that your worldview differs from mine, but I can't reconcile the last part of your first sentence ("... though it wouldn't be nice to do that") with the rest of your comment. If copyright -- by which I mean the right to copy, not necessarily any laws pertaining to that right -- did not exist, there would be no justification in saying it "wouldn't be nice" to ignore it. It's like: if I didn't like redheads, and I said I didn't want to see any out my window, but I acknowledged that there is and should be no law restricting them, then clearly I'm being unreasonable somewhere along the line.
I can't provide a cite for this right now, but I'm reasonably sure I've seen SEOMoz staff suggesting that it's a bad idea to keep your blog on a subdomain, for exactly the reasons Patio11 suggests.

(Also, whilst he's being modest here, Patio11 is something of an authority on SEO himself.)

Edit - yep, here: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain
I think it's even lower than 7% if you go back far enough: http://home.earthlink.net/~intelligentbear/com-dj-infl.htm

The truth is, the stock market, given a long enough timespan, barely beats inflation.
Microsoft is really, really doing well in their push to get users and developers to move to Linux. I can see no other reason for this move.
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is that true if "password" is char or varchar as well? Or only for text fields?
Like... (and i quote) "That's dragon passing over LA"
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[edit] And apologies for being unnecessarily obtuse earlier, one of the precepts for ethics in medicine is the phrase "First, do no harm", which is what I was obliquely blathering on about. So rather than being very different questions, the concept of harm is firmly tied to many of our concepts of ethical behaviour.
Maybe. I tend to live in rural areas so maybe that's a factor.

But I was more thinking of this:

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spaceX says "coverage begins at 4:30 PT" http://www.spacex.com/

Here is that in your local time: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4%3A30am+pt+in+local+ti...

It's in 1 hour 48 minutes from the timestamp of this comment
Apart from IDE and related tools (which is a pretty big reason, to be sure), is there a good reason to use Microsoft's C/C++ compiler over MinGW ?
edit: I said something stupid here. Nothing to see here, move along.
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It's just a matter of time until Google switches to having to approve apps.
It's gonna get out of hand soon and the bad PR will outweigh any benefits they see in a totally open system.
Won't windows 8 become one of those crappy windows versions nobody will use like Vista. I think most people will keep using windows 7 until windows 9 comes out.

Don't have anything against driving people to Linux though :P. This can be a nice moment to show the downsides of closed software to normal people. I already know a couple of non-technical people who run an Ubuntu version(they are semi-advanced computer users who find this kind of thing fun however), so it might be possible.

Now we just have to hope games will be ported to Linux, games are the only reason I still have a Windows partition.
What's hypocritical is that Google itself engages in "censorship" on a colossal scale, in the name of preventing spammy results (e.g. co.cc domains, not to mention Google's dealings with China). To be clear, I personally have no problem with this (in the same way that I have no problem with them removing links to copyrighted content), but they're obviously not handing over details of the sites they unilaterally delist to chillingeffects.com. So there's evidence of a double-standard.

Furthermore, while chillingeffects.org may, nominally, not be affiliated with Google, it is also apparent to anyone paying attention that Google is waging a proxy battle against copyright holders, through large donations (e.g. 7MM grant for the Lessig and his "remix culture" shills at EFF) to non-profits or charities with agendas hostile to rights holders and sympathetic to their expansive view of fair use doctrines.

When one takes into account Google's recent spending on lobbying (in recent quarters, it is well in excess of that spent by the e.g. RIAA), and their cavalier attitude to laws that don't suit them (tax/privacy), then it becomes fair to question their motives in arguing for an "open" internet.

> As a published author, I certainly value free expression more than a few extra bucks from my book.

You may well be a published author, but you are primarily employee at Google. You don't need to make money of your book(s); in fact, I'm sure you're quite happy to give the book away for free, since it bolsters your credentials and allows you to claim expertise in some area, which can then be monetized through employment. But this indirect avenue isn't available to musicians and non-technical writers -- there is no "mother Google" that will give them cushy jobs with free meals and other perks.

> Without what I've learned from the Internet, I'd probably be flipping burgers for a living.

I don't know your background, I don't want to be presumptive, and I realize you're being a bit flippant, but I'm guessing that if Google took you on, then you went to some top-tier university and you already come from a solidly (upper?) middle-class family. The idea that you'd be flipping burgers is inconceivable in the worst of possible worlds.

Just to be clear, I have nothing against Google; I think they do great stuff. I'm a big fan of Dart language, for example, and think Google has a lot of cool tech. And I think that on balance, they're probably more a force for good than for evil. But having worked for a (morally ambiguous) company like Goldman Sachs, I know from personal experience that the initial enthusiasm at working at a new (and wildly successful) company can have an effect akin to wearing rose-tinted glasses.

Incidentally, are Google hiring? ;)
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This is a great idea, but won't work because legal text is so obtuse. We need plain-english wording on all this in order for everyone to interact with it.
The site not actually loading is sort of a turn-off, no matter how pretty the presentation is.
I think they would. Suppose you extract the transplantable organs of a dead patient without permission, is it ethical? Have you harmed the patient? If the relatives don't find out, are they harmed?
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Passwords being case insensitive implies that they are storing passwords as clear text.

What? No it doesn't. They could just lower case all the password submissions and store the hashed version of that. When someone tries to log in, lower case what they enter, hash it, and compare to hash (or whatever the specifics are)