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So, you are basically proposing that Germany should ruin its own economy just because some countries irresponsibly spent more money than they had, and are now in debt?

That would make crisis even worse for everyone, and I can't see why Germany would do something like that.

Just note a pattern. There are some countries that were spending more than they have, and those countries are in big problems. Just take a look at Greece, Italy, Ireland, and, to some extent Spain. Then, there are countries that didn't spend more than they were able to service, and they are doing fine. Take a look at Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Slovakia, Poland. Then, there are some countries in between, that are neither too good, nor bad.

It's easy to draw a conclusion what is the way out of crisis, and I hope Germany will be able to lead a way.
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If you don't really care about security --- and I agree there are times when you shouldn't --- then by all means use the cheapest possible hosting option available to you. But if you care even a little about security, avoid shared hosting.

I really don't understand Mike Cardwell's objection; I don't think what I'm saying is controversial at all. I actually thought I was making a relatively banal point.
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The lowest friction solution always has a big advantage.
Under your solution I have to take a dumb laptop , a smartphone and a bluetooth headset with me everywhere and hook them all up together whenever I want to sit down and do something, bluetooth headsets are particularly cumbersome compared to putting a phone to your ear, not to mention that they make a lot of people feel dumb to wear.

A "cloud" solution that is fast and smooth enough will replicate the functionality of having one "mega device" without the drawbacks.

I actually think that the cloud will become the place for everything for a conceptual point of view.
If you are concerned about privacy etc it will be possible to run your own personal cloud out of a tiny PC in the corner of your home.

Some concessions will have to be made for offline use of course (which I guess will become increasingly rare). Really though it makes more sense to think of your devices as an extension of your "cloud" rather than the other way around.
I sense that you did not read the essay.

The point is that two people can agree on a particular goal that needs to be achieved, while disagreeing -- perhaps quite strongly -- on the means appropriate and best suited to achieve that goal.

RMS' approach to a business which produces proprietary software is, essentially, "Your business is evil, you are evil, and I will crusade to end your evil."

ESR's approach is, essentially, "Your business could be so much more efficient and productive. Let me show you how."

ESR is, much as it pains me to admit this, correct as to which approach is more likely to achieve the stated goal of convincing businesses to stop producing/using proprietary software.
You are correct. Such simple change will be already going in the right direction.
It is amazing to see all the reviews hidden that are legit: you can see if the reviewer use Yelp often by checking the number of reviews posted.
The current filtering system seems to ignore that most of the times, but reviewers with no previous review prior giving 1 star will see that review stick.
Yeah, I’m almost certain that’s accurate from everything I’ve read.

As to why the fixed resolution, my guess is it’s reflective of MSFT’s desired positioning for WP as sitting in the middle of a Mobile OS spectrum; between iOS (totally locked-down, fully integrated hardware/software) and Android (completely open, fragmented hardware/software). In a sense, I guess that’s where Windows has always been, though with WP, it leans closer to the iOS side. Given that, having strict requirements, like that on screen resolution, go towards providing a consistent experience across devices (regardless of OEM) and ensuring all apps work and display the same on all devices, making development easier as well. The way I see it is you get iOS consistency and security (and some limitations) with the broad device/form-factor selection of Android (less the fragmentation); though, as evident by the resolution limitation, there are of course some compromises made with this approach.

Also, rumor has it [1] that these limitations are largely being relaxed with Windows Phone 8 (aka ‘Apollo’) and the OS will support 4 resolutions. I believe MSFT is holding an event to announce details on WP8 in a week or two.

[1] http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/windows-phone-8-details-...
"scientist" usually implies a doctoral degree in some field.
Honestly? In most real-world applications, MySQL authentication and privileges have absolutely no effect on security.
Buying a major phone company would have been a pretty risky strategy shift. Google's Motorola acquisition is one of Microsoft's best selling points for getting HTC/Samsung/etc. to take Windows Phone seriously, perhaps more seriously than Android. With Windows 8, Samsung and others will have unique incentive to push Windows Phones over Android - they'll have a full lineup of modern phones, tablets and enterprise-ready PCs. Acquiring Nokia would soured a lot of partners who are just as capable of delivering great hardware without taking on the risks of a hardware company.
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Surprised? ESR has been doing this for years, even though he now only has a very small group of devout followers who consider his ramblings significant. It has been years since he could actually be said to speak for open source hackers everywhere. (In fact, if you ask me and quite a lot of other people, he never could.)
I think either Apple's method or going bottom-up with Android, but they have to fix the problem of making "mobile apps" work well in desktop environments, too. Plus, they probably need an improved Android UI for desktops as well, although the current tablet ICS one comes pretty close to a desktop interface. But they need to enable a more "desktop-like multi-tasking" and so on.
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Seems like a good area to use solar energy though. Water is easy to store and if you can make enough on sunny days to carry you through nights and overcast times, efficiency doesn't really matter as much since your energy source is "free."
I'm a little confused. Why should I pay for a product more than once? My analogy of shoes is that it's a service you purchase. If I need to purchase the service again, then I will... pay a second time :-) But if I purchase a college textbook, unless there is some massively important content update, then I can't see why I need to purchase it more than once!

To be clear, if more than one person buys the book, then the time and effort will have been repaid by more than one person. The analogy I provided doesn't actually fall down - if several people go to the cobbler to have their shoes repaired, more the good for the cobbler!

So yes, I only would pay once for the time and effort of the publisher for that book. I might buy more books from the publisher, but then that is different content.

I'm not following your reasoning as to why I or anyone else should pay the publisher more than once for the same product. Could you clarify?
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Notch streaming his 7dfps (+ 0x10c sub-game) entry
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Yes it could move all it's manufacturing to China and then use it's strong currency to let all it's citizens buy cheap Chinese TVs in Walmart

How's that working out for you guys?
that desert survival trick of spreading plastic over a hole

Solar stills are cost effective at very small scales, even for devices that are built in a more permanent fashion than plastic sheeting over a hole. There was a program where the US government gave rural families solar stills in the North American southwest a number of years back.
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"I say it again, if you don't like the conditions, don't buy"

Sure, but there's no (real) competition. They all behave the same. If I could buy movies with no copy protection, it would influence my decision a lot.

"If those alternatives do not spring up, that probably means that a sufficient amount of people are fine with the conditions of the product.."

Maybe. Or maybe people downloading "vents" enough of the frustration people have. Downloading are the alternatives, maybe the only alternatives.
It's both for the 7DFPS competition, and will also be a sub-game in 0x10c. The stream is here: http://www.twitch.tv/notch
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I don't think serious web applications such as LinkedIn or Last.FM use Ubuntu, but I wouldn't have thought they would had unsalted passwords stored, either.
Lots of startup advice being published and preached by "gurus".

That's true in any field. It's just that lately we've created a new kind of "guru", the Internet-famous blogger, who can reach a wide audience very easily but not necessarily because what they have to say is particularly valuable or widely applicable. For better or worse, the subset of such people who write about start-ups tends to get a lot of front page time on sites like HN.

Just remember when you read their highly opinionated writing that for every one of them, there are probably 1,000 other people with just as much skill, experience and wisdom who don't choose to spend so much time writing about it even though they are just as qualified to do so, and there are probably 10 other people who are much more qualified but who you won't hear from because they chose to spend the equivalent time improving their skills and gaining more experience instead of writing about what they already had.
Here you go - exposures of banks of the relevant countries to Spanish banks:

http://www.haver.com/comment/comment.html?c=120604b.html

[NB Germany doesn't have the largest exposure to Spanish banks - US banks do]
The Coursera courses are excellent, but Coursera, Udacity, CMU, etc. are offering a different set of courses than the UW progam. For instance, I don't think any of the current players are offering Hadoop courses... In general, it looks like the UW program is more technology-specific and applied than the other programs.

Personally, I'd prefer the less technology-specific topics already on offer. But, my employer would be much more likely to hire someone with UW's course-mix. So, there should be some demand for that.

And, if we are talking about a career decision, $3,000 is small potatoes compared to the value of getting the right topics.
While technically true, frankly spotify might as well be.

While exact numbers aren't disclosed, I've seen a $0.004 per play royalty thrown around enough that it's probably at least ballpark.
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Nice, I should have spent some time doing this instead of working through Axler and Feller through my undergrad and grad school.

</sarcasm>
The problem with certificates is, that you really have to look very closely to understand what was covered. For example Stanford has a range of certificates, some taking as little as about one day of work, the others a few semesters. There are so many factors involved such as professional, undergraduate, graduate, for-credit, for continuous education credit, and so on. Therefore I became somewhat skeptical of them as they almost always require more explanation than available on a CV (if we are talking brand value here).
I wouldn't have used the words "messianic language". I'd use the words "black and white thinking". While dividing the world into a rigid good versus evil certainly has its place: "Thou shalt not kill", for example --- although even there there are all sorts of gradations for things like capital punishment, just war theory, etc --- the use of a rigid black and white thinking is what I think is wrong with the Tea Party and Republican Party, just as I think it's what's wrong with the FSF and Stallman's view of the world.

You can't really argue about axioms, though. There's no way you can address the core issues of RMS's position, because it's a religious issue. Either God exists or it does not. Either the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists or it does not. I happen to believe the first, and not the second, but I also believe that I can never convince anyone about that using reasoned argument, because fundamentally you can't prove or disprove axioms. You can prove or disprove what follows from a commonly held set of axioms, but that's a different story.
It also gave Germany a cheap currency to help it's exports.

If the Euro had been German/Netherlands/Luxemburg it would have been very stable, very strong, and so expensive that even Goldman Sachs bosses couldn't have bought a Porsche
I just want to say congratz on being part of making a great game. The opening level with the Normandy landing where the cinematics led into the level was amazing. I remember feeling terrible giving the orders for the soldiers to move out of cover to take the machine gun nests knowing that half of them would die in order to advance. It was both disturbing and awe inspiring at the same time. A pretty amazing game.
I think you need to think of these things in relative terms. It's probably more correct to phrase this "don't take big platform risks."

IE, If you build on windows or linux you take the risk of either failing. But you do at least know that they're goal is to be a platform for developers to build on. The risk of sudden changes in the T&Cs turning your business on its head are small, compared to the risk on Facebook, iOS or Twitter for example.

Of course everything is built on other things. Even if the software and even hardware is independent, you're stil dependent on the economy. You need copper for your circuits and oil for your plastics and anyone know how to make tools for making tools for making drilling tools? How am I supposed to get fuel without tools for making drilling equipment? Hold on, I'll figure this out I made a flint axe...
Two of my coworkers are in SF right now for WWDC, having flown there from Europe, and their AirBnB host was just handed an eviction notice for subletting - they have to leave immediately. So this article feels extremely ... timely.

And I'll be in SF in 2 weeks for Google IO, also staying with an AirBnB host. Not the kind of article I want to read before flying out there :-)
I think there is a bit of history missing here.

When the DoD started what became the Ada mandate, they had some insane number of languages and projects scattered about. I don't remember the exact number but think something like 450-500 and this was from the 1960s and 70s when they still weren't terribly digital. At the macro level, that's impossible to maintain. I think a large part of the multi-language dislike came out of that. There is a giant difference between 3-6 languages and 400, it's also harder to get good people once you add a new technology to the stack that they need to know. There are generations of developers and IT/IS guys that have been trained and warned of the dangers of polyculture. That's why people keep doing it.
Do we really need more frameworks?
Doesn't make much sense anyway. So you make $40/hr, 40 hours a week. Well there is 168 hours in a week, subtract 40 from that and you have 128 hours those 40 hours must pay for.

As if that wasn't enough you have a lot of expenses that are flat-rate that you must pay regardless of how you spend your time (such as your rent).

All this is further assuming that your goal is to spend everything you make every month. Most probably put away some money to be able to buy a new car, travel etc. (or even just to be able to repair the car when it breaks)
I am working with his learn python the hard way course on udemy and his book and videos have helped me get going
>The concern I have with this is that it provides a bit too much information to potential crackers.

Only the script kiddies. The ones you have to worry about have bots and automated scans that can figure that stuff out in an instant.

Yeah, unbelievably shocking that such an advanced web company as LinkedIn could be so negligent. Amateur bitcoin sites, social media sites, venerable Web 1.0 ones like Last.fm don't surprise me much, but LinkedIn? WTF.
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Plus all other factors aside, you have to imagine there's some name recognition involved. Valve and Source are big brands, and could draw in a curious audience if only for the novelty.
Unbelievable. And they keep saying how child porn filters will only ever censor porn, so we have nothing to worry about, and that we are exaggerating when we worry about censorship. Right.
A last minute thought: Siri at WWDC
Elaborated on a thought I had regarding Siri and WWDC.

This is one of the first posts I've made on my blog, so any feedback on writing content, writing style, and overall design of the blog are definitely appreciated - always looking to improve.
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Wow. Are the warnings targeting college in general, or the diploma mill types?
Having OpenSSH running is pretty much essential for any machines you remote administer. Some things you can do: disable password auth, use public keys. Disallow root logins. Listen on a non-standard port. Configure a hardened "jumphost" as your interface between your machines and the outside world.
Makes a fairly interesting point that seems obvious once you've read it, but which we actually don't have embedded as an assumption - that the level of user trust placed in us as developers is not matched by the level of care and responsibility which we actually feel when that trust is placed in us. Definitely some food for thought, and I think we need to take the entire issue much more seriously rather than just slapping anything together and forgetting about it.
Do you know how AirBnB is handling this for your coworkers? This kind of real-time fiasco is exactly the reason I've been hesitant to rent on AirBnB, so I'd be curious to see how they resolve the situation for the renters.
Professionals have a reputation, which should reduce bias or influence. If Zagat was known to take bribes, they wouldn't be around for very long.

It may happen, but is less likely to happen than non-professionals. You have a much larger issue with selection bias for reviews, and a much easier way for vendors to bias them. I've been in shops that insist, rather persistently, that I write a good review for their store on their computer, at the shop.
and airbnb really doesnt care about this or they would take further steps to ensure that their rentors have the authority to rent the place. they say they do, but they don't. without renters i think airbnb would be in trouble..how many homeowners really want strangers coming in and out of their home regularly?
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Damn. I've totally been ignoring the cost of sleeping. Son of a ....... I better update my personal finance models ... stat!
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Aside from this being a good candidate for the dictionary definition of the kettle and pot idiom the problem with RMS is that whilst I agree with him wholeheartedly on almost all software issues I would never use him to convince any of my non-tech friends of anything because I think they wouldn't be able to get over his eccentricities. And some of these are just... unique. Which is a pity because his ideas and essays are well thought out and interesting.

I don't agree with the complaint about bringing in moral arguments in what he sees as a purely technical issue. Every human endeavour can be viewed from a moral standpoint and it's a perfectly valid perspective and doesn't exclude others.
They headed out to see the keynote at 9am and I think they'll deal with the problem afterwards. Priorities, and all that ;-) If I find out what happened and it's relevant I'll report back.
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A problem like this needs an human analysis. I'm more interested in small & standard optimization problem that could be resolved in real-time by a normal-server (Quadcore), and I want to provide to consumer an efficient way to interact with solution via XML/JSON, to build web apps
I agree with you on that. Although at some point regular people will ask themselves "why should I buy a phone with a crappy display when I can buy an iPhone which also has smooth scrolling and good battery life?

But if Nokia can't have a say in what display resolution or camera to ship, how can they ever hope to produce _anything_ that differentiates them from other WP7 licensees?

Value-added services such as Comes with Music and Free Maps Forever doesn't help here (or at leat it hasn't in the past). It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Question: Why does Airbnb need to deal with this at all?

I mean, if these apartments were being advertised on craigslist or local classifieds would you think they need to deal with it?
German labor is already VERY expensive.

We still have factories in Germany and outside of Germany.

Each BMW uses a lot of materials and energy for production. That would get a lot cheaper. Plus BMW imports lots of parts from other countries.

We really had that discussion years ago. When the West German Deutsche Mark was getting stronger all the time. BMW expanded in Europe and outside of Europe. Still it kept its factories in Germany. The quality of its workforce is extremely high.
It's not tenable but I suspect it's what's happening.
Actually it's what's been happening in Greece since WWII. First you have fascist governments that you don't trust and then you have democratic governments that want you to pay tax. Greeks have long been used to keeping their money where the government can't find it - in US$ under the bed or in Euros in German banks.

The situation in Spain at the moment seems to be that every Euro sent in the bailout is removed form a Spanish account and paid into a German bank. Spaniards speak Spanish, they read Argentinian newspapers when their brilliant economists 'solved' their currency problem by seizing the accounts of everyone who wasn't a ruling General.
If the video course were free, what would you be willing to pay for additional course materials? (i.e. the book, exercise solutions, exclusive live sessions, etc.)

I'm not trying to be confrontational here. Online education/coursework/learning needs a pricing structure that makes sense. One that enables thousands of qualified instructors to participate without going broke in the process.

I think I understand Zed's "freemium" model in that context. But I disagree with his approach.

Our local high school district pays some teachers over a $100,000 a year. That's 3,448 students at $29 each -- per year. That's roughly equivalent to the entire student population!

Look for yourself: http://www.familytaxpayers.org/salary.php

Find a district: type in '230'
Select 'Cons HSD 230' from the list presented.

There is no disruption in education until there is parity between what Zed is able to make and what these people make.
I agree also. And +1 you. iPod still has the "old" slower CPU than iPhone. It take couple seconds before selected Safari tab will open. This feature of quick tab browsing would not work.

Perfect example of less is better is the swipe-down notification. Totally useless (turned off everything since numbers on app badges are enough to know something new is going on), further they don't look Apple'ish, since I read somewhere they were direct rip off of Android after Apple got upset with Andro of stealing functionality.
Sometimes I imagine what the world would look like if the Nazis had won World War II, and this kind of thing is pretty much part of that horrible vision.