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I have to say I like Haskell and I don't think it's boring at all. I just wanted to learn more than they were teaching us in uni. :) Haha, I even played around with HOpenGL...
What is it with that idea that somehow "Wine isn't native"? It's not an emulator and it's not a virtual machine. It runs the native executables and provides a couple of Windows-like folders, DLLs, a "registry", environment variables etc. What's not to like? Sure, would be neat if the game devs had a dedicated Linux build target working with /usr/lib/ etc. paths but -- does any gamer care? As long as Wine is as hidden and stable and packaged in the background as Transgaming's Cider (try the three GTA 3 games on Mac from the App Store -- awesome smooth gaming! -- granted they're quite old) I don't see a problem for the gamer. And the devs are free to concentrate on their games and creative instead of headaches with painful "native porting" code issues.
Talk to one of the pictures. :)
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The only reason that makes any sense is that this feature is a distraction, to draw criticism away from the rest of the UI changes (flat, grey) and other issues like the overwhelming crazy focus on Metro.

This way, they can do something visible, moronic, then backpedal, and claim "hey we fixed the issue requested by 95% of customers!"

Or at least I want to believe that, because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
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The Developer division is just another group of people within Microsoft with their own goals. The connection between them and the Office division or the Windows division is incidental. In my opinion, Visual Studio has been going downhill ever since version 6.
The author seems to mix up three quite separate things.

First, the fact that the core TeX engine is written in WEB -- a literate programming system with Pascal as the underlying programming language. This is responsible for maybe 1% of the author's problems, but the author writes as if it's the main issue.

Second, the fact that the LaTeX ecosystem includes things like kpathsea built out of C, bash scripts, and baling wire. This is certainly a real problem for any porting effort.

Third, the fact that LaTeX itself equals the TeX engine plus lots (lots and lots and lots) of other bits written in TeX. TeX is not only a typesetter, it's a (horrible, horrible) programming language, and LaTeX is built out of lots of packages implemented on top of that. This is what makes LaTeX slow; it has nothing whatever to do with Pascal or WEB or even bash scripts.

Rewriting the WEB stuff in modern C (or CWEB, if the people concerned wanted to preserve the literate-programming approach) might help with portability. It would do nothing to help with speed. In fact, rewriting the old Knuth code would probably make the system slower -- there are things not to like about Knuth's coding style, for sure, but no one would accuse him of not being sufficiently concerned with efficiency or of not being able to write efficient code. What it would take to make LaTeX much faster is not a from-scratch rewrite of the codebase the author complains about, but a from-scratch redesign to enable much more of the work to be done in native code instead of in packages implemented in a nasty macro-expansion language, and to make the extension language nicer and more efficient. (Most likely, by replacing it with Python or Lua or something; see http://www.luatex.org/ for an attempt to do something rather like that.) Plus a monstrously large project to re-implement all the packages that make LaTeX what it is on that new substrate.
Anonymous scooped everyone last year: http://crowdleaks.org/hbgary-wanted-to-suppress-stuxnet-rese...
Certainly not what you asked for, but maybe you'll be interested in this: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicm/ .
When I was taught about conflict resolution in secondary (yes, we have classes on that in Norway) the main theme was to separate fact from personal opinion.

The best way to do that (according to my teachers) was to ground your argument in a fact and apply your opinion in an obvious way. Ie. I think the goverment is .... because they .....; Rather than: The goverment is ....

Any scientific paper knows this, which is why they cite a dozen other papers. So then you can say "I think B because this person found out A".
It requires a lot of effort to get information. The embedded auto-playing video reminds me of pre-Facebook social networking, requiring further effort turning it off (especially after scrolling down trying to figure out what's what) before a user can then move their cursor around the site to access the content they wants.
It's a freaking IDE !!! There's no good interface design when it comes to IDEs. Everything that matters is to make everything configurable cause people will tweak things to their own liking.

Also i'm not even looking at menus. Keyboard shortcuts FTW.
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Learn to ignore good advice, it's the same skill used to ignore bad :)
Did read the comments, but they still always find an extra gear to shift up into ;)
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A fine finish to an awesome mission, at last commercial space flight seems a reality; we're one step closer to holidaying on the moon :)
Yes, I thought as an outside observer that if successful, Stuxnet would have been a great nonviolent approach to achieving geopolitical ends.
On the other hand if you found yourself on the receiving end of Belgian terrorism and brutality in the "Belgian" Congo, the comparison is not so unreasonable.
> ...terrorism is an a violent act against civilians designed to instill fear in the general population.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/16/iran-sci...

http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/09/10354553-is...
Most of your why? can be answered by reading the actual post.
I have to admit my uptake of the CSS3 spec has been way off the pace - excellent article, now to wait until all the major browsers implement the whole spec.
You should actually read that link; the emails indicated HBGary were interested in using Stuxnet (probably the framework or exploits it used), but not that they had any idea who actually made Stuxnet.

So no, Anonymous didn't "scoop" anything.
Accuracy is not the issue -- the jot pro stylus seems very accurate to me. The real problem is lag, which so far prevents me from doing any handwriting on the tablet.

From what I can tell, lag is an issue for all the tablets right now?
It's all fun and games until a nuclear plant blows up.

I know, nuclear plant don't blow up, but you get my point.
Do you really need somebody to tell you that black-on-black text is maybe not such a good idea?

Any why the hell is there a music video?
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This feels similar to the Megaupload case; America desperately throwing its weight around outside it's borders, with a total disregard for the law. And, just like the Megaupload case, they have fucked up big time.

Why does the American govt. feel it has the right to choose who can become a nuclear power or not anyway?
> but you get my point.

No I don't. A physical war can also blow things up. How is a cyberwar worse?

This is not a game, it's a covert attack.
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What's amazing about this is that this -- funding development through sales -- is incredibly difficult to do for free software projects otherwise. You have to front all the costs and rely on the generosity of donations or recoup the money through support and services.

Edit: And I think the point stands notwithstanding the fact that Light Table won't be free software.
This looks exactly like the functionality my Compaq TC1000 tablet had back in 2002, thanks to Windows Journal. Microsoft even allowed you to search through your handwritten notes, as it was doing fuzzy handwriting recognition on your scribbles (which would never hav been accurate enough for actual recognition, but for purposes of "find me a scribble that could be me writing the word "hello" it was downright epic).
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. The set of { countries that are capable of creating something like Stuxnet and getting it into the plant } intersection with the set of { countries fearful of Iran } comes down to { US, Israel }.

You might add UK in there and UK might have assisted the US in the creation of Stuxnet if the US had asked.
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Thank you, I modified it a bit so that this shouldn't be an issue now.
I'm not quite sure, but assume that the connection to Windows/Office you talk about is in response to my suggesting that the menus should be consistent with everything else? I see that as more of a UI principle than a consequence of how closely the teams are bound within MS.

I think there have been good features since; the VC++ compiler improved a lot in 2003 and the ability to debug into STL containers (IIRC, 2005?) is brilliant. I just wish I could get things like that without the bloat* and UI churn.

*: yes, I know "bloat" is an overused term, but honestly, VS2008 is several gigabytes and takes an hour and multiple reboots to install, plus another half-hour for the service pack. I find that a bit extreme for what is basically a compiler and, as described in another thread, a glorified text editor.
That was Chocks Away, a video that doesn't do it justice is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0x5JbmU6HU. The dog fights were good and the missions had you shooting up balloons and moving trains too. You could link two machines with a serial cable and fly in the same airspace. A friend that worked at an Acorn dealer and I used to visit the shop after hours, he had keys, to play it until early morning, day after day, until we had completed them all. Great fun shouting at one another about who was taking on what in a dogfight. If the machine had an ARM 3 then the graphics had a bit more detail.
“It turns out there is always an idiot around who doesn’t think much about the thumb drive in their hand.”

Good quote. And there seems to always be a Windows PC around that auto-runs anything you stick into it.
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I'm very curious who gets hired to write the code for a project like this. What caliber are they, what kinds of backgrounds do they come from, and how are they recruited to these positions? Is this more likely to be done by a government agency or a defense contractor?

I have always assumed that the world's most talented hackers work in places like Silicon Valley and Wall Street, but Stuxnet was clearly the work of some brilliant minds, so I'm curious.
arstechnica is taking the NY Times article and extrapolating too much. Confirmed? No it's not. It was suspected before, and it still is.

And lost control would imply they could not control what it did to the target, which is incorrect. It did escape to the wild, but that's not really loosing control when it was designed to do nothing harmful on non target machines.

Better to read the original, and the discussion on it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4052330
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> 1. The world is trying to keep you stupid.

No it doesn't. Quite the opposite. While the idea that less educated are easier to manipulate is true the item on the list says expresses a different idea.

He is actually right, in several ways. For example, how do you find the average joke posted by a friend on Facebook? Also TV is called the idiot box for a reason. And its not easy to break the addictive traps. And this is just one way.

Similarly if one _thinks_ there is a lot of weight in other points as well. But of course one has to interpret them in one's own context.
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That's why tools like memcached work like they do.
So I looked at your links and I don't see how those activities "instill fear in the general population". They instill fear in those working for the military, sure, but that's not the general population.
It seems odd that they would state that one of their cofounders "brings a degree in electronics and computing from M.I.T." when he in fact went to Manukau Institute of Technology.
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I like it a lot, and look forward to trying it out on my girlfriend to see how a non-coder responds to it.

Whilst working out the while loop however, I put the code to loop outside the block instead of inside, thereby making an infinite loop. Now the Chrome browser window is completely unresponsive, and won't even close, so it seems I have to kill chrome to get rid of it.

Other than that, cool!
(As he hasn't responded:) I'm guessing he means the article linked by this entire article thread, as opposed to any of the alternatives mentioned by the comments that he responded to.
They are either being dishonest or obtusely misleading - http://au.linkedin.com/in/navdeep2u
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The original nytimes article implies that the U.S. started this program as a way to prevent Israel from responding in a military way to Iran's nuclear program.

But yes, it certainly does seem that nary a geopolitical snafu goes by without the U.S. being involved.
If it's Israel then they come from the military which is the first place students go after school - so they do in fact have access to the world's most talented hackers. A lot of them go on to create startups after finishing service.

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=977176 for a bit more.
Some things are a question of right, some things are a question of need or interest. The US has enemies and it doesn't want them to have nuclear weapons.
Every now and then someone comes up with these 'brilliant' ideas, such as reimplementing (La)TeX or Emacs from scratch. All it shows is that they don't have a clue of the tons of man-years that have gone into the current incarnations, and the fact that they actually work awesomely well for 99.99% of the cases.

Also, he starts from a false premise when he points out that the ipad is the 'most beautiful platform'. It might be ok for watching videos and playing angry birds, but without a physical keyboard it will always suck for composing anything text-related, when compared to a real computer with keyboard and an eye-level screen (also, if you're carrying a BT keyboard for your ipad, you might do better with a macbook air).
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There's some confusion here. The Arthur OS ROMs, starting with 0.2 on EPROM, that's why Acorn wanted them back on the upgrade to 0.3 on ROM, were written in assembler, including `modules' like the filing systems, BASIC, and the Wimp that gave SWIs like Wimp_CreateIcon. More as a demo of WIMP rather than anything useful there was a Desktop program stored in the ROM, written in BASIC, that used the Wimp module to present a crude selection of calculator, etc. Nothing like the later drag-and-drop RISC OS desktop; no other programs could run with the Arthur version. So there was some BASIC in the OS but only as one stores sprites and other data files too.

The source of RISC OS was opened up. https://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/view/castle/RiscOS/Sources... shows part of the BASIC module which has pedigree going back to when Sophie Wilson, designer of the ARM instruction set, wrote it.
You don't really need to wonder. Just look at France.

The news from France is mixed: Minitel could be argued to have held back the internet in France. Nuclear power research and trains pushed them to the forefront ("10 or 20 years ahead" as you say). Home-grown OSes like Chorus failed after spending lots of money.

On the other hand the French pay more for everything from energy to computers.
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> and look forward to trying it out on my girlfriend to see how a non-coder responds to it.

I would be really interested to hear about how this goes. Not in a horrible "Hurr durr look at this woman, she can't even do x=y, you have ten x, how many y do you have?" way.

What problems will you get her to do? How much help will you give? I think it's really interesting to see how different people approach different problems.
No nation should become a nuclear power. It’s really simple.
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I'm currently using two types of devices:

-- 10" Acer AspireOne netbooks. They are cheap, and Ubuntu works flawlessly (true before 12.04)

-- ALIX boards from pcengines.ch. They are even cheaper, and low-power, and with RS-232 console port. Perfect if you don't need CPU power.

but for the cases when I need to do packet trace on a Gigabit link, I need to make sure the traffic is low enough for the acer netbook to catch up
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StuxNet in 2010, they had a copy given to them in 2009 that they claim was a US produced binary. Keep in mind stuxnet was 'discovered' in 2010.

First reference to Stuxnet being U.S. government produced? You decide.
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I didn't say it was worse or better.
My point is: "cyberwar" can be responsible for painful and "real" physical damage in the physical world. In that regard it is in no way "better" than the "usual/conventionnal" physical wars.
To defend myself against the downvoters who may not have made the same connections: Aaron Barr talks to Defence Intelligence Agency and DoD about StuxNet in 2010, they had a copy given to them in 2009 that they claim was a US produced binary. Keep in mind stuxnet was 'discovered' in 2010.

First reference to Stuxnet being U.S. government produced?

They had a binary they believed was US produced. It was Stuxnet. It was 2009.
Yes, actually. I think that most people who slack off do not want a life sentence to mediocrity. They take a couple years out of their careers, underestimating how difficult it will be to get back in the game.

There are a lot of people in Williamsburg (and, presumably, every other hipster enclave) who fit that bill. They're "trust fund kids", but most TF kids are only moderately wealthy ($1-3m) and will need to step it up in middle age if they want to keep up their lifestyles. They have no idea how hard it will be after 5-8 years of drug use, partying, and generally wasting whatever intellectual sharpness they had in college. They also have no concept of what it means (and how bad a position it is) to be competing with fresh 22-year-olds for entry level jobs after wasting nearly a decade.
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Earth will easily survive humanity, even if we carpet bomb the surface with nuclear weapons. Even life is very likely to survive in its own niches as it has done during past global catastrophes. So worrying about earth is unwarranted in my opinion. Humans should be mostly concerned about their own species surviving in the foreseeable future. And so far I do not see any imminent danger of that happening, especially with our masterfully understanding to adapt our environments to suit our needs. But developments like global warming could lead to some drastic population swings in the future (e.g. via wars, famine, etc.).

Oh, and live will be gone on earth anyway, AFAIK in about 1 billion years when the sun has become so luminous that the oceans on earth will vaporize and ultimately escape into space. And the collision between the galaxies will very likely have no immediate effect on our solar system due to the vast space between stars (and therefore planets).
Yeah, I read it as the iOS/OS S style convergence. Different systems, but consistent UI/UX/feature implementations across the two.
If Israel had physically bombed the Iranian plant would that not started another major war in the Middle East? I am not saying this is an elegant solution to cross border conflict but war was avoided.

Everyone in the hacker community knows this was coming. This is going to get much worst before it gets better. Power outages in Brazil, China/Google event last year, and stuxnet.

As the article says:
"Stuxnet is old news by now. Even the newly discovered "Flame" malware was developed some time ago. While details about these two targeted attack packages are finally emerging, the next generation of attack tools has no doubt been developed and likely deployed."
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Is there any proof that the facility in question deals with uranium enrichment for military purposes?
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I've found it to be true in some situations.

Yes, and false in others. We don't hear as much from the people that shoot for the moon and fail because they tend to keep quiet about it and slink back to their boring jobs and lives, if they still can.

Personally I'd like to hear more about the failures around here because the relentless cheerleading sounds phony and you can learn at least as much from the failures as the successes.
Do you honestly believe that those who worked on this don't know about the difference between reliability and validity?

Your comment is mind-bogglingly ignorant, espousing blind skepticism that sounds great but doesn’t have any sound reasoning behind it. You very obviously know nothing about the topic at hand yet still feel qualified to declare it worthless.
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