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OS installation has been easy for quite some time now. That doesn't make Linux catch on in the consumer desktop / notebook market. A typical windows user has no idea why he SHOULD install linux. Furthermore, even the ones that do try often get stuck with 3rd party driver support, especially on new hardware (and the time when a device is new is exactly the time when someone might be tempted to install linux). The only way to solve this, is preinstallation by the manufacturer.

Windows 8 will be a big chance for the consumer brands besides Apple to distinguish themselves with their own preinstalled distro. Microsoft will again fight, like they did during the netbook boom (which I believe is one of the reasons why netbooks saturated / declined really fast - the 2nd generation with XP preinstalled just was not pleasant to use anymore). Only this time the core market of the PC industry will be affected, therefore a lot more will be on the line.
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Audio and video watermarking is soon mandatory and playback will be impossible without it. Guess that will stop much of the CAM business.
True but if there was some department disabling people, we would look very differently at disabilities I guess.
IE7 must not form a substantial portion of their user base. Otherwise, this would be absurd.
Yes, it's normal to do 90% maintenance.

But there are two issues here, one is regarding the tasks having to do more with updating/enhancing an existing product, as opposed to creating something new from scratch.

This is normal, and not inherently bad in any way.

The other issue is the one of mismanagement, which is obvious in this case, and very common.

The amount of technical debt indicates that previous developers have either been incompetent, the code reviews/quality control lacking, or they have been under serious pressure forced to cut corners.

Managers thinking that "dump every issue regarding this product directly on this developer guy with an urgent e-mail" is actually management. While in fact they push the responsibilities of prioritizing/delegating/allocating resources, onto the developer.

This is really bad management.

To me these are basically signs of a company competing in the market segment of quick and dirty, good enough, pretty low quality software/services. Think about it, there are huge demands for lower end products and services. But it's not very fulfilling to work for such a company.
The product will change the way you manage and share contacts (phones, emails, social etc).

Nessfile also changes the way you looking for services or business contacts.

After the first tests, we are confident that it will be something huge :)
using both apps it's a grear collab imo
Krogans are doing some really good things since Urdnot Wrex came into power.
I found two catalogs with a lot of links

- Wiki of Open Data Day: http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/Data

- Comunity section of data.gov: http://www.data.gov/community
They really improved the responsiveness, it feels as responsive as Chrome now.

Here's more if you are interested: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2012/06/14/twelve-under...
"The results will still be conditionally independent given the assignments"

If the assignments are the source of the problem, you can't just take them as "given" and assume that things are OK.

A simpler example: if I assign people to cohorts based on their age, then the results of my experiment may be "conditionally independent" with respect to (say) eye color, but it probably won't be conditionally independent with respect to income or reading level or pant size. In other words, the assumption of independence is violated with respect to all variables correlated with age.

With bandit optimization, our bucket allocation scheme is correlated with time, which makes it nearly impossible to apply conventional statistical tests on any metric that may also be correlated with time. And in web testing, that's nearly everything.
This is already the top story on HN right now, and has been all day.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109137
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A general rule of thumb that's always seemed to work in my experience:

Contractor = 2x permanent employee
Consultant = 3x Contractor

So $2k a day sounds on the low side to me but perhaps it works if you're talking 4-6 hour days.
The only 'games' I'm aware of that do are the ArmA series (the first Operation Flashpoint included). As to whether or not they're strictly games (or a set of missions and set pieces set within a military simulator) is another question.
I don't know about you, but I sit somewhat further away from our 50" TV than I do to this 17" laptop. Probably about 4m or so.

Having said that, even at that distance high quality HD content is noticeably better than standard resolution content.
I wonder what are the benefits of setting G-WAN versus 2-3 nginx with 10-15 gunicorns behind it?

In the latter case you have proven software that is easy to set-up and scale. If need more, then :

- add more nginx/more gunicorns
- add haproxy
- add DNS balancing

So, what's the point?
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This is a pretty standard textbook for a Systems Architecture course in a CS program, which is where students typically build a processor from scratch: http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-Fourth-Ed...
I developed on enterprise PM application on the SharePoint platform (V2, WSS3.0). Over the past year, I have done 3.8% support, and the rest development. I'm quite happy with that.

I've recently been aquired by a larger company who develops a similar product, same windows stack but without the SharePoint flavour. They do an inordinate amount of support. But they do it to themselves - they give their clients the means to beat them up about support: multiple support channels, nd aaggressive SLA's. They have a team of 12 developers and they're always under pressure to maintain their support processes.

Sounds like you need some strategic architecting input: which products are important; what functionality can (needs to) be reeingineered; what's profitable and what isn't; what is a realistic support process, timeframe, etc?
Then once you've been through all this, you realise how important it is to design simple, reliable products.
FTA: "The KDM unlocks the content of the file and allows the cinema to play the film. It is time sensitive and often is only valid from around 10 minutes prior to the screening ..."
Without the KDM being unlocked they can't test it, so the earliest opportunity is 10 minutes before the screening.
Play many 9x9 games; play against the program Igowin: it can beat dan players. Keep playing 9x9 and 13x13 games until you are 8 to 10 kyu in strength.

Play on 19x19 games and study fuseki theory -- how to play the opening. Start to study joseki, but do not memorize them; understand the principles behind joseki.

Replay professional games. I am a fan of Shusaku (the book Invincible is a must read for any serious Western player). Don't simply click through games on the computer. Get a set of stones and a board. Play through the games. Get a feeling for the moves. Try to understand the strategies.

Once you get to 4 kyu, study tsume-go problems (http://senseis.xmp.net/?Tsumego). Start with problems around the 6 kyu level. Keep studying the same problems over-and-over until you can solve them in milliseconds. Then move up to 4 kyu problems. Repeat. Keep doing this until you become a dan player. If you study 1 hour of tsume-go every day like this, you might reach 5 dan in about four months.

As soon as you can, if you can afford it, take private lessons with professional players. KGS has many.
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The web is finally becoming a sane place to develop for (and "live in").
The actual transmission of the key could be done over a custom channel, like a serial connection only used to read the drm key. It would be even more secure than using a usb stick.
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You're wrong. He should accept that where he works, there is no respect for quality, he should embrace that and continue supporting the application in the best way he can without worry about the quality. He should do all this whilst applying and interviewing at places that do care about quality. There's no point in trying to fight the tide at his current company. He needs good references after all.
How do you make sure that system date was not tampered with then?
Then perhaps it would be easier to use gdb just for bootstrapping pdb into the app?
Adding more servers costs money. Doing more with less saves money.

See page 2 of http://gwan.ch/archives/g-wan_case.pdf.
I don't know why I would ever switch from Chrome or Safari to Opera. On a Mac, Opera still has text rendering issues (http://imgur.com/a/9bK1j), scrolling stutters, and there's a noticeable difference in page load speed (Opera is much slower than Chrome, at least on my computer).
The accelerometers in phones have wake-on-motion built-in. They use essentially no power when there is no motion, with a sleep/wake delay of something like 1ms. Even when the accelerometer is powered up, it uses negligible power compared to the CPU/display/radios.

The reason you wouldn't want to use the accelerometer all the time in an app is that it keeps the CPU from sleeping, since the CPU has to be awake to read & process the signals from it. Keeping the CPU awake when it could otherwise be sleeping is going to drain battery far more than the accelerometer itself.
Your order sounds good. I was thinking on PHP, but it is thrown down by development community over the language and availability of frameworks, such as Rails.
I thought there was going to be an actual game.
Newsworthy for us or not, I'm sure this is patent-trolling-worthy for Apple.
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For me, tmuxinator[1] is a huge advantage. I can easily define environments suited to various tasks and projects, launch them easily and lose none of tmux's power in the process.

For example, my 'work' setup is very IDE-like; when it starts it mounts my dev VM (nfs), starts vim, opens windows for logs, database client, SSH to the VM, source control (tig and git).

[1] https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator
That makes no sense: they still have to get the file from email to copy it to an USB stick, and they have to do that just a few minutes before showing time. How could they do that without Internet access on premises?
I hate DRM and hope it dies, but I can't support the authors love of physical films. It strikes me as too much like hipster luddistism, and failing to see the disadvantages of physical reels.

Remember this cinema is in Melbourne, Australia. Australians (like the rest of the non-US world) are sick of delays in films being released. Piracy has done a bit to help get rid of the stupid regional delays (Matrix №2 was released at the same time globally). Digital film distribution would do wonders to help the Aussie cinema industry!
Not to mention the fact that professional athletes start their training very young, so this would essentially mean pushing drugs to kids for the entertainment of adults.

A lot of pro athletes use drugs anyway these days but making it legal would present some ethical issues.
DataCatalogs.org, a project from the Open Knowledge Foundation, provides a repository of Open Data catalogues across the world (currently 241):

http://datacatalogs.org/
We do use software to manage it, but that doesn't mean the concept itself isn't misguided.
I'm sorry but this is just not true. You say the kind of people who deserve a patent would do the work either way and then you suggest a handful of people. Many, many people have created things for the purpose of making money. Your world would eliminate people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Later in life, when Jobs had billions, he didn't seem to care about money anymore but in the beginning Apple tried everything. They even had a clothing line.

As for your examples, Linus didn't invent. He made a version of an existing OS and started with an existing version of a copy of that OS. He did it for fun, but one must also recognize that he's gained a tremendous amount by this seemingly "benevolent" action. Fresh out of college he could take much more interesting jobs than most people with his background could. His "gift" ended up being a loss leader for his career.

So if we were reliant on only having people like Tesla to push us forward we'd be nowhere near where we are today. Tesla was brilliant but there are just far too few people who think and work as he did.
Care to expand this? A quick look at the linked page shows a bunch of under the hood improvements that will appeal to web developers, but as a user I remain ignorant of why people use Opera.

To be clear I used to use Opera back when they where the only browser with tabs, but that was close to a decade ago.
So now Opera also features extensions ?
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Yeah. POSIX shell is my IDE of choice too. So I agree with it. Although there is one exception - development in C#/.NET which is only environment in which I wouldn't code with anything else than Visual Studio. :) But maybe it's just a matter of way I was tought to use it, with all those one click - hundreds LOCs stuff. So I can't imagine coding in .NET without it.
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For me, it is because it simply works straight out of the box, with all the features I use all the time.

For me, it is several of the following reasons:

* mouse gestures.

* the speed dial.

* the ease to create custom url-bar searches.

* thumbnail images of tabs (to check a potentially nsfw link at work).

* in page link or text search using ',' or '.'

* the ability to search for links in the sidebar, and select all of them (e.g. to copy to a wget script, etc.)

* the ease to customize the content block.

... and probably other stuff, which doesn't come to mind.

Also, and this is important: I'm not trying to convince you here. Just pointing out that some will say the exact thing on the switch from Opera to Chrome, Firefox or Safari, with good reasons of their own. Whatever floats your boat.

Also, mind you, I have firefox and chrome installed. Firefox I almost never use, and chrome is useful to see shiny WebGL stuff, which has a lot more support. Sometimes also to see new CSS-demos that are broken in Opera (mostly because of lazy developers who don't include the -o- extensions).
So what should the tech providers do to provide a secure and end-user simple Wifi for their clients, the hotels?
Download manager, BitTorrent support, very good email application included, feed reader, Opera Turbo speeds up browsing if you are on a slow connection by compressing everything on Opera's servers (optional), integrated IRC client.

Opera really is a web suite, not just a browser.
Affordable, of course, is relative; I've seen a price of $1500 quoted somewhere, which is certainly not something that I can afford right now.
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I've yet to get into Less or SASS/SCSS because I'm still happy using a template engine (in my case Template::Toolkit) to manage my CSS.

They do look nice but currently I still prefer not to blur the edges of what is or isn't CSS.
Extensions were introduced in 11 version almost two years ago.

Now Opera is ditching widgets and unite to focus on extenions.
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Would you consider paying, say, 2 or 3 dollars a month for a service that attempts to aggregate and curate almost all the 0 day mentions it can, alerting you when a particular keyword matches? Something like a targeted Google Alert?

I presume obscure pieces of software should be dealt with in a case-by-case basis.
There must be a service that does this, I can't find any at the moment.

If you're allowed to say, how rare is the software you want to track?

This has piqued my interest because I've been in the same situation and it became a hassle to manage many mailing lists.
My solution never went beyond a few mail filters.

Nowadays, Google Alert helps quite a bit but it is hard to keep the noise out.

I'm certainly no tptacek, but I'd be most willing to give it a shot!
If I remember correctly, the US just released a virus into the wild that is designed to collect all information it can possibly gather about anyone. How credible does that make any privacy protection laws?
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> Microsoft itself has worked hard to persuade users to upgrade as part of general system patches, and as we’ve noted recently, the current Internet Explorer 9 release performs much better than you might think.

Is IE9 available for Windows XP? Most of the corporates still rely on Windows XP machines. I can't help thinking Microsoft's persuading people to get IE9 is just another try to get them out of Windows XP. And while there's ample reason to move on from IE7, there isn't any so many for upgrading from Windows XP, really.
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If that is the price, it will be the lowest price for a FF 35mm camera by about $500.
I once submitted a link from my blog to Reddit. It didn't complain, but the submission wasn't viewed by anybody, being totally absent from Reddit and I was able to see the submission only if I was logged in.

I then talked to the moderators about it and they said that my link submission history contained multiple items from my blog, so the automatic spam filtering kicked-in, with my domain being blacklisted. Because the submission was good and ontopic, one moderator proceeded to whitelist my domain again.

I don't know if the key for this silent ban was just the domain name or the combination of (username, domain name), but it was a silent ban.
I was one the profesional servies side trying to keep poptel running - though I did sit next to the tech lead.

http://www.andrewbibby.com/socialenterprise/poptel2.html has some details. And I did have to chair a share holder meeting and put the founder in his place when we where discussing a reorg.

You coudl try contacting Malcolm Corbett hes on face book at http://www.facebook.com/malcolm.corbett.9
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These are bad things if there are no limits:
- Search and rescue could easily become "search and track" whoever the police suspects.
- Crowd safety monitoring could become a tool against demonstrators, used to prevent large groups of people from getting together by precise police intervention.
- Traffic monitoring could lead to actual registration of individual plates leading to massive privacy concerns. Why is the government allowed to know where I am going?

There's always a very narrow gap between something that is useful and something that causes harm. Without any clear provision, and by blinding trusting government, you easily end up with crowd controlling policies. The State is like Sauron's Ring: it wants Power.
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Then please allow civilian use of drones as well. Without any restrictions. And let us send drones to track governors, senators, public figures, to see how they feel about being watched.
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I'm kind of unnerved by this.

What if I want to submit one of my own links one day--will I wind up on your list? And if someone out the loop happens to stumble upon your list, will they think that I am a self-promoting spammer due to my inclusion?

You should probably change this list a little. Adding a comment or two about its purpose would be welcome, and including statistics such as submission ratios by each username would be nice and help to avoid such confusion I have mentioned.

Finally, how does someone get 'off' your list?
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Having never worked in such a large company I'm always surprised at these round numbers. Is it really standard practice to pick a large round number and just start firing? Or perhaps is this the reporter favoring round numbers over accurate counts?
Cheaper. Can be mass-produced. Autonomous. No need for permanent man-operation.

It lowers the technical barrier for surveillance of a large population significantly. Therefore, that's what we call a groundbreaking technology.

that's what's different.

"How is the Internet fundamentally different than the telegraph? "
"How is a ITBM different from artillery?"
"How is the car different from a carriage?"

You can use that kind of question for every technological advances. Obviously every major step changes behaviors significantly.
Very exciting to see the price of full frame cameras coming down toward more affordable levels. Of course, the camera body is only one half of the equation. DSLR Lenses that can properly cover a full-frame sensor are still going to be expensive.

For those who aren't familiar with camera terminology: 'full-frame' refers to the size of the image sensor. A full-frame sensor is a full 36mm x 24mm, equivalent to traditional 35mm film. Most DSLRs (as well as Sony's NEX series cameras) use smaller APS-C sensors which are 25mm x 17mm (varies depending on manufacturer).

Larger sensors allow for larger pixels, which in turn capture more light. This lowers the noise and improves low-light performance significantly. Furthermore, larger sensors have a more shallow depth of field for the same aperture size, making it easier to provide out-of-focus backgrounds for more artistic shots.
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yep people have been contacting CEO's CTOs and CIOs of big companies (FSTE 100/DOW 30) trying to sell them on this protection racket.