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> How do you know this?

I don't. You are right that it could be policy. It just seems that the Occam's Razor explanation is human error.

I disagree about the ease of making the mistake. I think it is a very easy mistake to make. Customer service agents deal with tons of emails. They probably also deal with tons of emails where the customer has legitimately done something to warrant not taking the machine back (like say, dropping it in the bath tub). If you don't hear about Linux often (and most people don't), don't know the details of reinstalling OSes (something customer service agents are unlikely trained on), it's easy to think the customer has gone too far. You spend 2 minutes on the email (so you can get through them all), send it on its way and never give it a second thought.

I think it's an easy mistake to make because I make stupid mistakes all the time. Where I work, some users have a certain network path mapped as a drive letter and some don't. Yet even after making the mistake several times before, I still sometimes send emails to users who don't have it mapped referencing the drive letter instead of network path, only to hear back from them that my link doesn't work.

You want 100% certainty it won't happen again, but nothing is ever 100%. The best they can do is increase the number of 9's. Zero tolerance for errors simply doesn't work.

I will admit, however, that my tendency is to give the benefit of the doubt, so I could be biased here.
Also Ctrl+number to open Speed Dial entries becomes usable.
Not correct, this is helping the debtors (like our government) while extremely hurting the savers, people on fixed income, people with a pension and low income. As most western-european countries import more than they export (especially energy and food, when their currency goes down, what they can afford to import goes down as well.

What we're seeing and why the $ and € don't fluctuate much (even though Europe is in such a mess) is both Europe and the US (and all the others) are devaluing their currency one after another.
It's called Currency Wars: "Currency wars are one of the most destructive and feared outcomes in international economics. At best, they offer the sorry spectacle of countries' stealing growth from their trading partners. At worst, they degenerate into sequential bouts of inflation, recession, retaliation, and sometimes actual violence. Left unchecked, the next currency war could lead to a crisis worse than the panic of 2008. http://www.amazon.com/Currency-Wars-Making-Global-Portfolio/...

Here's a nice video explaining it using a comic from the '50's!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFxvy9XyUtg
I'm excited about this as I am a heavy SoundCloud user but I can't help but feel this post is a bit premature. The existing state of the 'next' site is really early.. there are many bugs, most features are not implemented, and the sound detail page is almost completely broken.

I'd must rather see these kinds of posts after a big rewrite has proven the new technologies were the right choice!
those could be good hindsight characteristics to mitigate the emotion of rejection, but in taking on a sale I think it is better to be warm and aware of the social cues your potential client is providing. The best salesman are able to close by adapting to the various physical and social cues people provide.
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>> the manufacturer of wifi drivers that only works with binary blobs?

All wifi cards nowadays depend on a binary blob. Some of them depend on that being uploaded by the computer.

>> i wouldn't count them so happily as linux supporters.

Their support is certainly above average and they usually go the extra mile in supporting (except in PowerVR case of course)

Other vendors are much worse
>You can predict the time that malloc(3) and free(3) take to run?

The correct answer would be: depends on the concrete implementation. There are implementations with real-time guarantees.

However, assuming standard desktop OS malloc()/free() the answer is: No. These functions can execute very quickly.. or very slowly, depending on their current internal state.
But you can control when they get called, which can be an important difference.

>The point you mention is only valid when using entirely static memory, which is a very rare case in real C code (only really used in a few small embedded codebases).

Depends on what you mean by "entirely static memory". No malloc() calls at all? Yes, that is rare and pretty much limited to the embedded realm I think. Memory pools however are very common in performance critical code.
My complaint about Go centers around its mechanics of code reuse: static linking for all Go code; making anything Really Useful requires using other libraries, which includes those written in C, which require use of a tool to help you write your wrapper ...

If we could get dynamic linking and something less cumbersome for interfacing with existing libs, I could use Go for Serious Work.
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The problem is that developing drivers for Linux AND Windows will always take more time/resource than developing drivers for Windows alone. This is hardly Linux's fault.

And, well, if you buy hardware from shoddy vendors, don't expect it to work with every OS. For me personally Linux has always worked decently out-of-the-box, and outperformed Windows with a bit of tinkering.
(I admit I never bothered to do tinkering in Windows though. I don't know if you can, and how much can be done.)
Gnome 3 is not the answer, and if Gnome 3 is the question the answer is No

Just don't bother with it.
True that, you pays your money you makes your choice.

Thins is, at a few hundred pounds the iPod and iPad are almost disposable, but at a few thousand an MBP is not. I actually was considering buying one of the "lower end" MBP, but because of this it is a deal breaker.

(ps. I don't own an iPad because the memory is not upgradeable or an iPhone because I cannot carry around a spare battery - I travel around a fair bit so these are important factors to me)
Also, in countries with labour-friendly laws (like Finland, I assume) there is usually a process to follow where the company has to justify the cuts, so they have to actually set target numbers.
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No, definitely not everyone. For starters, it should be obvious the GP would exclude "those who believe gay marriage is morally wrong".

But in particular, I am especially wary of the "personal morals and ethics" of people making broad generalizations like you just did.

Fortunately, I know somebody who's perfectly entitled to enforce his personal morals right back at you. And yeah, I am aware that you could do the same thing, but you also appear to believe that to do so would make you a bad person. So it's your choice, really: Submit, Be Good, or Be Bad.
From testing out my demos in Opera Next over the past few months, I've been really impressed with the quality of their JS runtime and the UI. Unfortunately, their hardware-accelerated canvas support doesn't really keep up and their WebGL is outright broken - it looks like they went so far as to disable both by default in 12, a disappointment to be sure - and they still have serious issues with HTML5 audio (to the point of causing hangs/crashes).

Given that my only real exposure to Opera is from trying to ensure my stuff runs well in it, it's easy to get the impression that everything about Opera is broken. I wish they had a public bug tracker so it was easier to tell which things are known issues, which things have known workarounds, and which things I should file bugs about.

In particular, the audio issues are a point of frustration: At present, if you test the latest builds of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer, Firefox is the only one that actually has low-latency, functioning support for <audio> that doesn't crash or hang. It's ridiculous. Chrome at least has a custom webkit-only API you can use to get working audio, but the rest of the browsers are just flat out broken. And in each browser's case, they've had multiple versions to fix basic issues (limits on how many sounds you can load in a single page context; broken events and APIs; absurdly long playback delays, etc). Oh, and Firefox still doesn't support the loop attribute. :|
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.clusterfuck !
Not sure exactly what you mean by "entirely static", but in the signal processing application I worked on we used an allocate once/deallocate once design where we allocated gigabytes of RAM per node up-front and reused the buffers and data structures during operation. We took over the entire node, essentially, and we were a closed system, so this design didn't cause most of the problems this normally would.
E.g. any app with [record] button need to meet 'mostly' predicted system latency, that's 'soft-real-time'. Any professional app with [play] and [record] button needs a minimal warranted latency, that's 'hard-real-time'. Go is unsuitable for both.
To play devil's advocate, is this any different to what Google is doing at present? Spend a few hours researching, say, hotels in Istanbul, and you'll see the ads that appear on Adwords-enabled sites change accordingly.
I worked in restaurants on and off for the better part of seven years, five of those cooking. I agree with a lot of what is stated in this article, a few thoughts on my own experience:

1) Nobody is too good to do the dirty work - everybody washes dishes and mops floors.

2) I definitely learned how to be efficient by eliminating unnecessary task switches from some processes, and running 6 or 8 separate processes at the same time.

3) Memory is hugely important for a working line cook. You have to know what you are cooking now (which could be up to 10 or 15 different entrees, depending - I'm sure some do more), what you are cooking next, and where other cooks might need help - plating, making sure sides are stocked, etc.

4) Kitchens can be another true meritocracy. Nobody cares if you dress or talk funny, but if you can't get things done you won't find many friends.

I could go on all day. :)
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According to ICANN they are not making money off of it. The money is spent on the reviewal process. They emphasized multiple times during yesterday's announcement they were pricing it at break even, and if a profit were to be made, it would be given to the community for them to choose how to spend it.

Their financials are available here as well, if you wanted to follow up in a year or so
http://archive.icann.org/en/financials/
While more products in a market does make it less likely that a new competitor will gain share, the fact that free tools exist to do almost any coding-related activity so significantly lowers barriers to entry that it seems very likely that the net effect of open source is lower barriers overall.

In any case, I'm not sure that the existence of competitors can be considered a barrier to entry.
You can turn up a quick buck sure. I've done that: shareware and websites. But how about long term product development? Not so easy. Maybe it's better to secure your place on the consulting market where the money are real because of all crazy stuff going on inside the big corps. I still don't know.
Businesses (and governments) can legitimately buy root keys that allow MITMing any SSL connection or they could just be a CA themselves (any CA can MITM the whole internet).

Here's the best talk I know of this subject:
BlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
Is it just FUD though? John Carmack seems to agree with microsoft about the security concerns over exposing graphics drivers to the web.

https://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/8173219094948659...
while quitting is the easiest choice, there are other ways to deal with this situation and actually making your mark. This could really be an opportunity to do something great. After all, if you go to a place where the code is already great and while work will be much easier and more fun, there may be less opportunities at making your mark.

the maintenance probably involves fixing bugs, and dealing with limitation of of the system. Instead of fixing those in a tactical way, one could carefully think the problem through, and provide a more meaningful solution (via complete refactoring at times) that actually makes the system n% better. Of course there is no luxury of being able to spend days on such a problem, so initially nights and weekends may be necessary to break through. Providing meaningful solutions on your own time will achieve at least 2 things. Your peers and management will take notice and start listening when you speak about the system instead of just giving you a task to patch bug #9821, and you will gain more intimate knowledge of the system than anyone around you (since you refactored it). This may take a few years, but through such hard work, you will gain ownership and control and reputation for being the person who made a difference.
until Linux has a "Have disk" button

This would work only if you could get Linux drivers on a disk. There's a better solution that both Linux and Windows have had for years: put the drivers in a repo. Vista and 7 will grab drivers from their repository and install them automatically. Linux does the same. But only if the manufacturer has drivers for it.

Bought up-to-date computers for my team. Linux fan suggested we develop on linux. Tried it - disaster. Didn't support video chip, raid controller, even all the memory. Open office tools crashed. First doc I imported displayed in upper-left corner of the screen, every character in the file in one big spiderey blob.

That's the problem, there was no driver support. That's not the fault of Linux, that's the fault of companies not making drivers for Linux. If the hardware maker supplies Linux drivers, they're installed automatically while the system is installing, seamlessly.

I don't see it deploying successfully on production machines

Then you're blind, because it's on millions of production machines around the world. We're a Windows shop and even we have hundreds of Linux servers and desktops.
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Reframing the customer dev relationship as an advisor relationship and the mom test are two of the best ideas I've heard on customer development.

Going over to devour his blog...
I disagree wholeheartedly. The purpose of the article was that the author believes that People could be blocked from registering .book or .love due to corporate interests - thereby causing a "clusterfuck" This is just silly. No one will be up in arms over this, at all.
and if I'm speaking to you in the real world?
If it works, then it must be at least one of the answers. Sometimes it's good to put aside your Luddite feelings.
I love the idea of city TLD.
it's nice to have domains like
sightseeing.paris
or theme TLDs like
amazon.shop
this is what we already have for .xxx
but giving one company the power over TLD like .book or .author is a big problem for me...
Are you arguing that it's actually ineffective, or just that it's not gentlemanly toward foreign investors?
This skeutomorph litmus test mentality is a fad. Skeutomorph free interfaces have been around for a long time. Some really interesting programs have had them (Ableton Live and Osc music control interfaces come to mind) but they haven't proven to be a decisive advantage or even had a radical effect on user sentiment where they've been applied. In music software, the impossibly skeutomorphic Reason (you literally connect dangly patch cables to connect audio effects) is thriving alongside Live and the consensus is that there's actually a place for the different styles.
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which would you rather:

angrybirds.app

angrybirds.apps

The second makes no sense.
It is written. "0.1% for each month since the browser was released"
In the US. My bad.
Heh, probably never heard of some small companies like Google, Sun, Oracle, IBM and others.
And the pressure to hit quarterly targets begins. I have stopped using Facebook frequently since the IPO and now only login in Incognito Mode so that the cookies are sandboxed.
Most common (in the US) is just a minimum credit card purchase.
I highly dislike manipulative posts like this. They don't mention that the Speak for Yourself founders are ex-employees of the other company. It's presented very one-sided and in an "OOH FEEL SORRY FOR OUR DAUGHTER" way.
> smaller than most languages around

I'm not certain that this is specific to Go, insamuch as it's a property of nearly all young languages. After 1.0, language complexity can only ever increase. Even Python has followed this trajectory, although Python should perhaps be commended for being willing to shed some of its complexity along the way (depending on how you view backwards-incompatible changes, some would say it should be denounced rather than commended).
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103344
"I have no freaking idea..."

Right there with you. I can't help but be facetious: "So the links are all editable by anyone? Do I have to create a repository for all my links? If links don't constantly change, why are we tracking changes to links? Heck, why are we letting people edit them?"
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After so much work, gotta love the footnote here: "Note: In the hours before our presentation/release, Google pushed a new version of reCAPTCHA which fully nerfs our attack."
I know mine has. We weren't a big shop, but we donated to the OSS software companies that created the software we used. Each month, we took ~200 dollars and gave it to one of a long list of OSS companies, some of which include:

WordPress Foundation
Bamboo Invoice
Apache Foundation
~half a dozen really clutch guys who developed obscure but awesome plugins
LibreOffice
Flowplayer

Just to name a few.
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To be more specific, quorn is a mushroom in the same sense that a human being is an octopus - to pick two well-known animal species that are in different phyla.
So when does it make sense to make a single page web application? Are there any guidelines you folks like to follow?
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But then there's the size...

The novelty is the size of these devices. I also run Word and Excel on a 386 at 40 Mhz but it was a full tower not a credit card sized box.
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It's not so much manipulative as expressive. The writer is genuinely frightened and is acting to protect her kid. The article never claims to be impartial, or even very descriptive of the legal issues. They want this app, even if it does violate patents.
This is a very interesting read with a lot of interesting topics being discussed.

On "Views as components"

> Each view can include other ‘sub’ views, which can themselves include subviews and so on.

This is something that is missing from Backbone and it's something that always comes up, even when doing something as simple as a Todo list. In the Backbone Todo list example[1] you there are methods on the "parent view" (eg, the List view or the App view) to addOne and addAll (rendering the Item views).

So the concept of "sub views" is definitely needed but what I'd like to know, from SoundCloud's perspective, what were the arguments for/against implementing this functionality from within the templates and not from some place else, eg. the parent view's or the sub view's constructor (as a parent/child attribute) or initialize method.

> Each view is responsible for its own setup, events, data, and clean up.

Having already implemented the "sub views" concept it seems perfectly logical to allow a parent view to inherit DOM events from its children. Considering the Todo list example, and without using Backbone, how would you implement DOM events on the Todo items? You wouldn't bind events on each item's DOM element - that's just crazy. You would bind the events on the list (just once, for all items) and find a way to know on which item the event was triggered. In other words, you would use $('parent').on('event', 'child' ... ) and not $('child').bind.

It seems that with Backbone people have forgotten this practice, in a way similar to how people started using inefficient DOM selectors when jQuery came along.

So, when implementing the "sub view"/"parent view" concept, what would make perfect sense is to specify if the sub view's DOM events should be bounded on the parent view's DOM element. What I'd like to know is if SoundCloud has considered doing this and if yes why they have decided against it.

[1] http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/todos/todo...
Yes - I almost missed that - that should be highlighted more clearly not buried in a footnote - as it undermines the impact of the research...
Foreign goods would become more expensive, and local goods would remain relatively unaffected (at least in theory).

People would be less likely to take their money out of the country. Foreigners would be more likely to invest.

If as a saver you invest in local businesses and property, you should do well for yourself.
I think it often serves a real purpose. Shadows and textures are useful for subtly separating foreground and background and bringing relevant content into visual focus.
You're assuming I didn't try it

And sorry, I can't find much reasons to praise it