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Interesting answer by Matthew Garrett[1] via reddit [2]

1: http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2012-dis...

2: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/vgasz/nvidia_employee...
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Oh, no debate on trying to build Ruby apps on Windows (been there, done that - which is why I have a separate Ubuntu partition for that). But more the point that if I am building a web app in, say, ASP.Net MVC using Visual Studio 2010/2012, the tooling is excellent.

Since the article is talking about Windows Developers, it's probably fair to assume that most of them are knocking out code in Visual Studio. And regardless of one's opinions on Microsoft, it's hard to argue with the quality of their developer tools.

I'd agree then that Windows is not an ideal environment for Ruby development, but not all web dev is in Ruby, and windows is an excellent web development environment if you're building out on the Microsoft stack.
I don't think ELB is the kind of thing you'd want to use if you weren't on AWS. It's only because they don't do better load balancing or let you build your own (with multiple IPs per box) that you use ELB.

Same with DynamoDB: the only reason I'd use it is because EC2 instances don't come with SSDs. Otherwise, meh.
Nothing like connecting up one of your old HDDs and seeing what sort of data you used to have that you now forgot about.
The funny thing is that PayPal was originally intended to provide safe, transnational money exchange beyond the control of governments. (Somewhat like Bitcoin today.) So they wanted to be a solution to a problem.

Now PayPal is part of the problem.
Be fair; anyone who wants to send me a "top secret" email, but has to go to facebook to find my email address; I don't want them sending me their "secrets".
Many people say: first, try to build your self-confidence by convincing yourself to feel good (e.g. dress well...

Would you mind sharing who some of those people are? I personally disagree with that, and I'd be interested in reading more about the rationale behind such suggestions.

The key to confidence is entirely about doing things despite the fact you're scared stiff. ... It's trying even when you'll probably fail.

I agree, nothing in life comes easy. In particular, going through risk or adversity for the sake of achieving beyond that is the key to being mentally tough.

We don't gain confidence, or become better people, by sitting on the couch and doing nothing. Instead, we make all kinds of decisions throughout life (taking that daily jog, competing in that martial arts tournament, working that extra hour, etc.) to achieve higher, long-term payoffs. In doing so, it should be accepted that the pain or discomfort that comes along with those decisions is simply the cost of admission.
Ok, no problem. I've just made a habit of calling people out when they use "deserve" a little too frivolously.
I know they were trying to prevent it from being "chipped", and putting cryptographic interlocks in major components is the best way to keep the ECU from being completely replaced.
Also only among conservatives; don't paint everyone with that brush. They are only half the USA.
They'd probably notice the absence of e.g. green bell peppers and onions, which even dyed-in-the-wool carnivores tend to buy to go with meat.
ADA did. It didn't as of new projects around 2002 - people had moved to cheaper bundled platforms rather than the traditional compiler vendors I.e. MIPS/PPC FPGA core plus vendor C compiler. Older kit still uses it AFAIK but you won't see much if any recent software shipping in it.

I quit embedded in about 2005. I dealt with avionics and guidance systems. They don't evolve fast. When I quit, people were still using RCA1802 cores and ASM for some tasks.

.net on windows CE is still out there in force and is well supported. There are literally millions of devices out there with 20 year support contracts on them.
Yet, lots of manufacturers release products that back-slide from their predecessors.
Which phone has more battery life? #MAXXbatterylife Droid RAZR MAXX vs Iphone 4
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it is all about distribution and caching. same thing would happen if you change you cover photo on facebook. it would take some time to propagate though all datacenters, thus someone is Australia would see your old photo, while users served from US datacenter would see latest cover photo.
I was assuming, given HN, that it was about eliminating the gaping security vulnerabilities in applications and infrastructure, given that we now live in a world of state-sponsored attacks (US, Israel, China, Iran, ...), easily monetized crime (well, for the past 10+ years), and only marginally better technology.

Recreational climbing and outdoor activities weren't at the top of my mind, no.
How does "Leveraging a monopoly to destroy technological progress" not fall under some antitrust laws? Is it just because Craigslist is free? I definitely feel the consumer is potentially losing out due to Craigslist's monopolistic practices.
Honestly, the ars summary. Make of that what you will.
I see pretty comparable numbers of listings for Python, Ruby/RoR, Java, and .Net (although if you add up all of the nix web dev jobs and bundle Python, PHP, and Ruby together vs. .Net, you're going to see a lot more of the former).

For web dev in general the split is pretty even, but if I am looking more at startups or small shops, the balance shifts towards Python/RoR (with Javascript being pretty ubiquitous whether you are on .Net, Java, RoR, or Python).

Still see this more of a tooling cost issue though, which makes sense. MS licensing is not cheap, although I've worked with a suprising number of startups that are on the MS stack, or using a combination of languages.
I always thought this kind of thing was catharsis like yelling at people while driving.
Seems like a stupid threat anyway; the fact that you have a history of alcohol abuse does not mean that you were impaired when the incident took place, and it doesn't mean that the store was maintaining a safe environment for its invitees.
The ethernet port takes up 100% of the edge thickness of the previous generation 15" MBP. Also, I'd guess that something like ~5% of users take advantage of it on a regular basis.

So why would Apple let that keep them from making the device thinner? If you really need it, pay the extra $30 for the Thunderbolt ethernet adapter and call it a day: http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/product/MD463ZM/A
If the fed printed 10x the current money supply in dollars and handed them out to everyone, prices wouldn't change?
The DIY copter crowd does some pretty sweet stuff (both autonomous and piloted).

Here's a fun video shot by a guy who built a first-person-view Hexacopter: http://vimeo.com/18873955
I dunno, it's not really my argument.
For those not familiar with Laocoon, he was a hero from greek and roman stories, most famously written about in Virgil's Aeneid. He recognized the Trojan Horse as a ruse (and is the source of the saying that has come down to us as "Beware the Greeks bearing gifts") but was not believed and was further punished by the gods who sent two serpents that dragged him and his twin sons into the sea. A statue depicting the event is one of the most famous sculptures of antiquity.
House bill extends TSA intel sharing to mass transit
Even as a lifelong PC user, I tend to disagree somewhat. It's hardly just 'a higher resolution and thinner design' by a long shot. There is a lot more here, and I was a huge Apple sceptic in the past.

First of all, this is a powerhouse of a machine in a relatively small form factor. It's also one of the first 'mainstream' laptops to feature full-flash storage as stock and not as an available upgrade (ultra books excluded here - I'm talking laptops with serious power, not portable form). Also, there is nothing on the market even remotely close to the Retina display (yet). I'm blown away by its clarity. Its also the quietest laptop I have ever owned, has the best input (trackpad) device, decent battery life, and really good sound. The OS is first-rate, too and beats Windows in form and function handily (although, with a few minor complaints).

Full disclosure: The Retina MacBook Pro I'm typing this on is the first Apple computer I have ever bought in my 12+ years of professional IT experience. I've never owned an Apple device prior to this dating all the way back to the 80's. I also own three other PCs, most are relatively new, and for mobility I only own three or four Android devices thus far. Have been running either Windows or Linux for as long as I have been computing.
I'd like to see a teardown of the adapter. My understanding of thunderbolt is it's not going to carry ethernet signals. There's another ethernet chip in the adapter (I think). The one on the motherboard is there primarily for the smart card reader and because it allows Apple to use the same chip on the laptops that do have ethernet jacks.
>What offers Bitcoin value is the level of marketing that makes people pour money and graphic cards in this specific implementation of the code.

More specifically, people trust Gavin Andreeson and the BTC core team more than any of the people behind the other forks. Gavin & co. have a pretty good record of commitment to transparency, openness, and doing the right thing for the community.

Some of the other forks, like SolidCoin for example, were done with some sketchiness (holding large pools of initially mined coins in reserve).

Each passing month so far only solidifies Bitcoin's lead in that crucial aspect of a virtual currency.

Ultimately, the value of a currency is derived from its supply relative to its demand, the same as any other commodity. Governments can artificially stimulate demand by making it legal tender and only accepting taxes in it, or by managing the supply via gold/silver-backing or central bank monetary policies, etc.

Same with BTC, and the drivers of that demand will vary over time and as economic conditions change.
"Closing the barn door after the horse is gone" is the first thing that popped into my mind when I read this headline.

The second thing was that they were being "penny wise and pound foolish" when they raised prices in the first place (last October, I guess it was). So they got like six months of revenue bump, pissed a lot of people off and created an opportunity for at least one big and viable competitor. Smart.

And now they flip flop.

The message is that if they think they can bend you over a barrel and have their way, they will. And then, if the competitive landscape changes, giving you a chance to get their dick out of your *ss, they will try to kiss and makeup (until they sense their next opportunity to bend you over). What did idiot Bush say? "Fool me once, shame on you... Fool me twice..." http://youtu.be/eKgPY1adc0A
Here are some examples of things I prefer to buy with cash: purchases at airports (junk food, junk media, junk items); purchases while traveling by car (mostly junk food); purchases on riskier/dicier neighborhoods and areas; certain occasional purchases at the grocery store or pharmacy.

Also, on occasion, I will refrain from buying or getting certain things if I can't buy or get them anonymously.

Until the legal, regulatory, and cultural environment meaningfully change, my presumption is that every single non-anonymous purchase I make can and probably will be used against my economic interests, sooner or later.
The garbage collector has nothing to do with things like memory struct alignment. And garbage collector makes concurrent allocation easier, not harder. And garbage collection doesn't prevent stack allocation. You seem to have no idea what you're talking about.
What a peculiar attitude: "I hate this so much that I just need to harden the fuck up and then I'll start to enjoy it."

I'm a climber, too. Worked as a climbing instructor back around 2003 or so, been up and down Rainier, spent lots of solo time deep in the back-country (where "harden the fuck up" can be valuable), lots of trips to The Valley and J-Tree and other areas. For a while I taught climbing to high school and college kids, took them out to Pinnacles and other places.

That attitude would have made the class, and the activity, a lot less enjoyable for them.

What's it to me if some of them don't find joy in suffering? So what if they hangdog a 9 because "my arms are tired"? So long as they're having fun, and want to keep doing it, they'll get better at it.

Running a business is the same. I've had a few miserable years of "harden the fuck up" while building a business. I'm still doing it, but that's because I am stupid. A more reasonable person would have realized that they could probably make more money at a 9-to-5, with paid vacation and company-sponsored comprehensive health coverage.

I've gone the business route because I have to -- because ultimately I'm intolerably bored at a 9-to-5 and that eventually gets me in trouble. I'm not doing this out of some strange desire to make things really hard on myself just so that I can go around telling people to "harden the fuck up."

If someone doesn't get some kind of real, visceral need fulfilled by having their own business, then they don't need to "harden the fuck up", they need to get a real job.
this has already been posted, please don't post duplicates.
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Remember, this isn't a court where you get to argue your individual case. If data mining starts affecting insurance premiums, you probably aren't going to notice. The insurance company is not going to say "because of your daily McDonald's purchases...". They're just going to say, "effective 6/6/2020, your rate is $x".

People that do "unusual and unpredictable things all the time" are so rare that they don't matter at the scale of data mining. Most people do usual and predicable things, and that assumption is probably worth money.

However, a number of factors have to come together for this to work. First, the insurance companies need to correlate purchases and insurance claim rate. Then insurance companies need to secretly implement this plan. Then when you get the letter that says your premiums are being raised, they need you to not switch to a competitor that is undercutting their new rate. And finally, they'll have to avoid the rage of citizens and legislators. With their upcoming special status in 2014, it's unlikely that lawmakers are going to let insurance companies do whatever they want.

So ultimately, being different isn't going to protect you from data mining, but I think the market will. Do you want to be the first company to announce they're spying on your purchases? Do you want to own the grocery chain that's known as the spying one?

Probably not.
What about the tinfoil for your hat?
They've done a great job of being a bank while not being regulated like a bank. It'd be kind of impressive, if it weren't so damn problematic for users/customers.
I definitely read it as Harden, the fuck up. It was not about what I thought it would be about.
I feel like you're taking it a bit too seriously, but I could be wrong.
Bro (i.e, this idea sounds like a Brogrammer thing to me).
Hogan.js vs Mu Bench (on the Node.js backend)
To be fair, some of it is Porsche being a low-volume manufacturer for as long as they were, until the introduction of the Cayenne. Porsche has long stood by its practice of ensuring they make no less than $10,000 front-end on every car they sell. The fact the Cayman came into existence at all was a bit of a surprise -- that's a car that sells in far fewer numbers than the 911. Even in its last model year, fewer than 1300 Caymans made its way to the US, a tremendously small number for a car that starts around $55,000.

The Cayenne (and to a lesser extent, the Panamera and the upcoming Macan) increasing overall sales volume is what is allowing them to loosen the reigns on the Boxster and Cayman. Upon launch the Type 987 Cayman did not have a limited-slip differential. The refresh did, and now the Type 981 Boxster offers the same torque-vectoring rear diff as the Type 991 911 from Day 1. Porschephiles aren't a fan of the SUVs and the… thing… that is the Panamera, but the reality is it lets Porsche further improve its sports cars, and go on crazier exercises in racing and allow for more hyper cars like the 918 Spyder.

The Type 987.2 Boxster Spyder and Cayman R were faster around a road course than the base Type 997.2 911 Carrera, despite being significantly cheaper. Odds are good that this trend will continue with the Type 981 which is further straying from the 911 -- the original Boxster (and even the Type 987) was a cost-control exercise and was heavily parts-binned from the Type 996 911, down to the doors being identical.
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I've been thinking about them for a while. What kind of flight time do you get out of a standard quad-copter? 15 minutes? 30 minutes? That's my biggest hesitation...how fun is 15 minutes of flight time?
A few issues/questions with that:
1) Local traffic: if this were an enterprise app hosted on premise, with cloud backup, but with some remote users, you'd need to be careful in network configuration. With firewalls, people also access local apps on different IPs than from outside. This may not apply, and certainly can be resolved, but would require some visibility for the provider into your network configuration.
2) Failover: To do this really easily as a service, you'd ideally run 100% of traffic through a third party service. Some of it would get directed into EC2/cloud provider of choice, and some into your colo datacenter. If you're willing to use something like CloudFlare for DDoS/etc. prevention now, this would be the same compromise.
3) Database: Dealing with all the replication issues. If it's static content, this is trivial. Otherwise, you have a consistency problem for databases, etc., and most cloud providers (especially Amazon) want to lock you into weird onsite proprietary data solutions which don't

The best system today is probably to host at a facility with great transport to Amazon Direct Connect nodes (e.g. SV1/SV5 in Silicon Valley -- I'm setting this up now), so you've got fast cheap ways to keep your databases replicated between AWS and the free world/your own colo.

For inbound traffic, for $20/mo, I'd just do Cloudflare; for higher end, you'd have a lot of choices to make. (I haven't tried the higher end cloudflare offerings yet; they do seem to address most of the shortcomings, and are still pretty cheap).
I still don't understand how your actions are influenced by developments in data mining. Am I missing something?

It seems like you're just protecting yourself from your card information getting recorded and replayed (old hack in the book).
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Just an invitation to competitors such as Bitcoin, etc.
Of course it is better than most (maybe all) notebooks that came before it. But only slightly better. There have been slim notebooks with fast CPUs and even GPUs before. There have also been very high resolution displays (probably not as high as "retina", but still). The higher resolution is nice, but will it lead to completely new applications that have not been possible before?

I have switched over to SSDs for quite a while now - it's nice that Apple does not even offer normal HDs anymore, but again, not a game changer.

The rest of your post reads a bit like a marketing spin ("great sound"??) - to be honest I wonder if you were hired to scour the internet for discussion threads of the MBP and chime in with your anecdotes. Realistically speaking, companies must be doing this already.
People send important email without encryption and digital signatures?
We had an old EPROM programmer in college - was awesome.. And this isn't ancient history, this was 2007 - we used it as part of our Comp Arch course!
Intel Ivy Bridge graphics processor fully documented
I don't know if you have any information not in the Wikipedia article but I don't see anything there suggesting suicide was ever considered as a possibility. All is see is the police and coroner saying he was murdered but they don't know who did it.
This project is eerily identical to lolcommits
Incidentally, if you're wondering why this kind of stuff only seems to happen in the brain, in broad terms the answer is this: almost every other cell type in your body has the luxury of committing suicide (technical term: apoptosis) and being replaced by other cells of the same type which are growing and proliferating. For example, if a virus infects one of your intestinal epithelial cells, that cell can trigger it's self-destruct signal pathway (or a cytotoxic T-cell can trigger it externally) and initiate programmed cell death, thereby containing the infection (note that apoptosis functions to effectively demolish the entire contents of the cell, not just tear it apart and release whatever is inside).

In contrast neurons generally do not proliferate much after you're born (there's some debate about this, but even so a particular neutron is valuable because of the connections it has made, which are irreplaceable), so having each neutron kill itself when something goes bad would shortly leave you without a functioning nervous system. So neurons have to resort to more "creative" measures to clean up problems without destroying their entire cell bodies (e.g. autophagy, in which the cell cordons off a part of itself and then digests it). Naturally, these mechanisms are not as effective as demolishing the entire cell, so some problems can arise that neurons can't handle. But they are programmed not to kill themselves under almost any circumstances, so they continue limping along with only partial functionality or none at all.
Give examples? I heard a lot of complaints about ThinkPads, but I think that was when they were no longer being made by IBM. Sure, it happens - but I suppose typically if the manufacturer as whole is in decline.
While this is a great thing to do, a large portion of Chrome extension memory usage is due to the JavaScript that gets embedded into every open tab. [i.e. O(1) vs. O(n)]
By the same token we should give up on things like archaeology as well. We will never know for certain, but we can reason that given the evidence we do have, such and such is a likely scenario.
Doesn't Paypal censor payments for certain types of books now, too?
Font is a ridiculous differentiator anyway. Can you not change that on your Kindle? I mean... the book itself is just text.
Do you think all those ASP.Net sites are more likely to be delivered on the web to a diverse selection of evolving, modern user agents, or on an internal network to only IE7 users until 2019?

One opportunity has a choice in development tools. The other doesn't, really. The former market for developer mindshare can and does change; the latter is Microsoft's entrenched base which is never really in jeopardy (nor very relevant to the growth of the tech field at large).
I'm quite impressed by this bold move from Intel. Showing such a treasure trove of detailed information about Ivy Bridge graphics can only help to build better open source drivers and overall support. Phoronix has more details:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyN...
Wow, didn't know that, thanks!
I also purposefully exposed my email address and it was replaced by an @facebook.com address.
DevonThink: I put everything in it. Great for my MSc research into concurrency.
"I'm trying to think of other products which inspire this sort of pointless religious war"

almost anything will cause it, i have seen ladies doing this for furniture companies and shoes.
Gender norms: Spending more time with our families