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There's no way 10M LoC can be improved without taking a loss in the balance sheet.

No Way.

Because in order to do that, you need to stop writing new code effectively and just heads down and improve things. The thing is, if the codebase is tightly coupled, you've got tons of work to do as typically you can't improve one thing without changing the other. In the absence of unit-testing, nobody has the guts to refactor the code without high-risk of breaking the product.

I haven't even mentioned the cultural (human) issues that need to be fixed/changed as well.

So people truck forward, like in any software development shops :).

Speaking of which, thanks for sharing your insight working for Intuit. The article never mentioned the actual quality of code, but instead focusing on things that he improved :) (not a small feat, but probably don't improve the quality of the code).
The exciting thing about this for me is that they published their analysis code as well. [http://berkeleyearth.org/our-code/]

Now that's science!
I wish it were that simple. Insecure code is often inherited, not created ourselves. If the client has a limited budget and only wants to add X, how do you propose upselling them on security for their whole infrastructure?
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Completely agree with you on the subjectivity.

I just finished a summer Composition course. Turned in a paper which was nitpicked down to an 85 percent. The next stage of the assignment was to expand this paper with more sources and roughly 500 more words. I changed nothing which was nitpicked, added my sources, and the added sources accounted for the additional word count so I called it done, since I was so sick of this instructor.

The final paper grade was a 98 percent and labelled one of the best papers he had ever seen, despite the fact that all my so-called errors, which had previously annoyed him, were still in the paper.

Even though I am pursuing a BS, I had always thought the STEM / Liberal Arts dichotomy was silly. Humanities professors, including this Composition instructor, are quickly changing my mind. I'm sure my luck will run out eventually, but every science and math course so far has been mostly objective and whatever score I get (all A's so far) is purely dependent upon my efforts. Based on the Composition instructor, as well as other humanities professors I've had, my grade is partially based on effort and partially a matter of what he had for breakfast that day. Really makes me want to write off entire departments as completely worthless.
What does it mean? I can't parse it.
Something smells fishy here. Both uggsblogs.org and the original site at btcgear.com point to the same IP address (173.254.8.113), and have the exact same content.

At a guess, uggsblogs.org is trying to set up a pagerank scam where in the future they'll try to sell the domain to someone else with the false promise of a high PR value. Either that or the btcgear.com guys are attempting to create some drama in an unethical manner. My money's on the pagerank scam or a similar equivalent.

Edit: quick way to fix this would be to add a separate virtual host on the btcgear.com server for uggsblogs.org, filled with nothing empty content. Leave the scammers to then move on to someone else.
What planet are you living on? Apart from the Thunderbolt display, there's lots of storage devices available. If you don't want storage but something else, you can get Thunderbolt to PCI expansion boxes that you can plug your favorite card into.

So what's your problem?

The post you downvoted was correct. Saying you are underwhelmed by an improved technology just because it's new and unsupported is just silly.
Be aware that this eats CPU (and probably GPU) and thus battery like mad. I cannot imagine it being a good screensaver.
Call me stupid but you could just avoid clicking on the links.
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There were severe technical problems in Nasdaq's trading system during the IPO:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/06/nasdaq-outlines...
Is this true? Will investors happily let founders draw comfortable salaries for several years? That doesn't sound right to me...
Absolutely -a company that actively wants to pay for me to see their existence when I'm searching for somthing is a company that actively wants me to buy it there; that's often a valuable indicator that they're worth considering as a supplier.

I'd say when I search for something I'm intending to buy on google, somewhere between a quarter and a third of the time I buy it via an adsense link rather than an organic search link. Anecdata worth every penny you paid for it, as always, but I've said this conversationally to a fair few people and the majority have said something more like "yeah, me too" than "people really do that?"
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1) stop "reading up" on SEO on the internet. really. just stop it. now.

80% of everything written about SEO on the internet is bullshit (this means 8 out of the 10 articles you have read reduce your knowledge about SEO (and the web in general))

2) never ever mention the word page rank again. page-rank is thought-cancer (and does not mean what you think it means)

3)
your site is indexed via your IP address http://173.254.8.113/, this site ranks for your obscure long tail search term. make a canonical tag to your main domain. then our site will rank for your obscure long tail search term. to understand canonical tags go to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ch/2010/09/seo-starte... download the PDF and read it front to cover.

4)
if you want to understand SEO, read a book http://www.amazon.com/Search-Engine-Marketing-Inc-Companys/d...

last but not least: stop worrying and complaining about scrapper sites. they are here to stay. try to make the best shop website around.

and as a side note: with a high probability your blogpost will - from now on - rank for "high quality Bitcoin hat" as it reached the front page of HN (it will get distributed a lot, via scrappers, HN web-app-websites, ...) and the blog post has - compared to your shop start page and your shop page - textual content.
"this is no longer Steve Jobs’ Apple, for better or for worse"

Steve Jobs did spend lot of time assuring the ads were done right.
I am not sure exactly what the newspaper's claim is, I didn't see any links to a technical paper that I could follow up on. But I understood behaviorally modern humans to have been around for about 50,000 years. Are they just claiming that modern humans reached southern Africa earlier than previously thought?
OP here: try typing "uggsblogs.org" into a browser... NOT the same content... when I originally looked at it, I didn't click through. I didn't realize they had my same content.

Also, I paid my webhost extra for a dedicated IP, so I'm not sure how uggsblogs is showing my IP. Edit: never mind... they're pointing to me... not me to them.
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last but not least: stop worrying and complaining about scrapper sites. they are here to stay. try to make the best shop website around.

This isn't a site scraper at play; the uggsblogs.org domain's DNS is pointing to btcgear.com's IP address. Easy enough to fix with a virtual host, but very different to being scraped.
I need this for Twitter as well.
Aren't these sort of things covered in 'I have read and understood the Term and conditions' & then click on 'I agree'.
It sounds like an odd award to me. I can't see how its existence would motivate anyone to behave any differently, though I like that it creates more social recognition of science and scientists.

It reminds me of Richard Feynman not seeing any point in honors like the Nobel Prize. It may apply here, though many people think differently than he. Still, I suspect people don't go into physics for the money. They probably like the recognition of their peers, but I expect winners of this new award will already have that.

Feynman said, "I don’t see that it makes any point that someone in the Swedish academy just decides that this work is noble enough to receive a prize — I’ve already gotten the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding a thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it — those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don’t believe in honors."

From the article: "future recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize, to be awarded annually, will be decided by previous winners."

More on Feynman, again not directly related, but close: he became so exasperated [at the National Academy of Sciences] that he resigned his membership, saying that he saw no point in belonging to an organization that spent most of its time deciding who to let in.
you are correct, then a canonical tag will fix it for good and google.
OP here: try typing "uggsblogs.org" into a browser... NOT the same content... when I originally looked at it, I didn't click through. I didn't realize they had my same content

It's showing the same content for me when I try just that. Latest stable Chrome on Windows 7.

Also, I paid my webhost extra for a dedicated IP, so I'm not sure how uggsblogs is showing my IP.

Anyone can point a domain to your IP address; a dedicated IP address basically just means that the IP address itself belongs to your server, not that no-one else can point their domain at it. For a cheeky example, it took me under 30 seconds to set up this: http://btc.moomoomoo.com/
Google Gravity.
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Not to go on a complete SEO rant, but here it goes. Page Rank is next to useless, like that hangy thing in the back of your throat. Page title and meta description are a close second, but still needed. Kind of like a title of a book, these serve only to "introduce" your page to the search engines and the users. Content, content, content. That's where it really matters.

Despite what most people think, there IS useful SEO reading on the web. This is an excellent guide: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

But, as another poster mentioned, something strange is going on here. How long has your site been live?
I have read that, but what are those situations? I really doubt claims of "much higher" performance, Varnish is very, very performant.
I agree that 80% of the SEO stuff on the web is self serving circle-jerk crap. But, this is an excellent starting point for SEO:

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
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My bad, I was hitting .com not .org.

Yeah, I realized that right after I posted.
Firstly, yes our whois parser needs work, whois is a dirty protocol with lots of inconsistency and we haven't spent enough time dealing with parsing ALL the data out.
Oddly enough it has already proved useful to some customers and some fields are consistently parsed well. What's your use case and which fields are you interested in that we failed to parse?
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They do in fact do that (or something like it) when you need to recover an account/password.
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Halstead complexity? Cyclomatic complexity? Those are just a couple of famous, old-school ones.

Software metrics is a major research area, and dates back to the 60s. The paper "Software Metrics: A Roadmap" has a good summary of the state-of-the-art as of 2000.
Wow, I've never been to an Open Source convention. I always kinda looked forward to going some time, but stuff like this makes me think those are little more than hateful little douche fests where despicable online mob behavior meets the physical world with depressing results.

I'm also at a loss to understand how such events are apparently not about software at all.
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For twitter you can install Tweetbot on the Mac, it has a filter option for names, and content. For the browser you can probably do the same via a greasemonkey script. Personally I think you can also learn self-control, and not look for titles with Apple related content in it, and if still found, skip it. I have no problem doing this with Windows related content i.e. Best of luck!
Like the vista release?
I think the next big product or two (iPhone 5, or the 'other thing' that is possibly a TV) is what will prove whether Apple will stay strongly in the running or fade away as quickly as it did when Jobs was pushed out of the company. I personally think it'll be good for a while longer than that, but the company will need to find new leadership focus after that.
the beginners guide from seomoz is ... kinda ok ... and has same valuable pointers, sadly the seomoz-blogs are a big part of the problem, that's why i'm very hesitant pointing newbies to any of their resources.
Hide content and just show ads? What? Who ever suggested anything like that? If other sites are doing this, then they're messing up too. So I've no idea what are you talking about.

They are loading ad impressions that aren't visible. That's a major problem, because it's preventable. Why don't they track scroll –which I'm sure they do already– and load ads accordingly. Their only defense would be that they load the ads, but don't charge for them unless the user scrolls.
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#include <iostream.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <math.h>
//using namespace std ;
//int randomizefill(int,int );
int plott(int ,int);
int x,xx,p;
//int z[xx];
int main()
{
int restart=1;
while(1)
{
if(restart==1)
{cin>>x;
xx=xx;}
int z[xx];
//a=xx;
for(int ini = 1;ini<=xx;ini++)
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{
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{
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break;
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The switching point for me will be when django start support 3.x. Looks like Django 1.5 will add experimental support for Python 3.x. Then there will take at least a couple months for most of the vital packages to be compatible.
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That doesn't sound right. Advertisements should not be charged for if they are not visible. Advertising online is horrendously bad, and this is just one of the problems with it.
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What were the most common activities done by the IPs that were "new" in the last twelve hours? New compared to the history of IPs available. Just wondering if it was orchestrated or whether it would give a clue as to the resource that was consumed.
I don't think the author really understands IE usage patterns. The majority of IE6 usage isn't individuals who don't know better, its companies who should know better. Hence, you'll still get plenty of intelligent coders using IE.
Sometimes feminists give feminism a bad image. The sad thing is that in every movement there are people with agendas that align with the movement but don't further the movement. It seems very prevalent in both the feminist and open source community.

Unfortunately for women they often feel as alienated from feminism as they do from the open source community leaving them nowhere to go.

I recently spoke at a careers event in my local middle school (kids are about 11, getting ready to go to high school) about working in video games. Everyone loved it, everyone wanted to work in video games but in the back of my mind I knew a disproportionate number of the girls would lose interest along the way because of the overwhelmingly negative reaction they will get from the 'community'.

As a father of two girls it is a constant battle to give them the tools to deal with it.
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There is a Wordpress site in there now.

I got a newsletter from that forum only two hours ago, and now the site doesn't exist.
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It's a John Doerr quote[1]. Here's the opening paragraphs from an article which discusses it:

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr is said to have once described his investment philosophy as "no conflict, no interest."

In other words, when Doerr and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins aren't privileged enough to enjoy a potential conflict of interest with respect to a potential investment, they have no interest in making the investment.

[1]: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-03-11/tech/30001236...
The investment return doesn't necessarily have to be directly financial. It could be simply (for example) that a particular type of computer or software makes you more productive which means you get more work done and therefor earn more money.

This is especially true of computers where platform lock-in is rife and there are high opportunity costs to adopting a particular platform, especially if you plan to develop for it.

Buying coca-cola is not really an investment (unless you buy stock in the company of course) since you're spending a small amount of money for a short term good.
You buy a computer with the intention of using it for a few years at least and you learn a development stack usually with the intention of using it for even more years.
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The largest integer Chrome doesn't use scientific notation to display is ...
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That clarifies it, thank you.
Ditto. I'd love this as a vim colorscheme.
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That which you noticed as a "side note" is undoubtedly the entire point of this post.
Companies that rely on a third-party API that they isn't contracted and paid for aren't sustainable.... if it's free, it can be taken away.
Unless I'm missing something and he was paying twitter for this.....
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I work in investment banking and this article is no surprise. Most of the banks I have worked at so far have old legacy sphagetti code all around and like someone mentioned, it is extremely difficult to work on refactoring which does not add any benefit for the business in short term. I have had many conversations with managers and even though everyone knows, no one wants to be the guy who changed status quo.
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Until a few weeks before the offering, FB was going to price at $28 per share. Why is anyone surprised that the $38 price had no support?
And yes, we do intend to move operations to the states too, so we are not looking to get the funded and bring it offshores, but instead stay and build an american business.
Isn't it always a miscommunication with Facebook, and always the user's fault - not abuse by Facebook - and us users simply don't understand that it's actually a feature they're so kindly providing us?
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>people are talking about zooming.. How do you zoom?

The scroll wheel.

EDIT: If you keep zooming you can fisheye everything inside out.
1) Get traction.

2) Pitch your startup to investors which have previously invested in companies based in Singapore. 500Startups springs to mind. Talk to the local hometown heroes in Singapore who have achieved funding for recommendations on other investors.

Traction excuses virtually everything else. Not technically impressive? Doesn't matter, had traction. Not based in Silicon Valley? Doesn't matter, had traction. No business model? Doesn't matter, had traction... asterix. Market not obviously a billion dollar opportunity? Doesn't matter, had traction.

"Traction" can be sort of vague. You want to have a user adoption graph. You want that graph to be growing, ideally with growth accelerating. Ideally you want "use" to be less a measure of "signed up once" and more an ongoing thing, preferably, an ongoing thing that your users would be severely discomfited if they lost. You want to have some acquisition channel, ideally proved in microscale, such that adding money explodes it. Ideally, you have a business model, also proved in microscale.

If you have a (channel proved in microscale and revenue) or (a whole lot of users) or, ideally, both of those, at least some investors won't care if you're on the dark side of the moon. If you don't have these, you could probably slice and dice your numbers such that you could appear to have them, but honestly just going out and getting the numbers is probably a better idea.
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This is in what context? Javascript?