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> Microsoft today is still one of the world's biggest companies

So's IBM, but who, today, decides not to enter a field because they fear IBM will crush them like MSFT crushed Netscape?

BTW, who has MSFT crushed recently?
> In my experience writing reusable code, unless you're writing a library, is usually a waste of time.

In the sense you're using "library" here, the Unix utilities are libraries--more precisely, they are library functions; the whole set of utilities is the library. So McIlroy was a library/framework writer.

> Most code, even when written with intent to be reusable -- isn't.

I more or less agree with this; but fortunately, you don't have to look at "most" code to find code that is reusable. As witness, once again, the Unix utilities. Or, for that matter, the Python builtins and standard library that I used to build the Python versions of the "word count" program.

Moreover, even if you're in Knuth's position and don't have a good base of reusable code to draw on already, it still makes a big difference how you proceed from there. Do all app devs write big monolithic apps? I believe pg once wrote an essay about bottom-up vs. top-down programming, leaning heavily towards the former.
No, I think that's great. Is it really like that though. I always feel like this is kind of a caricature: "The teacher would not dare let me question the authority of the textbook." That doesn't seem very serious. I'm sure, and this may sound mean, that this goes on some very bad rural or inner city schools but it's just such a ridiculous thing to say that I find it hard to believe it occurs in more reasonable scholastic settings. But people always bring it up ...
I don't think that analogy holds because the "recording" is being done by a third party service. I think a better analogy would be a business where you called and requested they record songs X, Y, and Z off of the radio and send you the cassette. I'm pretty sure a service like that would have been shut down in "ye olde days".

A tape recorder would be more like using clive and ffmpeg to strip the audio yourself. As far as I know, clive and similar tools have never been hassled by YouTube/Google.
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Who even uses SELinux besides government/defense contractors? Do you remember the Clipper chip? The list of horrible things the NSA has been involved with is long.
The rabbit's downright disturbing.
Which ones are the "professors?" I'm not trying to be flip but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for the blogger or whatever it is to go find an expert. It's not like this debate is occurring between Einstein and Feynman.
I don't agree -- you're papering over an enormous distinction. Unix tools and the shell are the biggest success story in software reuse that we have. (I would argue that it is why nearly everything we use today is Unix -- servers, iOS and MacOS, Android, etc.)

I somewhat agree when people say "code reuse has failed". When people set out to write "reusable code", it ends up not being reusable. Usually because they think of reuse as writing a bunch of classes that they can "import".

But writing tools is another way to reuse software. For example, in Unix, you reuse ssh for git and for scp. With the web, you can reuse a huge amount of work in Varnish and nginx by chaining components.

So library reuse is not all it's cracked up to be, but that's not what McIlroy is doing. His solution to the word count problem is fantastically and obviously better. It's real reuse.
Has it?

For decades communication researchers had trouble finding big media effects. That said, the same seems to be true for social networks.
The big difference is say a Japanese Steel maker dumps a bunch of foreign steel on the US market, then suddenly disappears... there's a structural crisis because the US steel industry has to rebuild from scratch. Or that's the argument anyway.
If the US government is somehow by definition the bad guys and wholly evil, who (would you lead me to believe) are the good guys?
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Ok got. Its a paid twitter. Then who's gonna pay for that, users or devs?
if devs who bring the users?
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No way. I watched the video. Its lengthy and he didn't tell me exactly what it is?
iTunes will play all of your songs without repeats until you have heard them all as-is. A user would simply go to their music collection, select the shuffle action, and then begin playing a song. No song will be repeated until all of them have been played, which you should have been able to take away if you read the OP or the comment thread. As for the fact that your app is $5, I will refrain from saying anything besides do not spam the link to it on HN please.
> don't forget that we need an organization like the NSA

For those of us who have already forgotten or have never known the reason for its necessity, could you explain why?
Internationally and historically, similar levels of state communications monitoring are correlated with the need for self-preservation by authoritarian regimes. There are also many modern day states which do not possess an agency directly analogous to the NSA.
The problem is partly economic. Most people very advanced in mathematics, I don't think would choose low salaries teaching kids Algebra or "AP Calc" in the inner city. Sure, there are the "heroes" out there but it's a reality.
Hey, if you're stupid enough to use Derby over Meteor, I have absolutely no right and more importantly, no obligation to help you make the better choice.

Everyone has a right to be fucking stupid.
Um, no, he invented the web.
Yeah well, I'm a cat, I steer clear of such mysterious paradigms.
No, the subtitle said pretty clearly that Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. I think confusing that with the Internet has nothing to do with the UK boosting their role in popularizing the Internet (since media outlets all over the world get it wrong all the time) and everything with many people not understanding the Internet.
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I really don't understand the "tomatoes and booing" plan.

At the panel in the room immediately before the director of the NSA spoke ( https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-20/dc-20-speakers.html#DA ), the point was made that cops, prosecutors, lawyers and the press have been invited to DEFCON since DEFCON 1.

These people exist all existed before they spoke at DEFCON, and do after, too. They have plans and goals, and to the extent that they want to explain them, I'm willing to listen. If I want opposing opinions, I can get them in at least four other tracks.

I don't have to believe him, but I feel honor-bound to let him say his piece without being an asshole about it.
If you mean to suggest that the reason for the NSA is for the US government to act as an authoritarian regime (presumably meaning something like a totalitarian state or dictatorship or tyranny), why don't you just say so? And if you don't mean to suggest it, then what is the meaning of your purported correlation?
He got my attention some how. That's why I'm interested on this :)

But he didn't convince me about what it exactly does? That's why I just asked.

Sometimes this discussion might help him to create a good web copy for http://app.net and get more paying users for his product. (I think there may have lot of people like me)
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Back in the days, there was actually a game called "Spot the Fed".

> Basically the contest goes like this: If you see some shady MIB (Men in Black) earphone penny loafer sunglass wearing Clint Eastwood to live and die in LA type lurking about, point him out. Just get my attention and claim out loud you think you have spotted a fed. The people around at the time will then (I bet) start to discuss the possibility of whether or not a real fed has been spotted. Once enough people have decided that a fed has been spotted, and the Identified Fed (I.F.) has had a say, and informal vote takes place, and if enough people think it's a true fed, or fed wanna-be, or other nefarious style character, you win a "I spotted the fed!" shirt, and the I.F. gets an "I am the fed!" shirt.

http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-13/dc13-spotthefed.html

edit: Oops, should have read the article first, it is mentioned there :/
There's more said here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-28/hackers-asked-to-help-...

"He held firm that the internet defences could be ramped up without sacrificing privacy or civil liberties."

However, he seems to be a staunch pro-IP advocate with this statement: "Look at all the intellectual property we've lost over the past decade,"

He should be asked how does one prevent an idea from being easily copied. Because, that's the fundamental problem behind criminalising altruistic IP infringements.

Personally; my hunch is that congress has no idea how to tackle widespread piracy, even NSA doesn't. There's also many 'cyber' companies that are complaining about security issues (Decentralised/Centralised attackers such as Anon/Wikileaks). So, NSA is requested to get into those. One step is a careful PR spokesperson to recruit (Notably, the clothes and charm). Also, to instil uncertainty and doubt among hackers.
Did I miss that rule? I had no idea I can't expose other startups as participants. Not that I did it, but still I wonder if it's true.
> Um, no, he invented the web.

I know that. It seems fewer and fewer others do.

Also, condescension works incredibly badly when you clearly did not read what you were responding to.
Am I reading this right? I can start 16 instances of my app (with 128MB RAM each)? For Free?
SSL is still not available. Thats a biggie for me - https://support.appfog.com/entries/20952598-https

No PostGres.(even though its in the documentation)

Also IronWorker seems to be the only option for running background and cron jobs.
It kills me when people say that MS had a lead on smartphones with Windows Mobile OS, as mentioned in the article. That product sucked hard, along with others that sucked at the time (e.g. Palm, Symbian, etc...). The lead was an illusion because there wasn't anything good to compete against it and consumers barely tolerated it.

Once iOS, then Android, appeared on the scene, the house of cards that was Windows Mobile collapsed in no time. Microsoft didn't have any kind of smartphone lead.
giving away a lot. Not bad. a good move to get some attention.
It's a fantastic phone; unless you care about the odd blue tinge that the display has (seriously, the way it renders flesh tones put me off). The HTC One X has a better display, but otherwise, the Galaxy SIII seems to be a better phone.
Yay. lets begin the exodus (from other service provider free plan)!
Not to mention there are multiple great phones to choose from. Galaxy Nexus and SIII and the ton of S2 variants.
Samsung is not a fantastic phone - its a company that produces fantastic phones.
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Simpler: probability is about finding the relative size of a shape.

When you want to know A|B, that means you want to know what fraction of B is taken up by the intersection A-AND-B.

Well, say you happen to know B|A, or how much A-AND-B takes up inside of A. And you also know the size of A relative to the entire page, and B relative to the same.

Then, you can compute the "absolute" size of A-AND-B by multiplying the fraction of A that A-AND-B takes up by the fraction of the page that A takes up.

Now that you know the "absolute" size of A-AND-B, you can freely compare it to lots of other shapes. In this case, you can find A|B as simply as computing A-AND-B/B.

This is identical to your explanation, except I find it helpful to focus less about chance and expectation, and to think more about geometry and sets of outcomes.

Note that my notion of "absolute" size is still just relative. You could measure size relative to any other shape, but "size relative to the entire page" just happens to be a measure that we often know.
That first piece is gobbledygook. I waded through all his pomposity about historical and structural factors being so much more important than Eichenwald's naive emphasis on personality, waiting for his actual explanation, which finally appears on page 3:

As the Internet emerged, creating a sort of supercritical soup of technological mixing and matching (not to mention viruses from a newly anarchic Russian sphere — the world is a big place), the relatively open PC platform became increasingly unstable and confusing. It was too open, too vulnerable to the natural chaos that hides in openness. At the same time, as consumer markets and graphical capabilities became increasingly important, and vertical integration began to offer serious advantages.

Huh? That's a just-so story made of MBA word salad. You could just as easily concoct the opposite narrative, which ironically is his complaint about Eichenwald.

But it's Eichenwald who has the stronger prima facie case. We're supposed to believe that Gates-to-Ballmer didn't have a major effect? I don't buy that. And that Amelio-to-Jobs didn't have a massive effect? I mega don't buy that.

Besides which, Eichenwald spent a lot of time talking to current and former MS employees, so what he wrote is at least based in real reporting.
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There is no difference. The content distributors fought tooth and nail against new distribution mechanisms 50 years just like they fight tooth and nail against new distribution mechanisms today.
Astounding, new phone model outsells old one about to be replaced soon!

edit: Still, 50M is more than the 37M iPhones Apple sold in the iPhone 4S release quarter.
"MySQL, Mongo, PostgreSQL, etc."

I'd like to know what that "etc." stands for.
> The scientific method says: make a theory, then test it against observation.

That's... not the scientific method I learned. The one I learned starts with "Observe a phenomenon". Of course, then you develop a hypothesis and formalize the observation process so that conclusions can be more reliably drawn from it (an experiment), but you're still observing something first.
I agree with the first two points, but you may be greatly overestimating 3.
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Don't forget all the dirt cheap Samsung phones that get thrown in with service contracts for free or next to free. Also, don't forget that Apple is still dominating in the profit arena. Apple just reported 8.8 billion USD profits for this quarter, while Samsung reported 5.9 billion USD profits.
Why not contract out recording? The cloud dvr case came out fully in favor of it, as long as recordings were per-customer.
This could be quite a game changer. Other than the generous free allowance, the other big difference compared to Heroku is that it allows you to select the infrastructure you launch on, including three different global regions for AWS (Singapore, Ireland, Virginia).

By providing an alternative for Heroku's high prices and the "region-lock" (latency is always a big issue for potential customers), AppFog seems set to be a strong competitor. More competitors in these spaces are always welcome! =]
Thanks. They might consider using less expensive paper when printing dictionaries in the future :)
There's also the aspect about law, allowing warrantless wiretapping of anyone, or, everyone[1].

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-int...
I believe it is the first time Samsung outsells the iPhone by such a large factor (2x).
It was the most condescending speech I've ever witnessed given to adults. It certainly didn't raise my opinion of the NSA. Once you see the video, you will agree.
I want to be charitable but I find the criticism here of Knuth of be quite childish. Was the point to solve the problem with as little work as possible? If that's the case, there's probably some plugin for your favorite text editor that already does this. So what? What was the point exactly? You could just have easily built a library function that does all of this and then write a Pascal program that calls the library in one line of code, state the library is not part of your solution, and say the solution is better than the one with UNIX utilities. So what? Is the point to illustrate that Knuth is unaware of elementary concepts such as code reuse, come on that is just sort of ridiculous.

If you had asked Knuth to solve this problem using any means in the whole world and do it within 10 minutes, I don't think he would have any trouble doing it.

And honestly, if the lesson is to teach us some really basic lesson of code reuse, not reinventing the wheel, or some such like that, I think this was a pretty convoluted way to deliver sort of a common sense lesson.
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>Also, don't forget that Apple is still dominating in the profit arena.

Here's a great graphic to illustrate this point (2nd chart) [1]

[1]: http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/03/the-phone-market-in-2012-a-...
That's really interesting. Will you be open-sourcing this?
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Well said, in a nutshell. And I agree with 3, totally.
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Well, you could have planned ahead... it's not like this situation cropped up spontaneously. I bet months ago you knew the Olympics were starting today and you knew you didn't have a way to view them. Not judging or accusing, just sayin'.
It would be game changer, since it provide other regions like Singapore, which is very welcome for huge potential Asia customers.
Some other points from the linked-to article that back up that the criticism here is a bit ridiculous:

1) This was in 1986. That's about 4 lifetimes ago in computer programming.

2) This was an article specifically to demonstrate literate programming. It wasn't supposed to be "the most efficient way" possible. It's approximately the same argument as "why should I write a program to sort data in an interview; I'm not going to get paid to write sorting functions".
We absolutely need defense for government IT. That should still be smaller than what the government devotes to that task now, but at the NSA level, I get the feeling that most dollars and head count is not going to defense.

I think it is a legitimate question how much of an offensive information warfare standing capability a country needs when not at war, and what level of dirty tricks intelligence agencies should pull in peacetime to monitor adversaries. Particularly due to the non financial costs of this monitoring -- losing our moral standing as a free and fair country, incidentally monitoring citizens or those present in the USA, in violation of the constitution (especially due to the tortured "five eyes" sharing agreements, which, if they weren't governments, would be viewed as a conspiracy and some kind of constructive crime), etc. I judge all of this stuff by "does it make us safer", and at some point, it clearly goes the other way. I think that point is several hundred billion dollars a year less spending than what we have now (well in excess of a trillion). Maybe 50-75% less spending.
Actually, many generations of Macs shipped with 32-bit processors. The first two generations of Intel 15" and 17" laptops, the first generation (at least) of Intel iMacs, and I believe three generations of Intel Mac Minis.
So, with your snark, are you admitting that high end Android phones and iPhones have reached parity, or just that iOS users are leaving for fairer pasturers?

I find the attempts at derision of people gaining on Apple highly humorous.
"enthusiasts" are not just "computer enthusiasts"; I want to excite users and make them care about Gnome - and I want to get excited, interested users, to contribute back to the community by making it dead easy to do so: create interesting apps, create documentation, create content, organize and attend events. in Gnome we have amazing outreach programs that give us new contributors every year - and most of them stick around, because we're a cool (even if sometimes too much introspective) community, where people care about people first, and software second.

I don't see Gnome as suffering from "Mac-envy" - mostly because everyone envies Apple's profits and margins, if not their user share; I mean, who wouldn't envy Apple. we don't have the resources to do multi-year usability studies involving tons of people; and we still lack the tools like Telemetry to get (consensual) user feedback. so we need to take inspiration in our designs and plans from stuff that others are doing, as well as doing our own thing. I mean, the GNOME 3 shell overview is basically Mission Control from Lion - but we designed it in 2008, well before Lion screenshots were released or leaked to the press; who copied who? ;-)

competing with Apple is also a false goal; we want to keep the keep the users free, as well as providing them tools and an environment that allows them to achieve their goals in a simple and delightful way. that will put us up against Apple, and Microsoft, and Samsung, and basically everyone. it never stopped us for the past 15 years, I don't think it will stop us now.
Well, the iPhone 4s was compared in a similar fashion too, when it was launched. One phone model is always going to be replaced by another, at some point in time, so by all means it IS a fair comparison =)
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One of the big problems with NSA is their dual mission of defense and offense. Dual mandates are really dangerous for bureaucracies -- the federal reserve has a similarly conflicted dual mandate of price stability and employment, no as a result it behaves a bit like a highly medicated insane person at times. NSA does the same thing -- releasing SELinux and trying to prevent the spread of encryption in protocols and operating systems simultaneously.
It did seem half-aimed at children. Especially after the corny opening to introduce one of the Defcon Kids ("help grandpa find his arrow keys", or whatever he was going for).

Right. Defcon Kids. An actual con within DEFCON sponsored by the NSA and AT&T, among others. That alone is the creepiest thing I've seen all week, enough so that the first time I saw the posters I was absolutely sure they were some kind of vicious parody.
The article is misleading. This is not Galaxy S vs iPhone but a comparison of total volume of all smartphones moved by Samsung (many of which are cheap junk) vs total volume of iPhones moved by Apple
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You wrote that the British media was claiming Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet. During the opening ceremony, they clearly referred to him as the inventor of the World Wide Web. I'm not quite sure what jonhendry misread.