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I'd say beware the opposite as well.

If you're ‘just a’ developer in a larger company, you may rarely get to actually fix these high-level problems you discover. You kind of have to live with it, which is frustrating.

And if you're working alone, too ‘high-level’ thinking may well slow down getting things done. If you don't have around someone with more pragmatic attitude, be sure to have a bit of it yourself. =)
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You know, whatever philosophy you or I profess to be right, if it causes us to speak poorly of our neighbour, or despise or harm or ridicule our neighbour in the slightest, for whatever reason, if it gives us no reason to consider others and the interests of others as more significant than ourselves, then that philosophy is point blank wrong, and of no use in describing the world or navigating it.
Yes, that's what i was trying to say.
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The nontechnical guide to C pointers:

They're post office box numbers.

In this analogy, the post office is all your RAM. The big place where my analogy breaks down a bit is that, in this little world, the post office will store things bigger than one box in multiple adjacent boxes, so to get anything into or out of the post office you have to specify which box you want them to start with and how many boxes they'll have to use.

The star (dereference) operator takes as its argument a post office box number and instructs the machine to go to that post office box and start taking things out of enough boxes beginning with that box to satisfy the type of the pointer. The only things that only take one box are char values; the number of boxes everything else takes up depends greatly on the specific kind of hardware.

It's possible to put a slip of paper containing a number into a post office box; in 32-bit x86, a number long enough to encode a post office box number takes up four boxes. In 64-bit x86, it takes up eight boxes.

Using two stars means 'Go to this box, take out enough stuff from the next few boxes to make a pointer, go to the box specified by that pointer, and take enough stuff out from that box (and possibly the next few) to satisfy the type of that pointer.' Using three stars involves another go-to-box step, using four stars another, and using five stars is usually a sign of gross mental derangement.

(Oh, and if you're running under an OS much more featureful than MS-DOS, the post office box is a total lie told to your application by the OS. Getting into that gets a bit complicated.)
One might even say it has an order of magnitude more specificity than a single order.
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VPS (on Xen, KVM, ...) are all fine and dandy if you control the underlying host machine.

Good luck going with a provider that overbook their machines beyond usefulness (most do).
Kick off Puppet/Chef runs? It's not too hard to automate these tasks, either (or even put a fancy interface around it, though of course this takes a bit more time.)

It's also a bit insulting when you say that we 'in fact [do it] by hand', because sysadmins, as a whole, strive to not do that. Fine, I can see myself logging into a box and typing 'chef-client' or 'puppet' by hand - but this is too much work to be done by hand. That's why we automate. I don't know why you have this idea that we simply want to make things harder just for job security.
Move over Samsung Galaxy S3, here comes Xiaomi M2 at $320
I thought thinking in code was how every programmer worked. So people usually write code like they write words?
the issue is once you get to 100 nodes. you are issuing a 100 node ssh loop from a git-post-receive hook? I'm wary of that.
I have spoken to people that really like the idea. It came from discussions a few months ago I had with a potential client. He would be a potential user, he had the initial idea for it and I've completely revamped it and developed it further. I'd have built it for him but he was unwilling to pay the development costs.

I also used it as the basis of my application to the Startup Games event in London at the end of the month; and got accepted.

So I think it is strong.
What I want to know is - why are they so much more expensive than linode(for example).

Hosting prices in Australia are all super-expensive.
I work in Manhattan and live right by the Brooklyn Bridge, so I think the tourists will take care of this problem for me.
> Get it while you can

This book is published by Cambridge University Press who have a good track record for allowing electronic copies to stay up [1]. It will be interesting to see how they adapt as e-readers become a compelling alternative to hard-copy for this type of text of book. I'm afraid I won't like the answer.

[1] Examples:
http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html
It's going to take a lot of development time and naturally the weekend will only provide 28% of the time that a full week would provide.

I'm also back at University at the end of September so time is limited.
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It's a good vision about Continuous Integration services.
You shouldn't be a happy Linode customer. They still haven't owned up to what happened during that Bitcoin incident and what they've done to stop it happening again. Major security incidents DEMAND transparency e.g. look how professional Cloudflare was.

So for all you know your VPS could still be hacked in seconds despite whatever security measures you have in place.
I don't know; it's certainly given an unknown candidate a lot of press. Perhaps AirBnB has dodged a bullet, but if you take his statements at face value (e.g. he doesn't want to work at such companies) then he's lost nothing and potentially gained several offers from better fits.
Hosting is a lot more expensive in Australia.. To give you some idea, for wholesale bandwidth alone we pay in the order of 20times what it costs in the US or Europe.

The reality is we're a long way from everywhere. When we connect into the US we need to run the cables 15,000kms and we get to pick up the vast majority of the costs to do so. Then when you try split that cost over 22 million people versus the 300million++ in the US, you end up with economies of scale which are way out of whack with what your familiar with. :)

To give you some idea, the vast majority of residential DSL connections cost in the order of $100/month .. and only come with 150GB data allowance. :)
Depends at what level. Dedicated isn't too bad and there are some VPS providers who have reasonable prices e.g. http://www.mammothvps.com.au/home/index

If Amazon EC2 does come to Sydney as expected then I would expect a bit of a shakeup of the industry.
You need to charge it. Wireless inductive charging is less efficient due to the power lost through resistive heating. Heat dissipation is already a problem when charing batteries. Also, cables are still much faster than wifi for transferring lots of data.
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I would say never under-estimate the amount of time polish takes - that last 10% of tweaking tiny details always takes a long time (or as the oft-repeated saying goes, the first 90% of work takes the first 90% of time, the last 10% of work takes the other 90% of time).

Good to hear progress is promising though :)
Good news is, the old MySQL extension for PHP is being depreciated. Developers will have to move to MySQLi or PDO (which offer prepared statements as standard) to continue using MySQL.
In case anyone misses it, the advantage of this over other IMAP solutions is that it preserves information specific to Gmail - most importantly - labels aren't converted into IMAP folders (and therefore emails aren't duplicated needlessly).
The first Xiaomi phone makes the company billion dollars and lots of fans in China. The second phone Xiaomi M2 will be released soon. Android 4.1, 4.3 inch 1280x720 342PPI screen, 8MB f2.0 1080p camera, 2GB memory, HSPA+.
Don't worry guys, crisis averted:

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It's awesome that they're doing this. Also, I doubt I'll participate, but my brain just registered "Stripe is a fun place that's smart about security", making me more likely to use them in the future or even want to work for them.

Companies, take note: providing fun and education to the community can boost your reputation.
right about time to turn back down from 15ish to 10 maybe even 7. even more likely before reaching 17
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He buys a machine, takes it home, and it won't boot => Take it back and get an immediate refund.
In other words, the market that doesn't know hosting need not cost that much?

You need to be a lot clearer on what you're bringing to the table to be able to charge four times as much.
You can replace 'ssh loop' with parallel SSH connections, or pubsub, or...
If the gmvault on-disc format is well defined why not produce a tool to convert that to maildir or whatever? Gmvault does one thing well (allegedly, I've not used it), "export to some other format" just seems like feature creep especially when conversion can be done offline.
And if you didn't have two monitors? Little icons zooming around.

IMO, the best thing about TA and TA:Spring is the explosions - when you're under attack, you really know it. Supreme Commander lost all of that feel once you got more than a handful of units.
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Love that NH is creating opportunities like this but the deal that is offered for this techout is not startup friendly.
One can expect a little bit of taxpayer subsidy in the future, since it is freeing up incredibly valuable road space that in most city centers is a limited resource that can't be expanded.
Space-based is the wrong way to go for RTS. Much like quidditch, you can't do a decent battle game in 3D because there are too many ways to go around each other. See homeworld for a fantastic effort that sadly has no tactical depth in multiplayer. Then compare that to supreme commander where a key part is deciding which areas to place static defences at, and which to rely on your mobile units to control.

/currently working, very slowly, on an improved TA-like RTS
The little interactive graphics language they were writing the compiler for is Pico:

http://spinroot.com/pico/index.html

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/gerard/cnn.mpg

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/gerard/pixelface.mpg
I don't know about Memory stick, i've never used one but Minidisc and betamax were a better design than the things they were competing against but they didn't catch on or where quickly superseded by newer generation technology.

This dock connector is a better design than microUSB and the existing dock connector. As to ETSI, MicroUSB is pretty flimsy, why not have a better design?
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Damn crazy! Android shaped cupcackes and sandwiches?
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Used to code in C...moved to work at Google Labs...now raves about Go being the most productive language EVARR and has replaced C...Hmmm.
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GCC now internally concentrates more on C++
https://twitter.com/patrick_h_lauke/status/23603022452819148...

and from irc: "in other words, its the size of the storage which matters and not really the base, other browsers seem to use 8 bits, we use 16" @shwetank
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The advice is to be Ken Thompson?
Add !important to the 256 classes too and they win.
That's a very valid point!

And I agree, it is sometimes difficult to get that message across (especially, on a single blog post). Probably the biggest offering is seriously talented sysadmins, there's plenty of articles which hopefully get some of that across. For example, the 10 year old MySQL bug which we recently fixed. Could be wrong, but I am not sure that your $20/month hosting providers would be doing that for a client.
TA Spring is fairly easily scriptable in Lua. A lot of the good players on multiplayer have scripts which will (eg.) skirmish and keep out of range of enemy defenses. Might be worth a look?
By far the worst thing about RMS is that his far-fetched, nightmarish scenarios have the tendency to become reality in a few years.
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>These guys want to make video games. Maybe that's enough to make it work and maybe not. Time will tell. But by the logic of #3 we should all just do whatever puts money in the bank. That argument quickly devolves into a lot of would-be entrepreneurs sulking back to jobs they vowed they would learn to live without or building companies that are temporary money making opportunities, not something worth the devotion required.

I'm all for taking a smaller paycheck, or running a business that pays below your market salary, to do what you love. If you're only putting yourself out, and you can keep it up, then by all means live in a shack, or your car, if you prefer that to what you would have to do to earn more.

But at the point where you're taking money from your parents, relying on your friends' hospitality and giving them nothing in return, you have failed; give up and go get a real job.
Bet it taught you a lesson a bout testing properly though.
It is okay to love a company but note that the company never falls in love with you as an employee. They always do what is in their best interest, interpret as what is in the interest of the major share holders and not employees or minor share holders.

That is why even when you kill your self for a product launch or their overall success, they still don't hesitate to give you the sack if it is required for something like cutting cost not to talk of when major adversity comes.

My point is be pragmatic and not too emotional with loving a company especially if you are not a founder or major share holder. Many people have been burnt by loving someone or an organization that does not have capacity to return that love.
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Tell me with a straight face that phones would not currently have multi-touch capacitive touchscreens if the iPhone never came out.

Tell me with a straight face that mp3 players would never have taken off without the ipod.

Apple have had a big impact on the market, but most of the time they just release products at a time that the market is changing anyway and then claim to have "invented" all the technology that goes into it.
I remember the time before monads
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I think you missed "coauthored Go..."
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As someone who don't have VS2012 - a screenshot of what you're talking about ?
I've heard that the MicroUSB connector was designed to be flimsy so that if anything wore out it would be the cheap replaceable cable rather than the expensive device. From this blog article it would appear this new design does this backwards: "The solid parts are stronger because they’re solid. The flexible parts are weaker because they can move. Because the flexible parts are weaker, you want to make sure they are recessed so they can be protected."
Don't Skype and Instagram use Postgres?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Prominent_users
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Calculate how much runway you need to sustain building your own product with zero income for say, 2 years. Either

(1) save till you have enough then stop taking client projects* or

(2) Narrow down the scope of your product so you can work on it part time.

* Even when you are working full time on your project, it doesn't hurt to do some consultancy at higher rates to keep your contacts warm as well as building a stronger runway.
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Link to the actual announcement: http://blog.chromium.org/2012/08/announcing-pwnium-2.html

If I had a "Full Chrome exploit: Chrome / Win7 local OS user account persistence using only bugs in Chrome itself", I could sell it for far more than the $60k on offer. Why not offer $1m?
It looks like this game will be essentially 2D, played on multiple maps (planets) simultaneously.

Specifically, I don't see any combat happening in interplanetary space--just units built on one planet being lobbed at another planet to fight there.
OK, thanks for clarifications !
It would be useful to be able to pack the thousands of files in just one big 7z archive.
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That's one of the less obvious (to me, at least) benefits of test driven development: When you're writing out your unit test, you're forced to think about how the implementation is going to work.
Hi - I wrote n64js.

Yes, it's true that Super Mario 64 is one of the easiest roms to get running as it uses relatively few features.

The format (z64 vs v64) shouldn't matter - I byteswap the file on load. I don't handle compressed roms though.

A few other roms that should boot: mario kart, wetrix, aeroguage, extreme-g, pilot wings, star fox. I haven't tested many others yet - let me know if you have success with anything else!

One thing to bear in mind: reload the page when you switch roms. There's some state I'm not resetting properly which breaks everything quite horribly. Sorry for the lameness - I'll try to get this fixed ASAP.

If you open the debug pane, you should get some debug output which gives you some clue as to why the rom failed to boot (usually unhandled memory accesses, unimplemented save format, unimplemented instruction, something like that). For the games that do boot, there are still some cpu bugs which prevent them from passing the CIC-chip's CRC check. E.g. GoldenEye and Zelda OoT both seem to fail in this way.
> I'm not even talking about gestures. Let me see you getting used to fluid two finger scrolling

I call two finger scrolling a gesture.

Most mac users I know don't know any gestures at all, they just use it like a PC trackpad.

For me, I immediately turn off all gestures as soon as I buy a new laptop. They are just more trouble than they are worth in my opinion. I've tried them - they just get in the way.

I also know people that swear by gestures and the macbook touchpad - and for them the mac is a good choice. For the rest of us, it's just a slightly bigger touchpad with hidden mousebuttons (another thing that makes macs difficult to use for beginners).
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I suppose there is an element of trust, the moment you engage in what is basically the start of an employment. Just like you don't bad-mouth a former employer, you don't do so with an almost-former-employer. Try to turn it on its head - Wouldn't it clearly be out of line if a potential employer discussed a candidate openly?

On a scale of misbehaviors, this is probably far on the "good" end, but still. Who should gain from this post? If Airbnb, why not mail them directly? If he is "warning" potential hires, aren't he in effect hurting Airbnb? If he wanted to discuss hiring practises in general, why not anonymise them?
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> I completely disagree with everybody who raves about the importance of the mag-safe connector, I've never had a problem with the standard round port connector of my pc's

The advantage to the mag-safe connector is not evident at first. It only becomes evident when one day you are using your laptop while it is connected to the power cable, and someone else trips over/steps on/moves a chair in a way that eventually yanks on the far end of the power cable. Only once you see that happen in real life (to yourself or someone else) do you truly appreciate the advantage of the mag-safe connector.
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I'm not sure what your point is. That dell laptops have become thinner over the last 10 years? Or is it that they have been absolutely in no way influenced by the imac?
Price is not always related to how hard it is to make. Google Search is a fantastically expensive piece of software, but is free. Charge what people are willing to pay.
So true, djb is a legend in the field. To give an example, he wrote qmail as a replacement for sendmail and the last stable release was in 1998. There have been no identified security vulnerabilities in that time. If you want to learn how to program securely, read ""Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0" - http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf
https://bitbucket.org/selectnull/.vimrc-repo
TL;DR: underscores is a GPL Wordpress theme that makes a good base for building your own Wordpress theme.
Many developers love Apple and their products and they create apps that makes Apple smile to the bank.

Apple does not return the love, hence they commoditize apps and make building a business off apps, a race to the bottom for $1.99 or free as a result, many indie developer are getting broke right now. Very sadly, the same commoditize apps, help make iphone and ipad appealing to consumers, which in turn gives Apple the leverage to sell them for $500
or more because it is a hardware or device company and software or your app is only a complement to the hardware.

Where is the returned love from Apple. Be pragmatic, even while you choose to love an entity like Apple, that lacks capacity to return the love and will always act in self interest. Always search to see if your love is reciprocated by the person or organization you are in love with, because that is your self interest. Self love gives us the capacity to love others. Self love encompasses self interest among other things.

If Apple acts only in self interest, why do developers choose to act out of love aka blind fan boy-ism that is detrimental to their business (indie app development)?

http://andrewchen.co/2012/08/15/mobile-app-startups-are-fail...

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/going-broke...
I've tried to use _s for a project and it was very bloated. This looks much better although what the generator only does is to rename the theme.

Hopefully this becomes the official starter theme with a much more powerful generator to support it.
Interesting to note that he has now replaced C with Go (GoLang)
I thought it was pretty interesting as well because I have always thought that game players played in the dark, the only light being their computer or TV.

If you look at the big LAN party conventions, or LAN parties in general, they're always hosted with the lights off.
It's actually the exact same thing ;) the generator simply takes care of all the search and replace you have to do to get started with _s, nothing more, nothing less :)
I just booked it from Flightfox. Only 1080 USD and the flight is shorter with less stopovers than the one I found for 1200 EUR. I'm pretty impressed and will definitely be using Flightfox again.

I really like how you can talk back and forth with the experts via the comment system.
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