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nothing remarkable. if any one of us were presented in a fabriacted "forwarded" quote by us,

> in this format...

and we didn't really care, we would probably defend the misquotation (unless we explicitly remember what we actually said.)

when was the last time you said: "If I said that, I was completely wrong: I feel the opposite on this matter."

that would leave someone looking like someone completely unreliable whose opinion shouldn't matter in the slightest. no shit people don't want to be that person and will protect what they think people believe they have said.

you could show this with a second study, in which people are asked to defend a statement others heard them make, but where the defendend KNOWS that what the other HEARD is not what they SAID. It's easier and probably in many cases will happen, that you defend what you know the other person thought you had said.

THIS IS WHY "DISRUPTIVE LISTENING" (sorry, I don't remembe rthe correct word at the moment, the meaning is "actively pretending to hear something else") WORKS SO WELL.

In other words. If you are told, "There is no way we can ever be interested", and you repeat to the caller, "so if I understand you you are saying that there is no way you can put it in this month's budget"

then the person will quite likely agree with that statement. You just changed their meaning and yet they will not contradict you.

I wouldn't either.
LinkedIn has generated $500M+ revenue in 2011 and will generate more than $900M this year. And they market value is $13B. So you can hardly call them "vaporware with no revenue".
Huh, I was using a Wyse terminal on OSX years ago, right now tho' I am using an Atari ST as a terminal (and for 68k dev). Only a hipster would make a big deal about it.
Unfortunately for a lot of applications that just doesn't scale.

In our case, I don't think our clients would be happy if we moved 2 million lines of code to the client-side...
Consolas (Windows) or BitStream Vera Sans Mono (http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1....)
This issue has been addressed in the FAQ. They say generics might get added at some point, but they don't want to rush it. C# 1.0 didn't have generics either.
http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#generics
Congratulations on the most uninformed comment I've ever seen on this website.
>It was founded as a Play framework derivative, if you're familiar with that (I wasn't).

Play is a web framework for Scala and Java: http://playframework.org/
We've been very happy with it.
Your problems sound visual more than anything else.

If you use a UI that is themeable, you can tweak it almost anything. If you stick with Unity, you're not going to be able to theme the launcher et al but you can still tweak the windows.

If you want something that looks like a OSX, there are a billion and five theme packs that should get you 90% of the way there without too much fuss. One example:

- http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Adwaita+Cupertino?con...

Just add icons, fonts, etc. It's all fairly simple stuff with a bit of playing.

Eclipse should follow your main GTK theme.
Obviously science is not the only way to find truths; there is also math.
As core team member of Barman (and manager), I want to start answering from the bottom of your request.
I actually thank you for giving me the chance to answer to this question and to talk about Barman in general.

2ndQuadrant has adopted the open-source business model, and we have a long history of contributions to the PostgreSQL project and its evolution (I encourage you to verify my words). This applies to satellite projects too, including repmgr (High Availability) and Barman (Disaster Recovery). With Barman we have a precise statement: it has to be open-source and to remain open-source, under GNU GPL 3.
Being a business, we need to fund the development of features through our consulting services in Disaster Recovery or through feature sponsorships. But our intention is that everything will be released open-source (otherwise, why bother releasing this software in the first place?).

On a more technical point of view, one of the main characteristics of Barman is that it does not require to be physically located where the Postgres server resides. It performs remote backup (if you can, you can do local backups too, but I prefer sharing nothing between a backup server and a production server - points of view?). If you think about it carefully, this also gives more flexibility in terms of architecture, especially in large master-slave scenarios (you do not need to install Barman on every Postgres server or share the same file system, for instance).

Barman can compress transactions/WAL files (bzip2, gzip or custom) and has a parallel management of the WAL archive and periodical backups (I suggest you read this article where we describe the association between a WAL segment and a backup http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/management-wal-archive-barman/).

Currently it does not automatically compress periodical backups, but gives a clear and simple interface to archiving (to give you an idea, we have a customer that regularly - every week - transfers on tapes a 6TB database with Barman). Current development version has already hooks for pre and post backup operations. Next boundaries will be incremental backup and retention policies (what you probably call backup maintenance) - as I said, depending on fundings we receive.

Another important aspect of Barman is that you can have a backup server managing multiple PostgreSQL servers, from one single place, and having a catalogue of periodical backups.

Then ... I'd say remote recovery, data directory and tablespace relocation during recovery, Point in Time recovery, diagnostics, etc.

If you have more information, you can join the IRC channel too or the mailing list (details on www.pgbarman.org).
Well... I didn't see that coming. Interesting.
I can hear a lot of people complaining on twitter. My friends who use iPhone are really regretting upgrading to iOS6 (we are in India). Two of them have also started considering buying android phones just for the maps.
The problem with this for me was that I used Windows so seldom that when I started it, it would spend a long time installing all the updates accumulated since the last time.
Roku Streaming Stick coming in October
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Is it me or is individual salting rather redundant.

I can see why using one salt forevermore is rubbish but if I salt a different user with a different lt each time, but I need to keep that salt in plaintext next to the hash. Making the whole salting thing a bit redundant if I get a linked in style loss

I certainly see a benefit in padding out user passwords to say 128 bits each time, combined with crypt it will slow down any mass brute force /rainbow attack.

Pre-edit edit: I just answered my own question did I not.
> The web is a lottery.

This is quite an overstatement. You don't simply move to Palo Alto and then have a 1/65,412 chance of starting the next Google.

Instead you have to have a great vision, great execution, and great luck. Now Zuckerberg may not have Jobsian vision and execution (or maybe he does, only time will tell), but you can't argue that he executed the hell outta Facebook and he definitely has a vision even if you find it morally bankrupt. This definitely did not just magically fall in his lap, and he certainly deserves most of the credit regardless of what individuals he screwed over at various stages.
In truth pretty much every language's GC is worse than the JVM's.
Is there a simple way to browse all? Am I missing something here otherwise I'd need to know the name of the theme and knowing that I'd guess I'd already know what it looked like?
It actually scales better because you're distributing the rendering effort on more machines.

You can serve client-side code on demand, the same way you're serving HTML on demand. There are multiple methods of running a rich client HTML application in a modular fashion. For example, you can load new JavaScript and CSS on demand, or you could do a hybrid approach, by reloading the complete page from module to module. Most MVC frameworks for JavaScript support dynamic loading.
In the last paragraph, is the critic asking me to believe that the ethics of meat consumption are somehow more important to me than policy in Palestine? Really?
You are right. I confirm, currently it is only WAL compression (documentation is up to date). I hope that we can add one between incremental backups and retention policies in version 1.1. Which are part of the most wanted features still. :)

By then, we'd love to have a Debian package too.

Thank you.
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Posted on brightbox.com.

Surely this post won't be biased in the least.
I'm not really bothered with trying to make it look like OSX> I just want a more compact UI and I want Eclipse to be more compact so it's actually a joy to use rather than a pain.

I tried several themes before but got nowhere. I'll probably give some more themes a try.
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I've heard brew is great, but I haven't tried it (as my system is currently working OK).

But the reality is, no matter how good brew is, apt-get on a stable Linux distro is just going to be better. Unless you want OpenGL ;)

Linux can be fun when you want media. I told my brother to try Dwarf Fortress. He then proceeded to screw around for half an hour, installing OpenGL drivers (to display a text-based game, WTF?) and an audio library (to run the solo guitar track). It took something like the page-breaking apt-get here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=113626.0)
I meant that if they use generics in some built-in classes, they should also give that possibility to users. If they cannot give it to users, they shouldn't use it in built-in classes. It feels like they think users are too dumb to implement their own, so they give some created by them.
Government surveillance. Government secrecy. Willingness to tolerate war crimes and "move on". Torture. Gitmo. The Bush Doctrine itself.

Not that I subscribe to the "no true Scotsman" style of argument, but ... Obama liberals, as opposed to liberals, don't seem to have noticed the lack of follow-through on what I thought were pretty cogent criticisms of Bush's entire oeuvre.
My experience in the reverse and backs up your assumption: in the UK TomTom has MUCH better maps than my Garmin device.
I would not recommend taking advice on complicated matters of international intellectual property law from a Q&A site on the Internet. Go talk to a lawyer.
So essentially they let themselves get blackmailed by the US government. Campaign donations all around!

I think that this was the actual goal of legislation like SOPA and PIPA, make the "internet industry" pay up by threatening to threaten their business model. It doesn't seem likely to me that they would really risk seriously damaging a largely US based multi-billion dollar industry, but Google, Facebook and Co. decided to play it safe.
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They're open source benchmarks, try them yourself if not convinced :)
It needs to be addressed in the code, too.
hehe, sure, but the phoronix test suite is open source. Trivially easy to reproduce the results. (like literally a couple of commands and a few tens of pennies of server time).
I think everyone knows the answer to that question, and it is: not yet. Future support has been announced but it's not there yet.
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The JVM has several swappable GCs, both mature and new. There is plenty of documentation out there about them.

Go has (had?) libgc and is going to get a slightly better GC. I believe it's not even generational. Again, there are plenty of articles about that, especially about the recent and prominent bug on 32bit platforms.
Why does that seem surprising? The vast majority of people will perceive that policy in Palestine neither directly affects them nor can be directly affected by them, while the ethics of meat consumption affects everyone who eats meat and everyone who chooses not to eat meat for ethical reasons.
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Having a prior opinion is about having some previous understanding of the subject being discussed. If more data were to be provided to you then you might reason differently. Not because you are changing your mind or flip-flopping (like politicians say), but because you are a thinker and coherent individual. You will analyse the new data with fresh eyes and challenge the old data with it. Its all part of the scientific approach. Don't you agree?
Thinking about it - why big companies don't move then? To avoid software patent cases? I mean they can still have skilled workers working in Silicon Valley, can't they? But the company is registered somewhere where they can't sue them. Or what am I missing here?
Where did you get that number from? 1 kg of plastic costs around $50, and since 1 kg = 2,2 lbs, each lbs costs around $22.
That's why I love github :)
Well also in the price comparison they forgot to mention EC2 offers reserved instances. A Brightbox instance would cost $466 USD a month, and an EC2 reserved c1.xlarge instance would cost $102 a month with a 3 year reserved instance. If you average out the cost to reserve an instance over 3 years, the total would be $188 a month, This means EC2 is actually 60% cheaper than Brightbox.
First, you're saying Go will be an excellent systems programming language, which is its main stated purpose. To me, it already means that it's something that's worth looking at.

Then, you claim it doesn't work like established alternatives, so it must be over hyped. Like anything new, it's normal to see hype, misinformed opinions, advertising and enthusiasm about it.

I haven't written a line of Go, but it's going to be the next programming language that I learn because I find its concurrency model very compelling.
But the book will probably cost more and (more importantly, assuming "people respond better when they'll get a physical gift" is the reason for offering the USB stick) the book won't be ready until late 2014.

It would be nice if he could offer up a copy of the existing graduate level text as a reward, but the publisher's list price is $100+ and there's probably not much room for him to move inside that.
The pgbench score is conspicuously missing too, which is heavily disk dependent, which is universally heavily over-subscribed by VPS providers.

There's a smokescreen at the end "our storage is hardware RAID6 with 15k rpm SAS disks" which means very little. (i.e. if that's internal storage across 8 spindles, it's barely going to sustain 1000 IOPS in anger. That could be monopolized by a just a handful of VMs)

This link should be buried.
From the comments:

In your price comparison you forgot to mention EC2 offers reserved instances. Your instance would cost $466 USD a month, and an EC2 reserved c1.xlarge instance would cost $102 a month with a 3 year reserved instance. If you average out the cost to reserve an instance over 3 years, the total would be $188 a month, This means EC2 is actually 60% cheaper than Brightbox.
I've been learning and trying out both Clojure and Go recently. While they clearly take very different approaches on many issues, I think they also have a surprising amount in common in their core philosophies. They both focus strongly on simplicity, removing boilerplate, performant and minimalist core data structures, and providing clean abstractions for parallelism.

The split in how each goes about targeting 'simplicity' is quite interesting, and seems close to the heart of each language. In Go, simple seems to mean: obvious, intuitive, unclever, and familiar. Clojure's conception is much headier: simplicity isn't accomplished through familiarity and comfort, but through the power and flexibility to create appropriate abstractions, and the discipline to avoid dangerous ones. The most immediate consequence, for a newbie, is that Go feels a lot easier to learn, while Clojure is more mind-expanding and abstract. In Go, simplicity is easy. In Clojure, the simplicity is deeper and perhaps more theoretically pure, but reaching it can be quite a challenge.

My preliminary feeling so far is that each feels like a very clean, modern language and is basically superior to other languages I've used (Ruby, Python, C, js) by every important metric except maturity of community and libraries, and each will have its place. Go's lack of cleverness probably makes it ideal for more run-of-the-mill systems with a lot of straightforward io, where organization, maintainability, and baseline performance are more important than development of powerful algorithms, while Clojure will be a better fit when cleverness is desired either to solve difficult problems or for rapid feature development (a la pg's Beating The Averages). I could also see them potentially working quite well in tandem for a system that spans both those categories.

One more thought: as much as I like Clojure and understand the pragmatism of targeting the jvm, Go's ultra-simple, ultra-fast runtime, along with libraries and a community that embody a similar spirit, really is such a breath of fresh air compared to the jvm world and even the ruby/python worlds. In this realm I think Go beats Clojure at its own game. Thanks to the more 'difficult' choice of starting a fresh platform rather than leveraging an existing one, Go's whole ecosystem and development experience now share a unifying philosophy, and every aspect of working with Go is suffused with what makes Go great.
You don't hear stories about Elon Musk shafting his friends and acquaintances, stringing them along and stealing their ideas.

Apparently Musk was a bit of a jerk when x.com merged with PayPal, and is supposedly difficult to work for even today (he works 100 hour weeks, probably demands the same high standards of his employees as he does of himself), but there's none of the skeletons in the closet with Musk as there is with Zuckerberg.

Plus there's the fact that Musk is tackling really difficult problems like online payments (fraud), mass-producing electric vehicles, making solar installations viable and aiming to make humans a multi-planetary species. Zuckerberg just created the latest social fad, IMO which is now in the process of self-destructing.
"put your groceries in the front basket"

That may work fine for one person who lives alone, but the average front basket will barely fit the toilet paper and milk to last a four-person household a week, never mind the two dozen other things they'll need. And someone with two kids doesn't have time to go shopping every single day just because her transport will only hold a fraction of the groceries they need.
New Apple maps app under fire from users
Actually, in many places in Europe Google transit directions were non-existent or useless, and apps providing similar or better functionality are very common.

* Netherlands -> 9292

* Poland -> JakDojadę + Bilkom

* Zurich -> Wemlin + SBB Mobile

* In Germany I only know the trains one, which would be DB Navigator (for some reason separate from DB Tickets).
More like how to create a meaningless title.

Seriously though, the whole article looks like it's been stolen and run through a thesaurus.

> Line-height property is used to build a transcript more readable. The transcript helps to increase the quantity of gap between every stripe while adding the extra line-height and it helps in the judgment that bound as it moves behind the content.

Make your time.
While I agree with you, the one thing I miss is the repo description on my news feed. Before I could have an at a glance view of what my friends were starring and hacking on without ever having seen it before. Now If I want to know what visionmedia/every, mattlong/hermes, or erichocean/blossom is I need to click through. It's not much, but it's definitely going to put an extra step in the filtering of signal vs. noise.
I agree, a nice list to flick through would be good.
Maybe they are afraid of introducing some features they would later regret. This is not a hobby project of some lone hacker, it's meant to compile Google's infrastructure.

I really don't see why user code has to have the same capabilities as the runtime. It looks more like a philosophical request than a practical one.
For some people, VM means everything that the language offers to the programmer at runtime. Sometimes libraries, usually GC. Even malloc could be considered VM.
I partially agree with you post. Primarily the portion on keeping your manager out of the loop.

From my experience working in in IT, if you aren't in the loop about various matters that is not a good sign. Personally, I keep my manager out of the loop because she makes the problem 10x worse. Even then when I do discuss matters, she isn't willing to own any decisions.

A manager should be a people and idea cultivator. That is a very rare breed to find.
Interesting contrast to what Apple is doing to expand their campus. Colorful towers v. a giant doughnut. I can't imagine Apple's campus ever being a skyscraper. Allegedly Apple's new campus is only 4 stories high to give it a "human" scale. Now I understand what that means.
>you're saying Go will be an excellent systems programming language, which is its main stated purpose

It will be, when it is finished. Without dynamic linking it cannot replace C/C++ for lots of the intended use cases.

>Then, you claim it doesn't work like established alternatives, so it must be over hyped.

No, I claim that it lacks most useful features of the powerful languages it is constantly being compared with. Rob Pike says you don't give up much expressiveness moving from Python/Ruby to Go. This is absurd. Go has a different way of doing things yes, but for many things, that different way is to write more code.
It's still not practical. some other reasons:

1. It doesn't perform on some browsers which people use (IE7,IE8). I'm not willing to tell these users to go away or stick Chrome frame in as it makes us look like arrogant assholes.

2. It requires a large memory ceiling even with dynamic loading on a client browser. That kills older browsers and mobile devices.

3. It's an absolute bastard to test properly with Selenium or Ranorex as paths through the application require navigating through anchors rather than HTTP endpoints.

4. The entire UI would be dynamically typed shooting a lot of compile time checks that we rely on.

5. Internationalization is a bastard, particularly with multi-currency support, international date support and multiple languages.

6. It would require more state. State is bad. State means bugs.

7. It shifts the security model to an untrusted zone i.e. the client.

8. We have no scalability problems (5% cluster utilisation) and we shift 100 million requests a day.

Sorry but it doesn't cut it. I'd rather shift a WebStart or ClickOnce behemoth than do this with a client side MVC framework.
Math can yield many truths. Science is how you determine whether or not a math truth corresponds to the universe we live in.