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I love your incredibly naive and arrogant attitude. Everyone has personality flaws and that is what the policies are there to insure against i.e. people like yourself.

I used to work in the defence and health sectors in the UK and now work in the financial sector. Everything is locked down for a reason.

It's about controlling and partitioning data, not bic vs parker. The tools are entirely irrelevant.

If someone sticks a copy of SkyDrive or Dropbox on a PC (both of which do their best to work around your firewall) and uploads some financial or classified documents, then you are simply fucked. Here in the UK, it carries a £30,000 GPB fine at average in the financial sector or 25 years in prison in the defence sector.

This is serious stuff and the policies are there for a reason.

Most of these places don't even have Internet access on site other than a couple of dedicated machines in the IT department.

Enthusiasts are so detached from corporate reality.
Sometimes people take half of Econ 101 and really run wild with it.

Labor markets are notoriously not ones that can be explained by simple application of the "law" of supply and demand. There are massive uncertainties in knowledge on both sides, power dynamics, high transaction costs, and substantial difficulties in knowing how much and of what type of value the employee will offer to the organization and the organization to the employee.

And even theoretically there are plenty of models where you're totally out there. Google monopsony and labor markets for just one situation where raising a minimum wage should increase employment.

Empirically, "it depends" seems to be the right answer, but even the most negative studies on minimum wages don't claim that minimum wages are in effect within an order of magnitude or two of what the financial crisis did to employment rates.
Well, on Mars, he's Mr. 50% Earth-intensity sunshine. We call him "50-cent" for short.
They could have AT LEAST gone with USB3. I mean really, it's 2012 and you release 'the most advanced phone ever' and it's running technology that's 10 years old. It's not as if better, "standard" options don't exist.
Americans pay a LOT for their cellular service. I mean $100/month is just absolutely insane.

Currently I pay about $17/month but if I wanted unlimited everything I could get it for $32/month.

We don't pay to receive calls or texts however so there is little need to have "unlimited" either. Even the thought that I am paying for advertisers to send me junk text messages or calls would drive me insane, if I was in the US.

The US and Canada really have it rough with mobile and internet services...
One more time please
Does anyone know of a "Big List Of Things You Should Not Implement" that would help developers avoid stumbling into patent traps?
Many others will likely get this wish against their will.

Really? I suspect that if you offered a million one way tickets to mars and advertised it as almost certain death, they would sell out in less than an hour.
You snuggle up in your Martian lean-to while tending to your zero-oxygen, 1% atmosphere fire.

I'll take Mr. Sunshine's pressurized, nuclear-powered, underground bunker.
Anyone know if deleting message history is enough to kill the history on their servers?
Interactive coding is a very powerful way of working, it's one of the reasons I'm so productive in Mathematica.

At a Go talk he did, I raised the idea with Russ Cox of having a "repl" package that would allow one to instrument a running program with a live REPL to do debugging and development on it.

The reflect package is powerful enough to make some of that relatively straightforward, but one major problem is that Go can't construct new types at runtime. Another challenge would be dynamic linking of new code -- because the Go toolchain doesn't support dynamic linking there would seem to be no hope of say entering anonymous functions on the REPL.

Unless one builds a full Go interpreter -- but who wants to be in the business of maintaining a fully compliant Go interpreter that can interoperate with the Go runtime?

Still, calling existing functions and banging on variables would be pretty useful.
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$100 Billion is more than half the market capitalization of Coca-Cola. So for that amount of money, one might be able to buy considerable influence with the company (e.g. via voting rights that come with stocks), and run it into the ground.

Of course, he's probably talking about using the $100 billion to build up a competitor, and make some money.
Yep. You'll normally see this happen if you restore an iPhone backup onto another iPhone then try to launch WhatsApp. Login will fail and you'll be asked to type in the SMS received.
The old policy is the same as the new policy.

The only thing that changes is that MS is going to release IE10 and, in accordance with the policy, support for IE8 will end after that.
Enough of the hero worship. If Musk gets on one of his rockets in 15 years and launches it towards Mars, he will certainly die. Long before he reaches Mars.

Yes, he's a great, fascinating man. I enjoy observing this stuff as much as the next guy. But Good God - stop slobbering on yourselves. This is marketing fluff of the highest order.
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It's a fair complaint. Duplicating code just for the sake of type specialization is annoying and interface{} has it's costs as well as dangers.

However, the built-in arrays, slices, and maps (which are parametrically polymorphic) seem to have covered all the cases where I need parametric types so far. Maybe I'm just lucky or haven't written enough lines of Go but it seems like an 80/20 sort of feature in the presence of the built-in maps.
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Interesting app. It's not faster than the web version but the refresh is nice. The only thing missing is login and comment support.
Yeah. Especially for someone who hosts a static blog.
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I think it is hard to foresee removing from the foreseeable future one of the few bits of the future that is foreseeable.
This is unacceptable. I found it unacceptable last time that Uniloc sued mojang for minecraft. And I find it more unacceptable now that they're pounding on a guy who's not got the deep pockets that Notch has.

This is unacceptable. Entirely unacceptable.

Tomorrow it could be me, or it could be you. This has to stop, like right fracking now. Take Uniloc down. Take all patent trolls down. Stop this patent law bullshit. Right now!
Something is very, very wrong with their environment, then. I've seen Win7 come up faster on HD netbooks with worse system specs than what you posted downthread.
if you grok me.

How appropriately Heinlein. :)
I have always told myself that ending my days on another planet will be an absolute definition of success for myself no matter what else I don't manage to accomplish. It's a sufficient but not necessary condition. In ten years I hope to be working in a business related to space exploration.
They could theoretically take the app down, or issue a warning to users.

On the other hand, this article does little to alert users, while blithely informing techies, some of whom are likely to be hackers of some order.
Google apps can.

If they had dropped support for it on google.com that would be an entirely different kettle of fish.
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If Apple cared about developers writing low-level code, they would pay one developer to make sure that Valgrind, debuggers, and the like worked out of the box.
A former colleague of mine had information in his thesis which could invalidate a certain patent. For various unplanned reasons his thesis was not available online nor through his alma mater.

For a while, every year or two he would get a call from a lawyer who was willing to pay him a hefty fee for a copy of his thesis. For the lulz he always asked "do you want me to publish this somewhere?" and the lawyer always said "NO!"
It's not a memory management issue. It's because poorly written kernel mode drivers could piss all over memory at will. If the drivers were WHQL cert, they won't do that. Cheap ass kit with b-grade hardware (realtek, cheap gateway and no brand machines) will just bring you pain. Buy a Dell optiplex or precision series machine or a Lenovo laptop and it'd be bomb proof both software and hardware wise.

9x and XP are two completely different operating systems with different kernels and some shared userland.

You need to find someone to fix all that i.e. buy some decent hardware - it's not normal.
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These developers hit a wall quickly, and have to work harder (or just write poorly thought-out/designed code) over time. That does not mean they are less capable than classicly trained CS programmers; it just means they have to overcome certain learning curves at a steeper incline. Saying this tho - personality, drive, etc makes a huge difference and overshadows this argument. Want to know how to optimize your website for a high-latency 3G mobile connection? I bet that having eaten some TCP/IP 7 layer burrito will help you in some way.
You are assuming the system isn't functioning as performed.

They send out a ticket, act like a bureaucracy when questioned about it, and eventually get paid. ("They" being both the government entity and the private camera operator.)

Why would they bother changing it? Traffic courts are a laugh, since it's recognized that driving is a privilege and not a right.
Peta-watt hours of energy came in from the sun for all of human history. Most of it is used by the ecosystem.

In any case we didn't use it then. We aren't going to magically use it now.

The fact that we're drilling for fossil energy in increasingly hard to reach places is strong evidence that using more solar energy is non-trivial. You can't just hand wave away the energy issue.
Agreed but the only reason this exists is because people are lazy. It's not hard to make a Bootstrap site look nothing like Bootstrap. The problem is people put a site up and focus on the backend and consider the front-end solved because they use Bootstrap. That's the wrong way to look at it. People need to realize it's beginning to look like they are just using the default WP or Tumblr template when they do that. If you wouldn't do that for your personal blog, why would you do it for your companies website?

Take a bit of time and style it at least. Change the colors, put a header image on it - something. Anything.
If you have good invalidating prior art, re-exam is cost effective and scary for the patentee. Not only can it knock out the patent, even a small change to the claim language in light of the prior art during re-exam means that the patentee can not collect damages prior to the modification. This affects the troll's current target and past and future licensees as well.

Even if you don't go into a reexam, it is a stick to wave to try to bring about a more reasonable settlement.
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Seriously, having security cameras with interlocking fields of view is very common. They watch both whatever their target is as well as each other.
US for now, but we're planning to expand internationally. Need to make some changes to accommodate postal codes as well as countries from drop-down.
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PHP IteratorAggregate getIterator() should be static? (Seems sensible to me...)
Cool idea, tons of execs and sales reps have corporate AMEX cards but use really boring/generic templates for all their presentations.

I think the lifetime value for customers could be high if you can deliver quality work consistently.
Only that Hotmail has been much improved recently and even got a completely new design with Outlook.com. Also, care to elaborate on what "much better ones" there are? I barely use Facebook while Twitter is essential for me, but I don't see a better social network for most people than Facebook.
Anyone who has read this or his previous post, really should read http://bjouhier.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/asynchronous-javasc... and, of course, https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs for elegant solutions to the convoluted asynch programming style hasenj dislikes.
I was working on a better whatsapp api than the mess that is whatsapi, do not have enough time though. It's based in wazapp which has an actual implementation of the binary packed xmpp transfer mechanism they use. Might upload it if someone's interested, it seems broken right now though
Ah yes, fair enough.

Part of the problem here is Microsoft's limit of IE9+ not running on XP. This is either a sensible technical requirement or a deliberate push away from XP, depending on your perspective.
Line! It even has a messenger for Windows and Macs!
Oh that old saw... we get so much energy from the sun it's all hunky dory. The challenge of converting that energy to a usable form at the kind of scale needed to power a civilization is not mechanically simple. The supply chain and energy inputs (including fossil fuels) required for photo-voltaic are non-trivial. Conc-solar is still not proven at scale and again requires natural resource and energy inputs to build and maintain the systems. Energy return on energy investment is the key metric here and one that is not well understood by many, nor favourable for a lot of the proposed solutions.
But what really separates Experts Exchange from the rest of the Q&A world is that it really is a <community>.

-- This article reads like a commerical.
Alternately, you could just create a third party client for WhatsApp that uses an actual password. The issue with WhatsApp is on the client end, which you can control.
Medical imagining (in the Hospital) and imagining of biologically interesting molecular structures (such as small proteins).
stand up to scrutiny in court

This varies by jurisdiction, but you don't necessarily have the right to what you would consider a fair trial for driving fines.
People have posted many videos/blog posts about how easy it is to open a hotel safe if the hotel fails to reset the factory code:
http://www.dailydot.com/news/hotel-safe-security-flaw/

Since seeing this video last year, I have yet to find a hotel safe the I can open with all zeros. In the end, I figure that if someone really wants to steal my stuff, they'll eventually find a way.
Yeah, everything.
Considering that there more iOS apps than Android out there (at least according to the AppStore), I would have exected exactly the opposite direction translator from google.
Of course this being PHP maybe there's an equivalent interface I'm not aware of...
A company still using an operating system released 10 years ago probably sees little merit in migrating to hosted email, calendars, etc. They most likely have an old Exchange system that they are maintaining alongside those XP workstations. I doubt this affects many organizations.
I emigrated from the US leaving friends and family behind four years ago for just this reason.
I really have no clue how the economy works, but right now there is only one guy I trust,

Ray Dalio

Self made macro hedge fund manager with a rags to riches story. He's pretty strange and employs an army of financial engineers in some forest in Connecticut to model this stuff (and make billions of dollars in the process).

Oh, and forgot to mention, it's now the largest hedgefund in the world.
Patent issues: The jury isn't smart enough, ruled the court
Seems like you could work around this easily by adding it to the charge description.
First of all, congratulations on what seems to be a very well executed rewrite.

That being said, it will be interesting to see how this compares to all the stories about dangers of rewriting. I definitely want to see an update in a few months about the results.
Y'know, I did watch it, but wasn't on the back of my mind when I was making this one :)
Maybe you could add in price comparisons to Dropbox, since they are just an S3 reseller.
Ha! That's awesome! It's seriously the future of food security for urban areas. I'm dreaming up low-rise & high-rise apartment developments where there's dedicated floors of aquaponics, securing food for those people in the building. Rooftop gardens will have chickens and goats. Bet we could develop an awesome app systemising the process too. Good times!
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The right answer. Economic growth maps almost exactly to the expansion of available energy inputs. As fossil fuel flow rates peak and growth in energy availability falters, so wil GDP growth. We have an economic system designed to function in a world of perpetual growth and perpetual growth in energy / natural resource availability. Our system and its underlying economic theories are not designed nor tested for environments of perpetual contraction of either.
Millions of acres are under cultivation, to feed America. It seems impractical to get that from some rooftops, even under intense cultivation.
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Sam Aaron, the guy who has done a bunch of screencasts with Overtone (and his emacs/dvtm config), and used it to create this emacs config setup, has used the same effect on pretty much everything. It really does add an element of coolness to the mix.

I've been using emacs live for a bit. It's great. It bundles some nice plugins and has sane defaults. The cyberpunk colour scheme is cool. It has some nice personal touches on the scratch buffer.

The downside is that the structure puts far more emphasis on maintaining the structure than adapting your config. If you want to keep it solid you can't use package manager without some changes, or (configure-group).

You might get the odd issue with the bundled plugins (auto-complete loved lisp and file system traversal but hated other languages), but for a "I want to live code and I want it to WORK" config, it's bloody good.
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Do you mean, like a bike messenger on acid? or, something altogerther more different? [1]

[1] Well written but vaguely NSFW day-in-the-life: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=84954*
That has changed recently. With the recent Angry Birds Space, they have a 'premium' option for 0.99 and it has a healthy 500,000-1,000,000 downloads.
You might be trolling but I'll play along. The choice occurs when one goes to youtube, searches for the video and clicks play.

You should research the "goatse" case right now for more information about this.
I also hope he'll be making lots of money on Tesla and SpaceX. I don't know whether he'll be able to make going to Mars pay, but the money he'll spend will do the market some good.
Well of course it's different. I prefer the state paying because it actually scales to all students in the country. So your reminder that the state is already paying part of the bill makes this sound even better; they would only have to pay a small fraction more to provide full educational coverage!
I have some questions regarding your experiences (I'm researching the app market model). Looked at your profile but no email. May you contact me instead?
Or maybe die on the way there.

McCoy: Don't pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull, and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait till you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles. See if you're still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding! Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.

Substitute Andorian shingles with just going crazy being cooped up in a tiny ship.
Cool startup, awesome domain name. I think there are alot of potential clients out there for this type of service. A company's pitch deck is what makes or breaks any investor pitch. Companies (or atleast the smart ones) realize this and are willing to invest to improve their chances of getting funded.

Btw: I run Pitchenvy.com, a gallery of pitch deck presentation examples. If you want to work out a commission based affiliate program, I'd be more than happy to partner with you. Lemme know if you're interested :)
2.1 million patents, each with dozens of claims. It's perfectly reasonable to know about them all.
loose != lose
Can't agree with you more Bud. Elon is my new hero and role model now.
This is the Uniloc-Microsoft case, in which patent troll Uniloc sued MS for its authentication mechanism in Win XP and other products. Uniloc was awarded $338m by a jury, but this was overturned in 2009 by the District Court of Rhode Island, which apparently observed that:

The reversal may support the argument for a patent-focused court, as the Court found that jury members were not able to sufficiently understand the technical details and legal issues to reach a reliable verdict. There is also concern over the obstacles presented by increasing patent litigation to high-technology entrepreneurs and companies, which may inhibit innovation.

For once, we have a judge who stated outright that a jury was incapable of reaching a reliable verdict because it simply didn't grasp the technical details and legal issues involved. This is exactly what many of us have been arguing about in discussions of the Apple-Samsung suit here on HN: some said juries shouldn't need expertise to rule on patent cases. Others argued that patents should be evaluated by people with expertise in the field.

It appears this judge found that this particular jury was lacking in its ability to evaluate the case fairly. (He or she also saw the problem that patent trolling was posing to tech innovation.) Who's to say that this judicial opinion might not be applied to juries in other patent cases? It's a noteworthy ruling in my book.

(Uniloc is also suing Mojang (Minecraft), EA, Square Enix, Adobe, and a host of other companies large and small for patent infringment. See the other thread on the Uniloc lawsuit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523380 )
Yea, in general, MS do not release new versions of IE for a Windows version in extended support, which for XP happened just after IE8 release in April 2009.
Is it "of the highest order" because it's marketing something substantive?
Exactly what I thought - "what about multiprocessing?" Doesn't that count as language-level concurrency support? You can fire off a background job to send email or whatever just as easily as in the Go example.
> PHP still fails

It still fails to reject February 31, I'm completely not surprised to hear that it fails on IPv6.
I'd use this as an academic tool.. I have presentations to give quarterly to representatives from funding agencies.. Typically around 8-12 slides in my presentations.. the slides I see/ use are really boring.. whenever I see a well done presentation, I perk up and pay attention. If you use this as a potential niche.. some high quality graphing work etc. would be nice..
That's an awfully convenient excuse for shafting a very significant number of customers (or potential customers) running platforms that are far from ancient or unreasonable.

The current version of Windows is Windows 7, and as yet there seems to be no indication from Microsoft that IE10 will be supported on Win7. Does that mean if they release IE11 next year, my brand new computer that I buy tomorrow won't be able to run Google's web apps any more?

Even now, IE9 is not supported on WinXP, which was effectively the most recent acceptable version of Windows until around 3 years ago and is still within its official support period from Microsoft. More importantly, it's still in extremely widespread use.

I can't imagine a more compelling argument that Google could make to show that we shouldn't trust them or their cloud infrastructure as a reliable, future-proof service. Apparently they believe that grown-ups running professional IT departments with real support requirements should stick with centrally administered desktop software for anything critical. Not exactly the message you'd expect them to be sending if they want to encourage more customers, particularly the lucrative big business market, to migrate to their cloud services...