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I very much blame them for their effort to ensure they can prevent users from modifying Free Software utilities on their own machines. What else would be the purpose of avoiding GPLv3? And breaking compatibility with user scripts and removing features in the process... Glad my macbook pro can still boot linux.
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Taking someone else's work and presenting it as your own is okay now?
This is awesome.

Anyone have a link to this?

There is even an ASCII penis in the "sample output" section, but apparently none of this raised any flags from Hakin9's "review board".
From the article:

> For a ship in the water, drag increases as the cube of speed...As your speed increases, your drag increases exponentially...

He's being inconsistent.

I've actually heard this a lot lately -- people will say something is "increasing exponentially" (i.e. has a curve of the form f(x) = k*b^x) when they really mean a much looser condition like "accelerating" (positive second derivative, which might be an exponential curve, but also might be one of many other curves, e.g. any polynomial of degree >= 2 with nonnegative coefficients).

It's almost as bad as people who talk about the "least common denominator," but that's a rant for another post.
The interesting thing about warfare portrayed in fiction is that it's not only a very idealized model of warfare but it tends to be based on a zeitgeist which is easily decades if not centuries out of date.

For example, modern naval warfare, setting aside aircraft even, is of the sort where the combatants generally fire missiles at each other across the horizon (or would be, if there was any significant amount of naval warfare between first world powers). However, in scifi space battles you have warfare which tends to look more like naval battles in the 17th century than anything else. Inaccurate weapons. Point blank ranges. Etc. That sort of warfare was obsolete over a century ago. And even the close cousin in the form of long but still within visual range battleship battles were very rare even during WWII and terribly obsolete after that (the Falklands war being a decent example).

The idea that a laser at a range where the enemy is visible with the naked eye is going to miss is ridiculous. Similarly, the idea that any missile fired would not be guided, or that a guided missile would miss at such close ranges, is equally ridiculous.

But, SciFi isn't about predicting the future so much as it is about setting up a premise with which to tell a story, so I can forgive these shortcomings.
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Your talk might have nothing to do that, but I guarantee they'll be paying attention! Tell them they'll have to tune in for Part II for the secret. In Part II tell them it's to be continued. And so on. You'll be famous!
I don't think it is likely at all even in decades, and if they did they would be sued by loads of contributors for violating their binding promise to adhere with free software spirit in future licenses. You get some guarantees when you assign your copyright to the FSF.

And all this is ignoring that most GNU programs are licensed under a GPL variant and any future version, so they would not need the copyright to upgrade the license anyway.
I'm not going to elaborate much because I feel I'll waste my and I have a plane to catch but I have yet to see a compelling argument to make me believe zsh is in any way superior to bash.

All posts on the subject show that theirs authors have been using a shell they don't know and have replaced it by another shell plus configuration files made up by someone more clever. All posts are also bullet lists of features bash can actually be configured to do.

Someone wake up.
This book is getting a second edition? Awesome. Save AoCP this is the book I'd most like to see continued/expanded.
It's in the output of DICKS:

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That's exactly how I feel about this as well. I can actually confirm that my bash config does each of these things other than some of the globbing features (* * for instance does work though).

edit: should be two asterix characters with no whitespace in between, but if I do this they're not displayed. Any advice on how to get that working?
This really should be sold as a chat for your business which just happens to use IRC underneath.
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Google aren't idiots. They won't censor something that is already popular. It would achieve nothing and put them in bad publicity.
From the title, I thought he was going to say:

In the future, aircraft carriers will be space ships, not naval ships. The aircraft will fly down from the carrier to conventional enemy airspace, then return to the carrier in space.

From what I know, that would actually solve some of the problems that current aircraft carriers are coming up against as enemy defense systems are currently evolving. I assume it would introduce some major new problems too, but I haven't checked the math. Anyway, it's a cool idea for a sci-fi story.
No offense, but if nobody has noticed, it probably sucks.
They can change how they license it from this moment on - but any copies they've already licensed continue to be licensed the way they were.

So if they licensed it to you as GPL, and then say "From now on, shareware is the way forward!" then you can continue to share yours as GPL, fork it, etc.
Is it only me or does anyone else have an issue with the name "Bootstrap"?

I've now gone through multiple tutorials where the term is used to refer to Bootstrap from twitter or the general idea of bootstrapping an app.

Now each time I read "bootstrap" I've to establish the context which gets especially tricky when the same documentation or tutorial uses both Bootstrap from Twitter and the verb "to bootstrap".
Except that Apple Maps DOES get the basics right.

The app itself is great. It is smoother, faster and technically better than the previous Google Maps implementation. The problem is that the data is about 50% accurate.

It is exactly what an MVP is supposed to be.
Actually the Yelp move is very, very smart but a little premature.

Yelp is building relationships around the world with the key "business listings" companies in each country. For example in Australia they have a relationship with Yellow Pages. The problem is that Yelp isn't in every country but they will be now that they are flush with cash.

So Apple can leverage the work they are doing rather than duplicate efforts.
> Business models are a commodity now, so “how will they make money?” isn't an interesting question. The answers are all obvious.

So obvious you can't give one concrete example?

But you are correct, there is an easier option,

You can make lots of money by doing an IPO of a business, using a vague business plan, offering massive levels of success and just hope you hook a lot of unsuspecting investors.

Then all you need a few suckers (any one remember the FB IPO) to invest in you IPO any you will run away with lots of money.

Unfortunately most of these IPO investors will loose most of their money but what does that matter.
> Of course, we sell software that goes for $x0,000+

Well that makes it a no-brainer. OTOH sending a note to my boss when our SaaS offering is $9/user/month would be a much harder sell.
I think you are right.
Also that last mile Boosted Desk surfing transport is quite a thing. Batteries are forever.
That advice is specifically for people applying to Y Combinator. Not very relevant to marketing videos in general.
I would like to think that in the future battles will have to be fought at short range because everyone's scrambling technology will be so advanced the missile needs to get there before it can be made to miss its targets.

For instance.
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But the fact that the VM has not seen much scrunity by the community together with the following snippet from the linked page:

"There are several known bugs in the RarVM.

[redacted as some have security consequences]"

makes it seem quite likely that there are some ugly vulnerabilities.
.zip has the table of contents at the end of the file; .rar has it at the front, so if you've downloaded 50% of a .rar file you can easily get 50% of the content. You can't easily extract a zip file until you've downloaded the entire thing. So if downloading over a slow compression, which does still happen depressingly often, .rar does have a significant advantage over zip at least.
> If anyone sent me an .rar these days, it would go straight into the Trash.

Where do you work?
Definitely a good point, but maybe the project creators are trying to appeal to a broader audience (one that only understands GHz as a measure of CPU power)? I'm sure they know that GHz does not directly correlate to performance. Just playing devil's advocate, I have nothing riding on their project, but I would like to see someone shake up the chip industry (if possible).
If we do have battles in space it will be clear evidence that humanity has failed.
successful companies cannibalize themselves before the competition does not after.
I'm tempted to say that it's good enough for something where the reader won't need to do actual math with the information. He's just trying to get across the point that the drag increases faster than linearly. "Increases polynomially" would be more correct, but would get the message across to fewer readers. "Exponentially" is inaccurate, but conveys the message more accurately than any other phrasing that readily comes to mind.
However, in scifi space battles

Not all scifi space battles. Just the battles in bad scifi.

Movies seem prone to this. I suspect because making what we think will be realistic space combat visually appealing and easy to follow would be super hard.

Fiction that gets space combat right (off the top of my head) include Stirlings 'Stone Dogs', and Vinge's 'Deepness in the Sky'.
It's energy inefficient, but you're thinking in terms of energy scarcity we have today. What if we had 10x more electric energy capacity (most likely due to nuclear resurgence)?
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Oh, come on. You seriously don't mean that. If you are you can't be using it much.
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I can give one example of shared folder madness. When Palm announced new WebOS SDK beta 2.5 years ago, they distributed the sdk via dropbox shared folder among the beta users. The sdk was whooping 500+ MB of size(Linux, Windows, OSX installers were added). Among those users there were some users having free 2GB account. As sdk size were added to their quota, some of them regularly deleted the sdk folder to save space. As the folder was shared, it was also removed for other beta users. Palm regularly had to regularly had to add the folder again. Hilarity ensued :) They even had to put some dummy text file naming "PLEASE DON'T DELETE THESE FILES'.
The point of the "glib line from a movie" is that there is a lot more that goes in to making something actually successful than just having come up with an initial idea and even an initial prototype.

That's a great line as it encapsulates volumes into one catchy sentence, which apparently goes over the heads of some people.
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It's that hard to believe that I think one of their latest innovations sucks? I use Excel on a regular basis for simple regression analyses and data shuffling.
p. s. and I personally like the design of foundation, especially since it doesn't look like twitter.
Isn't this also heavily destructive to our ecosystem because they use the carbon trapped in the water and release it into our atmosphere? Didn't we want more trapped carbon than less?

I don't get why everyone finds this great since it takes a very long time for carbon in the atmosphere to get trapped in seawater.
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Well, both works are open licensed (bootstrap and foundation), so legally there should be no problem (if Bootstrap credited the original code.... which it doesn't).
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It's funny, so does Bitcoin, Adobe Reader, a lot of things.

Maybe we need to rewrite that old law:

All programs expand until they contain a virtual machine. Those that cannot do so are replaced by ones that can.
"Making parallel computing easy to use has been described as "a problem as hard as any that computer science has faced". With such a big challenge ahead, we need to make sure that every programmer has access to cheap and open parallel hardware and development tools."

But the real challenge is in parallelizing the algorithms, reducing data dependencies, and so on. I can get my feet wet with parallel processing on a multi-core PC just fine; making a program run efficiently in parallel is an entirely different challenge, and I don't see how this platform can help me do that.
Would it be that hard? It looks like people already have webOS running on Android device(s?). I thought that the Android kernel and main linux kernel have merged. Thus, the changes they've made should increase the ability to use it on Android devices.
I'm continually amused by the space battles in Star Trek. Two ships pull up within a few ship-lengths of each other, then lob torpedoes and phaser beams at each other. I seem to remember seeing in the old series something about how the phasers really get fired: Kirk gives the order, the weapons guy on the bridge presses a button, a buzzer or something sounds down in the "phaser room", and a guy down there presses yet another button which does the actual shooting. Similarly for torpedoes, except I seem to remember seeing them manually loading torpedoes into the tubes like it's a 1940s U-boat or something.

Vernor Vinge's "Marooned in Realtime" has some very interesting space battles, based around the single conceit of "bobbles": impenetrable force shields which essentially separate their contents from the universe (and from time) for a pre-selected length of time. Space battles then become a tricky game of trying to catch your opponent when he's un-bobbled, while at the same time avoiding the bobbled nukes and other weapons he has strewn around when you were last bobbled.
"Let's say tomorrow some grad student gets fusion going at a very low price. The best way to use this to power cars would be to use it to create a fuel with a high energy density."

That is incorrect. If the fusion source is compact, and can produce a lot of instantaneous electrical power, and is quick to throttle up and down, then a "Back to the Future"-style Mr. Fusion would be the best way to power cars.

Energy density isn't the only factor. There's also a question of infrastructure. Electrical distribution has few moving parts, while extracting C02 from the atmosphere to make fuel and distributing the fuel has many more mechanical parts. A fusion plant which could produce 50 kW, weighed 2 tons, and could be installed in the back yard of a home would mean that a house could be off the grid and still have power left over to charge the car, while using intermediate hydrocarbon storage would mean trips to fill the car, or heating oil, or cooking gas.

So while I completely agree that airplanes will not be powered by batteries, I don't think that energy density is the only factor to consider in the economics equation.
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Nope not okay.

However:

- How much of Bootstrap's is directly lifted from Foundation? Or was it mostly the idea? _Execution_ makes or breaks. Vision and ideas complement execution.

- And Bootstrap's success isn't just because of the code alone. It was the packaging, and the selling.
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i wouldnt say its great, its on the middle of the pack, there are things that still drag it down, there is a limit on the size of each file and number of files you can sync, also the software runs pretty slow and syncs pretty slow, its pretty stable on windows 7 but it kinda freaks out a lot on OSX and finally they actively scan the contents of your files in the cloud, and that is kinda were i draw the line, one thing is fully encripted drive, another is what dropbox does a sort of mix of security and ease, but microsoft goes out of its way to go through your files, thats a big brother nono, on the flip side, they do have realy cheap storage (i think google drive storage is ridiculous, especially comparing with dropbox) and their office/picture application support is probably the best, so i wouldnt say skydrive is all that great, its just ok.
Thanks for the feedback; let me try to give you some more info:

1. Yes, we're (painfully) aware that restoring users' trust is going to be a big deal. There's obviously no way I can prove the future, so all I can say is that we're in this for the long haul. Grove fits in perfectly with our business, is a product that we fundamentally believe in, and so it's not going anywhere. We're not going to sell it, or shut it down, or "pivot" into a different business. I hope I have a good enough reputation that you can take me at my word, but whatever: our actions over the coming months and years will prove this.

2. We're not re-branding; that feels dishonest (plus, I love the brand.) I'm confidant that we can restore whatever trust we've lost.

3. Oh hells yes, I want an awesome mobile site/app, too. Realistically it's a bit down the list after some of the backend stuff we need to hammer our first. But I want one, bad, so it'll happen as soon as we can!

Thanks again for the feedback, it's really helpful. If you've got anything else you'd like to tell me/us -- or if there's anything more I can do to get you back as a user -- please drop me a line (jacob at jacobian.org).
Not to mention how the oposing force's crafts are always orientated in the same plane. Very rarely do you get someone attacking from 'above' I've never seen the Enterprise upside down, as ~I recall.
We pay 2/month/user for hipchat, and it's the best money spent each month, with the exception of maybe github.

It's just irc too, but 30/month is not even a rounding error, and hipchat brought a cohesion to my team that is unbelievable. It made a huge difference, and I didn't have to configure or script anything.

Click, pay, and my world was rocked.

Forget about IRC - not configured here syndrome is almost as bad as not built here. I'd rather be working on my mission than setting up servers.
> I'm still waiting on something like OTP for Haskell though; Erlang takes the cake there simple because of OTP

Have you looked at cloud haskell? e.g.,
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cloud_Haskell

It's still a work in progress, but it's aimed at some of the same distributed use cases as OTP (AFAIK--I know relatively little about OTP).
That quoted price was the spot price. It doesn't include Federal or other taxes.

Let's suppose that it did include taxes. Federal tax for jet fuel for non-commercial-aviation use is 21.9¢/gal so even if the quoted price of $3.135/gal included federal tax, the without-tax price would still be $2.916/gal, which is a lot closer to $3/gal than $2/gal.

(Gas for commercial aviation use is also subject to the federal transportation tax and harder for me to figure out.)
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Actually, @fygrave put together the document (using scigen and a draft from jonathan), so both of them should get credit.
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...geezz ...no rape jokes, no telling people to go and kill themselves? ...I can't even imagine what's next ...where's the fun in life without all the sick & twisted humor and a dash of offensive :)
(I know, this particular metaphor I used is quite lazy-minded and unimaginative, I agree, so point take for this...)
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If you had an exaflop computer today, what would you do with it?
Imagine you magically had a supercomputer from 5 or 10 years in the future. It's only a few dozen racks and it scores one exaflop on the LINPACK benchmark. What would you use it for?
A missile would probably be seen long before it reaches its destination and could be shot down. There's no way of hiding in space unless you develop some sort of cloaking device.

"Aircraft carriers in space" makes sense to me. I assume that warping space requires a lot of energy that requires huge reactors that don't fit in small fighters. They would depend on a "mothership" for long range travel.
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Consider it from the perspective of the conservation of energy:

2H2 + O2 = 2H2O + energy

The energy is on the right because the reaction is exothermic.

The opposite reaction must be endothermic and must have the same amount of energy on the left:

2H2O + energy = 2H2 + O2

Otherwise, energy isn't conserved.

Because nothing is 100% efficient, there's also energy lost to inefficiencies. So the answer to your question is that yes, you need more energy to make the second reaction happen than is stored in the chemical bond.
Watched a 20 minute long interview, watched a 45 second video of a person using Ubuntu (performance was laggy, to be honest), and read numerous articles.

There's only one question unanswered, and it's the most important one: What can we DO with this thing?

It's not about the hardware, it's about the software! Show me demos of things that are not possible without this hardware and I'll be impressed. Show me how this new $99 multicore solution will offer new experiences and I'll be interested.
Need to be patient, porting is a laborious task. This is nothing more than an early alpha.
perhaps if you frequently perform computational fluid dynamics on it.
What does Bitcoin do with virtual machine?

(If you don't take "running the bitcoin script" as "virtual machine".... then yes, it is technically a virtual machine, but very Turing incomplete.)
Yes, I meant the script. Not turing complete, sure, but still quite flexible.
I am reminded of the classic MBA example of Pullman coaches. Pullman did not invent the concept but made it work commercially. The result was his predecessors had long and successful careers in the railway engineering industry.

I respect your defence of your people and much kudos to you. I would not fear for their futures - they have shipped a much respected product, and inspired a calling card product.

Good luck
i'm sure it will perform effectively for more than just embarrassingly parallel problems, but a 2 gbit interconnect is a rather steep limitation. much lower than the few thousand we're used to with existing GPUs.