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> 1. Inability to produce binaries

This is not true, as there are commercial Java compilers for native available.

Here is one of them, http://www.excelsior-usa.com/jet.html
That's not the opinion of this Scot, at least. On that note, I have personally experienced similar treatment from English colleagues in a foreign country. And yet, it was an Englishman that gave me the job I'm still working in.
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> I would want to be prosecuted in the UK.

The proper place to be prosecuted is the one in which the wider interests of justice and society are served. To that end the location of the victim and/or the perpetrator are both irrelevant.

It is a very nuanced question and perhaps varies a lot depending on the (alleged) crime. Garry's case is different to the gambling one you cite, he specifically chose and targeted a "victim" he knew to be in the US, the gambling websites didn't.

A parallel case may be where scammers in one country where the law doesn't prohibit it specifically target victims in another, remotely. In that case there would be no re-dress for the victims and justice and society would not benefit from your jurisdictional preference.

Until all countries have equal and fair laws, or there are definite and settled frameworks for jurisdiction, the cases will have to be judged on a case by case basis. Which is no good and leads to travesties like Garry's case. If you read my other comments, I am in favour of todays decision. But it's not a cut and dried case either way.
I do admire your effort in making OSS and data more usable to the end user. I'm probably biased since I have some experience in this field, but OSM isn't usually an option I would select for personal projects or casual lookups.
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I had this problem yesterday.
But on one single computer.

Basically I started synchronizing files on my computer. Then decided I didn't like where the Google Drive is located. So I stoped Google Drive, moved it to somewhere else. And copied my old files inside the new folder. The problem is it duplicated the files thinking it was different sets of files.

I will still stay with GDrive because its cheap and cool, but I hope this all will be fixed soon. Also for programming's sake, never name a folder with a space in it Google "Google Drive"!!!
I love the design. Did you guys use any framework for the design, or is it all you guys?
$110 for the soft keyboard cover, $120 for the hard keyboard cover. They think $10 difference is big enough for giving customers confusion of choice.

It's still the same company that released 6 editions of Vista.
As I wrote before, Poland didn't exist at the time -- it was occupied by Russians trying hard to wipe or nationality for good, also by attenuating Polish science and culture. Thus many Poles have fled for freedom of not being oppressed for being Polish.
About owning anything; she left Poland being 24, so she get all the basics and conducted here first research in Poland thanks to underground structures -- if born in France, she might end up as a housewife.
Anyway, the only thing that matters is that she always thought of herself as a Pole and done much to prove it.
Right on.

You can make Java a lot more fun if you use generics, functional patterns and frameworks like Google's Guava, even if you still need to create a FactoryFactoryFactory once in a while.
One of the best protobuf parsers is Haberman's upb. There are no Ruby bindings, but it is built with dynamic languages in mind. There are already Lua and Python bindings, you could use them as example.

https://github.com/haberman/upb/wiki

https://github.com/haberman/upb/tree/master/bindings
Depends on the location and industry probably. In a company of 25 software engineers, I am coming up on 5 years in a few months and I'd say about 3/4 of them have been with the company longer than me. That said, I probably will be leaving soon, because 5 years is a long time.
Halo 4 is coming out and my son has been bugging me to get another xbox (the last one red-ringed about four times). Browser testing just might justify the 150 bucks. Im willing to bet that it is a bad browser. It will be interesting to see if people will figure out a way to hack the xbox via IE.
OK, you have good insight. So here's the deal...

I'm rewriting an old, limited BASIC (!) application. So my "customer" knows quite well what he needs (he needs the same, but better). So requirements are rather easy to grasp. I also demonstrate progress every now and then so that he can get a good feeling of what I do. Now, the code has become good enough that I can give it to him to test it (and he'll behave as the usual customer : he will not test enough :-) ). Moreover, I have access to its current database => i've got a lot of data to validate the business rules side of the program.

Concerning the big bang now... The program is quite a "whole" so it's pretty hard to release a part of it. I basiacally made two parts : the classical ERP stuff and the time reporting (machines/humans). Also, working for a small, privately owned company, to replace an existing software is different than a brand new "super idea" web site. That is, the room for error is super small. And since it's a side project, I cannot provide on site support within 8 hours. Therefore, I think the big bang is the only option (well, for both parts of the program). As said, I'm working on a stable requirements basis => I'm confident I can manage the application development and code quality with standard testing...

In retrospect, I think the project is nice but a bit too big. 2 years, day in day out, is quite an endeavour. And although I like it, I feel it has to finish now...

In case you wonder : I didn't use an existing ERP solution because after some tests by my brother-in-law-customer, it appeared that they are either too expensive, too complicated/slow or they impose too much of an administrative burden (eg. ned to declare every single stocks before being able to actually write some production orders...) Hopefully, what we're doing will prove more efficient for our case (and, let's dream, there might be other people interested, I mean, rich people :-)))

stF
IIRC, his main technique was to log in to Windows NT boxes with null Administrator passwords.
Wow. OP might as well have said, "I haven't used Ruby much, don't understand it, but still don't like it."
Its more equivalent to an Ipad 2 than the Ipad 3 since it doesn't have a retina like screen. The Surface pro has the screen where pixels aren't visible.

I do wonder if the surface will be more reliable than a xbox 360. I'm on my second one and it just broke again. Microsoft isn't know for reliable devices and as a business, i can't have tablets die on my employees. With apple, i haven't had any issues with three year old ipad that is used daily.
Zynga sues former CityVille exec, accusing him of stealing game ideas
Btw I used Dropbox before, I liked it but it was expensive. But my company paid for it and I stayed on Dropbox Teams. Since Dropbox just changed its Terms of Service for Dropbox Teams I decided to go Google Drive for my personal files. And paying only 2.98$ / month taxes included is cool for 30GB!
The article states that the link between will-power and blood sugar is weaker than commonly accepted.

"What about the glucose idea, which seems supported by so much science? Dr. Baumeister and Mr. Tierney describe studies showing that giving people glucose (in the form of a sugar drink) restores their willpower. But in our latest research we found that when people believe in willpower they don’t need sugar — they perform well whether they consume sugar or not. Sugar helps people only when they think that willpower is sharply limited. It’s not sugar we need; it’s a change in mind-set."
Indeed, Meh.

No 3G or 4G. I'd spend the extra $30 for the entry level iPad2 instead of the entry level RT tablet. And I don't even like Apple...
And what else floats?
For the lazy:

1. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/10/smoothlifel/

2. http://selfstarter.us/

3. http://www.fastcompany.com/3000852/37signals-earns-millions-...

4. http://stackoverflow.com/q/11227809/399268

5. http://ihave50dollars.com/

6. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4592778

7. http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/01/the_five_stages_of_hosting/

8. http://www.reddit.com/r/finance/comments/utf5u/where_has_all...

9. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2919708

10. http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/02/13/hit-men-click-wh...

Original source:

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=440
I agree. We don't have an Einstein, Tesla, Newton, or Galileo day so why do we need a Marie Curie day? I personally find this idea very sexist. It does nothing to further my appreciation of feminism and their ideals, I would go so far to say as this is base pandering.
Fair enough. In its present state I just don't see gov.uk adding much value to users beyond collating fairly mundane information in one place with a nice interface.

It's nice, but I can't see any reason I'd find myself using the site. If I want to actually use a government service, I don't see why I'd go to gov.uk first when Google can just as easily deliver me to the relevant godawful hellhole on Directgov, whereupon I will find myself wondering why I even bothered in the first place.
I didn't look closely, but if this product builds a direct-method cash flow statement from a balance sheet - then you've got a winner. Quickbooks - the default small business accounting product - does a HORRIBLE job with the cash flow statement.
Apple under estimated the effort required to have a quality mapping product. When I first started dealing with GIS, I used to cringe when I saw the bills for the software and the various data/layers, now I understand the pain in the creation process.
Ask the wife :)

But a DJ is more than the money; they control the tempo/crowd for the other things like garter toss, cake, parent/child dances.

I could ask why a developer in California is soo much more than a developer overseas - and they answer would also be they are kind of a like, but you get what you pay for.
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He claims a Perl script that found computers with default or blank passwords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon#Statements_to_th...
Hadn't read that article. Scathing! Thanks for digging it up.
Have you ever used OpenSSL? It is a total mess. For a popular project, its code is unreadable. I don't know how they maintain it.
how can you guarantee the data will be accessible in 50 years ? how can I trust you that you won't be gone in few months as many startups like this do.

Don't get me wrong, I like it and many people will surely use it, but I think the most important part is to persuade people you will stick around for long.
This acts like a review of browsing capabilities but it seems to me that isn't what this is for. It's for YouTube or maybe going to CBS.com to see last weeks Big Bang Theory. I'm not browsing HN on my Xbox.
Not a lot of 30m birch trees around.
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I guess the main problem is that there are pretty much only two comparisons:

1. How does it compare to an iPad? Available apps is a major factor here.

2. How does it compare to a regular Windows laptop? Windows RT not running normal Windows applications is the problem here.

For most people, at least. Maybe those problems are moot, but as long as no one really has such a device we can all just guess.
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This is kind of how I feel as someone who ran a startup for 2 years suddenly having to work at a desk again.
Demo here : http://music.socketubs.net/
Superior industrial design and user experience.

Over the years, I've seen a lot of people say that Microsoft should adopt Apple's business model: abandon backwards compatibility, compete on the high-end rather than price and focus on industrial design and user experience.

They've done just that. Let's see if it sells.
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Check sillytrader.com and please tell us what you think. It is a service enabling easy deals between freelance designers (who want to earn some extra money) and buyers (interested in particular service).
Just to be clear: my blog post is not arguing that there should be a Marie Curie Day, it is arguing that if you are going to have a day named after a woman scientist as a celebration of women in science then I think Ada Lovelace is a poor choice.
What an... odd commercial. Emphasizes a lot on the "snap on" of the keyboard.
>I've always thought a dedicated team of coders, managed and directed well, would be much better for government/educational IT than going with giant corrupt companies.

This is generally true. Most people do not realise that software development is primarily a social phenomenon. The bottleneck in societies, which increases rapidly given an ever increasing society size, is communication. By physically placing management and the techies in different locations the communication slows down. Slow communication means that the wrong problems are being solved and resources are being wasted. Since resources are being wasted, time is constrained which reduces quality. There is a golden middle for the size of an organization. This is something which society at large does not yet recognise.
That's the exact reason why I use hckrnews.com - to be able to easily figure out what's rising to the top and also to have the most popular threads in chronological order.
And it does some things worse. Notably, a significantly worse display.
>I cannot put my finger on why exactly it looks like a parked domain, however.

It's the lists in the middle and right columns just below the header.
there is heck a lot of stuff around named, the bridge is just the newest of them :)
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It's an interesting theory, but Google's experience with Android tablets suggests that it needs a flagship device at a popular price to take off. And in the luxury sector, that price leaves little room below Apple, whose tablets are perceived as the gold standard.

Also, perusing recent announcements, OEMs don't seem to have much interest in going for lower prices. I guess the cheaper tablets will come post-launch, but they'll be on the defensive against Android tablets.
The export formats of geospatial data tend to be extremely inefficient to parse. Unfortunately, the very high computational cost of parsing is multiplied by the very large size of the data. Formats like XML, JSON, and CSV are only convenient when the absolute size of the data being parsed is relatively tiny.

I consider efficient export formats for geospatial data (or similar rich/complex data sources) to be a bit of an unsolved problem. It is not difficult to design storage formats that are literally a couple orders of magnitude faster to process but the formats most people are using were designed for files small enough that parsing efficiency doesn't matter. Consequently, at my company we spend time designing highly optimized parsers for inherently inefficient formats and designing non-standard internal export formats that nothing else understands but which are nonetheless vastly faster to use at scale. It is a big problem that it seems like it should be solved by now.
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The article makes an interesting testable prediction: in an innovative company, an employee is likely to work on a single project but use many different skills, while in a stagnant company an employee will use few skills but work on multiple projects. Does that sound true?
My comments may have stemmed from some discussions I had with some programmers I had at a conference this weekend. Try explain address cleanup/standardization and geocoding to people who think it's an easy problem since Google Maps does it "magically" for them.
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This is pretty much what the Speaker does. The Speaker knows most of the MPs personally, knows where their expertise lies, whether they will have something valuable to add to the debate, etc.

Generally speaking, it works.
If you read Hacker News, this product isn't aimed at you, sorry...
Charles Simonyi, David Allen Team Up to Get Things Done on Mobile
On this concept, does anyone know if there's a model for early release of a mobile app, or does that pretty much have to be a big-bang release? My app will probably be freemium with many social options and tie-ins, so I'm not sure how to "release early" with something like that.
I don't think either is a suitable 'trophy woman' of science.
I recommend the book "The power of habit", written by Charles Duhigg, a NYT bestseller. WIt contains many years of academic research on psychology, and explains not only habit, but willpower.

Also, watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIuahuKtim4

And here's the book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Habit-What-Business/dp/14000...
A simple product that encourages the growth of simple organisms can be harmful. Try pouring sugar to the pot of a plant. It will encourage the growth of bacteria which will compete with the plant for other nutrients in the soil and in the end harm the plant.

Messing with nature like this sounds like a bad idea. _This_ experiment is not necessarily bad, but the risk is too big if you ask me.
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The "Ask" tab shows any post that has a text body rather than a link.
Usually the comments are more interesting than articles:

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642133

2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4643175

3. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4449680

4. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637196

5. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4395665

6. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4592778

7. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128

8. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3526767

9. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4149943

10. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2919708
There were probably two sets of crimes. The activity he performed in the UK, which could be "seen" by observation during activity in the place where he did it and compared against UK law. And the "damage" done in the US, during and after his activity.
The arguments advanced against an "Operations mindset" are mostly strawmen. Operations is primarily about efficiently operating an organization towards a goal. The type of thinking advanced in the article however is more likely to be pushed by someone with no operations management training.

For instance, putting people on multiple projects versus single projects. Multi-tasking and context switching cause known losses in efficiency even under the perfect scenario with no startup time. So if you want to emphasize getting projects completed, multi-tasking must go. This is an operations management mindset, though it runs against much current practice.

The points about efficiency are similarly misguided. You don't focus on worker efficiency, operations points you at throughput and global optimization rather than local optimization.

Those however are about focusing on improvements and operations of the current systems. It is true that innovation is different than operations. In the same way that learning to program efficiently in a language is different than inventing a programming language. They are different kinds of things. Many operations principles however can be successfully applied to innovation. For an excellent read on the topic, read "The Principles of Product Development Flow" by Reinertsen.

To get a better understanding of operations in general, and not the hyperbole advanced in the article a good starting place is "The Goal" by Goldratt.

One big revelation I learned while studying operations is that the things that largely drive developers crazy aren't good management practices. They aren't advanced by operations researchers. They are in fact what I always thought they were, bad management practices.
In any other country, the American left/right spectrum would not make sense.
> I agree with the principle that trial should be where the crime is committed but this isn't a clear cut case for that criteria and there is in my view a strong argument that the crime took place in the US (the computers he misused were there and he knew it) even though Gary was in the UK.

Indeed. It's no different to firing a rocket over an international border.
I agree with you, real office support (there are ~compatible apps on both iPad and Android) seems a very weak selling point on a tablet. I personally don't care for it: my tablet is a "potato couch" or information consumption device. For the occasional office document viewing the existing apps are plenty enough. If I need to do serious work, I'll grab my laptop.

And the many convertible products announced also leave me cold. I used to think such convertible devices would be the next big thing, but no more after looking at it. For me a convertible is either too big for a tablet, or too small for a laptop. Plus the balancing is usually wrong in laptop mode (too much weight in the screen/tablet). In the end it looks like a seaplane: neither a good boat nor a good plane. But just like a seaplane some people will have a use for it ;)

On my side, there are now cheap and light tablets. For roughly the same price I'd rather have a cheap tablet (Nexus 7 is plenty enough for me for example) and a cheap but ok laptop. I can put both in a bag, and it's still lighter than my previous laptop. Then I can have the best device for my current usage. Sync is not a problem, there are plenty of options to deal with this, and for what I use the tablet for it really doesn't need to have the same OS as the laptop (different usage, different apps. And actually not many on the tablet).

But it's a big world, and maybe I'm not mainstream. We'll see when the hype settles and the actual sales number start to fall.
Yes, and this is why a company really needs two technical teams (at a minimum): developers and sysadmins.

My goal is stability. The dev group's goal is growth. In a very small startup, it's hard to hold both these ideas in your head at the same time. If you don't grow enough, you will never need stability. If you grow enough, you will eventually need stability so that your customers do not desert you. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis: supportable growth.

My ops group meets with devs for discussions of supportability and performance well before the actual handoff. We make sure that monitoring is allowed for from the beginning, that there are processes and documentation that let us fix problems at 3AM or diagnose it well enough to call the right person to fix it.
Performance is checked regularly. Is it time for new hardware? Is it time for a rethink of the architecture to support faster performance or higher scale?

The two forces will be vector-summed. It's important to get it all pointed in a direction and magnitude that leads to success.
What complete nonsense.

While banter between Scotland and England as countries has been going on for centuries, the idea that all (or even most) Scottish people would be happy to see an individual tormented just because he's English is, well, that's just you being a bigot.
There are tons of applications for what is called "machine vision" in manufacturing. Typically these involve measuring, counting, looking for differences.

A good example of a hardware/software vendor in this domain is Cognex. Look at their website for ideas of common problems that are solved with machine vision: http://www.cognex.com/machine-vision-applications.aspx
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It as an answer to the parent comment. Don't know how to take your comment (and your downvote?)
Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems of Apple, Microsoft, Google & Amazon
Also given Microsoft's track record with hardware. Xbox360 has a reported 50%+ failure rate with their units.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems
It only looks at articles that are in memory. You'll notice that the Steve Jobs article has made it there now that people have been opening it.