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Really cool article.

I wanted to list a book I have, Computers in Space by James E Tomayko, covering hardware and UI of Apollo & Gemini, also hardware breakdown of Viking and others. Lot's of photos and a very interesting read. I looked on Amazon but didn't see it, not sure if it's out of print.
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My Mobile Phone provider includes Office365 for EUR55 a month
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I love making things easy, but I think the 37signals group may take things too far. Their book "Rework" feels like an entrepreneur picture book made for kids learning to read. I liked the ideas presented in the book, but I really wish it could have been just a little more detailed.
The falcon patches for 1.9.3 together with GC tuning boosted our rails loading time by over 400% (Thanks to the answer on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12892937/improve-rails-lo...). It's easy to see how required gems add up to the loading time, so I hope to see some more improvements.

This affects a lot of things: going into the console, running the server, running tests, running migrations, rake tasks etc...

Not trying to start a flame war, but I recently compared a live rails project with another live django project I was working on. Django was loading in under 1 second. Rails took almost 50 on a similar-spec host. Apples and Oranges. I know. After applying the falcon patches it dropped down to around 11 seconds. There's still an order-of-magnitude difference, but it's nice to see things going in the right direction.
To be fair i don't think they ever claim to be journalists-- the source link is always in their posts.

If there is any wrong doing, it is the people who post links to one aggregator (like engadget) on another (like HN).

I guess in the HN case it is likely because of the url dupe filter.
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On a personal level I would pay $50 for a dating web site that guaranteed me a date once a month.

It would automatically match me to someone it thinks I would be compatible with. Assign me a date (day) and ideal venue for the dinner.

If the system is accurate in matching potential then worse case would be that I make a new friend every month that has similar interest as me. Best case I meet someone that is awesome.
Here's the original page:

http://www.apple.com/uk/legal-judgement/

It's basically "The UK court found Samsung non infringing, but said our products are great, and other courts found them infringing.". Far from an apology.
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How can we content control our startup's HTML5 arcade?
You've hit the nail on the head. Thinking about it that's exactly why I clicked "Money per month" too.
> What I don't enjoy in Haskell is writing small detailed algorithms in a functional style.

Wow. That's my favorite part.
Sysadmin skills isn't about using tools, it is about understanding how they work and why it is so.

Sysadmin's understanding isn't about memorizing apt-get or yum install, is mostly about ./configure --help ,)

After you will be able to build from the sources full LAMP stack, understand dependencies and cross-references, realizing the amount of crap^Wcode apache+php uses - this will be something to start with (integrating Informix or Oracle support is a bonus,)

The next step is to understand and internalize what is the difference between mod_php and fastcgi configurations - why they are different, how to enable caching, how it works, what are persistent connections to DB, etc.

The next level - be able to visualize in your mind the flows of data, and follow requests through all the layers - OS, http-server, fast-cgi transport, scripting engine, database-connection, table storage (realization that MyISAM engine or MongoDB are using table-level locking is a sign that you're on the right way).

Then, you must be able to separate the flows, partition the data, at least understand that /var/log and /var/db/mysql on the same disk slice is a sign of stupidity.

Then comes access patterns - how often the data are accessed, when changes occur, how often they are synced, etc (here comes caching and replications, then sharding).

This ability, to understand, trace and see patterns makes one sysadmin.

After that you might say that you kind of sysadmin.) Learning ssh is nothing. Googling is enough.
The UK legal system is a complete joke. Apple should consider using its considerable resources to take legal action with this demand and simply post " X is not as cool as Y" and leave it at that. I can not fathom why this has been pulled up, and would challenge the appeals court to explain why the original passage is non-compliant and if they cant give a reasonable answer I would be meeting them in court.
I really like the idea. I think receiving a curated list of links[1] to web resources (docs, tutorials and howtos) would be sufficient to learn common sysadmin tasks.

The initial learning curve might be hard for some people though. What is bash? What are commands? How do you cd,mv,cp etc. What is /? What is /etc? etc...

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So smart. I received so many emails from NY-based tech companies over the last few days. While I feel bad for them, I'm also in NY and in the same situation. But they insist on my attention. I love what Airbnb did here. Give give give give ... then ask. It actually feels authentic probably because it's a truly authentic gesture from them. Great way to do business.
I did the same, I clicked on the right hand label, not the field.

Another thing I got wrong was whether the amount I want per month is after tax, i.e. what I can spend.
Perhaps "well off" was the wrong term. I simply mean that a ~$1000 chair is considered a "luxury purchase" that many aren't able to make. Even as a programmer who sits for the majority of the day, there are many other priorities that tend to come first and you would need a fair amount of financial comfort to make said purchase.

But I feel it's not appropriate to speak of how someone else should be spending their money. I regret the initial comment.
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Stabbing at the screen with my sausage finger works fine for me, in fact it works so well that I hadn't thought about it until now. Of course, I don't code or write on my touch devices and when I do code/write I use a different machine (a laptop or desktop) and have no impulse to touch the screen. Different modes. I don't understand your comment about monospace font type.
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Apple was ordered to make a statement that Samsung had not copied them. Saying "Joe told me to tell you X" is not the same as me telling you X.

Apple trying to pull a fast one by saying "The court of appeals says we should tell you that Samsung didn't copy us" was never going to fly.
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any company naming themselves after a town in the UK ought to be available here...
Thank you for your valuable input! /s

For a Windows server admin like myself, this course sounds ideal, the things you mention are important no doubt but how important are they for a person just starting out?
Just a small note - While the site's design is simply elegant, the User-Experience needs to be re-considered. The text boxes give the wrong impression - I found myself trying to enter the amount into the label field that says "Money per month". Other than that,everything else is perfect! This is the best example of a simple idea solving a complex problem. Keep it up guys!
You don't need 10 years, you need 10,000 hours. However, 10,000 hours alone is still a useless metric unless you know it was spent learning. 10,000 hours fixing bugs in the same system won't introduce you to enough new concepts to provide the same value of 10,000 hours of building products.
Apple tried to argue that it would take at least 14 days
to put a corrective statement on the site – a claim that
one judge said he "cannot believe".[1]

Clearly the judge hasn't ever submitted an iOS app for review?

And to people who don't understand why Apple are held to be in "non-compliance" despite copying verbatim the extract from the judgment: it was because of how "snarky" Apple were.

- Saying their device is much more popular.

- Signing off by disregarding the purpose of the statement: "Samsung willfully copied Apple's far more popular iPad."

- Saying that Samsung's device is "not as cool".

- Not using the correct font size. (Although, I don't care about this point)

- Dedicating 80%~ of the statement to supporting their claims in other jurisdictions... and brushing past the verbatim copied statement.

Apple were ordered to factually represent the judgment in a statement issued on their website.
They cherry picked quotes, out of context and attempted to create confusion in any readers, with the intention of misleading them as to the judges present ruling.

[1] : http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/01/apple-samsung-statement
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They're not worth discussing because they're a counterintuitive mess rather than a case study of the glory of HM. Maybe edge case isn't the right word, but they're definitely not something I would hail as a perfect resounding success.

There are no polymorphic literals in ML, just polymorphic math operators, which is enough of a blight on the standard that OCaml discarded it and forces you to use different operators for real and integer arithmetic. And there's only one kind of string in both MLs.

Haskell's Num hierarchy is troublesome. They traded usability for + with complexity for /. It's extremely unlikely that you could write a program in Haskell that does much arithmetic and have it build correctly on the first try without any manifest typing. This is one reason students of Haskell find things so confusing: type declarations are necessary at the top level simply because the extensions and complexity of modern Haskell break HM if you try using it everywhere. Also, the class system in there is not especially mathematically correct, which leads to the numerous replacement Preludes that try to do a better job but haven't caught on.

Strings are edge cases because they are not polymorphic unless you enable OverloadedStrings. Once you do, you will either replace the built-in string with something else (ByteString or Text) or find yourself in the same kind of trouble you'd be in with Num.

Let me be clear: I'm not saying that these problems are showstoppers. They're really minor annoyances once you're experienced, though they contribute to confusion for beginners. The point I'm trying to make is that you can't just drop HM into any old language and expect it to work. A greater point would perhaps be that all languages have warts simply because they're large, complex beasts (Haskell and C++ especially) and it's unproductive to point to a missing feature in one and demand some sort of perfected version of the other's.
Yeah I got confused by the article because it mentioned something about the tweets being about P Chidambaram.

Other such tweets reportedly made references to Mr. P. Chidambaram.

The fact that the tweet is about an even more low profile guy (although he IS the son of said finance minister) makes this even worse.
This type of fear mongering is crazy.
What about purchasing/vendors management for small businesses? With low bid auctions and request for proposal support?
It's infinitely more practical than VASIMR, which has tremendous minimum energy requirements and fairly poor overall thrust/weight ratios once that is taken into account. VASIMR is only practical if you have hundreds of kilowatts to work with, which means you need a space-based fission reactor, which currently is not in production anywhere in the world at present.

These pulsed plasma thrusters have very much better thrust to weight ratios and scale down much better. They are a comparably small device whereas VASIMR requires large and complex systems of magnets and so forth. It would be easy to run them off of solar power, for example.

If their estimates hold up once they have built their prototype thruster and if they are able to develop it into a commercial enterprise (or license the technology) then NASA would certainly use them given the chance.
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“I’m at a loss that a company such as Apple would do this,” Judge Robin Jacob said today. “That is a plain breach of the order.”
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This is unhelpful, say what you mean.
I prefer Linode over EC2.

Amazon EC2 Micro instances have very poor performance - sure they have 1.7GB Memory but they have shocking performance. Not worth the price for small websites/blogs.
I got them done at Hackvana (hackvana.com, or #hackvana on irc.freenode.net); similar prices to Seeed, and excellent customer service.

I'm not sure about the maximum speed. The flipflop, for instance, has a delay of 14ns; if we take that as average, each slice has to go through 5 parts (input mux, LUT, flipflop, async select mux, output enable) for a total delay of 70ns, so in theory one slice could do about 14MHz. Since it's a ripple counter, I guess we should divide that by the number of slices, so 4MHz seems like a reasonable upper bound.
No court judgment ever said it had to be an apology. It was supposed to "to dispel commercial uncertainty".

Looks as if Apple have exploited a loophole by adding to the judgment instead of simply posting it.
I'm not trying to come off as negative, but did you ever stop to wonder if you're making things more complicated than they actually are?
I personally have troubles with either iOS or Android around small width characters in variable width fonts (like ',il.;:).

Fixed width font would help me greatly around those.
Did the court seriously think ANY COMPANY would have reacted differently than Apple did? This is a childish and completely unproductive order. Fine Apple and be over with it if you think they did something wrong.
scumbag brains and its automated risk aversion..
Well the judge who issued the order seems to feel pretty strongly that they did not comply.
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Aggregators don't replace the original source they point you to it.

Engadget (and similar sites) are just parasites that extract every ounce of value from someone else's work, stuff it full of SEO spam and hope they do it fast enough to usurp the traffic too.

I do agree that they shouldn't be submitted though!
It isn't "not strictly static", it literally has absolutely nothing at all to do with static content in any way. The heist snaplet adds a default "if nothing else matches, look for a template" route if you use the initialization function that says "sets up routes for all the templates". If you don't want that, then use the initialization function that doesn't do so (heistInit' which is right below heistInit in the docs, and linked to by the doc string of heistInit).

That seems like a really odd thing to try to characterize as "weirdly implemented".
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Working with jQuery UI that does this same thing is super painful and adds so much page weight when you see the same class over and over again. Using a SASS/Less solution would simplify it.
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Some people think legal stuff is all about finding loopholes in the rules, but loopholes usually don't work since intent matters more.
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I did the same, but I have a feeling it has more to do with the size of the boxes than the ordering in this case.
This is a great summary of "Rework". It felt like eating cotton candy - too quick and short on substance when the sugar high fades.
This is basically what a forum is, though. Commenting services like reddit, HN, and Disqus obviously differ, but they are altogether different than forums.

It's obviously still okay to dislike this structure, but that's what forums (bulletin boards) are basically about.
So you think a monetary fine is appropriate punishment for any type of corporate misbehaviour?

EDIT:
The court case counted as negative publicity for Samsung and I don't think the court thought that a fine would counteract that publicity.
Similar: Bundle subscription or freemium (e.g., include X credits at every month for the game store) MMO games from (at least) the major players under one account. Keep the individual game accounts active across all games that I've started, unless I explicitly choose to delete the specific game account. Allow access from multiple computers -- don't lock it in to only one "activated device". I'm only likely to be logged in to one game at a time. There could be a premium tier that would allow being logged into multiple (different) games at the same time from any of my computers.
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