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I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. The Terms and Conditions make it clear this is only for upgrading a machine that already has Windows installed on it:

"Each upgrade license applies to only one PC and you can install the upgrade only on PCs that have a valid base license and one of the following operating systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP (SP3)."

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/terms-condition...

During the upgrade process, you have the option of reformatting the hard drive and doing a "clean install", but it must be on the same disk that already has Windows installed on it.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-w...
Do you honestly think they are lying? They aren't selling anything here...
LessWrong looks like something I'll enjoy reading. Do you have any favorite or recommended articles -- not necessarily related to op?

Keep up the good work.
No, M4A to MP3 should be fine in most cases, because those formats are usually used for musical recordings. Space shifting of musical recordings by consumers for non-commercial purposes is allowed by the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, so there is no need to turn to fair use to justify it.
Seems legit. /sarcasm
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Pretty useless without a definition of what it meant by "grumpy".

I've been a grumpy developer before because I didn't like my job and was constantly getting asked to work on waste of time projects that ended up getting thrown out, which I knew would happen. I should have fixed my attitude and been a more productive member of the team or quit and given professional feedback in the exit interview that might have helped them.

I've been called a grumpy developer because I pushed back against a culture of unpaid overtime and 60 hour weeks for the developers and 4 hour days for everyone else.

I've been called a grumpy developer because I pointed out technical problems with a proposed project or insisted that someone technical be involved in setting deadlines for the technical portion of a project.

First you need to describe what you mean by grumpy. It's a broad word. I was interested by the headline, developers have to deal with always trying to find problems or potential problems in things and it can colour how you view the world. We do seem more grumpy than average. It turned out be be a bunch of words tacked around the idea of "don't be sad! be happy!". We aren't in kindergarten, if I wanted childish advice without nuance I will go to the self help industry.

Also the advice telling developers not to publicly critique issues they disagree with is insane. The goal is a community striving towards improvement. Your self esteem issues can be handled by learning to ignore online idiots and learning to separate your self worth from your code (and definitely from the software tools you have chosen).
You don't download software off the net unless it's vetted first by Apple? Have you never installed Chrome, Office or Photoshop?

Maybe you haven't considered the alternative. It's something that Apple users don't really get much of, but there's a thing called choice.

Why can't we have an app store AND allow side-loading? That'd be a nice choice. That way, the people who want to trade freedom for security can do so and the people who want freedom can have it. A third option would be to allow competing app stores (as well as side-loading).

You're on the wrong side in the war on general purpose computing. If you want to see general purpose computing go away, by all means...keep trading your freedoms in.
FreshDirect is next-day at BEST. I've tried to order and have been limited to 2 days later at odd hours. I suppose that's a result of their success, but certainly something to be aware of and optimize against.
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Sure, but why are we using the lowest common denominator, plain text, and then adding formatting?

Why don't we start with something like a visual HTML or DocBook editor, and then apply parsers to generate plain text, PDFs, etc?

Is it because we as programmers live in a plain text environment and are happy with the status quo, or is it because the tools aren't good enough?
Paypal also asks for your bank username and password for instant verification. The process looks identical to the one displayed here so I would imagine that is where this came from.

I'm not saying I would trust giving my bank details out in general, especially with these bitcoin businesses, but I have to say that when I wanted to open a business account with paypal and I was faced with either waiting days or instant verification, I took the instant option even while knowing it was probably a bad idea.
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I think (judging purely from the pictures) his point is that they attempted to integrate the whole supply chain instead of sourcing from local stores and delivering.
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Apparently. Mind you, none of this has been tried in court AFAIK.
I want to check before it is out (and don't want to queue when it is). I'm small scale for the moment and still experimenting so the purchase wouldn't make financial sense at this point. I'll probably try to get my hands on one for a quick test at some point but I don't expect general bugs just how it feels to use. From the quick try with this method so far I might try to scale up some of the elements a bit. It works but isn't as I would have designed for that screen I think.

I've only just submitted my first version with in-app purchases to the store but if you get it now you will be grandfathered into some features when the update lands. http://itunes.com/apps/fastlists

I would have ordered the mini if it had more pixels (even at a higher price and lower battery life) but as it is I think I'll skip that version.
Any open source language, even those not affiliated with a company, could be vulnerable to that though.

Now, in this particular case (for those who can digest legalease): http://golang.org/PATENTS
Also, given the quality of the article in proportion to the speed at which this article was upvoted, I'm not totally sure it wasn't manipulated in some fashion. Decent advice but not worthy of being #1.
You'd think that, but I've notice precisely 0 more non-Valve games being released for Mac since Steam came to OS X. The only releases seem to be from companies who already did Mac ports, and indies (who are generally multi-platform).
Your company seems really interesting, and I'm considering setting up a merchant-account, but I'd STRONGLY advise you to drop the bank login feature.

I know it took a lot of code to write. And I know you convinced yourself it's an advantage. But it's not.

It's making people run from your site.

Look at the comments here, and these are from FRIENDLY people.
Many many many others will see that in your blog article, and decide not to sign up for an account, and you'll never even know.

They won't write an article, they won't email you, they'll just decide you're skeevy, and abort.

You're already working with one tech that people thing is a bit "iffy".
That means you need to do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to make EVERY other bit of your service seem 10,000% above board.

Asking for bank login credentials, EVEN AS AN OPTION, torpedos that.

You're probably thinking to yourselves - "Maybe we should make the Credit Card primary, and make this secondary?"
Just don't.

I know you spent a long time writing this, and I really wish it were a good idea, but I'd really suggest you just comment out the feature.

You can always put it back in a year or three if you really really want, once your service has inertia, and is already more trusted. But even if Square or Stripe asked for that, it'd scare people away, and lose customers.
It's just a bad idea right now.

I want you guy to do well. Please kill that feature.
I do it mostly for networking programs using Jane st a sync. Raw performance is great, on the language shootout it is on par with Go and getting better. For me it has replaced almost every language I would use except for the situations I need C.
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If you're really worried about the worst-case behavior of regular expressions be sure to select an engine designed specifically to not choke on pathological inputs, such as Russ Cox's RE2:

http://code.google.com/p/re2/

The rather interesting analysis is here:

http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

Not that it's a free lunch, since you're gaining a constant amount of overhead in exchange for a sane growth pattern.

EDIT: Of course the article would mention RE2. That's what I get for reading the comments before TFA...
Indeed. Please, change the name, I'm very interested in the book, but at first I thought it was about software design patterns or something like that.
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If you believe that unsupportive management can affect your productivity, surely unsupportive/hostile peers can do the same thing?
Yeah sometime those places get disaster aid, but the southwest is really the poster child of unintended consequences of government infrastructure spending. Those places would not exist without Herculean irrigation efforts by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 19th century. As the result of these efforts cities rose up were they should not have, and when the water runs out those cities will be reclaimed by the desert.
So m4a to mp3 is fine, but avi to mpeg4 is illegal?
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/10/26/samsung-nexus-10-poses-...
Nice work. One thing I think is very beneficial for this type of window management is being able to set a custom horizontal split, i.e. something other than 50/50%. Then you can have a "major/minor" approach, where you put things that need to be wide, like web browsers, in one side, and things that are still usable narrow in what remains.
I interviewed Kate Bush a long time ago. This may or may not impress you, but since she's a notorious recluse, it's quite impressive to anyone who is a Kate Bush fan.

Q. How did I do this? A. I made it my life's goal for a couple of years.

So, I'd agree with the OP that you can accomplish all sorts of crazy things if you are obsessive enough about it. In retrospect, however, I might have put those years to better use, and I'm not sure that all that obsession was particularly healthy. I.e., it didn't make me happy.

On the other hand, it's pretty cool to have interviewed Kate Bush, so no regrets.
Realistically a lot of utilities are sitting on darknets internally so they shouldn't see disruptions in an internet outage. Telecommunications might be a bit different... I'm curious how things are set up but in my small industrial shop our sites would be 99% fine with a web outage, they'd just be prevented from posting daily receipts to head office.
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I do not have spotify but the site looks nice. Also, i need to know what is in the "Coding Soundtrack like a boss" playlist. Isn't there a way to see the content even if not logged in?
If you don't trust the hardware the software is useless.

Honestly, don't think voting machines should be outsourced period.
pclark, I don't think this is the best one. But, like i said, I've talked about this at length several times but it doesn't stop people from comparing the two companies. I thought a picture showing the contrast would help.
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I just went to the comments section to see how many people would be warning about giving away your banking credentials to another shady bitcoin site. Glad to see I wasn't disappointed.
Huh? Historically, almost all content on the internet has had a single point of failure. Moving "into the cloud" is moving to a distributed model, and generally app engine will protect you from single points of failure. As others have noted, if you distribute your own self-managed servers across the globe, you end up with a very similar system, but now you have to manage it.

What appears to be happening here is that you're still vulnerable because the C&C infrastructure ultimately has a single command source, and so can be vulnerable if some code is pushed that affects the whole system. Your homegrown cloud will suffer from the same vulnerability, it may just be more or less easy to manage depending on how specialized your needs are compared to the more general requirements of GAE.

Edit: actually, maybe I missed what you're advocating with "local direct connections". This might make more sense from a user's perspective: if everyone ran their own little cloud, a failure may bring down reddit, but not reddit, heroku, pinterest, etc simultaneously. That's actually an interesting point, but I'm not sure if it really matters if they sync up their downtimes (since they would still have downtime, and maybe more or less of it depending on how much they could afford to invest into managing their distributed solution). I'm also not sure if that really solves the problem, since there are other concentrations in the network, just less visible ones (there are a fairly small number of major datacenters around the world, for instance, and managing your own colocated server doesn't matter if the whole building goes dark).

I do agree that at the very least we need to maintain an ecosystem of "cloud" providers, however.
Merely, "valid?"
This gets a section in the article, but it's worth repeating, since RE2 is just that good. It's as close to Perl-compatible as a non-backtracking regular expression engine is likely to get, pleasantly fast, and stable enough for Google to use in production.

Regarding speed, I've actually found that re2 is faster on some non-pathological regexps, and a little slower on most. As usual, if you care about this, benchmark it. I've managed to get some easy 2x speedups by switching from Python's re to re2, even though re is usually faster.
Haha, why does Steve Wozniak have the "Bad Boys Bail Bonds" lanyard my girlfriend does?
I also suspect a voting ring and was surprised as well that this was the #2 article on HN. I skimmed over the sub-heads and it is full of meaningless platitudes. "Be proactive" "Be outgoing" "Dream big" ?
Well, kinda. The DAC would convert the signal at full power, then the pre-amp stage would boost it according to you OS loudness setting in the analogue domain. This is possible, but I don't know if sound cards are actually implemented that way.`

That's fine but what I was referring to was that after the digital-analog-conversion and the pre-amp now the analog signal that goes out of the audio jack to the speakers has been reduced in range, so on that final path to the speakers you've lost some range.
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Unfortunately no, hehe. But http://spotify.com is free, if you want to sign up. I highly recommend it. I tried it twice when it was new and just deleted it. Third time I tried it i realized the vast amazingness of spotify. Since then I have erased all my music and moved it to spotify.
I wonder how it works with regards to the logistics, what items are in stock at what price, which stores participate ... ?
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From the article:
10.1-inch Super AMOLED display
2560 x 1600 pixel resolution

Why can we have a 10" display w/ 1600p at a very reasonable price but I can't a get a 22" + monitor at the same resolution without shelling out over $1000 :C
We all knew what the greatgrandparent was talking about when he said "wall". I see no reason to "correct" him just because facebook have decided to call it that anymore.
I feel that focussing on Turing's persecution almost belies his achievements and by continually focussing on his chemical castration, we begin to lose sight of his brilliance as a mathematician. Of course his treatment was abhorrent, but that's not why we as a nation should recognise him. Surely the fact that he is being considered at all to shows the esteem with which he is held?
From a Reddit commenter:

The issue here is DVDs & BRs not CDs. 1201 exemptions are DMCA exemptions to the anti-circumvention section. CDs don't have copy protection so this bit of the DMCA never applied. DVDs still have CSS and BRs have something else, that's why you can't just copy the files off, and why legally you're not supposed to phase shift or rip them even though you technically can.

Phase/time shifting is explicitly OK, as long as that's all you're doing, thanks to the betamax case. Breaking encryption, however busted and useless and stupid as CSS is, is still not OK. Some people were trying to get a 1201 exemption for DVD ripping, copyright office didn't go for it.
So the ITR report dropped back to normal right around the time that google claims to be returning to normal due to their load balancing infrastructure failing. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-a...
I think if there is a better way he would have done it. Path of least resistance right? In this case he is a complete stranger and has no social proof so he does what he has to do. Much props to him. Startup is a bitch and this guy gets it done.
As an end-user I find the Wordpress editor to be pretty good, and Google Docs ok. The Aloha editor looks great: http://aloha-editor.org/index.php

Pandoc looks great. So why not write in HTML or Docbook and then convert to plain text / RTF / PDF etc?
--- End of the story ---

Wrote the script (it worked), but some specific complex features from Word still were missed ("how do I do a reference to a picture?") and couldn't be easily supported by pandoc or this script.

Though for a brief time of going full-mode procrastinator and writing another markup language...

Then I had to admit the whole thing wasn't really working and now recommend we move back to Microsoft Word because it's easier.

A day of Total fail, and procrastination, and making everyone install MikTex, pandoc and Python.

I hope I don't regret for suggesting we use Git...
I trust Brian Armstrong / Coinbase more than Paypal, and Paypal also requires your routing / account number.

Full disclosure: I run http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/ and my wife's cupcake bakery, cupsandcakesbakery.com sells cupcakes for bitcoins in San Francisco (9th/harrison)
Where's your definition of 'site' vs 'app' coming from? How does, e.g, Amazon, fit into this?
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While there are ethics involved in deciding whether or not to do things like these, they're actually not choices we all can make on our own, because, like with Tim Ferriss's model, the advice doesn't scale. It will only work for a relatively-few people, and for a limited time, before barriers are constructed.
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Haskell has algebraic datatypes and typeclasses. Both of those are more complex than Go's type system, which is more or less just primitives, structs, and interfaces.

Haskell's type system may in fact have fewer moving parts, but it has a LOT more emergent complexity than Go's does.
TL;DR Stalk them.
I don't know an incredible deal about law or anything but I was under the impression that the law was that: jailbreaking = legal, as opposed to not jailbreaking = illegal.
Unfortunately I am not as good with analogies as others are on here. I think polymatter's comment summed it up the best.
If you look at the submitter's content, they comment very little, and they've posted almost exclusively spamming their blog posts and startup. It is a little bit suspicious.
You think anyone not involved in computing knows who Alan Turing was? Maybe in the UK he's more of a household name than the US... (?)
If you somehow connect a DVD player to an iPad, then read it from there, would it be legal?

Then if the iPad had such a large memory that you could fit the whole DVD inside it, would it be legal?

Then if you never had to turn off your iPad, the results would be exactly the same as what is currently illegal.
You could try using one of those novelty oversized "number 1" hands to see if the interface is too small.
The Chromebook is only a reasonable appliance precisely because of the sophisticated programmability of Javascript. So your "one option would be not to support JS" proposal is directly contradictory with your selected example (the Chromebook) of a single-function computing gadget.

More generally, I'll echo the concerns of everyone else here: we seem to be getting greener by using more-general-purpose computing, that necessitates less devices, and less frequent upgrading. Especially because we now see that once devices reach a certain level of power, we actually buy new ones far less often. (Many people now happily own 5-year-old desktops, not because they cannot afford more, but because they're too LAZY to buy a new one for the small marginal benefits... and laptops are headed slowly in that direction. Cell phones and tablets are still far from that transition.)

On the other hand... your observation about the 3% penetration in India, assuming it's factually true, does sound like SOME kind of an opportunity. Making things radically cheaper is always an important disruption (c.f. the original sense of "disruptive innovation", which doesn't just mean "we beat the competition"). And certainly if you can sell to 0.01% of Indian farmers (say 100k households?), that's a hell of a lot of units over which to amortize the high fixed cost of circuit design and tape-out. Although only if you really can come up with a single design that meets the needs of such a huge and probably diverse market. Sounds very hard.

Plus, of course, as many sages (e.g. pg) observe repeatedly, if it were obviously a good idea then your competition would already have done it, which means that IF it's ACTUALLY a good idea, the crowd of naysayers here (myself included) is a good sign for your project. ;)

In short, I'm really sceptical about your fundamental hypothesis, but good luck with figuring it out.
Why do you think Coinbase is less likely than Paypal to lose your routing / account number?
> Are you seriously claiming that C was designed for security exploits?

As proven by Ken Thompson himself, with his compiler trick.

Joking aside, C requires expert programmers, which sadly seldom exist in the real world.

The only way to minimize the security exploits made possible by lack of bounds checking, arrays decaying into pointers, null terminated string without null characters, use after free(), sizeof operator incorrectly applied, ... Is to use languages that disalow these operations by default, only allowing them via a system/unsafe mechanism explicitly enabled by the developer.

C can be a good tool in the hands of experts that never do mistakes and are the Jedi masters of perfect coding. Sadly most companies tend to have average developers, not Jedi masters.

As such, C with its motto 'speed before security', makes almost impossible to write bug free code in the hands of such developers.
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I had to explain to my girlfriend today why our Apple TV would play Netflix but the Internet on laptop failed, BTs DNS pooped and the Apple TV was on a custom DNS provider. She settled with "isn't the Internet weird". Which it is, it's really weird.
I think that's the difference, though. You can read it easily without being compiled. HTML is very markup-intensive.
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I'm a indie developer based in India. I want to work at a good startup. US has been out of bounds because of Visa restrictions. I've heard Australia and Canada has lesser restrictive rules. How do I go about looking for companies which would sponsor a Visa? I'm ok with doing things prior to making it happen. I'm quite confident in my technical abilities - mainly Ruby, JS and some aspects of high performance computing.

My current profile is at http://www.akshay.cc/

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