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2 authors out of 230 is not that much... And for example, the author of headphone objected only on Headphone and Dolby, but allowed the rest of his code to be changed.
I might be nitpicking, but your blog's permanent and space taking headers make the user experience very unwelcoming, and make the whole site feel unwieldy -- slow scrolling and a good amount of space being taken over for no reason.
Do you mean there are multiple windows boot loaders, each which a unique description string, and some might need special attention from the UEFI?

Is it like, "Windows Boot Manager" and "Windows Server Boot Manager"? Do windows (7/8) have a different description than say windows server, or is there a version number hidden somewhere? It would be fun to read the details of such bug :).
I have a slight variation on that as my favourites - PostScript, C and Lisp.
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When I saw the title, I was thinking the "$100/gram" movie coke (cocaine) price. (which dropped over time in real terms as it became more common in the US in the 80s/90s, and then dropped in nominal terms as well)
Personally I liked their older model - a map and nav service that lived entirely on the handset. You could take the whole world with you, which is very useful in some of the more remote areas (like parts of Australia).
This is resolved in development version, and for half of them in 2.0.4.
I'm sure a lot of us here would love to have a cheap supercomputer to perform some heavily parallelizable workloads on our servers.
And it this going to dramatically lower the cost of virtual private instances?
I really can't wait to see some benchmarks.
I wonder if it might be more accurate to trace the decline to Sony's purchase of Columbia. There's an intrinsic tension between the interest of the user of an electronic media consumption device and the producer of content, and Sony went from being on the side of the user — e.g. Probably being as annoyed by the tax on cassette tapes as users were — to straddling the fence.

Sony was a very successful company in 1989 when it bought Columbia, and its success masked the underlying problem.

You might draw an analogy to Apple here — as Apple becomes interested in revenue from content it will face the same tensions (and perhaps already does). Similarly, Apple makes most of its money from carrier subsidies now, and is perhaps perhaps is now as locked into the Evil carrier business model as its predecessors, even if it has thus far avoided junkware.
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My work still uses RCS (in addition to SVN and git and probably 14 other version control programs). It's great for adding individual files like conf files. Mess something up and want to reset? Just check the file out again and overwrite the existing file.
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Yeah, image quality seems to be lower than in google streetview, but it also runs much smoother at least on my machine.
How does that play with the iOS VLC port?

The one that a VLC contributor working for Nokia (Rémi Denis-Courmont) managed to take down, for not being in compliance with GPL?
Subtitles rendering of VLC 2.0.x is quite high quality, since the video output changes of 2.0.

Audio pausing is fixed since a long time on all platforms and on development version for Windows.

Seeking on H.264 and MKV ordered chapters issues have been solved since quite some time too.

Subtitles quality has nothing to do with libass, but the video output rendering, and this was fixed in 2.0.

madVR is very CPU heavy, and is EVR only, so not usable for cross-platform.
The difference here is that the better players also play a similarly wide range of formats (since it generally all comes down to libavcodec at some point), but due to various factors they overall do it better. I keep VLC installed for testing purposes and as a backup were my main playback setup with MPC-HC ever fail to play something, but I've never actually had to resort to VLC for this reason.
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A comparison between this and statsd would be interesting. Any one have experience with both?

And as for the similarity between the Heroku documentation page - their github documentation page reads:
"This program is forked from heroku/heroku-docs, and originally written by @rtomayko and @adamwiggins. Later, modified by @kzk and @doryokujin."
You still can...
If Google's roll-out significantly more expensive than any other type of facilities-based build-out?

In fact Google's product is rational: If you are going to bother to build out in a competitor's territory, you want to get all of your competitor's customers to switch, so you need a disruptive product.
The main reason, is that VLC is too mainstream...

For people who want to spend hours to configure their system, MPC-HC with madVR can give better upscaling and foobar gives better audio fidelity. Most of the rest is usual rants from issues that VLC had in the past, but that 1337 video people like to bring up to explain how their setup is soooo much better.
Rémi Denis-Courmont is the biggest contributor of VLC, so far, and he pushed forward the LGPL move... :)
That doesn't quite make sense.

Mr Torrent has no real-time requirement. So, shape his traffic when other customers are streaming.

At 3am, when nobody is using your network, torrenting HD movies is no problem.
Great job. I think the onboarding could me smoother but I like the idea. Continue working on it!
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But the trade-off comes with an influx of developers and developers love to open source as much as they can (Microsoft and CodePlex being a decent example of a monolithic propriety beast being led toward open source by its developers).

For a lot of developers in commercial positions it can be politically difficult to use GPL code but LGPL is much more politically expedient. These devs may well then contribute themselves either via the form of bug fixes or future work on more open projects once they leave their original employer.
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>Subtitles quality has nothing to do with libass

It most certainly does when we're talking about complex ASS subtitles.

>madVR is very CPU heavy

Actually, it's more GPU-heavy. And while it's only available for Windows, it doesn't change the fact that it's basically the best video renderer out there.

Anyway, I'm certainly going to give VLC 2.0.4 a spin with some of my files when I get home in a couple hours. If some of these issues have finally been fixed, then good for VLC, but again, it sure took them a while to do so in comparison to other players.
Developer aiming to make $1,000,000 from new iPhone / iPad app discovery site.
We hired Anna Pickard on a freelance basis to do some copywriting for us a few months ago. She's a joy to work with. Go and hire her.
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Bad excuse for such huge holes in our security.
Really nice. What rendering engine or library do you use?
I find it incredibly amusing that a statement by an experienced businessman who has decided to share some of his hard-earned earned insight into a product is being treated this way. I'm inclined take the opinion of someone who's got his mind on his money and his money on his mind more seriously than a blog post by a social media marketing firm.
Was there any single person with enough of a contribution that if they'd said no, you'd have abandoned the idea of a license change?
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The last two games you mentioned are from powerhouse studios, Square and Capcom, and were not likely to be profitable or popular in of themselves as Premium priced iOS games.
I believe this is the problem that Storm was supposed to solve ( https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm ). Or Amazon's SWF ( http://aws.amazon.com/swf/ ). They work in the case where you can define the flow between all of the tasks.
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Wow. Really impressed, I got stuck on it for a good 5 minutes !
>Because while every piece of free software is a wound against proprietary software, the more liberal licences like LGPL and the BSD/MIT-style licences are a wound against free software

Some of like like our proprietary software very much, thank you. I wouldn't want to live in a world where there would not have been a Photoshop, a Premiere or a Logic Pro but only their open source "alternatives".

>proprietary interests can take free code without giving anything back.

On the contrary. In reality BSD style licenses _enable_ companies to give something back to a project, whereas they would not be able with a GPL license. Sounds strange? Let me explain:

Take a BSD licensed project X.

(a) A company wants to ship something based on X, but as closed source and with proprietary extensions.

(b) They can do it, since X is BSD licensed.

(c) In order not to have to maintain a fork themselves, they also give back their fixes and improvements to the core X project, off which everybody in the community benefits.

So, the company gets to add proprietary extensions and ship closed source code based on X AND the project gets to benefit from the company's work on core X.

If X was GPL, the company would not have touched it, and would have opted for some other project instead. All those contributions back to the X community would have been lost.

That's how it works with Apple and LLVM, for example.

That's one of the reasons developers chose BSD/MIT/LGPL over GPL. Because they _specifically_ want people and companies to be able to have that option.
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4k video. It's here, now. Still camera resolution is also not going to stop expanding. The cure for discontent with digital audio is more bits. Hangouts that approach a sense of telepresence.

There is no shortage of high-value, broad-market cases.
> Downvotes? I thought we're taking compute SCIENCE here.

From SICP:

'Underlying our approach to this subject is our conviction that "computer science" is not a science and that its significance has little to do with computers.'

(Don't know about the downvotes or anything. Just thought that was like vaguely funny.)
All major browsers are ad supported, but the ads are in Google's search results.

And you indirectly pay for a browser when you buy Windows/MacOS/iOS device.
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So they are trying to get some good PR now?
satellite image quality outside of major cities seems way better than on google maps, at least for some of the places in Ireland that I tried, i.e.

Here:
http://here.net/53.3395769,-6.5376296,18,0,0,hybrid.day

Google maps:
http://goo.gl/maps/V55lW

Edit: fixed google maps url
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...and then it stopped. And then they could have moved underground. Even in their own neighborhood (in a city) I imagine there were basements.
Why would you need to establish that at all? It is not a matter of fact, but a statement that serves as the basis of a moral standpoint. You can either choose to believe it, or not.

As for Ted Bundy vs. Mother Theresa - ignoring the extremely complex philosophical question of the value of life - do you seriously think that's what Ms. Gates was implying? A philanthropist working to save lives in the third world says "all lives are equal", and your response is, "why are you comparing Ted Bundy to Mother Theresa"? Don't take everything so literally. This isn't math class.
It's a pun. He was the president of the Windows division!
Care to elaborate on PS3's absurd design? I'm curious. What are the most salient flaws of it?
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How is it not free distribution?
But, since, LGPL enables the iOS port as an option again, what made RD-C change his mind?

A cynic would ask if it has anything to do with not working for Nokia anymore...
As long as it says "bidet" and mentions the toilet and sells in the US, it'll have the connections for the toilet's water supply. Basically, these kind of bidets "man-in-the-middle" the water output from the wall to the toilet reservoir.

In my estimation water pressure seems to be higher in the US (maybe just because I'm in a big apartment and pressure is higher to compensate for altitude). What this means is that it will take some time to adjust to the.. um.. high pressure cleaning. Also beware that pressure cleaning yourself in the middle of january with near freezing water is an experience that will.. wake you up in the morning. It'll be awkward for the first week, but after then you'll be a pro.

EDIT: I think it's worth mentioning that the bidets in thailand tend to be kitchen sprayers. For a more ideal situation you want something with a more focused and narrow beam width, so to speak. The bidet I have is like that, but I haven't been able to find it on amazon after a quick search..
I only need a smidge more altruism! Just, please, separate the IP in your project from the boilerplate cruft. So users can take the whole wad just like you use it, or take the gem inside and use it again.
I'm using CL-WHO at the moment and I admit it's not necessarily the easiest way to generate html. But I did spot an alternative the other day called Spinneret: https://github.com/ruricolist/spinneret

I haven't got round to testing it, but it sounds good so I might try writing my next project with it. Having said that, CL-WHO has had some updates recently to add basic support for HTML5. Hunchentoot is also getting fairly consistent updates, I think there is even a websocket extension for it now.

I think Quicklisp has been responsible for a resurgence recently in Common Lisp. It used to be quite a pain for new people to get libraries up and running, which of course affected how much they get used/tested; so a common refrain was "Not happy? Just write your own". Now it's much easier to share and use libraries, and I'm seeing a fair bit of interesting development.

My favourite example at the moment is cl-parallel: http://lparallel.org/
Clean documentation, nice looking abstractions for seamlessly parallelizing code, I'm looking forward to trying it out next.
uh... good! Is that available on their Win Phones too?

Not that I'm looking at buying nokia any time soon, I only replaced my N900 with a Galaxy Note earlier this year.
Hi, thanks for the feedback! It's not my blog actually, we are a startup (hence the top bar for users), we will take the feedback on board, maybe we got a little excited with the size of the topbar :)
Citing a comment made by a lawyer several years ago. First ask oneself what situations you dont want to be in, and then prepare yourself for it.

Some people dont want to see their code being used in a context that might hurt a other human being, like spyware hidden inside a video player. Say someone modified VLC to produce a proprietary video player which included functions that spied on the users activities. As a developer, I would feel slightly at unease if I heard a Chinese citizen died because he watched a unpopular video, and the government found out because the program I wrote helped in spying and identifying that user.

Of course, that doesn't make producers of LGPL (or BSD/MIT) software evil or uncaring. Its up to each and every developer on how they view their work and its impact on society, and how far one want to go on that. Same goes for work, eating and spending habbits, money investments and so on.
Speaking isn't killing.

Of course, it's good that a person be held accountable for their tweets and other communications. Neo-nazi or racist speech can be condemned, libel and false speech can be condemned. A person doing this can be outed as a bigot or liar.

But is that a reason for arresting a person? In the USA, the First Amendment to the Constitution says no. In other countries, apparently this is allowable, which is a dangerous tool in the hands of authorities.
Not only that, but, in DotA 2, it doesn't actually affect the game. It just looks cool.
But that's precisely the point - the only thing that can force businesses to upgrade is if the cost of developing, testing and maintaing software for IE6 becomes more than what it costs to do a full overhaul and re-education. Microsoft stepping in to make IE6 support easier and cheaper simply sends the message that it's still a valid choice for development and support.
> proprietary interests can take free code without giving anything back.

I have bad news for you. Proprietary interests do take GPL code (any version), heavily modify and extend it, without ever giving back. The GPL specifies that you have to give the source code to the entities you distribute the work to - not to the general public or the original authors.

Since most custom software is B2B, it will "never" show up on the internet. In case the software is bundled into something physical, like an expensive CNC machine, it is even less likely.
Yes, a lot of them.

VLC contributions have mainly been done by 2 dozens of persons. If any of Rémi Denis-Courmont, Laurent Aimar, Gildas Bazin, Pierre d'Herbemont, Rafaël Carré (or me) would have disagreed, I would have stopped right away.
>Measuring distances like that does not work in the field, you can almost never walk in a straight line.

I agree with you on everything but this. It's really useful to have a ballpark walking time estimate in a new city. It gives you a sense of scale. London has similar distance circles on their outdoor maps and it's quite helpful.
The tilted 3D view has the same sort of skewing that Apple's new maps app has. Anyone know what it might be about the algorithms that make them do that?
Performance: Chrome beats IE10 in Google-written test, IE10 beats all comers in SunSpider, more like it.
Imagine trying to do this for something like the linux kernel, it would be nearly impossible.
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Do you similarly oppose all luxury brands? There's no quality difference between a $5000 LV handbag and a good $100 one exception fashion, trends and branding. Once you get past about €100/bottle, quality of wine making process rarely increases, it's all just hype.

If someone can sell a $1000 handbag, why can't I spend $100 on my super-duper legendary Diablo 3 item? It's all artificial scarcity. People who spend money any kind of luxury consumer goods rarely get quality. My mechanical watch is worse at telling time than a quartz watch 1/1000th the price. I don't go to Zürich with a tent because of that.
That appears to work like a denial of service attack on my brain - I was sitting here quite hypnotized until a colleague asked me what on earth I was doing.
I wish they'd make it clear who from the team is now available/looking for work, too.
No software is perfect. However, for H.264 (x264? sigh) decoding VLC 2.x with multi-threaded decoding should eat all the files without issues (no reports so far).
That's its role in theory, but in practice, governments are made out of people, and people don't always have the motives they're supposed to. A government official might be more motivated by a desire to protect the profits of his friend's taxi company than by what's in the interests of society as a whole.

It doesn't always work out this way, but I think in the case of companies like Uber, the interests of the company, the customer and society as a whole all align. To be able to make a profit, Uber needs to be perceived as safe. The most effective way to do that is to actually be safe.
Could you explain in a bit more details why you did this move from GPL to LGPL? The blog post did not want to expand on this, and I for one would very much like to hear, from your view, what benefits the project might get from this move.

Preferable in practical terms, as "more professional developers around VLC" sound a bit vague and, if that is really the stated goal, will you follow up on this with statistics to show if the license is drawing more professional developers to the project?
They're Pentium-class x86 cores and barely any more than front end control processors for the vector hardware. The fact it's x86 is almost incidental, IMHO; the vector ISA is all programmers should really care about on the Phi.
And a cynic would be wrong.

The LGPL move started some time ago and Rémi was still at Nokia and he was pushing for it.
Do you know if he was against an iOS port? Maybe he was just against violating the license.
6.01 (6.001) is where SICP was previously taught, not 6.00. 6.00 is an introductory course to be taken for those with no/limited programming exposure before 6.01.
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No, they're counting on people not cancelling the auto-renewing payment.
We are not able to enforce the GPL anyway, so let's help companies use VLC and contribute back, so this benefits all users.

Competition.

AppStores and other crap of the post-PC era. :)
Hypnotic. I'll show it to kids, so that they visualize numbers.
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Yokozuna is Riak + Solr, not ES.
What today's gaming systems are missing are an evolved way to get users involved in game development, the user interface for the system itself.

We need paid hardware running a free OS that everyone can contribute to and that is community managed, where the company makes money on the hardware and perhaps a service contract like a RedHat for gaming.
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Oh NM recognises the device but didn't work properly when I tested

I prefer using wvdial because it allows me to see what's happening and fix something if needed
AFAIK Starcraft and Quake 3 are over decade old and still played. I assume that this days their player base is far smaller than in early days, but they still have tournaments. However they probably did not bring a lot of money for producer in later years because everyone who wanted them already bought them. Quake live if pivot to free to play model but I have no info about its profits.
An analysis of 2009 on the App Store is totally obsolete, knowing that the ToS change every couple of months.
Here.net by Nokia (3D Maps)
You only find those toilets in many decades old bathrooms.
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Uber's drivers pay tax on the fuel they use and there's sales tax on the transaction itself. They are, in fact paying for the use of the roads. Why should there be a special additional tax on that particular type of business?
Except when 'scientific research' is largely based on what an industry (e.g. dairy products) wants to sell you.
If it saves me ~30mins/month then it has paid for itself
What an idiot. Calling genocide and occupation legal and the struggle against occupation terrorism. Poor Israelis who have been killed by these terrorists! Here are the number of Palestinians/Israelis killed since 1948. This is no two-state battle as it's portrayed to be. These numbers indicate nothing but genocide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_con...
It might be reasonable in this case to ask why the hotels have to pay a special tax. Why shouldn't they just collect sales tax like every other business?
8 GB of RAM total?
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TIL Prime numbers form circles (or maybe I knew that, but it's been 15 years since high school math)
Yes, completely safe
Hypnotic. I kept staring at it for no reason!