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Thats an interesting idea - I wonder if people would be more willing to accept Facebook's "social advertising" if the proceeds of their advertising went to the charity of their choice?

I don't mind being a supporter for something I like using, if the proceeds of that go to support a cause that I think makes the world better.

At least that idea seems more likely to get over the acceptability hump

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Course then that would lead to all sorts of people coming up with charities just to milk the idea. And then having sales people-charities-company incompatibility.
The odd thing is the Shenzhen Foxcon factory is closer to Berlin than San Francisco. Somehow, even excluding taxes, it's still more expensive in Germany.

And a difference of 7% is substantial for a product with no margins.
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Wish the pizza places near me would crack it. They are either terrible, or 2 hours wages for a nice one.
Has anyone bothered actually checking this? Is there a proof video or smth?
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>The most "power user" cars in the world, Formula One, can only go around 60 miles between fill ups.

Formula One is not a "power user", it's a sport.

A correct analogy would be truckers and professional vans.
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Ha ha! And I thought iOS 6 Tokyo maps were an abysmal clusterfuck. That is literally the worst I've ever seen.

I presume they wouldn't even offer their map apps in Japan or anywhere else with that embarrassing level of detail, though.
That formalized step (which seems inevitable) will then end up affecting the way those subreddits work and interact.

This doesn't improve a subreddits signal to noise ratio, if anything it adds another source of potential drama and comes way to close to what Facebook tried with their advertising attempts.
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Wish that went to me. Inbox overflowing.
It's out because he was fired. It's as simple as that.
I sort of tried and it worked well until I got to the part about the marker or whatever.
And then something like Plan 9 could finally be for the masses. Just less elegantly implemented by Google than what Bell Labs did back in the 80s.

Come to think of it; perhaps Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are already working on this in Google's secret lab? Maybe using and improving more of their old design than anybody will realize. As PG discovered in 1995 (see Beating the Averages), when your product runs on your servers, you can use whatever technology works best to implement it.
Can you run Torrent server, Minecraft server, Counter strike server, Web server for your blog, Web server for your micro business that uses 0.1 MByte/s - 2MByte/s upload?

I can do all those things on my 10USD/month 20/20 mbit home net in Poland.
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Saaspose development team is very happy to announce the conversion of PDF file to images and recognize text using Saaspose APIs. A very important and interesting aspect of Saaspose APIs is that you can integrate multiple file format APIs to combine a variety of features and achieve the desired results. There might be scenarios where you want to get PDF file as images using Saaspose.Pdf and extract text from the images using Saaspose.OCR. Saaspose.Pdf is a REST API for creating and editing PDF files and converting to other file formats. Saaspose.OCR is a REST API for optical character recognition and document scanning.
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it is smack in the middle of the sprawling metropolis.
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I'd rather have a colleague come in to work drunk than pull an all-nighter to work on core functionality.

Yes, we really need to get this thing improved as soon as possible, but having effectively brain-damaged people introduce bugs all night and then be utterly useless the next day is not helping. Take your financial lumps and get over it instead of burning out everyone and ruining the codebase.

These kind of masochistic hero stories perpetuate the destructive belief that every hour your face is planted in front of the monitor is equally productive.
Great comment gfodor. I like to think of it like this.

Buying options is like gambling at a casino. Statistically you will just keep losing money because the house always wins - they have the edge - unless you play a game like poker with a bunch of suckers - where the casino still takes a nice chunk of your change.

Selling options is like being a casino without the ability to know what the statistics of the underlying distributions or their payoffs are. Nor do you have the ability to kick a guy out if he wins too big and too often. It's a casino without the control. And a casino without control - is a casino that goes bankrupt.
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You can't go too far or the information commissioner will want a word.

Obviously that's hypothetical - the ICO is too busy to go after anyone implementing your idea.
Video conferencing would probably be a lot more fun in ubiquitous HD+ quality.
I don't think people will care until those places can do awesome things we can't do. If they can buy a $500 TV that does everything their computers do (stream UHDTV films, games, etc.) then maybe they'll care. But, until then, so what?

And really, even then, so what? People's hearts just don't seem to be in that contest anymore. I think they're more likely to care about beating their friends in fashion than another nation. And if their friends don't have it, then they don't care much either. Hopefully this is here something like Google Fiber makes a difference. But then, without software to make it stand out...

I think it'll take true spectacle to get people really interested. As much as you or I would like this kind of thing, I just don't know what would sell it to the average person without requiring the purchase of additional tech as well.
Like the idea!
OOP is great when your main focus are data structures. Many enterprise applications are basically just transforming data from one system to another. Being able to come to an unknown code and figure out what is the format of input and output just by reading couple of classes is a godsend. Even in this case use OOP features sparingly (beware of deep hierarchies, contrived polymorphism etc).

On the other hand when your problem is more about algorithms and evaluation of data you might choose more functional approach.

Hybrid (object+functional) approach is getting even to the enterprise world - SOA suggests to have dumb (possibly immutable) data objects for business objects (just like struct in C) and service objects that perform operations on these data objects (not unlike functional programming). Similar pattern is with dependency injection frameworks that rely heavily on singletons (Spring) - many beans become just containers for stateless functions.

OOP is not silver bullet (nothing is for that matter), but it is a very useful tool.
His early games were interesting, fun, and original, pretty much all the Bullfrog catalog. I'm also not sure you can get away with saying it's not his work when he's the lead designer and executive producer on those titles. Yes, he didn't do it alone, but those roles stamp a considerable amount of personality onto the product.

Lionhead produced nothing but crap.
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The first guy was quite ‘techy’ to begin with and had dabbled in web development beforehand (PHP). The other two had absolutely no experience, surprisingly (for me) they have picked up things much faster – maybe because they have no prior notions or assumptions about how it all works but I'm not sure. They continuously mention how they can't believe how simple a lot of things are. Whereas the first guy seems to have already formed opinions about how difficult something is before actually trying it. He also procrastinates quite a bit (I believe it's because he thinks things are harder/bigger than they really are) – the challenge with him has been to break his misconceptions (“Git is difficult”, “The command line shouldn't be used” etc.) and to just get on with it.

Oh and a bit off topic, but just to mention that one of the other ‘guys’ is a girl… and after a few months of seeing her code, I think every team should be comprised of as many women as there are men (and be more diverse in general). It might just be her, but she approaches some problems in a completely different way to the rest of the team and her perspective has saved us from banging our heads against the wall many times. She also notices things that the rest of us are oblivious to. One day I'll get around to writing a blog post about it, haha.

In short, I would love to have the resources and time to train more people up from scratch – I never considered it before, it's all been positive so far. But, for most of the heavy lifting I'm still relying on either myself or freelancers. As for finding interns, I just asked around friends and family… it turns out there's a _lot_ of people that have thought about web development at some point but don't have a clue where to start – for some reason they thought they had to be good at maths or art.

Edit: just to clarify, they aren't interns… at the moment it's sort of informal class. We have a project that we work on over weekends (and a little bit during the week) . At the rate they're going, I would hire them in 6 or so months though.
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Just a small note, I use Rdio. If it has Pandora like features, they are as off to the side as Spotify would have them. I only use Rdio to listen to whole albums I choose. Though no real reason for why Spotify/Rdio would be better than the other
Why does a poem need to rhyme before it can be considered free of defects?
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16GB of RAM is only $55-$65 depending on the speed, and 64GB SSDs are around the same price. Compare that to the price of one of those 12GB games, and you can see that local storage bottlenecks need not be a problem for gamers.
jameswyse, Montage was designed to help build native-class user experience by providing native-class APIs and designs while embracing web technology and using it for what it does best. Montage offers very similar features Angular does, but with different design decisions and offer more. Montage has a very clean Component structure that are offer complete encapsulation and uses pure HTML5 templates: real document and no string based templating language in markup , no new tags to remember either, but a real object serialization that maintain a clean separation. Montage offers 2 way data bindings with converters, property change observing, delayed drawing for maximum draw rate etc... Montage today is server agnostic unlike Derby or Meteor. Don't get me wrong, that approach is very exciting and I want to see Montage go there, but we're focusing on taking front-end HTMLr applications to the next level, working with whatever backend you may have or like.
By choice we're a modern framework that require ES5 and a modern browser, and we've focused a lot on mobile where such browsers dominate. Hope you explore it further!
There's probably public and private security organisations which will pay you to analyse network data, and disassemble binaries.
Do you think? To me, it feels like this have been done a million times before... "the band without a name" etc.

My first impression would be: "no creativity whatsoever" - most of the other options pitched in this comment section so far sound better IMHO.
If you like this kind of anecdotes, you should read "Mindstorms" by Seymour Papert. It's more about maths than writing, but it's filled with examples showing how the fact that computers allow children to make mistakes, and then fix them, changes deeply the way to teach.
So this is just a lawyer driven money grab instead of something actually worthwhile?
Worse, they have animated GIFs in their ads in the right column. Totally detracts from reading.
I'm open to any ideas. So far:

1) rent one of the rooms on airbnb? Need 16+ days a month rented to break even. Maybe push Fiber tourism?
2) get corporate sponsorship. Ask 10 small-mid businesses to sponsor $100/month for the house. Stick their logo all over the walls and the website
3) when google comes out with the business plan, install a new fiber drop and host a mini data center in the home for non-production clients (I imagine I'd have to compete with a bunch of ppl in KC for this service, once Google opens those doors).
You could have remote recording sessions between musicians within a 100-200 mile radius, with live video, if the packet switching latency is low enough. Within the same city, it could feel like being in the same room.
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After looking at this directly in the control panel, the automation rules are just not going to be good enough.

Let's say you have a three day rotation of daily backups, 1 2 and 3 into S3.

If you wanted to use these controls to archive a weekly on Sunday and/or monthly on the 1st directly into glacier, there is no way to tell which of the rotations is the newest.

So it has to be done directly via the glacier API anyway.

Unless I am missing something or my backup logic could be improved?

What would have been actually useful is if there was a trigger command that could be sent via the S3 api itself. ie. copy|move|restore /backup/1 to glacier

Anyway will just use free inbound on glacier instead. It's a shame because it uses up the sending servers bandwidth to duplicate the exact process it just completed to S3.

added: unless maybe a one-time lifecycle rule can be created via the S3 api to tell it the daily archive it just uploaded (since the sending server knows right then which directory it just used) to copy into glacier - that might work
I've just tried on OS X, Skype v6.0.0.2946. The password marker doesn't appear in the Skype client under the new account; only in the Inbox.

UPD: Tested on Windows 7, Skype v6.0.0.120. The notification about the password reset token does appear in the Skype client, but no reset code is shown. And I couldn't figure out making it visible or click-able.

Verdict: can't reproduce.
Nope. I don't like this one bit. Who then gets the money? Reddit themselves? The people posting referral links? At that point, then the subreddit deteriorates and you are left with a bunch of spam consisting of competing affiliate advertisers trying to get their affiliate links visibility. I go to reddit for the variable content and subscribe to subreddits for information that isn't fueled by affiliate advertisers.

If reddit (admins) took this approach (not sure why/if they'd use referely though since they could roll their own platform or use a pre-existing affiliate network like Amazon), then that makes sense (and I could get behind that), but I'm doubtful, as it'd take a lot of time and resources to prevent gamification.

Source: I started and run a Top 30 subreddit and am constantly removing affiliate links from peoples' comments trying to sneakily earn money, although I do allow them when they put a disclaimer saying that they are posting an affiliate link.
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The late professors Kristen Nygaard and Ole Johan Dahl, at the University of Oslo in Norway, only intended their invention of the class based OOP programming language named SIMULA to be used to simulate real world objects. It has since proved valuable as a tool for making abstractions in software. The concept was invented by LISP programmers.
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It's no more unreasonable than running a business off any other ISP's residential/consumer service. Google says in their FAQ that if you want to run a business off their service, contact them directly - the service they're advertising isn't for you.
I totally agree. There's nothing like reality and customers doing absurd things to break stuff you'd never imagined that could break.
> Most of his work on the kernel is sorting out arguments, and making sure things go to the right person.

tl;dr for your tl;dr:

Linus Torvalds is, in fact, a good manager.
>The 40-hour week is forever gone in the startup world, and that is simply one of the trade-offs in having moved from a world where big enterprises emphasized long-term relationships with defined pension benefits and health coverage for life to a new world in which such enterprises have faltered and sunk only to be displaced by the startups that disrupted them through technical and other innovations. One can howl at the moon over these developments but is it really desirable to revert to an older day where a faithful employee's reward for long-term service was getting a gold watch on retirement or a $10K bonus for having invented the thing that made the employer hundreds of millions?

No, today's reality of burning out and getting the short end of the stick when the startup you worked for folds (as statistically most of them do) is much better.

You write as if startups have replaced big corporations. In fact, startups employ an insignificant number of people compared to big corporations -- and most startups just crash and burn instead of being bought for a nice sum or turning into a regular company. So the payoff is there only for a tiny minority of startup employees (and mostly, founders).

So, to rephrase your question: "is it really desirable to revert to an older day where a faithful employee's reward for long-term service was getting a gold watch on retirement or a $10K bonus, compared to the current startup reality, in which employees are worked to the bone while rarely seeing anything for it in the vast majority of cases when the company crashes or even get shafted if the company makes it big?"

Hell, yeah.
You got the order backwards. It's cut the hours then blame someone else.
You have a person sharing a few thousand songs illegally. The RIAA offers to settle for a very reasonable amount--only a few dollars a song, which is far far below what it would normally cost to license a song to make available for free, unrestricted public redistribution. (And that is the correct license to compare to, not the $1 license that one purchases to download a song and use it privately).

If the person does not accept and the RIAA sues, it would make little sense to sue over all the songs. For each song named, they have to ensure that certain formalities have been taken care of (such as copyright registration) have been taken care of for those songs, and make sure the necessary rights have been assigned to them, and they have to submit into evidence documentation that proves all of this. They also have to show that each song being shared is really the song they are suing over (as opposed to a misnamed file of some other song, for instance).

Why go to all that effort, when suing over a dozen or two songs is sufficient to put the minimal damages at more than they have already indicated they are willing to accept to settle?

I don't see how this is using the legal system "as a weapon". It's using it exactly how it is supposed to be used--someone violates their rights, they make a very reasonable offer to settle the matter out of court, the person refuses, and then they take the person to court.
The point of making a money grab is to disincentivize a repeat performance. In this case, it's to get Papa John's to be stricter with their franchisees.
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But surely all that happens in these cases is that the function gets re-evaluated, leading to marginally worse performance in a few cases (for example functions that return 0 a lot). Unless your function has side effects and it's vital that it is only run once for each argument I can't think of a scenario where that code is dangerous.
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tl;dr: Don't provoke the storm if looks like it might pass you by without raining on you.
Maybe you use C++, Java or one of the languages in that family?
Anything involving video would be much faster. I work in entertainment and it takes hours to move files around, not to mention transcoding to lower resolutions to allow the files to even fit through the "pipes." Some people are still delivering DVDs by courier around here if you can believe that.
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We have to wonder, though, is our education system producing well-rounded individuals? Far from it, in my opinion.
I think the Mini is the worst business decision ever for Apple.

According to numbers, it's a great idea. They hope to get some sales from the cheaper android versions.

But what is different now, is that the price tag gets a lot lower and the iPad has to compete MORE.

Now it's obvious that the iPad mini 32 gb is 2x as expensive as the Nexus 7".
Add 20$ to the Mini and you can have a Samsung Galaxy Tab SII 10 inch.

While according to numbers, it's a good decision. Apple will be losing face, because people can get more bang for their buck at competitors and narcisme doesn't count as much any more as it used to.
Forgive my ignorance but....has OpenGL been renamed to just GL or something recently?
"so Starbucks were saying they paid taxes that in fact their employees paid."

That's what I meant by divulging something they shouldn't have. Them considering taxes their employees paid as taxes they (Starbucks) paid is obviously something that won't be received favorably.
the refer.ly blog and all blog posts are set to "noindex, nofollow" via the robots meta tag?
well, if you use a modern browser it's an unfortunate reality, regardless of how you or I think it wrong
The experience of going for an all-nighter is akin to watching a full season of 24 in one go, only you're the protagonist. It's memorable, and yes, especially if you manage to pull it off.

I tell it as a tale of inspiration: do it, once.

Whether it's good or bad for business/health/morale is a whole other story. Hint: it's not good.
It is ridiculous to see how disk seek speed will really be the next big bottleneck. In a few years, I expect these types of inet speeds to be relatively more commonplace.
A Google translate version of the original report was on the frontpage but now has vanished. Weird!
This is great news for my photo archives. I dump the raw images into S3, and run a script to generate thumbnails and html indexes (in reduced redundancy). Now I can have the raws flush to Glacier after a month or so, once I've probably lost interest in them for the time being.

Now I just need to figure out an easy way to go from a static HTML index to a RESTORE call...
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I think it comes down to discipline. We're using javascript (on both frontend and backend) which is not very strict, but we don't have that many "wtf is that kind of object doing here?" moments, and none after tests pass.
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There's some kind of cognitive dissonance in the crypto community, where on the one hand they hammer into people the concept that they should always use trusted libraries and not screw with any of the settings, but on the other hand- many of those trusted libraries have insecure defaults or non-obvious gotchas that require developers to dive into the documentation and, quite often, understand quite a bit about cryptography.

It looks like this is often the result of legacy code, need to maintain backwards compatibility, etc. etc.; but I think this is one area where those reasons are absolutely NOT justified excuses. When your entire world is based on security - make your product WORK and make it secure BY DEFAULT; nothing else matters.