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The idea being that for "normal" people, doing anything through the civil justice system is far too expensive and time consuming than just paying out up front.

So the choice is simply: Pay X up front and promise not to tell anyone, then be left alone
OR
Don't pay, attempt to fight it in court (using lawyers/solicitors/barristers) and absorbing the cost of this upfront yourself, regardless of the outcome.
Really good article :
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absolutely. you should look for work on jobserve. i assume you look for php work? it pays less than js, which pays less than java, but a quick look at php contracts in london shows them between £300pd to £450pd - so as above, £40k for 6m
> Also, I really don't see why you are focussing on using the command line to compile programs. This is really not user friendly. The possibility for mistake is very high, which will certainly throw the target user of his/her tracks.

I disagree.

In the Netherlands, the driving exam includes being able to accelerate from a standstill while facing uphill. On first glance, this is ridiculous, since virtually all of the Netherlands is flat (and by that I entirely flat). It is a big hassle and hampers learning, because driving instructors have to drive long detours just to get to a city's single 5 meter long sloped road. More learning time is wasted, because there's a queue before that slope, entirely made up of other driving students (not kidding!).

However, at second glance, you realize that learning this useless thing is great because it allows you to do more with your car than the absolute basics. For example, I can take a car holiday abroad or queue in parking garages without getting nervous about how that thing with the hand break worked again.

It's similar for programming. As these tutorials are clearly meant for learning C# as a first programming language, immediately giving the user tools that do some of the hard work for them hampers their learning, because it is difficult for them to separate between the programming language concept and its corresponding tool support.

By learning the concepts independently from the tool (both language constructs and compiler toolchain concepts), the learner gets a more general understanding of what's going on.

Need to do Go later? Ah, a compiler, I know what that is.

Need to do Ruby later? Ah, no worries, I've done without autocomplete before, and oh, hey, classes and methods!
If you inspect the title of the comic with Firebug it shows up as:

<div id="ctitle"><vid/>RTL

Fun stuff.
The difference is that on PCs, Apple takes a far higher profit margin than other manufacturers.

On Search, Bing has a lower profit margin than Google.

Apple's model is good for making money as a smaller player. Bing's is not.
may be yes.. it has to be hang till death!!! (schoolanduniversity.com)
It's down. I hope this blog doesn't run on Node.js
Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't, but I know that some friends of that sort of person have forwarded it on, so I'm trying to get in touch. Will certainly update everyone if that turns up something.
The tooltips on hover are appearing far to the left of the item I am hovering over in Firefox and Chrome.
Don't feel shitty. Concentrate on what you can achieve on a personal level: programming languages you want to know, projects you want to start, and very importantly attitudes with others that you want to hold.

But understand that while you might be able to become great, you're in Lancashire. There aren't going to be as many big deals going on there.

A developer in London can make it big.
No, it runs on drupal.
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I look at RSS in those numbers too, and they're lower on 32 bit systems, obviously, That is how it works.

I'm not interested in MongoDB in the slightest, and while Go looks pretty cool, I'll wait for it to mature.
If you or I tried to do this, we'd be sued into oblivion for blackmail because that's what this is, blackmail. Pay us money and we won't tell on you. This world is messed up.
Not really a well written piece. In fact, it's pretty poorly written.

But yes, AD is king in most enterprises. Definitely one of Microsoft's most important assets.

And that can be said with way less text. Like I just did.
SMS, cheap as chips
We try to explain it here
A letter to the mentors and educators in the open source community.
It's crazy that everyone is using 2.4Ghz for Wi-Fi. My flat is swamped with 2.4Ghz WiFi all conflicting with each other for the 3 non-overlapping channels and the much larger 5Ghz range is completely unused.
So, how does one work at all with multiple programmers and no version control?

Are you creating patch files and manually merging them (like Linux used to do)?

Or are you just using a shared FTP and keeping a spreadsheet of who is using which file at any particular point?

The amount of discipline and organisation required to use either of these methods would appear to be far higher than that required to sit down for a few hours to learn a basic VCS like Subversion using a graphical tool.
Do we really need to even redefine it though? With the massive storage provided by modern email providers, the automatic classification of incoming emails and the fact that we can usually search in our inbox quite efficiently I feel that e-mail as a toolbox isn't as bad as people make it seem to be. Of course some stuff like filesharing could be done better elsewhere, but the ability of searching for almost anything in my mess of an inbox isn't something I'm willing to let go just now.
I'd like to see the favicons of the original poster's website added.
Japanese youth dumping fiber lines for LTE. Opportunities opening up?
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Is human intellect on the downward slide? (debunked)
Good point - till now DDG was marketing at us.

Could this be where they're trying to move towards a more mainstream market?

They did take VC funding, and they may need to show growth in the mainstream market to their investors.
PyPy 2.0 beta 1 released
Accessibility isn’t Optional
I wasn't sad, I was laughing! I mean, come on. Pirates cause organised crime to flourish and terrorists to be financed, right? What a dastedly 9 year old, with her Winnie the Pooh laptop!

Incidentally, I'm sort of interested where you can get a Winnie the Pooh laptop as I have a 5 year old daughter.
Of course this is purely anecdotal, but I've seen a few Windows-only places become mixed Windows and Mac. Yes, it may only be 10% Mac today but that's from 0% two years ago. And the macs are seen as desirable, so I wouldn't be surprised if it increases, especially as the IT department processes for integrating them have been worked out.
32-bit processes can get 4GB of memory on 64-bit Windows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...

I thought the limit was 2GB, which Firefox is getting dangerously close to. 4GB gives a lot more wiggle room, but I wonder how long it will last...
Interesting : According to these slides [14] there is no difference between Apache + mod_wsgi and Nginx + uWSGI
I once started at a job where their last programmer had just quit. When I started, my new boss explained to me that I had to check out files by telling him which ones I needed and we updated the production server with me emailing him the modified files.

I set up SVN the first day.
Hacking Growth
The OP is in the UK so thankfully health insurance is not an issue as it is state-provided out of your taxes (although some companies do provide subsidised private healthcare, which some people might value highly).

You're very right about the other things though - pension contributions, paid sick leave etc. which freelancing doesn't cover, so it's important to compare them carefully.
::before and ::after pseudo-elements - CSS - Part 27
The man who made psychedelic light shows for Jimi Hendrix.
I have to disagree with your first sentence, but the rest I do agree. I think maintenance of the SW should be categorized under "the right tool for the right job". If your company has dozens of skilled "extrimists" then why not use it in production. On the other hand if not..
You confused me there, but I see now that it was actually me who confused you as I meant to reply to czzarr instead...

It seems that I helped inspire you nonetheless, which is great of course!

As for what makes tldr.io great; it's mostly the Chrome plugin which adds TL;DR icons next to the links on Hacker News.

They still need to work on enticing more users to contribute back though.
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Again this figure assumes that I've worked 9-5 Monday to Friday for six months. This has most definitely not been the case.

As for the jobs advertised on sites like jobserve. Most of these require you to work on site as a contractor which right now isn't something I want to do. Freelancing for me is a lifestyle choice, not necessarily a financial one.

Again this might change in a few years, I'm getting older and want to start a family, and so this lifestyle might not work for me then.

I just hope that my time spent freelancing is seen as a positive on my CV in future, if indeed I do need to make that jump back into full time employment.
"Intriguingly, their levels of endorsement were lower than college students but no greater than the physical scientists."

That doesn't make sense, but otherwise: interesting read.
James Cameron did that exactly. [1]

1. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120325-james...
I use Google's R Code Standard in my code and cut my productivity in half.
One person works on any one file at a time. To make sure you're working on the latest version you have to remember to download the latest copy from the live server.

No I'm not joking, and yes I know how unbelievably terrible this is, but it does happen.
And here I was thinking they must be already working on the 64 bit for ARMv8 and Android for a 2014 release.
I checked my logs and there are several fetches from 72.94.249.37 and 72.94.249.38, over a number of domains that I host. None are particularly popular as far as the greater internet is concerned; one is a semi private site that I set up for my daughter's photos, another is one that has not yet been developed, apart from a few words of text and an image.

Interestingly, the fetches do not have a user-agent that identifies itself as the DDG crawler:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

I'm assuming this is the crawler because it does not fetch anything besides text/html.
I don't think this happened because the girl downloaded music. She got into trouble because she used BitTorrent which, by default, makes you upload everything you download. The MAFIAA goes after uploaders, not downloaders. If the girl had used something like MegaUpload to download all her music, all her troubles would never have happened.

Therefore, I don't think it would change anything (from a legal point of view, although IANAL) if the father could show receipts for the actual CD. If the girl ripped a CD and put it up on BitTorrent, that would still be illegal regardless of whether she paid for the CD.
Scala is interesting but as others have pointed out, I think it gives a disservice to the presentation to call it "Systems programming at Twitter" .

To me it shows two things:

* The author doesn't know what system programming is;

* Future, promises and generally speaking asynchronous operations are I/O management 101. It doesn't paint your company in a good light to exhibit these techniques as "how we do things".

Am I too pedantic?
> I had a 64 bit chip 10 years ago and most of you probably did too.

Intel didn't put out an x86-64 chip until 2004, and their first desktop chip wasn't until early 2005 (IIRC). AMD's first 64-bit chip (Opteron) wasn't until 2003. Neither of these were mass market for quite a few years; it wasn't until 2006 that you really started seeing them in mass-market desktops. Now, there were exceptions of course, most notably the iMac and PowerMac G5, but 64-bit machines really weren't in the hands of general users until 2006-2007.
Cool! I've also been playing around with d3 lately so great to see some more examples.

One suggestion I'd have is to make the centre node something other than the word "English". Even as a native speaker I found it momentarily confusing (is this collocates for all English words?) so I could imagine it being more confusing for a non-native speaker.

Also it would be cool to put the collocates with the original word in the tool tip (i.e. "English professor" instead of just "professor") especially when the expanded coloured bubbles at the beginning are actually the collocates of the collocates.
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50% fail, only *0.3 %* of businesses are high growth (report)
There are a lot of great (personally) people doing great work, even in IT/security/digital liberty. It's just that the more obstreperous ones stick out in your mind.

Linus Torvalds is pretty universally regarded as a nice person, and very important to open source. Same with a lot of the earlier Bell Labs UNIX people, and computer scientists like Knuth, Ritchie, etc.

Within the startup world, it's even easier -- most of the well respected early angel investors, founders, etc. are decent people.

Every EFF employee that I've spent time with has been great, and a lot of them (Seth Schoen; Wendy Seltzer come to mind) are really important. Same with Prof Zittrain, Lessig, etc.

Even in computer security -- Jon Callas, Bruce Schneier, Ian Goldberg, Hugh Daniels, John Gilmore, Ben and Adam Laurie, Nicko and Alex van Someren, etc.
Anyone who doubts the validity of getting rid of software patents need look no further than the fashion industry. Fashion cannot be patented, and there seems to be plenty of innovation and a flourishing business in that sector. The only thing that is appropriate in fashion is trademarks. It is just a bad idea to allow anyone to tax or monopolize ideas.
> It probably belongs to a fuzzy set of existing situations canvassed by cases raised in the past thousand years.

Computers own those. Don't write off expert systems because you can't see how you would implement it right now. It would take an unprecedented effort (like apollo mission sized), but we have the means to build legal expert systems available to us today. It's not being done because it wouldn't be immediately profitable, in part due to the bias you expressed.

For every judge with a truly unique case on their docket right now, there are a thousand other judges with wholly predictable and commonplace cases. The law is incredibly complex, but 80% cases don't require any one-of-a-kind judgement. Humans are actually highly predicable in large numbers (just ask Nate Silver).

The idea of using the technology behind IBM's Watson is Hackers level laughable (though I think that was chosen because it's well known). The right tools for this job do exist, the billion dollar problem is getting the right input.
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The fashion industry does just fine without patents. Plenty of innovation and investment and profits going on there.
Fashion relies on trademarks, not patents. Huge difference.
We all lose when ideas/knowledge is monopolized or taxed by the few.
My situation is better than Italian one. Maybe I shouldn't worry too much about it then :)
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I worked for a very (very) large french website that does not use version control internally.

Mostly because most of the code is owned by a single guy and he does not see the problem with that.

Note the 'ed' at the end of 'work'.
Not all companies in the UK will provide paid sick leave and many will impose a strict maximum number of sick days per year which crossing means automatic disciplinary.
Social sharing of Apps the AppSurfer way
AppSurfer as a product is highly motivated in bettering the process of app discovery. Analysing the app discovery process, more carefully we came to certain conclusions regarding the process. The App discovery process is broken.
Painful spam in the disqus comments at the bottom of that page. Don't they have something in place against this?
This article misses the very good built in side by side compare of different versions built into Xcode which is the only bit of the Git integration I really use.

I use Xcode and I use Git but for general operations I prefer to use the commandline or the GitHub app (great for partial commits) even when not using GitHub itself. SourceTree is useful when you want to see the branching pattern.
Wow, that's a pretty great site.

You should make it easier for people to give bigger gifts -- to do so people need your tax ID and address info, so they can set you as beneficiary for 401ks (if you die before collecting), etc. And most people don't know anything about this, so maybe a 1-pg on "how to save 10 lives for free*" or something.

Also, a lot of people donate specifically before the end of the (tax) year, so a focused campaign in December would make a lot of sense.

If you possibly can, get reviewed by Givewell.
You have a point. But if you prefer listening on your iPod, you would buy the MP3 instead of a physical CD.
Whatever presentation software is used appears to be nigh unusable on the iPad.
Them Winnie-the-Pooh laptops is dangerous!

Well done, police!
Nice article, and really stresses the tradeoff between flexibility/control and development time. Being control freaks, we use plain old Express at tldr.io , it's true that you need to tie everything yourself but in the long-run I think we actually save time by knowing exactly what we do and why we do it.
Rails 3.2.9 through associations issues
I feel like there should have been a better solution to RTL/LTR annotation. Stuff like this makes me wish that there would be some well-defined subset of Unicode which would be less pita to handle.
I want my bear hug..
My other big filter for any project is the technology being used. If its something I want to learn, I try to get a gig in a bigger team, with older code bases. If its something I'm good at and interested in, then I try to get a green field project - solo or in a small team. The rest I skip ;)
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Samsung presses on patent lawsuit by adding iPad Mini and others
"I don't think it is feasible, though, and shows the folly of software patents."

INAL. But I'm curious. In the movies, there's always some obscure precedent that swings the case one way or another. Now in this example of attempting the copyright a clause in a contract, is there a possibility that any ruling ( one way or another ) would create a precedent that could be applied in software patent cases?

If a case like this did occur, and a judge ruled that clauses in contracts can not be copyrighted, what would his argument look like. And would it be specific enough to exclude software patents.
I do not agree with your pessimistic argument regarding human nature.

A much bigger issue is that migrating a massive 32-bits application to 64-bits requires too much effort, because unfortunately the C and C++ specifications have left a ton of flexibility and room for platform-specific behavior.

For instance it's beyond me why those specs haven't mentioned details like concrete sizes for really basic datatypes, like Ints and Chars, especially since development in C and C++ tends to get into really low-level details and optimizations, which means you end up relying on Ints being 4 bytes in size (how could you not do that?). The truth really is that even seemingly unimportant details such as the size of Ints can mean the difference between a rock-solid 32-bits app and a 64-bits app that's broken almost beyond hope of ever being fixed.

If anything, this should be the number one reason for why we must stop using C and C++ for new application developments and even in systems/embedded programming we could do a lot better, as these languages are unsuitable for continued improvements due to Moore's law, impeding progress.

Can you see how this creates a vicious circle btw? So we can have affordable consumer workstations with more than 10 GB of RAM right now with multiple cores and all that, which makes client-side development in garbage-collected functional programming languages feasible, but we can't really go there because the 32-bits legacy is holding us back. That's funny and goes to show that sometimes Worse is Not Better.
It's meant to mock the local RIAA and the copyright enforcement culture in general, and point at how ridiculous it has become. Maybe this way more people will hear about it, and then will start caring about it as well.
What non programming skills have you found most useful for freelancing apart from general business stuff?

For example when I have looked at freelance web programming jobs, especially for smaller companies who don't have an in house team they seem to also expect you to do the design work.

Do you have other freelancers that you sub-contract out to, do some yourself or stick to strictly scoped (programming only) projects?
should be be paid for

Who decides that, and what gives it the moral authority to do so?
after a little googling i can find references to papers pblished in 1994 and 1995 that refer to GHz CMOS components (eg A. Rofougaran et al., A 1 GHz CMOS RF
Front-end IC with Wide Dynamic Range,
ESSCIR, 1995, pp. 250-253; J. Carols and M. S. J. Steyaert, A 1.5 GHz Highly
Linear CMOS Down Conversion Mixer, IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 30, 1995,
pp. 736-742.)

i know nothing about this, so perhaps they are irrelevant, but on face value it seems like a 2.5GHz system could have existed in labs at that date, or at least was clearly going to be possible.
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Interesting, but i'd call all that good usability instead of growth hacking. They go hand in hand, yet by applying those tips you don't necessarily impact the reach of your product. Correct me if im wrong please.
That depends on whether the music exists in MP3 format, though. Until yesterday, there was no AC/DC on online music stores like iTunes.
Sweet, just in time. I always wanted to learn Erlang.
I want to believe it can be done in a single, gigantic project.

It won't happen that way. What will happen is that special purpose systems will nibble at the core of relatively well-settled areas of law. Trusts. Contracts. The bread-and-butter stuff.

Most such disputes never reach the court, because the particular law is so well settled. Party A goes to their lawyer, who can confidently say whether or not they would win in the courts against B. That's the beauty of stare decisis, in the long run it drives down the amount of court time needed for civil disputes.

But:

1. Some people still want their day in court. As a lawyer you are obliged to give your client your utmost efforts, even if they are idiots without a legal leg to stand on. I imagine a lot of them will demand human judgement be used.

2. Hard cases still come up. All the time. More frequently than you imagine. To the point where the Supreme and High Courts of the world turn away far more tricky corner cases than they address.
They should execute this filthy pirate. She is clearly single-handedly responsible for all poor music sales in at least the last 15 years.

Wait, no, this is utterly irrational and harms the MAFIAA's cause. I say bring on more lawsuits against neonates, foeti and octogenarians - they'll scupper their own cause pretty swiftly as they lampoon themselves.