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I anticipated "works for me" comments, I have no doubt experiences vary. I've installed Moonlight dozens of times in both Firefox and Chrome. I've used Silverlight on my MBA. I can absolutely say they are second class compared to Windows with Linux being unusable for anything interactive Silverlight and I can say for certain that the Azure portal was often unstable or annoying to deal with in Mac in the pre-HTML5-Azure portal era.
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Stick with cocos2d. You can get free art at http://www.vickiwenderlich.com and some good tutorials at http://www.raywenderlich.com
THQ files for bankruptcy
Yeah. And what about all those libraries saving old newspapers? It's disgusting, I tell you!
I always assumed, no ones mentioned it yet, that Safari was a link to the Mac OS X code names.

You'd go on Safari to observe (not necessarily hunt) wild cats like Tigers, Lions, etc.

Also along with the binoculars for remote desktop, I thought they'd be going for a Safari theme throughout the OS, but it ended up going more space themed.

I guess you could say the OS (both Safari and space) fall into the exploration theme as a whole.
Plenty of those articles link to mainstream sources.

First one I looked at linked to this, for example: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/03/136920664/gates-foundation-sho...

Which contains the same kind of information they are talking about:

> They're influencing governments in lots of different ways — and corporations, and really everybody else in society, and it's not just about writing checks

So clearly this isn't just a philanthropic effort - it's a political machine with real influence.

More:

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2012751169_gatesmonsa...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonie-haimson/post_1315_b_788...
In the Microsoft corner of the world, DotLess[1] is pretty popular, and way more mature than any SASS libraries in .NET.

[1] http://www.dotlesscss.org/
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We find logical issues that reduce the strenght of the algorithms every year or so, til now. You're saying that bcrypt doesn't suffer this and you can just add more rounds.

That's sort of like adding more rounds to DES.
That made me think of the bit in the Warren Buffet bio where he dines with the head of Sony (or some other Japanese firm) prepared by the CEO's personal chef, and basically loathes every minute of it and is dying for a burger and fries.
It doesn't work for me. Still saying it's a closed beta.
Yup. Notice the similar spike around World War I. Also notice that the spike went back down fairly soon after World War I, but after World War II they pretty much stayed at the increased level; rather than decreasing spending and taxes back to pre-war levels, the government just found other ways to spend it and continue growing.
Ireland really could have chosen to let some banks fail. There was a lot of pressure from countries that were trying to pretend their banking sectors were healthier than they were (esp. Germany), but several people then on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (e.g., Willem Buiter) said it was a mistake for Ireland to guarantee all creditors.
Chrome on Debian user here, that link actually provided a link to a moonlight installer for chrome (crx file), however chrome no longer allows downloaded extensions to be installed.

Just tried firefox (called Iceweasel in Debian), and moonlight installed ok, but I got this message:

// Due to differences between Silverlight and Moonlight, the Linux version of the
// Try F# control is not fully functional at this time.
//
// We will make the Try F# control available on this page as soon as all issues
// are resolved. Please check back later and thank you for your understanding.
//
The only way it would hurt the company is if someone would let the world know about their motives. But even that would be easy to deny.
This is absolutely incredible. I don't have much more to say than that. Thanks for sharing.
That is so sad news...

May you come back from chapter 11 THQ
Why they started using that service in the first place is what's bugging me.
> One of his rationalizations, if he is ever bothered to make one, might be, "Well, if I wasn't doing this someone else would be." Of course, that is true.

Why would that be true? Nobody else is doing it at the scale of IV, despite nothing preventing it from happening. It's not because other people are capable of bad choices that you are excused for your own blunders. Ethics don't work that way.
Surely hinted fonts are an anachronism in the days of "retina" displays?
I worked in e-learning for several years for a company that sold into corporate clients. Here are a couple of things that struck me from that experience:

* How do you integrate with my Active Directory users?

* I want to import these courses I've designed into my learning management system. Can I do that?

* Do you support SCORM or AICC? Hint: Focus on SCORM. :-)

* Can I test users at the end of the course / during the course?

* Can I let users re-take a test, or block them from retaking a test?

* Every client wants to track and test in different ways.

Finally, when times are hard, the first thing that gets a budget cut in large companies is training (and e-learning expenditure as part of that).

I've seen various "successful" businesses fail in this market niche, usually when the economy is getting hit hard.

If you can make a success of this during the hard times, you'll be golden for the good times!
beacause... reading! Really should have linked to the changelog
Actually, the USA has an abysmal and depressing culture of corruption and venality. The casual attitude to petty (and not-so-petty) corruption in the USA is endemic, and extremely damaging. The media have a role to play in combating this, as does the general public.
This is irrelevant. They can add the Steam binary to their own PPA and update it as they update the client now. Steam will be able to do all those thing, like every single program in Linux can, while being installed as a system package.

The way they're doing it now is plain unclean.
When Android first came out, its browser was called "Browser". I actually appreciated that.
By the way, it's a code generator, not a preprocessor. Everything you write is valid C++, it's just that there is additional code being generated that interfaces with your code.
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Agreed. NPR / This American Life did a great piece on Patent Trolls "When Patents Attack" (in case you missed it): http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w...
Ah now, that is somewhat true and also somewhat false.

I lived in Ireland for most of this period, and really what caused the problem was the blanket bank guarentee which was introduced against the advice of Goldman Sachs. More specifically, the attempt to save a bank known then as Anglo Irish Bank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo_Irish_Bank).

Now, Anglo Irish really only lent for construction development, and were majorly tied up with the ruling political party of the time, Fianna Fail.

This bank was not systematically important, but they were politically important. The government put approx 30 bn into this bank, and tried to pass it off as a loan. Eurostat, quite rightly said no, you'll never get this money back, and ordered Ireland to count it as debt in 2010. This spiked the irish debt levels, spooked the markets and led to the bailout of Ireland by the IMF and EU.

The worst part is, even though the agreement with these external bodies was to cut costs everywhere (in profession such as law, accountancy and medicine) the brunt of the cuts have so far fallen on poor people.

If one could go back to September 2008, a blanket guarenetee had not been issued and Anglo had been allowed to go bust, then ireland would be in a very different position.

That being said, Irish people appear to be taking austerity quite well, and given the demographics, will probably recover over the next ten years. This all could have been avoided, and while the EU certainly didn't want banks to fail, the majority of the problems were caused by Irish political corruption.

The worst part is, the party responsible for this will be back in power within ten years, where they will have a fourth shot at bankrupting the country. Ireland, my country, has serious issues with stupid governance which is mostly disguised by the willingness of the people to work hard and ignore the stupidity.
Is this done with Autopano (http://www.kolor.com/ http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/brown/autostitch/autostitch.html)?
Yes they are. Get them here:
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/tree/master/docs
How many bits of hash are realistically needed for key verification?
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This bit surprised me somewhat:

'Not only had we gotten very used to calling it that, the string “Alexander” was all over the code and buried in its resources. So the engineering team wasn’t just curious about the real name, they were worried about correctly and completely changing the placeholder name at the last minute.'

Why would you litter a codebase with disparate string literals referring to a "placeholder name" rather than using a single resource file or a single #define?
with specialized services on the Internet for just about any kind of data, it makes less sense to use general purpose tool like Dropbox.

Not to mention that cloud storage is becoming core feature of many operating systems. If Dropbox doesn't reinvent itself, it could easily face the fate of Netscape.

So what I'm thinking is that Dropbox will keep building/buying these specific-purpose services which will all work on top of your dropbox account (similar how Facebook built photo-sharing and other features on top of their social network). This is basically the only way for them to stay relevant since pure cloud storage is at this point commoditized and there is zero lock-in.
Ours is pretty much like that, with one more step: Google each candidate name. Those that get few hits or hits that are completely unrelated to the problem domain get a +1.
"rather than decreasing spending and taxes back to pre-war levels, the government just found other ways to spend it and continue growing."

Well golly, let's not let facts get in the way of a good story. The federal government had a huge debt to pay down after the war. The debt as a fraction of GDP spiked to an all-time high after WWII, and steadily declined until the late 70s. The higher taxes were going toward that debt.

Then we dramatically cut taxes in the late 70s, and the debt started climbing again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt
"[Public & Private bank debt] effectively the same [under TARGET2]"

Interesting assertion, as it would mean there effectively are no private banks and "too big to fail" is enshrined in basic EU mechanisms, and independent of size -> automatic bailouts all the time.

Are you referring to Sinn's analysis? While that's an interesting read (intro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARGET2), it doesn't seem to quite support such a staggering claim.

However, I do see that European politicians are acting this way, so that supports what you are saying, but they actually have to act to do so, which contradicts it.

Certainly the rest your text simply assumes the equivalence of public and private debt, rather than showing that this is the case.

"you never defaulted on this collateral" -> There are two different "you" in this case. So what happens if one of these two "you" does default?

You are implying that the default of one "you" automatically means the other "you" never gets money again (the bond vigilantes and all that), but as the fine article showed, the same was said for Iceland and it didn't happen.

I know you claim that there is only one "you", but I just don't see that in your analysis (or in what Sinn wrote).

"It is true Ireland could have tried to hold out for an externally-led, Greek-style debt restructuring" -> again, that only applies after taking on the bank debts.
He seems to be using 20/2.8 lenses, which seem to be at $500 at amazon, so total would be closer to 50k than 30k.
Here's a very similar thing from nearly 20 years ago. I remember watching this as a kid and it blew my mind. Distinctly remember the dog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIpmUi8HI1k

I'm no expert but it strikes me that the shadowless full-light exposures that he talks about are the real challenge here and maybe that sets it apart from other popular examples.
Really cool post. If you have ever been in a printing room while a press was operating, it's an amazing experience. It's crazy to think that through those small pipes more data is being passed - more variety, more volume - than was ever passed with all the cacophony of the press.
uplink works. defcon doesn't, unless you some manual "patching" (download the demo, fire up defcon in wine/windows to get your steam key, activate it on linux). It'll eventually come though.
Why strawmen, exactly? I'm not disagreeing with you; it's true that following your passion is often difficult, or even impossible.

I was just interested in discussing the passion angle of this story, because passion, in the strongest sense of the word, is a fascinating variable in this context. Passion can make a person content (to a degree) despite being dirt-poor, and passion can even bring a person out of squalor. And for some, not everyone, taking that passion seriously can be quite beneficial.

You might disagree, or consider the topic irrelevant, but how are we discussing strawmen?
I use coffee shops or espresso company names, often local to Seattle. The list is quite limitless. Zoka, Vivace, Rococo, Velton, Olympia, Lighthouse, Ladro, and so on it goes.
This feels true for the US companies I have worked at as well.
And its written by Dan White, he of get on the property ladder and the time to buy is now. Seriously, I cannot understand how anyone still listens to him, but apparently they do.
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Great picture! We are also a company based in Nepal where this picture is taken from. Our company name is after another peak - Manaslu, which is a 8th highest peak in the world. We do Ruby on Rails web development. http://www.manaslutech.com
What are you into ? What kind of gig did you do ?
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Yep, happened exactly this way at my last job. I was ridiculously underpaid, and I was attempting to negotiate about a month before pay reviews and was told to wait. My intentions were clear though.

The mandate came down - 3% for everyone more or less. I argued, and was politely shot down. Three weeks later I had a new job offer at a competitor I really wanted to work for. My current employer asked me how much it'd take to stay - "no dollar amount would keep me". I'm actually interested now how much they were willing to offer as a counter though.

New company has been really great with annual rises in the vicinity of about $10k.
From what I've seen with software engineering positions, you can expect roughly a 10-25% year over year salary increase. I also can't stress enough how much negotiating a higher starting salary can have an impact over your long term prospects. It's very important to know what you're worth on the market so that you can make sure that you're compensated fairly for the amount of experience AND potential that you have. Recruiting engineers usually costs about 10-20k, so companies more likely than not will give you at least a 10% increase to keep you from leaving, and more based on how much you were able to deliver and how well you can negotiate.
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What makes you think it was string literals? Probably a lot of classes was prefixed with "Alex" or something similar. Folks at Apple, being perfectionists, of course could not live with the code name all over the source :-)
"100 years from now, when another one of you goes spelunking around this basement, that data, those bits, today’s moments, will likely be long, long gone."

Well said.
Back then the images were pasted on real walls and it adds to the emotional appeal.
And now the images are pasted on virtual walls (aka Facebook/desktops).

I always wondered this. The new technology is great in spreading the images wide (wide in the spacial plane - I can see what was there in that room, and I'm sitting here far far away. That is the beauty of new technology. ). But it fails to spread it deep (call it in an emotional plane).
To be clear, Fed action isn't spending. Look at page 32. It's all in the form of interest paying loans (and $10 trillion went to other central banks, not even private institutions). Much of it is to provide liquidity to banks already eligible to borrow through the discount window - already a source of unlimited loans from the Fed, at under 1% since 2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discount_window). Much of the rest is to provide liquidity to other institutions that couldn't borrow directly, because the liquidity that's supposed to be indirectly ensured by the discount rate had dried up.

So yes, the Fed responded to the financial crisis by increasing liquidity. That it mostly occurred through ad-hoc programs and instruments doesn't change the fact that it's the basic function of the central bank. It's in no way paying for Wall Street salaries.
I guessed it was a newspaper shop before he got to the bit about the Oregonian. All the marks are in blue pencil, which was a common tool in graphic arts until the digital era. And because it's a big basement in an old building in the center of a big city, that to me says newspaper.
Resources such as nib files and help files aren't amenable to things like #defines. Filenames and build system metadata fall in to the same cateogry. The source code proper is a different story, but is also trivially updateable via sed or the like.
Just for some perspective, in my time at Apple "It doesn't suck" was usually the highest form of praise possible.
how is it irrelivant? if people are wanting games and stuff to be distributed through the package manager, all these issues very much apply.

Even the steam client package itself is something like 100megs, so it becomes painful without diff/delta patches. (steam updates a LOT)
It's an effective way to share photos with thousands of people, why not..?
Doesn't have to be the case. My current employer consistently offers 10% pay rises. But then that's in a non-public company that is financially secure.

Less than inflation pay rises are something you should only accept as an alternative to them laying people off.
When i showed the film to my programming class, they said they all seemed "whiny and suicidal". Personally, i liked it, but their opinion, if somewhat pointed, has some merit.
The phrasing bandied about where I currently work is:

"You are doing the same job as last year, so your pay should be the same adjusted for inflation. If you want more money, you need to be taking on more responsibility, growing your role."
It may be limited, but seems to be a good start:

$ cat <<HN | sed -e '/@/ s/\([a-z]\)\([A-Z]\)/\1-\l\2/g'
> The following sed will replace camelCase only if it can find an arobase
> character in the current line, thus fooBar and bazThing won't be replaced
> but @fooBar and @awesomeFooBarBazzProperty will.
> True story.
> HN

The following sed will replace camelCase only if it can find an arobase
character in the current line, thus fooBar and bazThing won't be replaced
but @foo-bar and @awesome-foo-bar-bazz-property will.
True story.
I've read that a few times in places, which is interesting on the face of it as in public the language surrounding Apple products is hyperbolic and overwhelmingly positive, and internally saying "well, it doesn't suck" is high praise. The duality of company presences.
I find myself doing the same. I think I like the naming process.
That was an amazing trick: discovering juggling tricks through math!

Quick meta question: is ColinWright (submitter) the Colin Wright cited on the article, who did this discovery?
Ancient powerful or mythical cities here. ElDorado, Hamunaptra, Babylon, etc.
I don't use this extension, but I just looked at the xpi and crx versions and they are both just javascript, and I didn't find any license mentioned anywhere. So if you believe djb, you can distribute the source + patches until the author explicitly states otherwise.
It would be nice if your after-tax pay was included in the chart alongside your tax rate and inflation-adjusted income.
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That name is used on the WebKit blog - https://www.webkit.org/blog/
I'm only talking about handling Steam updates, I agree with you on game updates. However, the Steam client can still access the user's home directory and create/access game data there, as all Linux apps do, so the current way of having Steam dump its binaries at the home dir is unclean.

Pretty much the only valid point is having to update the whole thing every release, but I've never seen the Steam client download an update that was less than 75 MB.
...it took two and a half sides of A4 and I thought, for a juggling move that lasts one second there must be an easier way," says Wright.

The system he helped devise became known as Siteswap.

When known juggling tricks are written down in [Siteswap] notation form, an overarching pattern emerges.

Siteswap sounds to be analagous to a high-level programming language.
Off-by-one errors only affect good programmers. Otherwise you just add enough of such errors that all the under- and over-summing cancels out.

7 years ago, when I was a new programmer, I did use a technique like that to fix some JavaScript. I feel brave confessing that.
Speaking in relation to the UK, a litigant would only be considered to be vexatious where a claim was considered to be without merit and was only being brought for the purpose of causing annoyance, which is a fairly high threshold to prove.

With IV, the issue is that they at least have an arguable case that patents they hold have been infringed. I would therefore think that they would not approach the threshold of being considered a vexatious litigant.

The problem is that the patents have been granted in the first place, and once granted, companies are free to use them as they please or at least argue their case. Of course, the same patents could be revoked in a court action but I acknowledge that the principal aim is to extract royalties from companies before the matter ever comes to court.

On the California provision you mention, this contains certain caveats which would mean the person would be free to file as many suits as they wanted where the claim was of a sufficiently low value. Presumably the provision is designed to prevent the individual representing themself from continuously filing frivolous suits against companies claiming vast damages, arguably due to the chilling effect this might have on companies doing business.
There was someone who was with the WBC on Reddit doing an IAMA earlier. According to him, this is just a myth. These people really do believe it what they are preaching. They don't even earn that much from suing people.
Never noticed that but you're right
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ColinWright
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I usually start projects on github, and allow the random name chooser to make that decision for me..

"Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about drunken-nemesis."