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It's designed to churn out compliant cogs, and through various forces has only become better at doing so. Modern western public education is based on the Prussian school system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system) which emphasizes compliance, uniformity, attendance, punctuality, busy work, etc. All of which are great for making functional factory workers, but that has become less and less relevant as the nature of the economy has changed due to technological disruption. More so, the increasing disempowerment of individuals and refusal to treat students as adults in training (see: closed campuses, zero tolerance policies, etc.) has merely exacerbated that impedance mismatch. Now we have high school graduates who can barely read or do algebra let alone use rules of logic to reason or communicate effectively on complex topics at a time when knowledge workers are in the greatest demand in all of human history.
What? Did we read the same post? I thought the post was about how the Developer CEO's approach was to get data points and the Sales Guy CEO's approach was to get a read on the other person. Where did you read that he thought Developer CEO's approach was not as good as Sales Guy CEO's approach?

Perhaps you're taking the line "he based the value of the meeting on the quality of the data" to mean that Developer CEO was evaluating Sales Guy CEO as a person based on the quality of his responses and that it's a social faux pas to do so. As I understand that line, he meant that the Developer CEO's objective was to get value out of the conversation by getting high quality data. FWIW, I'm Developer CEO and I do the exact same thing.
emm.. it IS exactly the point.

Webservers can become unavailable. Github has a great trackrecord, and because git is distributed, people can still commit their code locally.

If you would have an SVN workflow, you would either have to wait committing (which is costly), or commit multiple changes in one go.

Also the email example is exactly the same. It IS a good thing you can access stuff locally.

You basically tell that dropbox is useless.
> Strictly speaking, math has to yield to the laws of nature as it does not exist outside the laws of nature (as mathematics is in our minds)

There are (within academia) alternative views to this one, e.g. Max Tegmark's "Mathematical Universe hypothesis":

- http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9704009

- http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0646

- wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesi...

The basic idea being, all internally consistent (viz., mathematical) structures exist (whatever the notion pertains to), and those containing 'self-aware substructures' are perceived as physical realities by virtue of those SASes being embedded within a particular given consistent structure (and hence having a from-within vantage point).

Sounds fishy, but it's a hypothesis alright, and there have been (AFAIK) some attempts to provide falsifiability conditions (thus making it a testable scientific hypothesis), but one would first have to address the problem of proper operationalization, i.e. defining the damn concepts at hand; it's probably too all-over-the-place for now - but nevertheless interesting and (heh) internally consistent.

Also see (for those interested), e.g. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computation-physicalsystem... (nice overview of related problem spaces)
I'm three miles away and I easily get 3 Mbps. Check your line (mostly attenuation and SNR). I've got 53dB attenuation and a SNR (ratio) of 10dB. Plus, uptime is pretty good (over 13 days now).
I don't read any adversarial tone in your quotes, merely a set of comparisons.
It's not about downtimes and outages. It's incomprehensible to me how lax businesses are with their backups, especially business where their clients data is everything. Yes, the brave new world of the cloud seems tantalizing, but even there, data can and will be lost. Don't just use only one way / provider / service / mechanism for backing up your data.

A tape / lto backup system doesn't cost the world. Yes, it introduces overhead and maintenance, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

At my place of work we currently use a lot of virtual servers, hosted by external providers. We use their backup and snapshot mechanisms. But we also pull all data to our local back up server. From there we backup to tape on a daily basis.
Enums are more "DRY"
Thank you! The bottom up vs top down comparison really crystallized the meaning of the post for me.
Fat chance
He might have a good point, but writes like a moron.
I asked a very relevant question on stackoverflow about this recently: "Writing a Python extension in Go" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12443203/writing-a-python...

Now technically you can compile a special python which can handle Go extensions, which is the wrapper mentioned in the second answer, but you can't distribute python modules that ask people to install "this special python" to run (which will reliably work with all their other installed code..)

I would like to see a "go init" function in a C API, that would let you interop the two whichever had the `main()`, since that would let you link with all the other c-implemented scripting languages (python, ruby, etc) which would mean that Go extension support could be added to the main cpython trunk as a compile-time option.
Popular languages with lambdas/closures/first class functions:

Ruby, Python, C#, Objective-C, Javascript, C++ 11

...

PHP

If you happen to find yourself being the personification of a programming language, and if you discover that PHP is a more advanced language than yourself then you have my permission to spend a night drinking heavily before hanging yourself from a lamp cord tied to a rafter in the garage.
Pirates is way too heavy a term here.

This is for-profit and closer to true piracy than file sharing is. It could be unintentional, but if they've already been contacted about it they really should be quicker to resolve the situation.

They're also shooting themselves in the foot,

No surprise there, see http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1641/itsfinetrustme.png for an example of the judgment they've shown.
Hipmunk can't compete with anyone on price as they use prices directly from airlines vs a mix of travel sites and airlines.

Hipmunk has a great interface & iPad app if you want to compare on flight "agony" and their hotels interface is very good.
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I do have backups of all my (relevant) GH repos since that's just a "git pull" away and can be automated nicely. But I'd probably be out of luck running my regular CI-process with github down or do a deployment. Both rely on having a public-facing git server - having a backup does not imply that I have a full git server running. I could set one up and administer it, but it's just too much effort given GH uptime.
Checkout timkay's perl scripts: http://timkay.com/aws/
Great story marcamillion, I had totally forgotten about WAP, it's so easy to get caught up with the tech that we use every day and forget about the rest. Good luck to your friend!
Just tried theverge.com on a not so powerful computer :

35 seconds and 6.50MB transferred !
We've already gone through West Nile in the DFW area this year. A very mild winter followed by a wet spring helped increase the number of serious cases. There is some thought that climate changes plus increased migration to the area is creating a rich environment for health challenges like these.
That was a show trick, very impressive on paper (or Youtube, as it were). At most it could be commercialized as an expensive gadget for first-worlders, if even that. Maybe in twenty years, when Moore's law will make it dirt cheap.
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Look up BoxCryptor, or set up encfs on Dropbox yourself. You get all the advantages of Dropbox (everything is on every [non-IOS :(] machine always - with LAN sync), but you suddenly have secure area inside Dropbox.
We need workers to transition to becoming owners or capitalists. Technology now allows us to control the means of production much more cheaply than ever before. Example: self-publishing

It's time our educational system reflected that.
They are still amazing though.
especially Dungeon Defenders with its DLCs. :)
A friend of mine caught this, it's common in Indonesia where he was.

It's not that dangerous if you are educated about it.
Never take Aspirin for example, this can be life threatening, but people tend to use it here when they feel bad.

It's so difficult to educate the general population about things like that.
If programmers wanted a statically-typed, compiled system language for their scripting efforts, they would be using the existing system languages for that already.

I think Go has been fairly successful at Google in terms of improved code maintainability, and as an alternative to not just C but C++.
This means he'd be fishing in an even smaller pool!
Related News:

Hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes set to be released into the Florida Keys in experiment to fight dengue fever

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2244272/Florida-offi...
2x on the note is the difference between 50x and 100x. Often such companies are 3x overvalued, and 33x vs 100x massively changes the risk/reward ratios. Capital is always limited, and even in the 2x case, that means one can invest in twice as many companies with twice the potential upside.

Suggesting pricing is not a rational factor in investment decisions is exactly the sort of irrational statement that indicates the peek of a bubble.

Furthermore, if you pay double, that means you've already lost 50% of your money. Valuation is essentially potential upside discounted by risk. If risk is not factored in properly, investors lose money and nobody wins. Investors expect most of their bets to lose, and winning bets to provide a significant return. That return may average out to around 20% annually for a very good investor. If that investor is paying double, that goes down to 10%, hardly worth the risk of angel investment.
Apple's blocks are not even limited to just Objective C, they're designed to work with C as well. (They're still not a standard feature, of course).
I'm also in that camp and certainly hope no-one gives me that (or any other political propaganda) for Christmas. Why can't you just accept your father's opinion instead?
http://www.zdnet.com/hacker-verizon-duel-over-customer-recor...

There is also an update.
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The need for C isn't so much restricted by the operating system, but by the hardware manufacturers. The simple fact is that C is the defacto choice of language for hardware vendors to ship a compiler for, and that doesn't look to change any time. It's a standard that can't be avoided, unless we can work cooperatively with enough major vendors to change this.
There are four strains. If only one is common in Indonesia, then you're right - once through is more or less like the flu.

In Puerto Rico there are three strains endemic. The more different strains you get, the worse the disease (i.e the worse your systemic reaction).

One of my son's classmates died last year of it, in Ponce, Puerto Rico (about a year after we left PR) - he was home from the hospital, posted to Facebook "I'm not 100% yet but feeling much better", and died that night. He was 11.

Dengue sucks.
Well, yes, but that itself is an example of how the theory fails - it assumes that the bar for "subsistence" never moves.

If we redefine "middle class" upwards to mean flying cars, robot servants and solid gold toilets, then we are all poor.

That doesn't mean life hasn't become dramatically better over time, it just means reality has failed to keep up with our moving goalposts.
what was that? an exploit in the SMB game?
And it's much worse in Brasil.

http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/noticia/2012-11-27/dengue-br...

http://www.healthmap.org/dengue/index.php
This is a good description of sales people, product people and developer people, but how does it relates to CEOs?
I don't think this stands up: "It must be possible for such contender to be called from C code, because that is what it takes to be called from a modern scripting engine too."

Later the author says, "If programmers wanted a statically-typed, compiled system language for their scripting efforts, they would be using the existing system languages for that already."

I think the reason that scripting languages exist is because of limitations in the established languages. What we think of as "a scripting language" is defined by the gap. If someone else could be a system programming language without the gap - maybe it doesn't need to be accessed.

The traditional unix platform is (1) C and a compiler for it, with access to the unix standard library and (2) some sh or csh derivative, and access to the likes of sed and awk.

Shell gave people a glimpse of what was possible. But shell has poor access to the unix API, and hits the wall quickly once you do anything other than very basic tool development.

So these things called scripting languages started to pop up. People wanted easy access to the unix API like C. They want easy string manipulation like shell. And they want access to functions, maps and lists without having to think about memory allocation.

If you start from the shell and awk and work into that gap you get perl - the canonical scripting languge.

TCL inhabits a similar space to perl. It's also "a scripting language". But it started at the opposite end. TCL starts as an extension language for C.

So I can understand the author's emphsais on close interaction with C. But I don't think they're important if you can take away the shortfalls they're compensating for.

I hope Go will mean I don't have to think about these things. That I'll be able to get a standard build and a go compiler/runtime and have immediate access to lots of power. No more headaches from C build tools or reaching around in the murky water underneath my scripting language.
The number makes sense for FiOS customers:

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20101008-If-Ver...
back??? I live in Rio, it never left... We have thousands of sick people every year. I caught it two or three times already. Horrible thing. Its so common that we know in which months it will strike worse.

For those of non tropical countries that are really scared, there are some tricks while you have it. First and foremost: drink insane amounts of water. Dengue will take all the water out of you thru its constants diarrheas. You need water more than you need food, drink more water. You will have very high fever, control it with meds but be aware that it won't go away. You will have pain in the extremities of your body (fingers, hands...), you can try to mask it with meds but you learn to live with it for a while, makes it hard to sleep.

Here in Brazil we have something we call "Soro Caseiro" which everyone learns to prepare at home, its one of your main ally against dehydration. You mix 1 liter of water with 3.5g of salt and 20g of sugar. You drink this to prevent dehydration or in the initial phase of your dengue. If things get really bad, you will need a hospital.

On my personal experience with this nasty disease, I've found that drinking Pedialyte helped me a lot. You may think it is dumb to drink baby fluid replacement med but it works and doesn't taste as bad as "Soro Caseiro", here in Brazil we have Pedialyte flavored like orange juice, so makes it easier.

Remember dengue is a bitch and can be very serious. When you get it, you need to see a doctor. All the tips I've placed above are useless if you get the more worrisome types (which are more rare), so go see a doctor.

And remember: don't despair
Making deliveries without a human is easy with custom-designed delivery vehicles and ahead of time warning about the exact hour of delivery, combined with personal passwords sent by email that unlock a compartment. People will probably even prefer it that way. I don't see a reason why humans need to be involved in the actual rounds once the driver automation aspect is solved.
I was not aware Rust had macros. Does that mean one can write lispy things like the "with-*" macros ?

Sorry, I'm afraid I'm confessing my affair with Emacs but I swore I'd leave her behind...
A simple concern on this topic:
When my day to day life is public online:
a)strangers know when I am on vacation and my house is empty
b) given the standard misunderstandings amongst people - what they can check about what I am doing via online tools and it differs from what they expect - and they never have to let me know they know (a seed for massive misunderstandings)

Both a and b open my life to problems out of my control. Irrelevant of the life I am living. Thus the need for privacy.
I take nootropil, which is a nootropic that I can easily buy here(Brazil).

It's well known for it's side effect of giving headaches if you don't have enough choline in your organism. I advise everyone to take it, it's healthy. Max your choline and you'll be just fine.
Telecommuting requires management processes that facilitate it. Until they automate management telecommuting is not going to dominate, because the average manager doesn't perform well enough to manage remote workers effectively.
todo app + fiverr integration?
Which components are you talking about? Firmware?

Given suitable hardware that doesn't need firmware blobs, distros like Fedora are 100% free software. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is also 100% free - you can download all the source from ftp.redhat.com and check that yourself.
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Ah, but that is not the way it has to be.
These features are already possible with the existing byte code in JVM 6. Because it is all implement and possible using Scala.
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It's interesting to see that in the gnewsense wikipedia page that Debian considers some of the GNU documentation to be non-free because their license allows an author to say "you are not allowed to modify this part of the manual", which is somewhat against the spirit of the FSF's opinion on code.
Here's a lesson, never trust user input!

This is not the first time, and not the last time either.

(I'm waiting for the posts saying they should be using PostgreSQL)
There are few generalists. A good CEO is somebody who understands his limitations and keep his sides armed with best in breed personnel who are better at tackling those limitations. A some what developer+product CEO here :)
> Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, subconscious

"Turning off your brain" sounds like a good summary of that. I don't think one need a particular "skill" to act stereotypically, subconsciously, emotionaly, automatically, at least... If one is inhibited and thinking too much, just give it some wine.
The indexing issue isn't described, and it's quite important. For example, my research needs to be published somewhere that's indexed in Thomson Reuters Web of Science or SCOPUS [even though some good journals of my subfield aren't there] - otherwise the results don't count in most practical measurements that determine the evaluation and funding of me and my institute.

Me and my colleagues can't publish in nonindexed (or weakly indexed) public journals, since you won't be able to publish the same research results in a 'good' journal or conference later (it's no longer 'original, unpublished research') - in essence, publishing here would mean throwing away many months of work, since the work itself and its citations will be disregarded.
This article is really interesting. It says that randomness doesn't mean uniformity but true randomness can have clusters. So what exactly is randomness? How can we define randomness?
Is Math.random() is really random?
Which is the best random function and how can we find if it is purely random?
Yep. MySQL credentials in the binary.
People are willing to pay a heavy premium for handmade goods, despite those goods often being physically inferior in every aspect to a machine-made equivalent.

Fundamentally, the economy is driven by demand, and demand is driven by culture. If it is perceived that it is distasteful to buy machine-made goods, then people will buy handmade.

Similarly, i assume that anything 'tailored' will become popular. If it is as cheap to produce a run of one as a run of 1 million (and this day is coming), then everyone will be looking for something tailored just for them. There's a huge opportunity for low-skilled labor there.
Really? What is someone else pretended to have created the game, and uploaded it to the store?

Would Canonical have made a mistake then?
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But all of those things are accomplished using plain Java (I.e. a Function1<InputType, OutputType>) and classes with static methods for objects etc. It's not done at a bytecode level. You can do everything you can do in Scala... in Java, it's just hilariously verbose.
There is no reason I should have to pay Evernote, Apple, Amazon or Google any cloud storage money...

I use Google tasks and I don't pay any money to Google. On Android I use a freeware 3rd party app (GTasks), works like a charm.
Verizon doesn't say anything about the records being in plain text though.
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(I'm waiting for the posts saying they should be using PostgreSQL)

I'm not that guy, but I've always liked Postgres.
Hi Ken, this is Lu Dongxiang, I'm a journalist at Programmer Magazine in China (http://www.programmer.com.cn). We really hope to interview you and introduce the story behind the development of Omni products to Chinese programmers. Do you think this possible?
good news: it's not Verizon Wireless data!

bad news: it might be Verizon Fios data!
From what I recall of the story, the login for SMB's level database was stored in plaintext in the exe.

That picture is the guy who found it telling the devs, and the devs not understanding why it's a problem.

Cue their database being "hacked" a short while later... and another internet meme is born!
Previous discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947970

It sounds pretty good, similar to an old tape recording.
I think it's really rude to pretend interest in another person by asking questions, and then to start talking about yourself as soon as you can...