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“Ich zahle keine gute Löhne, weil ich viel Geld habe, sondern ich habe viel Geld, weil ich gute Löhne zahle.” - Robert Bosch

English version: I don't pay big salaries because I have lots of money, I have lots of money because I pay big salaries.

If you treat your employees well, they will do good things to your company
>It was doing that with the knowledge that the target was not meant to be public

AT&T's intent isn't really relevant. The fact is, they published all of those emails publicly. They certainly didn't mean to, but I fail to see how accessing public websites can be considered a crime, even if you access lots of them when the company doesn't want you to. If I forget to close my blinds before having sex, that doesn't make anyone who walks by on the street and sees me a criminal. Nor are they criminals if they take a picture and post it on reddit. It's your job not to expose that material publicly if you want it to be private.

>storing that information, and sharing it with the media.

Neither of these are acts that should be considered criminal, just as the storing and uploading to reddit of an embarrassing photo is not criminal. Would it still have been criminal if he had passed the bash one-liner to the media, instead? What's the difference? The responsibility for the leak still resides with AT&T, and them alone.

Now, none of this is to say that I condone of weev's actions. I certainly would have handled the situation differently. But being rude and being a criminal are not synonymous.
France: Tax Google and Facebook for collecting your personal data?
Retina Ready Images and Responsive Web Design
Apple devices have Retina displays, therefore when creating a responsive website you also need to accommodate Retina images into them for the best display.
Just a quick observation: there seems to be an awful amount of distractions on that cube. If that lady was actually programming, it would be really easy to lose focus.

I usually go for a very spartan furnishings. My computer, a few books, a clock and a calendar.
Apple Up, Moutai Down Among Gifts for China’s Rich
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So what does your product do exactly? ...and why should I care?
I'm not sure I follow you. Is the pattern-matching in Haskell somehow not 'core' enough? Both qsort examples linked in this thread use pattern matching.
Versioning ASTs -- very interesting. Are you documenting the development anywhere? I'd love to hear more.

I've been quite fascinated by ASTs (and verification thereof) ever since poking around Python's approach to it.
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http://warhorsestudios.cz/index.php?page=blog&entry=blog... is a very good blog post, outlining how poisonous executive management of large video game companies is, and how there are inordinate numbers of useless/inefficient positions in games development.

I remember reading a blog post by the guy who did the fire for Far Cry 2. He spent a year on it. He didn't even do any of the graphics. He spent an entire year just playing around with fire spreading algorithms. An entire man year, spent on making the effect of one weapon look cool. Absolute madness.

On your mention of Garbage Truck Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator 2 came out not too long ago. All you do is drive a truck, that's it. It's selling pretty well, and has a development team of about 10 guys.

Why don't people in the big games companies realize all they need to do to be successful is make small, focused, FUN games, that have development teams of 10 or so. The rise of the indie game genre pretty much proves that it is financially viable.
Hello Haskell, Goodbye Scala
Also there is the totally useless capslock key, it could be mapped to meta just fine ^_^

See point 1 on Steve Yeggies's list of things to consider
with emacs.

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs
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Silicon Valley rent prices and living costs make it impossible to ever be competitive with China in EE manufacturing. But not only China, also Taiwan, Korea, Japan and even parts of Europe and the rest of the US.

Nothing wrong with it though. This only sustains because there are more profitable industries there now.
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> No, you can’t have that hardware keyboard or removable battery. No, you can’t install that app. No, you can’t have that feature."

"And yes, you can sit still in this drawer while I upgrade my custom rom on the other device. But don't worry, you are so elite. See you later."
Heh, I had pretty much the exact same idea in december as well, and produced a system based on Compass/SASS which does a final pre-process step before CSS output, which attempts to remove any unused rules.

Managed to get 100kB of CSS down to about 2kB for the single-page site I was using it on.

Like the author here, I didn't get into exploring how to make this work effectively on a large site with a number of dynamic pages - the only thing I added for this type of approach was to provide a whitelist.
What is this API anyway?
This day in age, everyone is talking about open source. API can be thought of as open source, but there are some differences.

You often have to rely on others to perform functions that you aren’t able or permitted to perform, like say, opening a bank account or dunking if you’re a playmaker in basketball. It’s the same situation with virtually every software out there. It needs to put in a request to other software to perform actions it can’t accomplish. An alley-oop pass, if you will.
Star Citizen, Wastelands 2, Double Fine Adventure, many others.

It just looks like finally I can participate in making game I would like to play.

I am tired of playing some half-assed interactive movies that costs half a billion to make.

Niche will survive, and it just recently started to rise again, thanks to niche people themselves funding games.

There is no void and there will not be, in death, something will born again, and sometimes it is built upon recognizing failures of previous generations. Call it evolution, as dire it might look, it is a progress.
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Well, it has been doing essentially that for decades, and they are getting food and oil 'gifts'.
There is a lot of negotiation by South Korea and USA with North Korea all the time about where exactly the line will be drawn, with all kinds of negotiation chips.
You could read up on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure

Preferrably contact the vendor directly without publishing your findings online. Give them time to fix the issue.
If they do not react and you feel there is a great danger if you do not disclose the existence of this vulnerability, publish it.
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> Exactly the same thing is happening in the movie industry.

And I personally hate it. I remember a time when "blockbusters" included stuff like Total Recall, Die Hard, Terminator II or Aliens, I just want that again. There's still the casual Sucker Punch or Watchmen, but they're too few and far between.
I find it unconvincing. That Haskell deemed is better for learning functional programming for the sake of learning functional programming does not really say much about general usefulness.
Something like this: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsN... ? :) and more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_restaurant
Hey there netcorps,

Thanks for the reply.
I think that's the way I'll go about it.

Much appreciated!
There does seem to be a lot of own goals going on at Microsoft at the moment. But then again, some of the "talent" that has left is still making those own-goals.

Stephen Elop went to Nokia, and instead of using the one thing that I believe could have competed in the market - Maemo and then Meego - was dropped in favour of Microsoft's operating system. That's an own goal, if ever I've seen one.

So IMO, it's not really just Balmer who is at fault here, there seems to have been quite a lot of problems with even the executives leaving the company.
Yes, and for some people like me, reading and finishing the complete TAOCP series is a 'forever' project.
Watch what happens to your web traffic when your TV ad airs
Expectation Maximization is a very generic inference scheme that has many declination depending on the structure of the models it is applied to. For instance there we already have Gaussian Mixture Models that can be fitted using EM in sklearn. There is also an implementation of k-means which can also be interpreted as an EM algorithm.
I think you're slightly off with your conclusion of responsive web design. It doesn't aim to cater to people resizing their windows (that's just an added benefit), it aims to cater to all devices regardless of window size.

Assuming we're still considering responsive design, if designed from a mobile-first perspective you'd be surprised how clean the code can be to deal with this. Start with minimal resources and most of your content stacked vertically so that it's lightweight and easy to consume on a touch device. Providing you've used relative units (ems in particular) you can scale up for larger screen with super simple media queries that just bump the font-size on body (e.g. body { font-size: 120%; }). You can find an awesome overview of this approach on Trent Walton's site [1]. Compare this with a hacky approach of doing desktop-first - you're loading assets (probably) unnecessarily, hiding chunks of markup to never be displayed, hammering your CSS to fit your desktop peg into a mobile hole. I know this doesn't cover everything, and any sufficiently complex site will require more than just bumping font-size, but honestly it doesn't have to be super difficult and full of horrible workarounds.

Now with the resposnive vs. separate site debate, the way I've always thought of it is responsive site for web sites, separate sites for web apps. Apps are sufficiently complex, with enough interaction that they require fundamental changes in HTML, CSS and JS to adapt to touch devices. Which leads onto the next point, serve a separate version of a web app based on touch/non-touch not window size, as it is the interaction method that should dictate design choices not how small the window is. It might then be wise to adopt a hybrid approach for your touch-specific app, where you scale up/down for larger/smaller touch-based devices.

Note that some of this may change and become significantly simpler with the advent of the Shadow DOM [2] and Flexbox layouts [3]

[1] http://trentwalton.com/2013/01/07/flexible-foundations/

[2] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/shadowd...

[3] http://weblog.bocoup.com/dive-into-flexbox/
M$ is a festering money hub of individuals with indy goals reeking to create beyond the bounds.
All this sounds very interesting and promising. Good luck! :)
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That site is awful. Almost all links are broken.
One way to scale Firebird Database is to put it on memory virtual disk or ramfs

On linux i can mount a partition in memory (Install ubuntu/debian)

sudo mkdir /mnt/ram
sudo mount -t ramfs -o size=200G ramfs /mnt/ram
mount to show you the partitions mounted

and then move your database into the ram partition

cp -rp /var/lib/firebird/2.5/data /mnt/ram

That large instance could help you with the Firebird cache settings also the extra SSD could do wonders

Inspired by the stack overflow big fat server architecture

http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-arch...
Well, there isn't really a body of code to version control yet, as the AST forms still aren't quite finished, and so all the ASTs will have to be generated from text code (yes, Python) until the language is properly bootstrapped.

So the versioning is still vapor. Thing is, once you've done the structures correctly (i.e. copied git) the versioning just falls right out. The whole project really started off as a logical extrapolation of git's data structures.

I don't have a dev log at all, sorry. It would be good to get my insights down on paper.
Well, since Ireland has been abortion-retarded until very recently, I guess you guys had to implement some proper maternity care.
I am not sure why this is considered news. Guess just because this guy went on the record to state the obvious?

Every large company develops internal politics with various degrees of harm to itself and its performance. If the business is led by a non-founder, non-technical, non-performing CEO it is a given that he will always feel like an insecure usurper/impostor more concerned about protecting their job from rivals than actually leading.

This is yet another data point in support of Andressen Horowitz's thesis about backing founding CEOs. I might add that's also a strike against promoting a head of sales to CEO.
Ballmer probably knows it's his last executive position he'll ever get in this industry. So he's squeezing as much out of it as he can. Or he's just a fanboy of the "old Microsoft."
Never happened before in any other company.
I´m about dreaming such a language for years. But I already have a forever project so I never really did anything about it :/ Got anything online? I´d love to watch this project.
One of the biggest shocks for me when I came to the US for the first time was to see what Radio Shack had turned into. Especially because it is often cited as one of the reasons for technological progress in america (easy availability of electronics)
VCs to avoid taking money from
Damnit Mozilla, I want a web based mobile platform to succeed so badly and you're the company for it, but you keep killing your own fire with these repeated false starts. A 600 word blog post to announce the availability of a holding page? My credit card is burning a hole in my pocket! The approximate specs for the lowest end device were available on the B2G wiki for months.

Looking forward to holding this in my hand. For a few cents per unit, they might have made it even more compelling by adding dual SIM slots, certainly Chinese vendors seem to be able to manage this on <$100 Android handsets.
Haha this is so true. I used my forever project (indeed, a obscure fantasy football game =) ) over the past year as a narrative to pick up the basics of programming. Although the game is still not live, I learned so much building it.

Great inspiring read. Thanks!
Probably throws chairs at them...

To be serious, this is normal in most corporates. It starts when you let the MBA* with the personality disorder in, you're fucked. I've watched three companies fall at the hands of such people.

* This is not true of all MBAs, but I seem to see a trend where there are more borderline psychopaths.
His net worth is $15.7 billion[1] so I doubt he's concerned about "squeezing as much out of it as he can".

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
I've been looking for something like this, but with support for styles added using JavaScript. I have found anything yet, and it doesn't appear that this would do it either?
> I am not sure why this is considered news.

In what I'm sure is purely coincidence, the former exec speaking out against Ballmer has a book coming out today on this very topic.
I think it has a different feeling for lots of different people and that the feeling can change.

Sometimes it is the physical feeling of nausea and of cold water running through your veins.

Other times you shake with anxiety and your thoughts do not stay still. You wonder if you will be crazy permanently as it stunts your abilities, and begin to count 1..2..3..4..5..6..7..in order to keep your mind..8..9..10..connected to that one thought you were trying to have.

Or perhaps you feel everything has gone wrong and you recall how you tried to improve everything and what little effect you had; and you tell yourself off for your inadequacies and tell yourself that you must try harder next time. But you feel like it's hopeless: you did your best before and cannot see what you could do better. So you begin to cry and then start to laugh from the bitter-sweet realisation that you have given it everything. You ask yourself whether there's somebody to talk to about all of this, but the counsellors didn't work, your family have their own troubles, and your friends always cut you off at any sign you need their care. Why should you receive help anyway: nothing you are experiencing is out of the realms of normal human experience. You live a good life.

Sometimes you run across the road and, as you run, a car narrowly misses you. "I'm not ready to die yet!" you joke, yet your mind counters "Who am I kidding?" So next time you walk slower, imagining the vehicle slam into you. Or you imagine throwing yourself off the buildings you're walking past, or walking into the bar and starting a fight with the most threatening looking thug so you could either win over something you hate or die violently. Sometimes people wonder where your new-found courage has come from: why you're not worried about failing anymore. The horrible truth, it was the best take-away from the worst thought: you want to win or be ripped apart.

Other days you think of the positive mental attitude you have tried to grow, the self-help books you have read, the people you have given your love to, and the pressure that you are putting yourself under to try and come out of this and you just wonder how it has been months since I felt pleasure. A thought enters your mind: another 10 years for everybody's benefit but mine. Do I deserve this? Is being able to will myself to continue all there should be [0].

[0] http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/hell/camus.html
Good point, but on the other hand rich people have a weird habit of trying to get even richer. I'm not saying it's wrong btw.
Ballmer is so rich and so old, he couldn't event spend it if he wanted to. This is really unlikely.
Have you seen his office, it's not about the money.

It's an ego thing.

Edit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121009/us-executi...
Looks like it is an ARM v7 CPU in the cheaper device (ARM v6 S1 SOC CPU cores don't go up to 1GHz), which is good to see as the baseline.
These IMAGiNE members were charged with several counts of criminal copyright infringement and they eventually received prison sentences ranging from 23 months in prison up to five years". ... "

“... he mentions that in his opinion the case should have been a civil one, and he doesn’t see why copyright infringement is a federal offense."

Can anyone elaborate why is it a Federal crime, like say kidnapping or bankrobbing?
Yes the Quantum Entanglements series is what I watched.

It's actually built for a non-student audience (interested professionals etc) so I think you can follow it fairly well even if your background isn't in math/physics (it's not easy though)
They could have made it much simpler and better I think,

"[DraftApp] provides [designers][a way to get clear and organised feedback.]"

This still isn't great, it needs a how.

I think the 'so they can get back to doing what they love' was nothing but fluff. It wasn't direct enough. 'So they can focus on their designs while keeping feedback organized', or something like that (I have no idea what thus product does).

Nobody cares about "we help..." It isn't about you. Make it all about your customer.

And then I noticed lower down on the page it says

Draft is a Design Feedback tool for Freelance Designers & Small Teams that helps you clear and organise your feedback.

That's better! Why would they write an article that doesn't use that???
Just saying,

If he found the vulnerability without using Acunetix, why did he have to use Acunetix later to check if the same vulnerability has been fixed or not?

Couldn't he re-check using the same way that he initially found the vulnerability?
Hah .NET coders. Yeah I got ya.
Telling that no comments are not wanted?
Unmanned military drones. Are they a slippery-slope?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5096125
India needed an SXSW
There is nothing to be afraid of here, sort just makes use of localised $a & $b package variable names as references to the sort block:

our $a = 100; # using $a package variable

# then later do a sort on @list
my @sorted = sort { $a cmp $b } @list;

# @sorted worked correctly, $a = 100 had no effect on it
# and $a is still 100

And if we change our to my (so lexical variable) then script will fail to compile giving the fatal error: Can't use "my $a" in sort comparison at...

For more information on sort see: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/sort.html

PS. The OP problem may have been due to issue/bug in older version of Perl. Also using use strict; use warnings do help highlight issues with code.
Because it's not as cool because it's been around for a decade ;-)

Also it would be with fewer rendering problems. Bleeding-edge stuff is supposed to keep at least 70 % of the population out.
Many Hands Make Fractals Tactile: U.S.C. Exhibit Shows Fractals Built From Paper
Why don't people in the big games companies realize...

It is roughly similar to "Why doesn't Google realize you can ship a product with $1 million of yearly revenue with 2 engineers working for 3 months?" No needle at Google would move if they did that -- it's objectively a worse use of those engineers' time than supervising A/B tests which marginally affect the display of 3% of all searches in South American Portuguese.

Similarly, you could ball up a hundred ludicrously successful indie games and still not hit the numbers that World of Madden's Duty 2013 will hit within two weeks of retail launch. Those also have much better characteristics to leverage the non-gaming capabilities of game studios, like the ability to spend $60 million (1x~2x the development budget) on saturation-bombardment coverage for all US men between the ages of 15 and 30 and thereby sell $90 million worth of WoMD2013.

AAA games companies would be interested in creating Minecraft if you successfully sold them that you had a reproducible process to Minecraft, like they have a reproducible process to create Call of Duty games. Non-reproducible Minecraft is not a victory condition. Reproducible name-a-successful-indie-that-isn't-Minecraft is not a victory condition. ("We skim 30% of the top off of a catalog of titles, which in aggregate must include successful-sub-Minecraft in a reproducible fashion", on the other hand, is a victory condition, and that's why all the AAA companies are trying their damndest to be platform companies and leave the game development to suckers^H^H^H artists.)

Edit for elaboration: Rough numbers so non-gamers can follow things: Minecraft is an independently developed game with north of $50 million of sales spread over several years. Minecraft is sui generis: hitting 6 figures makes you notable enough to achieve press coverage on that fact alone, and a supermajority will never come close to matching imputed opportunity costs. Call of Duty is an architypical AAA ("big budget from big company") game; the most recent version sold $400 million (not a typo) in twenty four hours on a development budget in the mid 8 figures and a marketing budget probably in the high 8s or low 9s.
I guess it depends where you are in Europe. I'm glad I'm in the US and not in Hungary. http://andorjakab.blog.hu/2012/01/06/this_is_why_i_don_t_giv... Edit: I found it interesting that in http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/docume... on page 58, about 58% of sampled women in Ireland are in jobs classified as "low skilled non-manual" or "elementary" compared to about 32% for men in medium-to-large businesses, but 22% in small businesses. When your female employee might take 6 months off, paid while doing nothing useful for the company, it's best if the work they would have done can be easily (and cheaply, so that 2X isn't so much greater than X) done by another, eh?