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>> i made some mistake here <<

The table you don't understand shows the median but you seem to be calculating the arithmetic mean.
Git compiles from source in portage on gentoo-prefix on interix using msvc. I don't know about from visual studio though I don't see any reason it wouldn't work.
Very nice resources.
I do believe the National Revenue Minister is overreacting just a tad bit. Creating a game about phone support is conduct that is "offensive" and "unacceptable"? An investigation is required to ensure that confidential taxpayer information wasn't compromised?

So, fire him and then ask to start a potential criminal investigation over this?

Seems to me that politicians in Canada need something more substantial to complain about.
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This reminds me of the oft-considered notion of pre-rotating airplane tires on landing to reduce wear. It seems like a good idea on paper, but ultimately it just complicates aircraft design and it's cheaper to just replace the tires.
As taxpayers, we all have the right to express our opinions about how our tax money is being spent. That's what this letter is about -- and very well done, too, I think -- not providing information that Ortiz might have somehow overlooked. Yes, it does summarize the facts of the case as Payne sees them, but that's just for context.
Develop a stronger will.
Get enough sleep.
Have a consistent sleep schedule.
I'd be interested to hear some specific ways that Brian defined and maintained this company culture. For example, what was one vision of environment, vision, or values, and how did that affect an instance of hiring or process?
The Q10 may be the first phone I have actively desired since the Palm Pre 3 came out. As someone who really can't (won't?) transition away from a hard keyboard this is a godsend. I just wonder whether it will go down the same road as Palm/HP. Solid features and design, but a very limited ability to generate any sort of passion...
You should think of Amazon more like a real estate holding company. You could be incredibly successful buying and selling properties and never actually turn a profit, because you continually reinvest in new properties. You could easily have no profits and still have assets worth billions.

That's what Amazon is, except their assets are market share and infrastructure.

Maybe 20 years is too long for you to wait, but that's fine! The stock is priced accordingly so just cash out and let someone sweat the final liquid value of the assets.
It's a fair point, but I think from a users point of view they should really need to get bogged down with the tchnical details.

It can feel a bit "advanced" for the average user to setup, but if that is the case and they NEED privacy then they could use something like http://www.hushmail.com/ which will encrypt the emails (but only with other users with encryption keys). It's web based to there's the whole use from anywhere thing... Of course, just use Thunderbird and get the whole things for free :)
"I believe that you and Mr. Heymann were doing “what any good prosecutor would do"

Disagreed. This is not what good prosectors should do. Maybe substituting "the average US prosecutor" for "any good" would be more accurate. But good prosecturs don't play the system by extracting plea bargains and guilty pleas under the threat of horrific penalties at trial.
Java just doesn't scale, if you want fast code you wont use java. C++ one of the best, and for quick development c#, you can always invoke C++ libs in C# anyway and both are supported in visual studio. If your into webdevelopment even there java is slow.. despite it has some fun libs, but most people use them because their lazy programmers, a good programmer wont rely that much on much external libs
The community is anything but a ghetto. Everyone I've interacted with is both highly intelligent, helpful, and very opinionated about the future of the language.

One of Erlang's strengths is its stability; they get their stability from being really picky about some things.
My guess is that the content used in the game may have been garnered from his day job, and therein lies the risk.
sounds like you should get a new computer. 1994's a long time to go without at least a fresh install of windows - have you tried defragmenting your hard drive?
Why is this so surprising? A+ for those photos of Mark.
How did you maintain the culture through the layoffs? Didn't people lose friends etc? I'd love to know how you executed the layoff to maintain the culture like this.
Blackberry supporters keep claiming that there are innovations here. I'll echo what another poster asked: what innovations? It doesn't help their cause when articles like this one claim:

Some of BlackBerry 10’s ideas are truly ingenious. A subtle light blinks above the screen to indicate that something — a text, an e-mail message, voice mail, a Facebook post — is waiting for you

Yep. Just like my 3 year old Nexus One.
Agreed the article is bullshit. However getting the issue 100% backwards the author actually raises an important point. Active placebos do make for a different comparator than inert placebos --- arguably a much better one. Given that north of 90% of patients and doctors have been found to correctly guess allocation in blinded trials of tricyclic antidepressants and other antipsychotics, it might actually help to add something to the placebo which does generate side effects to make it harder for people to pick which group they are in.

It always made me laugh reading about 'double blinded' trials of cannabis extract for MS... In this and many other cases the blind is a complete fiction.
It wasn't too difficult to turn off the speaker in the modem initialization string, as I remember.
AOSA are very nice books. It's exciting that another (POSA) is coming.
But ..
Lets face it, the PC is dead, and servers might be next. Its time that Microsoft starts to look at Android and Yahoo OS, to take at least something from their pie
I think you are being a little obtuse or don't know the case. Aaron was protesting the fact that publicly funded research papers were behind an administrative paywall even though they are ostensibly free.
>> Because Perl is considerably slower in one single comparison <<

What are you looking at? Perl is shown slower on 3 tasks.
Cool - when will Windows support the 'fork' call?
If they do that and support the '/' as a path separator (which was always there), Windows might get a resurgence.
I'm pretty comfortable with Erlang, actually, having used it on and off for the past 9 years. Elixir looks cool, but a bit too experimental for what I'm working on. Chicago Boss makes me a bit nervous from that point of view too, for that matter... so we'll see what route we end up taking. Evan Miller, for the record, is really great about responding to bug reports and code ideas, so that is a big plus about the project.
It's more than the $0 it's given git.
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Well I guess it makes me feel better to know that there is stupidity to be found even amongst the mighty C programmers!
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Wanted to add something: at Mailgun, we always make a point to have a few engineers available to our customers every day. The very same people who've built our message queue, our parsing services, our analytics package, will be answering your questions in case they turn out to be too hardcore for our support team to handle.

Moreover, we invite customers of competing services to reach out to us if they have any email-related complication/issue at work. Will be happy to help.
Meeting on Friday to discuss.

Budget was already available, just misplaced to be honest. I'm sure the state managed predecessors were getting backhanders.

The stupid thing is they did a fund raiser for to fix a hole in the roof!? (£300 cost) and built raised vegetable beds for the students at a cost of £1500 which were never filled and are used for storing games equipment under tarp.

The mismanagement is why it is an academy now.
Tax-free cigarettes are available for sale in "smoke shacks" in native territories. By law, they can be sold tax-free only to Status Indians, but illegal sales to those that do not have the status are rampant. So essentially it is a contraband, only within a country.
We just "upgraded" to office 2010 at work, and....it still stinks. I admit that many Windows applications are very well designed, but the Office suite suffers from the worst of the worst -- whether it's the horrid options menus, where the menu layering goes 4-5 levels deep at times, or the complete trainwreck that is the "ribbon" and everything associated with it.

They could certainly take some design cues from products like those from Apple and Google.
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Meanwhile: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/30/3933144/dropbox-unveils-so...
There's a VS plugin from the company that makes IDEA, called Resharper. Resharper + VS >> IDEA :D
Ha. Sounds like north Korea.
I think the community is open to change of the language, given that the idea you propose is a good one.

The thing that led tarcieri to write the "Erlang is a Ghetto" post was that he proposed the addition of Ruby-style blocks to the Erlang language. And then Richard O'Keefe wrote back a post—not a very diplomatic one—which explains why Ruby-style blocks is a horrendously bad idea to add to any language.

The main reason that Erlang sometimes comes along as smug is because there are some people in the community who are extremely capable in their fields of expertise. You need a good argument to convince a semanticist that your informally specified language extension is worth anything, unless you can supply meta-theorems which explains why. Or at least provide proper semantics. In other words, you need a really good design.

If you have working code for your design, it is even better. If you have an EEP (Erlang Enhancement Proposal) you may even have your idea implemented. There is, for instance, an EEP called "Named funs" which extends and generalizes tarcieris proposal. It did not go in in time for R16, but it is still being worked on.

Parameterized modules were an experiment. Like Tuple funs (now removed), packages (now removed), and mnemosyne (now removed). They still live on outside the Erlang distribution but retains enough inside to support them via parse transformations.
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I searched for a very popular TV series and the first link was "$name_S01E01.avi", size ~500mb. Clicking on it, I gor redirect to mega.co.nz to download "movie.exe", 715KB.

https://mega.co.nz/#!wkkjXISD!UPFZQG9uxKk4dt34u1dmpncoy8wUJk...
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I'm open to that. Like I've said, there's definitely room for cleanup of the implementation. Either way, this isn't a detail that's exposed to the application developer.
No, RIAA has to pay the $25 fee to send an infringement notification. Therefore, they want the fee to be lower.
Benefits are all buy in at group rates, no equity options, so that may be moot in this case. Good point though.
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Except this has actually been a blackberry feature for years. I'm not sure why this is being advertised as a BB10 feature. I had this 6 years ago on my blackberry phone.
You're approaching this wrong; they do take the little and big people seriously. It's also a 20(?) year old language with a lot of features! You can't possibly add/remove everything everyone wants - I think the team behind Erlang is doing an exceptional job of maintaining stability while getting new features and cleaned up releases out.

Also - my own startup uses Erlang extensively (we use Riak, yes, but our actual application is built on top of Erlang too); I would say 80% of our codebase consists of Erlang. It's rock solid and the concurrency and distribution features (and ease of use) are unmatched. Also - OTP, nothing compares to OTP yet (Akka is trying to get there, but they have a long journey ahead of them).
Great answer, attheodo. In case "embedded systems" seem obscure, in real terms that means that the chances are good that any of your modern appliances such refrigerators, thermostats, cars, TVs, DVRs, etc. all have microprocessors and run code written in C.
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And it's full of spam, spyware, trojans and fake stuff already.

Just like megaupload used to be.
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Not sure why everyone is in love with Blackberry again all of the sudden. It seems like they've launched a feature complete smart phone, but they're all pretty much commodity features now, and certainly anything new they've innovated will be copied by the others within a few months. Who in their right mind would buy a blackberry?

And don't say business, because most sysadmins (myself included) already have plans to move off the Blackberry platform (and have fantasies about the day they can KILL their BES server).

This is all very reminiscent of the whole Palm treo debacle.

Blackberry is dead. Please let it RIP.
It's classic arrogance, CCRA employees act like anyone who doesn't pay every last stupid tax is a criminal, then they flagrantly violate the law.
Inspiring, thanks for sharing. What are some of the lessons learned in this time?
The site features an "Infringement" button at the top of the page. Can I report the entire contents of the first page as infringing, since every item I see is obviously infringing? Can I then repeat that for each subsequent page?
Is this from an end-user or developer perspective?
I'm well aware of the technical merits of the decision and generally agree with it (I upvoted you because of the clear explanation, btw). What rubs me the wrong way are comments like (emphasis mine):

"And they are not the feature WE need to make the language better"

and

"Looking over Elixir, I tend to agree with Tristan -- it seems to have
all the syntactic sugar that creative, non-hardcore, easily frightened
developers might like"[0]

Which translate to: just go away, please.

[0] http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-January/07...
i hope there is security@rubygems
For instance; I play Guild Wars 2. If I die, I lose a little bit of in-game cash from having to repair my armor after restarting (less cash than I can make in 5 minutes), and will possibly have to have to trek a couple of minutes back to where I was.

But back when I played EVE (that's a very long time ago, the game's changed since)... I was playing as a trucker in low-sec, essentially carrying goods in somewhat dangerous territory. I was really lusting for T2 transports (blinged out trucks), and it was my goal to get one. So I trained and saved for months, until I finally could afford it. I'm not a very patient person, so I took it for a ride before it was fully fitted with the modules I needed for my protection. Some pirate jerk blew it up. It was insured, but I wasn't quite able to easily replace the modules I had lost. In one fight, weeks of my in-game time were lost.

In other MMOs, winning and losing can mean that you've wasted a few minutes of your time. In EVE, it can mean months of wasted effort.
The contact link you point to 404's, just a heads up.

------

Nevermind, it seems you changed it already :)
Actions that are arguably justified in the specific case can still be wrong in the general case. In general, it's wrong to keep using a network after the administrator tries to get you to stop. It's wrong to download millions of documents for distribution when the scope of your access implied accessing a limited number for research.

Activists break the law and they get punished for it. That's part and parcel of civil disobedience. The injustice here is not that Aaron was facing punishment--it's the magnitude of the punishment he was facing.
It's totally unreasonable; it would be saying "because we don't trust the FDA, we should unblind drug trials".
It may not depend on it, but it will improve it by some small margin most of the time.
"Continuing to access MIT's network after MIT tried to get him to stop."

I am not really seeing the moral argument there. MIT's network is designed to be open; a ban on a MAC address is, on such a network, little more than a polite request to not continue your access. Being rude by ignoring polite requests is not morally wrong.

As for the law, all I can say is that there are an awful lot of criminals in this world if accessing a network that tries to block your computer is a crime. If the law criminalizes a common behavior, then the law itself is what is wrong.

"behaving like a reasonable person"

How conservative of you. I hear there are some lovely caves that people used to live in, until some unreasonable person had a "better" idea (I wonder if you would have made an argument for punishing him -- after all, not living in caves might disrupt the social order).

"If I let you come apple picking in my orchard, you can't bring in a fruit truck and some day laborers and strip the trees bare."

You are comparing apples to universal Turing machines. Your comparison is actually that bad -- you might as well be talking about the superbowl than Aaron Swartz.

Aaron did not strip anyone or anything. He prevented nobody else from using JSTOR, nor did he stop anyone from reading the articles he downloaded, nor from using the network, nor from using the closet where he hid his laptop. He caused no measurable damage to anyone or anyone's property at any point in the JSTOR incident.

"If JSTOR gives you permission to access journal articles for academic purposes..."

...then I should be free to use those articles for any purpose, because JSTOR has no claim to them or to the knowledge they contain. What gives JSTOR the moral right to tell anyone what they are allowed to do with the articles JSTOR provides to them? Sure, we have this thing called copyright that emerged from British attempts to censor books in the age of printing presses (I wonder if the Chinese firewall will lead to the creation of a similar law), but copyrights are in no way related to modern senses of morality or justice -- copyrights are just a way for the government to promote a particular class of business, and that is all they have ever been about in the United States. "Right" and "wrong" are no more relevant to copyright than they are to parking in a loading zone.

"nobody needs it spelled out to them that this is the case."

That is because prior to the attack on Aaron Swartz, nobody thought that automatically downloading scientific articles on a university network would ever warrant the attention of federal prosecutors. Now we know: don't you dare download articles using any software other than your web browser, and don't you dare do so if you ever suggested that those articles should be shared freely on the Internet, or else you'll face a long and expensive prosecution by the US government.
I've got a nice Dell Precision dual 4 core 2.8ghz xeon, 32gb of ecc ram, 500gb sas 15k RAID, Samsung 840 pro scratch drive and quardro card. What am I doing to deserve this pain?

My 5 year old Lenovo t61 is fine for ALL other tasks in all other languages.
Id bet that the office team have been crazy busy overhauling the product suite to deeply integrate touch.
2.5 years was not long enough, so this is a Metro skinned release of office 2010 so that the gap is less (visually) noticeable and keeps up with the change in branding.

Looks like a service pack release, 'cause it is one.
He was technically guilty of trespassing. (I know, the closet he was using was also reportedly in use by a homeless person, and MIT apparently looked the other way.)

He did intend to distribute the articles, even if he didn't actually do so. I'm actually unsure what I think about this; some say "no harm, no foul", but others point out that we don't normally let people off the hook for crimes they were in the middle of committing just because they were prevented from completing them.

Personally, I think that Swartz did not properly consider that even though the articles he intended to distribute were in the public domain, the scans of those articles he was downloading belonged to JSTOR. He also did not consider the impact of his actions on other JSTOR users at MIT. I don't think he should have served any jail time, but I do think a small slap on the wrist -- a small fine and some community service -- would have been in order. Felony charges, on the other hand, were way, way, way out of proportion.
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I work at a big company. This is hell. Really. People never understanded why office upgraded it's interface since 1997.
That's exactly what I was thinking as well.

In context of CTO-level work, pay-for-performance would also seem to encourage meeting reward goals at the expense of a thousand other unmeasured tasks.
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Initial reaction: I am heartened to hear that they are discussing open access at a high level in the ACM, but I'm disappointed that this approach isn't enough. I hope, however, that this is just a step towards true open access.
From the videos I've seen before, I think BB10 handled "real multi-tasking" the best among all modern mobile OS's. Even Ubuntu for phones seemed to lag a little between switching apps. But with BB10 entering a new app seemed instantaneous. Granted Ubuntu for phones is still in alpha mode.

Also the "true multi-tasking" of BB10 may also impact the phone's battery life. So far the battery reports about Z10 haven't been that great. RIM (Blackberry now) should've tried to compensate that with a bigger battery or something.
I think the ribbon is great. Prior to the ribbon, Word, for example, had all of these different components, each with its own UI, all fighting among themselves for screen real estate (the UI version of how this article describes MS, I suppose). The ribbon came along with the expressed intent of unifying all of those UIs so that people could actually use all of Word's features without clobbering the space allocated for, you know, editing their documents. I think it's pretty successful at that, but you have to go back to those old versions of Office to remember just how awful it was.

Sure, it's different. It takes getting used to and that's unfortunate (if only they'd gotten it right the first time!). Ultimately, I realize that some people will never like it, and that's reasonable but I hardly think it qualifies as a "train wreck."
There's a difference between "Lots of callers can't remember their SIN, I'll use that" and "David Johnson, of 123 Maple St, Vancouver, BC, gave 112211 as an invalid SIN, let's put him in the game".
Mine downloads and goes to 100%, but just sits there, nothing happening. Weirdness.
I find these gears icons funny because it is implied that all 3 gears touch each other mutually. But obviously, such a setup would prevent the whole machinery to work at all.
As does my galaxy nexus. Love the color coded notification light.
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