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Online Gamers Could Play Their Way to Breakthrough Science
Genghis, the single-file MongoDB admin app.
What's with the pricing for the DB being based on the # of documents you have stored. Really feels like you're trying to nickel and dime your customers.
Boy, did I have to scroll down far to find someone who read the article.

I was hoping for tips about how to find a balance when other team members have bought the blanket rationale that speed trumps everything and then complain about why we spend so much time fixing bugs and fighting fires instead of working on the next thing.

Instead a bunch of reading comprehension challenged commenters are bitching about TDD again.
An Unlikely Effort to Buy the Berlin Power Grid
Same here to a small extent. I find that I am not hungry for lunch when on it. My breakfast / dinner appetite remains the same.
Got distracted halfway through the thread, came back 10 minutes later, and read another 3 comments before I remembered it was a parody.
I think he means where you send HTML (or a PDF) to a web service that does a mail merge, prints & bulk mails it for you. I had exactly the same thought as a logical next step when I saw this.

Think of a print on demand web service for sending physical mail. You might even be able to do things like print it near the destination to take advantage of lower shipping rates.
I'm not much of a gamer but last time I came across a humble bundle I gave it a try to figure out what the buzz was about, but I was completely dissapointed in the variety of the games. All five games were of some guy (no girls) walking around a puzzle world. I've heard complaints that the big corporation games are all just 3d shooters but it seems that indie developers don't have much imagination either. Looking at this bundle it looks like there's a chance there's some variety so maybe I just got unlucky with my bundle.
Anything I might want to work on. My dev tools and repos + assets from other team members exceed 64GB of space. The only place I have enough bandwidth to work over the network is at home. A device that's primary function is a network device doesn't work where I'm at due to limited connectivity, data caps etc.
Facebook is the Google of Mobile
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Did you need to resolve any issues with SupporterWall being a third party payment aggregator?
The keys it has work very nicely; the keyboard action feels very comfortable, and the layout doesn't suck.

As long as you don't mind lacking a home, end, pageup, pagedown, F11, F12, or delete key, you should have no trouble using the keyboard.

For a closeup of the keyboard layout: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixe...
As a Cuban whose family suffered under the island's oppressive communist regime, this is good news.
His first comment applies to about any organization. I remember working at companies which used various different scales and never saw anyone get below a "B" equivalent grade.

When everyone is great who do you get to fix the problems that are obviously there?
I know a nice lady, who is in IT: she's a programmer, a web guru. This topic came up in conversation. Her suggestion?

I paraphrase: 'Just make it a nice place to work.'
As soon as you start charging for it you will need to offer top notch support. Supporting it might cost more than you make from selling it.
Except the web likes to pretend everything is 96dpi.

Reading my sentence again, I think we can agree CSS is not well behaved.
Mark my words: We’ll see a Groupon 2.0
I just want 15" a X1 Carbon with 2560 display.
I would think that the obvious thing is to stop differentiating between men and women. Stop treating women as some special case that need gender specific forums, consultants, hackathons, events et cetera. If you want to stop sexism, stop perpetuating it.
It's not okay to eat people because cannibal populations develop spongiform encephalopathy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
This is why I don't understand you can hear voices in the coffitivity vocals, you need music not to catch some (parts of) sentences here and there. I do like it so far though, on the note of music that is nice to code to try out Pretty Lights.
Were their penises on display? Or are you just making a cis-gendered assumption about these characters?
First off, thanks for the link! I up-voted you; that's a really good introduction to source maps.

I believe it would be incredibly useful if FF's dev tools could do some of this on their own; primarily for the reason that the person debugging the Javascript can't always control the build process. The times when you don't have access to the build process and/or the original unminified code are the times when you need this functionality the most.
"World of Linux". Season 1, Episode 2. With special guest Aaron Seigo.
I was interested in getting a Pixel until I learned this.
I'd say the opposite, forget about Homebrew and keep Macports.
The whole thing may not be so easy to use at first, but when you have read the docs for the port system, it all makes much more sense.
That is something I have never been able to understand, everyone I know who keeps chickens either has cats or their neighbours have cats. Why would the cats ignore the chickens?
How do you know it was flagged? By the drop off in votes? I thought flagged stories got deleted/"dead"-ed. Are the stories that only show up with showdead different than stories that are flagged?
I find myself not working memcached (and variants) into new designs these days, mainly because with Cassandra on the backend, there's no point -- better to spend the money on the Cassandra machines and let it manage the caching, in-memory indexing, and log-structured writes.

Memcached in that scenario just adds network overhead, devops complexity, and increases the number of things that can go wrong.

For the times when Cassandra is overkill, I still end up using Redis -- with the Lua stuff, it's ridiculously flexible these days.

Still, McDipper (and Twitter's fatcache) both look cool, and I'm glad people are thinking about SSDs as something other than faster "disks".
I took quite a lot from this - hackers working in large organisations suffer from all of those situations - poor delegation, lack of time for reflection and micromanagement.

Yet given the space we can do amazing things. It seems to me that start-ups are a place where the bad management habits have not yet crept in - and if it is possible to keep them out - as the author hopes, there is a possibility of large and effective organisations

Personally I think dunbars number is a hard limit of human organisations and we shall just have to learn to do with smaller companies - but the lessons still apply
> and don't really see how one could mess up a laptop's keyboard

"What's with this ~` key? Nobody uses that, and it offends my designer sensibilities."

I had a Dell like that, and got used to typing $HOME and $(command) rather than ~ and `command`.
How to sell it? The same way you sell anything. Understand your market: not everyone wants free and sometimes "free" is an impediment.

Many businesses do not allow the use of OSS in their product for any number of reasons. They are your potential customers.
Actually I think I want exactly that too :)
I didn't like him, but this is very sad. It was good for US to have an open opponent.
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I have no idea whether to take any comments here as serious or continuing the parody :)
http://flask.io for quick to do lists.

I hacked this together and just shipped it.

There are plenty of task management apps out there but you don't have to sign up or download anything to start using this one.
NodeUp - A (node.js) module authoring podcast.
well, maybe 10 or 11 now that i think back and do some googling around dates and such, but i know by like 12 or 13 i was more into guitar for a while
For the poor, this might be bad news.

For my venezuelan friend who's passport was taken by the embassy for "inspection" until the elections were done. This heralds the possibility of a better democracy.

And I sure hope their oil doesn't mysteriously belong to the US in a month or two.
> or you want to connect to a Samba server

I don't have a mac in front of me, but don't you just simply go to Tools -> Connect To Server then type in smb://IPADDRESS ?

Why is this difficult, and what would a better alternative be?
I don't know about Chrome, but you can fix that misfeature in Firefox with a hidden preference, and tell it to actually respect the system DPI setting. Just go to about:config and set layout.css.dpi to 0.
And the road to failure is ignoring best practices because "I'm special" and "I'll do it later because I'll magically have time then". It's a balancing act that pithy aphorisms don't help with.

There's a reason people use the metaphor "Design Debt". Debt is a tool with tradeoffs, financial or design, use appropriately.
This guy is a psychopath.
Daniel Shaw, Mikeal Rogers, Isaac Schlueter and James Halliday discuss best practices for authoring modules.
Not sure in what way it was good for the US, but it sure was bad for Venezuela.
None. But there will be an entirely new market for people with CAD/design skills producing and selling files to print 3d objects.
Having expansion via an SD card is nice but it's really just too small for what they are charging. I get that it comes with a big chunk of google drive space for three years but it's just not convenient/realistic for me or anyone I know to be tied to cloud storage.
pg is not top comment.
> And it isn't just blog comments; it's everything. If people here were using their real names and weren't allowed to create sockpuppets for one-off posts, we wouldn't see nearly the honesty and humiliation we do.

But this isn't about making the Internet as a whole non-anonymous. I realize that Google is a rather large entity, but I put a lot more trust and faith in them than other big internet players.

> don't need to look far to see how successful communities that embrace pseudonyms are.

I don't find a community where some people can say immensely hateful things as all that great. Sure, they can regulate and ban the user, but there is absolutely no responsibility taken for the aggravator's actions.

In my opinion, I'd rather there be several levels of anonymity available. Competition will drive each platform and with any luck, some semblance of a standard practice may come out of it.

I personally want people to be responsible for their actions on the Internet, until it has been completely proven it won't help, I don't see a reason to do away with a "Real Names" policy.
Don't answer this question. This is trivial to reverse.
Fair point. Unfortunately most software doesn't behave well with that on Windows.

This is a shortcoming of traditional GDI+ based Windows apps however, not of WPF based Metro apps.
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I'm not familiar enough with NetBSD, but David Miller from Red Hat said "I love NetBSD releases, because their new feature lists help remind me what I implemented a decade ago." [1]. I've also found a benchmark done by the DrangFlyBSD guys[2]:

The tests were performed using system defaults on each platform with pgbench as the test client with a scaling factor of 800. The test system in question was a dual-socket Intel Xeon X5650 with 24GB RAM.

NetBSD 6.0 was unable to complete the benchmark run.

That video shows that things aren't as simple as one might think, at least on the desktop.

[1] https://plus.google.com/101384639386588513837/posts/ZD5ZhZ2F...

[2] http://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/
I don't think X is going away any time soon, you your GUI apps are safe. I've observed that a number of things that used to be GUI apps for me have become web apps though, sometimes to dedicated controllers running embedded web servers but web apps none the less. I would be interested to hear about apps that are both "remote GUI apps" and there is no path to them becoming web apps. (not 'in the cloud' but driven by an application framework that replaces

"local X client executable" + "local X server" + "remote server"

or

"local X server" + "remote X client" + "remote server"

Which can't be replaced with:

"local browser" + "remote script" + "remote server"

There just seems to be a wealth of tools to support that.

That said, I am not sure that people using X11 is why Wayland hasn't really been present. There really is a bunch of things that all have to be true and getting all of those things true has always been difficult, and its even more difficult in open source.

My background is from Sun, where we had this cool set of applications and stuff called "SunTools" which were awesome but not widgety. Dave Rosenthal was a big proponent of X11 and after a few years it looked like it might be useful and Sun put a lot of effort around aligning the kernel the user land tools, the libraries, etc. We all worked for the same company and it was still a horribly arduous task. Because of that experience, my feeling is that Wayland's progress has been par for the course for something which changes as much of the underlying stuff as it does. There is a lot of change in there.

We also may disagree on Mir, I think Canonical is backing Mir because they "own" it, and got tired of waiting for negotiations to settle out before moving forward. I don't know of course, I don't have any inside knowledge, but I do think the rate of implementation Shuttleworth has pushed for is antithetical to something that needs as many players in the game as Wayland does and still leave it open to consensus decision making. I been building a Weston based application off and on the PandaBoard for a couple of years and have followed events around there a bit. A lot of strong, correct, and incompatible opinions makes for slow going. Part of the challenge is everyone brings their own requirements which makes their opinion more applicable. It looked to me like Canonical said "We're going to align all decisions on this to the point 'makes Unity Next work well'"

My guess, is that X has survived as long as it has because the pain of replacing it is great. However I predict that once either Mir or Wayland hit the tipping point people will abandon X rapidly and leave it in the dustbin of history. Only time will tell.
I actually clicked that link in hope that Paul graham had value to add to this discussion.
Good links. Looking at past posts some are a little out there (Read crazy conspiracy theories)

Shame, it's an interesting idea. Could we be mistaken and the Japanese don't live longer. I believe similar mistakes are happening in blue zone theory.

But I'm a firm believer that some people can just can make a good argument about anything.

So if they have been very wrong in the past, or very wrong in part of their argument then I take it as now they are wrong and just making a good argument that's fooling my flawed brain.
Glad to see a step toward reason, but this seems like an interesting first concession. How about just letting me keep my shoes on?
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Part of the price is paying for the google drive allotment. That's great but I would rather have the local storage which I can get access to anywhere vs the cloud storage that I might not be able to reach.
I think that's an overly narrow interpretation of "visiting a single page". I've seen very prominent providers who've definitely been around long enough to know the legalities (the hard way) use the "enter your e-mail address" approach.
Another site that I was on had the ability to fold up everything that you'd already read, and only show you the new content. It made keeping up with active discussions utterly trivial. Of course a first time user still sees everything.

I think they changed the underlying code, but http://forum.iwethey.org/forum/main.iwt still looks the same. So you can experiment with the idea there.
I just don't find that reason enough to completely eradicate the progression towards holding people accountable for their actions online.
I believe that an real opponent may somehow help US (or US people) to notice how far away from its original values US have been heading in the last decades. But it is just my personal opinion.
Experimental thinkpads are okay with me. Might be nice to see a revisit of that butterfly keyboard on the 701 for instance...

What really bugs me is thinkpads with shit screen resolution. Like, really shit, even compared to less heavy duty cheaper laptops. Thinkpads should not cut costs.
This is a huge "WTF"! How did this guy ascend so far? The system is so borked.
There was a discussion on reddit about this where one user emailed them asking about bitcoin and they said[1] that:

>The EFF has a great statement[2] on BitCoin that closely follows our feelings toward BitCoin

But someone from EFF said, allegedly, that they will reconsider accepting bitcoin because:
"It is possible that the legal and/or technical landscape has changed enough in the last couple of years for us to reassess our stance on taking BitCoin donations." [3]

[1] http://redd.it/191e77

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin

[3] http://redd.it/199iik
Hopefully we'll see the outrage this deserves.

If the president, any president, in the future can execute anyone he deems as long as they're "a threat" democracy is over.
Cole's law.

(is mostly shredded cabbage)
I hope that Putin bellies up next, but don't count on that.
So basically it's a ticking bomb waiting to go in the trash. At that price, no way.

SSD's do fail, sometimes by accident, sometimes by software bugs. Some muppet added a swap partition to one of our build servers with a Samsung 830 and the cells were all worn out dead in 3 months from swapping.
There are two things that I dislike about these articles.

The first is that they ignore or gloss over the fact that there is no shortage of world class software written without TDD. I also have yet to see any great programmer preach the virtues of TDD.

The second is that they blur the line between TDD and unit testing, maybe intentionally. I don't use TDD, but that doesn't mean I don't write unit tests. I just don't write unit tests all the time, and I don't write them first most of the time. In fact I think the advocates would have better success if they advocated plain unit testing instead of TDD.

What irritates me though is that several valid criticisms of TDD have been published (1), and in some cases the advocates (Uncle Bob included) were given an opportunity to respond, but did so poorly, or just didn't bother at all. This sends a message that they are trying to sell something.

TDD has its place, but it is not always the right tool, and it is certainly not a silver bullet.

(1)
- Andrew Dalke's "Problems with TDD" may be the best criticism of TDD that I've read so far. The exchange between Dalke and Uncle Bob in the comments is also revealing. http://dalkescientific.blogspot.ca/2009/12/problems-with-tdd...

- Jacob Proffitt also wrote a classic (IMO) on the subject. http://theruntime.com/blogs/jacob/archive/2008/01/22/tdd-pro...
But small containers of any kind of liquid are right out.
Which means, if bitcoins were to 100% replace US Dollar today, the US Government would have to immediately default on the treasury.

I get the sinking feeling that when Bitcoin takes off for it to make any kind of fractional dent in society, it's going to be squished like a bug. After having been linked to WMD's and terrorism.
This isn't really any different from the President authorizing the Air Force to shoot down a civilian airliner in a 9/11-like scenario, in order to prevent mass casualties. If one is legal, the other is also legal.
It varies between mail clients, but they generally put the forwarded part of the message in either a blockquote or a div with a class that can be targeted. It's how the vertical blue line is produced for the quoted portion.
Then I'm afraid I may have misunderstood you.

I enumerated those subjectivities because they make room for "interpretation or argument", and there is a kind of "randomness" involved. Even between "Your code either performs the desired function in the desired way or it does not", there's the classic case where it does what someone asked for, but not what they meant (bad elicitation).

If that's really irrelevant, please do explain your point a bit further.
Sorry but it is not nice to wish someone death, even your enemies.
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CDC sounds alarm on deadly, untreatable superbugs
a great loss and a very sad day.
I buy eggs from my farmers market and they do taste better. The yolk color is more vibrant as well. I eat a lot of eggs so I buy from the supermarket often; they're fine but not the same.
Would this really be a problem?

If you have a look at the article, linked from the article, they are hiding the un-subscribe link when the link is inside quotes.

For me, the emails that get forwarded to different accounts (due to email rules), don't have quotes, so the link will show. But pressing the forward button will put quotes around the entire email, so the link won't be shown.

In saying that, there are probably some email setup out there, that doesn't work like mine, and just happens to wrap every email that it displays in quotes...
Yes, but I've not really seen new EU-wide laws that make things easier for business by removing some of the many consumer-rights or worker-rights.
And there are quite a few things that could be done that way to improve the economy.
Where is it said that I have to be nice?

There are a lot of people doing really nasty things (to me included) with a nice face, should I mimic that?

It is truth that I feel.
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First job I clicked on had this description: "Due to our rapid growth, we now need an in-house web developer. Initially we are looking to work together on a contractual basis (a “trial by fire,” if you’d prefer) for"

I like the idea but you should really make sure all of the hobs are "remote".

[edit] it was the Evil Genius post - https://jobs.github.com/positions/d11107fe-7bb7-11e2-89f3-8b....
Also: I have heard from several people that all DevinArt post are BS. They always post the same thing and I have never found a single person they ever actually spoke to or interviewed.
I'm sitting in front of a 1280x800 14" unit here and am quite happy. I can't see the pixels thanks to TrueType in Windows. Retina/high DPI displays are no advantage for my combination of eyes and brain.

I have a 22" 1920x1080 display on my desk which I rarely use as it gives me a headache.
You know, that's actually a pretty valid scenario. I hope that's what he was thinking of, and not something else.
Especially a bottle with breast milk that is being actively consumed by a baby (I still can't believe I saw this happen).
EBay shows the world how to measure MPG for data centers
as Chris Hedges says, the assault on civil liberties is even worse than it was during the bush administration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAqudDeiTD4
Why can't you change it if you want to?
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Who the fuck would object to this change? There's nothing significant one can do with such knives.

Also, how about fucking liquids?
TFA begins by explaining that it's going to explain why why do we need static types although we have TDD.

However these are two orthogonal concepts and the first paragraph of TFA makes no sense.

Also TFA seems to imply that using static types + TDD means we can have programs provably bug-free.

Not so fast there: any bug in production in a TDD+static types is a bug that "escaped" the type system and that didn't get caught by TDD.

And there are many such bugs in production for TDD + static types projects.

I'd say TFA is very poorly trying to make its point (not that the author doesn't have one: but the 'talk' is not nearly anywhere near close the 'code' in TFA).
What is a female friendly company like? The only thing I can think of is generous maternity leave (and paternity leave), but that's also family and people friendly.