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I'm surprised it didnt happen sooner. During his tenure the stock price fell from over 60 to today's close of 18.71
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"epic" - this. The use of the word epic makes me want to loose my mind. lol. "This burrito is so epic it should've been in Beowulf," said nobody ever. tl;dr stop using that word!

Besides—ahem—epic overuse of the word 'epic,' my most loathed turn of phrase is 'The X that is Y'. For example, "the failure that is Microsoft". Stop saying this, nerds! You're not being clever!
Tornado has a well documented (and least complicated regarding gevent & twisted are concerned IMHO) but not well known/used "inline callback" with yields to simplify async code.

http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/branch2.3/gen.html

From there, I made a wrapper to wrap potentially blocking logic in threads so I could have code that isn't async/non-blocking behave like it was.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5190528
Your comparison would be stronger if you searched for the same string in both.
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I wonder how many of the 420,000 machines they ran their code on got screwed up by them?

As anyone who's tried to manage a cluster of machines knows, it's a pain to get everything working. Even when you have complete control over the hardware, software and network, distributing code to the cluster and making the cluster send stuff back is difficult. So much can go wrong and it is easy to take out servers with what seems like the most trivial of mistakes.

Now try doing this with almost half a million machines, of unknown hardware, already running unknown software, and operating in network conditions that you have no idea about. Do you think they did it perfectly and nothing went wrong?

They undoubtedly broke or disrupted many computers and systems here, and they know it. They can write all the weasel-words they like about how nice and kind they were, but I am sure they broke a lot of people's systems (some of them, by their own admission, running important services).
Some insider information on this would be nice also.
Maybe a photoshop style history would work well here?
> Only to programmers raised in a C-based world. Normal people, mathematicians, and Lua start counting at 1.

I mostly agree, except for mathematicians ;) , where it depends on the context. For example aleph numbers start at 0,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number

and even the natural numbers can start at 0 or 1,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number
Electronic Arts CEO resigns
I think I remember seeing this quite a while back... and having a very positive reaction. It's obviously much more intuitive than Multisim (and much more prettier-looking, much more 'accessible'), but it's obviously not as powerful as Multisim (at least as of yet). So, as far as I see, it is a match made in heaven for high-school level 'intro to circuits' classes. I wish you guys the best, you've made a fabulous webapp. :)
I concede you make a good point. Most of the features you listed I end up using via command line rather than it being integrated directly in my editor. Maybe part of what i see as complexity is just my cheese being moved. However, and correct me if im wrong, IDE's are more popular with "powerhouse" OOP languages in general. I always thought that it was because navigating these types of projects with just a simple text editor was too cumbersome without the editor being aware of context.
http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Executive.shtml
Design for "99% of everyone", not "99% of your current users".
"broken"
Now I'm waiting for 4chan to game StackOverflow so that the first answer this script finds will be some kind of a prank ;).
That generated drawing in the README.md looks like something i'd hang in my kitchen. You should try selling these ;)
I think you mean the short answer is no.

This would breach principle 8 of the data protection act unless the same legal safeguards are placed around the data in North America

http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_...

It is illegal in the EU to transfer data out of the EU without this safeguard, done variously by contract (EU model contract), two party agreement, assessment of adequacy, or approved safeguards (safe harbour).
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everyone's favorite - synergy
The wording "Python software language" from the PR kind of makes me think that their business folks do indeed not know what Python is.

Either way, great that this got settled pretty quickly :)
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Nothing to do with SEO.
I can see that extreme's tracking screen is much more convenient that Google analytics and allows to quickly dive into specific visitor's history.

The bottom line to discover - does this tool allows to deliver more business to customer
Why is every TC story taking me to a list of stories instead of the story itself?
"relevant xkcd" (link to xkcd comic we have all read before)
Any other manufacturer is free to supply equipment and compete on a different business model.

I think we should call this the "Just-market Fallacy" (I just Googled it and I'm not the first person to use the phrase), analogous to the Just-world Fallacy.
My problem with this (as a non-native english speaker) is that such solutions often only support latin based languages and cyrillic is completely left out. This will probably make it impossible to write, as auto-complete will not work well.

Otherwise, it looks interesting, but I am a bit skeptical.
good luck to the dev team
The video says they have been working on Minuum for two years. What have they been doing? They clearly have usable prototypes, as seen in the video.
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On HN I try to avoid contractions[1] and initialisms. I know that many people reading do not have have English as a first language.

[1] Apart from the very common, such as "don't" or "can't" etc.
Like maybe Brainfuck?
Thank goodness. Maybe - MAYBE - this could give EA a breath of fresh air. So many pieces of AAA IP have been squandered...
Do teams really meet with 3-5 mentors a day ? That seems way beyond the point of being useful. When do you have time to build anything or talk to users ?
It only runs answers tagged "javascript" and "sorting". So, one out of every 20 code snippets about javascript and sorting actually has working, runnable code.
It very well could be a PR move to try and recover from that, though I doubt he was the main reason it happened. I think more than likely they're just switching figureheads and using the CEO swap as a scapegoat. I doubt they'll change direction as they're still making money.
I like using printer paper without lines.

The dotgrid book is nice because it is spiral bound so there isn't a mess of papers. Most spiral bound books have lines which suck.
My guess is that he left "to spend more time with his family," like http://www.komonews.com/news/tech/Groupon-CEO-leaves-To-spen...
[The CEO]confirmed that he'd not involved any technical staff in the decisions he'd made about the Python product brand, and told me he regretted that as it would probably have helped him understand the likely reaction to his trademark challenge.

Source: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2013/02/respondi...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5248328
Please let go of the back button :/

using Firefox
Would they even be able to do much damage? The site is hosted on a subdomain of Github, so I presume they wouldn't be able to do much. Right?

I mean I hope sites hosted on *.github.com can't compromise my Github account...
whats the difference between steeping down and being fired? Seriously asking..
Interesting, but let's see. Where have I heard about how the Feds (over)react to gaining unauthorized access to someone else's computer? Hmm...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/att-hacker-gets-3-y...
When the programmer is the one that has to be doing the inference you refer to, there seems to be a good argument that the speed advantage you refer to is only apparent in programs small enough to conceptualize in their entirety.
I think the board of directors was on the right track:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5352969
Sorry -- just updated the doc.
I was always surprised that Apple did not acquire Swype. It is a fantastic input method, the kind of "magic" people expect from Apple. Now that the Google has implemented gesture typing for Android's stock keyboard, I assume Swype must not have patents strong enough to block imitators. Maybe that's why Swype was not acquired by Apple or Google.
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EA is a publicly traded company that answers to shareholders only. Profits is the only thing that matters. That is why they are into cranking out sequels, loading up on dlc as well as all the other "profit generating" things. They are not out there for the benefits of gamers.
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There are some things he deserves serious punishment for. Some of the things he has done have affected other people directly.

So why do those behaviours escape punishment, while this thing gets a prison sentence?
The about:config window has a giant search box right at the top of it. It's not hierarchical, but its sorted alphabetically, so, for instance, all accessibility.* options are grouped together.

A short description would be nice, though.
That's the point. Users don't need to learn a new keyboard layout.
If you step down, you save face. If you're fired, the company saves face.
> Is there not some level of basic accountability? I mean, shouldn't AT&T face penalties for hosting consumer data in such an egregiously unsafe fashion?

That's a separate issue.

> This is a web server that's only protection was prayer. There was no authentication, no verification and no accountability.

The protection was the fact that the information therein was obviously sensitive and not intended for public disclosure. In a civilized society, that's all that should be necessary.

> What makes me so mad is that AT&T can be so goddamn careless with my information and skate away free while the gentleman who exposed this lack of attention is sent to a jail for a very long time

He's not being sent to jail for "exposing this lack of attention." He's being sent to jail for exploiting this lack of attention tens of thousands of times more than was necessary to prove his point and for talking smack on IRC that led people to believe that he might sell those e-mail addresses for profit.
Interesting idea. Another approach could be an "I'm Spartacus" strategy: a site with a one-click tool to automatically "hack" some willing participant, and then daring prosecutors to try to charge thousands of end users at once.

In reality, though, either strategy misses the grander problem, which is not about the letter of the law, but about selective prosecution that dehumanizes arbitrary victims for the purposes of career advancement, personal grudges, and maintaining bureaucratic budgets.
This is a very American centric view of data where privacy is not written into law. In the EU, the data protection act prevents much of this:

http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_...

Of course, in our modern world of cloud computing even in the EU people place their data willingly beyond the reach of EU law. However, even cloud companies are sometimes inside its scope because of where their offices exist:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/21/irish_data_protectio...
(this is on a Mac)

In Firefox, the hotkey "cmd-K" will put focus into the search bar at the top.

In Chrome they don't have a keybind set to this by default (though on Windows they seem to). But if you open mac System Preferences, go to Keyboard, then Keyboard Shortcuts, and add an Application Shortcut for Chrome, you set the menu item name to "Search the Web..." and the keybind to whatever you want (I used "cmd-K").

So that way regardless if I'm in Firefox or chrome, pressing cmd-K will put me in a place I can search.
Burn the infidel implying that elisp isn’t mainstream!
AirBnb is illegal in its hometown of San Francisco
Why shouldn't one expect to have one's purchased goods remain available indefinitely, no matter the price?

This comic is not meant to be a justification for removing actual features.
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But how many people just browse the about:config window looking for settings to change? I go in there looking for a specific setting because I've searched google first, and found a website that explains what setting I need to change. Use the search bar and it filters the list for you.
Librivox recording (audiobook) here:

http://librivox.org/how-to-live-on-twenty-four-hours-a-day-b...
In his defense, he took over in 2007 right before the "financial crisis". Every other stock took a beating, and the gaming sector took a beating in the markets. They still have positive earnings. A lot of that price decline was out of his hands.
I think you're missing the forest for the trees. Google's fear was closed mobile systems that would lock them out of the fastest growing area for search (and thus revenue) That was a real threat. Now, not so much.
(sticks pinky to mouth) SIX TRILLION HOURS!! and get me some sharks with lasers.
Looks like he finally grew a pair of balls.

All kidding aside, John is one of the Co-Founders of Elevation partners, and so I doubt he was forced out in any way. He's got some serious clout, and he's been at or near the head of EA since 1997.

That being said, EA has become a real tyrannical monstrosity in recent years; I'd welcome some change.

Maybe get back to a little more of something like this: http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0128776...
SSDs are cheaper than RAM. I'm not keeping a 1TB database in memory.
I think it's easy for early adopters to feel like developers owe us because we're the ones whose advocacy got them those 450mil users.
It's not about her being offended by a particular comment, nor is it required that said comment be directed at her. The issue is the environment that is created when such things are quietly tolerated.

Sure staff could have been involved, but then it's not a teachable moment, just another moment suffered in silence while the "authorities" handle the situation for her.

It may seem like a small event to you, but I'd suggest reading about what I like to call "death by a thousand papercuts" (via @skud). There are TONS of "little" things that happen everyday that can be dismissed as insignificant, but they add up to an unwelcoming environment.
I'm not a UI guy, so my point wasn't whether or not the checkboxes should or shouldn't exist, but to clarify that all the use cases he asserted "broke the entire internet" had valid uses and represented the desired behavior.

That it happens to break a few popular websites doesn't mean that the entire internet is broken, or that that wasn't the desired effect.
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Good point (that js could be evaluated on client side as well). Although someone else said the template scripts need access to the database, and Lua can run in the browser as well (via emscripten for instance).
Video: silly beard, silly sweater, and typewriter. I couldn't focus on anything else.
This is a fairly good account covering the points on the EA/Maxis SimCity 2013 bad launch.

http://kotaku.com/5991077/your-complete-guide-to-the-simcity...

The bad PR move imo is that the company stated that the game requires "online access to servers for cloud calculations", but users have found a single line of code that when removed allows the game to work in offline play because it disabled the connection check every 20 minutes.

http://kotaku.com/5990997/coders-discover-20+minute-offline-...

But in general, EA is reviled for taking good IP/brands and killing them.

Here's a letter that was on reddit from an internal employee to the EA management:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/19xb2m/a_letter_from...
Yep, I was considering directly generating the AST.
Surface Pro, RT Tablets Outsell Google Chromebooks 3 to 1
Indeed Surface tablets have sold about 1.5 million units so far, compared to about 500,000 Chromebook units, according to media reports. While the Microsoft and Google-inspired devices don’t really compete head-on, the data points offer a timely reality check for mobile channel partners. Here’s why.
Report: Mailbox was the third most-used iPhone utility app last month
Nobody gets fired unless it's super ugly. It would have been clear that should they have another miss he'd be expected to fall on the sword.
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We might do it directly or indirectly, but there is no way to avoid it.

Sure, there's no way to avoid all of it, but we can avoid a heck of a lot of it. So why don't we? You seem to take a certain amount of carnism as a given, but I don't see for most people in the developed world why it should be a given, especially in light of the fact that meat isn't needed for subsistence.

If you agree that it is for taste and nothing essentially more, then we have to ask ourselves whether the suffering endured by slaughterhouse animals (in addition to the other environmental concerns I listed) is a worthy price for our pleasure. Without pointing to other irrelevant facts about nature or history.
The only people who think weev's actions aren't illegal are people stuck thinking the laws make sense and trying to reconcile them with their morals. The real question is whether what he did is wrong, and if so, what level of punishment is appropriate.

I'd say that a list of email addresses isn't actually private information worthy of legal protection. We've just got these ridiculous laws calling widely-available datums "sensitive" because banks (et al) are trying to pretend that your "identity" is somehow being "stolen" rather than that they're simply being defrauded. So a simple trespass with questionable intent has been turned into a several year felony based on these toxic bits that aren't actually important enough to necessitate serious audits or redundant controls.

Frankly the highly fucked up part of these laws are the amount of time involved, both what defendants are pressured to plea bargain with, and the actual amounts that get sentenced. It's very easy to say that three years in a cage is reasonable from the comfort of your chair. We can debate what should be ultimately illegal etc, but with these kind of sentences we're basically talking about destroying someone's existing life for a non-violent action with minor damages that a different company wouldn't even press charges for.
Also it would be nice to configure the strategies with XML. Plus it would be super helpful to have jar plugins for new strategies. And seriously, there's no SOAP interface? This is hardly usable then. Also how the heck am I supposed to build this without Ant and batch and shell scripts to call Ant? Plus once you get ant files you can integrate it with Hudson. And package this as an EAR and add some user authentication too, probably single sign on. Also needs some log4j. And there are probably all sorts of unforeseen bugs and style issues, so it needs Findbugs and Checkstyle integrated.
Not happening for me. Browser extension, maybe?
What is werewolf the card game? I did a quick google search and nothing really came up.
Contrast that with another gaming company, Activision-Blizzard, which has fared incredibly well during the turmoil since 2007 (and has paid significant dividends during that time)
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Former IAB chairman: Firefox third-party cookie blocking is good for the web
You mean the clusterfuck that's sold over a million copies so far, a mere two weeks after launch?
Note to developers: beating iOS doesn't necessarily mean becoming more like it.

That is SO very well said... I wish I'd thought of that myself. In particular, I wish I'd thought to say - about 10 years ago - "Note to developers: beating Internet Explorer doesn't necessarily mean becoming more like it."

I still remember so may discussions about Firefox (and Mozilla the browser before that) where somebody proposed something and it was shot down because "That's not the way Internet Explorer does it" or "IE doesn't have that". sigh
Copyright laws were originally designed to protect creativity and promote innovation. But now, they are doing exactly the opposite...
This is a problem with many laws. Even if unintended consequences don't ruin the effect from the start, changes in the situation a law was meant to address will likely cause problems in the end. And this is assuming the law actually passed with an intention to benefit the whole, and not just some powerful subset of it. I think laws should come with expiration dates.
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> Of course, there are legitimate uses for this, from low-bandwidth situations to web development testing, but that’s where our excellent add-ons ecosystem comes to the rescue.

Well, not really. In low-bandwidth situations you won't be able to find and download the add-on you need because it will take infinity to load Google. I've been down this road many times (think crappy mobile Internet with low transfer quotas). No, add-ons are not an option if you can't access them in the first place because someone took the setting you need away from you.
dropbox.com is blocked at work. Anyone have an alternate link? I can see it on my cell phone, but generally pptx don't display well on 4 in screens.
I feel that you can offer customers a great experience and make a profit. I feel this way about all my Apple products, and I don't care about a few dollars of 'Apple Tax'. I would pay $100 for a BioWare game if it was of the quality they had before being bought out by EA.
There are two separate user desires that you need to separate:

1. If [browser/server/electric utility/network] crashes I should not lose work.

2. I want to explore a few quick changes and then revert back to a known good point.

The technical solution is to do continuous saving but let the user mark certain spots in the revision tree as more important. Please note that you will be storing all revisions and the structure will most definitely be a tree (due to undo/redo/forking whatnot) Marking could be as easy as hitting save or creating a named revision.

From an UX standpoint continuous saves are best effort while explicitly hitting save should freeze the system and only return an OK once the data has really been persisted to disk.

My $.2, I've worked on Google Docs and Tinkercad.. :-)
There's a famous libel scandal in the UK.

An unnamed politician was wrongly linked to a paedophile sex scandal. Twitter users named that man, and called him a paedophile. (He isn't!) Many thousands of people repeated this slander.

Lord McAlpine was potentially going to sue 10,000 people.

(http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/11/22/mcalpine-forces-...)
Pew Report is clear: "Ads alone just ain't going to cut it anymore"
If you think SVN is 'maximum pain' then you haven't tried out the full array of actually bad VCSes. SVN is fine, if a little outdated-feeling.
I know these are not not technically slang, but

"At the end of the day, . . ." and

"I see what you did there."