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The problem with using Sid is that it's, you know, unstable. Ubuntu does a lot of work to stabilize Sid before each release. If Mint did the same, there would be a lot of duplicated effort so they might as well just use Ubuntu as a base.

The problem with using Debian testing is that it gets stuck in a freeze for 6-10 months every 2 years. It's like stop-and-go traffic. And then, right after a release, testing becomes flooded with so many new packages that it becomes difficult to test them for security or stability. A few serious breaks in the past forced LMDE to adopt an "update pack" approach that lags Debian testing by a few weeks.

If the "always-releasable Debian testing" [1] idea becomes reality, it might be possible to have Linux Mint follow Debian testing and still be highly stable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5686872
You do know that 5 year olds can understand this, right ?

REGULATION = GOOD REGULATION + BAD REGULATION

Arguing against "regulation" means arguing against the good and the bad. Which is the height of stupidity since you're effectively arguing for companies to do whatever they want, whenever they want with zero consideration of anybody else.
I wish TDD advocates would stop equating unit testing with TDD. Just because I am not a member of your wacky cult, doesn't mean I don't use unit tests. This article isn't about when to skip tests, it is about when to skip TDD. Big difference (and the real answer is always).
Very neat, very slick. What more could you want?
> I like MDD, money driven development.

Good line. A lot of people will shoot back with "in the long run, it will cost you more" but the point is - a startup doesn't even know if there is a long run.
Agreed. Do we really want Gmail to be a great operating system lacking only a decent mail client? What is this, emacs 2.0?

And so what if people are using it differently then how it was originally intended? Give me a well designed tool, and I'll use it in 930294 ways it wasn't indented to be. That doesn't mean I'm going to like the new super-multi-purpose swiss army knife version of that tool.... Keep it simple stoopid, get off my lawn, not in my back yard, go unix, etc etc </curmudgeony old person rant>
Would be helpful if the post explained what Shazam is.

Googling indicates that it identifies songs by listening to them.
"As if governments have any sort of decent track record on spending intelligently."

Samsung and Hyundai would be prime examples of companies that would not exist if not for direct intelligent investment of significant government money. How else could South Korea compete with China and Japan "next door" if not for a focused effort such as what was done there? It would be quite difficult and I strongly doubt they would be anything like what they are today.

It's just regional perspective, I mean I'm quite happy with our taxation vs services provided (at both personal and corporate level). Free healthcare, 12 months maternity leave for my wife, subsidized daycare, clean water, decent EI just in case, etc, etc. Although it's Canada, so the weather sucks for most of the year.
It's even funnier if you google the name of the MP in question and include the name Stemcor. This interview was particularly entertaining.

http://www.channel4.com/news/margaret-hodge-tax-affairs-stem...
The github page says it requires python. Why? I thought the server was in C and the webclient in java. Why and what for do you user python?
Excellent. Puts the focus right where it belongs -- on principles, not on specific rules of behavior.

The closest thing we really need to codes of conduct is consciousness-raising reminders of the sorts of things that can go wrong EVEN WITHOUT OVERT physically-aggressive behavior. The big three of those seem to be:

1. Tiresome references to objectification of women. E.g., booth babes, scantily clad women in marketing materials, etc.

2. Tiresome repetition of individually unobjectionable signs of attraction. What's fun at gender-balanced party and tolerable OCCASIONALLY in the workplace can be oppressive if it happens too often in a professional context. So if you're attracted to a professional colleague, you should do your best to refrain from showing it.

3. Bad conversational patterns. E.g., a woman who's interrupted in conversation may not power her way back the way many men would, so you should be more careful if you have an urge to interrupt.

If you want, you can add in some kind of affirmative action concept to that as well.
It's bad grammar. 'He/she' is singular, 'they' is plural. On the other hand, I consider it a significantly lesser transgression than just introducing new words (with poor aesthetics, IMO).
Somewhat tangential but is there any reason why the IRC chatroom is on OFTC rather than Freenode? I think it's the first time I see an open source project using OFTC.
I'm an eclipse user and love it. I don't understand why so many people hate it. However, I keep hearing, from very respectable developers, that intellij is a far better IDE. Even as I type this, I have an eclipse window open for main development and an intellij window open with some test code so I can get used to it, and see what the hype is about.

One thing is for sure, intellij (the dark theme) looks beautiful. Makes me wonder if eclipse should still be spending (wasting?) resources developing their own GUI toolkit.
Ah! you are right. That didn't occur to me, when I was trying fish.

BTW, My point is not specific the EDITOR variable.
Regulation allows Company A to influence the government to implement regulation

"Regulation" doesn't allow Company A to influence the government, the First Amendment allows Company A to influence the government. In your statement, regulation is the effect, not the cause.
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I'd almost guarantee that, if you posted the same thing (title + content), it was flagged like crazy (and that's why it was gone so quickly). I remember reading that the flag system weights flags heavier that are received within x minutes of the article being posted. In other words, if an article gets two flags in 20 minutes that may be fine. But if another article gets two flags in the first minute, it will be killed (or something to that effect).

This title and this post - it's just full of overly dramatic language choices. Make your case like a normal person and see how the community reacts to that.
> - Sound is excellent, good automatic echo cancellation and reasonable noise reduction.

I agree with most of the points you've raised. In low bandwidth settings my personal experience is that skype does better sound-wise though.
This would be the same Margaret Hodge who appears to have her own tax avoidance issues that she refuses to clarify.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/113892078/Priti-Patel-Letter

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businesslatestnews/966839...
Actually, not in France!

You can go into someone's home and disagree with their taste in anything. It provides interesting, open discussions.

"Criticising is a kind of national sport" is dead on. The French do whine a lot. </irony>

(As context, I'm a french Canadian with lots of French people as friends.)
Thanks for making my day. I would have emailed that to you, but you don't have any contact information in your profile.
He's writing as if they are against all these ideas, as opposed to being against that particular policy or implementation for a solution. Also the issues are a lot more nuanced.
I spent a nontrivial amount of time thinking about writing a CoffeeScript-like syntactic sugar layer over C, and I ended up abandoning the project for several reasons, not the least of which being that too many things make nice (or even different) syntax hard. What to do about macros, for example, bothered me for a long time.
and I merely pointed out that science doesn't have all the answers. That's why science found out that to be happy you need to believe in religion.

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

The paradox is that you seem to embrace science but ignore some of its findings in your personal life. (i.e. you are not religious).
Ron Paul and Rand Paul are vastly different from each other. I wouldn't ever talk about them as if they have similar principles.

I am not trying to defend Ron Paul or Rand here. I will tell you my own views on your list of things. Perhaps this will help you understand Ron better.

- Civil rights: I don't want my government to have colour-specific laws. I believe in individual rights. When I start a company, I reserve the right to discriminate against blacks, browns or whites. I am brown myself, and don't really care if a potential employer rejects me for my skin colour.

- Environmental regulation: I believe in the right to property. I pay money (tax) to agencies to protect these rights. If my neighbour cooks meth, it makes my own home smelly. The police, to protect my property rights, should prevent it. If he is cooking whatever crap he wants on his own farm, and there is no house or person in sight, why should the government make laws to have regulations about stinking the place up?

- Finance regulation: regulation and protection lead to corporatism. Your claiming Ron is corporatist based on this seems contrived, to put it mildly.

- Right to choose: I disagree with Ron on this. But then Ron wants to leave it up to the state. Fine by me. I'll just walk out of the states I don't like.

- Equal pay: see my first note on individual rights. If I find an employer who values my skill enough to pay me more, I'll go there. My employees are free to do the same. I'll discriminate as I please. It's my company.

- Food inspection: why isn't the court system enough for this?

- Health care: Remember the days when Canadians crossed the border to pay for the service they get? Heck, I'm sure the healthcare industry loves these regulations: they can charge a million bucks to fix your common cold. The government will pay them with your tax or by printing more money. The problem in the US is not universal healthcare. The problem is expensive drugs. Fix your patent laws, and your regulatory hoops, and poor people will be able to afford most drugs themselves. And charities can cover the gap when the drugs are too expensive. That's how it works in India. (Actually, India has other problems: corruption and illiteracy.)

- Worker's rights: covered earlier.

- Immigration: easy immigration makes no sense in a welfare state.
Gitty is a fantastic app just launched today. It makes managing your GitHub really easy.

The UI is absolutely beautiful and highly recommend it for anyone out there using GitHub.

Go grab it now! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gitty-for-github/id645696309...
Not to mention the names of his scripts are the best
Rand Paul is a conspiracy nut who thinks the UN is going to take away our guns:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/11/r...

"You can bet the UN is working to FORCE the U.S. to implement every single one of these anti-gun policies...."

It frightens me mildly that someone like this has power, although he's certainly far from the worst in Congress.
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Can we also say that the Ukrainian government is in piracy's back pocket, then? Or do you believe that the 301 report has incorrectly identified the Ukraine?
I see it now, Google is an embryonic stage of The Culture [0].

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
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Do corporations regulate the internet? or consumer electronics?

The flaw in your logic is in the absence of government regulation the buyer, not the supplier is the primary regulator in the market. Consumers are more in control of cost/quality/safety trade-offs than corporations, because corporations that tailor their product to their preferences succeed.
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The more interesting question is why doesn't 'nix have Powershell and a layer of abstraction upon which it can sit equivalent to the CLR?

Perhaps to be files all the way up is a limitation of the bazaar - at least until one hits the JVM, hopefully. There's no contract assuring that level of abstraction between the user and the turtles. And agreement that such a layer of abstraction is a good thing is unlikely to be forthcoming.
Your perspective is correct, but the vast majority (99%) of new businesses in the economy will never raise money from a VC (and shouldn't).

Most VC portfolios are structured such that the expectation (at least at the time of investment) is that this company will be able to make up for ALL the inevitable losses I am going to take in the other companies I invest in. Well, not really that cynical, but in reality usually one or two companies in a fund are where all the profits come from, so you can understand why investors push each company to swing for the fences.

Key takeaway for entrepreneurs is just to know when a VC is right for your business and when it's not. The key factor here is how quickly you need to scale. For example most entrepreneurs don't have the goal of a nine figure exit for their business in the next several years, but some do.

Not all VCs invest this way. Here's a good read by Greycroft Partner Ian Sigalow that walks through the economics of how they invest and why: http://www.sigalow.com/2012/01/a-new-take-on-series-a
here's a link to the gh repo https://github.com/usablica/label.css/
I have some experience managing servers that were targeted by script kiddies using services like this. Dealing with the attacks is usually pretty simple due to clear ways to identify the traffic (i.e. the bots all have the same useragent). However, if they're powerful enough to fully saturate your connection, you're going to have a tougher time. It's great that sysadmins can mostly get away with just paying for CloudFlare, nowadays.

What actually surprises me more about this article is that he is operating in the United States. However, I'm not sure the value of an "FBI backdoor" in this situation. People "renting a botnet" are not usually important people that I'd think the FBI should be spending their budget on.
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‘Oh, thanks for the bibles, could we possibly get some funding for shipping, too?’
I don't think people realise how effective meetups are for hiring. If you sponsor/speak at the right event, it's near impossible not to meet some decent candidates.
If Ron and Rand are corporatists, why do more corporations support Obama? The status quo is what the corporations support. Limiting military spending and restricting or eliminating Fed policies would disrupt the status quo more than anything else.
except LLVM and Clang
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An objection to third-party login systems in general
Mintty isn't an alternative to Cygwin, it's a part of Cygwin: an alternative to the standard windows terminal that Cygwin used to launch by default. Recent Cygwin installers actually set up Mintty by default.

You seem to be confusing terminals (programs that provide a text environment) and shells (usually text-based, often run inside a terminal). Mintty is a terminal. cmd.exe is a shell, but will spawn Windows' own ANSI terminal when asked. Cygwin's bash will also spawn Windows' own terminal when run without one. Fish is a shell, and needs to be run inside a terminal.

Console2 is different again. As I understand it, it wraps Windows' terminal, providing some extra features.
I think you're missing his point. In a lot of parts of the world, including mine, this would be rather offensive behavior. The problem comes when you automatically generalize what happens to be offensive in your part of the world to the world at large. It seems conceivable that in a foreign culture, such as the parent poster's France, this type of criticism might be considered a path to a sincere and personal relationship because it shows that you're willing to interact with your host on a personal level. And it might not even be offensive if the criticism is normal and expected. The host might even join in mocking his own "foolish" purchase.

The larger issue is that there's no conceivable way to know all of the ways you could offend someone else without spending a significant portion of your life immersed in their culture. I lived in a major city in Spain for a couple of years, and there's a seriously pluralistic culture there with large immigrant populations from a number of continents. My observation was that they tended to sidestep the unintentional-offense problem by limiting inter-cultural contacts. Their interactions tended to focus around well-defined interfaces like buying something from a store. It's a sad state of affairs but I'm not aware of an effective solution.
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Regulation is what requires corporations to disclose their accounting to investors instead of telling them whatever they want.

Actually, regulation prevents consumers from making choices with their investment decisions. By putting publicly traded companies in a special class, and only allowing individuals to invest in those companies, they vastly limit choice.

Regulation is what requires corporations to pay full time workers overtime, give breaks and sick time, and just generally treat them like human beings.

In America this is the case, however, over the whole world there is a relatively free market. For competitive job marekets/professions where is necessary to pay workers overtime and give them sick leave to continue employment, those benefits are given. Across the whole world, those benefits aren't necessary to hire some professions, jobs for those professions leave the US.

In theory regulation would protect us from predatory industries, in practice we often suffer from regulatory capture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture.
Thanks man, links fixed.
LLVM (#llvm) uses oftc as well, which I've always wondered about.
I don't think that is an accurate summary. There is tons of scientific evidence for short, high intensity training like this. The only legit complaints were the idiot saying it is useless because it won't make you into a power lifter (it certainly won't make you a power lifter, but that doesn't make it useless), and the people pointing out that you should check with your doctor first to make sure you don't hurt yourself.
It always strikes me that the societal expectation of 'fair share' tends to exclude booze cruises to France, or getting discounts from workmen in exchange for "cash in hand".

Even savings in an ISA and duty free shopping are technically tax avoidance.
I don't understand what Hangouts is as a product.

I have 1 Gmail account and 2 Google Apps accounts. I use Gtalk and have G+ configured on the Gmail, and 1 domain has Gtalk enabled and G+ disabled, and the other has both disabled.

This morning I installed Hangouts on my Android as I read the press about how this would replace Gtalk and figured I should get used to the interface.

What is now displayed confuses me greatly.

Is this G+? How come this app is working on the domains on which it is disabled?

Is this Gtalk? How come I cannot see/find my Gtalk contacts and my native Gmail account is showing me what I recognise as circles in the place I would expect to see my Gtalk contacts.

Where are the archived chats from Gtalk? Still archived in my Gmail? If so, why does this app say I have no archived chats? Will future archived items be in my Gmail? Even for the domains in which G+ is disabled (if, as I'm currently assuming they will actually be in G+ because otherwise it would show the archived chats that are in my Gmail)?

The native Gmail seems to allow group chat, but the corporate account doesn't... why?

It asked to confirm my number, but doesn't seem to like the fact that all three accounts are 1 number... why? I am the same person, several accounts and 1 phone.

I simply don't know what Hangouts is as a product and how the various accounts I have will work or what options should be set where to make it predictable.

And just to top off the confusion, my girlfriend has clearly added the app too, as I got a confused email from her and 5 minutes later an email asking me to install Whats App.

I feel I've gone from something I knew and had control of, to something that really confuses. I've told my girlfriend to just send me an email or call me... we can both just understand that.

Is there some epiphany I'm missing?

Edit: This is in the context of someone who is very familiar with the existing/old offerings and used them a fair bit. It's the 'replacing' bit and not being able to see anything familiar or old in the new which makes it confounding.
Just a nit-picky thing, but I thought it would be nice to get a heads-up. In the third sentence of the first paragraph it should be "your senators" rather than "you're senators"
Most of those sound like wedge issues though, that are pumped up by the media to divide and distract citizens so they don't ask for better healthcare, more freedoms, etc.
I agree. the links of the header was set to the `#`.
> CoffeeScript makes parentheses optional in many cases (as does Ruby)

This is one thing that really annoys me with Coffeescript. I personally find the lack of parentheses makes the code harder to read (since it's sometimes ambiguous where the parentheses should be) but faster to write.

> An important consequence of this is implicit returns: because every construct must return a value, all functions must return a value, whether return is called explicitly or not.

Same concern here. When working with someone else's code, it is sometimes unclear if the author intended the last expression to be the return value or it just happened to be the last line of code and it is safe to return something else.

The lack of parentheses and implicit returns also makes it hard to maintain a consistent code style guide as there are too many ways of writing the same thing.
Any chance you can stop misrepresenting what people say ?

He didn't say he was against guns. Only against the lax regulation of them. And given that the overwhelming majority of the population support him it is hardly a controversial position. Not sure why you decided to derail the point with a criticism of alcohol.
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>According to wkiipedia, it's safety is disputed

To be more accurate: according to an unsupported claim made by a single random individual.
> "Regulation" doesn't allow Company A to influence the government

Depends on the content of the regulation. Regulation that gives particular companies special voices on public policy does, in fact, give "Company A" a special ability to influence the government to implement policy in a way detrimental to competing "Company B" that is not granted a similar voice. There's quite a lot of regulation that does this in one form or another (usually, with safeguards that notionally serve to avoid abuse, but there is plenty of room for debate about how well those safeguards work.)