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Maybe some details would help dispel the myth.

At face value, an investors buy shares at price X and the HR acquisition happens at value 2X. A naive conclusion is that (X - legal costs - time)= profits.

Do you mean that these acquisitions don't make enough to pay for the failed startups? That the cost associated with investing in that startup are more than the revenue? That something about typical deal terms makes (reported) valuations at buy and sell time meaningless?
E-mail comes with some expectation of privacy due to addressing and targeted communication. Hackernews is public content. Apples and oranges.
Because "Short" and "nice" works too.
Well that was fun... though it made my MBP (i7) a little too hot to touch on 1024x768 and the "Fast" render setting. It should run much better in Windows but damn. There don't seem to be any mods yet which is understandable given how young the game is, but that would be a huge draw. Even user-created maps would be enough to make Pokemon fans swoon. I hope the developers are making plans for the lawhammer though– this is much harder to sweep under the rug than hacked ROMs.
Or you can actually use the Linux commands by installing Cygwin. Pretty much my first conscious action when I wake up stranded on a desert Windows system.
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> if you do something stupid, people are absolutely allowed to call you out on it

The problem with cultural differences is that the effect of this might be not the intended one: the person you shouted at will consider you rude and as someone to avoid instead of reflecting on their actions and trying harder the next time. So it's not really smart to act like this, even if you feel it's "natural". You need to be someone important to be able to afford it and Linus (still) is.
stimulant I can mete out in small doses that will keep me going

Consider the ''eugeroic'' ("Wakefulness Enhancer") class, described as "unproven primary mechanisms but proven efficacy". Bit scary, not something to have a habit around, but widely available through the internets.
A small tangent for those inspired to sculpt by this. The free 3D-suite Blender recently got support for dynamic topology sculpting (that is adaptively change the mesh density as you sculpt). Cross-platform, quite capable and it's a ton of fun to play around with.

http://blender.org
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2013/04/29/intro-dynamic-topolog...
Hi, this is Ian Gent, author of the Recomputation Manifesto.

Many thanks for all the comments.

If anybody wants to get in touch to work in any way on recomputation, please do! You can find me very easily on google.

Special thanks to @lifebeyondfife, I worked out who you are and you were a pleasure to supervise too. Hope all is going well.
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>Yeah, you can, but it doesn't look like the systems were built that way.

Both Linux and Microsoft support file permissions. No excuse.
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Something like eclim? http://eclim.org/
Yes that is good point. There is one advantage to recomputability. Which is that - at least in the first instance - all that matters is being able to recompute the specific experiment for a paper. So testing as in "it works on other examples" is less critical. But indeed, as you say, there's close links with testing.
I wonder who these "people" were. In 1990 I was using Apollo and HP workstations that made win3 look like a toy, but these were extremely expensive, high-spec devices. People who were accustomed to such systems may well have "called it bad". But for those with ordinary PCs at that time, windows 3 was perceived very differently.
He's lucky he grew up in older times and outside US:

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Texas-teen-charged-with-...

"Texas teen charged with making terroristic threat after online joke"

Careful with baseball bats here! Whatever we consider it, the "online world" became bigger and started to be less tolerant for friend-between-friend exploring of "who can think of something nastier."
I seriously wish some of my last workplaces had even a small percentage of female developers. It tells me the company cares about the equally valuable and yet different perspectives both genders bring to the table. Additionally, it helps balance workplace interactions: offices of just 20-something guys too often feel like sweaty cave man clubs and frat houses. Same with age diverse groups; older developers can have some good wisdom that is well balanced with younger developer's energy. A mixed team can be far more hardy than a single mono-culture.
Consider systems of the same era: A 1985 Amiga had pre-emptive multi-tasking on a system with a 16 bit data bus (though 32 bit internally), with 512K (technically 256K, but really it was not realistic to use a system like that very well). By 1990 there were plenty of networking solutions. There were also virtual memory extensions (but not memory protection).

It was bad for the era. It did well because the competing solutions only ran on expensive single-source hardware and/or were not seen as serious enough (even the big-box Amiga's were, aside from cost, negatively affected by being connected to the "game machines" on the low end).
I like Linus - he has character, style and he fights to stay himself no matter how often people want him to change.

Some quotes I liked:

So as far as I'm concerned, the discussion is about "how to work
together DESPITE people being different". Not about trying to make
everybody please each other.

I'm also not going to
buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and
backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because
THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all
kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their
normal urges in unnatural ways.
No, I call him a douchebag or to be more precise a low grade raging douchebag.
High grade douchebags use their words to push correct buttons. I'm not sure what does his brand (i.e. attacking one of his contributors) does other than make people more defensive and close minded.
He could have said "This commit is utter shit, because A, and B test it and do it again" and I'd be fine. What he said was "This commit and you are utter shit. Don't do it again."

I don't excuse myself for calling him that. I'm neither smart nor polite.
I think I'm going to write my own cloud storage app, to use Azure Storage or something, while encrypting everything on the client.
I am working on a startup addressing this exact problem. Docker sounds really exciting although I haven't played much with it yet. Limmeau's concern below is a valid one. With the popularity of cloud computing centered around VMs, it seems like a wise choice to at least offer a VM as a worst-case option for recomputing an experiment.

As mentioned in the article, performance should be secondary when thinking about recomputation. A reasonable solution to the large downloads necessary is to spin up the VM on the server side and allow access to it either through the browser or through a terminal login.
Linus is dead wrong here. When he says acting professionally means "fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords", he's attacking a straw man: none of that behaviour is professional, and to say that professional behaviour must degenerate to that behaviour is a stretch at best.

Aggression is not warranted in a professional environment; neither overt (a la LKML) or covert (passive). Lying is not warranted under any circumstance. Being professional means not calling people names.

All of this stuff is what you get taught in kindergarten, it's not rocket science. Mental abuse is no better than physical abuse, and given I don't buy that hitting developers with sticks makes them "better" somehow I'm also not going to buy into clue-by-four beatings being any better.
I'm not sure it's all that thin. It might seem thin because this post is so far on the creepy side that perspective makes it look thin.

I'm pretty hard to offend (and male) and can't read that item as anything other than offensive (to me) and likely incredibly offensive (to some others).
Cool, adding it to a follow-up post!
I've heard a few people say this. Where are you from? Did people from your area have the same difficulty when the film "Nacho Libre" came out?
>>The error was made public so that it won't be repeated

People don't read 2 decades full of email history before committing to a repo.

The best way to prevent such mistakes is to provide the commit access only to a branch- run your test on top of it, and merge it with the main branch only if all the test cases pass.

>>The exposition was done in such a way to understand exactly how much he doesn't want this to happen again

You can say what you what you want to say, without insulting someone.

>>I don't know how necessary/unnecessary that is. But he doesn't attack the person, he attacked the issue. That's the essential

It doesn't work that way.

You are your work. That's now people take it. Doesn't matter how you want them to take.

And that's not just with programmers. Try doing that with someone like a doctor, or a teacher, or a painter or anyone for that matter. Try telling them, how something they do should be done otherwise and watch how they react.
we store a version of the record for an audit trail

See http://www.nodex.co.uk/article/26-05-13/document-record-vers... for the concept - it's easily implemented.
The reason why Linus (or anybody else) might want to act 'professionally' (or nicely, whatever) is because some people feel bad when they are shouted at. It's completely valid to argue that shouting is just a culturally different, but acceptable way of expressing one's thoughts but then you need to be aware that you'll potentially lose people who just simply hate this form of communication.

So this discussion is not about whether shouting and cursing is morally acceptable or not. It's about who's going to make compromises, who's able to make compromises and who are we going to lose in the process. What Sarah (probably) implicitly says is 'I hate this, and I don't want to work in an environment like this - and there might be other people who feel the same'. If Linus thinks that he cannot work in a different way then (because he's pretty important for Linux) probably Sarah is going to be sacrificed in some way. That might be all right, but again: this is not a moral issue.
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Yes it would. Aggressive behavior begets more and more aggressive behavior. E.g. if you punch things to make you feel better when you are in a bad mood, you are more likely to punch people/things when you are in a bad mood (in fact it has an addictive quality).
Huh? The whole point is that he is not suppressing the urges. When he feels frustrated, he might add a "fuck" or "shit" to convey that feeling.

You, on the other hand, did not agree to something, felt mad or frustrated, and instead of conveying that frustration you snidely suggested that that he must be suppressing some "natural urges". Violent? Homosexual? From whose subconscious did those arise from? Not Linuses?

(See what I did there? What kind of urges might _I_ be suppressing?)

All in all: I find your reply to be a perfect example of what Linus is trying to avoid ("fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, _the passive aggressiveness_, and the buzzwords")
So you don't think it's right for an individual?

I don't see why a group being "susceptible to hearsay and misdirection" is a good reason for their ire to be directed at more companies rather than just one.

I also don't see any reason why a group fighting against the injustices they can tackle, obliges them to take on the ones they can't.

EDIT: To take your example of the justice system - if I steal from someone, it would not be a valid defence to point out that other people had not been successfully convicted of stealing, therefore I should not be prosecuted.
That's what it ends up being.

Also way to go to ignore all the other arguments he made, before talking about office politics, it seems like you just skipped to the end.
Wyse and HP will probably refresh their thin client product lines with the new AMD APUs as well. Re-purposing those if you can get them second-hand can be quite cheap and get you the hardware you want (HP has standard BIOS, Wyse boots SUSE so should work with some fiddling).

As a side note, I have had a lot of fun with thin clients in the past few years due to a variety of interesting x86 architectures (AMD Geode, Transmeta Efficeon, VIA Nano) each with its own little quirks and features (accelerating torrent hash checking and peer handshaking with hardware sha-1 crypto engine and montgomery multiplier on VIA cpu was probably my silliest project).
That never works, not just for programmers. But for any profession on earth.

People don't work like a fixed programmed rule engine. In the real world people have emotions.
Yup. Saying "No copyright or trademark infringement is intended in using said source material in Pokémon Generations." is like hitting someone with a baseball bat in the face and then saying "no harm intended".

This is massive, clear-cut, unambiguous copyright and trademark infringement.
itunes is not the product that would get the NSA salivating - not much of it's data was that useful imo before the phones came out. It's about phones and messaging. When did imessage get released? How long have apple been able to track your location with GPS? How long have you been storing your photos on the cloud (whether or not you realised it) etc etc.

Once they had 1-2 of the big tech companies as precedent they really just would have started to go round to anyone they thought might be of interest. Because that is the whole point. Collect everything you can get your grubby mitts on and sort through it later.
Because it's a puff piece for Usersnap's feedback service. Bourbon, Inuit, and Compass would probably be worth mentioning as well. Admittedly geo-bootstrap was new to me, so thanks for that :) (Rather, pass the eye drops!)
Could you go further? What, in your opinion is wrong with NSString? How would you fix it?
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Just gonna post these two gems I found at a previous thread about Linus (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6050443):

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3977141&cid=442916...

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3977141&cid=442909...

To me Linus is kinda like Wagner, I do like and enjoy his work, but as a person he is not someone I'd aspire to emulate.
>Agree with your hypervisor/architecture point but I suppose there has to be some broad architectural choice made.

There's a risk that the VM platform decision could date and, ultimately, render useless an experiment sandbox.

However, two points. Firstly, any attempt to wholly encapsulate an experiment will be susceptible to problems concerning the technology choices made. By choosing the abstraction at a VM level, you're more likely to get a better number of years out of your choice than picking specific programming languages (which I contend would fail to gain adoption as researchers wouldn't change their obscure toolkit if they felt it was the right one for their research).

Secondly, even a VM for an obsolete architecture is better than what we have today - the original paper and perhaps an email address for the lead author.
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"At that time, Windows 3.11 was wonderful. People were amazed by it."

These must have been people with little computer experience.

In '93 I also ran 3.11, at home. At work I had access to Big Iron, VMS, DG UX, and a hand full of other OSes. There wasn't a really decent Microsoft OS until Windows 2000. Microsoft was only god on the desktop because it allow the average user tools like Office. The engineers and professionals used Sun workstations and Macs, production used VMS, which was decades ahead of any of the PC OSes at the time.
Ugh, mailing lists. I wonder why so smart people as Linus doesn't invent something thats slightly more comfortable to use. Maybe they just like to be left alone, without interference from mortals.
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Just overall scope of history: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Ukrainian_langua...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeujOxl3jc (they are talking about this in the video: [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bykivnia )

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnytsia_massacre

As the policies of Ukrainisation were halted (1931) and replaced by massive Russification approximately four-fifths of the Ukrainian cultural elite, intellectuals, writers, artists and clergy, had been "eliminated", executed or imprisoned, in the following decade.
The term was coined for this - Executed renaissance.

Many would argue that Holodomor (1932-33, 2-10 millions of Ukrainian speaking people died) was a part of Russification campaign.
Exactly! Even the strongest form assumes many shocks.
Seems a lot of effort for a simple app to he totaly fair and honest
You can do but the moment you log into the Windows Store for example, it will log you into all apps including the SkyDrive one so it's all or nothing.

Also at the moment there is not an option to provision an 8.1 machine with a local account as well during the trial period. You must use an online windows account.
I've found it helpful to learn not to fuel thought trains. ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)[1] is helpful for that: It's basically about developing an understanding that thoughts and feelings are not real, and that they are not dangerous. A thought is the voice in your head, feelings are sensations in the body. Nothing more. It also has techniques that makes it easier to detect them.

By the way: Gut flora may play a role in anxiety[2], at least for some. It seems to play a role in many different mental, as well as physical, illnesses.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Happiness-Trap-Struggling-Living/d...

[2] http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/09/gut-feeling.aspx
You can always delete the file, then it'll be moved to the Memory Hole.
Geo Bootstrap is beautiful in a very special way ;) Looking into Bourbon, Inuit, and Compass for a follow-up post.
Windows 8.1 in its current state requires that you log in using an online account always [1] and provisions a SkyDrive account on login. However, even if you circumvent this or start with a local account (see [1] again), you will be signed into SkyDrive the moment you log into the windows store or any other app.

[1] This is apparently being removed in RTM.
This behavior depends on a user preference, "Save documents to SkyDrive by default". I don't remember whether this is enabled by default. (I've since overwritten my Windows 8.1 installation.)
That's not what he's saying at all. He's giving examples of exactly the kind of shit he doesn't put up with.
No, I didn't just skip to the end: I pointed out that his version of "acting professionally" doesn't match any I recognise. There's no point engaging in arguments over a straw man.
You're talking about the SkyDrive integration in Microsoft Office, a slightly different matter.

Windows 8.1 has a "Prevent the use of SkyDrive for file storage" policy setting.
I agree completely. From my experience, because of things like the nasty omitted details mentioned in the parent comment, techniques are rarely reimplemented unless they claim pretty substantial improvements.

I think having a starting point of reproduceability would lead to more reimplementations.
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All I can think of is when Linus said told Nvidia "F... you!" and flipped the bird.

http://youtu.be/IVpOyKCNZYw

This isn't just an isolated incident either, but I'm no shining example of acting professionally.
You've obviously never worked in an office, or you have taken a big step away from reality.

The things Linus mentions are what happens as a result of supposed "professionalism".

People are emotional, reactionary creatures with very different needs.

These people are kernel developers, not 4 year olds. If they commit code that is fucking stupid, they should be called fucking stupid for it. As was shown on a recent post - Linus reverted to swearing in his native tongue because English wasn't sufficiently rude enough for him, and those who let the fuckup slip through all admitted their fault and identified that they would take steps to ensure it didn't happen again.
This is why

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If it contains any of the now-unobtainable Pokemon granted at conventions, I imagine it would make many a twitchy obsessive completionist quite happy.

I don't know if it actually does.

I think what's interesting about it is going to be the legal fallout.
Wow, thanks! A headless Eclipse 'server' and command protocol! I can't believe I've not come across that project before.
>> Because I can pretty much guarantee that I'll continue cursing. To me, the discussion would be about how to work together despite these kinds of cultural differences

So if I get this right, we just need a Linus communication adapter that can translate messages so they are compatible with either side.

Does that mean when someone talks to Linus it should add swear words to be compatible with him? :)

I see his point, but it comes at a cost. People may start trying to work around him for fear of backlash rather than working with him. Or worse, just not try at all. We can only trust his technique has a greater net benefit.
In Red Bull's case, I suspect people drinking it the second and subsequent times are doing so for the effects (both real and perceived/psychological) and not for the taste.

I buy and drink it occasionally, but I assure you, it's not primarily for the taste.
I also work in a big office environment in a large company and I tend to agree with Linus. We get all this professional outsorcing and offshoring and use tech that was new in the flower power generation. It's all done very professionally and it results in mind-bogging stupidity. Every single day.
I can emulate a PDP11, a Nintendo Gameboy, or any other old system.

There are perfectly functional x86 emulators for ARM already. Many people used to run Windows on PPC macs via emulation too.
It is hard to believe Nintendo has neglected a real multiplayer Pokémon game for so long. A MMORPG would be an _obvious_ money maker for a company that so many see to be in trouble.

Even if it was only for their own proprietary consoles..
What's uncomfortable about email?
I have been with my head under a rock lately and don't know much about this NSA stuff. So please enlighten me: is there hard proof that all or some of your SkyDrive/GoogleDrive/... documents are passed directly to the NSA? Also if you're outside the US?
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What's anxiety like?
Just a note. Once I worked at a tele provider and I accidentally messed up some contract and we lost $6000 - that was in a very professional working environment. I was called into the office of the manager and was told (not in a specifically pleasant way) how stupid my actions were. This taught me an important lesson about caring for details.

In open source, the office is the mailing list. Life is tough. Say sorry and make sure it doesn't happen again. Move on - and outside the US, I think swearing is pretty common if you do something stupid - working environment or not. I don't think this means that we all have to adhere to US standards.
To follow up on my threadsafe remark above, I should add that it's only the Exceptions that don't appear threadsafe, and it looks like that's fixable.
Maya people in America primarily speak Spanish not because they were afraid of being killed but because it was the lingua franca of the region. Oh, wait...!
He had access to millions of cables in just a few days. Every porn site has better tracking and mass download detection.
It's multiplayer. Maybe even-MMO style?