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I do not understand why, when updating a balance from a CC transaction, you wouldn't be using transactions.

Start Transaction
Update Balances
Call CC Processor
Commit

That would eliminate "the billing system charged customer credit cards to increase account balances without being able to update the balances themselves" -- you don't go call a non-transactional CC processor until you've actually been able to process the update in your own system (which you can easily rollback).

If you're worried about Commits failing (due to not using pessimistic locking, for instance), then separate it into two transactions. That way when you go to process the CC the next time, you have a record stating there's already a transaction in-flight.

For financial records, I'd expect a bit more care. Sounds like they had proper records, but only as a backup/logging.

(Even for telecom, in which I work. There are fully ACID databases that have no problems handling millions of transactions/sec. In-flight balance information is trivial to handle.)
Thanks for summarizing this. It was painful to read so I stopped and was hoping for a tldr in the comments.

Medium is already becoming riddled with linkbait.
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Or wherever The Pirate Bay or Wikileaks or others of their ilk host their servers I would imagine. Sweden[1] it seems?

"According to Assange, Switzerland and Iceland are the only countries where WikiLeaks would be safe to operate."

I wouldn't be too sure about Germany at all. Switzerland because of it's historic neutrality and rule of law makes sense.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pionen
This surprised me too - especially given the rhetoric I was hearing from the lamestream media about this vote being cast along party lines.

Given that the majority of Dems in the house voted for it - in fact more than Republicans - I think that is a MAJOR, MAJOR rebuke to Obama.

I am sure he will notice that.
It is definitely not allowed on Kickstarter. Whether that is in the T&C I'm not sure, but I know people have warned about it.
If your TV is capable of powering via HDMI it doesn't require a power adapter. You can't really blame them for that if the TV is out of date.
Maybe Ro Khanna will move over and run against her!

Seriously, though, Swalwell proved that it can be done. Get somebody serious to run against her. I know I always relished voting against her when I lived in SF even though I had to hold my nose and vote Republican.
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That is my estimation. If you don't need performance or macros, Python and Ruby may give you a similar development experience. However, neither of those languages AFAIK allows you to redefine (let alone recompile to native code) functions at runtime.
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That's 300 dollars per platform right? So 600 dollars if I wanted to create an android / ios app?
Are Xamarin tools really the holy grail of cross-platform app development? What are the hidden gotchas?

What about MonoDevelop for the desktop? The Windows and Mac download packages are at v4 but Linux at v2.6. Are Xamarin slowly abandoning use of GTK# ? Is this because of GTK 2 v 3 fragmentation?

Should we be supporting C++ and QT given that QT now supports iOS and Android? Given that some developers are scared of C++ what about C# / F# with QT QML? Are there any bindings which are maintained and tracking QT updates?
It's not weird at all, and not only that, but you should expect your +1 to be seated for your talk, not shown to a speaker's lounge.
As someone who as exhibited at TechEd before, it's a poorly run event contracted out to the lowest bidder... just like he said.

It's the Microsoft way, their events are a reflection of how Microsoft truly is.
What databases are those?
So she did some hand waving. So what? It's not a lie to say that she's teaching herself how to code. And at least she's doing something with her time.
S/PDIF for 5.1 surround!
You're looking at the "Projects" list of other projects on the site. Spike itself is written in Common Lisp. You can read some of the papers on the "technical details" of Spike page for confirmation: http://www.stsci.edu/institute/software_hardware/spike/detai...
I think it's cute how Google checkout pretends they don't already know your home address and phone number. :)
Thats a lot of dogmatic statements without defense.

-On the claim of unfillable positions, "It's not bogus."

-"companies ... can't find people"

-"the mistake ... in article's reasoning is ... "

-"the reason there are open positions ... is ..."

-the writer's "put effort into saying something false" because ...

Can these statements be backed up? Is there is a metric for star programmers that companies can measure? If there is an obviously star programmer, but in some obscure language, do they get job offers? Perhaps in your capacity as startup advisor, you have inside knowledge?
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The problem clearly exists between the chair and the keyboard...
Actually, the scientific method is the heart of science, and the method is to check a hypothesis.

When the goal is to fix yourself, the only relevant sample size is yourself. And when the problem may be psychological, then placebo effect may fix it, because you believe you've fixed it.
Even though I don't have the time to do it, I have a feeling that if you drilled down into the votes some more, you would likely see a pattern/relationship re: authority.

i.e. those in higher authority would have voted it down (Boehner, Pelosi, etc.) and those with less authority supported it. So the powerful preserving their power, with the less powerful challenging it.

That alone can speak volumes about the potential for their power crumbling. Boehner has been on the ropes recently with his caucus warning him to tread carefully.

If that turns out to be the case, then the leadership has big problems. Both in the House and the Whitehouse.

That could be good for the issue over the long-term....which is encouraging to me as a "foreigner".
So when do we see a similar vote to rein in corporate and other private entity data gathering? Or are we all conservatives here?
This. The general public has no idea how much posturing is involved in such votes. These people will even trade votes: the Dem says "Please, I want to appear strong on defence, so I'll vote no, while you (the Republican) can vote yes".

Source: knew a couple of people who had worked as aides to congresscritters
The scale of these conferences necessitates a strict badge rule. To get a badge, you need a registration. No badge = asked to leave. The security drones don't have the authority to issue badges on the spot and are programmed to kick out non-badge holders. Good for you that you would have cancelled 30 mins before the talk but it still would be a breach of contract most likely.
I don't know about you, but I can't convert epoch time in my head and I don't know anyone who can. What's benefit is there to posting epoch time instead of in ISO 8601 format?
I completely disagree. I find it very useful to see small, easy to digest, and easy to compare example apps when new frameworks come out for a first impression to help decide if I want to have a play with it myself.
Excellent feature and a good jump towards connectivity for workers types matching the subscriber model.
I tried in 3 browsers (2 which I haven't gone to Facebook before), and Facebook didn't load over HTTP. Facebook sent HTTP STS headers, too. I believe you are incorrect.
I'm a male adult and regard myself as being quite independent, if I want to. If my significant other just after arriving in a foreign country where I planned to follow her would leave me alone in such an unexpected way without a clear plan how to meet and a clear message of what is going on, I wouldn't like that very much. Not at all. Even though I'd not be helpless in such a situation, it is just absolutely disrespectful.

And, which is a severe thing, it would also show that me that the other person allows others to treat him that way, something I'd also think I'd not accept at all for myself.
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Do you realize that Miracast has been Android's screen sharing mechanism since 4.2?

http://developer.android.com/about/versions/jelly-bean.html
> That he couldn't say "Well, this isn't working out, let's meet in 2 hours at X." before she was escorted out seems very implausible to me.

The article clearly explains this:

> Thinking its a small misunderstanding (security is almost always contracted through the venue not the conference) I went to room 238 to try to figure things out. After explaining the situation going on to three staff members I was given the “opportunity” to buy a ticket (full conference on the last day) for her. They then handed me a shirt and said “you need to head over to your talk”

Basically, the author believed that he could just work something out, so at the time that his wife left, he did not make plans to meet up anywhere, and she did not know what was happening. Furthermore, the conference organizers then said that he needed to go speak immediately, which would have prevented him from letting her know what was going on.

I'm presenting at two conferences in the next week, and my fiancee is luckily able to attend one of them. Not having a seat for her is one thing, but having security bring her out of the building and giving me the "opportunity" to buy a full-price ticket is absurd.
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The shapes are different too.
I really do commend everyone involved in this effort. This is how the system is supposed to work, citizens making their voices know, and the legislature acting upon the will of the people.

Honestly you guys got far closer to your goal than I would have anticipated. The bipartison support was almost unprecedented in recent years.

From a practical matter, even if the House bill passed it was dead on arrival in the Senate. But nevertheless it is a significant symbolic blow to blanket surveillance against American citizens.

All I've tried to communicate, perhaps with less than appropriate tact, is that this is going to be a long slog.

If you're going to reign in the surveillance state, you'll need to start thinking like Washington insiders. Pick one incumbent that vocally supported these programs, and take him or her down. That will instantly catapult this issue to the top of the concerns in DC.

It only costs a few million to get that done. Considering the wealth of the tech industry, and the threat this poses to overseas expansion of the US internet services, donations shouldn't be overly difficult to drum up. We could really make a large dent in getting the legislature to help roll back these programs to sane levels. Add to that an anit-SOPA style social media campaign, and you could accomplish real and lasting change.
Does VLC support full DLNA stack yet?
Yes, you can define structs and use getelementptr to access values. But, frontends can also bake in offsets calculated from getelementptr. They can also bake in sizeofs of structs, for example. And LLVM optimizations end up baking in hardcoded values in more subtle ways too.
> how can I invest in them, if they make such a great effort in their video to avoid explaining what it does exactly?

Here you go, there's an article under the video:

>If we had to guess, we'd say the FAQ are referring to this study, published by Ray and his team in a June 2011 issue of Nature, in which the researchers identify three groups of chemicals that can which disrupt a mosquito's carbon dioxide receptors

And also a helpful comment by "ciller" below the article:

>DEET works by blocking the CO2 receptors on mosquitos, this causes the mosquito to be unable to figure out non food sources from usable ones. If this kite patch blocks the CO2 receptors as well as DEET does, then it should be effective.

>I work in a laboratory that deals with mosquito related problems quite a bit and we are more then willing to test these things out in a small scale field study. A viable alternative to DEET that you dont have to apply over your entire skin surface area would be rather ideal.
Perhaps they ought to disclose the IP address of the possible hack along with the method and specific technologies targeted in the breach. They should also provide the names and email addresses of the engineers helping fix the problem. They should have personally called every developer within the first 2 hours of the problem to inform them of exactly what line of code led to this utter mayhem.

I'm not sure how this affects their credibility at all. Does knowing within the first 10 seconds of the problem help you sell more apps or do your job any better? Did they make some kind of bullshit excuse? I think the emails I received were pretty clear. Remember that AWS failed two times in two weeks last year and they completely disabled AWS API access during those failures, which doesn't affect us downloading Xcode or dealing with provisioning, that affects live, production apps, that for many mean serious money. Remember how

Also, let's compare Amazon's response to a 2012 failure. The failure happened on a Friday night, taking completely out, a large number of web sites and applications, including Netflix, Pinterest and important to many developers, Heroku. Yet, it wasn't until Monday, that they released a statement explaining why, even when it was crystal clear it was power related. The kind of breach that Apple must have experience probably wasn't able to be forensically identified until many hours after the initial failure, yet in Amazon's case it was a power failure, which doesn't take a genius to need three days to release a statement.

I'm not defending Apple, but I am suggesting that our knee-jerk reactions be tempered by reality and how other companies have performed under similar situations.
Sorry, but I still think a plane ticket and a conference pass are two different things...

Maybe this is a bit of a culture clash (I'm Swedish) but my initial reaction is: This has an almost sexist undertone to it (what kind of a man would treat a woman like that - she's absolutely helpless and couldn't even comprehend why I was suddenly gone) and it feels rather unprofessional.

The only people who where treated really badly here as I see it where the (hundreds?) of people who payed for their passes, stood in line to collect them and expected to hear a talk that never came.

Sure you can be annoyed somebody treated your wife poorly, but the appropriate response is an email to the organizers after the event or similar. That's my 5 cents at least.
I think that is a very interesting observation. I do wonder why, though. Considering another commenter mentioned how he felt that he would only consider hiring 4 students out of a large research university, it sounds as if the US Computer Science higher-ed is failing in a major way, and much more so than other fields of concentration. I've been on both sides, as a hiring manager and as an instructor at a fairly competent university where implementation of the ACM curriculum's more industry-focused units was debated ad nauseam. CS101-type classes in the universities and colleges I've been around fail a good part of each class. If Jane Margolis and Lenore Blum's work on women in Computer Science is to be believed, those classes might actually be too harsh of a filter (not due to rigor but rather the imposing and overbearing influence of those of us who learned programming when we were kids). Yet here we are confronted with evidence that the filter might not be good enough.
Learning and using macros helps a lot. Don't keep pounding the same sequence of keys.

If, for instance, you use vim, check out the map feature ...
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/map.html
It would seem that you, like me, have a shit airplay receiver. Airplay should have nothing to do with distance, if you have a wifi connection, you're fine. And if you can stream hd video from the internet over wifi (ie: youtube), then you can stream it to another device on your network using the same connection.

Now if that device habitually drops the connections, or doesn't support video, it's a problem with the device, not the technology.
Does the docs say that the audio is only stereo? Is that a product limitation or an HDMI limitation?
Yes, the frontend very much knows what target you are aiming for. It greatly affects the IR that is generated.

And once you generate that IR, you can't just built it to an arbitrary target, it must be the one it was generated for.
That is quite the map.

Off the top of my head, it appears that the leadership on both sides was against it (Pelosi, Cantor, Boehner)

If I had more time on my hands, I'd go check to see if tea party/progressive caucus/cbc/freshmen/intelligence committee went one way or another.

They get to split quite a few incentives here: Dems have the incentive to vote no to side with their president, R's have the opposite (and it's a republican amendment). The stereotypical platform of the two sides is the reverse of this, but both parties are generically pro-surveillance.
I'm somewhat encouraged by this. 12 votes and it would have passed. Even though it didn't pass and will ultimately be seen as a failure, I imagine this will serve as a wake-up call.

Imagine the investment made by the NSA into collecting and processing all of this data. 12 votes and it could have changed. This must have scared the shit out of someone. Hopefully this is just the beginning.
Iceland is too small and I bet most of its trafic goes via US or UK. Germany has strong privacy protection laws thanks to its history.
Yes. Are you saying that annual retention (not churn) of <20% is considered strong?
Because the SF people vote her in like sheep, again and again. She knows her seat is not threatened, so she'll vote in her _own_ interests.

I refuse to vote for her. I'll vote for the Republican challenger every time.
Is there a list/site somewhere that shows all the people that voted against vs. for this?
I love pseudo-haikus wrapped in dystopian drama.
And how about subtitles?

DLNA doesn't support subtitles unless it's inlined in mp4 container.
we should file a bug report that the dev center is down. That would be metafun.

EDIT: (I forgot to use the <sarc> tag.) Apologies all.
More or less

you get a 10% discount on the total price if you buy multiple licences at the same time

You can see all here: https://store.xamarin.com/#purchase
Any sort of context at all would be welcome at this stage. American politics is fascinating ("I love the USA! I never miss an episode!") but I don't have all the names memorised.
I guess the question is what you should do if your expectations are not met...
Yes. I'm still watching issue #7147 aka #20814 ( http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7147 ). The programmer who created Dalvik was working on a fix to this prior to his leaving Google in 2011, but apparently no one there picked up the ball ( http://bit.ly/12kk0l4 ).

I'm happy they have improved some things over the past year, allowing for staged rollouts and so forth. I do hope they work on fixing things like this, as opposed to just including things like more APIs for DRM to plug into.
Looks like Nancy Pelosi and Michelle Bachmann are both nutjobs when it comes to the NSA.
Lets ask the press what the will of the people is first, so we know how we should feel about this.
> incumbents have a greater than 90% reelection rate

Which is mind-boggling, considering that the Congress' approval rating is 12% ! Thing about it: only 12% of the people think that the Congress is doing a good job, and these people STILL get re-elected! Is it any wonder that we're in this mess?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/07/24/obama-congr...
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Understood. But maybe billing isn't the best place to experiment?
Why would politicians want to prevent the hysteria that follows a terrorist attack? It harms the country, but it benefits them enormously, allowing them to expand their powers, and boosts their popularity and chances of reelection. The Bush administration, for example, managed to leverage 9/11 into support for the invasion of Iraq, something they had wanted to do since long before, but would have had a hard time selling otherwise. They then rode the wave of hysteria to reelection despite the fact that Iraq had gone fairly disastrously for them.

The government's overreaction was after the populace had freaked out, that is true, but silence can be damning as well. Silence lets hysteria breed. If the President had gone live on national television with a "keep calm and carry on" message, I believe it would have helped a lot. Instead, the government treated it as an existential threat, invoking the NATO charter, declaring a "war on terror", etc. None of this was necessary, and it was all highly damaging, although not to the people in power.
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This is all still quite old:

> At the time it was more or less taken for granted that AI work was done in Lisp. C++ barely existed. Perl was brand new. Java was years away. Spacecraft were mostly programmed in assembler, or, if you were really being radical, Ada.

Then of course there was resistance:

> Now, you might expect that with a track record like that, with one technological success after another, that NASA would be rushing to embrace Lisp. And you would, of course, be wrong. ... Someone (I don't know who) interrupted him and asked if he could change only one thing to make things better what would it be. His answer was: get rid of Lisp [3].

And then...

> The demise of Lisp at JPL is a tragedy. The language is particularly well suited for the kind of software development that is often done here: one-of-a-kind, highly dynamic applications that must be developed on extremely tight budgets and schedules. The efficacy of the language in that kind of environment is amply documented by a long record of unmatched technical achievements.

Lispers always wonder what could have been, what should be, but then there is what is.

Don't get me wrong, I like Lisp, I've used it, I've never used CLOS for anything big but it is definitely a relevant language in the study of PL. But the sad truth is that...LISP is kind of weird unapproachable to most people: if they want semantic feedback (type checking), then there are other choices (Java, C++), if they want a dynamic language with a more well defined semantics and syntax, there are better options (Python).
OEMs trying to "distinguish themselves" is what gave us crapware on the PC and buggy UI overlays on tablets and phones. 40% of android devices online today are stuck on 2.3 because some OEM was "trying to distinguish themselves" with fancy animations but can't be assed to update any of it today, when they have a new gimmick to sell you. I'd rather take solid hardware at a great price and know I'll get updates for the next two years.
Holy crap, you got my wife cheering you. Thanks a lot from me and her Bryan. Great shout out.

Very cool talk too. You should continue to talk about how the kernel team ruled.
My wrist pain is gone ever since I moved on to Wacom.
And Google Glass
Xamarin doesn't provide its products on Linux. But it doesn't mean MonoDevelop doesn't work there. The latest versions run on it, it's just a matter that we don't have the manpower to keep up with packaging.

On GTK+ 2, it's still the main toolkit used by the IDE, but on windows/mac some bits of the native toolkits are used to improve the user experience.

QT on iOS and Android means you get non-native UIX. So why bother with C++?

Disclaimer: I work for Xamarin.
I hope that every tech person in SF will be clear and unequivocal in saying ... "Dear Ms. Pelosi, you have demonstrated that you do not represent your constituents and you will never receive my vote, and that I will put all my efforts into ensuring that you are never reelected."