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One suggestion. Don't just create a standard for (monopoly) ECMA Script, instead - create a standard for a VM that other languages can compile bytecode to. Create an API in this VM for graphics, video, audio, ETC. This may be self defeating for these clowns, because JavaScript/CSS/HTML may be decimated in a decade if they actually did this, but hey... One can hope.

How would that bytecode be any less of a "monopoly" than ECMA Script is now?

Web standards may be "far behind" in what they can do compared to native code, but their are far, far, far ahead in terms of giving some control back to the user, whether it's in terms of enabling browser extensions, letting content be viewed without running arbitrary code, doing presentation transformations (e.g. Readability), well defined semantics for sharing content (links), etc.

Your suggestion would grant some more power to developers, at the expense of users. So thanks, but no thanks.
He's not asking for nationalism - he's pointing out that it is still present, but it does not coincide with the borders of the countries. Consider e.g. Nigeria. It is "somewhat functioning" but there are still major tensions between the various regions along tribal and religious lines.

E.g. my ex is from Nigera, and her dad was from the Igbo tribe. One of the thing she saw all around was her family, and her Igbo friends families, who were fairly successful and many of whom worked well paid jobs in Abuja (the capital) or Lagos, who would opt to rent in Abuja and Lagos while funnelling all their money into building houses in their birth villages that they rarely used.

It took her a while to understand why: Her parents generation all remember the Biafra war all to well, either from direct experience, or from growing up in the aftermath with parents who instilled the ghost of Biafra in them very effectively. Biafra was largely Igbo, and the war saw large amounts of Igbo have properties elsewhere in Nigeria confiscated, and many Igbos were deported from places like Lagos.

Many Igbo as a result to this day consider themselves outsiders, or see it as unsafe to put down ties elsewhere in Nigeria. This includes even people like my ex's dad, who was a high ranking lawyer, who e.g. counted the previous president - Obasanjo - (who was one of the military commanders on the Nigerian side against the secessionist Biafra) as a friend, and the then Vice President as his lawyer, and who split most of his time between Abuja, Lagos and London and certainly had all the connections to be in a position where he should be able to feel safe outside of the Igbo core areas.

You will find other groups who similarly see their primary identity as separate from the country of Nigeria. And that is a story that is repeated in a large number of the African countries.

I agree with you that nationalism can be a terrifying force. But in many cases it will fester even more when it divides countries into groups that see themselves as competing for power of a single country.
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I agree, I had a bit of a laugh when he called WordPress "grown up". I suspect he was just trying to be polite to WordPress fans.

I've had to deal with a lot of ugly WordPress hacks when maintaining legacy sites, and I'm convinced that anyone who defends it simply hasn't seen anything better.

Personally, I've been using ProcessWire for the last year, and I'm very happy with it. Although it doesn't do everything that WordPress does, it's extremely clean and simple to work with.
There is another force at work here... If you do achieve a "clean simple X" and manage to resist over time all temptation to add cruft; if your "X" really is clean simple and above all found useful by some people, then after a while it starts to look like a dead project. No new "features". Not many bugs left to fix that bother people. Sufficient means to plug in additional/variant functionality that real users need. No need to change the codebase, and not much more to say about it. So to a non-user - perhaps evaluating it with a view to use - it looks very much like a moribund piece of work.

The continual adding of cruft is (partially, at least) driven by a need to be seen adding new Hot Sauce all the time.
Open your eyes. Bitcoin is helping the unfortunate on this planet:

- it is helping Argentinians escape their government's stupidity who is inflating their currency and limiting access to safer currencies (eg. USD) [1]

- it is helping Iranians working or living abroad to send bitcoins to their families [2]

- it is freeing people from financial censorship, eg. oppressive governments freezing bank accounts or donations to political opposition

- etc

The effect of Bitcoin on society is just barely starting to be seen! A decentralized currency truly has an amazing potential.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/07/17/bitcoin-downloads-...

[2] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/dollar-less-...
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It's missing the Episode IV: A New Hope part...what gives?
I almost expected a link to a video file here ;-)
I already have Nexus 4, thinking about iPad mini.

And this is 80% of the actual amount :)
http://www.startupcagliari.it/ and yes, yours is a rant :)
Which grammar? Which dialect? English is not monolithic, and Lowth and Murray were wrong.
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Exactly. the manufactured star system still works but that industry has grown smart enough to not rely on the sales of the albums for revenue. They found a hundred other ways to make money and all that is only possible if you have a manufactured star.

So the big players still earn big bucks, but the amateurs earn pretty much nothing from their time and talent.

PS: I think piracy kinda supports the star economy as a wider circulation of the music results in higher appeal of the star. If the records by big stars couldn't be pirated, people would mostly stop listening to them, and THEN the star industry would collapse
Not all plugins are updated with the core program, plus compatibility issues sometimes, so it is not the same.
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By "break", ctz meant "create 2^10 certificates". Creating arbitrary intermediate CAs would indeed compromise the safety of HTTPS.
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This comes with an excellent timing, since I have been doing Lua sandboxing stuff myself.

I will have to study this on detail, but it seems there is little I can do on this one, besides waiting for Lua to be patched somehow.

By the way, the only thing I miss is instructions on how to patch Lua so this is not a vulnerability any more, if that's possible at all.

Good find, and thanks!
I'm eager to hear an alternative to market forces that doesn't involve elections.
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I think you're missing the point he's making. 200 years ago, it doesn't matter how rich you were - you could not travel across country in a couple hours. So the 'poor' of today are able to travel better and faster than the rich of yesterday.

Perhaps in 50 years time, everyone will travel how Bill Gates does now, and Bill Gates would travel even better. This would come about through better automation of air transport.

The argument is fairly simple: we can try to decrease the gap between Bill Gates and everyone else, or we can leave the gap where it is and focus on shifting the entire bar so far that the bottom rung of the future becomes higher than the top rung of today. This is the progressive idealist viewpoint of capitalism and stands in direct opposition to the socialist viewpoint. Historically, mixing the two together works best, and it's what we use: capitalism with high taxes. Unfortunately, localized competition for tax money is driving those taxes down and destroying the system while also using the taxes for short term and ultimately useless goals instead of long term infrastructure. In comparison, Norway is probably the country closest to 'correct' in how they are using the wealth generated from oil taxes - investing it in the positive return economy.
1 bitcoin hash (2 SHA-256 hashes) is approximately equivalent to 3 SHA-1 hashes in terms of number of 32-bit operations, so you are off by a factor 3.

But your point remains valid :)
You talk about the "S" and "C" iterations but what about the "normal" phones? What about next year? The iPhone6 is supposed to come out.

I still wonder how they will position themselves now. Before, they had it simple. Last years model and the new one. And the new one was divided into "This year the spec bump of the old model, next year a brand new phone"

But now, they canned the "old model" and went with the "C" variant. So right now, there is the 5C and 5S. So what'll it be next year? Do they then use a 3 device line up? Will it be: 5C,5S and 6? And the year after that: 5S, 6C and 6S?
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> Most people would agree that practice makes perfect, right?

Probably, if you're building the same software system, over and over. If you're building a different one, no I shouldn't think it does.
It's not only about control and risk management. In external-facing products, other departments (sales, marketing) need time in order to prepare materials, etc. in order to plan their own projects. Telling these groups "it'll be ready when it's ready" doesn't really help them.
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The point is that the visa is required to perform the work. There's no exception for "corporate officers", it's still work, and you must have a visa for it. I use the existence of the B-1 to demonstrate this.
I use these types of software day to day. The true price is veiled behind multi milkion dollar contract negotiations. You should see the inverse relationship between price and lack of bugs.

What's more of a challenge is trying to use techniques like continuous integration when your compile time is a week!
This (original article) isn't refusing to change - it's arguing that change is inevitable. rather like Marxism, which the author seems to allude to at the end as well (!).
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Extremely simple sums tells you orbital kinetic energy is about 10 times gravitational potential energy.

Orbital velocity is about 8 km/s [0], so KE/kg is 1/2 v^2 which is about 32 * 10^6. At 320 km altitude the PE/kg is about g.h = 10.320.1000 = 32 * 10^5.

So getting up to the right height is about one tenth of the energy needed.

[0] You can compute this using Pythagoras and the fact that the Earth's radius is about 6.4 * 10^6 meters.
It's nothing at all to do with the marginal cost and all to do with extracting marginal _value_ from your tiny customer base with a high cost of sales.

I worked in an EDA startup for a decade before we were bought by Cadence. Getting people to evaluate our tool generally took a few months of a technical presales person's time. We only ever acquired a few dozen customers: there aren't all that many ASIC companies. Most required at least one custom feature. Therefore there's an elaborate commercial negotiation to take as much money as possible from the customer in order to amortize the R&D.

Given manufacturing fixed costs of $250k, spending $250k on software to get it right starts to look reasonable.
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Yeah, how many do you think would want to compile the game themselves? :/
I have been working on, gotten funded, and grown my DYI'd startup while living as a digital nomad. Since being funded I have worked with a number of collaborators. I try to only hire people that move a lot. because I live that way it feels good that the people I get to work with share that lifestyle. We are actually currently doing our first group face2face powwow now for 2 weeks. It's great to be in person together but everyone, myself included is such a lone wolf that working together in person is awkward. We all disperse to our corners and work.

Hanging out having cigarettes and chatting about development, that's where the value in being together is it seems.

We are hiring again now. Anyone know the best forums to find digital nomads (term is getting worn out) looking for work. It would fit our company's culture to bring on another traveling developer.
The thing is you should be able to get root access in a proper way, not using a vulnerability. It is what it is, and should be fixed.
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I agree; market entry to EDA, even for a "utility" that you add to the build chain to improve your results, is extremely hard.
I don't think we want to know 'for sure'. It's enough if we identify the variables that have the largest impact and tackle those.
Thanks. I can understand the mass of the sun having an effect but why would the speed of rotation of the sun have an effect on earth's orbit?
Well then maybe open source bits and pieces of it? Because you list a lot of really cool stuff that you did in the game and we'd love to see that. You could just blog about it every now and then and explain some the really complex parts one at a time
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What forces are those?
I'm assuming there's an event for when the audio is loaded... maybe hook up the animation to that?
True for some FPGAs. anti fuse still has a place in the industry.
If we make a better dishwasher that does not require pre-rinse, what happens to your argument? Is your argument that there will now be some other task, maybe loading the dishes?

Consider: washing the dishes across a town employs 1000 people. Pre-washing the rishes employs 300 people. Loading the dishes employs 100 people. The factory creating the dishwasher is automated and employs 10 people. 50 people are involved in designing and marketing the dishwasher.

We have now gone from employing 1000 people to employing 150. Those 850 people are now unemployed and must seek or create new employment. Whether they succeed is irrelevant though, the dishwashing process now needs fewer employees and economic benefit has moved from the employees to the smaller number of people creating the dishwashers.

So your argument doesn't work for a simple reason: automation (by definition) reduces the number of people required to complete a task.
Air-gapping is really the only way to stay secure. Plus, I would worry about cameras, microphones and vibration monitors, so I would want to put the air-gapped machine in a room that is away from any other electronics. Ideally in some sort of faraday cage, or at least located a reasonable distance away from walls - to bring it up to TEMPEST (or similar) standards. Unfortunately, most of us do not have the space in our homes to do it properly, so we have to resign ourselves to losing control of our machines and our data.
That does depend upon your circumstances however.

Often there are hard dates that can't be moved - because they are external to your organisation; the autumn TV schedule, or launching at a particular conference are two that have hit me in the past.

Of course that does make the estimation a slightly different process - not "when will this be done" but "can you be ready before this date?"
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Are you able to upload a screenshot of the aliasing problem somewhere?

Running on a retina MBP, both Safari and Chrome render the text pin-sharp with no noticeable aliasing.
>What's wrong with wanting to get paid for your time and talent?

It's wrong to assume you're entitled to be paid for something just because it took time and talent. If you're making something people want to pay for, great - but if they stop wanting to pay for it, that's your problem.
Forum post from '06 about this: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2006040608472855...
Why do you think so? Let's assume I have complete control over a TLD zone file (.com), into which you inserted the DS records of your DNSSEC-signed domain (example.com). Let's say my goal is to MITM users connecting to https://www.example.com relying on DANE for trust of TLS certs.

I surely cannot modify the records in your signed zone because I don't have your KSK/ZSK private keys. What I can do instead is preparing a duplicate of your zone, signed with a freshly-generated KSK/ZSK pair; in that zone, I will change only the DANE records (or also the A records, depending on the kind of MITM attack I need to mount), and I will sign everything with my new keys. Then, I start MITM'ing my target so that:

* DS records replies for example.com contain the DS record for my own KSK/ZSK keys.

* NS records replies for example.com direct to my own nameserver (or even simply MITM the glue records, depending on the nameserver setup).

* My nameserver will reply as authoritative for example.com, and will serve the modified zone, which will be fully DNSSEC validated.
I noticed that on one of my accounts the other day... I thought it was just a quirk in Chrome on my machine.

No idea why the change. :s
There are too many variables to know anything at all. Let's just give up and go back to the caves, then, right?
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That's not correct. When a researcher finds a vulnerability to get root access on an iPhone (hardware that he owns), it allows him to run code as a privilege user and modify the whole system. That's how jailbreaks are born, and Apple fixes the issues as soon as possible.
> 2. It isn't clear that the LLC is violating any laws for having corporate officers who run afoul with immigration laws.

Corporate officers are just as much employees as anyone else. Where is this idea that they're something else coming from?

By the way, 8 USC 1325(d):

"Any individual who knowingly establishes a commercial enterprise for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, fined in accordance with title 18, or both."
Another way to visualize this is if you had a perfectly flat planet with no atmosphere, you could orbit at head height.

You could sort of do this on the moon, but mountains.
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The Western powers have left behind chaotic anarchy over much of two continents. I don't think it is due to some sinister purpose. Rather, I see it as a side effect of naive do-gooderism.
I think part of the reason is:

(a) Parents will immigrate with their kids knowing that they won't have legal residence status. I know some immigrants are escaping dire poverty or persecution, but not all. So I think parents have some responsibility here.

(b) Plus, the US is relatively lax in enforcing immigration laws. People do (a) and get work, send their kids to school, buy a house, etc. There's no way you could get away with that in (say) Japan.
I'm not sure what the point of separating alongside nationalistic lines would achieve? Nationalism isn't an objective quality, but a quality that's perceived subjectively by number of people.

You'll never be able to divide on nationalistic lines because they aren't real lines, people can always fall into either a no true Scotsman fallacy, and even if that is settled you'll probably have outliers that might have a mother of nationality A and father of nationality B. Which nation does the child go? Not to mention two nations will probably want to contest same resources, so that leads to further strife.

The issue facing this society is lack of social cohesion, not the issue of nation.
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Can't really comment as I'm still on 8.0.
For me it's enough that it's still there and can be scheduled as a PowerShell command (for files history I use Crashplan anyway) but I agree that if this is the case, it's pretty much hostile for consumer users.
I'm not trying to debate the merits of trade secrets and the patent system. I was simply making the point that if you have a market where consumers don't have access to perfect information, it is not a free market.

The term "Free Market" has a very specific definition. Information accessibility is a very important part of that definition.

It is very difficult for all the criteria to be met, so you will never find a perfectly free market outside textbooks.

People talk about "free markets" all the time, especially business lobbyists/PR. Usually they use the term "free market" to mean the government should get the hell out of their way, but they often don't really want a free market (especially if they are the incumbents).

They have effectively co-opted the term to help their narratives, confusing people in the process.
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This is interesting. By that argument, everyone visiting open source conference "sprints" should be deported?

For that matter, if I travel, and happen to do work while in another country that would also be in violation of immigration laws?

I guess at least visiting heads of state get a diplomatic waver...

(Yes, I'm being snarky, but I'm also serious -- I wonder what the the technicalities actually are -- never mind that you'll probably only be deported if you're doing blue collar work...)
There must be a law that describes this type of comment. Something to the effect of "When any given project passes a certain inertia, someone will invariably comment that 'it would be nice/better if XXX could be used to help the less fortunate on this planet'".

We can start applying this law to things like String Theory, cures for Male Pattern Baldness and whatever else doesn't directly benefit some 3rd world shithole.

(P.S. I live in a 3rd world shithole :)
I heard a lot of the people who develop /GNU//Linux are paid for their work. I'm surprised this is not the case for open source compilers.
It begs the question, what is more important, an operating system or a compiler?
I would say a compiler is more important, since not many coders will want to write an operating system in assembly. On the other hand, I would have much trouble using a compiler with no operating system.
You call Argentinians and Iranians unfortunate? Even US citizens are living under financial censorship, are they unfortunate?

mrb means the poor people who don't have enough power to light up their homes at night.
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