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> Have fun when it's no longer supported in a year or two.

..or 10, or 20. Or until it's open sourced

The developer has said multiple times that if it ever comes to a point where he no longer wants to develop it he'll open source it.

Either way, it's the best editor right now for me. If it stopped being supported today, it would still be the best editor for me. I will continue to use it until it isn't.
As the author says, it's just an experiment to see how fast he can get the filesystem and kernel up.

There is no network and most functionality is missing. There are not services or anything else.

So no point comparing this to Windows or OSX or anything else that requires any functionality other than kernel and filesystem.
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I'm from Canada and saw the same... but I'm going to go with being primed by the title >_>
In The Netherlands some cities provide addicts with methadone and they give away free needles if they returns their old (and used) needles. There is a quit and private place to 'shoot' as well.
I am with you.

In my neighborhood, the trash collecting on Sundays takes place (for whatever "reason") at, believe it or not, 6:15AM. Then the recycling people appear later on, at 8:15AM.

I guess they are trying to get people motivated during the week-end?
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"The immigration officer then returned to the room and accused Grande of being a liar. He claimed that he talked to her aunt, who allegedly told him that Grande will take care of her as a caregiver."

I've seen the same up close. Seems it's a standard tactic: when someone is suspected of immigration transgression, lie about the suspect's prior statements to others; reason is to throw the person off-guard, increasing the chance they'll say something actionable. This is very effective, and VERY disturbing to the suspect. The guards are under no obligation to tell the truth, and use lying as a standard tactic...but anything YOU say can and will be used against you, with lying to a federal official being one of the worst things you can do.
He's got to make money somehow...
Sounds good to me! I've added it to the bug tracker :-)
Ok, you're really going to have to explain that to me - what is (:) ? Or : for that matter!?
Amazing! I would like to see such experiment with "boot to browser" on real hardware.
He already answered your question when he wrote,

It's not fair to citizens nor is it fair to those going through the legal process of immigration.
I don't know that the FSF has to say but I can easily imagine what the LGPL would mean in the context of hardware IPs: if you modify the core of the IP in any way you have to share the code. However the rest of the hardware that interacts through the documented interface or ports of the IP (that would be the "linked" part) is not subject to the license.

Modern ASICs are built around blocks connected by a system bus so it's actually quite a clear cut.
No. Rubinius' JIT has not had time to warm up. These tests are a little unreliable. I can't find the article off hand, but the way these tests were done aren't exactly telling me anything. Power of ten tests don't do much other than show me that the tester is naive.
It isn't even a nice visualization. You have to hover over a ball to find out the company? An old fashioned list that can be grouped by country or industry would communicate the information much faster.
Could be basque the title suggested it?

Note: I miss typed "because", and the spelling suggestion was "basque". Given I like an amusing typo, and the given subject, I simply had to leave it as is....
the shutdown loop in one of the blog posts there - sync(), then sleep(2) - has me worried he may get filesystem corruption at times under those circumstances. i could be wrong, but i recall that sync() will return immediately even though it's not done synchronizing the filesystem writes (for a filesystem that needs that). as such, the sleep(2) gives it some time to get that done.

is that a correct understanding? if so, is that a reasonable risk i see (filesystem corruption at times)?
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"/sarc"
Particularly when aircraft noise is correlated with heart disease risk:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131009100602.ht...
Non portability to Windows is a feature.
He proposes that:

...flogging is just a few very painful strokes on the behind. And it’s over in a few minutes.

But he knows full well that:

Even under controlled conditions, with doctors present ... a full recovery could take weeks or months. In some cases, the scars would remain as permanent reminders of the ordeal.

How can I take this guy seriously?
Short answer: No.

> qemu-kvm -nographic -kernel kernel -boot c -drive file=./kvm-squashfs,if=virtio -append "quiet root=/dev/vda console=ttyS0 init=/sbin/halt"
You sound like you're marketing for them.
No, booting to a barely usable system :)
I realise this is just crazy talk, but how about we get them to operate in countries without infecting everyone or raping children?
We like to spell it "Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn"
Are you really this pedantic? I used an 'and' and a 'semicolon'. If you parse my sentence you will see I made no such implication directly that the current issue with the House of Immature Children is the cause of, or effect of, our debt crisis. Anyway, do you disagree with Wikipedia? """"Debt crisis is the general term for a proliferation of massive public debt relative to tax revenues, especially in reference to Latin American countries during the 1980s, and the United States and the European Union since the mid-2000s.[1][2][3][4]"""

"We're in a major debt crises and have issues funding our fundamental operations; beyond the immediate government funding, we have severe problems with spending "
I think your second example makes sense, but I have seen a lot of discussion of the first and the conclusion is mostly that your passwords is not protected then. Basically, you could either enter the password, or you could even give it to the court and the password itself would not be able to be used as evidence.
I have a friend who for years said exactly the same things to me, and wondered why the cops were constantly harassing him. And then I got stopped in a traffic stop with him - as he speeds all the time - and he was shifty, dodgy, couldn't look the cop in the eye, and gave clipped in his verbal responses. He was "polite" but if I was the cop I'd've been beyond suspicious.

There was no reason to be shifty - he was clean, except for the speeding. But his general attitude towards the cop shone through like search light.

People's self perceptions may not be others perceptions. And your body language may be saying things your words aren't.
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I still don't really see the pants, but have in the past been guilty of designing, and using for two months in production, a logo that a focus group decided was "swastika-esque."

So maybe don't listen to me.
There are existing projects to squirt out a VGA and talk to a microcontroller. Most have an "interesting" reputation for bugs.

At the really low end a sufficiently hacked up PIC (even the older ones) can bit bang out NTSC composite B/W video, crazy as that probably sounds. You can compute during the retrace intervals. So thats the $2 market.

One of the most successful / popular / bug free uses of the Propeller chip is as a graphics coprocessor outputting analog VGA, it does quite a good job of that. The electronics for the prop-vga connection are some peculiar value resistors, and a VGA jack, little else. So thats the $10 market.

If you want something more advanced than a prop as a graphics copro, you use a $25 rasp-pi.

Much above $25 and you're looking at little embedded PCs/home theater PCs. Look at what the mythtv guys are using for frontends, which over the last decade or so has gone from pretty exotic to boring COTS, for a couple hundred $.

So its a market that's fuller than you know and has had historical issues.

To some extent you run into problems with "maker" class processors such as memory limitations. If you want monochrome full VGA and your arduino only has 2 K of ram or whatever it is (its probably 2 ords magnitude too low whatever the exact spec is) you're not going to be doing a simple frame buffer. And if you hack a rasp-pi into being your graphic copro, then other than I/O limitations there seems to be no point in making an arduino the "main" processor if the rasp-pi is doing all the work.
But no agreed "solution" for dates - that would have been nice.
I would also love to see an application in production measured with NewRelic or something else and compare the results. A good way to test this would be to spin up three servers.

* 1 load balancer that plays round robin on the requests.

* 1 server running MRI

* 1 server running Rubinius

Each with NewRelic installed and compare the A/B test that is taking place for a period of about a week of heavy usage. Obviously the gems that the rubinius application would have would be different than what the MRI gems would be. But the core of the application would remain the same.

This would give me and others better insight as to how the two interpreters are running in a production.
So, you aren't being a judgemental jerk, you are trying to help her. By shaming her into doing what you, in your great insight into other peoples lives, have figured out would be best for her.

You are so kind.
Thank you for this. I tried looking around for the "best fit" for a Mathematica work-alike that is Free software, but came up somewhat short. The closest I could find was Gnu mathics, but it doesn't appear to be very complete (ie: many Mathematica examples won't work). Other alternatives are SAGE and of course Julia -- and I guess SAGE would be the best for "playing" or "live coding"?

Anyone have any insights?

I'll also note that Mathematica looks quite awesome indeed.
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The Nordic model is a form of social democracy which is a form of socialism; if the first is applicable, the second is as well, and if the second is applicable, the third is as well.
It really needs a VoIP, SSH and jabber client!
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I'm sorry if I lost my temper, I've tried to understand your position here and respond calmly and reasonably to you but clearly I've failed.
I missed the 'history' paragraph. I remember the glorious #9 days. But this is so old I'm thinking it would be easier to have virtual driver translation. Even with overhead a phone gpu could outperform easily.
Interesting. I had a different experience in Montreal (and my mother when she visited Paris): we would try to say a few words of French, and people would immediately realize we were American and switch to English in response. Maybe your French isn't quite as rotten as you think.
I think you will just end up at the same place you started after getting comments on here. I think that you need to decide if you really love the product you are building and if you do love it quit and do it full time. Do as much as you need to to pay your bills to allow you the time to do it full time. You could work like a busy bee for say 5 months save up as much as you can leave bigco and you will have about 1-4 months left to developer and finish what you have. Or finally if it is a product build a mvp and try and get your first order to cover you for a few months
I would be curious how to achieve similar or better results on other distros, particularly ubuntu.
In that respect it's not much better than just anonymously signing up for gmail via a VPN.
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I should mention that in the past, I worked on the software backing research tokamaks.

ITER is a research project. It is not designed to produce electricity. It was originally projected to cost over 5 billion pounds to build and has now tripled, but is years from completion. Even if it was successful beyond its wildest dreams, the best result would be that we'd have to spend another $50B to build a plant, and since that one would be the first and only, we wouldn't get much power from it.

These are the harsh economic realities of today.
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If it's P2P then I'm back to running my own server - and if you run your own server then email is already P2P.
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So is locking people up teaching our kids that locking people up against their will is OK?
I've definitely seen `sync` itself waiting/blocking (especially if you use fuse for something network based and disconnect the cable first), but whether it's guaranteed or not... that's an interesting question.

Edit: after some googling:

On Linux, sync is guaranteed only to schedule the dirty blocks for
writing; it can actually take a short time before all the blocks are
finally written. The reboot(8) and halt(8) commands take this into
account by sleeping for a few seconds after calling sync(2).

This page describes sync as found in the fileutils-4.0 package; other
versions may differ slightly.

So it doesn't look like the writes are guaranteed to take place. Just a best effort + wait + pray :)
You need more than one smoke detector... If you only have one you're doing it very wrong.
Not entirely, this Mr Fabian was one of the world's most famous policemen in the middle of the 20th century. Robert "Fabian of the Yard" Fabian was the former chief detective of the (London) Metropolitan Police murder squad, based at Scotland Yard.
What is wrong with people thinking the logo looks like underwear? I am willing to bet people are more likely to remember the logo and company. I remember when everyone was making fun of the name "Wii", but I would be surprised if that name, which generated free publicity, did not help Nintendo.

If the logo reminded people of genocide, okay change it. But underwear? Seems like a good thing to me since they might remember it better.
I'm sure they will when your mom starts using bitcoins. Amazon isn't really a company that likes to blaze trails.
The site chooses to use the type of social media buttons that tracks users, puts them in a fixed position, and, on my browser, the buttons obscure part of the text. I don't stick around long enough on sites like this to read any articles.
You actually didn't choose comparables.

Advertising and Media firms frequently have very high outside expenses, so that they appear to have much higher revenue than they really do. It's not just actors, it's all of the other contractors that are used to produce an ad or a show. So the real revenue is just their markup on outside costs. Plus much Ad firm revenue is from media buying - the real cost of a TV campaign is not in producing a spot but in buying placement, and the ad firm only sees a relatively small markup on the cost of placement.

Then you have the issue of conflating consumer software firms - Twitter, Facebook... who capture minimal revenue while they try to build out their userbase and network effects - with enterprise software firms who can and will charge their day 1 customers large amounts of money.

This exercise would be interesting if it were conducted by someone with a strong understanding of the structure and strategic choices of the software industry and how to compare firms with inherently different gross and net margins.
BTW, ITER isn't even scheduled to be turned on to produce research results at scale until 2027. That's another 14 years before they even do something interesting!?
The legal industry changed after 2008, at least for larger firms. They started needing to compete on price for one thing, whereas they could largely charge what they liked before. Clients became very selective of what they chose to litigate very quickly, presumably based on cost/benefit analyses they had taken for granted in the past. That doesn't sound like a shift on the supply side to me.

Also, a substantial amount of legal employment used to be in doing things like document review that can now be handled by software. This could be seen to be augmenting the supply factor, since it automates what lawyers used to do.
I think the proper spelling is "i18n" actually.
At this point, I don’t think that the distro matters much, as there is quite exactly nothing there except for the kernel, udev and the very first steps of startup.
As they stated, they didn't want Twitter search results for their brand to be littered with underwear jokes.
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98 percent false positives...that seems a little high.
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Awesome stuff, Pud! As a cfml dev its awesome to see startups drooling over Railo (Which is open source coldfusion, shhhh don't tell anyone ;). I give it 6-12 months before Railo is the "new" hotness.

Looking forward to reading more about the technology you used. Maybe a separate post? ;)
Although you may be running a single-threaded test intentionally, I generally recommend using a multi-threaded load simulation tool versus Apache's ab tool [1]. My preference is wrk [2], especially since it provides for time-limited tests rather than request-limited. Another alternative is WeigHTTP [3], which is basically a multi-threaded replacement for ab.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6211883

[2] https://github.com/wg/wrk

[3] https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp
If I were still an anarchist/hardcore libertarian, hiring hitman would still be unacceptable.

(It doesn't still make me root for the FBI though)
What sort of culture is there if you have people working on and off all the time? Cultures are developed when people spend time together over time.
I knew it. When I saw the title with "D3" and "sexy" (or some other over-used overhyped adjective), I just knew it was going to involve some non-sensical clump of animated balls. This is far less useful than even a simple table.

If you're going to do balls in D3, at least do it with force:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/04/us/politics/de...
libguestfs can boot & shutdown a small appliance in around 3½ seconds. However we have to use the standard distro kernel, distro udev and distro KVM (for security policy reasons we cannot ship our own). We could do a lot better if we could custom compile everything.

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-performance.1.html
I suppose I shouldn't be, but I am a bit surprised by how easily people seem to think they know exactly how other people have gone wrong in their lives. And how to insult them into fixing things.

Are there really that many people around who have so completely solved their own lives that they know, after a single article, exactly what is wrong and what will fix total strangers?

And, these wise insightful people seem to choose harsh judgement and even shaming as tools to fix others. That seems odd as well, I wouldn't have thought such enlightened people would go the judgemental shaming route.
Sure, you can be unlucky and get into bad situations in every country. Strangely these things happen to me only in the US.

I would compare the feeling of safety when walking the streets of major American cities like San Francisco or Pittsburgh with the feeling of safety when walking around in Rio de Janeiro. You feel much safer in London, Paris, Berlin, or Munich.
I'd love to get FFOS updates in my ZTE Open because 1.0.1 feels more like a dev preview than an end user product, to the point that it is almost useless as a smartphone.

I can see the potential, but I'm not buying a new device just for that.
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For those wanting deeper technical analysis around the problems and building off of some of the arguments Clay made about procurement, check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6518739
"I know of people who schedule emails to be sent in the middle of the night just so they appear to be working all the time."

Why do they do it? Sounds unethical. What sort of industry they are in?
Some reality show (supermax?) did a tour of the Oak Park Heights facility. It's a bit of an eye-opener really. The whole social scheme there is built around rewards/privileges for good behavior.

Fun fact: I toured the same facility a few weeks before the "grand opening".
We can't time travel and not-import a huge swath of poor abused hated people. Do you propose we deport them to become more like other countries?
Ehhhh you dont give someone who was fired 500 million in stock just because you dont want the bad publicity... thats for DAMN sure.
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I would think that a nice binary blob (be it messagepack or custom) would be far nicer and more efficient.
2 hours later they printed another story correcting this nonsense, instead of pulling this article as a whole.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2013/10/03/twitter-cofou...
I don't get it. Your carbon dioxide alarm and low battery alarm are the same? Your smoke detectors eat one battery a year?

Sounds like you have awful smoke detectors.

They sell cheaper ones that have 10 year batteries.
I was really looking forward to checking FFOS out. But this article puts so much emphasis on carriers that I am a bit alarmed - I hope Mozilla manages to keep the FFOS open.
And that's why, in my opinion, non capitalized macros are always evil (yes, I'm looking at you linux kernel).

When I see a lowercase symbol used as a variable, I expect it's going to be some actual global variable. When I see a lower case symbol used like a function I expect it's an actual function. And then comes the day I want to take the address of the "function" and it fails. Or worse, I make a syntax error somewhere and because of the macro expansion it gives me the most perplexing error message in the world and it takes me 5 minutes and digging through 4 levels of include files to realize I forgot a colon or something.

Not to mention the mess if the macro is poorly implemented and does things like using a parameter several times which causes hard to catch undefined behaviours in the application. Nothing worse than having a seemingly harmless code like "foo(a++)" turn into the bug of doom because you didn't know foo was a macro. Please don't do that.

On the other end when I get a weird behaviour/error message around a capitalized symbol I automatically think that it must be a macro and go dig for the definition.
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Buying gas in norway is way more expensive that in the US.

Edit: About $9.30 per gallon (using 14.83 nok per liter in dollars per gallon via google)
I would really like to see some articles about proper benchmarking procedures at 1000+ requests per second. Are there any?
All other things being equal, yes.
That was my concern - Rubunius' selling point is concurrency, so I'm sure there is an approach to implementation, which is why I've never used it.
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The prison system mirrors American parenting. They do not see anything wrong with domination.
Yes I believe you are correct.
And they sell that gas to _other_ countries for an nice profit.
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I recently started using Linux again and installed Arch Linux. This was the first time I had used it since the init system was switched to systemd and its speed is impressive. Both booting and shutting down are very fast and I really like the journal feature.

That said, when I installed a virgin system on Monday, I was sad to see that systemd is creating a .local directory in the home directories of users (even root). This is on a system with no Xorg what-so-ever. Call me old fashioned but I don't think an init system should be creating directories in a user's home directory.
http://wakatime.us because it's fully-automatic (never have to enter any info manually), free($), and open-source.
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