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I'm 28 and since I was 20 I have been saying there is never enough time! I'm an electrical engineer, I also write software for everything from PLC's, microcontrollers through to applications for Windows and linux (and if I feel the need on mobile platforms) I am currently in China for the next 2 months, working 75+ hours a week... There is no time... Saying that I still seem to be able to dabble in learning new things and keeping up to date on the things I already do. In my twenties so far I have studied and worked a hell of a lot, I didn't do it wrong as I have enjoyed myself all the way. I am one of few people who can say they love their job and I am extremely happy with my life. While I have no time, I still seem to make time for the things I find important. That is learning and playing with new systems. If someone doesn't find that interesting they would be wasting their time by doing it. If you are happy with how you work, what you know and the tools you use, awesome! Don't let other people tell you that you are behind the times or computer illiterate because you don't use their system or even understand it. But please don't be one of those people who hate the tools they use or the life they lead and don't make the effort to change and learn.
Yeah, and the only reason WP is not more mainstream than Android/iOS is because it's not pre-installed on your Samsung Galaxy/iPhone when you buy.
LYAH is a chore. I got nowhere with it - it is tedious. After a cursory glance a few of us at my company are working through The Little MLer in Haskell instead. It seems to really be focussing on types and I think those kind of core concepts are important to grasp at the early stages.

More importantly, the Little Schemer and The Little MLer are aimed at non-programmers... yet programmers struggle with them. We should question why that is.
Spiders do in fact hear with their legs...

Also the more complex a prediction is, the harder it is to get right by mistake. Example: GPS Satellite timekeeping.
Lions can eat tofu if that is the only thing available to them. Should've given them a choice between Mac/Lin/Win.
But what if those non-geeks have other geek friends besides you who are able to retrieve it and have temporary access to their computer?
Breaking account locks on Windows is pretty simple, and full-disk encryption is not as easy to pull off as it is on OSX. If someone were to steal the computer, they would have as much time as they needed to break the Windows account and raid LastPass. What else could be the point of the master password reprompt, but to give the perception that your passwords are locked after an idle timeout? If it doesn't actually work, they shouldn't have the feature at all.
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Thank you for your answer. For sedo, is there some strategy or did you just pay what they asked for?
If the metro reaches Bramley, I accept your point!

In the Birmingham/West Midlands anything in reach of centre is over £500 per month.
Thank you, I was looking for exactly this kind of Haskell tutorial. I really liked learnyouahaskell, but realworld Haskell not soo much. Will give this a go.
Well the whole point is that it is a pain to use them. There needs to be no difference between actual developers trying to use the system, but I stick to GUIs on windows (I run Win at home, Mac at work and deploy to GUI-less Ubuntu) because the other tools simply suck on that platform.

The available console or ssh apps are horrible compared to the same apps or linux or mac; and the unix tools have sort-of-been-ported, and I can use them through, say, cygwin but they're not 'nicely working' as they should be. I mean, it's simpler to just ssh to an ubuntu instance than get&use the same tools directly on your machine.
In that case, it's just like if the feature didn't exist.

I think it's pretty clear that the feature is just obscurity and works only in simple cases. It was pretty clear for me at least from the moment I saw it, and it's clearly written and explained.

Does it make it useless? I don't think so. I'd rather LastPass keep it the way it is (maybe closing down the most simple way to retrieve it, like the inspector) rather than removing it altogether just because it can't be a real security feature.
'Quality' is not a scalar variable with continuous properties, where you can say the second derivative equals zero!

An education system has a range of effects in society. The OA seemed to describe a system that is optimising one very narrowly focused outcome that was useful in the past but may not be useful in the future.

We shall see!
> This happened in 2011 with Final Cut Pro. Apple lost a lot of video editors, and my understanding is that their mindshare didn't bounce back.

That’s a myth. Out of the 100 editors I know only 2 left for Premiere, and they would’ve gone regardless of what Apple did. Others were already only using Avid, they never switched the Final Cut. The actual users of Final Cut 7 continued to use FCP7 or waited to switch to FCP X when it had all the features they needed. Right now, in my experience, about three quarters of those people have switched to FCP X, and I hear nothing but positive stories about it.
> minimalist open-source Bittorrent client

Total Installed Size: 40.79 MiB

nope
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That sounds like a brilliant idea. Also, if you bake in 'previewing' capabilities (like thumbnails for images, bpm/quality descriptions and waveform sketches for audio files, or whatever the equivalent would be for each type of media), you could potentially lease the technology to social media sites that typically already do this for popular image formats.
Also, if he wants to make his publisher happy, he should write in Adobe InCopy.

http://www.adobe.com/products/incopy.html
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No fact except that it's so obvious I can't believe you're arguing against it.
> Gopher is awesome

No. Gopher is not awesome. It's a terrible protocol and it deserves to die.
I wish it had just a little more polish on the UX side of things (sometimes it lags and doesnt say why), I know there are patches, I just wonder why they're not mainstream. Also an emacsy keyboard interface would be pure awesomeness.
While I agree that GAAP only vaguely represents reality, Management teams of all well run companies /DO/ think about formal financial statements.

These statements require thought or liability to potential jail time. In addition, the impact of these statements on financial markets (ie: stock price) is tremendous. Management damn well should be thinking about shareholder value.
You know what's cool about working on something that makes money? Eventually it allows you to work on something that's cool.
Do you read Rational Male by chance?
The change wasn't moving configuration to the GUI - the main thing was making most of the configuration unneccessary.

End users don't want easy HDD partitioning and easy WiFi configuration - they want to avoid them altogether, and have everything work out of the box.
I'm not suggesting to activate the feature that asks you to reenter the master password to USE a specific password. I'm suggesting that you force a logoff of your LastPass vault after inactivity.

Using a laptop with full-disk encryption, I think 1-day logoff is more than enough for common scenarios (we're not speaking of NSA-going-after-you, as usual).

If you're using a laptop without full-disk encryption, I'd agree that the best way is to configure LastPass to automatically logoff when the computer enters standby/hibernate (for enterprises, this kind of configuration can be enforced for all business accounts as a policy). That's still a much better compromise than having it always logged off and having to relogin for any password you use.
Is it really? I've used it for months and haven't had any problem. I didn't even know it was a port until very recently.
However, if you do "break-in" without knowing the password you may gain access to most data, but not data encrypted with the user's auth; stored passwords (hopefully including lastpass stores) typically are therefore not accessible.
Microsoft's desktop supremacy hasn't been down to "it's got a nice, easy to use interface" for at least 20 years.

Rather, Microsoft is (or was, in the pre-post-PC world) everywhere because of (a) licensing stitch-ups with hardware vendors and (b) network externalities: get into Corporate IT departments with Office, then people will want (or need) to use the same OS at home, and then you can strong-arm hardware vendors into signing exclusive Windows-only-on-our-PCs licensing deals, which in turn convinces Corporate IT that there's no viable alternative to a Windows-only ecosystem ...

Arguments about whether or not Linux is fit for desktop use by non-technical users miss the point: Windows' monopoly status was a virtuous circle (for a value of "virtuous" that approximates to "in the interests of MSFTs shareholders and provides job security for MCSEs") until the wheels fell off when confronted with an even bigger ecosystem that came out of nowhere. Which is the magic rabbit Apple pulled out of a hat with the iPad, and Google seeks to emulate with Android.

The desktop is now irrelevant -- less than 10% of computing devices people use are desktops or laptops: it's all gone mobile frighteningly fast -- but for what it's worth, Linux won. Because the winning Linux desktop is actually a phonetop or tablet environment: Android.
The Windows port for Transmission is actually quite good in my opinion (http://sourceforge.net/projects/trqtw/)
Or down in Canada Waters or Rotherhide. I had a nice place down there on the water and a great commute by ferry. There are a bunch of nice areas if you steer clear if what is trendy.
There won't ever be support in Linux for the 'custom software' part you mention. There are companies which won't upgrade from XP, because their custom software would break without IE 6.0 - can they ever want to migrate to another OS?
Only until you're replaced by a robot.
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How a time, that could be measured as a property of one physical process, say, radioactive decay is related to the time of another independent physical process, such as growth/maturation of a biological "system" called child?) Or rotation of a Moon around the Earth? There is no relation, except those based on mental concepts. To say that all these times are one and the same universal time is to create yet another mental concept.
This is the first time I heard about Gopher.

Why it's a terrible protocol?
I suppose it depends on one's views on whether that is an injustice in the first place, and then if one thinks it is the responsibility of TV producers and writers to fix it.

Should it be the role of software engineers to fix social injustice as well? Perhaps our designs should be subject to review by some committee to ensure they meet certain criteria, as would likely be the case with The television industry if you wanted to ensure compliance.
You're right. I was trying to express an idea that is not easily expressed and did so clumsily. In a more verbose manner, i was thinking that he can't post something like that and not expect some people to be highly sceptical of the validity of his claims.
Most people can do just fine by using a tablet or a Chrome machine. Microsoft and some PC hardware companies are in trouble, indeed.
You analogy would make more sense if you added the word 'performance' to the statement.

A car is fairly intuitive to drive. Driving licenses are required for safety.

The comments you make are akin to performing in a sports car, where concentration and accuracy is key.

You car analogy would fit if you had PCs as a F1 car and tablets as a Mini. F1 car is for speed and requires perfecting to get the tyres working right. A Mini, you can pretty much drive through all sorts of faults and be none-the-wiser, because performance just isn't an issue. Well, 90% of the time. :)
You should market the environmental factor also. I saw a youtube thing a while back that pointed out the majority of energy usage in clothing is from washing, not from manufaturing. If this shirt neds washed half as often, that should be a major bonus.
http://www.reportsfortrello.com - Why it is cool: It is only two months old, but it is cool because of I made it to be free and private like no app. I did not want to be responsible for other people's data. Because reports are just a glimpse at a moment of time, I thought it would be best for both speed and privacy to store Trello activity temporarily. So I get off the hook for security and reliability and you get your data destroyed off the internet.

What does it do? It reports time from 3 different actions using Trello. When I first used the Trello api I was amazed at what you can see. Today I can move one card and inform my clients and track time at the same time. One bird...

I also don't require any signup. You use your Trello account to sign in. So I guess another thing that I think is cool is that you can use my application with little friction. In 3 clicks you can see a report of your Trello activity the first time you use my app. I am proud of flow.

I also think it is cool that I can get sub 100ms responses off my tiny vps using ruby/redis/apache/modrails/oj gem/jquery/bootstrap. I love the stack, sure it's not the fastest/latest, but it was fun to code.

The tool is currently used by people in 88 countries. I did not expect this at all and it is a happy surprise.

Best of luck to all!

Timers and pie charts are for bakers!
To be fair, a bike won't help the back much. I commute 7km to work all year round on a bicycle and due to biking posture being very similar to office chair posture i still have lower back issues.
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Being a shareholder, you have a share in the ownership of the company. You make money when the value of the company increases. This is especially true with Amazon, which does not pay dividends (a share of profits to investors).
Assumption (or axiom) + ego = belief

You don't get your feelings hurt when an assumption turns out to be wrong. But if you were to be betrayed by someone you believed (same as assumed they were telling you the truth or had your interests in mind), it would hurt your feelings because you had invested some of your ego with that assumption. Same for those with religious beliefs.

I'm using axiom and assumption interchangeably, as I don't see what the difference between the two is. However, assumption is a much simpler word and means pretty much the same thing to everyone, so it's easier to use. I guess axiom is something like a generally accepted assumption.
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GUIs are more natural people who are not software developers.
For one, file types are represented by a single ASCII character http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Gopher_item_t...
2. It all depends the kind of projects you want to work on. In

Programming projects are great for some things, but not so much for others. The problem when learning CS with projects is that you face two difficulties at once. One is the "technology" side: syntax, bugs, programming environment and so on. The other are the concepts you're trying to learn. For instance, I wouldn't want to learn 3D graphics and C++ at the same time.

Actually, my main grief with 42 is that it is presented as something revolutionary, which it isn't. And very little information is given on the website. There's is some sketch of a curriculum that is clearly out of reach for ordinary students. It's unclear how the teaching is going to be organized, or even who the staff is.
Capitalizing doesn't help you "get" more income, it simply allows you to write some of the same income in an earlier year.
>P.S. Using a theory to prove its own consistency would be way more suspicious than using a more powerful theory to prove it. "The Bible is true because the Bible says so."

Which eventually leaves us either with some top-level assumptions we treat as completely axiomatic, or with infinite regress to higher and higher systems of proof logic.
No, the alternative is to study (for free) in any French university.
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Printers and scanners are the zit on the face of the modern linux desktop.
I don't understand how prices in a vastly under-supplied free market will not rise until they reach the maximum price buyers are willing to pay.
>Does it makes sense in the real world to assert the existence of an infinite set, and have different sizes of infinities as a consequence?

Of course it does. It's very easy for me to write down a finite-sized inductive definition of the natural numbers, which immediately gives me a finite description of all countable infinities and their size.
Diy Arduino based metal detector.
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+1 again for Transmission. For Linux and *nix in general, it's the best IMO. Sadly there's no official release for Windows.

For downloading automation, I use FlexGet (http://flexget.com/).
Minimalist... Yet not a UNIX program

If you see the changelog, feature creep already started.. Sorting, etc. all that could have been piped to a specialized program.

People never learn.
Apple's substantial patent trove didn't help them fend off Samsung (which just printed a nearly $10b profit quarter), and Twitter's patent position also will have absolutely nothing to do with their long term success or failure.

There's no core patent that is just going to shut down their business tomorrow. Reid Hoffman & Co. are the only ones I know of with such a potentially nuclear patent position, and they seemingly have zero interest in applying it offensively.

There's a large patent lobby out there, and I generally assume this kind of article is mostly propaganda in favor of patents as some sort of huge competitive value.

Facebook and Google as two simple examples, sure haven't been hurt by not being high on the list of patent issuers and patent suit launchers.
The whole point of this business model is that once you stop expanding, you don't need to make huge investments anymore and suddenly the same prices&revenue bring in huge amounts of cash.
This reminds me of my favorite anecdote in this realm. I had a close friend who, in college studied in the Beltway. He claims he was one of the interns who, at her behest, showed Congressman Clinton how one sleeps with a hooker in the back of cars in the infamous GTA series and then kills her to retake your money. Needless to say, she was not amused. [0]

Whether or not I believe the story, if I had known Congressional internships could be that fun, and I could inspire America's leaders with the great power of video games and laughter, perhaps I would have applied.

[0] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-14-cl...
If it's what people see, it's what people see. I've definitely seen effects like that in real-estate markets.
Is this such a success in 2013? That you don't need to be a guru to configure a printer and make use of it?

I can't wrap my head around why people seem to hail it as some sort of a triumph that someone managed to use Ubuntu for "email, youtube, general browsing" without resorting to expert aid :)

I mean, good for Linux, but isn't that an absolute minimum of what should be expected from a modern desktop OS?? Shouldn't it go without saying? :)

If something as normal as that makes for news to share, it is a clear indication of how bad a reputation Linux has had for a long time
Does libtorrent include Bittorrent Sync or streaming? If not how much effort ($$$) is to add them?
I like the sound of this, but there's nothing much on that site yet. Where can I subscribe for updates?
I can build lots of specialised algorithms, I would love a market place to sell them securely
For a static, non-growing company, you can treat its value as equivalent to a bond paying as much interest as that company pays in dividends.

Company can have value w/o giving out money if it's expected that it will give out more money tomorrow; but it can't be expected to keep that way forever.

A stable, static company that brings $0 profit is worth $0 if it's intended to keep running that way; or worth $assets-$liabilities if it's intended to be stopped and dismantled.
What, you don't get notified?
I think this is the easiest you can/should do that helps keep random checks and break-in attempts away.
AFter fighting with virii and malware upteen times on my Mom and Dad's laptops - which I have to correct every few months or so, I simply gave up on Windows and installed Ubuntu for them. I didn't even bother training them - just pointed them to a few tutorials and help.ubuntu.com. The only hard part where I had to chip in were the printer drivers...aargh. Frankly, windows required a lot more help.

However, I will not deny that something like the Chromebook is a serious competitor to the Linux desktop - for the casual user.
my dad salvaged an ancient notebook from work to use as a living room computer (usually if he sees something on TV that interests him, he starts googling it), or use for vacation planning etc.

tried to install windows but failed twice due to errors i can't remember. i then told him, fuck it, as you use it only for surfing, we'll just put linux on it and installed ubuntu 8.10. worked like a charm. everything ran out of the box, no hassle, nothing.

a week later i asked him how it was going; he answered: "everything's perfect, but i don't like desktop background - the skull."

the skull ... what skull? then it dawned on me: "dad, that's not a skull - it's a stylized ibex."

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>>But it is really child's play compared to everything else >>that a good programmer must do to make a software system >>that succeeds for both the customer and myriad colleagues >>for whom she is partially responsible.

Why the use of the word "she" ? I see a lot of articles written where the undefined person will be a she. I speak french, and "person" is a feminine name, so you can say about a person "she", but why in English ? Especially when in male dominated jobs like programming. A programmer is likely to be a he than a she, so why try this hard to be politically correct.
Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'affordable'. 10G is now affordable for small businesses, when up until recently it was strictly the domain of the large datacenter. I wouldn't put it in my house yet, but I see no reason to assume that 10G copper switches won't get to that price point eventually.
If that were true, Facebook would have been better off destroying Twitter a long time ago. Not waiting until they pick up another $1.5 billion in cash to fight with and buy more patents with.

Facebook doesn't have to wait for Twitter to go public. There's no benefit to waiting. Facebook would gain a lot more from killing Twitter (which is why they'd have sued years ago), than even if they won a billion dollars in a settlement via IPO cash. A billion dollars is meaningless to Facebook. What matters is owning social.
"Programming languages should really be called notations in that learning one is not at all as difficult as learning a natural language."

Brilliant! This whole section on choosing a language is great.

"One tends to think of a large system that has components in three or four languages as a messy hodgepodge; but I argue that such a system is in many cases stronger than a one-language system..."

This part sounds insane until you start working with eventually consistent messaging like:
http://www.reactivemanifesto.org