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Meeting most of the requirements on that list, I have found Arq[1] to be a great backup solution on OS X. It stores encrypted, incremental backups on S3 and although the client itself isn't open source, the data format is[2]. The company also maintains an open source recovery tool[3]. The only requirement that isn't met is cost, because S3 costs about $60/yr for 50GB.

[1] http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/index.php

[2] http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/s3_data_format.txt

[3] http://sreitshamer.github.io/arq_restore/
I haven't used Windows in years. I run Linux on all my computers, so it's much easier for me to troubleshoot my parents' problems if they are also running Linux.
I can't imagine the extra effort required to support MSIE 6-7 is worth it...
I don’t think there are any general stats on what video editing professionals use, as they work in a lot of different fields. Big budget motion picture editors have always used Avid and most will continue to do so – MPEG and ACE stats are therefore not very relevant. Some indies shoot with RED, ARRI Alexa, or HDSLRs – many of them do use FCP. FCP is more popular with ad agencies, TV production companies, documentary filmmakers, and education.

On the online community for documentary filmmakers, The D-Word, the software most frequently mentioned is FCP. The same can be witnessed on 5dplanet, a forum for freelancers and indies who shoot with HDSLRs. Also telling: the comments on an article[1] about switching from FCP to PP; all of the commenters indicate they won’t fully switch to PP. That article is at a very popular site for indie filmmakers. Even Cinema Editor Magazine (the ACE quarterly) wrote in its latest review of PP: “Premiere Pro doesn’t seem quite ready for a multi-editor, multi-camera, scripted series or feature.”[2].

This is all circumstantial evidence, but combined with my own experiences and what I have seen and heard from colleagues, I am pretty confident that the number of people who left FCP after the release of FCP X is minimal. Now, that’s not to say those people don’t also have PP – I have PP, but that’s because it comes with Adobe Creative Cloud, not because I chose it.

In my experience, the people who switched from FCP to PP or Avid did so because they wanted to use Windows based computers. Remember that Apple has neglected its Pro line of desktops for quite some time. Xserves are gone, the Mac Pro hasn’t been updated in years – until the new Mac Pro announcement earlier this year, many professionals considered switching to Windows workstations.

[1] http://nofilmschool.com/2011/07/import-final-cut-pro-7-proje...

[2] http://www.cinemaeditormagazine.com/
Interesting that the other replies to your question are so assured of the dominance of the cable companies. In other words, the perfect industry to disrupt. Before Apple came along, Nokia, RIM and Windows Mobile were poised to rule the mobile world, and could not imagine being relegated to niche marketshare in merely 7 years…
+1

Also nicotine effects are more isolated to brain. Caffeine affects whole body including metabolism stimulation and hearth rate. Not so good for office worker.
This kind of small vandalism will rapidly pass. There is no need, given a smartphone with a compass, camera, and GPS, to use a "bar code" for this kind of stupidly simple AR application.

Merely point your phone at the headstone and if there's metadata, you'll get it.
Of course I have, and yeah, it is as effective. Sometimes I will still get up and walk around while doing it.

I'm not going to claim any scientific miracles from it (that would be dumb), but for me the combination of taking a break from the screen and having some nicotine is what gets my brain going.
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Gopher's disadvantages compared to HTTP/0.9 were mostly legal/social rather than technical, IIRC, but that's very much not the case vs. HTTP/1.1. So there's probably an argument that, from a purely technical point of view, Gopher maybe shouldn't have been abandoned when it was, there's also no good reason to revive it.
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Supposedly the problem there was a very late change from somewhere in the White House to CMS, in August or September, to preclude the possibility of window shopping and require registration with a lot of verification up front.

E.g. we know Experian is part of that process, said to be for identification and income verification. It's been reported that people who don't have credit records (e.g. those sufficiently ill they've stayed under the care of their families) get told by Healthcare.gov to contact Experian, who then upon discovering they don't have a record of them tells them they have to get the Healthcare.gov people to create a “Manual Process Identity Proof” ... which few if any of them know how to do, or whom to send someone to.
Cool! Drop me a line at greg at gregdetre dot co dot uk

Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies ch 4-6 are the best introduction to his modeling work. I can't recommend them highly enough.
What's wrong with tarsnap?
http://www.tarsnap.com/

Added in edit: I see that people are saying it's expensive, and I appreciate that. When I bundle it into my considerations of how much I spend on other things, what I get, and my level of confidence in the service, it seems a good deal to me. In the interests of full disclosure, I don't actually use anything like this, as I have a storage solution provided for me. But when I did the sums a while ago, I decided that tarsnap would be my choice if I needed to make one. For people to say it's expensive is a useful additional data point for me. Thank you.
Thats just it, most e-cig users will be fine with holding it in. As an ex cigarette smoker, I am still not ok with doing it openly in public spaces (movie theater, restaurant, etc.). However, if I feel that all too familiar feeling and going outside is an inconvenience, Ill take a drag, and just hold it.

Boom, no cloud. Simple as that.
Reading the Wikipedia article on the health effects of coffee, coffee is almost certainly a net plus for health.

Nicotine is ambiguous.
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I suspect, and of course this is a only my guess, that most of the people locked into IE6 are in work environments that aren't conducive to social browsing or online shopping limiting that 4%'s value.

Unless you are targeting a fairly specific type of corporate user/customer you probably want to consider adding some of the new jazzy client side stuff if you think it can improve conversions.
Can encbup be used for automated backups? Seems like it's using symmetric encryption, so that the passphrase would need to be entered or passed as an argument on each run.

Not sure if it meets all your requirements, but duplicity [1] has support for asymmetric encryption via gpg pub/priv key pairs.

[1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

EDIT: just noticed the article mentioned duplicity as insufficient.
I am extraordinarily allergic to the glycol in e-cigs. Just a few seconds of exposure is enough to send me into anaphylaxis. I am pretty sure somebody tapping away on their phone wont kill you.
The query language for RDF is called SPARQL[1] pronounced "sparkle" which might cause some confusion in conversation.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
I think the "You use this app if you have 5 minutes to kill" is a genius marketing strategy and highly suggest you use this on the website.. it would add a lot of clarity.
When it happens I think it'll look like an explosion in semi-telecomute jobs. All those people who spend weekdays away from their families at the moment will find they really only need to be in town for 1 or 2 days per week, and companies will realise that this is a great way of opening up the talent pool while keeping wages low.

So, building lots of co-working spaces in England's market towns and regional cities seems like a sensible move right now.
This is a dangerous narrative that links the founder to the company in the same way that Apple is forever linked to Steve Jobs.
What you are showing here is that we've moved on to the meta-analysis part of the scientific method. Basically, given many studies, featuring an unknown number of bad actors and poor methodologies, what conclusion can we draw from the numbers?

There are 400 people enrolled in that study. British health services have conducted multiple longitudinal studies, on Jamaican, British and Indian populations, over more than 100 years, with larger sample sets. Different conclusions were drawn.

Note: what I wrote is not a meta-analysis either. I don't have one in my back pocket. If you find one let's talk.
It's very expensive. The current monthly storage price is about 3 times that of S3 and 30 times of Glacier.
Or ignore them altogether.

Mostly they should have been used to web not working properly. Also it's obvious that they do not care or are unable to install better browser.

What percentage of those 4% who use IE6 actually buy something? Is it worth supporting them? Or you could create an awesome site to sell your stuff more easily.
Hey, thanks for the feedback.

I'll add it right now.

EDIT: I wrote: Used if you have 5 minutes to kill. Is that ok?
If you buy from legitimate sources, you do. There are quality liquid producers that only use FDA-regulated flavors and sweeteners, organically-source vegetable glycerin, nicotine, and water. You can buy cheap from producers overseas, and I'm sure many do, but you can be as picky with your liquid as you can with what you eat.
A standard I have to refer to often is ISO 128 / AS 1100.101 (1992). Technical Drawing - General Principles. Which has a lot to say on the issue of Letters and Numerals in part 4.1, I've added this as it's mildly similar, since the readability of technical drawings is also critical, it was widely read in a technical industry and that it was last revised in the same year as the OP document.

It should be remembered that this standard was last revised in 1992; As a consequence, computer generated text or "Machine-made characters" don't really get a look in, although degradation through reproduction (for micro-film) is noted as an area of concern. It favours sans-serif fonts that are "uniform and capable of being produced at reasonable speed by hand" and that "Upper-Case letters should be used. Lower-case letters shall be used for conventional signs and symbols normally requiring such characters, e.g. mm, kg, kPa."

The recommended stencil characters are outlined as Gothic and ISO 3098/1 Type B (aka "Font 27"). The latter being preferred by every engineering firm and operator I have come across in their published standards.
Expense.
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I'm wondering why states were allowed to build their own systems and opt out of the federal site. From the Washington state site we get passwords emailed in clear text, a failure to even allow people to enter all components of their income (resulting in inflated tax credit decisions), using monthly income figures where annual ones should be used (again, more incorrectly inflated tax credits). In Oregon they say they can't even log in or get through the application. Each of these state-specific sites cost tens of millions, each resulting in their own unique set of defects on launch, to implement a federal program.

The press seems very focused on the obvious availability and performance problems as well as the errors that come up within the sites that prevent someone from completing their application. There are a whole slew of second-order defects that make it appear your application was successful and correct but were based on incorrect calculations, incomplete data, or other bugs that are not obvious to the user at the time they complete the process.
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Luke@AWS updated your thread. Makes a lot more sense now as a notice would only be sent if it was a scheduled eviction.
While I'm sure you're partly correct, until we know how bad the CMS on up management was for this specifically, can we really say that for sure?

What we know is:

The project didn't get seriously started until February/March (e.g. the election created a 3+ month freeze on HHS publicly visible work).

The NYT reported that in the last 10 months, 7 major requirements changes were made.

We've been told the "no window shopping" one was made in August or September.

We've heard from multiple sources that changes were ordered through the week before launch.

Given all the above, how much do you see incompetence, and how much "just not done yet" pre-alpha stuff? I'm mostly a back end developer and am not up to date to judge this, I'm really interested if the above makes any refinements to your judgement.
On the bright side, they're using QR codes and not microsoft tag codes, which are being discontinued serverside in about 18 months.
I had an instance fail (unresponsive then with that same stop/start delay) on the same day in two consecutive years. I remember because it happened to be Valentine's Day, and I had to break out the laptop for while to check on things. I always wondered if that was a completely random occurrence, or part of some maintenance schedule that randomly affected me twice.

The last place I worked has a policy of making zero changes in production Friday-Sunday or around holidays. It was one of their better practices.
Irrelevant to watching movies and listening to music chatting with mates and generally using a computer for the purpose of entertainment maybe? Because the real work needs a real computer. One with a keyboard you can type on, a screen which can show some decent amount of information, printers and mice and compilers and more than 2GB of ram. There are more computers than ever in play, their numbers have been eclipsed by all these toy devices however. That does not mean the real computers are irrelevant at all.

And even for entertainment, are you seriously telling me these little ARM devices with no good input devices, ps-1 calibre graphical capabilities, and MINISCULE screens are making computers which run the latest big games irrelevant? People who are into games have been talking about GTA-V and the like lately, not simple side scrollers and 2d physics games where you launch birds at pigs.
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Does anyone with experience with this IDE have an opinion about whether it is superior to pycharm?
I don't believe in this anymore

"Everyone outsources large portions of their IT, and they should. It’s called specialization and division of labor. If FedEx’s core competence is not in IT, they should outsource their IT to people who know what they are doing."

These days I believe each department of government that needs an iPhone application would do better to hire an iOS developer full time to maintain and polish the fuck out of it, continually.
I run Ubuntu on my PC, it's an i7 8 core machine with nVidia GTX 660 and the latest tested Restricted driver from the repository. That animation drove my CPU aggregate by top to 90% usage. I clicked the Edit button and while the code was showing the CPU activity dropped back to minimal.
If you're using a Linux-based system http://liw.fi/obnam/ might also be a good choice.
> Client code will be open source.

On the link you provided I found the following:

"Parts of the programm relevant for security and networking actions will be open source."

"Parts of the program" might not do it for everyone (me included). Will anyone be able to audit the full source code of the client and compile it themselves, like e.g. tarsnap? Otherwise I fear the usual trust issues arise.

If I missed some information at your linked site which says the entire client will be open source, then please correct me.
"Although marijuana smoke contains a number of carcinogens and cocarcinogens, findings from a limited number of well-designed epidemiological studies do not suggest an increased risk for the development of either lung or upper airway cancer from light or moderate use, although evidence is mixed concerning possible carcinogenic risks of heavy, long-term use... Several case reports have implicated marijuana smoking as an etiologic factor in pneumothorax/pneumomediastinum and bullous lung disease, although evidence of a possible causal link from epidemiologic studies is lacking. In summary, the accumulated weight of evidence implies far lower risks for pulmonary complications of even regular heavy use of marijuana compared with the grave pulmonary consequences of tobacco."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23802821

Wildly off topic, though.
I use spyder with Scipy and it generally works quite well. Normally I am a vim user and do not like IDEs, but Spyder make switching between data, sources and repl really neat.

On the other hand, only with spyder I get that many annoying trailing spaces for some reaseon.
It's actually pretty idiomatic in optimised C, for the same sort of reason (when all extra instructions count), e.g., this sort of loop:

for( i=LEN-1; i>=0; --i ) {...}

I've carried this into a lot of other languages, as it's equally readable to the alternatives, when ordering isn't important. In (mainly older) optimised code where ordering is important, you'll often still see this, with a second incrementing variable so that the exit condition retains the compare to zero (avoiding a variable comparison); although that part is separate from the use of the pre-decrement.

I'm not sure if either of these make much difference with modern CPUs and compilers. Certainly not worth worrying about for the most part.

It's untrue that this idiom started with C++. This style is preferred by K&R, which predates optimising compilers. Since then it's use among C programmers has probably been force of habit, but it is definitely idiomatic. It's use in K&R makes it about as idiomatic as it is possible to be.
On a good week I still manage to get some coding time in on my systems-programming language, Deca.

http://code.google.com/p/decac
Yes, and the problems are probably still worse than this.

Because integration means integrating _requirements_, leading to determination and priority of requirements. The current organizational structure doesn't seem to have anyone responsible for even coordinating that. But even if there were, they would need terrific knowledge of each agency's internal systems and legal requirements to determine what is and isn't necessary. And enormous authority, meaning both credibility and power to dictate, to get their determinations to stick.

Absent someone looking over the process, each agency will just "require" everything they might need or want. Leaving something out is risky, unless you know a lot about what you are doing and what will happen next and trust your management. Even if they had all those latter characteristics, bureaucracies don't do risk.

We all know how complexity grows exponentially. I bet the requirements document for this thing doesn't exist, and if it did it would be a clusterfuck of epic proportions.

Here is my wild theory: The possibility this could succeed died the day Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination for Secretary of HHS. Not that Daschle himself is special, though he is pretty bright. But he was slated for an unusual joint role, running HHS and a White House appointment running the health care effort. A position like that might have had access to the specialized knowledge to know what needed doing and the Presidential delegation of power to get it done. If IRS says "we must have X" and Daschle KNOWS they don't because a real expert knows they don't, he can get them in line or they can explain the problem to the President's chief of staff.

Here is the wild part. Daschle was canned, inexplicably, over a truly stupid tax issue (didn't declare a car service as income), while others had far more serious issues waived (Geithner lied about CASH income despite instruction to declare it). Why? I speculate, precisely because the role he designed for himself was remarkably powerful, and effectively outside any review because of the complexity and specialization of its task. Wouldn't the President want someone with the power and knowledge to implement his most important policy? Yes, but not someone beyond his control. Politicians are about power. JFK didn't use the legislative skill of Johnson because he feared Johnson would serve Johnson's interest, not Kennedy's. Once Obama and his people realized that Daschle could become effective President, and Obama something of a titular head of state, they shivved him.

It's all speculation. But it is all plausible enough to suggest why government doesn't work. Massively complicated projects like Google work because its people are, by and large, working for a common purpose on tasks that are commonly understood under common accountability. Government and bureaucracy are fundamentally divided in purpose and understanding. The components can be united by power and knowledge, but by its very nature the system resists establishment of such power and knowledge.
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Personally I use crashplan, its more expensive than your max price requirement if you use their cloud services, but I also back up way more data (300+GB), mostly family photos+videos. Also, since its unlimited storage I don't really care if I suddenly have a couple of extra gigs to store after xmas or whatever. Oh and finally I can use the same app to backup to my home server so basically everything is backed up locally and remotely with one app and is encrypted/deduplicated.

I used to use Arq and it worked great but then the backups became too big.

EDIT: forgot you wanted opensource... oh well... anyway this works for me.
I'm not a native speaker. And, I spent too much time with managers, recently.

So I wish it could have been 1 and 2, but for me it's 3.
Yes, I can't even imagine who would normally use it, unless it's some weird static environment with ancient Windows installed which can't be upgraded or something the like. And probably in such case people should have alternative computers for normal browsing.
I did a more complete writeup on Gopher's problems here:

http://www.wumpus-cave.net/2013/10/27/why-gopher-is-awful/

Once I did a little research and wrote it all out, Gopher actually came out worse than I thought. Even if it were brought up to Gopher+ specifications (which haven't been implemented by anyone in 20 years), it would still be way behind HTTP/1.1 in terms of fixing design flaws.
I'm not sure if this will work correctly, but give this URL a try:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=400x400&chl=Mi...

If it works, its a demonstration of how arbitrary headstone text can be encoded into a QR code without a URL subscription middleman.

The content in this example is making fun of MS Tag codes, an embrace/extend/extinguish version of QR codes that extinguished itself after about 8 years rather than extinguishing QR codes, although QR codes are extinguishing themselves pretty well without MS's help.
I just hope that when this whole mess of a project goes online, and is hacked to death, NSA & friends won't be using this an opportunity to tell us that "see, this is why you need to give us bigger funds and spy on everyon - to protect you against those hackers (offensively)!" - even though the whole issue would be the bad programming and security of the system.
I am pleasantly surprised to see lots of really innovative ideas. Usually speaking to "entrepreneurs" their innovative idea is a new social network "like facebook but..."
I've always wondered how the project is justified in environmental terms given the water situation there.
No it's not. A chair is one of the largest objects in the room. You and others will see it a lot. It's completely reasonable to consider its appearance.
I've heard good things, sadly this is a headless Ubuntu server where the files from all my machines get stores, so I can't use that...
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"Or IBM, which has become little more than an IT service provider to other companies?" Come now, that's absurd. Incredible things happen at IBM research.