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Everyone who has ordered since November 22nd is offered a refund. The details are on the website and will come in the email. Have some faith, dude. Of course they have to do that.
> Isn't fork the real offender, which requires Linux to overcommit by default?

fork() != Linux.

Each UNIX system does it on its own way.
My old Nokia phones had a flashlight mode built in, very quick to activate and use, not as a separate app. Even if it does need to be an app on Android, at least include it in the base or core, as it is such a popular and useful thing to have.
Well, I would not want to copy a virtualenv from one machine onto another - that approach sounds like it's fraught with trouble.

I think the sane way to do it is to package your app using setuptools (and list dependencies) and then use pip install to install it in a new virtualenv on the production machines.

Here's how I do it on the project I'm currently on:

https://github.com/InsolvencyService/rps-alpha/blob/master/s...
"Customers who purchased kits before November 22, 2013 will continue to have access to all the reports they’ve always had."
My hourly salary has changed a lot since my first contracts. I started around $ 9.00 USD/hour. I plan to extend the post and explain not how I have increased my rates till my current rate, but also how I dealt with employers not willing to pay more.
She won, like any other politician, because she was the best choice for the people at the time.

I don't think what the civil service thinks of you is of particular relevance. She may have been despised by the majority of people in the North of England, but she was (and is) revered across most of the Sourth.
I think you guys are talking about Enviro-Bear 2000. Which had a lot more work on it before release, it was also an entrant and winner of a TIGSource month long competition. [0]

As for time constrained game challenges, the Klik of the Month Klub[1] gives 2 hours and 0 Hour Jam[2] gives participants just 1.

I did KotM a while back and was pretty surprised at how much I managed to get done. [3]

[0] http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=4964.0
[1] http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/44
[2] http://0hgame.eu
[3] http://joeba.in/klik53/
Not if they bought the bitcoins when they made the commitment, and part of the deal was they must renegotiate each year.
I'm not sure how to check the permissions, but I've been using Tiny Flashlight + LED: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devuni.fla...
Ah sure, as long as both the client and the server are in agreement of what the next token should be then everything is fine. I didn't think this through.
Yeah, I know. In re-reading that paragraph it does seem over-the-top. As you point out, it could (should?) probably have been omitted entirely.
Which mainframe architecture are you on? IBM iSeries / AS/400 mainframes can provide socket services. These return data as CSV.

CSV in turn can be queried with tools such as http://pythonhosted.org/querycsv/

I'm not sure if SQL really is the right approach here, though.
Interesting, it works fine for me. FF 26
Superficially, yes. But Mandela is a statesman. Obama is a mere politician.

It would be like comparing, say, Bush Sr with Winston Churchill.
I guess I am old-school but you are listing a bunch of reasons why MongoDB is not evil, yet each and every one of these reasons turns out to be extremely risky business. All of which simply do not apply with relational datastores. The thing I took away from your post is that had you used a 20-year-old relational datastore you would have 0 of your issues anyway.

> The advantages of schemaless documents are priceless. Not having to migrate is just one of the perks. Our schemas were largely in the form of Orders (having many) Shipments (going_from) ShipPoint (to) ShipPoint

You say priceless. I don't think it means what you think it means. A migration is costly but also pretty rare. I migrate PostgreSQL with 100k+ rows as a matter of routine, it's over before you know it. The schema you are using (orders have many shipments going from point to point) are easily expressed in a relational schema and once defined would hardly ever need to change, if at all during the lifetime of the application. So what if I need to add a column here or there. It won't matter at all. Do you have more than 100 million documents in MongoDB? I guess you don't. Even if you do, relational has that covered too.

> This doesn’t always have to be the case, though it significantly contributes to Mongodb’s fast writes.

What you are saying is that I need to change MongoDB in order to make it safe. Relational database are safe out of the box, no change necessary.

> We add a lot of Notes to each shipment [...] it doesn’t critically affect the business workflows of the application.

Say what?

You're fine with data, even notes, being lost? That is completely acceptable to you? I guess this is what shocks me most. You kids think it's normal to lose data, and consider storing a note to be optional or something. It baffles me. If a note is optional, why have it in the first place?

> They do but since most of the stuff is memory mapped

Translates to: you need to have your data in RAM. This does not scale at all. It doesn't even begin to scale to the level where MySQL was. TEN years ago.

> Here is a simplified snapshot

What follows is a class that is 236 lines long. Two hundred and thirty-six lines long. Dear sir, if this is your simplified code I fear what your actual production code looks like. If you committed that to one of my repos we would have a very serious talk. Also you would do this exactly once during your career at my company.

> I haven’t even touched upon the replication and sharding features that Mongodb offers which I will reserve for another post.

Which every relational store also offers.

> To summarise I feel Mongodb is awesome

Why is it awesome? You have only shown me why it is horrible. I have seen nothing that is awesome. Optional data persistence, needs huge amounts of RAM, complex application level code to deal with reports, this is all stuff that you can do better, faster and more reliable with a relational solution.
> Users never like what you like, and they never do what you think they will do.

Users also don't know what they like and they don't know what, when and how to do at all.
IMHO nowadays quite a lot of logic is moved into the front-end (for example "single web application"). In these cases you only need to provide some API in the back-end. But normally you need a bit more then "just" the data:

- some access control (e. g. sessions)
- compute some fields (e. g. "age" derived from "birthday")
- combine and filter data before transfering it the client (e. g. for graph traversals)
hey man, this is exactly what the article was alluding to, it should be the top comment imo. i'll definitely be spreading it around. amazing work and easy to digest. remember though, this type of information is often suppressed.
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I'm pointing out facts about him, nothing more. My quote was brief because I'd tweeted it and ended up copying the abbreviated form, but the substance of it is clear: it is a statement advocating militant struggle. The video clip you posted for some reason expresses a similar sentiment. And the quotes from his book I mentioned earlier, advocating violence in certain conditions, were from his book published in 1994.

Pacifism is defined as opposition to violence. Mandela, unlike many Western leftists, never ruled out violence as a tactic. Would his movement have succeeded without killing civilians and torturing enemies? Possibly not.
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For sure, you could have multiple wallets. My point is, the second you spend from one wallet, that wallet may be forever "tainted".

Admittedly, governments can already request credit card data, under court supervision (ideally... unfortunately, it seems with an exception for the NSA), but with bitcoin you are voluntarily placing this information on public record.

If you ever want to buy something with bitcoin, the retailer can immediately look up how much money you're worth (or at least that particular wallet) when you give them your wallet address. They can also immediately check if you've spent any money (and how much) with their competitors' known public wallets.

There will likely be aggregation services that will associate multiple wallets that are connected with a common address (just like modern day data collection agencies) and sell this data to retailers. Advertisers will know exactly (or at least a lower bound) of how much you're worth and where you like to spend your money.

If bitcoin gets traction, it will effectively ruin any financial privacy we have remaining. It's one thing for a government to have access to this, it's a whole other world of problems when everyone from my neighbor to my cable company has access to it.
Do you foresee a permanent plateau at some point, or just up and up?
My gut reaction is that this highjacking was "opportunistic" and "state sponsored". The "actors" knew there wouldn't be any consequences.

It would be nice to "send a message" by banning an AS number. The hassles involved in revoking that ban and/or obtaining a new AS number would make it unlikely that such opportunistic bad behavior would recur very often.
The two are not mutually exclusive but in fact highly correlated. I would argue adoption is a function of market cap, volume and price. Stability will come, but BTC has a lot of appreciation to get through which will not be easy.
Is it possible to determine what proportion of browsers actually accept the specified fonts and colours into which designers pour so much time and thought?

'Ignore fonts specified by websites' is one of the quickest usability configurations, particularly for people with impaired vision.
This is really the status quo when it comes to free Android utility apps. Most users skip quickly past the permission when installing, and as a result, you can generally stuff anything you want in there. To compliment this, the app is ad supported and ad networks will pay a premium to target on that. The number of users that notice, care and don't install is insignificant compared to the increase in revenue they see by passing this extra information along.

iOS may be better about notifying users when it comes to accessing location and contact information, but Android has a much more robust system of permissions. Users can see nearly every component of the system the device wants to interact with, determine whether that is satisfactory and choose to install the software or not. Unfortunately most users are more concerned about finding their keys in the dark or hanging a picture straight to care.
Definitely. I was going to say, was this not obvious when the app requests every permission related to your personal info?
I couldn't read it … there was no way for me to remove the pop-up layer without being forward to another URL.

OK, technically, I could have gone all the way to access the original content. But why should I reward a website that does apparently not want to be read?
Google why so evil?
As someone who purchased four kits for xmas gifts three weeks ago - I'm pissed, and expect a refund in full.
Ignoramuses I know but many us, dare I say, don't understand Latin. Assuming you're not quoting yourself, a source would be appreciated.
> "we need a new journalism to explain what is really going on."

I have high hopes for the Greenwald/Omidyar venture
BTC will become the global CONSUMER method of exchanging value. Up and only up (of course volatility will persist during the initial stages of breakout). Exciting times are ahead.
If they are included on the device, they're usually meant to enhance the experience of the phone. Also, as of Android 4.0, you can disable system apps if you choose. If the hardware maker really wants to spy on you, I'm sure they could do it without including a flashlight app.
It is advertising supported, so the requirement for internet access is plausible - even though it was misused.
How do dyslexic fonts like OpenDyslexic[0], Eulexia[1], and AlphaSymbolic[2] fit into all of this talk on normative typesetting ? And the internal rift of Open Source latent to this discussion, with fonts like Dyslexie[3] ?

The underlying question here is the need to expose and enhance accessibility around typefaces and metanotational typefaces. I believe that we should not design to our demographic, because how do we truly know? Rather we should make it possible for our demographic, whoever it is, to preferrentially set typefaces to their cognitive and aesthetic needs, to shape the stage of reception.

I say this primarily for the fact that many designs I do come across in websites, once I apply a font like OpenDyslexic using browser extensions, for instance, those designs fail, become distorted, elements shift about, become hidden or obscured, etc.

Adding to that: what about color? Contrast? Do certain fonts work better on inverted or otherwise?

I want to ask: What if that Higgs boson article had been set in OpenDyslexic? I run a similar experiment on my own blog[4], where I set a font tailored for dyslexics as the primary font (with hooks to change contrast and to set AlphaSymbolic in the "sticky footer"): I receive similarly negative responses.

Does our industry even have the conceptual layout to meaningfully ask these types of questions, and does it have the economic and aesthetic infrastructure to initiate and sincerely act upon whatever answers and strategies we decide upon?

[0]: http://opendyslexic.org/

[1]: http://antijingoist.github.io/Eulexia/

[2]: http://antijingoist.github.io/AlphaSymbolic/

[3]: http://www.studiostudio.nl/

[4]: http://webjournal.nerdfiles.net/the-semantic-web/
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Any article on typography that uses word shape as an actual model of word recognition instantly loses my attention. For better approaches, see http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/wordrecognition....
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Lol at the thought that spam would actually adds value.
Yep - when articles about something are prefaced with things like "not really evil" or "not as bad as it's made out to be", it's a pretty sure sign that your brand is tarnished.
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You also miss that the times have changed in last thousand years, and that its easier to fake information now, than back then.
Python predates Java and .NET (never mind NPM), and was originally more systems-oriented; the idea is that you install libraries globally, using your system package manager, just like with C libraries. pip/virtualenv had to be retrofitted on afterwards.
Because Goog wouldnt want to be responsible for burning out a users camera flash. Old school Nokia phones are GOAT and had special tested LED's that obviously wouldn't expire after 20mins of run time.
How to legally avoid paying taxes, just like Google.
> start cleaning up the mess of hugely inefficient everyday software

I kind of wish for it too. Mainly because it's so enjoyable and fun to spend hours on really groking the code and optimizing it instead of duct taping another feature at the top of similarly messy pile of other features.

Things like Go, D, Nimrod, Felix, OCaml and Haskell could help too.

That said I don't see this happening in the near future: for business side of things optimization starts to matter when it's too late to change technology. What's probably going to happen is one-click, transparent (for the application logic) clusters, where performance issues are solved by adding nodes. It happens right now with AWS and others, but it will be much easier and better in the future, once again making optimization not needed. For a while.
If you're deploying an application (really, if you're working on anything other than a library intended to be used by many other projects) check in your dependencies. This solves a lot of problems regardless of what language/platform you're developing on.
I doubt it, since those people aren't making any medical devices. Moreover, the SNPedia can be used by anyone, so an open source tool can be written and deployed as an app. I highly doubt the FDA will be able to stop that.

Trying to stop someone from analyzing their health data dump is about as useless as trying to stop bitcoin transactions. About the only thing the government can try to do is to stop the public from being able to use DNA microarrays, but how long is it going to be before a cheap, consumer grade version of such chips can be made and sold in a way that the FDA can't regulate them?
Smart Metering is FCUKED
But your contact book and location?
How can you get a software developer jobs in oDesk with so many people from India in there? Not against them, but they can do so low rates that even if I work 80h/week I still can't get a decent income. I mean below 8 USD/h. Living costs are so low in there?
One of the issues is that to a lot of people some of the reasons apps need particular permissions is pretty opaque. especially when requested up front. While with flashlights it might be obvious, with even slightly more complex apps it leads to a culture of 'fuck it'.
With javascript disabled, I am only locked out when the author didn't intend to do so.
Do we have enough numbers available to scratch definitively some?

There is also the political problem of leaving the one nation in charge of something global (they don't like due process when it's about foreign matter). It'd better be an international body.
Thanks Pedro! Sometimes I see Internet is full of people willing to help. Thanks again.
I wonder if another nuclear option is to just move the whole shebang to say, the Cayman Islands, China, or some jurisdiction outside the reach of the FDA and European regulators. Re-incorporate as a non-US entity.

Unlike buying medicine from foreign soil that can be interdicted, this is all electronic: shipping spit, and getting back HTML.
Or bitcoin backed currencies, given bitcoin will someday be somewhat stable. But this is still far away, worrying about this is like a startup worrying about scaling their infrastructure to twitter-sized userbases when they don't have a product yet.
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Apple already locked down app access to personal data (like contacts) in iOS 6. In iOS 7 they are just going further (eg. now a dialog also pops up for access to camera and mic)

The main difference is that Android has this all-or-nothing approach (accept giving the app all these permissions, or don't use the app at all), while iOS asks you for each permission individually, and you can use an app without granting it specific permissions. (eg. the weather app -- disallow access to location, and you can still type in place names manually)
When I can get a government-recognized financial product - 401k, ISA, current account, whatever - that is linked to BTC, in most major developed countries, insured against theft, the market-distorting factors should be gone.
> If you're going to judge, the least you can do is judge the man on the totality of his actions.

Which is exactly why it's problematic to present Mandela as a symbol of Peace, Love and Understanding. There are people here trying to represent his advocacy of armed struggle during the apartheid era as some kind of youthful indiscretion for which he should be overlooked or forgiven, which does the man's legacy no favours at all.
There was some april joke like that, they even created data sheets if I remember it correctly

edit: found it
http://www.repeater-builder.com/humor/signetics-wom.pdf
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My point is, the second you spend from one wallet, that wallet may be forever "tainted".

A wallet usually had multiple addresses, and there's no reliable way to tell if two addresses are from the same person or not. So if you have funds on your public address A, and you transfer some to new address B, and later you pay with B, there's no reliable for Amazon to tell if A belongs to you or not.

They can also immediately check if you've spent any money (and how much) with their competitors' known public wallets.

That's not how it works. Companies can't just tell people to send money to their public addresses, because it'd be very hard to tell payments apart. They generate random addresses for each client, which they then transfer back to their main addresses.

But since most sites use payment processors like Coinbase, what really happens is that the processor generates their address, which the user send money to, and then they use internal accounting to send a single transfer to the retailer.

So all Amazon would know is that you spent your money with someone who uses Coinbase, but only Coinbase would know who.
I agree. I just skimmed it, but it appears to meander. A lot. And it's very long. It probably could have benefited from some "tough love" editing.
I agree, but at the same time it's an added convenience

And there may be some huge PDFs (think 100Mbs) that you might not want to download, just check some pages.
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The big advantage of ArangoDB with respect to memory/disk
usage is that despite the Schema-less-ness, the database
automatically recognises common "shapes" of the documents
in a collection and thus usually does not have to store all
attribute names many times. In addition, the possibility
of transactions makes it less necessary to keep many old
revisions of documents, in comparison to for example
MongoDB.
Also, people don't freaking read and we can pretend that it's somehow our
problem, but what's so hard at looking at the list of required dependency
and reading:
- wants access to your location
- wants to read your contacts list

The problem with this is these apps poison the whole marketplace. If I'm going to buy a car, I'm not going to buy it from somewhere where half the cars, perhaps the popular, good-looking ones, phone home to advertisers and track my location for profit and where it is my job to read all the paperwork to check which ones do and which ones don't.

The reason why the App Store has been so attractive to developers is that it has engaged users who know the downside of installing random app Foo is not high. If we train users to be wary of apps, it will not be good for hones developers of good quality apps either.
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I think it's not to say that no relational databases has any of these features.
But I think it's more exceptional than the rule.
Relational databases are primarily designed for relations. And saving your objects as documents simply is a different model.

That doesn't mean one is better than the other, it's two alternative ways of achieving things.
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