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It's really a matter of both taste and situation. I've seen some very compelling examples from the Linux kernel where this is definitively easier to follow than the alternatives (Linus has made some good defences of goto for this purpose), but I've never felt it was the clearest option in any code I've written myself.
I believe (but can't find offhand) there are drives which have physical-destroy as a normal interface-accessible command. i.e. "set off the thermite".

A lot of SIGINT/COMINT gear designed for field use had magic destructo-capability designed in, too. I think after the USS Pueblo, especially.
Very interesting. I think that Win8 is much much better to use especially when you have a touch screen.
luckily a migration to git is a oneliner.

I wish. Unfortunately, not all repos we use are owned by us, and using two VCSs is worse than sticking with bzr.
They can, by introducing a few thousand stub functions which convert and delegate to ★W functions, but there'd be little use to do so. Every sane program out there uses the ★W functions and some insane still use the ★A ones. So it would only be beneficial for new code while all existing code remains the same, with the same encoding bugs if there are any.

I'm also not sure whether there are that many cases where it really helps. UTF-8 only on Windows is painful and so is using UTF-8 only with all other things that use UTF-16 (Qt, Java, etc.). Usually in those cases you use a library/framework/whatever that handles the platform abstraction or just conform to what's expected.
They ought, but aren't. Unfortunately, .com and most (all?) of the other non-national TLDs are under US jurisdiction.
I've kicked the tires of the live demo, and found that it seems to only work well if you draw seriffed letters. My initial attempt at a B resulted in a 'g' result. I then tried again to make it as perfect as possible, and got an '8'. So then I tried again, adding serifs (I think?) at the top and bottom extending to the left, and finally got a 'B'.

My attempts at full words took a lot of tweaking of the form of the letters to get a correct match. Many letters were not identified at all.
I get it, you work for a registrar, so you are naturally defensive (which I understand).

But like individuals who buy empty lots from the Forest Service to resell at a premium, can't you understand why this seems like an inefficient market outcome? Sure, it may be desirable/profitable, but not ideal?

Squatting may be a result of our domain registration system, but is it really desirable? to me it seems like a negative externality, that over-uses free domain names and which sells them for 100x times the price from a registrar, despite their non-use.

Why is a squatter adding any value? Should all domains be bought by one person who uses none for his one purposes, and sells each for 1k?
Is it necessary to be snarky like this in every thread that mentions Linux?
Well, I'm in that hemisphere. My dog prefers to do it facing away from owner if no reference points, otherwise always likes to go parallell to the nearest path/ building/ fence. I would say virtually never randomly chooses south.
DUP! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6999096
This gives very broad perspective. I want to cite this comment when I talk about the site. I have never thought about disrupting Wall St, but I do share your pipe dream.
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It's also twitter without "delete" and twitter without private accounts, from what I can see skimming the whitepaper.
"git won the mindshare war"

Sad, but true...
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Doesn't relativity say there is no such thing as fixed coordinates? That it all depends on frame of reference.
Oddly, both Bazaar, Git and Mercurial were created around March/April 2005. Why the sudden appearance of popular DVCSs around that time, and why did Bazaar fall behind the other two in popularity?
Maybe I can hire an augur to read my dogs poops then play the stock market with the findings?
An OCR article without a single image.
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I believe "creating anything useful" in this context means "doing any useful task"; I don't believe the original poster intended to put nurses, cops, or any service job in the same group as investment banker and domain squatter.

In that sense, investment banker is still a useful and necessary job, unlike domain squatter.
git is used by a bigger project (the kernel), that's mainly why. they're all ok, otherwise, even with their technical differences.

github also contributed to amplify the adoption as its makes it really easy to use (even thus people generally use git in a non-distributed way with github)

(i do prefer git in usage, tho, but thats subjective i suppose)
Yes, I would probably go back to 2009 and mine bitcoins (or fill captchas for 5 BTC a piece..) with a CPU..
Armstrong and Miller actually: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6c2kyNJ3Omo
Canonical mismanagement, contributor license agreement, missing manpower.
Nice idea. Although the user-base of time travellers might be a bit limited. I would suggest broadening your product to include the soon-to-be emerging high relativistic speed and FTL travel sectors. Part of the process of friending someone could be to indicate how your respective light-cones intersect, for example.

If your network is ad-supported then there might be extra complications in temporally localising the ad content so that it doesn't induce the wrong kind of causality violations. You might want to give that some thought, now or in the future.

Disclosure: I'm not a VC in this timeline.
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I think it was due to the free version of bitkeeper (which the Linux kernel used for vcs) was taken off market. So the Linux devs would either have to pay for a DVCS or make their own... Several made their own, Git was chosen for the kernel, alot of people found uses for the others. I could be wrong, but I think that's the case.
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Indeed energy conservashion and entropy equalizashion was a large problem.
^ coping mechanisms. Learn some biology and stop aging.
Ok, the downvotes are deserved, but more to the point, I don't use twitter and after all these years I have not understood what it's for. What do people use it for?
If you read the article included in the post it says that git, mercurial and bazaar all came together because Bitkeeper stopped being free. Now as for why bazaar didnt get used so much even when supported by canonical is a mystery to me.
Well considering the EU has no guns, no army, no police force[1], no courts for people, and no prisons and the Netherlands does, it's obvious which to trust.

EU law binds countries, not people. If a country does something that goes against EU law (which happens all the freaking time), then you can sue the country in the EU courts to get the country to change the law. The EU isn't able to arrest you. And regardless, it's the national law is the only real law. EU law is just what a country is supposed to do.

[1] There is Europol (European Police Office) which is only for aiding cooperation between national police forces. It has no powers of arrest, and (most tellingly) it only has 800 staff for a population of half a billion people.
Finding your first client is always an hard mission. You need to be creative and sometimes think out of the box. Mainly your first clients will come to you from mouth to ear and they will probably be friends or friends of friends. My advice is to ask for low price then the market at the beginning, it will gain those clients that will want to earn your low price.
Give the best service you can and they will pass your name to their friends. That way in no time you will be able to collect some happy clients and build your portfolio.
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this!
ideas are a dime a dozen.
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Look at the submission time.
Nope. EU doesn't do criminal things. EU tells countries what their criminal systems do. There is Europol (European Police Office) which is only for aiding cooperation between national police forces. It has no powers of arrest, and (most tellingly) it only has 800 staff for a population of half a billion people. Not at all like "the feds".

And I don't think there is any EU law on illegal drugs like that.
They had two things going for it:

* Linus was using it for the kernel, so it became mature slightly faster (because it had more people's attention.)

* Github happened at the same time Sourceforge stopped being cool (this is the same time that Digg and Reddit started beating Slashdot.)
Yeah, Mercurial is a viable choice still for just about all projects, and most of the time the simpler one.
All of them emerged due to the end of license agreement for a free license of bitkeeper for the linux kernel.
Git won due mainly to Linus personnality and the rise of "social coding" via github.
Bazaar failed because, at the beginning, it was painfully slow compare to git and mercurial. It speed has increase over time, but bad reputation is hard to get rid of.
Yep. Netherlands is basically "It's illegal but we don't enforce it". Which I can understand. That's different from "It's illegal and legal". Which sounds crazy...
You summed up what I was trying to get across perfectly. So many people running around with 'ideas' and non disclosure forms. Frankly though if you cant implement it, its not worth jack.
Interventions in the past are possible as long as they don't change the future in significant ways. Think of it as Schrödinger's cat who is not dead as long as you don't look inside the box.
Good point. All the early bitcoin miners are clearly suspect. And Satoshi Nakamoto's sudden appearance and then disappearance now makes total sense.
> A lot of DSL providers are starting to use this for less intrusive (?) goals like measuring noise and attenuation at the clients end once a day, so they can adjust the speed accordingly.

Why can't this be done on the DSLAM?
What is there to learn? Learning to type English character? We are not requiring them to learn English.

Using phone number doesn't require you to "learn" Math.
Whoops, thanks for the correction.

I did wonder why I couldn't find the clip in YouTube.
The article and the quite detailed bzr history it links to do not appear to suggest this at all. Can you provide any justification for your three claims?
What's so sad about it? IMHO git is awesome.
FWIW, just a few days ago I was browsing through the Emacs Bzr repository - after a full bzr clone, that took ridiculously long as well, a simple bzr blame takes 40-60 seconds to execute locally, and I have an SSD drive, four-core intel i7 and 8GB of RAM. I have never seen this kind of slowness with Git, with any repository size.
But at the same time, it may be just a temporarily boost from all the Linux coverage. I myself tested it recently and abandoned it fast, and will not probably try again for a long time as long as almost none of my games are playable in Linux.
Here is a previous discussion on emacs-devel from Mar'13 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-03/thread...

Stallman's opinion on this subject - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-03/msg009...

TLDR Stallman doesn't want Emacs to give up on bzr (also a GNU project) yet. This opinion might change now though.
Interesting. Could you expand a bit on the main advantages of Obj-C over C++ in your use case?
This is what happened, basically a huge "I told you so, proprietary software blows." for the Stallmans of this world:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tri...
Sorry, I use a VPN to the future ;-)
Isn't it possible to track the upstream just like with svn? We use git internally but interact with third party subversion repositories. We do it by dedicating a branch to tracking the svn repo, use git-svn to branch and to push the commits (after rebasing). It's not perfect but after a few hurdles at the beginning it is now problem free.
Do you mean by that, that you're attempting some kind of documentation/description project, by chance? If yes, would you be maybe willing to do the writing in some "open doors" model?
First two generations. The power button moved with the third-gen chassis redesign (squared-off sides) and the introduction of the 11".
There are plenty of tutorials for SQL in general those should work fine for PostgreSQL too. What seems to be the problem?
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This is actually pretty sweet looking interface. After HP gave up on their PC business they open-sourced some of the webOS code, and LG bought the rights to it. Palm’s webOS, once a dead-cert for smartphone OS supremacy, is tipped to be resurrected by LG at CES 2014. Can't wait.
Last time I tried, I solved this with just copying the Steam folder and each person starts Steam from their own Steam folder. A lot of wasted space since we got duplicates of all games, but it worked.
people need just one DVCS. it was slow and when it finally got fast, it didn't matter, because everybody was happily using the alternatives.
I tried to aggregate those as a sub-thread. You make a great point with the MySpace example. Legos with built in robotics might be fun as well. I never had a lego (too expensive) and I only saw the $200 robotic kits in college in the US. In Chicago, a state organization is trying to create a programable robot with LED lights to get kids interested in coding and putting together simple hardware hacks. I think that is a great idea. I think a programmable robot kids can create and control with an iphone app would be great as well (paint-by-numbers hardware + software hacking).

It is true that the more we lower the threshold, the more people will dabble with hacking. It may or may not produce more great hackers in the short run, but in the long run it will create a shared literacy that puts hacking higher on the priority list for parents and kids 10 years down the line. You don't just share code, you share a value system when you teach that.
This was very insightful, thank you!
Personally whenever I see a javascript programmer doing this with simple functions, I think it shows a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of programming to me.

The guy even hints at the misunderstanding in his code with the comment 'Makes it easier to understand "functions as an object"'. So what, most other languages have this now, but you don't see them taking one of the fundamental building blocking of programs and code encapsulation, simple function declaration, and bunging it in the middle of another method.

It's much clearer using the style for closures only so you're explicitly making it clear 'hey look, I'm making a closure people!!'.

It's a style that's practically begging for you to write heavily coupled code and is anti-code reuse. It's a terrible habit, it was all started by Crockford's the good parts, a style he just happened to be using at the time as far as I can tell, and even he doesn't even do it any more.

It also makes your code harder to read as you can't just move the function declarations wherever you want, just in case.

IMO you should never assign a function to a variable unless you are going to use it as a closure or actually use it like a variable and potentially over-ride it later in your code.

To me it's a massive code smell when I see simple functions assigned to variables.
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The Humble Bundles I've bought are mostly indie games already ported to many platforms. Few of the AAA titles I have bought work on Linux.
because of network effects that will kick in when Linux finally reaches market share that has to be respected (I expect that to be somewhere close to 10 %), this is much more important. And now when Steam came to linux, that can be kickstarted, thus never say never :)
Which streotype? That there are more male founders than female? I thought that's a fact, not stereotype.
Semi-related: I found it stupid to carefuly write "she" when refering to some hypothetical programmer in every other case. How about writing it 5 times of 100, to get more realistic representation? Unless you believe that probablicit reference is the cause of all evil and using "she" will magically attract more females to coding.
When I saw the title, I thought he had died. It (the title) sounds oddly like an obituary. Or is the title meant to reflect the change of perception (from "traitor" to "whistle-blower")?
Killing Stalin without killing Hitler might not be the best idea, considering the vital role Russia played in the defeat of the nazis. And maybe Leopold II gets overlooked by time travelers exactly because they also don't remember him.

(Good of you to mention Leopold II, though. Also note Henry Morton Stanley's role in that despicable piece of genocide.)
There's also BetterTouchTool[1], which also has the drag-window-to-side-of-screen-half-maximize behaviour from Windows.

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An unpalatable command line that has no linear mapping between commands and its arguments and what you want to do.

It's a great tool, no doubt; but the user interface is terrible. I use Magit for Emacs which has eliminated my need for the git command line.
Should be easy enough to falsify. Overpower the Earth's field with magnets and change the N-S orientation. See if they still shit along the new axis.
How is the sp2 on the lap? I like laying on the couch and surf and concerned with the stability of the sp2 in this position.
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The important take-away here isn't the relative merits of each DVCS, but that bzr is not used by anybody any more, and it is impeding the uptake of new contributors to Emacs.
Hey, that looks great. When I'm near my windows 8 computer I'll be sure to give it a spin!
Actually, the H man and those guys don't make the cut. The ones deserving of time-travel assassination have already been dealt with. Hence we don't know of them.
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All of them emerged due to the end of license agreement for a free license of bitkeeper for the linux kernel.

Bet bitkeeper regretted that decision...
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It's unfair to characterize people who disagree with you as being uninformed. A lot of people who don't like Snowden's actions know as much about the situation as you do. They've just drawn different conclusions. The gap here is one of personal philosophy and opinion, not one of knowledge.

I''m not entirely sure why Snowden is getting so much personal credit. I remember watching an episode of Frontline on PBS that discussed “Room 641A” [1]. A few quotes from the cited wikipedia page, emphasis added:

”[the room] is fed by fiber optic lines from beam splitters installed in fiber optic trunks carrying Internet backbone traffic and, as analyzed by J. Scott Marcus, a former CTO for GTE and a former adviser to the FCC, has access to all Internet traffic that passes through the building, and therefore 'the capability to enable surveillance and analysis of internet content on a massive scale, including both overseas and purely domestic traffic.”

”[the program] was originally broadcast on May 15, 2007. It was also featured on PBS's NOW on March 14, 2008. The room was also covered in the PBS Nova episode 'The Spy Factory'.”

I admittedly watch more PBS than the average person. I was talking about Room 641A and concept of the NSA directly siphoning every call, email, text and url sent from the AT&T Pacific data center several years ago. Snowden’s revelations were news and he provided theretofore unnknown details. But they weren't completely out of the blue.

People knew that the NSA was collecting data on an unprecedented scale before Edward Snowden. These programs aren’t new, they didn’t start last year. Snowden unquestioningly gets credit for coming forward, he deserves praise for taking such a risk. It’s clear that he provided us with a paper trail and evidence that no one had in May of 2007. But our knowledge of the NSA’s activities is not “entirely because of information provided to journalists by Edward Snowden” as the NYT OpEd alleges. People had the knowledge years ago. The outrage is recent.

We'll see if the future holds substantive policy reforms or presidential pardons. Cautious optimism never hurts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Perhaps the WW2 in our timeline is the least worst outcome.... :-|

e.g. What if the Normandy landings had failed? The Nazis would still have been defeated by the Soviets but the whole of Europe north of the Alps could have been occupied by the Soviets, perhaps making a far worse later nuclear conflict much more likely.
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Language and nation are not the same thing. Sadly, a policy like this would open up a can of worms.

Should the Cherokee syllabary be permitted in .us domains? If so, you are still open to homograph spoofing against the Latin character set(e.g. Ꭹ for y or Ꭲ for T). If not, isn't it a trifle rude to declare that writing system "unamerican"?

What about immigrant languages other than English? Why are Latin-charset language users more American than e.g. Hebrew ones like the long-standing and well-known Yiddish population of New York?

You could ban mixing of code ranges in domains. That might help, but how do you sensibly restrict a code range? Turkish is a Latin charset language, but contains a few extra characters that pose a homograph risk. How do you work out whether a domain is Turkish (and allowed to contain ı) or not Turkish? Also, what if you wanted to differentiate the website for your California-based Yiddish-named restaurant from a similarly named competitor in New York?

Should the governments of Morocco and Algeria be empowered to blanket-refuse Tifinagh domain names? What about when Georgia was part of Russia?
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