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Hey there! Thanks for commenting. I think I commented on this aspect in a few other places on the thread, but while I glossed over the IT troubleshooting steps in my blog post, I've been in IT for 10+ years in the roles of support, sysadmin, and developer. I _of course_ did some troubleshooting. Two different PCs with internet connections that worked completely reliably both had different issues, and they were both in known stable states at the time. On each, I'd tested the internet connection, speed, etc. Nothing else was wrong with my internet connection at the time, at least in terms of things like loading web pages, downloads, and streaming HD video. In the first case, the speed seemed to drop to zero and then timeout. In the second, case the file took a long time to download and then came out corrupted anyway. I'm not saying these things don't happen; but I'm saying that, if it's a company's bread and butter, it would make more sense to put as many safeguards in place to make sure that after 12+ hours, a corrupted file doesn't happen.

Also, I'm aware that a few dropped packets can be an issue. This is why I used Backblaze's advertised downloader application -- I got the impression that it would provide better stability, checking, etc. to ensure that the zip file did not get corrupted.

I also mention the external HDDs in my post, but my point is that I pay them so that I can restore my files conveniently, not so that I can be upsold to a $189 drive. Normally, I would drop the cash, but after just spending several hundred dollars on a new motherboard, I figured I would use their download mechanism, which is offered. I think I'm allowed to have a reasonable expectation that it would work.

With all that said, this is for sure not some "grab your pitchforks!" moment. I'm doing this partly to call attention to my own stupidity at putting my faith in one cloud backup provider, and also to highlight that Backblaze's process for restoring could likely be a little bit smoother, given that this is when users would like things to be absolutely foolproof. I remain a fan of Backblaze's CEO who was responsive when support wasn't, and of the company itself which has done great things like open-sourcing its hardware.

I've since been in contact with support again and I will be sure to update my post once the matters are resolved.
The problem with that 'strategy' is that microsoft's bad makes people see the good in Apple and Google's offerings.
I believe that in airports your rights are significantly different from your rights in the US.
I have heard this thousands of times, but a common man, a ordinary software engineer, does not have a lawyer on his speed dial. He/She may not even know how to go about finding one without spending at the least 10-15 mins on Google. So how does this work out? If one says "I will only talk in the presence of a lawyer", then the officers say ok, you get your one phone call, go call your lawyer....then what?? Who do I call? Say best thing is to call my wife/friend and have them find and bring a lawyer.....but what if neither my wife/friend is immediately reachable and I waste my one phone call away....then what?? Are the officers obligated to provide me a 'public' lawyer ?? It's easy to say "don't talk ever without lawyer being present" , but if I don't know what to do after saying that, and I do know there is nothing to be hidden (100% sure) and have reasonable belief that they will let me go once they are convinced of that, then which do you think is an easier choice for me, especially in that panic/stressful mode??
Sometimes I wonder whether the difficult-to-read PDF-like interfaces are intentionally made hard to use.
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If you'd like to hear both a lawyer and a cop explain in explicit detail why you should never talk to the police, watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

Regardless of what a cop threatens (or promises as the case may be), they are legally bound to arrest you if they believe a crime has been committed, and are not empowered to make deals with you. You will never talk yourself out of an arrest, but you can talk yourself into one. Therefore you should never talk to the police under any circumstances.

In this case, the guy actually cost himself time by talking to them. Had he refused, since a mere suspicion was not enough to book him, they would have had nothing to do other than connect the Glass and find out that there were no movies on it.
Pardon my momentary astonishment there, but you are talking about one of the most successful people in the industry. That alone should give you cause for pause in your analysis, which you seem especially confident of ("totally correct").

You seem to discount the possibility that Sculley et al were the problem.

Let's look at the history: While they may have temporarily boosted revenues at first, uncontroversially the "sales guys" ran Apple into the ground in the 90s. Drove it almost bankrupt. Jobs came back and indisputably saved the company from the brink of disaster, not by trying to play the same game as Microsoft, but again by pursuing visionary projects.

Jobs' refusal to compromise and "work with" the sales guys who ran Apple into the ground... is maybe, just possibly, one of the reasons he ended up being one of the most successful guys in the history of the computing industry.
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>> Repeat after me: An advertising slogan is not news.

>> A few tech journalists need to be reminded of that rule today, after piling on to the story that HP is bringing Windows 7 back “by popular demand.”

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I have tinnitus and don't derive much pleasure from listening to music, generally--especially not RIAA music. I can do without movies. There is more than enough to read, program and calculate.
This is the way I use the word too.
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I don't know if this question was already asked.

What do you think are the steps to follow, and also the steps to avoid?
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"War on boys and brains" and "locked up" are rather florid characterizations of the ADHD condition and its treatments.
Windows does not send anything back to Microsoft unless the user explicitly enables the "Customer Experience Improvement Program." If you want to check if this is enabled, just press start and type "ceip".
> In fact, given the almost negligible gravity of the comet’s 4 km-wide nucleus, Philae will have to use ice screws and harpoons to stop it from rebounding back into space after touchdown.

That sounds a bit like a mod for the game Kerbal Space Program (KSP). There is a planet called Inaccessible which has an equatorial rotation speed greater than the escape velocity. As such to 'land' you need to continuously be thrusting towards the planet (as opposed to away to slow your descent) - or just land at the poles.
Arguably, still not actually wasted. Went back into the money supply, bought goods and services, contributed to the economy.

Seriously, unless you have truly minimal savings rate like the dirt poor, when you pay taxes you are doing one of two things: building infrastructure or boosting the economy. Surely your taxes COULD be better spent, some government expenditures have higher economic multipliers than others, but wasted? You don't understand economics.
> Internet Explorer 8 or earlier for online transactions

This could actually be incredibly safe and a good idea. If you only use IE for banking, and use the other browsers for everything else, you will be a lot more secure than someone who uses Firefox or Chrome for both.
Here's a song for the soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0s5Kn9QXtU
I've found PF easier to get started with and more manageable due to the config syntax. Now onto something that PF can do but iptables can't: address family translation. There is a module somewhere on github that does NAT64, but is somewhat limited compared to PF. Now if you want to go the other way around, i.e. NAT46, it is currently not possible on Linux in kernelland.
You don't get anything in the middle of Australia, because nobody lives or goes there. It is a desert.
I've pulled individual files from my tarsnap archives, and did a full restore of a server into a VirtualBox VM to verify that everything worked OK and can confirm that tarsnap works as advertised.
+1, also a phone number would be nice.
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Windows 8.1 is Windows 9.

I was at Microsoft over the summer but this is public knowledge. I got a Windows Blue t-shirt a day before the announcement. Even the existence of the "start" button was a last minute thing. Windows 8.1 is no service pack. It was developed by the entire Windows division. Service Packs are only developed by the Sustained Engineering sub-division.

I've mentioned this to friends but they were not convinced. After all Windows 8.1 adds so little. You must keep in mind that Microsoft was, and may still be, trying to move Windows to a yearly release cycle. This is why Windows 8's upgrade was so cheap. They've caught on that time based release schedules work, and work well. Ubuntu made it popular in open source and things from your kernel to your browser are on it.

Remember the person responsible for getting Windows 7 out the door? Steven Sinofsky. He got fired. In his place was promoted Julie Larson-Green, the women responsible for Windows 8's new interface. She is still in charge.

Windows 8 knows what it is about: managing your computer as Microsoft sees fit. Windows 8.1 may have given back the start button but in exchange you are now forced to create and use a Microsoft account.

Those who continue to use proprietary software should be prepared for the future. If you want to keep control of your computer you must make an effort because your overlord is not going to do so for you.

Sorry, I suspect my Internship just made me more of a open source zealot.
How do I have your position wrong? Please enlighten me. Telling me I suck at "this" is hardly informative or constructive.

You indicated how a) this was a special case and that other types of people wouldn't behave similarly and that b) because other types of people wouldn't behave similarly this type of social policy shouldn't be enacted.

Yes? What did I miss?

Additionally, it is telling that you consider me to be plural. As if I am speaking on behalf of some sort of group that is "other" to you. Methinks, perhaps, you've caught the identity politics meme. You and I, we are not on separate teams, in different groups, or of a different type.
I appreciate the work that has gone into this, and think it is a great starting point for an interesting tutorial about git.

My concern is that the tutorial ignores or discards ideas essential to how git works, and what makes git different to other version control systems.

As other comments have said, this is showing 'just another SCM system' without illuminating the design decisions that make git different.

For example, in git it is extremely important that commit objects have a unique identifier for any given working directory, history, and commit meta-data. Without this guarantee the distributed architecture of git is (almost) impossible to implement.

In the commit section the tutorial states:

a simple Commit class would have ... a change containing the snapshot of change made. Understanding how a change is actually stored is beyond the scope of this implementation.

This terminology is misleading at best, and skips over a very important concept in how git actually works. The phrase 'snapshot of change made' is misleading, as a commit doesn't contain any explicit information about changes made. Instead, the staged files in the working directory are saved into a 'blob' store, a tree structure is created to represent the directory structure, and a reference to the tree is saved in the commit object. I understand that all this is outside the scope of the tutorial, however an outline of how commits work is important information for anyone trying to understand how git works. For example, the storage format is the primary reason operations in git are so fast.

Again, I like the tutorial, but if it wants to teach about git, as opposed to other version control systems, it needs to ensure the key git concepts are maintained.
The way Windows alternates between good/bad has always been a running joke among my friends and I, and we always assumed Win 8 would be crap, and Win 9 would be good. Most my friends didn't even upgrade to 8, being so sure that this is going to be the case, and are waiting to see 9 instead.
If they want to question you, it is in their best interest to get you a lawyer. You have the right not to answer questions until a lawyer is present (and after, but that's not my point).
I would recommend the Aduino forums http://forum.arduino.cc/

If what something even smaller you can try out the TinyCircuits that I work for:
http://tiny-circuits.com/

Those use the same hardware as an Arduino uno.
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I was an avid Common Lisp and Clojure user for a long time, two years ago I would've agreed with you.

You should learn Haskell :)
Sorry, creating a throwaway account for this since I mostly lurk on HN.

The code used to build Datanyze was stolen from a pre-existing internal tool Ilya was hired to work on at his previous company. All of the original UI looked exactly the same, it tracked all the same services, and the domain was registered while he was still an employee.

A lawsuit was filed, but was dropped because the company was working on closing an acquisition anyway. (http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuits/other-statutory-actions/c...)

Just wanted to get this out there so people know they are supporting blatant IP theft.
Currently I am at a cafe in Thailand, hanging out with a bunch of swedes from diverse backgrounds. Just asked them bout this. Apparently, notdrunkatall, according to my Swedish friends, you are incorrect, and that the welfare system is considered a massive success in Sweden and that the immigration problem is seen as a minor, short term issue that right wing politicians make a big stink out of to get nationalistic votes.
Nice video.

My opinion -- people who are smart often think that they know more than police. They may, possibly, but they definitely don't have the training necessary to predict how their statements (even if innocent) can be twisted to imply whatever the prosecutor wants.
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If you're in a room being questioned by police, they already want to arrest you. If they're still talking to you and have not charged you yet, there's a good chance they don't feel they have a slam dunk case, and they need to extract more information to get a conviction and not get reamed out by the prosecutor.

Just ask for a lawyer. Don't worry about having to sit there in awkward silence for hours if it comes to that. There's no law that says if you can't find a lawyer in X amount of time after asking, you don't get one. You don't have to schedule a time for a lawyer to come in to get you.

Once you ask for a lawyer (which should effectively terminate the questioning, or at least it should), one of three things may happen:

(1) you will be arrested and charged. You gave them no new evidence to use against you, so you're in the best possible position.

(2) you will be "detained" for some amount of time while they go about sketchy, quasi-legal moves to gather more evidence against you (applying for search warrants for saliva/blood sample, your vehicle, home, etc. and they want to keep an eye on you until these are approved and executed). Depending on how their fishing expedition goes, either #1 or #3 will follow.

(3) they will release you.

Regardless of what happens, DO NOT TALK TO THEM.

The one thing that no one ever mentions is that the police usually don't follow the rules, and the courts usually don't penalize them for it. The only way to protect yourself is to shut up. Don't even make small talk. It's a chess game and there's no move you can make where you don't lose. Do and say nothing.
I still don't understand the logic of how folding up shop was anything but signaling defeat.
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I have to disagree, because I don't see what being tech-savvy has to do with it.

There are therapists, landscapers, used car dealers, craftsmen, accountants, etc. All kinds of people are small business owners and have company blogs. Maybe they fumble around their website, but they can tell when the written content of an article on their topic (landscaping, accounting, etc.) is junk.
nice nick Bhaiji :P
Is that first point real? Do you actually find that offensive?
> Nobody could possibly expect businesses or sworn officers of the law to treat innocent citizens like human beings, to know anything about technology that is directly relevant to their jobs, or to think for five seconds.

You're obviously being sarcastic, but I really don't think it's prudent to expect this.

I'm not trying to brush off the behavior of the FBI in this case, but I am trying to be realistic. Yes, in a perfect world your rights would never be violated, but law enforcement groups in this country have a long history of behaving poorly in situations like this... why on earth would you expect them to behave any differently when it happens to you?

I was just trying to point out that your actions don't exist in a vacuum, and people don't take the time to figure out what's actually going on before they react. When you behave in a certain way, people make judgements and decisions based on the context they have for that behavior. If you're not fully aware of the social context surrounding a particular behavior, you're likely to get yourself into all sorts of trouble.

If you're trying to provoke authority figures and make a statement about rights or privacy or whatever, then fine, you probably understand what you're doing and should do the opposite of what I suggested.

But it sounded to me like the author had no idea what he did wrong. The thing he did wrong was to fail to understand that walking into a theater with a camera bolted onto your glasses is a colossally stupid thing to do, given the context of piracy, the MPAA, and the FBI.
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You ever listen to the first movement of Mozart's 25th symphony? And then contrast that with the second movement of his clarinet concerto? His 25th symphony was one of his earlier works and his clarinet concerto was one of his last. His clarinet concerto is a technically more interesting piece, but would you say that you think the latter piece is more than the other, based on those technical grounds? I like both pieces for different, indescribable reasons that go beyond technical depth.

I think one of the problems of creatively-oriented endeavors is that we confuse mastery with fulfillment. The smarter and more talented you are, the easier it is to fall into this trap. We chase hard problems instead of noticing the interesting problems that lie at our feet, hidden in plain sight amongst our daily dirty work. We chase braggable successes instead of indescribable play. And then we get bored and quit, sometimes without accomplishing much depth at all, and it's not obvious until you step away from it all to take stock of it. At least that's my two cents on it.
Other valid and antiquated instances of this loop-hole: marry great-granddaughter/-son.
You're right, I found about it afterwards. I wonder why this hosting company didn't provide it (or an equivalent) out of the box.
This guy starts too many sentences with "so", just like me.
In that case it would be more rational to spend money on asteroid detection and deflection. That would be orders of magnitude cheaper and easier than building a completely self sufficient space colony.
As a provider, do you feel happy that the stats for your service are out in the open? Turning it around, do you feel any value from seeing how you compare to other providers? :)
> It helps if you dress like a detective, too. Detectives dress kind of square. People think this guy is a cop. They're going to think you're packing something. They don't fuck with you so much.

from Repo Man http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/
That isn't anywhere near enough to cause extinction, and the vast amounts of resources, engineers, scientists, etc required to do that would be much better spent solving those problems instead.
Invent a new programming language.
Really great talk. I liked Gatekeeper. Reminded me of Decider at Twitter and an (unnamed?) similar tool at Etsy.
There are some ev-psych theories that our intelligence developed because back in ancestral times, in small groups, being good at internal politics meant better chance for reproduction and/or not dying too fast.
Please, people: DO NOT ALLOW THE AUTHORITIES FREE ACCESS TO YOUR DEVICES TO PROVE INNOCENCE!

Conceding to law enforcement this way only motivates them to promote policy that allows for further rights violations.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMjMPlXzdA
Theaters are pretty much all digital now and the actual files are encrypted so I doubt breaking and entering alone would get you very far.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/128963-how-digital-techno...
What is so Broadband Shaming about it? In Reality if you live inside even a small size village you are very unlikely to get 300Mbps to yourself. Factor in radio frequency distortion I would be surprise if you could even get a constant 100Mbps.

Unless you are from US where i heard broadband are pretty bad.
I think the word is typically pronounced slightly differently (more correctly?) when used that way. This clip from The Hangover uses the slight differences in pronounciation for comedic effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoendYt_ZJ0 (skip to 0:45, video contains mildly offensive humor).

Obviously the obsolete medical usage, now offensive usage, is just the regular word meaning delayed, but I think that somehow that specialized usage strayed from the generic usage over time.
I said you can't do anything productive with Metro, a.k.a. it's useless for doing anything productive.

I didn't say you can't avoid Metro to do something productive on the classic desktop.
I mean the current SEO market. There is a lot of investment in making your website adhere to best SEO practices. If things like this take off (and it appears it is) then there might be a new market to disguise and hide the tech your business runs to avoid providing your competitors with information.
Amazing how fast this space heated up.
After you lunch, you should take a nap, and then get any remaining work done. Later, dinner.

I'd avoid swimming directly afterwards.
I have always thought twitter TPS were high, until i heard China WeiBo was doing those TPS constantly and had a highest TPS record 10x more then twitter..
It's not quite the Java 2D API, but damned it's close.

Why not just knock off a good API, like that for <canvas>?
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We've been using it on HDP2 for about a month now. Everything works fairly well and it was super easy to setup because of YARN (and the work the Spark team put in).
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It really all depends on what you plan on working on. Really I would suggest any of the frameworks over plain PHP... rails, django, etc
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I did not find any point in his story where the author having a concealed weapon on his person would have improved his situation.