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its not about what can be done, its about the learning curve and conciseness of the rules.
pf has nice user space tools and easy, powerful syntax.

netfilter's iptables syntax well.. over the last, what, 10 years? we all got used to it. seems like nftables is going to required another 5 to become more or less known among people...
Have you ever had to work a split shift? Not just been assigned one, but been in a situation where you had to take a menial job, and were forced to work this sort of shift, because if you didn't you'd be fired and likely unable to eat/have a place to sleep?

I used to write call center management software in the late 90s and they had split shift for years. The workers loved it. The people with kids could get the middle of the day and late at night shifts. That way they could take their kids to school and pick them up each day. Admittedly it was not something that was forced, but the call center always had the split shift schedules full.
Renaming more things should be this easy.
Having just implemented a specification where the spec was less useful than some source, I'd say that literature is not code for sure. And as someone who has read literature, though I wasn't an english major like the author--you know it seems like they encourage english majors to treat writing as a specimen--it seems true that code is not literature either, it doesn't even compare for entertainment value for example.
Looks cool, but I don't think it should be using MtGox values as the default.
> because if you didn't you'd be fired and likely unable to eat/have a place to sleep?

Unemployment pay?

Migrant workers, you say? Well, that's an entirely different problem.
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By any practical measure Apple is indeed paying in that they gift the show with free iPads / iPhones / Computers / etc. Hence why the credits usually say that "promotional considerations" were provided by Apple.

However as others have said, Apple appearances do tend to be much more subtle, insofar as a big Apple logo is subtle.
You are 100% correct.

I should have used the /sarcasm tag so zwdr didn't take me so literally.
> Are there no affluent black neighborhoods where a white person might look out of place?

Can't say I've ever been to any neighborhood that would fit that description. Have you?

> Being poor sucks but people aren't poor because they're black anymore than they're black because they're poor.

I think the causal links binding race & poverty are a little more complex than you're giving them credit for.

Scale (e.g. how "much" one affects the other) is certainly up for debate. Arguing that they have no impact on each other whatsoever doesn't pass the sniff test.
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There is definitely a strong argument for the value of experience when disrupting an old industry. The main reason real estate has thwarted off technology for so long is that regulation and entrenched practices are set up to keep super-disruptive technology at bay.

This is why I think it is going to take a company with both human agents and software developers to make any real change. It has to be disrupted from the inside out, making experience all the more important.
It seems like you don't know much about marketing, so best refrain to make such statements.
Did you start an Instarepl? That's where you get the most obvious realtime feedback.
For SELinux on RHEL, you have to take explicit action to disable it. Now it is probably likely that admins who haven't added any SELinux skills to their skillset only learn how to turn it off and not set permissions correctly. However, that is almost as bad as running chmod 777 on everything (which I've seen plenty of people do). The minimum that anyone admining a RHEL-derived system should learn is the chcon (change security context) command, and running the tools to diagnose SELinux issues.

If you must, start off with setting SELinux to "Permissive" instead of disabling it completely. Then after a few days of running, go through your audit logs, fix any of the errors that come up, then set it back to Enforcing.
What does mandatory voting mean exactly?

Can I still vote invalid?

What ist the punishment for not voting?
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AFAIK the only existing conversion tool is no longer maintained. So if you've got an existing less project, you might have to stick with it for now...
I think you misunderstood my tone, which in hindsight I should have phrased differently. I was saying

"Women aren't required to have kids... but this quote implies that all women have kids, which annoys me"
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You need links as well. "Sure, but good content will naturally be linked to", but then ask yourself, when was the last time you gave something you liked a dofollow link on your blog? And even if you did, you maybe gave one link for every 100 you enjoyed but didn't.

People very rarely link to things these days, and the big guys will pay people to provide links. Guest blogging was previously the ethical way to get those links until people started abusing it.
With Clojure it's a bit different cause you want to handle non-locking using atoms/refs/agents/whatever. In my engine you can either a) have the first entity send a message to the object it wants to pick up, then have the object handle a queue of transformation functions on its state. The first function that is run on the object's thread is the one that changes its state or b) if you want immediate response have the first entity actually act on the object to pick up, due to atom (or refs) locking/transactions only one of the two entities can act on the object, hence the second one will fail to pick it up.
And made him richer than you or I can ever dream of, and got his inventions to change the lives of millions of people, but apart from that...
I'm not sure I understand concurrency for concurrency's sake. It seems a non-concurrent version of this would run at least two orders of magnitude faster than either implementation.

Maybe I'm just set in my old ways, but I tend to equate adding concurrency with adding complexity (mostly to debugging and code legibility) and really only do it when I'm CPU-bound. Even then, it has to be a pretty darn good reason.

I understand there are some benefits of CSP programming, but simple message passing where every single thread wakes up during the call? Half the time you're looking at network or memory bandwidth issues which a single thread could easily saturate.

Now maybe if each of these threads were say, an intelligent agent doing hitting the CPU hard, but this? This two microbenchmarks run for an exceptionally short period of time merged together: one is the creation of threads and one is message passing between them.
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Publishers provide cock-waving value. That is, most academics are concerned with advancing their careers (or lack of), and well-established journals are still a big thing for the people running the institutions.

The physical medium is long gone, but for format is still the same - essentially non-interactive PDFs which emulate the paper.
If a project offered a value of 10 times its...
Extra code on disk doesn’t cost anything (well disk space, but that is “free” for practical purposes). A compiler can arrange so that all of the code for a given architecture appeared consecutively in the binary, and then the pages and cachelines containing implementations unused by the processor on which you are running are never loaded into memory / never take up space in the cache.

Also, in practice code is a tiny portion of the size of a typical application. Far more space is consumed by resources like images and sounds.
When the salesman said my fridge could "handle spam", he wasn't kidding!
I don't know that I would agree that this should be an issue against those practicing law. While I think we can all agree that its unethical, it is within the law as it is now. We could go on all day blaming the lawyers, but they are not the source of the problem. Only one of many results of a system that has its flaws.
This is the difficulty in fighting spam. Google's goal is to determine which sites are the "best," and use, as their measure for doing so, the number of natural (organic) links as a scorecard. And as soon as people realized that's what Google was looking at, they started to mimic the organic links to boost their own ranking.

In a sense, Google is the largest crowdsourced project of all-time. It's a lot like Reddit or HackerNews in that every link is an upvote, but the genius of Google is that each link carries a different weight, and that links are a natural byproduct of using the Internet. In short, the people contributing to the crowdsourced ranking system don't even realize they're doing so most of the time. They're just doing what they like and leaving a byproduct of doing so (links, social signals) that Google can use to tell you which sites people consider valuable.

But that means that once people realize what Google is using to rank, they can mimic those signals, and sway the algorithm in their favor. The problem Google is going to run into is that once spammers can closely (and at times programmatically) mimic what is happening "organically," Google's algorithms cannot tell the difference.

Right now Google's approach seems to be ignoring or highly devaluing portions of the Internet that have been overrun with spam. Article submissions, blog comments, and now apparently guest posting, which sucks for people that do really high quality, organic guest posting; for Google that has to be collateral damage. Spammers will simply move on to the next portion of the Internet, mimicking what Google still uses as a ranking signal. It's an endless battle.

One of the big things I see happening now is entire website hijackings (I've been meaning to email you about that, Matt). I did a quick little report on the search engine results for "Viagra," and 81 of the top 100 are hijacked websites, including a client I have to upgrade to a newer version of Drupal, as the older one has been compromised. I don't know if or how Google will win this battle, but it's far from over. I honestly feel like the new way we gather data to rank websites, and what will be successful in 25 years, will have to be completely unrelated from what Google is doing now, and much harder to manipulate than spreading links all over the Internet.
You seriously believe we need more effort put forth in the nursing industry? Please list a single one of these <insert female dominate industry here> that is highly important for solving mankind's problems?
It is not as simple/obvious as you may think it is. It depends on what the goals of the govt are. If the govt is trying to encourage progress on cancer drugs, they can certainly give grants to stimulate that research direction. If the govt said if you get even 1 cent of grant money from us, you can't patent your drug. Well .. few researchers will take that money. The govt can of course fund a new lab that does cancer research. It can choose to make all IP that comes out of this lab public. I think in the former case, there is a bigger multiplier effect/leverage from the same amount of money (without the IP restriction).

You need to realize that IP is an artificial monopoly granted by the govt for a purpose.
I'm saying the way Animus9 'advocates mens rights' is equal to being a rightwing military cult person.
I imagine the business model is the repackage the same thing under as many search term combinations as they can think that people would try to find a game like this. In food terms, like a restaurant advertising the same thing as, "BBQ," "Smoked Meat," "Southern Grill Food," "St. Louis Pork," "Tailgate Plate," etc. It's just pushing SEO into the actual name of the game.
It's only a matter of time until we have self-driving refrigerators /NBd
It's not just the price point (though if I'm going to spend $200,000 buying it, I'm sure going to see it first, including the inside).

It's also that I'm going to have to live in this environment. That noisy neighbor? The web site isn't going to tell me about that. It isn't going to tell me about the gang sign on the building across the street (I know, Google Street View). It isn't going to tell me about the feel of the neighborhood - whether, at gut level, I'm going to feel comfortable having my wife and kids live there. There's simply no way I'm going to make a decision about living somewhere without physically going there first. It's not like renting a hotel room for a night.
It is unfortunate that FreeBSD chose those names to attract people to the pre-release versions. What's needed is a section of the website clarifying:

CURRENT = alpha, dev

STABLE = beta, rc

RELEASE = passed all tests and released

That's not to say that things never break in releases. I've seen gjournalled disks (on a gmirror) require fsck (in 8 and 9 -REL) and carp fail (in 7 -REL). Other than those FreeBSD has been the most reliable, secure and up-to-date of any Unix or Linux distribution I've used. My only request would be a policy discouraging ports with perl build-deps, most of which seem to be one-liners that could easily use awk, sed and/or grep instead of forcing a perl build on every upgrade (most not even bothering to remove the build-deps when done).
We need a clear definition of "social responsibility", as many use the term to mean "collective responsibility", which really means 'foisting the costs on the politically powerless".

I see "social responsibility" as personal, which means that you are personally responsible for the society you live in; this is difficult when the government crowds out charities, and gives many people reason to free-ride.
Oh man, it looks like iOS threw up all over this redesign. What's the extra popout menu on the right for? it's all the same stuff from your navbar. And why are all the account management tools shoved in a tiny menu in the corner of the screen even when I'm logged in?
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Most of the time they cover their logo (because who doesn't keep stickers in the dead-middle of their laptop's screen), but there aren't a lot of manufacturers using aluminum for their machines, or have the iMac's back shape.
Good on you for having a CEO with real-world experience in your field. :) That makes all the difference.

So if your target market is the brokers, the trick is providing value to them. That means more commissions, or more profit per commission. There might be a market for painkillers and making it less stressful, but that will be a much smaller market than getting a piece of that commission cash flow.

And for pricing, either you charge a LOT for service, or you get paid per commission as a percentage, which puts you in the land of state-by-state regulatory and is hard.

To me, this feels a lot more like the enterprise software market than the consumer app markets that seem to attract so many startups. I keep seeing people talk about a B2C approach, and I just don't see how you make a lot of money at that.
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Fair, but unless he is actually discriminating he should be able to get by with relatively few issues.
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The title reminded me a little of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDW7kobM6Ik
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Why do we still embed natural language descriptions of source code (i.e., the reason why a line of code was written) within the source code to the exclusion of intrinsically linked separate documents?

http://i.stack.imgur.com/JlUiE.png

The potential advantages include:

- More source code and more documentation on the screen(s) at once

- Ability to edit documentation independently of source code (regardless of language?)

- Write documentation and source code in parallel without merge conflicts

- Real-time hyperlinked documentation with superior text formatting

- Quasi-real-time machine translation into different natural languages

- Every line of code can be clearly linked to a task, business requirement, etc.

- Documentation could automatically timestamp when each line of code was written (metrics)

- Dynamic inclusion of architecture diagrams, images to explain relations, call-graph hierarchies, etc.

- Single-source documentation (e.g., tag code snippets for user inclusion in manual[s]).
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My bad, I didn't read the '-amd64-' part clearly.
The Intel compiler is extremely good at finding and exploiting vectorization (SSE/AVX) opportunities; using these instructions in hot loops is becoming key to getting anywhere near peak performance out of modern CPUs.

Most people don't care enough about performance to notice, but recompiling with Intel's compiler often shows a 5-15% difference on number crunching codes and that's before spending time investigating the vectorization output and fine-tuning.

On the other hand, if you really care about speed then someone with some experience in performance tuning will typically be able to make your code run 4-8x faster, vastly outweighing any benefits from the compiler.
I don't think that the OP doesn't understand what "intellectual property" is, they just disagree with the assessment that it's necessary (or maybe proper) for the government to grant private monopolies on scientific knowledge.

You need to realize that people can know what IP is and still disagree with you.
Here's a question, though: Is it obvious for non-technical people that their links must be nofollow links?

Maybe I am naive, but I'd imagine that there might still be non-techies out there who would like to be heared (not talking of company blogs, obviously). This thing cuts two ways.

What you are saying implies that any person who is not aware of the obscure technical detail "nofollow links" has nothing valuable to say.
Because the other half are done by research orgs with budgets less than $100MM and the law doesn't apply to them.
All you should need to provide is the MAC address of the modem.

If you do buy a modem off of Craigslist, you need to make sure that the person takes the MAC address off of their Comcast account. Else, Comcast will not permit you to add the modem to your account, "for security purposes". For what security purpose this serves, I have no idea.
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It's also pretty common for a movie to be follow a particular non-fiction book closely, and then that book doesn't turn out to be very rigorously accurate. And very common for people to go public with disagreement with a movie where they were totally not interested in helping out with the original book.
I hope PACER follows suit soon. We are paying under the guise of the government having the burden of being the sole provider when it could very easily be distributively hosted with a verification system built-in. Doesn't eliminate all costs but that's never been the point. The point is to pay for costs that make sense.
The way this is currently handled is that when an author identifies that their article is funded by the NIH, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute or some others, it is automatically flagged to become public access in a year. Several of my own articles that were behind paywalls are now open access under said system.

Free access and copyright transfer aren't necessarily in opposition.
It's even worse than that - since companies are distributing binaries compiled with icc, it's more like a Ford gas refinery distributing gas to normal gas stations that secretly runs terribly in other cars. There simply is no way for the consumer to know what they're getting.
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Spot on there. Selling to the broker franchises in a B2B play is much easier than selling to individual agents in a B2C play. You have to prove to brokers that they are going to make more commissions and it is extremely hard to prove that ROI.

The paid per commission model has been tried by very few companies. It would expose a company to a significant amount of market risk (housing drops like 2008 and your SAAS play is now dead), but could make sense. The issue there is tracking closed deals. There are so many complications during the close that are out of the hands of the software.
What bothers me is that if a mainstream reviewer benchmarks ICC compiled programs, well, that isn't unfair. Real world programs are compiled with that compiler. AMD processors actually WILL under-perform on certain programs because of this.

That leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Code can be literature in specific cases, such as the Shakespeare programming language. It's just a whimsical, esoteric language, like lolcode, but it reads like the Immortal Bard himself was an early adopter of learning to program.

Example of a conditional statement:

Juliet:
Am I better than you?

Hamlet:
If so, let us proceed to scene III.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_(programming_langua...
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It's not who they passed on the way up, it's the fact that they did it in 12 years starting from when their company was 60 days from bankruptcy after spending the preceding decade in a seemingly endless death spiral with no future. Do you not remember Apple in 1996? Blackberry right now looks positively bursting with potential by comparison.
> The physical medium is long gone, but for format is still the same - essentially non-interactive PDFs which emulate the paper.

A surprising number of academics, including young academics (and myself) print out PDFs of papers. Most papers I actually use in my research end up with highlighter marks, different sections circled, annotations and notes to myself in the margins, etc.
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> The big reason was that I needed a distribution that did not change so frequently

Yeah, this is a perfectly valid reason and also why I tend not to use Arch on servers (as much as I would like to otherwise, though...). Both have their use cases, and I love Arch for desktops, but it's not a particularly great match for situations where rapid, near-constant change is unwarranted, unnecessary, or problematic. Arch is also a distro that requires a fair amount of love and care--failure to do so, as a friend of mine learned last year when I had to help him update a year old install, can result in an upgrade path that's nearly impossible. Fortunately, ARM was still up at the time.

There certainly is something to be said for stable distros with a strict upgrade path.

> I wonder if the advantages could have been accomplished without the binary file format.

I don't know. I'll be honest: I can't think of a time when I've actually made use of the filtering features of journalctl and systemd's binary format. Nearly all circumstances that have required me to examine the log are usually done by observing the last few entries or manual searches. To that extent, I'd agree that it bears a certain sense of overkill.

That said, it is still possible to feed syslog-ng entries from systemd. So I can't think of a reason to fret much over specific tooling or the likes that expects text logs.

IMO, the udev/systemd relationship, repo, etc. is probably a much more valid complaint, especially for distributions that aren't planning on using systemd in the near future as it likely has some impact on developer/maintainer workload. Although from a sysadmin perspective, the benefits of systemd are very real and material, at least in my experience.

Service introspection could probably use some work to simplify, so that's another complaint. I can never remember the commands half the time. ;)