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>Modern browsers might have addressed this issue, but there remain large numbers of users who are using older (unpatched) browsers and have (unpatched) Java enabled too.

At some point, the world will have to tell them "you're on your own" like it finally did with IE6. Perhaps give them helpful informative messages to upgrade - I bet if Facebook and Twitter redirected old browsers to such a page, their market share would shrink to negligible levels overnight.
No thanks. I would prefer that Docker work equally well on as many base operating systems as possible. Having any form of coupling would turn Docker into another locked in platform which is exactly the opposite of the way I see the future of deployments.

I mean seriously you really want a single vendor owning the base OS of all servers ?
"'Fiat money' in derivation and use means something more and somewhat different than simply 'unbacked by other collateral'."

No, it really doesn't. The "non-governmental money" meaning is the colloquial use that has evolved in the various goldbug/btc nutter forums (I cringe every time I see people flinging around the phrase "convert to fiat" as if it meant something), but "fiat money" means exactly what tpatcek says it does: a money that is not backed by a commodity.

"For example, the word 'fiat' alludes to a decree – as in a legislative or military 'fiat' – that the money is valuable and should (or must) be used."

The word "fiat" is not a military allusion. It is Latin. It means "let it be done", or "it shall be". It is widely used in academic literature (not just economics) to denote any situation that arises by decree. The use is quite old, and it is understood that the entity making the decree does not have to be special or powerful.

This is a case where some people read some economics literature and misunderstood the academic jargon, then started to abuse it.
> relentless with new functionality

They also raised $800m in mid-2012: http://pando.com/2012/05/21/bootstrapped-github-now-raising-...
They come very cheaply (or for free) with most phone operators.
Economics would be a lot more interesting if they discussed things in terms of joules rather than in terms of dollars.
>> 15M gives investors control

Without inside information you have no idea if this is true or not. It may very well not be. Facebook raised over 2 Billion prior to their IPO and never gave up control. $XXm Investment != Control.
>In order to survive, the population has to create new hosts faster than they're being killed

I don't think that's true. Why do there need to be new connections for you to go through? What you just described is the equivalent of setting up your contacts list from scratch. Say on your phone. You get a new phone and now get to re-add all the people you know or knew. Because you want to stay in touch with them.

Once that is done, does that contact list of yours also "die out" because there is nothing new to add on a regular basis? I don't think so. You just finished building your initial contacts. And you know what happens then? You start to use it. On a regular basis. It is a tool you set up and once it is set up you use it. Simple as that. And that is the same way you can use Facebook. Once you added all the people you want to stay in contact with you can do just that.

It all boils down to how people actually use Facebook. Do they use it like a tool as I just described? Or do they merely play the game of "Who can collect the most "friends""?

I use it as a tool. I have my real friends on there. I don't have 300+ people on there just so when I post something I can marvel at the multitude of "likes" to get some kind of gratification through it. And as long as all those people continue to use Facebook I can continue to keep in touch with them this way. Even past 2017 or whatever date these people have calculated.
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I'm not convinced. While most people might have spent enough money on their iOS apps to feel this way, I doubt that buying the same apps (if their free alternatives don't exist) on Android would rack up more than a few tens of dollars.

There are things that iPhone and Apple products still do better than their Android counterparts. For example, you still can't do screen mirroring from your android device to a Chromecast. Meanwhile, AppleTV works like a charm.

But, when it comes to SmartPhones independently, I'm of the opinion that marketing is the only thing keeping iPhone alive. The list of things you get for free with Android that you can't get with the iPhone even if you paid for them are growing longer and longer... Off the top of my head, here are things I've heard from friends who recently switched:

Woa, how did I ever go without Widgets!

Swyping is supported by default, _and_ I can change the default keyboard?!

I can charge my phone with any USB cable, _and_ upgrade my battery?!

You don't _have_ to use iTunes for everything?!
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What's the difference between "leading" day to day operations and "managing" them?
Depends on the language. In Haskell function calls are extremely lightweight, syntactically speaking, and so it's actually quite common to write one line functions. A one-line function may consist of a composition of a dozen or more other functions and be given a short, one-word name. This makes perfect sense for reuse. Or it can be something as simple as this:

odds = filter odd

While that might not make sense if you only call odds once, you might end up calling it a dozen times! You may also want to limit the scope of this function definition by using a let or where clause. This can aid readability if it allows you to avoid repetition.
Some venture capitalists and some entrepreneurs. But those include some who haven't hit it big yet.

How much pollution does a 737 emit on takeoff and landing? That sure isn't being dispersed. Try parking near SJ airport for a few days. You'll find your car coated.

Like I said, it's for economic expediency... A perk to attract workers but with potential environmental cost.
Are you sure? I think we're doing pretty well at that. oDesk and open source have done a lot for a lot of people.
Have you actually tried CoreOS? Great idea.. needs some work.

Hint: Boot2Docker is actually what you want.
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Let's raise some support for GPGTools
It took them over 3 years to release ANY version of an iphone in finland (one of the listed nations in the article): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_iPhone#European_....

You're reading the Wikipedia article wrong. The iPhone was released in Finland in 2008 when the 3G model came out, and that's stated in the article as well.

The primary reason for not releasing the original iPhone in European markets was the lack of 3G. A 2G-only smartphone would have been a hard sell in European markets back in 2007-08 when 3G was already widely deployed and used.
What do you think about Python for system administration?
I will have to replace my existing cobbled-together infrastructure which I know to be borderline functional with hand-rolled work to Dockerize it

I think you'll find a lot of core pieces of infrastructure end up being Dockerized for you.
Sometimes wanting just isn't enough
And should sound somewhat like Merlin, since it's the welsh for it. :)
Also, picking one or two of these skills makes you stand out a bit more for potential employers looking for these particular skills.

A bit like picking a vertical in a market.
> Those people probably live in SF because they want to spend their evenings and weekends in the city

I really think this is the big draw. I've heard Googlers complain about how crowded the SF office is on Fridays because of their peers from Mountain View finding excuses to work from their office so they can hit the town in the evening. Even people who live in the valley don't stay there for fun.
The odds of winning are 1 in 4,294,967,296 at random guessing. If your system can do 100 times better, that reduces it to 1 in 42,949,672. Or an expected utility of a measly 23 dollars, so don't waste too much time on it.
But not for Bluetooth LE, I think?
If templeos is not God's official temple, it is nothing.

If templeos is God's official temple, it is everything.
You can write fortran in any language.

All CSS gives us is an option to not suck. It doesn't force us to not suck — we can still write poor CSS. Given the number of PHP programmers I'm not surprised that poor CSS is common.
The point being, they never need $1 billion to pay out either version of the prize. Hence, the prize is NOT worth $1 billion. If you take the 40 year version and claim $25 million each year, the remainder of the cash could be invested such that it will cover all the payouts eventually. You need far less than a $1 billion investment to do this.
> Maybe the next generation of programming languages will be nodes or visual blocks that chain together or something

The problem is, you still need to have control at a "line of code" level of granularity (though not quite a line of assembler mnemonic) if you want to have general purpose programming power. You could probably, with some work, make a graph tool for something like ifttt[0] and do powerful things relatively simply. It's not quite programming though.

I've used state machine UML code generation systems in which you "program" by moving blocks around (something akin to a flow chart). Even when the system's purpose is something extremely limited, e.g. handling a phone's menu transitions, there's still a mind-bending amount of complexity to handle.

I believe ImageJ[1], a freely downloadable image analysis tool, is among the tools with this sort of UML functionality built in if you want to play with it.

[0] https://ifttt.com/

[1] http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/
Find a buyer that can monetize. Killing something with traction is just throwing potential money, and future credibility, away.
Unbelievably sustainable business practice. It's amazing that they've been doing that decades after decades.
Their valuation for a rumoured first round was between $500 and $800M. They ended up raising $100M (which is still mind-boggling).

But in the rest you are correct.
You are referring to the pirated versions of my app?
Actually i dont have hard figures.

Initially I was not aware of pirated versions. I even had my app translated to chinese because I thought it would be a huge market. But after I did that, i noticed Google Play is not active there, and all paid apps are free in china.... Pirated versions.

I tried to prevent pirated versions of my app by performing code obfuscation, but probably it was still easy to crack.
I regret I have but one downvote to give. This guy really thinks that all male primary school teachers should be presumed paedophiles unless proven otherwise. Or maybe a more charitable interpretation would be that paedophilia is a normal male thing. Either way this person makes Mary Rosh look like a decent human being.
Except they're limiting entries to the first 10 million.
Here is the first update I've seen from the company (rather than just tweets from a CS person). Looks like the program is not targeting all users, but the top 1% of their traffic.

http://domainnamewire.com/2014/01/21/network-solutions-auto-...
From what I understand, Docker looks like it can solve a lot of the practical issues involved with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Have you guys looked at targeting the enterprise market? Lots of enterprises that I'm talking to are looking into building their own private clouds for their SOA, and Docker could make that much easier.

From what I've seen on the technical side you just need rock-solid stability (or a strategy to achieve that via distributed architecture) and good management tools. Meat-space requires more work/investment (support, training, certification etc).
I think most design patterns and 'best practices' exist because, without them being explicit, people will tend to do the opposite. Obviously, there are always use cases where going against the pattern might make sense. But you should be able to justify it.

Would you rather have mostly short functions with a couple long ones or the opposite?
Wtf is wrong with you? Someone shares a project that they have done for fun and enjoyment and you publicly call it "awful" without any explanation. Would you do that to someone in person when they show you something they've done?

The least you could have done is explain what you don't like about it and how you would have made it differently to make it better.

This kind of behavior is something that pisses the hell out of me, and to be frank it also keeps me from sharing some of my for-fun projects. I don't want to spend a lot of time documenting them and writing a blog post to hear some dumbass call it "awful" without explanation.
About a 0.2% chance of anyone out of the 10 million winning it (assuming they all guess randomly which probably isn't true, meaning it's even higher than that.) That's an expected payout of $2,328,306 for Buffet.
Hahaha Emiel! (I worked with him for over 2 years).
I can give you a link to the source so you can implement it in objective-c. I'll buy you a beer!
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It's a happy story, and I'm sad to see all the naysayers in this thread. I really don't see what's unethical about his behavior. He never lied about his views and his fiancee knows the whole story.

It seems like a totally rational response to the insanities of online dating. Especially as a guy, you have to message hundreds of women to even get a handful of replies. Through automation, he's equalized the playing field so that, like women, he has the opportunity to filter only amongst those who have already expressed interested in him. No more time/effort wasted on women who never reply.

I actually was working on an automated framework for batch messaging and a/b testing on OKCupid (https://github.com/morgante/abcupid) before realizing I don't have time for a relationship.
What Hard Drive Should I Buy?[Backblaze Report]
It's not Apple's fault.

If I ask for your gmail user / pass is that fine because there's no API ?
I once had a different service refuse to cancel my account unless I called them. Supposedly it was "for security", but I hadn't even signed up via phone, so that made no sense. I emailed their head of media relations, and said that I was going to publicize that they steal money from people. They apologized and cancelled my account in less than an hour.
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You are very right. There is also this howler from Gattung, the former CEO of Telecom in New Zealand, where she discusses the use of confusion as a marketing tool.

http://publicaddress.net/3147

Edit: Forgot the link. Duh...
Seems to be a really good deal... have you thought of any "cons" or major missing feature?

I wish these oriental-market phones could be taken more in consideration by those we-compare-all web sites...

It seems that to buy a good phone and save some money you need to transform yourself in a phone-crazy teenager who watches all phone reviews on youtube...
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Angel Investing in India: An imaginary startup bubble bursts
All the reasons boil down to one: human brains can not hold too much working memory.
My (quite oldschool) professor taught me about this top-down design. This kind of "write as if you have all the methods you want/need" style is sometimes called "Wishful Programming" http://blog.thesoftwarecraft.com/2013/11/wishful-programming...

Bart Bakker references "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" as an early source and I'm somewhat positive that I read about an similar approach in "How to design programs 2nd ed", called "programming with a wish list".

Edit: I found the mention in HtDP but as I understand it it's not exactly the same as wishful programming:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/part_one.html

under "3.4 From Functions to Programs"
Wow, funny that a local version can make so much money... Maybe I should be creating somthing simple but usefull too... Sometimes we software devs think we have to create something complex in order to get money... But you just have to solve a simple problem people have. Thanks for the insights!
I purchased Mail Pilot and Unibox because of this article — with the intent for one of them to replace Sparrow (which is amazing, but there are bugs that will never be fixed).

I liked Unibox more. It has a way of minimising the complexity of my inboxes. Being able to see all the attachments to and from a particular person is very nice.

Mail Pilot feels a little less polished and less smooth. It also makes a very strong effort to educate me (popups and explanations are attached to everything, intro tutorials and videos) but I still found it a little confusing to navigate. Initially the "New Message" button simply did not work until I restarted the app.

Unibox did not make much effort to teach me. And despite completely rethinking my inbox I've found it straightforward to use. Unibox seems to place the information you are looking for right where you expect it (for example, dates fade in and attach to the scrollbar as you swipe through your emails, changing as you scroll). It's very cleverly designed to show and hide information as you navigate, without showing too much.

If you don't mind switching to a people-centric interface, I'd recommend Unibox. Mail Pilot seems aimed more at people who like to organise their email (the reminders system, completion checks, sorting). I just like to read my email and write, and Unibox does a great job of it.
Yelling "think" is not actually the substitute for evidence that you seem to believe it is.
Physicists discover 'clearest evidence yet' that the Universe is a hologram
Hey Solomon,

Are you open to, indifferent, or against other hosting providers offering hosted Docker solutions?
They should have rejected your app until they had an Oauth solution in place. That's the right answer to avoid training Apple users to be fishing targets.

Sunrise doesn't have a (known) security problem. Sunrise happened to reveal a glaring problem with Apple's security policies.
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The self-regard of journalists never ceases to impress me. What other profession would believe that they have priveliged claim to the most fundamental of the rights enumerated in the Bill or Rights?
This was posted a few months back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6659091). The page now includes a new version with a more powerful fan.

The fan looks like one of these models:

- TSK-F8103 (65W, about 380RMB on taobao)

- TSK-F8705 (55W, about 230RMB on taobao)

Does anyone know which one it is for sure?

Does anyone know what they use as a pre-filter? From the picture it looks like an aquarium filter.
Interesting stats, but I wonder if the drive usage pattern at BackBlaze is somewhat different from that of a home user. In terms of how they seek, read and write. Not that they put more mileage on them faster, but that they might be doing something fundamentally different from how these drives are tested by their manufacturer. Lots of bulk in-sequence writes or something else. The 5-7 times difference in failure rates between leading manufacturers is frankly hard to believe.
Who doesn't use this feature? Single people, that's who.

People with families have known about this feature for years. The sales staff at the Apple Stores specifically bring it up.
Altcoins are just another blockchain that uses the basic bitcoin idea of proof of work or stake to validate a distributed ledger, there are dozens to hundreds of them by now and they're all effectively just different distributed ledgers with some modified rules (total coins, rewards per block, demurrage, things of this nature) that are traded on cryptocurrency exchanges like cryptsy with bitcoin.

Because they're liquid with bitcoin they're effectively liquid with all the other currencies in the world, including each other. So you can do things like gauge the profitability of a given altcoin with code and switch your mining based on the current highest daily return, and you can do things like run trade bots that trade into and out of bitcoin and that altcoin depending on various market indicators etc to get the best return on top of that base return, and last of all you can do the same trading strategies with bitcoin and fiat currencies themselves, so it becomes a three layered freelance trading strategy.

To summarise;

* Miners pull down altcoins with raw GPU horsepower.

* Bots trade between the altcoins and bitcoin on market indicators that work best.

* Other bots trade between bitcoins and fiat on market indicators that work best.

I used to just be a coder working for employers directly but this makes me accountable to nobody but the effectiveness of my algorithms. I'm still open to the freelancing side and looking at other opportunities because it is largely passive, but it's the first opportunity I've ever had where I become completely unaccountable to other human beings, and I must admit that has a lot of attraction to me.

I'm a global roaming digital nomad and have been for the past five years or so, but I have always had to worry about being contactable by my clients and timezone shifts and things of this nature, now that doesn't matter so much as I don't even need to talk to anyone at all if I don't want to. After finally achieving absolute complete communication disconnection with the entire rest of humanity though I am starting to feel the slightest inkling of what I have constantly heard other people talking about with feeling something missing in not being in the office and interacting with others all the time.

It's a crazy world, and I'm a crazy person.
Or ban it.
Back in the day when chat rooms were filled with actual people rather bots, this was a great place to talk with the other gender without much fear. I actually meet my wife through a MSN Chat room.

I think that one big disadvantage for those who work in a highly technical field (engineer, scientist etc), contact with the ladies are quite few, this means opportunities for interaction will be significantly smaller.
Yahoo mail implies Chromium degraded browser; asks upgrading to FireFox/Safari
Yeah, you're not wrong.

Its quite odd, and fascinating, because it has the info you'd want to see, give it a second or two, and it does look purposely designed. But, yes, it looks like a parked domain page. Or at the very least, hints at one.

I guess its one of those instances where no one sort of blinked and saw it how we are seeing it... if you know what I mean. Same sort of thing that happens when a song writer writes a song they genuinely thought was original, only to find out they has dragged up something from their subconscious that they heard before. I bet if at some point someone said, hey, that looks like a parked domain page the designers would have immediately seen it too.
I cannot even find any guidance from Apple on recommended patterns for which Apple IDs should be shared, which should be individual, and so on. This isn't even a configuration option, it's a hack that happens to work. (And there's no guarantee that Apple won't change their model tomorrow, since they've never given any guidance on what those multiple AppleIDs are supposed to mean.)