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> The Linux community doesn't help either. Some of them want to be inclusive, but the majority of the community think that Linux should be an exclusive club where only those with a high level of knowledge should get treated with any kind of respect or help. Just go Google any Linux topic, and I assure you the first page will contain several forum post where the only response is "RTFM," "if you cannot figure this out you shouldn't be touching it (audio issues)" (paraphrasing), or even "maybe you'd be better off using Windows teehee."

Just in case anyone thinks you're making this up... For several years, the top result for a search on "ubuntu add user" was this page:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/add-a-user-on-ubuntu-s...

It's an interesting page, because it recommends the use of the low-level "useradd" instead of the easier "adduser". It mentions "adduser" but only way down the page.

Now the Debian/Ubuntu man page for "useradd" says "useradd is a low level utility for adding users. On Debian, administrators should usually use adduser(8) instead."

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man8/useradd.8.htm...

Of course I made the outrageous mistake of thinking that a "how to geek" site might have accurate information, so I followed along and used "useradd".

When that command left me in a confusing state, I posted a comment on the how to geek page suggesting that they should recommend "adduser" instead of "useradd" just like the Ubuntu man page recommends.

(Click the "show archived reader comments" link on the page to see the discussion.)

This did not go over well. I got these replies:

> Michael Greary you are a D&%K H#$&D. You’re the 1 that messed it up no1 else, and anyone else for that matter. Hopefully you’ve learnt by now that when blindly running linux commands you should read the whole article to make sure it’s what you want first. Blaming it on other ppl isn’t gonna help either. You should’ve said it by admitting your mistake, asking for a way to rectify it. (sigh) I bet you have no friends

And the somewhat more polite:

> Michael Geary, you shouldn’t blame the tutorial because you didn’t read it properly.

And this was after following a "how to" that recommended using the wrong command.
Seems like that would raise the same conflict of interest as wanting the post office to stop delivering spam: "but that makes us money".
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It would have been more helpful if that chart didn't mix the units of time.
When did this happen? My understanding is their scorecard criteria has changed recently, still incredibly idiotic that it was ever so though.
How is that simpler? It's still quite a delay to get from office to daycare, and wasted time traveling back and forth.
everyone who defends this type of spying does so saying it's only to catch 'terrorists'. Even if we accepted the idea that this would be all it ever was used for...it still means every one of us, right now, can be surveilled, locked up on any excuse, and charged with terrorism.

This is because the US government (and Five Eyes countries) has not, and probably will never define what the word "terrorist" means to them.
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That's not really a conflict of interest, but rather a core part of their business model. I got some spam from my local post office advertising how you can just drop off some spam, unaddressed, and they'll just shove it in everyone's mailbox.

It would be a conflict of interest if the postal service said "we hate spam" or something, but they don't, so I don't see the conflict.
Media Blacks Out New Snowden Interview The Government Doesn’t Want You to See
Interesting. I just got a call from 268-762-0013 today. I did what I usually do with numbers I don't recognize -- ignore it and look up the area code -- and figured it was some kind of scam when I saw it was from Barbados. But it's nice to know why they hung up after one ring.
You should understand the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
hey, tptacek-

I deeply respect you for this and many other posts. This was a really good point. I hope i can run into you at blackhat or RSA this year.
Nah, the new solution in Windows is "do a system restore", which is way easier than reinstalling everything. Works pretty well, too...
Got this when I visited your page: http://imgur.com/ulQuiSe

Seems like your overlords got the memo. ;-)
Radio and microwaves can still have biological effects, including cancer risk. Animal experiments prove this.
Right now I'm a dad who works in a similar situation, with a few notable exceptions (my 'coworkers' are my dog and cat, and the person taking care of my daughter while I'm working is my wife).

In my opinion, one of the major advantages of working from home is that when I want to take a break, I get to go hang out with my daughter. I really wouldn't want to trade that for anything... The downside to our arrangement is that my wife is very limited in what she can do, career-wise. A space like this would open up a huge number of alternatives for us, with very few tradeoffs (aside from the cost, which is conspicuously absent from the article...)
By making in-app purchases valuable and small, people are more likely to spend more on engaging games. This can increase TLV for good, replayable games.
I'd guess ahead-of-time compilation means they can "afford" slower compilation times (i.e., a slow compile won't disrupt the flow of user in an app). And that would give them room to do more optimization. But that's totally a guess.
I've often thought about getting a Windows 8 tablet (probably a Surface 2) and I'll admit there are some pretty good things about the Surface-being able to snap two apps side by side is a big plus over iOS and Android, and (horror of horrors) being able to run Flash in IE 11 is a plus. Not to mention the kickstand, and not having to prop my iPad up against a bookcase. I guess I think that Windows 8 is a pretty good choice for tablets-maybe its just me, who doesn't use a lot of apps, but I don't think there's a lot missing on the tablet side. Or take the Surface Pro 2-you have Metro IE 11 which runs ABP, which is in and of itself a bazillion times better than mobile Safari.

But yes, its a royal clusterfuck on the desktop, and I don't want Windows 8, much less a touch screen laptop that I"ll have to keep wiping down to keep fingerprints off of.
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Egad, the color scheme he uses in the code blocks is horrible. The snook.ca contrast calculator says that's only a 2.66:1 contrast ratio, which is terribly unreadable. It needs to be at least 7:1.

(CSS edited for clarity)
Am I correct in assuming this (and none of the alternatives posted) doesn't allow hosting on a VPN (not connected to the internet)?
Employee memberships could be an interesting option for companies that aren't set up to do on-site daycare and willing to have remote-ish people.
Talking about glib observations....
Kitestring: An app that checks up on you
But can he beat Watson?
So basically if i link to a horse mask like this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003G4IM4S?tag=t0c8f-20
on hacker news, it will make money (Ill donate anything I get from this to Glide), I wonder what the most successful hacks you can do with this are... writing a pinterest chrome app? a reddit app?
The rant is that it's exploitative and anti-consumer. You're removing value from your product in order to increase revenue.

That it works and perpetuates is not an argument in its favor.
Emulation layers do indeed work, just look at the Apple IBM to Intel transition and Rosetta for running G5 apps.
I think Microsoft jumped the gun by a few years, the Surface 2 Pro is the computing concept I think they believed was the future.

I run Windows 8 exclusively and I use a Start Menu replacement called Start Is Back, and it's great. It was only $3. I never use Metro on my 27" screen.

HOWEVER, I'm really keen to get something like the Lenovo Helix [1], as I think that's where things are going to go (like an iPad that has an i5 and runs both iOS and OS X). Sensible friends of mine who have the original Surface say metro is great as a tablet UI, the only annoyance being that the Store is lacking in many apps.

Either way, I think Metro is OK, they just screwed up the roll out. As we see more devices like the Surface 2 Pro, the Dell Venue 11 and the Lenovo Thinkpad Helix, it'll start to make more sense.

[1] http://shopap.lenovo.com/au/en/tablets/thinkpad/thinkpad-hel...
LOL, from the perspective of someone who routinely buys anime figures >$50 I find it funny. Although, I guess there is a big difference when you see the value (more of an artistic value to figure itself) rather than as a secondary instrument to play the game.
Nice! In light of how many fake ad-infested copies of every new game there seem to appear on Google Play, something like this was bound to pop up. I'm not sure I would exclude games which contain IPA's. Selling vanity items or accelerators -- as long as the normal game experience isn't crippled -- should not brand the game as "dishonest".

Never the less, great effort, I'll definitely use the site :-)
I'm guessing the OP is referring to the shady ads and attempt to use geolocation. I haven't dealt with the BBB in a long time, but I thought they were less bad.
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How are those relevant to the seemingly good quality post in the link? Do they have the ability to edit posts to change the intention of the poster?
Wasn't it Intel that mandated anything called "ultrabook" should have touch? Of course they could be doing that to work with Microsoft.. buy anyways.

Apple doesn't have touch on its laptops and desktops and a their products can be counted with the fingers we have. Microsoft has always worked with OEMs and has a much more chaotic environment... these partners/OEMs/etc will use, and are using touch,... imagine telling your dad, who owns a laptop with touch, that he should install Windows "Touch" and your grandma with a new ultrabook w/o touch has to use Windows "Original".... it would be a nightmare. Microsoft has, and is trying to, devise a bridge in a single OS.

They screwed up the Start button thing. Have they left it there in the desktop and provided the option to boot directly to it, they would have received much less criticism. They got greedy with the Metro stuff... it should have been a nice "add-on" for traditional desktops/laptops.. not major shell.

They will never drop the Metro interface now. My bet is that they will slowly add things back to the traditional desktop, hoping by this time nobody but the hardcore users will notice... while the masses will swallow the Metro interface.
I can't believe this "DAE police state" crap made the front page. Who upvotes this stupid shit?
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Okay, so what you meant was not that you don't see a use case, but rather, you don't see why they implemented maps as a replacement to dict/orddict, and in lieu of frames.

Those are different questions, the latter of which not one I feel capable of answering, given that I wasn't involved with the discussions.

I assume the reason for wanting to replace dict/orddict is because they feel very much a second class citizen in the language (see at bottom for a comparison of why pattern matching trumps separate modules), dicts are inefficient for small collections, and orddicts are inefficient for anything but small collections.

As to why they went this route instead of frames, I recall seeing it in the discussions (I believe the Erlang mailing list but I can't recall), but I never paid that much attention to it.

But then, to the first, why not just keep the dict/orddict syntax, a completely frivolous example, solely created to demonstrate why pattern matching is cleaner then dict/orddict -

%This just increments a map if the password passed in matches, sets the counter to one and the password to the passed in password if the map does not contain a password, and throws if the password does not match, but does exist.
incrementAndGetIfAllowed(Map, Password) ->
case Map of
#{password := Password, count := Count} ->
{Count + 1, Map#{count := Count +1};
#{password = _} -> throw(bad_password_can_not_increment);
_ -> {1, Map#{count => 1, password => Password}
end.

%We have to extract first, then do our logic separately. Behaves the same as the prior function.
incrementAndGetIfAllowed(OrdDict, Password) ->
CachedPassword = orddict:find(password, OrdDict),
CachedCount = orddict:find(count, OrdDict),
case {CachedCount, CachedPassword} of
{{ok, Count}, {ok, Password}} ->
{Count + 1, orddict:store(count, Count + 1, OrdDict)};
{_, {ok, _}} -> throw(bad_password_can_not_increment);
_ ->
orddict:store(password, Password,
orddict:store(count, Count + 1, OrdDict))
end.

And that's just with a map/dict holding two things. If you have complicated logic based on the internals of the map/dict, it could remain pretty elegantly matched upon with the map, while getting exponentially uglier using a dict/orddict.
I believe it's against Amazon's Terms of Service. They're bigger than you are and they will sue you if you violate their TOS. So check it out!
How long after clicking on an affiliate link do purchases count for? And does each successively clicked affiliate link override the previous one? Also, as an affiliate, do you see any metadata, or just which items were purchased overall?

I like the EFF idea posted in a few other comments, but I'm wondering how affiliate links are handled in general.
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"You will not issue any press release or make any other public communication with respect to this Operating Agreement, your use of the Content, or your participation in the Program."

Interesting, talking about being an affiliate is a violation of the operating agreement.
This was how pinterest was making money at one point IIRC -- they stopped after people started turning on the idea.
Well, the theory is that you need a license to make a copy of the software when it loads from disk into memory. Depending on your outlook, that could be fair use, and the license is optional. The license removes all ambiguity -- if you agree to these terms, then we won't come after you for making a copy of the software.

In the US, courts have gone both ways.
It's not exactly moral but it's basically convincing people to pay for very extensive entertainment.

People want to believe that people are smart enough to figure out that this is a bad deal but they're not. Welcome to reality.
'if it's suicide then great these things will fail' is missing the point.

These strategies are dramatically revenue-positive in the short term, where short term is defined as say 6-36 months. Nobody is thinking long term, so these practices thrive in the industry, they make investors happy, they make executives happy. Everyone is doing them.

The problem is that eventually these practices scorch the earth, just like how Zynga's fabulous success was built on completely destroying the effectiveness of viral pathways on Facebook.
# of apps as a metric is like # of lines of code - it ought to be "booked on the other side of the ledger"
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I sincerely doubt that's true. Like, really, it's a ludicrous claim.

I know no one with a jailbroken iOS 7 device, and it's enough of a pain in the ass to get Cydia onto iOS 7 that very few people have bothered.
You mean having both serve the same content? Yeah, the downside is SEO. Google picks up both versions and labels it duplicate content.

You can put a canonical meta tag on each page, but as I understand you lose a few percent of the page's value. 301 redirect is the only way to conserve all of the value.

Not an expert, just repeating stuff I've been told by our SEO guys.
No distaste of wired networking, just didn't have the possibility of running a cable between both machines due to location in the house.
Macs are hardly the recipients of Windows installations. I fail to see your point. Does your local Best Buy store have a non-Mac area? I think you'll have a hard time finding a late generation laptop there that doesn't include touch.. at least the ones aimed at regular consumers (not business people looking for mate screens, or gamers looking for alienware-like stuff).

It's funny if you stay a bit in these areas and notice people immediately touching the screens. I've seen it quite a few times and the comments are all "hmm, no touch".

The whole PC industry is creating this demand for touch out of users' familiarity with them in their mobile phones. I have no use for touch on my laptop but a lot of people I know think it's cool...
> Examiner rarely looks at prior art that was not listed in the patent

wrong - they perform diligent prior art search - and believe it or not ARE experts at that.
Interesting. Does this support/run on/with alternative platforms like gnustep, or does it require os x for development and only target ios/osx? Would it be feasible to port?
That syntax for that purpose was totally stolen from Go. Nice to see the cross pollination going in both directions.
Money is credited to the affiliate account after the product gets shipped; so that's around 24 hours.

Yes, each successively clicked affiliate link overwrites the previous one.

Any metadata? No, affiliates just see which items were purchased and the quantities.

Hope that helps.
I've never run into any issues with their DRM, but I guess I haven't pushed it that far. What happened for you? I bought K9 in the sale, $350 NZD which to me is ridiculous value for what you get. I'm super happy either way.
Gamers have voted with their wallets for this outcome. (Dungeon Keeper retailed for $60, not $6, at launch. I couldn't afford it so I checked back weekly, and then found the best deal of my life six months later: $9.99 with a $20 manufacturers rebate.)

Minus the rebate thing this is the traditional curve for IP price discrimination: you pay more to get faster access.

Gamers thought both $60 or waiting one day, to say nothing of 6 months, were monstrously unfair, so they pirated the games. So the industry did a rethink, and figured out a way to give them what they want. Enter Free To Play.
The fact that the kids are separate from the work area should have been outlined clearly in the article. After reading the headline and the text, my thoughts were "this sounds horrible and I'd want to jump off a bridge if I worked there."

Now that I know the kids are kept away from the work environment, I can definitely see the benefits. Who watches over the kids while they're in the daycare? A rotating schedule between the parents?
BBB's mobile website strategy is hopelessly broken, I'm on my iPhone & can see the post for a second before it redirects me to this minimalist web UI home page... Just leaving the standard site as is would've been a better UX strategy
In the mobile domain (under the 3GPP standard), there is something called "Advice of Charge" that would give such functionality but most carriers do not deploy it unless local regulations demand it.
Nursing is a big problem/benefit, but far from the only one. There are a lot of other problems that can require a parent's personal attention for a few minutes, and having an essentially zero commute time would greatly simplify dealing with those. And spending a 10 minute break playing with the kids can at times be much more refreshing than anything you can do at a normal corporate site.
Of course, the real game theoretic outcome has to include the incentives of the rule maker.

This strategy generates controversy, which generates viewers, which generates revenue. But once the novelty has worn off, there's nothing prevention g the rulemakers from instituting a formal rule to replace what was once a cultural norm.
Do you want to be bought by Yahoogle?
Money is a nice thing. No need to elaborate on that. But since this is an incubator site I think it's a valiant question to ask actually, because as engineers or entrepreneurs, I think you or me or we would like to differentiate ourselves from those in med school and law school.

Talk to anyone in those schools and they will readily tell you that the law and medicine are wholly secondary to the goal of making piles of money.

Not enough money. Piles of money.

If software and the products we create with it are for the exact same purpose. We as a community will end up with the exact same result as those people.

So ask yourself if thats your gig, and maybe "are we already there". And when you say you want to change the world, maybe stop bullshitting yourself a little bit.
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There are many stupid doctors.
what exactly did snow globe sale/cards do that was so evil? I saw it, and just completely ignored it.
There are services that will automatically insert a target affiliate tag into every link with an affiliate program, even overriding any existing affiliate tag.

But you need to be careful; Pinterest made news a while back for using a service like this (Skimlinks), without telling people, and it was a bit of a brouhaha.