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Using a reactor or actors doesn't completely mitigate the problem, but it does make the symptoms considerably less harmful.

Some hypothetical examples:

Java/Ruby: 8 threads, mean service time: 50ms (20 requests/s). A system like this has upper-bound throughput of 160 requests/s. If one request is allowed to timeout, say 5s, this reduces the effective throughput of the system to 7 threads as one is "locked" servicing the timed-out request. It doesn't take many requests like this to significantly degrade performance, and the only remedy (absent circuit breakers) is to throw a ton more hardware/workers at the problem = $$$.

Consider the problem in, say, node.js. If a single request times out, that request will cause problems, but it won't have _nearly_ the same capacity-starving effects as the thread-bound example above; the request will simply timeout, but other requests won't be starved because the number of in-flight concurrent requests isn't limited by the thread/process count of the system.

I'm realizing as I write this that I'm straying a little off-topic here, but the point is, using process/thread-based concurrency in a high-performance system where failure is likely is a bad idea. It's just too easy to get the kind of failures Fowler describes: "What's worse if you have many callers on a unresponsive supplier, then you can run out of critical resources leading to cascading failures across multiple systems."
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The same argument could be made if you replaced the call to verify(...) with a when(...). The point is that mocking frameworks tightly couple the test code to the current implementation. That has downsides.
> Name your daughter Daisy or something (no last name), and nobody will ever find them on Google...

Or "Zigurd"

D'oh!
> Why disregard the topic of the way Newsweek handled this?

Not disregarding it. I just think the topic is already beaten to death elsewhere in this discussion. I wanted to talk about something else.
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Meat shouldn't be shrinkwrapped it should be directly butchered from the animal and wrapped in butcher paper. A local single animal, butchered and slaughtered as cleanly as possible. I understand that more expensive and harder to scale across larger numbers of people but I think it's a better way to handle meat consumption. It's also the reason I hunt for my own meat when possible.
That comic isn't one of xkcd's finer moments. It only works if all the people are coincidentally on their way to someplace like Mountain View or Redmond. You know damn right well that you're 'more conscious' than most people, and less conscious than Jeff Bezos.
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The analogy to holding bankers' keys in bitcoin is holding 51% of mining power, and not a percentage less. Just having a lot of bitcoin gives you the ability to affect the price of the currency, but again this is directly proportional to how much you hold, not because of an artificial power like legal authority to take advantage of fractional reserve, or being a member of the Fed.
You should make sure your sarcasm detector is properly aligned.
Call it what you want; I'm not arguing it to be pedantic, I think it's a very practical approach. But if you prefer:

All other things being equal, I see no reason to write code that needlessly introduces potential bugs and maintainability issues by ignoring the rule of thumb that explicit trumps implicit.
Alright, I'll bite.

You're right. But you're not going to avoid the stock market (where you might get paid in dividends) because you want to avoid double taxation. However, when forming a company for the first time, you'll hear double taxation cited as a reason you might not want to form a corporation. This is stupid because you're not going to pay yourself in dividends. Of course there are many reasons you might choose one business form over another -- I'm just saying that double taxation really isn't one of them.

Likewise, if you are deciding between digital ocean and AWS -- there are many reasons why you might want to go with one over the other. One of the reasons is not because you lose all your data when you restart a machine on AWS. I mean, look, I'm considering giving DO a shot for various reasons, but AWS losing my data because of some oversight in their service that DO has fundamentally engineered around isn't one of them.

In both cases, I'm not saying one is better than the other -- all i'm saying is some distinctions are subtly stupid to the point of being manipulative. As in FUD. That's my full thought process on this matter, I don't think I've got anything past that, haha
As a person who got a degree in ancient languages (Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic), I'm excited to see this article up. Hapaxes are particularly interesting in ancient texts, because they bring up issues of understandability and translatability.

In particular the Bible is an interesting case. There are 1500 Hapaxes in the Hebrew Bible, but what's truly amazing is how many dis legomenon, tris legomenon, tetra, etc there are. The average English translation of the Hebrew Bible uses a diminished vocabulary, compared to the Hebrew, sometimes by a factor of 5. I think religious folk of all creeds would be interested to know how much subjective judgement goes into the translation of their sacred documents.
(I'm an engineer at Braintree.)

I can't say too much about our timelines, but we're working on it =)
chasing bitcoin transaction requires a bit of 'hackarazzi'. identifying Satoshi's bitcoin transaction traces may be useful for some applications.
Only for users on paid plans...

I can understand why they do this. Just hope that they are not going to hide projects like Octokit or other things behind this paywall
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The term "co-creation" was being used in marketing space a few years ago as a synonym for collaborative user generated content. It disappeared for a while and here it is again being used in a "hey, look at me" self marketing blog post as a synonym for competitive collaboration. I'd say the meaning hasn't diverged at all.
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You've got some good points, but I actually believe it's a bit bleaker :)

I believe the role of the musician is too important to be simply cast as a typical capitalist job- e.g. do it 40 hours and get a salary. Although I'll accept this until the rest of sedentary culture reforms (not likely in this life).

The problem is our celebrity culture. We turn our efforts away from the 1000s of less famous musicians around us to the handful of celebrity musicians.

Classical music culture, with its reverence and deification of a handful of sponsored artists, provides the template for rock music. Hip hop culture successfully followed the template. Jazz mainly dodged it. Recorded media (sheet music and the record) catalyzed it.

Any technological aid to music culture can be judged by whether it leads to the (imo benevolent) fractioning of music - the re-directing of attention toward our immediate musicians - or whether it leverages and bolsters the celebrity culture. Any capitalistic enterprise is blind - or farcical - to these ends and will randomly support whatever ends lead to its own survival. However, this randomness must be biased toward existing resources, e.g. if not doing well, support the thread of celebrity culture to survive. This pattern continues for the individual musician, too, as you point out.

So, from this perspective, I appreciate services which connect individuals with musicians of their choosing, but it's not like connecting people to Primary Care Physicians, a geographically-constrained problem. Instead, it facilitates people following their own flawed decision-making processes, following the crowds. So it becomes an issue of individual freedom, which I adore, even though so many people will not use it optimally for themselves.
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What's wrong with SSMS? I use it daily at work, feel pretty productive in it, not sure what features I'm really missing out on.
A lot of the conflict on those shows is contrived. That show is almost like a procedural drama where the owner's hopeless, resists change, finally sees the light, and then all is set aright by the end.

At least in the 5 episodes I've seen.
> like literally any scientific paper its results should be considered tentative unless and until it's been corroborated by further research, including research that uses different protocols

To expand, this study is interesting in that it opens an avenue for further investigation. It's like learning an extra person was at the scene of crime. It proves nothing, and doesn't even necessarily SUGGEST anything. It's just another "lead" that researchers should investigate.

In this case, it doesn't help that the additional "suspect" is something sexy like protein-rich diets.

> The public reaction, on the other hand, treats this as if it should be a cut-and-dry statement on a black-and-white issue.

That's because the public as a whole usually wants cut-and-dry statements and black-and-white issues. And the news caters to the public.
You always give a transaction you received before in order to spend coins. However, you're supposed to use a fresh (source) address for every new transaction (the wallet software does it for you).
You can't (with the default wallet software) chose which transaction (called unspent transaction) you use in order to spend you coin (this is called coin control).

That is, you can trace coins, not owners, unless you're always using the same source address.
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The article is distasteful and does not respect the privacy of Mr. Nakamoto the real or his pseudonym. I hope the author gets punched in her stupid dumb cunt for writing this shit.
> This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods?

I don't. Every style guide I've seen has recommended against it in any medium that is going to be presented in non-fixed-width type, and IME its a lot less distracting to have single-space-after-sentence-ending-punctuation in a fixed-width font than double-space-after in a proportional font, so I've pretty much abandoned the practice entirely except in very narrow circumstances (e.g., I'll usually still do it in source code comments.)

I think I first started adopting this practice around 1990 (about the same time I was finishing high school.)
I worked in the defense industry for a while, and the number of small government conservatives I worked with who were essentially living off the largesse of the bloated defense industry...was really really big.
The second example:

if var is not None:
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> And people who hold a large amount of stock in a company are in a similar situation.

Initiate a Bitcoin transfer at the same time as a stock sale followed up by a bank transfer from your brokerage and let us know which one finishes faster.

Plus, the brokerage and the bank can choose to hold and/or reverse your transactions, for reasons like "hmm, we should probably see if Bill Gates really meant to sell all his Microsoft shares..."

There are not many people sitting on tens/hundreds of millions of dollars in a format that you can store in your house and send irretrievably to a guy in Eastern Europe in an instant.
That might depend heavily on the kind of culture that you live in.
We should also consider that its improbable if not impossible that he has not since been visited by contacts from the Government. They knew exactly where he was. So any change of mind he has had since the explosion of Bitcoin should take that into account.
Ships in WWII used to use techniques like this as well. I saw a great exhibit on camouflage at the Imperial War Museum that featured quite a few examples of this:

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30019323
I doubt this guy will be "fine" his address, name, and license plate with numbers displayed were posted by this stupid bitch.

Oh, and the fact he has thousands of bitcoins.
Also, not all advice from the expert is correct. Maybe there is a good reason not to change the name.
But there are a myriad of scenarios where booting to a AWS image, effectively a CD, is preferred. Having a non-writable filesystem is cool, where that non-writability allows for the saving of temp files and such, but if it were ever compromised, I would just reboot it, and it's exactly how it used to be. Even smarter, I would boot up another clean instance and take that one down, then remap the elastic IP to cut over.

For data that must be stored, I can use a EBS, or a database instance.

Like the grand-parent said, you pick what makes sense. Saying that ephemeral storage is a bad thing would be true if that were all they offered, but it isn't, and it ephemeral images are sometimes preferred.
But, it's represented internally as zero. That's reason enough!
If only it was actually humorous...
It really demonstrates the problem with the American military bureaucratic structure - all the best attempts they made with rotary combat aircraft couldn't really measure up to the A-10 in that role, but the army wasn't allowed to operate fixed-wing combat aircraft so they had to rely on the air-force to do that... and the air-force infrastructure and culture doesn't really properly "map" to the kind of work the A-10 did.

Regardless, the A-10 is an anachronism now. Its chief advantage was its ruggedness and ability to properly explore the battlefield when attacking unlike faster, more fragile aircraft... and now they have drones that fill that role of "slow enough to look around before opening fire and we don't care quite so much if it gets shot".
> Growing up and living in the D.C. area, I'm constantly surprised at the paradox of the deeply conservative anti-federal government types who work for the government - directly or as a fed contractor.

Couldn't this also be seen as principled? Arguing for a concept such as smaller government even when it hurts your own career seems courageous in a sense.
Interesting that this is likely also very related (or the exact same) as when peeling scotch tape, that mechanical action produces x-rays.

What about the thought of Chi; could the electric impulses commonly thought of for centuries by martial artists and meditators be an electrical output of some mechanical function of the body?
Can you even call it "outing" when he didn't bother to hide his identity?
If you shouldn't use non-booleans in an if statement, then why is it allowed? If it's allowed, it should behave in the way that would surprise developers the least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment
> apparently knows nothing about bitcoin and the level of anonymity it provides.

> comments on it anyway.

good luck indeed.
I agree about using Grids, in fact we're currently working on a Grid Layout Module polyfill, but with constraint-based sugar. Really excited for this one, relative constraints can get tedious, abstract grid-based primitives make high level layouts much more intuitive.

Concerning Flexbox, it is not a lie! Flexbox is still dependent on the source order / parent-child relationships within the DOM. With constraints, you get true source order independence, so you can layout any group of elements within any other regardless of DOM structure... When I get time, will push demos on how to simulate Flexbox and show examples not possible with Flexbox...

Amazingly, IE 11 just worked, yes need to tackle lower versions... Unfortunately, there is no other way to accomplish GSS's constraint-based CSS extensions without a runtime replacement for the browser's float-based layout. That being said, precompiling the computed results for a static page for all screen sizes, thus eliminating the need of 99% of the runtime, will make it viable for the jankiest of browsers, and resolved to ID selectors would be potentially faster than native language extensions!

We're still in very early days of the lib, specific issues and comments welcome on the repo:

https://github.com/the-gss/engine
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Yes. This is where Linus would step in and say "SHUT THE FUCK UP! We don't break user space, EVER!" Developers who enter into the mindset that the users of their code are using it "wrong" are a blight and will always be a blight. Too bad Python has a BDFL and not a Raging DFL.
It has no place in air-to-air combat other than trying to not get shot down. It is a dedicated ground attack, CAS platform. It has seen plenty of use in that role in Iraq and Afghanistan. I believe the Soviets in Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, and the Taliban both refer to it as the "Devil's Cross".

Probably one of my greatest memories from NTC is being on a hill, and having an A-10 crest the hill, inverted, and then roll over as it continues down the other side on its way to attack a column of OPFOR armor. F-16s and F-18s would just zip right by and be gone in a second. The A-10s would lazily swing back and forth as they worked their way down the valley.
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I hope they don't. Last.fm is an app inside Spotify right now, and scrobbling is integrated. All I wish they did is better integration (love tracks, recommendations coming from last.fm instead of whatever they have, etc.), all of which can be done without having to buy last.fm. Last.fm as a standalone service for discovery is good as it is.
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Moving your SSH server away from port 22 and disabling password logins is also something you should consider doing.

Small thing but at least then it doesn't shout "Hey I'm a *nix box with remote login enabled"
I appreciate free (huzzah!), but for overall functionality...meh. It's all form, and no functionality for a to-do app. I'd stick with Wunderlist or Remember the Milk for day to day use.
Realistically, the F-35 isn't the replacement for the A-10, drones are. Slow enough to look around and, much like the A-10, if they get shot then the pilot lives through it.
You sound like the CIA saying the leaked documents are not public information.

There is no 'doxxing' to be done anymore. Satoshi has been 'doxxed' as much as anyone can be in real life.

If you are worried about the anonymity of his Bitcoins transactions (and all other's that could be identified from that), I'm sorry, there is no such thing as complete anonymity (as the Bitcoin community apparently still has to learn).
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> I'm curious though, in the general sense about people who have a fundamentally anti-government philosophy, then take roles supporting and building up the same government they clog their facebook feeds rallying against.

Snowden did the same thing. Sometimes people feel that you need to understand the beast before fighting against it.
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In the context of a load balancing proxy, you apply the SSL cert to the proxy, and do the encryption there - known as SSL termination. Otherwise like you said, the proxy can't see inside the request (not even the URL).
Because at the time it was originally written, it seemed impossible to write a statically typed language that was beautiful, or even readable.

This has now proven to be false, and python is starting to add optional type annotations. It's not practical to introduce static typing more quickly - it would break too many existing programs.
I'd imagine this is pretty easy to circumvent. Ready, set, go.
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This page scrolls slower than most pages on Safari (OS X 10.9.2).

EDIT: And the page is blank with JS disabled. I didn't know about the Cassowary Constraint Solver and it's interesting to see a project thinking outside of CSS and its flaws, but please don't use it in production.

EDIT II: gss.js is 653KB (would be much smaller if minified, I also didn't check the gzipped size) and worker.js is 64KB.
I am with you on this one on most "reality" shows I've seen. In reality nobody asks me to go to a confession room to explain my supposed reasoning in front of a camera. I also find it ridiculous that they always keep the most abrasive yet sub-par contestants until the end to drive up conflict for the added drama.

Having said that I agree with the premise of the author's article since I've worked with too many small business owners in my early days of web development and most of them seemed to reject our tech/marketing strategy for theirs even though they usually waited until a crisis hit before calling us to begin with.
I have a hard time getting past this aspect of reality TV. I recently watched a few episodes of "The Profit" which is basically "Kitchen Nightmares" but for businesses, but it just really bothers me how staged it all seems and how resistant people are to take the advice of a guy on a show who they surely put in a ton of effort to get on and must have seen before. When watching this stuff with other people I find it annoying how no one else really see's through the clearly contrived story they're trying to tell.
Couldn't you easily write a scriptlet (javascript: ....) to bring it back?
are you saying that no one should ever do observational studies with self reported data? do you think that this is the first study like this? do you think that scientists do not understand the limitations of these techniques? do you honestly think that NO conclusions can be drawn from observational studies?

how are you supposed to get funding for (expensive) studies with high statistical power without first conducting the studies with low statistical power?
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Given the enormous benefits of taxpayer funded defence/political stability/regulatory frameworks/crime prevention/an educated wokforce etc, 'independently wealthy' is perhaps an impossibility.
Working for the government does not grow the government. The government has decided to grow by hiring a new employee. Your action to take or reject the job doesn't change that.

However, believing the government should be smaller and then voting for politicians who want to grow your sector of the government does seem hypocritical.
In that case, Roses are red, violets are blue, All my base are belong to you!
It only says they only copyright for those who are doing public performances with the broadcast, and that they don't have copyright on the signal itself.
>There's just no way some random office would know what Bitcoin is..

"no way"... You lost me and your credibility with that one.
No matter how much those conflicts are all made up, I've noticed attitudes like these are far too common.
W3C will be the way to go long-term, but first we want to have as much real-world experience with this thing as possible. And that is what the current JavaScript implementation enables for us and others. Specs should never be made in ivory towers!

As for performance, that sounds very dubious given that even my Nexus 7 does this thing at 60fps