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The real problem for Google is that corporate business and windows are attached at the hip. Even if Google released the best thing since sliced bread, the operating system. It would still take Corporate America 7-10 years to transition to that platform, at which point Microsoft would have cloned most of its features, or even 1/4 of its features.

Then the decision would be settled by legacy application support. Which windows would likely win.
'Haunted Empire' Profiles Apple After Steve Jobs as a Company on the Decline
Information overload acts ‘to dim the lights’ on what we see
And I don't see much good from simply suing a company without trying to work with them in the first place.

If it was your company, surely you'd want them to try and solve it internally first?
Show HN: Google Drive (a better UI design)
Hi, I'm building a web application for Google Drive (it's FREE). The link is http://kaydo.com.au/cloud-apps/web/google-drive. The main reason is because I think the current version is not appealing and not user friendly. If you have a Gmail account, you can log in and give it a go. Any feedback are much appreciated.

Features:
- it's FREE
- 15Gb free storage out of the box
- real time editing documents (word, excel, powerpoit, images, etc.)
- 3 free themes to choose
- and more...
Agile Sales – Scrum For Sales Management
Introducing Scrum to the sales process allows sales managers to gain better understanding of their team’s pipelines, what team members are doing right and/or wrong and the impact their activities have on their bottom line. In other words, applying Scrum to sales, allows the sales manager to manage performance rather than results.
The page in the original post has received 16,000 pageviews in the last 12 hours. Admittedly the project pages were not performing very well initially but after I added caching they haven't even blinked, and the dual core VPS (which runs a dozen other services besides this) is ticking along at a load average of 0.63.

Tell me again how I didn't design for scalability. I'd also love to hear your definition of "more traffic".
The real Satoshi should have sent out his denial when Dorian was out to lunch with that AP reporter.
This is likely because your baseline is not a wildlife sanctuary. You are comparing the animal life in populated, pre-accident Chernobyl with farms and agriculture, to depopulated, post-accident Chernobyl with little additional human impact.

See http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/nuclear_pow...

> Those studies found mammal diversity and abundance equal to that of a protected nature reserve, with rare species including bears, lynx, river otter, and badger as well as introduced herds of European bison and Przewalski’s horses. Bird diversity is even richer and includes 61 rare species. Whooper swans—never before reported in the region—now appear regularly.

It points out that animal counts isn't the same as animal health, and it suggests that a reason we don't see those animals born with 'heavy and deadly mutations' is because they are quickly eaten by other animals.
True, succinct wisdom by the author: "It may be hard to swallow but the extra effort and hours that you put into your job as a software developer does not usually amount to someone higher up thinking you should run the company. It has been my experience that good producers are more likely to be asked to continue to produce.".
A Node.js post here is how I discovered the excellent http://nancyfx.org framework, but I agree that the node.js performance benefits are overblown quite a bit.
And for C++, http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-better-hash-table-gcc... shows significant differences between 3 different implementations of the same API (and which one is fastest varies between operations, as they're optimized for different things).
Yes, really. You are looking at it after the fact. Paying off a pilot who is skilled enough to fly the aircraft evading all radar and land it unassisted at night or early dawn on some remote airbase would be a major expense. Paying someone to kill off the rest of the 220 passengers would be a big challenge as well. And everybody involved would know that and the additional risk and thus demand much more money. You would have to find such an airbase. And you would have people at the airbase to take care of everything, including hiding the jet from satellites. And the airbase would have to be unused and remote. Ditching the aircraft safely into calm waters is even more unrealistic. First of all AFAIK it has never been successfully done with a wide-body aircraft and even in a small-body aircraft it would be a major risk. It would require perfect weather and calm ocean. And it would have happened at night!

There are a ton of risks involved in all of this. How could they hijackers have known that the Malaysian air force wasn't properly looking at its radar? They could have scrambled jets at that point and all of this complicated plan would have been for nothing. What if the flight they allegedly used for the radar shadow would have been delayed or they would have been delayed? What if there had been a military ship with their own radar on an exercise or patrol? After all they flew over one of the busiest water lanes in the world with an active piracy problem. What if ...

You are looking at it after the fact and not from the perspective of someone who had to come up with the plan and evaluate all the risks.

I'm not saying that kidnapping or killing a handful of people on the ground would be easy. But compared to such an unprecedented and skilled aircraft hijacking plan it seems like a piece of cake. Not to forget all the attention that MH370 gets.
I've had a weird episode in a job. Pressure was immense and the boss had the nice habit of calling everybody Friday evening or just before an extended holiday to berate everybody's work, threat to close the branch etc.

Everybody sat tight because the business was lucrative and expected to find the gold pot at the end of the rainbow, you know. I resisted about 1.5 years.

At April 21, 2003 I began to tremble and it wouldn't go. At April 30 evening, the boss did the usual show like clockwork (May 1 is holiday here) and then I quit. (Funny how I remember days, even the hours, of this episode.)

Any kind of contact or just passing by the street where the business was located, the trembling resurfaced. Was a hard lesson about how you bump your limit, damage is done and you don't see it coming.

Other people continued to work there under God-knows-what medication. They kind of improved the treatment of people after I quit, to the point of forbidding the boss of going to developer's room. But no developer got rich, either. Empty promises.
Been there, done that, never ever doing it again. It's not worth it.

My advise: leave. You're a developer, you've got a world of options before you. You have no reason to work in that environment.
http://zombo.com/
Arguments and supporting evidence is much more highly regarded than pithy sarcasm with nothing to back it up.
Would an embargoed country like Iran consider them worth the risk? It would be a pretty serious international incident if they were found out. And if you hold the passengers too long, you can't claim "some crazy terrorist/spy/actor" was working without authorization and here are your people back.
It's more good business sense than rumour it doesn't take a genius.

People might even be ready to start hijacking automatic updates. XP uses the very old way of a custom site and some activeX to launch the update methods. MS probably wants to stop supporting that crazy old site a soon as possible.
Don't know how smart I am... but I often find that the pain of getting screwed over is worth the knowledge of whom to trust.
Thanks for the info - I just looked at the home page but have yet to try it out. Looks like it cuts down on a lot of the boilerplate associated with it. Nice.
Even if you are employed at-will, if you are fired for any of a number of predefined reasons (age, sex, disability status, etc.), you have legal recourse.

Many states have their own protections as well - a common one is sexual orientation.
Those boxes are built to be untrashable.
Rejection Therapy on TED Talk – (A Must Watch)
In every instance of cabin fire, even ones where the fires spread extremely quickly and are eventually fatal such as SwissAir and ValueJet, the crew contacted the ground. And this was the case even when co-pilots were literally out of their seats actually fighting the fires. Yet every single time the ground was alerted about an emergency. This is what veteran pilots do.

Also, for a fire to destroy the multiple electronic systems so as to render the transponder and comms useless, the smell of smoke would've almost certainly been recognizable long before the damage was complete. In this case, the pilots would have alerted the ground.

It was the pilot and/or co-pilot acting deliberately. I would bet my life on it.
Why would it be fraud? It sounds to me like they're using their advertising revenue to buy Google shares. What's wrong with that?
>Make the browser's low-level language be an efficient bytecode-based compiled language like Java, rather than an inefficient dynamic language like JavaScript (although JavaScript is less inefficient than it used to be, thanks to recent improvements in JS engine technology).

Not every use case for javascript demands native-level performance or strict type safety, though. You would really rather have a separate, compiled binary for every time someone wanted to alter the DOM on their page? And break the ability to view the source and edit in the browser?

I can see the case for replacing javascript with a saner interpreted language, but we've already tried Flash-based sites and Java applets and for the most part the result has been slow, bug-ridden, insecure proprietary nightmares.
Couldn't it maybe have been a piece of cargo that was the target and not a person? Perhaps, something that a passenger was traveling with?
Surely you could just install Python3 and pip systemwide, then ask virtualenv/virtualenvwrapper to use that one?

virtualenv -p $(which python3) ENV # with virtualenv
mkvirtualenv [-a project path] -p $(which python3) ENVNAME # with virtualenvwrapper
One could sue for pretty much anything in the US.
https://www.system76.com/

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/

https://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

There are a few others. Its not really hunt, you just have to use a Linux laptop brand or find an OEM that sells bare notebooks.
Thanks all for the suggestions. I shall do just that!
Chrome OS uses Gentoo as its upstream, if it runs ChromeOS it will almost certainly run any Linux distro with at least the same kernel version.
There is a theory that the rapid ascent to 45,000 feet was done to deprive the passengers of oxygen and incapacitate them.
Anyone interested in learning about human perseverance would do well to spend a couple hours reading Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning.

It's short. It's accessible. There is also a noticeable absence of Richard Gere.

“In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.”

The trick is that our naked existence is all we ever have. Learning to deal with this fact, to accept and and even rely on this fundamental truth, is the first step towards developing a real purpose in life. This is the kind of thing that will get you out of bed each day.

http://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/0...
Healthbook, Apple’s step into health and fitness tracking
Isn't this an awfully complex way to get to one individual? Can't you just nab him at the airport at either end if you're so sure he's on the flight?
I am just reading about all this now.

First of all, the main theme that resonates with me is that no company is immune to these things no matter how much "special" or "different" they are.

At this point, I don't completely accept everything Horvath is saying nor do I believe what she is saying is all lies. The truth as is always the case is never black and white. What I do accept is that there is definitely serious issues that need to be taken a look at that have been brought up.

Github did not need to respond and I believe they responded quite well. There response cannot be point by point rebuttal or a statement of denial.

It's a measured response stating that they are taking action to look into the issues. Putting a founder on leave is a major decision and sends the message to Github's employees and the rest of the community that they are taking this seriously. My takeaway from the response was recognition that Horvath's assertions are with weight and they will not shy away from investigation.

There is no doubt that Horvath's assertions have made Github deal with this. Having a founder be involved would likely have swept all of this under the rug.

I commend Horath's for speaking out. I am certain it wasn't an easy decision and very painful.

I also commend Github for having the CEO write this response instead of hiding behind a shield of legalese.

I do believe something will come out from this for the positive. There are too many great people within Github that do not need to be there that will now have an opportunity to take a reality check and assess for themselves Horvath's claims and drive for change.

The founder may be the most in the hot seat. Github may use this as the "last straw" of many straws that may have been already bulging at the camel's back to exit the founder.
It's hard to believe that there are no communication failovers. A fire in the cabin should not mean a loss of contact with the rest of the world.
While I believe the full manifest has not been published, we do know that there were a few tons of mangosteens present in the cargo.

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/17/missing-mh3...
I don't consider Github's issue tracker to be particularly good.

Sure its convenient if you just have a small project and don't want to host an issue tracker yourself and don't care about the usability of the issue tracker.

The "killer feature" of the issue tracker is that you don't need to create yet another login just to report a bug. Chances are you've reported an issue on github before, or if not you just have to create a user once, that you can use to report bugs on any github project.

I consider Github's issue tracker to be a significant step backward/in the wrong direction from Bugzilla for several reasons:

* defaults to markdown instead of plain text [1]

* no easy way to attach binary files[2]

* no easy way to attach files[3]

At least from a project developer's perspective I find bugzilla much easier to use (once you get used to it), and has more features.

There are some minor improvements in Github's issue tracker, but none that would want to make me switch.

[1] Whenever I paste some error message / shell output I need to escape it in <pre> or <code> blocks, otherwise it messes up the formatting. I initially created a lot of broken bugreports, that I had to edit once I've seen how bad it looked, of course then I found out you can preview the bug before submitting. IMHO text should be the default for bugreports, not markdown!

[2] they come in handy depending on the project. If the project deals with binary files, it is expected that bugreports may have to contain them as well

[3] Besides creating a gist and pointing to the gist you pretty much have to self-host any file you want to "attach" to a Github issue, unless I'm missing something.
Yeah, I have no problem with that and I wouldn't want to dive into a discussion of what "true" freedom is as it is not objective to start with. You said it yourself: "X simply argue that Y is the best way to achieve freedom".
Network Effects are More Important than Technical Quality
They certainly are. Doesn't mean they can't be trashed. They have been before.
Introducing Optimizely for iOS: Developer Preview
Show HN: Is the average sinuosity of rivers Pi?
Although it's quite a bit older than re-linq, I'll throw a recommendation in for IQToolkit: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mattwar/archive/2008/11/18/linq-link...

I used it to build a LINQ provider for a legacy mainframe database system, abstracting away the incomprehensible table and column naming, weird date systems, EBCDIC, and other nastiness involved in querying that system using straight-up SQL.

One thing I found is that implementing a custom LINQ provider gives you a better understanding of how Entity Framework runs your queries. You get to see how queries get split up into the parts executed in the CLR versus the parts that get translated, and how expressions get rearranged and rewritten.
Shopping malls are interesting because their entire appeal is predicated on a network effect. So when something reverses that effect, whether it's demographic shifts to the area, a large tenant going out of business, or a competing mall, the results can be devastating and you get a vicious circle death spiral.

As others have noted, malls in general aren't doing too poorly, but for the ones that are they're awfully conspicuous and downright depressing, so I think those tend to stick out in peoples' minds.
If Europe falls, the world is beyond hope.
Apple Designer Jonathan Ive Talks About Steve Jobs and New Products
Sounds like you should take 12 days off!
Good point ... so someone should be going through the cargo manifests. If it was travelling with a person but as luggage, there's no guarantee the airline would know about it.
Cool, and great idea. The tables look a lot like LACK from IKEA. I might try this, too.
I also doubt that the employees had anything to do with it, but the most likely scenario I can think of that would involve the engineers is a country with sanctions imposed wanting to fabricate chips. On the other hand, any country capable of this probably could manage to get hold of as many chips as they wanted without kidnapping Freescale employees.
> "it runs on everything"

There is a distinction here - Linux, the kernel, runs on pretty much every CPU in the universe. If it is presented with any CPU and chipset ever made, it can run on that.

Your PCI devices, your USB devices, etc are not guaranteed to have Linux drivers for that hardware. And if the producers of said hardware don't release driver documentation or support a Linux driver directly, you can't blame the Linux community for not being magicians that can force private companies to bend to their will.

Hell, Broadcom - one of the worst FOSS companies, in the same class as Nvidia for the longest time - is finally producing scant upstream NIC drivers. They support a tiny fraction of their product range, and they have another 2 proprietary drivers on top of those for Linux and those don't work either, but the situation is improving.

But that is all you can do. There is no "sit down and code" answer for undocumented motherboards, bad EFI implementations, and a 15 button mouse with a 50MB proprietary driver on Windows. Well, the latter actually you can just wireshark the usb bus and get all the signaling for the buttons, but that is a lot of work to do what the company itself could have done in minutes (publish the opcode manual they obviously have on the thing).
It's perfectly okay for part of your security solution to be telling your employees/students that "if you do X you will be fired/kicked out."

In fact, in any legit security policy, there has to be an explicit telling of users not to do certain things.

I'm not allowed to walk into the server room and plug in a cellular modem and start transferring things out to pastebin. There are just about zero technical countermeasures in place to stop such a thing.
I'm sorry, I should have clarified. My private repos are running on a VM in the living room, but the public-facing website and repos are all on a Digital Ocean VPS.
Why is it so hard to find the real Satoshi? Is he using Tor to post messages, send emails?
http://stackoverflow.com/a/9446693/69545
Yes, your own installation works, but not OEM installation works with legacy mode
I tried standing up to work for a few weeks once and found I just got a different kink in my back. I would still tend to slouch sideways when standing, keeping most of my weight on one leg (almost like sitting on a stool) and using the other as balance. I'm not sure what the solution is, except maybe a treadmill desk, but that seems a little crazy.
Much as with the maximum altitude ceiling, the numbers the media reports are generally best-practice recommendations that give you a high enough factor of safety.

If you don't plan on taking off again, and don't care much about the landing gear, a skilled pilot could land the plane on a runway shorter than 5000ft.
People don't sue for libel in the US. They do it in England, where you can secure a libel judgment over practically anything.
It isn't UEFI, it is peripheral manufacturers who hate Linux for whatever reason. Broadcom, Creative, Nvidia, and others all have legacies of horrible device support in the kernel.

You can't blame Linus for that. If a company doesn't want to push what is often only a few hundred lines of C to make their devices work under Linux, thats their right. But you can't blame the ecosystem for the companies choices not to support it. It is like buying Nexus 7 and bitching about how Windows doesn't run on it.
I don't really believe that this can all be true, if only because I find it very unlikely that GitHub screwed up that badly from an HR perspective, especially one involving the founder.

There is probably some measure of truth to it, but for it to be totally true would be a massive failure on GitHub's part.
It's a bit frustrating, I clicked 20+ times (or at least it felt like 20+ times) the "get another MEP" button until I could find a French guy (sorry, it might be the EU but I'm not calling a Polish or Greek MEP and hope we can understand each other) and... when a French flag appeared I still had the reflex to click the button again. And it happened a second time, and then I quit.
You need to update those crawlers to enforce some hard limits on crawl depth, methinks, especially for low pagerank domains (if there's some easy way to estimate pagerank, i.e.).
Vine.com is Rebranded
As much as I find lisp interesting, I've always hated the kind of smug comment like yours that every discussion on Lisp inevitably brings. Lisp is certainly far from perfect, and there are a ton of good technical reasons why people use other languages.
Interesting, but this would seem to chiefly expand the space of possible explanations for what went wrong by showing how the plain could have gotten into central Asia. It explains some of the bizarre behavior of the plane, but not all of it. So it's eliminated some of the burdensome details about the flight behavior at the cost of introducing burdensome details about complicated, secret, and successful planning. As a result, I'm even less sure about what happened to the plane now, but of course if that reflects my actual state of knowledge it's a good thing.
I love the idea of a standing desk, but this design probably would cause my neck and back to hurt. Since the monitor is so far back, I would be constantly learning forward and tilting my neck down.
Well in .NET, C# especially, asynchronous programming is a first class citizen.
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At first glance, I was like "cool", let me check this out. Thinking about it a bit, I was wondering if this would ever pass a code review from my peers.

Probably not.

A Hash with values that are procs/lambdas? Seems like you are halfway to recognizing that you need an object.

But if you are having fun coding, that's all that matters, until you do a pull request with that in it ;)
I used to have a desk that could easily covert between standing and sitting. I would switch about every 2 weeks.