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>>Spending excess money on drinks and video games is not simply a matter of being to undisciplined, it's a real need

Sorry but this is the most absurd statement I've read today. I'm not sure why this happens to most people, but they are deluded to think that small leaks here and there don't matter. While the fact is that preventing those small leaks and then saving that money is all that matters sometimes.

In my country(India) its often a heart burn to most people when they realize some one earning 1/10th their income is financially light years ahead only because over the past two decades, they invested the money they consider 'leaks' buying stuff like real estate, generating rent income and reinvesting that money to buy more real estate. Or Gold.

You will be surprised how far you can by just routinely investing small money.

>> There's no way that you could ever work as an employee and make a billion dollars without either very risky and lucky investment, or a CEO's salary.

You can never devise a general strategy to achieve exceptional goals.

But in most common cases saving and investing a little routinely will keep you rich. You can choose not to believe in it, or you can believe in it and do it.

Either way you will know. You will get rich yourself or you will see someone else getting rich. In things like these time can be a big factor(Think compounding). Those who started early are mid way, and soon will be ahead.
> Also, casting function calls to (void) is nonsensical.

This is an older convention to indicate that the programmer knows the function returns a value but has chosen to ignore it. It got around the false positives generated by lint.

This code uses SIGCLD which I don't think is supported by BSD, where it is called SIGCHLD and is slightly different (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). If that's the case, then the author's assertion that it "should run unchanged on AIX, Linux®, or any other UNIX version" is incorrect - it will only run on System V varieties.
Doesn't DJB's stuff usually compile faster than you can install a Debian package? :)

You could always try to package it for Debian, although I understand that's not a small amount of work.

I don't know of anything else designed for security. Hard to beat DJB in that respect. If you left out the security requirement, I would say just use the Python SimpleHTTPServer. I think it's probably secure, but definitely not explicitly designed for it.
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To expand on what the parent commenter was saying: namespace directives aren't meant to be accessed; they are just used as a unique identifier.
or in go:

package main

import (
"flag"
"net/http"
)

var serveDir = flag.String("d", ".", "Directory to serve from")

func main() {
flag.Parse()
panic(http.ListenAndServe("127.0.0.1:8000", http.FileServer(
http.Dir(*serveDir))))
}
When you say "it happened three times" this whole winter do you mean "it snowed three times"? I live in Syracuse, NY. We get 100+ inches every year, so I have some experience with the slushy salt+sand mixture that covers everything near a road in the winter. You can clean your car all you want but as soon as you spend 2 minutes driving a lot of the salt+sand+slush is back. How do you clean the lens while driving?
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> A basic income would take wealth away from the few who have more than enough, and thaw out economic activity for everyone else. Poor people would be able to spend, AND work because others are spending.

I feel like this is a crucial point that many people completely miss.
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Most politicians in Taiwan are either threaten or bribed by China. The ruling party is heavily corrupted, and large enterprise highly influenced, by the huge economic power of China, while most average citizens are worried, but powerless of the situation. This is why the majority of Taiwanese sympathize with the students' action of Occupying the Congress.
Agree with this. Merchants take on absolutely no risk by proposing bitcoin as a payment option because a) they never touch btc b) they still offer the CC alternative. There is no deterioration in customer experience. It's just an additional option that allows Square in this case to tap into a market of evangelistic early adopters who are ready to spend part of their coins.

It's a smart marketing stunt (Square Market has been struggling to compete with more established marketplaces, so this could drive traffic to their service) but in no way points to the evolution of the bitcoin ecosystem. That will have to be measured on the consumer side of the market.
This thread seems to be an attempt to cut ahead of the automatic threads posted by "whoishiring".
Even for someone who personally suspects that the market will always find sufficient use for the displaced labor, it seems a little silly to ignore the possibility that it won't simply on account of it not having happened yet.
hell, you can get a chinese android phone for $100 -- and that includes the camera and color display, plus all of the rest (battery, storage, wifi, wireless, gps, bluetooth, etc). Anyone who claims adding this to a car costs $100 is ridiculous.
>Where bitcoin makes more sense to me is in replacing cash.

How does that work in a practical sense? "Thank you for ordering, please take a seat a and we'll give you your purchases as soon as your transaction is confirmed."
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But it should be obvious there are a lot fewer salespeople needed than factory workers, and more importantly, robots don't buy things, so who is buying the artisanal pocket calculators and where are they getting their money?
This crowd is always tough to please. There's a description at the top which says, about the 200 loc http server:

You can see exactly what it can and can't do.

Thank you Mr. Griffiths. Your example will help extend my understanding of an http server, even if I don't intend on writing one. I would never read through the 90 klocs of httpd.
I think mobile operators are going to drive the near term biggest uptick in ipv6 adoption.

My local ISP (small, independent) has no current IPV6 plans, which is actually a little bit annoying.
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You should just skip over the first few paragraphs and keep reading; the writing improves pretty quickly.
That's pretty much The Lump of Labour Fallacy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

Your comment applies not just to robots but to any labour saving device or productivity increase. From the wikipedia page:

Historically, the gigantic increase in labour productivity induced by technological progress since the industrial revolution has resulted in the dominance of the scale effect, bringing about both a massive increase in real wages and a decrease in labour time. There is no reason to expect that this same process cannot be continued in the future.
"The more you share, the better the chance of getting access to the beta." Lost me there. No explanation? Can we each get referral links?
> http://msminotaur.com/blog/?p=187

Really interesting read, but now my eyes hurt.
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Any malicious actor who gets that number can then use it to extract money from your card. Sure, it's probably FDIC insured, but they still make out with some of your money.

Actually, you lose none of your money. The credit card company completely refunds you. Someone once stole my card and got some gas with it, and the next day I got the transaction refunded and a new card issued within 10 minutes.

Bitcoin is far less secure than a credit card. The best way to lose thousands of dollars is to invest it into bitcoin and then trust any webservice to hold onto your coins for you. It's what happened to me. If I had experienced credit card fraud instead of bitcoin fraud, I'd still have my money. Now I don't.

What you're describing is security for a merchant. Preventing chargebacks sounds great... for merchants. But security for consumers is obviously more important, because consumer adoption is the single most important factor.
If making games were like spinning a roulette wheel this might be true. Making games is an art though, and part of that art is learning how to make really great experiences for the player. You can't do that without a focus on quality over quantity. Especially as an indie-developer with limited resources, what exactly are you going to make that anyone is going to care about if you're constant releasing half baked stuff and starting new projects?
Why is that awful? JSON is not JavaScript. The string encoded value of the integer 1 is not a IEEE754 numeric either - it's just the character 1. In modern usage: JSON is to JavaScript as JavaScript is to Java.
Some gas stations allow you to pay for Diesel with cash at a discount. As a side note, Flash Foods has a card you can get that uses ACH with your debit account (I'm probably not saying that right). You get a flat $0.05 off of gas. They claim it's because of credit card charges (and because ACH doesn't cost them anything).
So, am I (as #3000-something in the beta queue when I signed up for it) any nearer to having an account I can start testing? :-)
Have you considered PostgreSQL? MariaDB would probably be fine and has the advantage of having a lot more tutorials on the internet (makes it a tiny bit easier to get started), but Postgres is the best open source database there is (in my opinion at least). I don't bother with MySQL/MariaDB for my own projects anymore (I started on it 10 years ago). I only ever use it if I'm installing something that won't work with anything else.
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This is what Bertrand Russell advocated about 100 years ago. But he thought of a sane society where the productivity was split between everyone so we got more leisure instead of unemployment.
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But what did that have to do with his job? Did he divert company funds to that campaign?
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Even if Brendan Eich has private views that I disagree with, I don't see a big problem here, because they are his private views, not those of Mozilla.

Furthermore, people have a right to their own opinions, and I don't want corporations digging through contribution records to dig up dirt on who someone gave money to. This seems shameful to me; we're talking about a country that values free speech.

"He is listed publicly as having donated to a campaign in support of California's Proposition 8 campaign in 2008, which had sought to ban gay marriage in the western US state." From: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26830383

Who knows why Mr. Eich gave this donation. Maybe he changed his mind since then. Maybe not. It should not matter. Correct me if I'm wrong -- and maybe I've naive -- but Mozilla should not be singled out for every action or donation that their CEO has taken. (Yes, I realize CEO's are high visibility people.)

I am happy OKCupid is promoting marriage equality, but I don't like this particular way of doing it.
No, my argument is more like "Don't fight intolerance with intolerance"
Yeah, as someone with just a casual interest in indie games (I had heard of the names of three of the developers before read a lot of and about two of them) and that whole YouTube thing (I know two or so of the mentioned YouTube people) this story was pretty easy to follow. For someone outside of that it must be much, much harder to follow.

It could certainly be improved for a more general audience but I’m not even sure whether the author thought this story would blow up like it did.

(And yeah, the article does start slow, but I think that’s mostly driven by the author’s desire to really clarify and explain his complicated relationship to the organisers.)
That's not really true, and not what people mean by "timing the market." Thinking the market generally goes up and one should invest in it is not timing, no matter when you think it. Repeating the phrase "all time high" as though it indicated the future is precisely timing.

It's been shown that if you have a lump sum of money, it's most often better to dump it all in the market as soon as possible, rather than gradually buying in.

Of course you shouldn't put 100% of your money in the stock market, your advice was reasonable.
> The proportion of people working seems a bit unaffected by technological change.

The proportion of the produce of society returned to labor vs. capital, OTOH, is strongly affected by technological change -- advancing technology tends to shift returns to capital (though sometimes there is a trailing second order effect where this produces policy responses that at least partially offset this primary effect.)

> A couple of centuries back most people were in farming and now that is done by like 2% of the population the others have found things to do mostly because people like doing stuff rather then because they's starve otherwise.

The fact that they would starve otherwise is a pretty big factor, and its a big factor that -- especially absent policy responses like child labor laws, minimum wages laws, etc., but even to a lesser extent with them -- keeps returns to labor down.
It seems to me we are seeing a variant of the same problem that Ken Thompson articulated in his paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust."[1]

While not a compiler intercept of the sort Thompson is talking about, this is effectively a library intercept of critical crypto functions and it poses the same basic problem. I don't think the industry will ever be the same. I think more and more folks are going to demand source-level access to everything crypto-related, and cryptoanalysts are going to put a lot more effort into scrutinizing these things.

The NSA failed to heed the basic warning of the Greek drama: ὕβρις-ἄτη-Νέμεσις

Or in more familiar terms, "Pride goeth before a fall."

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
And now you have changed the rules again. Don't pretend like you're looking for common ground when you keep changing the fundamentals of the discussion.

The discussion is, oculus rift, 3d chat. Diagram it.
Neither cash discounts nor credit surcharges are prohibited now thanks to new legislation and a court settlement in the past few years.
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In other news Zuckerberg's exercised $3.3 billion in stock options last year alone. The $1 salary gimmick allows to advertise frugality for rest of the staff however.
> Who needs a job when you have robots doing all the work for you?!

Anyone who doesn't own productive capital and lives in a society where you either need income from productive capital or income from labor to get the necessities of life.

> Think of all the other things you could be doing.

Starving in the street?
Message Passing in C
It wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of the work was contributed by engineers using 20% time (no, it's not dead) who wanted to make the April Fool's hack happen.

I've seen Cambridge Googlers (from the ITA acquisition) come in over the weekend playing with an RC helicopter to get some video footage of the old ITA building and the old ITA logo before they moved into their new digs in the expanded Google campus in Kendall Square. And they did it just for fun! (BTW, trying to keep a RC helicopter steady in the face of winds near things like cliffs or buildings is not so easy....)

I'm sure Google provided support in some fashion, but very often in terms of engineering effort, these sorts of thing are 100% done by passionate Googlers using 20% time. Often, people who want to make things like this happen will recruit people outside of their immediate product area, who have special expertise that might be needed. There are definitely people at Google with private pilot's licenses, and almost certainly Googlers who can fly (real) helicopters....

One of the really neat things about working for Google is getting to hang out with people who are way smarter than you, and who often have all sorts of interesting skills and talents you don't have --- yet. :-)
Why is everyone so negative towards this app? I have been a digital artist for 20 years almost and I have been using photoshop for over 18 years now. Gimp is no match for Photoshop but it is a great alternative on Linux and it is a free tool on other platforms. This is what we have and it is better than not having an alternative. It is mind boggling to see that people passionately hate Gimp meanwhile Adobe has been screwing the software world behind the scenes. No one seems to passionately care about Adobe`s evils.

I hope that some of you will care enough about learning and modifying Gimp at some point because it is not as bad as most of you think. And I bet that some of you wont even need most of the pro features of Gimp.

On the other hand I doubt that all this negative talk will motivate the Gimp developers. Seriously grumbling artists cannot do much art. Artists and creatives have to be passionate, positive and forward progressives.

Anyway here is my personal wish list for Gimp

- Single transform tool for move rotate scale
- mirror drawing
- proper blending brush
- visual brush resizer
- And the most important of all is to support 32 bit linear image formats
btw, Rust will likely add virtual functions with inherited implementations because it makes some Servo code easier to write and more efficient:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-March/00895...
For the most part, readers of IndieStatik probably do know who they are. It's the closest thing I can think of to an indie gaming trade mag, in the sense that a lot of people read it (though not in the "writing for people who aren't already plugged in" sense).

I think they get too close to their subjects too often for my liking, but the most part it's not a bad read.
Maybe it's just me that finds Trello's interface complex then :p

do you also use Trello for non-soft/engineering related projects?
I recommend looking at gamepedia for gaming wikis. They're not great (plenty of ads still) but at least they don't force a stupid layout. Also curse is massively better community-wise.
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Yes we agree, it was the point of the reference I gave too. Anyone who invokes religion for _or_ against in the matter of deciding what marriage is defined as and what new term is needed, is wrong. True religion is about joining people together not separating them.
It's awful because you would expect a network encoding of a set of types to be able to encode all the valid values of those types. If you claim that your encoding can represent floats, but it can't represent Infinity or NaN, then your encoding cannot, in fact, represent floats.
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This was also the entire premise of the Transmeta CPUs
For small transactions, it is safe to give the purchases after 0 confirmations. In order to pull off a double spend with 0 confirmations, you need to ensure that the store (or whoever processes payments for them) receives the "wrong" spend first, which requires a large enough fraction of the hash power of the network that just mining the usual way is more profitable.
Yes, there are companies in the batch that decide to remain in stealth a bit longer. Until they are ready to shine.
Because his statement was not loaded with emotion like the one from the NHTSA.

>""We are committed to protecting the most vulnerable victims of back-over accidents — our children and seniors," Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a statement."

This rule doesn't pass the "sniff" test. There is absolutely nothing backing this except an estimate that several dozen lives might be saved. No cost effectiveness analysis, no comparison to other changes.
"Anonymity maybe?"

The Blockchain is definitely NOT anonymous. There was a misconception in the early days that Bitcoin was a anonymous given there is no certificate authority that ties you to particular addresses.

However, this may or may not hold as various entities pop up (e.g. Coinbase, Bitstamp) who may be subpoena'd

Mixing also doesn't work because you can apply taint analysis. Further, do you really want to mix your address with other dirty addresses? Who knows what they've been up to!
Hey man, thanks for existing. The amount of money I make from cleaning up after dipshits who think "just throw some spaghetti at the wall, we'll deal with making it sustainable and secure later" keeps me almost embarrassingly busy. Of course, I'm as often as not the last money they spend, because if that's how you're running your business, you're screwed anyway. Keep being ignorant; keep writing me checks.
link to the final rule:

http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/rulemaking/pdf/FMVSS-111_Re...