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Hi there,
being the author of this article, let me just point out that I am _not_ an "social media consultant" but part of the scientific research carried out at www.linkedprocess.org. This article is merely trying to summarize and relate different computing approaches like Chat, GWave and others. Much of what is pointed out in this article is already either in the XEP (which is, others are actually extending the protocol and requesting these extensions to be standardized) or projects are exploring these scenarios (see the links in the comments and the article itself).

So, I don't think this is reality distortion, Google Wave and others placing their "next generation conversation" bets into this basket is IMHO a very fundamental endorsement.

XMPP is not the tightest of protocols, but it adds a lot of value in the outlined scenarios since you get internet-scale discovery, status handling, routing infrastructure and handling of extensions and custom payloads for free.

The XML overhead is IMHO only evident if you are either very low on bandwith (like mobile networks before flat rate and 3G) or parsing the XML yourself (not using the excellent client libs out there), so I think that is acceptable. I agree with some of the other comments that there never will be an ideal protocol, but this actually works, has exisitng deployments, clients and libs, and there are open servers and specifications to roll your own if you like.

See the piece as a summary, not a roadmap.

Cheers

/peter
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The curve of constant width, square drill thing was in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column 30 years ago....

Nice to see it again.
I know that http://www.reddit.com/user/dons is constantly evangelizing Haskell and Arch on reddit, to the point where he's self-parodying. He's also single-handedly responsible for there being 1314 (!) haskell packages in Arch.

At least Arch gives the tweakers a bit more rope with which to form either a noose or a lasso.
Eh, we clearly do have selection for sperm production. We have the second biggest balls in proportion to body size of any primate, which strongly suggests that only the (bonobo?) chimpanzees fuck around more than us.
Sorry, in college my officemates and I were fond of coining epithets for our annoyances (also see 'duggalo' and 'gamer scum').

If the Reddit crowd has switched to Arch, I'm happy for them. They grow up so fast!
Are your target boxes virtual machines?

I always prefer the strategy where mirroring the data happens before the disk is presented to the VM. Have a look at GlusterFS and see if that might be an option? I know it wasn't playing nice with zfs for a while there, though.
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Most of his early posts are excellent, drawing on his for hire experiences at Microsoft, Viacom, Juno and his owner experiences as a struggling startup.

Many of his later posts written when his own company Fog Creek has already become successful are of lesser value.

Joel has mostly run out of things to say, this is not a criticism, just a fact of life.
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Someone said there's more transsexual programmers than female ones.
It's not so much that the kernel devs are actively making "latency tradeoffs" -- it's that they absolutely can't get away with regressions

It would be completely untenable if the corporate users (who are in the vast majority by every metric) ended up either not upgrading or using a fork that reverts the changes.
I don't have pictures. I can describe, though.

Two disks were mounted in a frame linearly, both screwed to the frame, with the power/sata connectors toward the middle of the frame, and one drive upside-down.

These cassettes were removable as a unit for hot-swap, and were inserted linearly into a half-deep 19" rack enclosure.

That the two drives were physically connected to the same frame, and removed and replaced as a unit would make it seem as if they would be started in phase. Now I'm not physicist, but I'm not 100% sure that's so important - if you have two gyroscopes contra-rotating and firmly connected, running at the same speed, surely they resist movement by sheer gyroscopic effect?
Graph on the left is a weak compromise. Just eye-candy & name-dropping.

Graph on the right is based on larger amount of data -
they did actually include many more shows (like DS9, The Outer Limits): http://io9.com/5348003/tv-shows-surveyed-for-themes-througho...
>You know who got blasted out of sleep at 3 AM because my email was down? I don't know, but it sure as heck wasn't me.

Only people who were unfortunate enough to be working on the GMail team from UTC+7, perhaps UTC+6, instead of in Mountain View.
No, but Jef was a friend.
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But do NATO air forces other than the USAF have AWACS aircraft?

Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_Early_Warning_and_Cont...

...do note that a soldier does what he is told. As far as I know, Zoltan did not murder any civilians.

US military personnel needn't obey all orders, only lawful orders. Zoltan wasn't just obeying orders, he was working overtime to support human slaughter.

He was simply defending his country against an act of aggression.

I really don't know what to say to that. If someone breaks into your home and begins killing and raping your family, and you fight back, is the attacker "defending himself against an act of aggression?"
I so terribly want this. Even in ordinary glasses it would be awesome. Where can I get one? :-)
I don't know if this is exactly 'life changing'... although it is pretty cool.
Not trolling. The point here is that given two projects in the exact same circumstance (abandoned), with the exact same absentee maintainers (umich), and equivalent levels of contributions and code quality (low), both went with two different licenses -- BSD and GPL.

The BSD project saw significantly higher contributions. However, that doesn't imply to me that the BSD license usage was a "success story" any more than the GPL usage was. It merely implies that the specific individuals interested in maintaing the projects had entirely different licensing predilections, and there were different levels of community interest in the projects.

In other words, happenstance.
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Last but not least, never underestimate the ferocity and tenacity of the Serbs. The Ottomans and the Nazis sure learned their lesson.

So did the Bosnians, Croats, Kosovars, and Macedonians.
When you have as many cameras as they do that sounds like a pretty successful statistic without hiring.30 cent an hour Chinese workers to watch your day-behind video footage all day.
> That said, I'm personally dubious about this story being true - it reads more like a Serbian trying to explain how clever he was against the dumb Americans, even though his country got its butt kicked.

He never puts it that bluntly. And well, admit that he has something to brag about. As an ex RAAF radar engineer I'm sure you realize that scoring F-117 with ancient S-125 is no trivial feat.

As to his country getting its ass kicked, well. Really, what other outcome was there ever possible, victorious Serbian banner over Washington?
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If for some reason you wanted to do this, you could just do

import sys
def debug(*s, sep=" ", nl="\n"):
print >>sys.stderr, sep.join(map(str, s)), nl,
pass

debug("There was an error on line", 10, ":", nl="")
debug(1,2,3,4,5, sep="-")

And then comment out the line with "print" to disable it.

Of course, by that point you may as well use the logging module.
I agree with you in that correlation is not causation but I think you're overcomplicating things a bit in your example; birds don't have a healthcare system, they're either completely healthy and fit or get killed by a predator or by their inability to migrate or some other external factor relatively quickly.
Missing one:

Your far-clip plane is too close.
"... but weak in relation to something like the strong nuclear force (looks)."

On the contrary, every single "ladies man" I've ever known in my life has not been the best looking, far from it.

Looks certainly help, but to use your analogy I would say looks is more like gravity - omnipresent but ultimately outweighed by other factors.
Definitely.

It's quite similar to what John Boyd and his acolytes have talked about regarding military strategy for years. I recommend "Certain to Win" by Chet Richards for a digestible summary.
spam, that's what.
I'm not associated with them at all, I stumbled on them the other day when looking for a halfway decent wireframe tool for OS X.

It is very reminiscent of Axure, what I consider to be one of the best professional wireframing tools out there for anything more complicated than a simple dialog. HotGloo actually exceeds it in a lot of ways: the interface is significantly less cluttered and complicated than Axure's. Building state management and state driven interactions is a snap, plus you can trigger events on mouse overs, mouse outs and when the element is initialized. The review mode allows collaborators to click through and leave notes, Axure has a fairly clumsy HTML export that works very poorly.

It has a number of drawbacks too. You can't share custom elements across projects. There is no versioning, or creating copies of projects, so experimenting/refactoring is permanent. I wish review mode had comments, as well as the existing annotations. I wish I could make notes on elements and then generate a functional spec PDF. It would be nice if it generated PDF's in general, right now it only exports PNGs.

It's a brilliant start though and is already heads above Balsamiq. Definitely better than ProtoShare too. It's certainly going to give Axure a run for it's money.
Reality seems to contradict your opinion. GCC, Linux and thousands of quality libraries are written under GPL license.

Releasing software as open source dows not mean giving it away for free. With GPL it literally means that you give it for freedom.

As a developer of a commercial program, the GPL (with dual licensing) is the best choice if you want to release your source code and have control over it. Your users get it for free, but your competitors cannot modify it legally to take advantage over you. It's a win-win situation.

Furthermore you have always the freedom to not to use GPL libraries if you think it causes more harm than good.
> What sticks out in my mind most is how happy Zoltan and his buddies are to celebrate defending the mass murders and rapes of Milosevic's Serbian Socialist Party. And with a cake in the shape of a plane.

Zoltan did not commit any war crimes or ordered to do so. By that twisted logic, were Vietnam war USAF pilots in a pub after successful sortie celebrating My Lai massacre?
The view engine is actually quite easy to get working if one follows the instructions on github. I had some problems getting view parameters to work but the author was quick to help me out.
"Epically stupid" and "leading the troll brigade?"

Thank God you adore me, blasdel.
Yet another thing women are just too smart to get into.
" If someone breaks into your home and begins killing and raping your family, and you fight back, is the attacker "defending himself against an act of aggression?""

Your analogy is confusing. The Serbs didn't break into American homes and rape/kill anyone. So how exactly was the US "fighting back"?

From the Serbian viewpoint, the USA could be seen as the party "breaking in" and killing civilians from the air (sure "collateral damage", but when it is your family beneath the rubble, I am sure it is a fine distinction) and the Serbs as the ones "fighting back".

" he was working overtime to support human slaughter."

A lot of non Americans believe this is precisely what US soldiers did (Vietnam) and do (Iraq / Afghanistan). I am not taking positions on who is "right", but this is why politics should be avoided on HN if possible - arguments on politics and religion can circle endlessly with no useful conclusion.
The movie hasn't been released yet. I created some of the Second Life video that is supposed to appear in the final cut of the film. From the pre-release footage I've seen so far it is worth watching. Some of it is a reiteration of Kurzweil's last book, but there is some new material as well. If your intimately familiar with Kurzweil it won't all be that new but it is worth watching.
He doesn't mention the actual biggest reason not to do so, which is that Internet Explorer doesn't support XHTML at all.

You'll only experience the yellow screen of death if you've already went to the trouble of serving the content as tag soup to IE and detecting Firefox to send it with a different mime type.

In short that whole section made me think this guy was an uninformed crank, still desperately clinging to the dead end of XHTML and spreading disinformation in order to justify things to himself.
What? Google takes on Walmart?
Following that line of thought, any grad student whose research is funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is working overtime to support human slaughter, too.

Or is kosher to kill civilians just as long as it's the USAF doing it?

Do you want me to go search how many Vietnamese civilians were killed by U.S. military personnel who were merely following "lawful orders"? What is a "lawful order to kill"? One that is according to the ROE?

Justified or not, NATO's attack was an act of aggression, by definition of aggression. No need to play semantics here. Go tell the civilians in Novi Sad (which is ethnically Hungarian) that destroying their city was justified because of what ethnical Serbs were doing in Kosovo. Go read a bit about the rich and convoluted history of the Balkans, because your black & white view of the world is a bit fuzzy.
Is it? It's very difficult to tell given the paucity of details. The 'well-funded, established competitor' was, for instance, able to extract the pilot within 8 hours. Beside the larger point that it was able to achieve its military and political objectives.
- Darling, do you remember the day when Google was down?

- You mean the day 9 months before our son was born?

===

Enjoy it while it lasts.
Look at the bright side of this: GMail just got more reliable.
I love the concept, but watching the example videos I kinda wish they'd implemented a transition in there. Some of videos were really jarring moving from "interesting" to "interesting" states. A small audio/visual fade out and then in again would help a lot.
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Here is the diff from version 0.1
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Technically it's the best optical illusion of two years ago, but who's counting. It's still pretty cool
I still can't believe the US and NATO have bombarded Serbia which is a country in the heart of Europe. This just shows that any country can be attacked.

Btw. the reasons for invading Serbia back then have been debunked as propaganda later on in the same way the Iraq war excuses have been debunked. There were no Serbian concentration camps etc.
You are ignorant. Go read about the Balkans, and come back when you are less ignorant. I used to be ignorant too, and cheered when NATO bombed Belgrade. One day I visited the Balkans and what the people there told me, made me change my mind completely.

I am for life and for human rights. I am not against the Serbs. I am against the Serbs who committed atrocities. Moreover, not all Serbs are the same. The ethnical salad bowl in the Balkans is mind-boggling. Superficial analyses are plain stupid in this case.
I don't think his proposed solution quite solves his problem. Among other things, if he got his wish, then "preponderance of evidence" would no longer suffice; he'd have to provide "evidence beyond a reasonable doubt" every time he wanted to win a case.
That's not true.

The browser doesn't validate the content and neither knows nor cares if it would. It does something called doctype sniffing to choose whether it goes into one of a few different modes based entirely on the declaration (or lack of the same) at the top of the document.

"However, it is important to realize that the Quirks mode vs. Standards mode is predominantly about CSS layout and parsing—not HTML parsing.
Some people misleadingly refer to the Standards mode as “strict parsing mode”, which is misunderstood to imply that browsers enforced HTML syntax rules and that a browser could be used to assess the correctness of markup. This is not the case. The browsers do tag soup fix-ups even when the Standards mode layout is in effect. (In 2000 before Netscape 6 was released, Mozilla actually had parser modes that enforced HTML syntax rules. These modes were incompatible with existing Web content and were abandoned.)"

Quoted from (and far more details) here:
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/
Cross reference to
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=799225
Yup, I've seen the same thing. The guys I know who get the ladies aren't the good looking ones, they're the self(over) confident ones who can talk a good game and aren't worried about being shot down.
This discussion is getting way off the subject of HN. If there is any moderation, it would be nice to see it happen.
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To me, it would be more interesting to see what % of Wikipedia's content was created by women since not everyone contributes equally.

According to this post, 50% of Wikipedia's edits are done by just 0.7% of users:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
OK, admittedly getting paid for moving traffic from place to place within your own site is a fun situation for Facebook to be in. Still, it doesn't matter which domain the users are on, it just matters that you get your message across to them. Getting more fans still means the ability to blast more people about your goods/services/charity.
This is exactly what I thought when I read the article.

However, one needs to remember the reasons for the pushback that XML and XHTML got in the web developer/designer community: The SGML based HTML allows all these nice quirks through the SGML declaration and DTD. There it is defined that tags are case insensitive, BR is always empty, you don't need to close TD and P etc...

XML on the other hand has this stric notion of well-formedness where you can parse any well-formed document without a DTD or schema. This is what allows you to more easily invent your own tags and attach a style to them.

Thus, with sticking with an SGML based language, HTML made a decision to make the authoring of the core language more convenient while sacrificing some of the benefits that XML would have had. It's a design decision and it has been debated a lot already. It's just something people should keep in mind.
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But any change to the scheduler is a regression for someone, more or less by definition. Do you mean that they can't change it anymore at all?
Moderation was nowhere in sight when Ted Kennedy's death was discussed ad nauseam here. If local (== US) politics didn't draw moderation I doubt international politics (war is an extension of politics?) will.

I completely agree with you btw. The rights and wrongs of any war (vs any technical hacks etc) are way off HN's focus. The suggested policy is apparently to flag any offending comments and keep quiet about it. How effective that policy is debatable.
Sadly there is an important feature missing in one of the bigger browsers: Firefox does not support disable-output-encoding.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98168

The bug was opened almost exactly 8 years ago. All other major browsers support XSLT quite nicely.
Huh, the Sidewinder is a short range IR missile? The Australian air force doesn't use long range radar missiles?
I think oldgregg already threadjacked the discussion, actually.
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Could you explain? I can't evaluate the technical merits, but is there an alternative if you actually want a scheduler to cater to a desktop user's needs?
Imagine this guy to monopolize wind-up radios for all of the third world.
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It's a big problem for accessibility. Modern web pages are a nightmare for screen readers, for example. Tags which explicitly mark where the navigation is, amongst other things, would be a great help.

I'm not sure that I see the value of just being able to define whatever tags you want, though. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
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tar zxvf hedge*
cd hedge*
mkdir o
cd o
TARGET_PATH=$HOME/opt
[[ -d $TARGET_PATH ]] || mkdir $TARGET_PATH
../configure BSD $TARGET_PATH
vim ../hh_common.h +69 # change to #include <sys/wait.h>
make

If anyone knows how to get it to do STDIN please let me in.
thanks for the tip. will look into it
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That's a shame. Wikipedia has to take some steps to counteract the male dominance. The average "women don't do tech" excuse doesn't work here as women are often even better or more prolific writers.
I'm quite interested in how you use it. Do you have an example?
Ugh. I'm not sure that I'm allowed to discuss effective engagement ranges and such - it's classified information. Suffice it to say that the Australian AIM9 was modified to work a bit better than the standard AIM9 when in an enhanced environment (access to other radar system information in the local area etc). They weren't particularly short-range missiles, but the F-16s had stand-off range on them. I'm assuming that is why they chose AMRAAM as their armament for that encounter, because I know they use AIM9s elsewhere on their F16s...

Anyway, this story is about 12 years out of date now :-/ But I'm sure the technological gap between the US and the rest of the world still exists - it was after all Rummy's hobby horse.
If I had a job where I seriously thought I'd be supporting Windows XP and IE6 for the next ten years, I'd kill myself.
And it's not even an acronym, it's an initialism!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism
There is always money available for security measures such as crypto etc

But that simply isn't true. Why're British forces stuck with the outdated Clansman system? Your GSM mobile phone is more secure than the current-issue kit.
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I coined it, but you can have it.
See also: angry fruit salad
http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/angry-fruit-salad.html
It's about 2-6% in FLOSS communities. It can get up to about 30% percent in the computing industry generally but the number varies if you (don't) count managers, web developers, testers etc.
Upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP now possible
In some weird move by Microsoft their latest operating-system Windows 7 does not support in-place upgrade from their most widely used operating system - Windows XP, lack of this upgrade path prevented many like me from migrating to Windows 7 but now its possible via this thrid-party solution.
Well quite. The full might of NATO against an impoverished ex-Communist state approximately the size of Maine armed only with obsolete cast-offs. Well done America, you sure "kicked butt" there.

Now imagine what might have happened if the USAF had actually had tried to go up against fully equipped Red Army air defences. So much for Stealth.
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