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This sucks.

It means IBM doesn't want to do HARD engineering anymore. They just want to do sales and handling of stuff for high markup. This is the last really cool thing to go before the finish dismantling that former technical giant.

POWER was never about flops/watt it was about the IBM ecosystem. It's calling in for support on your hardware/software and getting elevated to somebody in the same department that will actually write the fix. It's having actual field engineers that went to the factory and learned how the stuff is put together. It was never cheap... But it was good.

ibm's POWER hardware is the last of the "old iron" lines. X86 stuff just doesn't hold a candle in the "well built" category. My company went from an "open platform" IBM solution back to old fashioned POWER hardware because it was just better built and the "open" platform just resulted in finger pointing between BLADE, SAN, LAN, and OS people... And that was IBM support with their name on the box.. When it's truly mixed support it's going to be very terrible.

It's not like AIX or System i will ever get ported to non-IBM machines for better value. It's not like Apple is gonna dust off OSX and let me build racks of POWER servers either. Betting on "Linux" is a cop out. People use Linux on POWER when they have investments in POWER iron for their mainline business apps.. ROG, COBOL, etc.. And they don't want to pay AIX/enterprise licensing for web/email servers.

This is just the "last call" to show they tried to let the world love them more... And nobody will come. Then they close it down.
There is scope for moving/compacting GC, as long as creating a reference from a GC pointer is registered and pins a GC allocation in place until the reference disappears (i.e. it will theoretically only be a cost with GC pointers, not anything else).

Also it's worth noting that Rust does not have a GC yet, and I don't believe anyone has really got in there and iterated on possibilities yet. (Graydon, Felix (pnkfelix) and I have all done some experimentation with it, but all proof-of-concept/very basic, not really bullet-proof/production-ready things.)
The BBC's 1960's TV version of this story is on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvrGUnIFuRs
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I agree that they often make things seem harder then they really are. The monad tutorial that works best for me is the "don't mention monads" tutorial. Thats the one where you just show some specific task to complete, like composing (a -> Maybe b) functions, and show that there is a neat operator that does it. Then, at some future time, show another composition task, like composing (a -> [b]) functions, and show the same operator again.

Starting with the abstract just messes people up and gets them confused. You don't start throwing around Kleisli Arrows and endofunctors right off the bat.
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I'm looking forward to getting a fitbit one soon. I have chose it because I don't like having anything on my wrists/arms, and it also should be more accurate since it sits in my pocket and not on my arms which may move when I'm not walking. I read you can also put it in your sock to track bicycling. You can't do that with a phone.
It's not hypothetical. Such restrictions are routine in other arms of government investigation, eg. money laundering.
Thanks, interesting :)
Really clean design.

This reminds me of the Heineken Star Player app from a couple of years ago.

http://www.akqa.com/approach/social/case-studies/heineken-st...

I work for a pro sporting league and have need for the same experience.
Check out this postmortem: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/180520/postmortem_humb...

"Late in 2008 I read an article in OXM detailing what was possible with a new programming language, cryptically called XNA. I had never programmed before, and besides a short contract doing cutscenes for Jazz Jackrabbit 2, had never worked on a video game (I'm actually an animator/illustrator by trade).

...

A week of rudimentary tutorials later, I quickly realized you have to make EVERYTHING from scratch! No level editor existed. No animation tool. No scripting or dialogue systems. No nothing -- just a bunch of otherworldly programming words. But that's what made it exciting: learning a new language (literally), slowly making my artwork interactive, and more importantly, growing my aspirations beyond the original 8-bit design."

A truly inspiring story!
They sort of do. Each patent has both a description, written in more or less understandable terms (and often including diagrams) and the claims, which is what the post references (e.g. "a system or method ..."). The point of the legalese in the claims is to explicitly define the boundaries of the patent. By way of analogy, imagine if you had to describe the boundaries of a piece of land you owned, but the land wasn't a regular shape and you couldn't rely on a map.
Power8 has equal or better performance than Intel; ARM isn't even close.
Tim Cook has never been a product guy and never will be. He's not Steve Jobs; that doesn't mean he can't succeed as CEO.
I understand satire, and I understand sexism. Believe it or not.. you were sexist in your satire.

Why would you love to hear my argument against Github here?? I never said I was for or against them. I simply said that your assertion that due process had happened is untrue.
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I don't think I made a mark against the language itself, or tried to rule it out, or tried to indicate it cannot attain the highest levels of performance -

Yes, my point was just that there are programmers using Haskell in a non-optimal way. Beginners seem to be surprised when their Haskell code isn't automatically in the upper level.

I'm not really a great fan of benchmarks, or this particular benchmark, but at least the source of every test is available:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
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Did you bother to even open the spec or were you too busy making assumptions? Here is a link in case the you missed the one on the site: http://mailmarkup.org/mail-documentation.xsd

I am going to make the baseless assumption that your intentions were well placed, and happily await a contribution of prior art.

EDIT: My lawyers have deliberately asked that I not transcribe the claims in the patent application, but its really not hard to figure out from looking first at what the language does differently from the spec and then glossing over the claims in the patent application. I put this stuff online myself years ago, because I have nothing to hide and want nothing more than to ensure the software is valid and novel. Please feel free to prove otherwise, because either way you are contributing to a software project.
Nice list of words.
What the kids do is introduce the "distraction factor"... Right when you're really in the middle of that groove... your baby will waddle in the room and try to kiss you or play with the noisiest toy in the solar system... Then she'll drop it and the dog with run off with it which will cause crying and boom... mood halted...
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I think the reason this is so "unexpected" is because no one believe he would do it, which means there's a high chance this is a well planned PR message to fix his image.
Yes I saw it, it's some crazy XML schema for an e-mail message that nobody has ever used. That's like me patenting some bus ticket design I got carried away making on a rainy afternoon.

So that's why I'm asking, what makes your approach worth protecting? It looks like just another XML schema from this angle
Agreed. I suspect the writer and editors are incompetent.
It will draw an X11 window if there is an X display. Unset DISPLAY and it will render in the terminal: $ DISPLAY= mplayer ...

Updated command for clarity (might want to fullscreen your terminal with this):

$ DISPLAY= mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0 -fps 15 -vo caca
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Stop writing code. Know how to write code. Be good at it. Be very good at it. But don't do it for long. Or else your growth will be stalled. You'll be just a resource. Unless you're Walter Bright or Andrei Alexandrescu and lets face it, most of us are not them or cannot become like them. Most of us are just making minor enhancements, copy-pasting or running behind new languages/frameworks in an attempt to look cool.
As of 1.3 Go has a fully precise garbage collector with a parallel mark phase (not sure about the sweep). I imagine the next step will be a generational collector, however the extensive use of internal pointers may prevent further development into a moving and/or compacting collector.
One of his best recent talks. It seems he had a lot of time to analyze what has been happening and how it all fits together.
> Honestly, hell no, we need to raise hell now. If they're even thinking about this as a realistic possibility, the entire notion needs to be burned from their minds. Purged.

I'm just saying it will be more effective to react to the actual proposal when it is actually proposed and we know what it actually is. We have at least three conflicting news stories from anonymous sources supposedly close to the process, which suggests that at least two are mistaken (if not outright lies).

Something actually will be posted with concrete terms for public comment, and that's the time to respond to the specific content -- now, its probably better to talk about what should be in any new Open Internet order, rather than flying off the handle at rumors of what will be in the next Open Internet order.

Especially since one of the reasons extreme versions often get leaked ahead of actual proposals is to get activists to blow their top about something worse than the actual proposal, so that they aren't taken seriously when the actual proposal (bad in many of the same ways, but substantively different from what the activists have spent some period of time complaining about on the basis that it was the forthcoming proposal) is released.
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I'm crossing all of my fingers and toes. Who sent the email that he took a screenshot of, though? On second thought, I suppose that would give away his source.
OK, now how can I make this loopback such that this is what the people I'm talking to on google hangouts sees?

EDIT: duh, hangouts has a "share window" feature .. this is awesome!
Seems like he left the CTIA in 2004. IMO, he should be at the bottom of the list, if at all. Can someone expand the Wikipedia article?
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> edit: GWU PhD Law Professor spells it out better than I could: http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/buchanan/20030220.html

The crux of his argument is this:

> "Would you rather pay 10% income tax twice a year, or 50% income tax once a year?"

But that obviously misses the point. The problem with double taxation is that it makes the rate misleading. If you've lost 35% to corporate income tax and then 15% to qualified dividends or capital gains tax, you're paying ~45% in total, but people point to the 15% rate and trot out the "pays lower tax rate than secretary" trope.

> How is this any different than when a company pays you an income. First, the Federal government taxes you, then the State government does, then come Payroll taxes, then any local taxes, then you have to pay property tax, then you have to pay sales tax. Each dollar is quintuple-taxed! Or more!

Those are all different taxes. Income tax is the same tax paid on the same money, twice. It's recursive. Compare how corporate income tax works to how sales tax works. If you're a business you don't pay sales tax on your raw materials, you only collect it once on the finished product. The total amount of sales tax paid on a car doesn't increase just because you increase the number of intermediary entities between the iron mine and the car dealership. With corporate income tax, it does.
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Correlation is not causation; most Congressional races have either an incumbent or a structural advantage in registration for one party (often both, favoring the same party) and whichever party has one or both of those advantages will usually also gain more donations.

There's plenty of cases were elections where for one reason or another the money tips the opposite direction of those advantages -- and the money loses, while the structural advantages win.

Money is nice, but there's plenty of reason to think that it is more likely to be the product of structural electoral advantage than the source of it.
Maybe some clever patent attorneys already have the opposite. Some encryption tool:

<Obvious-little-Idea> => <Converter> => <Awesome-sounding-invention>
I think, for the sake of his challenge (to find one good software patent granted in the last year), he is allowing the challenger to assume that those three other conditions are fulfilled simply because they would be much harder to argue about.
What do you mean by "trouble"? are you getting interviews? How many jobs are you applying for?

Consider working somewhere else to make $$. I drove a cab for a while to make ends meet. Its nice to work in your chosen field... but sometimes its impossible.

Keep plugging... Drop ruby focus on java... more $$
Or people spend a lot of time and money trying to chase down something that a ground "found" and published.
It's very common to read a paper, think it sounds good, then try build on it only to find that you can't.

Peer review is completely flawed. Until it's made more transparent, like at F1000, it's going to continue that way.

Not being a negative Nancy here, but I've been on both sides of the fence (reviewed and had grants/papers reviewed) and it isn't an efficient system. Much like many other things in science, it's an antiquated process that needs to be overhauled to get back to it's "roots".
This seems incredibly wasteful.
I don't see this is completely weird. If I was designing the news feed, I would give way more importance to personal posts (especially photos) than non personal posts, as I would like to preserve the personal nature of Facebook and not pollute it with non-personal info.

However, if a business (a non personal entity) wants to gain entry (and potentially pollute the experience to some extent), there is a price they have to pay. And that constitutes facebook's business model.

The fact that they introduced "Free" business pages which allowed free entry to people's news feeds before ads has skewed the perception of their intentions. But if I were to design it from scratch today, my design would probably be somewhat similar.
Can you tell us in 2-3 sentences the application of this patent and then it would easier to come up with prior art examples.
Like hosay said is it like a "novel" bus ticket design but for emails.
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Try talking to your university -- sometimes they have small loan options or may be able to qualify you for a grant, especially if you are very close to graduating.
Write-ahead-logging has existed for how many years now? It disappoints me (but doesn't surprise me, unfortunately) that unexpected record truncation is still an issue that we have to deal with.
I have similar problems. A prescription for methylphenidate makes them manageable, although it does not get rid of them. And nothing works as well as it does in the beginning forever...
http://lesswrong.com/lw/efi/friendship_is_optimal_a_my_littl... And then there's this, which is arguably MoPI done slightly better. Except it contains pony, so some people may have a problem with it.
Anybody can protect an invention. The average 8K-18K in average lawyers fees is trivial. Building a team and acquiring the necessary funding to launch a business investment based upon an invention is a far greater challenge. Not everybody is at a stage where quitting their job to work on such things full time to build a product complete enough to present to angle investors is a viable option. If it were so simple then every software developer would be a successful start up founder.
coding is not that hard... its learning the logic of solving complex multi-layered problems that most programmers can't wrap their head around.
Yes! The phone will come with Google services installed.
Is the first kind really corruption then?

Corruption can be stopped when voters & consumers have more power than the politicians or their backers. No one can force you to vote a certain way or buy a certain product. You punish "public" "servants" by restricting their power, i.e. voting them out if they break the law or not enforcing the law equally.
I would say, that the USPTO is naturally not interested in such stuff. They will have all possible explanations, but never tell you the one true thing: The USPTO is earning more money on successful patents than on neglected ones.
I used to work in corporate VC and now I'm co-founder of company that tracks their investments.

Some thoughts:

Corporate VCs are an important part of the ecosystem [1] now as traditional VCs have less money so corporates are helping to fill the gap. Like it or not, if fundraising, they may be in your future.

In good news, on average, they write larger checks [2] and may be less valuation sensitive (esp since they're often focused on a double-bottom line, i.e. returns + strategic benefit).

Things I'd look for:

* What's the quality of their investment syndicate partners? Do they invest frequently with smart money VCs?

* How long have they been doing it? Some corp VCs are fairweather VCs, i.e., they jump in when the market is hot but then bail. This can also be good as these guys tend to overpay

* How painful was it to get the deal done? If the process to get investment was super painful, realizing the "strategic benefits" will probably be harder.

* Have they had successful exits? Success persists in VC. If you're good, you tend to stay good (and vice versa)

With regards to being good or bad, they are a heterogeneous group. So just like with most things in life (VCs, angels, plumbers, recruiters), there are good ones and bad ones.

[1] http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/tech-corporate-venture-capita...

[2] http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/corporate-venture-capital-q3-...
Not needed, the Phone will be Google CTS certified so it will come installed with Google Services.
The US and Lesotho are the only countries in the world that taxes foreign income.
The performance is in the SYSTEM architecture. Even a mid sized POWER box can address Hundreds of gigs of RAM, Petabytes of direct attached disk and rooms full of tape stored data. You can make an x86 box do that, but it's not really supported at the "plug bits and go" level. You put POWER boxes in place and don't reboot them for years. (Unless you are smart and do your HA/DR tests like a good kid)

For example a Google plays around with racks of disposable X86 boards like candy. When their app becomes "fixed" rather than growing exponentially, they'll want to move to something like POWER because it's DESIGNED to work with dozens of CPUs sharing Petabytes of attached disk easily. Not the silly kludges like Blades, SANS or iSCSI or virtual machines people play with now to hide x86 OS vendor scaling limitations.
I can confirm it works fine at a raw terminal, even on Linux TTY. You might have to unset DISPLAY as recommended in the other comment.

One big tip for that mode of mplayer, use the 'd' key to switch dithering modes. Keep switching until you get to Floyd-Steinberg for the best quality (IMHO).
I want to highlight this particular course: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/

It's REALLY good and can be gone through quickly while still getting a feel for the "point" of Haskell.
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I read this in my college sci-fi lit class. It's still as amazing now, as it ever was. When WALL-E came out, I couldn't help but think that the screenwriters were heavily influenced by it.
JVM tuning is very touchy and perfectly specific to the application. Why not let the computer figure it out for itself?

"Groningen is a framework to run automated experiments on servers that run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) such that the most optimal JVM settings outcome can be reached with the least amount of human effort and time while maximizing safety."

https://code.google.com/p/groningen/
here... watch this course...
http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=824a47e1-1...

Its pretty good and gives you some insight to what is required...

Don't concern yourself with languages... they are not that hard to learn... focus on the concepts and methods used to build a solution. The actual "Coding" portion of being a programmer is not that hard.
I have a feeling we're going to see some really interesting things very similar to this coming out of Redmond in the near future. With Microsoft's announcement of One-Get (an official Windows package manager that essentially wraps Choclatey), I think Powershell might finally be getting some much needed attention.
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To quote Eisenhower:

"Nuts."

Most of us are just making minor enhancements, copy-pasting or running behind new languages/frameworks in an attempt to look cool.

Speak for yourself--and how do you expect to get good, I mean really good, at coding if you don't play around with silly things and minor modifications?
Most of today's patents don't contain any valuable knowledge that could be useful for the public. Also the invention does not. <irony>So it is not that bad.</irony>

Of course, there are some patents that could contain some valuable information, but today's patent attorneys are drilled to hide any valuable information from public.
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The album does use software instruments, but they are Native Instruments Kontakt/Absynth/etc.

I'd love to use a tracker, but I dunno how! But I do know how to play cello. So that's on there. Ok cool!
No I don't. At least not all the time.

I just started with the assumption that getting real-time quality news is the shining light at the end of the news tunnel.

Which seems like a reasonable assumption considering that every innovation/breakthrough in news/information industry has been heading in that general direction.

There are only 3 contexts by which news is relevant time(no one is interested in what happened years ago), location and category. Blogs have clearly favored category and applications like twitter have greatly reduced the time (although I believe twitter is not streamlined to get the most important news out quickest,different discussion). The only way to further reduce that time seems to be by truly democratizing news as in crowd-sourced news.
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