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> I don't see why it's unreasonable to replace a $500 device, when you already had to buy a $500 device in the first place to get access to iOS apps.

You paid $500 for a device that can browse the internet, make phone calls from the back of a moving car, give you directions from anywhere to anywhere, record video, etc. You don't see how having to replace that entire device in order to buy a $1 app is unreasonable?

> If you had to move every time you signed up for any broadband service, even the first one you ever sign up for, then that might be a comparable analogy.

1) Where Comcast is the only provider in your area, you do. 2) In areas where Comcast has actual competitors, that would imply that Comcast is less of a monopoly than Apple. I don't think that's what you were going for.

> Nintendo controls the availability of games for my Wii, and I'd have to spend a chunk of money to switch to another gaming platform, but that doesn't make them a monopoly either.

Sure it does. It's exactly the same thing. Although Apple does have a higher barrier to switching, because cost of phone:cost of app is a much bigger ratio than cost of console:cost of game.

> While I think that $500 doesn't break my point, I'd still also like to point out that it's wildly inflated. If you own an iOS device and want to run Android apps, the cost of entry is more like $30-50, even if you don't consider used hardware. Even coming the other way, prices start at $229.

The $500 isn't the cost of the Android device, it's the cost of the iPhone you canceled the service on. Unless you want to say you're going to keep the iPhone too, in which case you're going to have to add in the recurring cost of a second cellular plan. And the market value of the huge inconvenience of having half your stuff on each of two devices.
I initially disagreed, but the actual quote is better: "The right example is worth a thousand lines of documentation."

There are many cases where explaining things is better, and a well-crafted explanation with a few sparing examples is often the best way to communicate an idea — but there are some cases where a particular example is clearer than any explanation could hope to be.
Programming language as operating system (2013)
Doesn't this just work with Google Hangouts? You can publish directly to YouTube and share to your followers?
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Simple faceted search for your AR models without a search engine
Though I read on some OpenBSD mailing lists that Raspberry Pi is not open enough.

P.S. More details at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679302
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Not true. You’re changing Ghostery’s default settings but not changing Disconnect’s default settings.
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I concur; we use sticky-sessions in our load-balancer, and stunnel when we're doing it on an SSL'd page, and it's working just fine.
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"Economists aren't stupid" is a "stupid" thing to say. The study makes clear mistakes, and how stupid or smart the economist is is completely irrelevant.

Anyway, trying to control for variables like the influence of parents is a fool's errand. The population that goes to college is self-selecting. There's almost certainly a direct correlation between aiming to earn a lot of money and going to college. It is a fact that colleges select what they consider to be the best of the applicants they see. These people are clearly likely to earn more money than the ones who are not accepted. etc. etc. etc.
> They used a checkbox, blanket argument against GCs, where the discussion was specifically about Go. It is just something I've noticed about the Rust team -- they overwhelmingly hold Go as their foe, and most if not all advocacy seems to be targeted at Go.

No they didn't. You just perceive it this way because fans of Rust often post in threads adding 'What about Rust'.

Fans non withstanding, I haven't really seen pcwalton or others (top 10 Rust contributors) behaving as you said they do. They comment on GC and various Firefox related technologies. Once the talk comparing Rust/Go starts, but I don't think they are as dismissive as you paint them.

But hey, prove me wrong, cite some messages.

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> In many other domains it needs to be analyzed, and there are no hard and fast rules. As I mentioned, the overhead of GC in most real-world Go solutions is close to if not completely irrelevant. Simply pointing it out as a checkbox, especially compared to what is effectively vapour right now (meaning you can't coherently compare solutions because one player is entirely unequipped to do so), is vapid laziness.

I offered no checkbox, just an explanation why people are excited about Rust. To me the greatest power comes not so much lack of GC, but concurrency, safety (no nil, compiler errors on unassigned variables) and zero cost abstractions.
As you start engineering bigger and bigger systems you'll start to discover that you sometimes need a complex solution to a big problem.

The sticky point here for some people is it requires you to hire actually talented people, and not rely on trendy methodologies focused around getting acceptable work from a larger pool of mediocre developers and sysadmins.
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Java is not regarded as convenient for web development. Fast when built, yes, but not convenient. And C++ is borderline unsuitable. (A well-chosen and carefully used subset, sure, but the exact things that Rust is fixing about C++ is also why you should think about a dozen times before using it to build web apps.)

And neither are as safe as Rust is/will be with multithreading. Doing really pervasive concurrency is possible, but not particularly easy with those languages.
It's a real shame that Xamarin has a such a prohibitive pricing structure.

My employer would love for me to use this on projects but they simply won't pay that much for a tool EACH YEAR.

Considering Visual Studio, if you actually pay for it and don't go to an event and get a free copy, is a one time cost that a company can semi-easily justify (we've been on VS2010 for over 4 years now, with 5 developers, that's a major expense if we have re-subscribe each year).

But with Xamarin, unlike Visual Studio, it's a 1 year subscription. I hate to say it but I agree with my employer, as much as I LOVE using Xamarin to build mobile/cross platform apps, the current pricing model is just crazy.

I'd say drop the subscription only option (maybe have that as one of the choices), and add some 'buy it, you own it forever' options, hopefully without raising the price (ideal world you'd drop the price, too).
For RoR's method_missing give me the docs

For apache configuration, give me the examples!

I really like the use case of helping upstream maintainers decide on method deprecation/adding helper functions. Fantastic idea
Thanks for the data. I'll back it up with a personal anecdote: I was at least a grade if not 2-3 grades ahead of my class by the time I got to kindergarten. My parents (and the full-time babysitter) read to me. I had "Goodnight Moon" freaking MEMORIZED from how many times it was read to me; the actual reading came soon after.
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This is reinforcing my point. No matter what anyone at Google says is going to be enough to make you happy.
The benchmark page is interactive, you should check out all tabs and come to a conclusion.

Some of the top contenders:

* cpollcppsp (C++)

* go (Google)

* hhvm (PHP JIT by Facebook)

* openresty (LuaJIT on Nginx)

* undertow (Java)

* gemini (Java)
I dislike the "that's not supposed to throw an exception" developer statement, if something is not supposed to throw an exception under normal operating you can almost guarantee that it will throw exceptions in the demo. So one of the few cases where I use lots of mock is in Exception Handling.

Some exceptions are almost impossible to generate consistently in tests, or can't be simulated easily next to test that are supposed to pass when that exception state doesn't occur - think API failures, databases being yanked mid-query, etc.
Paper money is unfit for a world of high crime and low inflation
As long as we're off topic, I think the OP means to say that

"The benefits of this particular modularization can’t be overstated"
Yeah I can see them competing on the fabulous title of 'systems language' which means in Go's case - Server, Google toolchain and Rust's case - embedded, browser.
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This sort of thing is par for the course. Especially in articles critical of Google or Apple, less so with articles critical of Microsoft. That's likely both a reflection of the number of people working for those companies that also frequent HN and the dedicated group of fanboys each has.
My completely subjective opinion:

OOP is a valid way to write strongly typed code, but there are many useful and common situations that can be solved by some primitive feature found in any good functional language, where the OOP solution is verbose and counter-intuitive.

And that partly explains why so many people bypass the properly designed, strongly typed, object-oriented solution and write shitty code instead.
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This is a really scary thing for Square to be doing.

Remember the golden child that was Groupon? Their business model was not deals, but short term loans to businesses (I pay you now for X widgets minus a percentage, at some point in the future you need to provide X widgets). We all know how that one ended...
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Apple Home and TV Automation Concepts: Thinking Outside the Puck
For one he can stop worrying about nulls and start worrying about appeasing the compiler :P Rust compiler is a harsh, ever changing mistress.
So what? It's not like there's no bacteria on our bodies and the cute critters regenerate to original levels plenty fast.

My clothes haven't fallen apart after years of use.

Guy just sounds like a loony bacteriophobe whose only point I've considered was whether the machine rinses out all the detergent.
I've evaluated a lot of embedded arm dev boards. The first thing I look at is "Can I run a stock kernel on this board?" If the answer is no, its really a deal breaker. Without a stock kernel you are at the mercy of the vendor for upgrades. And most vendors are really bad at shipping up to date kernel patches.
> You’re changing Ghostery’s default settings but not changing Disconnect’s default settings.

I believe this was appropriately accounted for. "Ghostery and Disconnect were set in their respective equivalent of 'Block all trackers' mode."

https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-...
So what was the point of raising money to audit TrueCrypt
if they knew they would shut it down once XP was EOL?
In fact why didn't they announce this earlier?
The principal source of effluent phosphorus was from phosphates used in laundry detergents. http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/full_text_search/AllCRCDocs... This contradicts the article's claim that most phosphorus pollution was from "big agriculture".

Edit: although that may be more true now than it was in 1994. The largest source of phosphate discharge into surface water is agriculture, mainly from fertilisers, but also livestock feed, followed by human sewage and then detergents. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2011/June/24061105.as...
I wonder whether this is better than talking to children for a similar, blocked off period of time every day.

I can think of reasons it might be better and reasons it might be worse.
At a hackathon back in April (which was sponsored in part by Microsoft), some friends and I made a very similar working version [1] relying on Google's line of products and the results were astonishingly good. Alas, it only works on Chrome due to the speech api used is the built in chrome one.

It seems that Microsoft did something very similar to our implementation, by simply daisy chaining existing language processing tools they had to make this addition to Skype.

[1] http://goo.gl/3wC6b7
So you're working for google now?

In that case maybe update your profile. And if you don't work for google then how does it reinforce your point?
Snowden is the source of the data WikiLeaks leaked. It's not as if he only gave it to Greenwald.
That was actually also my experience w/ BBB in some degree.

My next mini computers will be RPis until I've lots of experience. Felt into the "this is like a RPi but more powerful" trap :)
Is that real? Is the web page just defaced?
Ref counting is murder on caches. Every read will cause a rmw on the ref count cache line.

Modern generational GCs are reasonably nice on caches in most cases.
Different groups - the TrueCrypt audit initiative[0] is (was?) cooperating with the developers but remain independent of them.

[0]: http://istruecryptauditedyet.com
I think you're making this out to be something it's not. I don't see how Evidon is under any obligation to explain exactly what analyses they perform on the data or what the companies they sell it to do with it. They would be divulging their own trade secrets if they did, which is ludicrous to demand of them.

In fact, they're more forthcoming about what they collect than the vast majority of companies who sell data. They list every piece of information collected right in the FAQ, and they discuss it in depth in a blog post linked to from the FAQ.

https://purplebox.ghostery.com/post/1016023438

The reality is that Ghostrank is opt-in functionality. If you don't like it or are confused by the verbiage, then don't turn it on. If you're still paranoid, don't use Ghostery at all. But don't pretend that they're being unclear, disingenuous, or nefarious just because you had to click your mouse button twice to find the information.
Every handoff, not every read, right? Of which there might be more or fewer.
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This is becoming increasingly standard, and is quite easy to document.
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Costs of employees vs. contractors / freelancers
Why would this be a nightmare to document? This is an approach that has been successfully implemented and maintained in many companies, I think it's more a matter of whether or not this approach works for your team, not whether or not it can be documented(Which it can be).
Hot water also shrinks clothes and fades colors.
The majority of open source software is written so that somebody can make money off it. It just happens that what they're making money off of isn't the software itself, the software is a means to an end.

Have you ever found fan fiction that spanned upwards of three hundred pages, was actually well written, and was not written for profit?
Completely agree, I've tried three times to start using Xamarin always hitting the paywall, it's annoying and I'm pretty sure they lost a lot of visibility this way.
Just waiting for MS to buy them or release something similar.
As someone who works with NetScalers on the regular, I have to say I love this idea. Citrix support is terrible and NetScalers are such a pain to configure. Then I see the bill and it frosts the cake.

We recently upgraded from version 9 to version 10 and it took down our production site because of some asinine undocumented rate limiting they "finally enforced" in version 10.

I'd like to play with software load balancing in the testing facility.
>>In case it was an honest mistake, I was referring

You wrote "I've flagged your post for your last sentence before your parentheses."

Which was what I discussed. (I did have a 2nd parenthesis, too.)

>>I'm not making any claims about Perl.

I quoted you twice as saying two old language features, which are probably best among the std scripting languages, goes against being Perl. At least one of those features is from the 1990s.

That might mean something different than making claims, but you have carefully not touched it, despite multiple opportunities (while being both called "troll" and down voted over that).
Would be nice if after subscribing you get a better price to renew your subscription, I don't see that as an option right now though, right?

For example my Xamarin License expired on May 24th; to renew I have to pay the full price again, correct?
It was a serious question. I'm not affected by rtbf --as I live in the United States-- and therefore haven't looked into all the intricacies of the law. Perhaps I could have asked about the limitations of RTBF in a more straightforward manner.

All the reporting I've heard on it over here is broad, you know the kind of reporting where they tell you what a search engine is..., and doesn't cover specifics. I figured someone here could provide a little more insight.

How does RTBF apply to straw-man arguments, future politicians, and Dogpile.com?
If you have files encrypted by TrueCrypt on Mac OS X
Is this supposed to be like how the market for screwdrivers is inefficient by definition since I can buy a Craftsman or a Stanley?

Either way, allowing your industrial base to atrophy to a sole source is one of the classic ways of increasing costs to the taxpayers, so I'm not surprised the Navy is trying hard to avoid it. Just look at all the trouble Russia has had trying to reboot their submarine programs.
tl;dr

An employee at 45/hr and a contractor at 70/hr may be costing you same on e you factor in benefits, taxes etc

Oddly I am not sure what market toptal and the new "agency" crop of recruiters is really aiming at. They aim to sell the top 1% of developers but ... 70/hr ?
As long as the price is better it is not really important to me if I buy from an independent Abebooks or from an Amazon subsidiary.
I think that's an important catch, flow breaking can happen dependent on what hardware you're using and how you swap in next-hops. It definitely requires a deep understanding of how flows are hashed.
> My suggestion would be that this is a great way to scale across multiple load balancers/haproxy nodes. Use BGP to load balance across individual haproxy nodes

Exactly. BGP, while it may work like the OP said, was not meant to live this close to the actual server nodes.

You could push BGP even further away. In a more traditional model, it's meant to be used to switch (or load balance) between geographically separated datacenters.
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Woah. How long has RapGenius had the "Powered By Genius" feature? Really cool that you can include annotations on your own domain.
I'm really confused. Which isn't unusual really, but in this case I think it is understandable.
Then I guess it's the whole package :-)

You're right, some times a code sample might make things clearer, especially for newbies.
Something like that. Then you can make a selection based by github, mobile apps published (counting even the non-worldwide apps, for developers from other countries like me), academy works and other projects (websites, hardware, etc).
Turning on Bitlocker has been on my TODO list for quite some time now, but to me the real value of Truecrypt wasn't full disk encryption, it was having encrypted volumes and mounting them on a as-needed basis.

And how do I handle sensitive stuff wrt backups? I could burn a Truecrypt volume to a DVD or Blu-ray. I cannot do this in any way with Bitlocker, can I?
Right, Go and Rust have different definitions of 'systems language.'

Even Rob Pike thought Go and Ru...errr, C++ would be competing, but was surprised when it turns out they weren't. Go was competing with Python and Ruby all along.
Not true at all. There are not many high profile IT companies in Germany, true. But there are countless companies that produce A TON of software (Daimler, Siemens, Bosch, ThyssenKrupp, Continental, Schaeffler, Infineon, EADS, Rohde+Schwarz to name only a few).
This software is crucial to industries all around the world, it just isn't visible like things coming from Microsoft et al.
This debate always gets me.

The sides are:

1) I should bother to better myself and learn more, show motivation and ambition; I can always be better.

2) I shouldn't bother to better myself and learn more, show motivation nor ambition; I'm good enough right now.

Cost of education is largely irrelevant if you pursue scholarships and grants, or even low interest loans. Majority of a student's "school expenses" are not tuition, but rather in large part are living expenses -- which the student would incur even if not attending college.
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Maybe the result of the audit is that it's not secure?
Well - this comes as a pretty big surprise.

Is this real? Is there a known vulnerability that catalyzed this? Money from Microsoft? Threats?

I'm not buying into conspiracy theories, but it does seem pretty out of place.
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OS X version http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/OtherPlatforms.html
There's no way this is legit, but if it is, what other kind of cross-platform solution is available? I need to be able to encrypt/decrypt on all 3 major OSes.
Yes you are right. I just wrote for the "skills" approach of an ideal team, regarding the founders.
The advice for Linux is "Search available installation packages for words encryption and crypt, install any of the packages found and follow its documentation."

So... just any of them, then? Sure, ok.
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An English equivalent might be Jamestown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown
> It was two lines in a program that was calling a file from Sharepoint - thousands of times a second to the server and bogged down all three of the load balancer servers with traffic within minutes of the release.

That type of issue can be quickly identified if you have, on the team, the sort of mind who is inquisitive of what goes on at low levels, and is not afraid of poking around with tcpdump and network interface traffic counters and stuff like that.
If you tend to buy books in the $15-20 range doesn't make much sense to do an extensive search using a lot of sellers, but you can give Amazon.ca a try. I've found that it is cheaper to buy from Amazon than directly from a Canadian online seller and the effort is minimal.

For reference books you should definitely check alternative sellers, I've seen programming books priced at $120 in Canadian bookstore at $20 (or less for the international edition).
When friends that are having their first child ask me for advice I always tell them to do the following from day one:

1. Eat dinner together every night.

2. Read to them every night.
Duh. You're right of course. Corrected.
MoarVM's first commit

You mean the first commit committed to a repository which survived long enough to be made public, eventually. Even so, if you look at the timestamps on those first commits, you realize that either the design of the VM leaped from someone's head fully-formed like a virtual Athena, or (as was widely known at the time) that someone had been designing and playing with ideas for much longer.

Maybe look at the chronology again?

The one where Rakudo developers told Parrot hackers not to implement sixmodel to replace Parrot's default object system (the one which one of those Rakudo developers had, in fact, actually implemented) during the period where it was obvious that those Rakudo developers were in fact designing their own VM?

Who am I to believe, you or my own lying eyes?
We changed this process a bit recently

Simply submit the first developers - if the background check works out we will whitelist you for future postings