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> No, that's like saying you need a completely different set of algorithms because you changed the overall speed of your computer components up or down.

yes? Why are you presenting that as a ridiculous scenario?

The way you optimize an algorithm is going to be completely different when you can assume the HDD is as fast to access as RAM. It would also completely change the way OS's do paging.

The post you're responding to isn't saying it's impossible to get work done, they're saying it's an opportunity to optimize, which it is. And since a FS has such a dramatic effect on the performance of a system (one of the biggest draws of SSD is it's speed), the idea of designing one with SSD in mind specifically isn't that outlandish.

Now whether or not what we have is "good enough" is a different discussion, but you presenting that as something that should be ridiculed is just short sighted and ignorant.
The fastest modern 3D engines (Frostbite, CryEngine) are as brilliantly efficient as those programs from the early days.
The difference is that today's highly efficient systems are much more complex, so besides brilliant ideas, more and longer hard work and studying is needed to create something that really impresses people.
UK ISP have probably the best track record in the world when it comes to defending their customers data and rights.

They have fought the Government and the Judiciary at every juncture to ensure net neutrality.

Where legally compelled to do so; the interpret the law in the absolute narrowest sense of the ruling.

I would be loathe to suggest they can do more. I trust my ISP more than I trust most people.

There are a ton if links I could produce but am on a mobile device. A simple Google search regarding Sky, TalkTalk et al will yield the case history and lobbying for privacy.
Does Tower have interactive rebase these days? I'm mainly using SourceTree right now since I don't miss out on anything from the command line version.
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Pretty much half of the games in the list aren't 8-bit.
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For startups this young, it certainly IS NEVER security. -unless security is part of their core or value-add. (ie dropbox would be nowhere if security wasnt #1)

How can security be anywhere on their early timeline? (i agree it should) but the market (10-20yr olds) and investors are not asking for more security. Also, how secure is secure? Very difficult to know when you are secure enough - and what will your product be tomorrow?

My thoughts on a solution:
Short term: "AMA request - Head of security for startup XYZ". Which leads to a community security score/rank.
EDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/28n64e/ama_request_per...

Long term:
ONE COMMON Open Source framework that is way too easy to implement regardless of the languages used. Seriously way too easy NOT to use
There are plenty of companies who will pay you for your services, and under contract so it's completely legal, too.
If you work in a conservative shop, this is a real concern – there are still IT shops which have formal dress codes, etc. and managers who frown on anything like this as a sign of unproductive. Yes, that's pointless and wrong but that doesn't mean that there aren't people who have to worry about it.

It doesn't mean that aphyr was wrong to include them – if you do the hard work you can style it however you like – but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that some people do something like run it through instapaper before circulating it to the button-down set.
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I'm sorry you're getting downvoted by blind dumbasses, nothing you said was unreasonable, they just took it to somehow be a criticism of science and went with it.
I'd answer in two ways: One, it is already happening. The 10M problem (10 million concurrent open network connection) is solved by getting the Linux kernel out of the way and managing your own network stack: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-m... - The beauty of their approach is that they still provide a running Linux on the side to manage the non-network hardware so you have a stable base to build and debug upon.

Two, I am not sure we are that much smarter now than we were then. As you have quoted a language problem I'll use one myself as an example. See this SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24015710/for-loop-over-t... . I wanted to have a "simple" loop over some code instantiating several templates. I say simple, because I had first written the same code in Python and found out it was too slow for my purposes and thus rewrote in in C++. In Python this loop is dead simple to implement, just use a standard for loop over a list of factory functions. In C++ I pay for the high efficiency by turning this same problem in an advanced case of template meta programming that in the end didn't even work out for me because one of the arguments was actually a "template template". And on the other hand, making the C++ meta programming environment more powerful has its own set of problems: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n361...
IIRC, GE runs workshops with TRIZ in all its R&D centres. Perhaps others too? But yes, that was the first time I heard about TRIZ too. :)
I think he's remembering the TSR battles of the early IBM PCs under DOS. You had to be careful what you ran because they'd conflict with each other, resulting in bizarre failure modes.
Same here, but SourceTree just seems to get so slow after a fair amount of use.
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Ryanair don't fly to Frankfurt from Paris or Barcelona, they only serve a handful of major city routes (primarily London and Rome). And at the point where you flying into a different city it's no longer an "easy-to-get-to" location.
>> It'd be a challenge working with the limited resources

It's fairly simple until you get into things like different hardware and trying to do things with networking. VGA graphics, keyboard input, that stuff is all pretty simple.

Assuming something like a SoundBlaster, even sound programming could be done with a library.
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When you can adapt the problem to the solution, the solution becomes much easier. Real-world problems are rarely so adaptable, first issue being "code from bare metal up" is rarely an option.
"Nothing about the company being a family precludes you from having your own."

There is something: time. You only have time for one family. When the rest of the team is on a company bike ride and you're the odd one out, taking your kids to a birthday party, you're gonna be left out on the in jokes, the bonding, etc. Then you'll start being left out of the loop at work. Someone will forget to email you important project details (Oh don't you remember, we talked about this at the bike ride. Wait, I forgot, you weren't there. My bad!). Company productivity will suffer, and outcast employees will grow increasingly isolated.

"No one's forcing anyone to be friends with anyone."

Yes you are. That's what family is. A group of people you didn't chose to associate with, but still have to pretend to like. And after reading the article, that sounds exactly like what you're doing.
Interesting. I had a different experience where it played perfectly on Firefox yet would fail to play on Chrome.
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I remember Carmack's statement on DOS from his .plan back around the Quake 2 days

We are not going to do another dos game. No amount of flaming hate mail is going to change my mind on this (PLEASE don't!). The advantages of good TCP/IP support, dynamic linking, powerfull virtual memory, device drivers, etc, are just too much to overcome. Yes, all of those can be provided under dos in various ways, but it just isn't worth it.
hey - im pretty exciting about this also - when is it slated to be finished ?
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It takes some legwork up-front, but after that even the best fakes are pretty easy to spot if you have the right training and tools.
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Subjective criticism is subjective.
This is precisely what sprang in my mind. It's stuff like the LISP Machines and Elite that have survived the 1980s long enough for us to consider them as part of a "golden era". Those were the exception, not the norm, of the 1980s.
> There are a lot of talented coders on HackerNews who could built any app currently on the market in a weekend.

I see comments to this effect every now and then on HN (ie. any skilled team could build out Facebook in 30 days)

It's great to shoot for the stars and have faith in yourself, folks, but shockingly lots of people who get paid to program also happen to be REALLY GOOD at what they do.

While I could focus on the benefits of a little bit of humility (and they are many) instead I'll say that there are people who come on to these sites and see ridiculous statements like this and will suddenly start to wonder what's the point of learning to code if they'll only be good once they can build any app in a weekend.

So no, there aren't people who can build any app on the market in a weekend. And that doesn't mean that any of those people are bad at what they do.
Isn't that just a brew install away?
Thanks for sharing; I was unaware of the app this tool was modeled after: Codea (Lua on iPad)

http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/
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I think the support for squashing that Tower has, is far better (or easier to use) than how interactive rebase works in SourceTree. In fact that is the reason I bought Tower. You can squash on merge. In SourceTree I was not able to squash without craeting aditional commits on the way.
It works fantastically well on mobile; buttery smooth controls, and vibration when a point is scored. Feels like a native app.
Germany has a very similar problem. By law, the ISPs are only allowed to store user-identifiable information for billing purposes. When you have a flat rate (and nearly everybody has), there's no reason whatsoever to store any IPs, and yet they are stored for at least two weeks.

I wish somebody would do something about that.
SourceTree crashes like all hell for our team. I like the pretty visualisation of the branches, and it's not bad for git newbies, but it actually feels like a relief using the command line most of the time.
Free energy can be easily obtained from renewable sources = it seems you solved one of biggest problem in history. How come renewable = free ?
Indeed, he was sent to prison.
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The linked article touches upon that concept as a feasible application of mining heat:

"In a home, however, if the outside temperature is less than about 20′C, the cost of electricity is zero; all electricity spent by the miner necessarily eventually turns into “waste” heat, which then heats the home and substitutes for electricity that would be spent by a central heater."
There are so many fine music pieces trapped in video games, from composers no one will ever hear of (with notable exceptions). Check battle of olympus "name entry" (sic). Ok its a very simple tune, but that reminds me of François de Roubaix. Battle of Olympus is famous for its soundtrack but you can hardly find anything on the composer.
There is no secret, and I've not read the CISSP manual. I just design for it before I start writing code. Also, I don't ask anyone to care about anything. Your app, your choice. You mention tornadoes. That's reactive. I'm suggesting being proactive, by asking what can be done before an event, not after.

I know absolute security is elusive. I still try to anticipate what might happen, however. As Covey says, begin with the end in mind.

And finally, as far as Matasano goes. Yes, they have a good reputation. Thomas has a lot of technical depth for sure (certainly more than I). It interests me however, that I've never heard mention of a Needham-Schroeder implementation from them. But I may just have missed it. To be clear, I have no delusions - I imagine Matasano's crew has a lot more brain than I do. That's cool. And yet I find myself wondering why we (and they) all talk about which algorithm is good for crypto function x or y, but never about which protocol you might use to securely exchange keys (for example).
I'm a softy, but I still think the SID is amazing. The sounds that developers squeezed out of that chip are a testament to true hackery. I have a feeling the tricks developed to stress the SID to it's maximum have been adopted by a lot of serious audio developers in recent years to get higher track count / lower latency / higher bit rate etc. It's like the SID was the home-chemistry set equivalent for many a professional DAW / plugin designer.
How the Japanese communicate
At least 32,000 servers broadcast admin passwords in the clear, advisory warns
I liked the original Tower when it came out, and I paid the £50 or whatever it was since it was so much better than everything else. I don't know if it can compete with SourceTree any more though: pretty much all of its advertised new features are already present in SourceTree, which is free.
I find this gitx fork pretty good, and it's GPL:

http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/
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SourceTree has a nightmare of a UI. I would much rather trade a few features for a Git client with a solid UI.

I went to just using git on the command line, and the GitHub mac app for doing commits
What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel
Chapter 3 (of six) will be released mid-July. Apart from that, I haven't set a hard finish date. Some authors are helped by such deadlines, but my experience writing my previous two books is that (for me) such deadlines hinder more than they help.
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It's all explained at http://aaisp.net.uk/kb-broadband-realinternet.html.

This is my favourite part:
"Sorry, for a censored internet you will have to pick a different ISP or move to North Korea. Our services are all unfiltered."
I can spot fakes for sneakers, but I assume it's the same process. Material, spotting the stitchings, logos, etc. Certain things line up, there's a certain distance between stitches and logos, etc. With purses, some are easy to spot by looking at the pattern, loose threading, discoloration, etc. Once you have an eye for it, it's pretty easy to spot cause it stands out like a sore thumb.
In Gleick's book he mentions that, for instance, Feynman talked about inventing his own notation for various mathematical operations when he was young, and that the habit of thinking things through on his own, without reference to other people's approaches, persisted throughout his career. You see that in his famous Lectures: he expressed disappointment that his approach in the third book is the standard one, that he was not able to come up with his own, because he must not understand it well enough.
Is it available on windows?
Another happy A&A customer here. In a world of every ISP being amazing, they'd take the crown as the best one.

I get an amazingly advanced web UI which lets me do things nobody can do on any other ISPs (advanced options on my line etc). I can get a text/email/tweet whenever my line goes down and back up. I can hop on IRC and talk to sales/tech or even the owner (this[1] is his blog, by the way - He writes a lot, I recommend following him). And needless to say, full ipv6 support.

They're expensive, but that's because they don't oversell bandwidth. People constantly complain about ISPs overselling, but when someone comes along and does not do that, people say "Oh but it's too expensive".

[1]: http://revk.www.me.uk/
Uh-oh, Yo has major security flaws
> Ryanair don't fly to Frankfurt from Paris or Barcelona,

http://www.bravofly.com/offers/flights/frankfurt-barcelona/r...

As for 'flying into a different city', almost all of Londons airports except for Heathrow are more than an hour away and most of the cut-rate lines fly into the aiports furthest away.

I know you're trying to find all kinds of reasons to justify the choice made but all this nonsense is a bit strange. First you contend that you could not get along in Europe with only English, this contradicts my experience from travelling through Europe for many years (yes, I do speak multiple languages but in every country I've been to as soon as it's business English is the norm, even in France when dealing with foreigners). Now you make it seem as if a major hub for air traffic in continental Europe is somehow at a disadvantage to London.

I don't get it. Can't we just agree that there are viable alternatives that would have been a lot easier to reach for a lot of possible attendants?
I really love this version of the Super Mario World soundtrack by Xoc:

https://archive.org/details/xoc_SMW
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Correct, yet totally besides the point. Instead of what "could be", do a search and find that it were more than 2 investors, and that Hogeg lead the round and invested 200k (of the 1.2 million).
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'The Milkmaid' in 3D
Yes - but I want it as a domestically acceptable appliance (e.g. relatively child & cat proof).

I can just imagine it "It's a bit chilly, turn the miner on for a bit".
NBC Universal claiming all IP for hackathon 
I was going to go to the Comcast NBCUniversal hackathon this weekend, but just got their IP terms which claim everything you do and could do with the hacks. I am including the google doc link and the below.<p>

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_VpxRQ_seqJMGVzV1EzLXpiVWpfZ3RZb3lGZmhZZXNMeWxV/edit?pli=1

http://nbcumedialabs.com/hackathon/
Internal Police Emails Show Efforts to Hide Use of Cell Phone Tracking
No, Mac-only for now.
The Arrested Development reference in the footer makes me wonder if the name ought to be Annyong instead.
When you are trying to sign up you can select a censored option:

>>Censored Internet access - restricted access to unpublished government mandated filter list - but still cannot guarantee kids don't access porn
Great article overall. I like the last line in the summation.

To improve problem solving, one should study solved problems, attack the problem while in different moods, and try explaining the problem to others.
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That's how I used to transfer files to my coding buddies.

On the phone, hex dump in S-record format, then read out loud while the other side would type in the line. Checksum matches? Next line...

Our respective parents were not too happy about this unplanned usage of their phone lines but it saved a ton of cycling.
Has The IC Industry Hit A ‘Red Brick Wall’?
Check out jeweler (https://www.versioneye.com/ruby/jeweler/2.0.1). It makes creating and managing a Gem much easier ;-) Since I know it, it is a must have in all of my Gem projects.
Try changing modes in the middle of the scan :)
Bruxelles - London by train is 3 hours :)
I was going to go to this http://nbcumedialabs.com/hackathon/ NBC Universal Hackathon, but they sent this the day before it starts. It claims all ideas and use with not only no guarantee of being paid to develop a hack that is used, but also if you develop any idea further, they claim all ownership.
> There simply is no non-OOP way to implement these things.

Depending on your specific definition of OOP.

I suspect what the author is talking about is the high level of coupling that occurred in a looooot of 90's/early 2000's codebases. It was a time of learning for many many people, but our industry as a whole, and the C++ community specifically, has learned a lot from those mistakes.
Can anyone evidence the claim that Virgin Media record internet access in line with the EU DRD? I tweeted them about it but they said they don't, and while I'm sure that's wrong I can't find a source that names them explicitly.
Yeah I use this one as well. Tower has more eye candy, but I find that confusing, this is simple and does the trick really well
OpenStack by the numbers
1.5nm is more like 10 atoms across, given that, for example, a C-C bond is 0.154 nm. Not that that helps tremendously :)
Is 7 an arbitrary number made up on the spot or is there some logic behind this?
"This is the question that they cannot answer for themselves and it makes them bitter."
They can answer it, they just don't want to because they know it would make them feel uncomfortable. Facing one's own flaws and self-perceived failings is a difficult task.
Perhaps they named it for Annyong but changed it for the easier search results?
Your clocking trick is exactly what I spent 3 weeks swapping CPU / MB combos trying to avoid!

Kudos for actually doing it, and making it work!
True story:

A friend of mine bought a cheap "Rolex" in Thailand.

It was only after he brought it home, he recognized that the calendar has 40 days, instead of 31.
Is there a reason to use SourceTree a lot? I only fire up Source Tree when I'm feeling too lazy to compose a search command from the terminal. Of course, `git log | grep phrase` usually does the trick but if I need anything fancier (date ranges, for instance) I'll just fire up ST.
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I wish I didn't need a webcam to play a friend.
Review my project – Interestin
Not really.

Probably the strongest point of C++, besides its performance, is its ability to interact with C easily and efficiently.

A huge amount of C++'s complexity comes from this requirement, but the benefits are enormous. It's such a big deal that MS eventually just started recommending people use C++/CLI to interop with C instead of using the usual C# Interop methods.

Too many people underestimate the extreme advantages that are still gotten today by that requirement.

The rest of it, yes, you could, but not that specific requirement. Doing that efficiently and easily enforces certain restrictions on the language, and the underlying runtime.
Is there still a market for fake-but-good items? If you had a designer purse that was 99.99% indistinguishable from a real one, could you still sell it to people at a big discount, informing them that it's a fake? I wonder if there are people who would gladly knowingly buy a good-quality counterfeit one. You'd still get the social benefit of designer goods, since no one else will know.
Understanding JavaScript Event-based Interactions
Tl;dr. Yes.
"OMG my youth!!!" hahaha, great thanks for the link man!
I'm betting they'll add the option to change the defaults at the bottom. Most launchers allow that now, so hopefully they'll follow.