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This has absolutely nothing to do with free speech. Notice how he is free to complain about the conference using his handle on his own blog without consequences?
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I really hope his account gets unsuspended... That is rather ridiculous. No one checked his account age before dropping the ban hammer?
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Also, and this is weird, you can get vi bindings in emacs through editing modes like viper-mode or evil. So if you want, in emacs you can have both.

In contrast, you will never see emacs inside of vim.
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>Don't forget that there is a cap on the number of transactions that the blockchain can process in a given amount of time (IIRC it's like 7 transactions per second).

7 transactions per second is an arbitrary limit that was imposed to keep things manageable, because Bitcoin is a beta, an experimental system. Transaction fees may rise for the reasons you've described, but referencing the '7 TPS cap' as if it is a real limit makes the situation look far worse than it is.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
Same. I even went so far as to buy his books that are compilations of his writings and compilations of his curations of other great writings.

However, I feel like we might be self selecting here for people who give a damn about their craft on this thread ;)
If I were in this situation, I'd probably try to sell them the domain for a fair price (>$10k), go on vacation with part of the money, and use the rest for a rebrand when I got home.
There are hundreds of private servers out there. I know of at least six that are near-perfect recreations of vanilla, BC, wrath, and even cata. If the main game died, these private servers would continue to exist. Most of them are actually self-funded and self-sufficient as is. I played expensively on a Cataclysm private server, because I had quit in the first patch due to brokeness and never had a chance to actually see Deathwing (in its intended form at level 85) because Pandas had come out by then.

In reality, the game has gone away. Every time a new expansion has come out and reset everything millions of people had their old game taken and were given a new game. And sometimes, they didn't like the new one, and sought the old one. And even if it is illegal, the market is providing their demands. There are even a few open source projects for server cores to run WoW on.
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Great share! That frame looked weak to the naked eye. Screw engineering calculations: anyone who's played a bridge-building game should have seen it coming!
Big fan of Zef's work though I haven't tried Zed yet. Another really cool tool is TEdit by Tim Caswell.

But before I toot their horns too loud, they are sort of competitors of mine as the creator of Plunker. Anyway, the more the merrier as long as well all get along and move the experience forward!
Thanks, that's a perfect analogy.
Still not seen a discussion of how they are dealing with the huge security nightmare of direct customer hardware access.
Here's the quick walk through for posting scores using dynamoDB:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developergu...
Main problem was that Twitter wasn't quite bad enough for people to stop using it. Even if the website / official app was a mess, most of the App.net early adopters use third-party Twitter clients anyways.

If even the people who paid for App.net were still using both systems, and cross-posting, that wasn't really sustainable once the initial interest was gone.
I wonder what the budgetary breakdown was between building and transporting. It sounds like a project management screwup to me. Poor initial specs, Delayed scope creep.
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we're enormous, with all the fun that entails, but for a purchase to be involved, the following criteria must be met:

1) it must be sufficiently expensive. free is bad
2) i must convince everyone on my department that this is "the new way" that we operate (i.e. everyone has to use trello just like I would)
3) i must show through some pseudo science how it improves efficiency to several layers of management

Unless something is super compelling, it's not worth the effort. And if it is super compelling, it probably won't be approved anyway.

I guess I'm pretty jaded about the whole thing. If there is a neat tool, or some productivity enhancement/stress reducer, I usually just find a way to use it myself under the radar and don't share it with anyone (which offends me greatly as it's a terrible waste).

I'd actually have to go through that process for emacs 24, though in that case it's getting past the IT gatekeepers and proving to them that emacs 24 won't bring down the cluster. So I find a way to compile and run it and just don't talk about it a lot.

But anything web appish is out of the question. I settle for org-mode in emacs, but it'd be nice to collaborate. Sadly with our process of onboarding something, there's no room for experimentation or feeling something out or developing a workflow that would be worth demonstrating.
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Bibliotheca – the bible designed to read like a novel
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Do you plan on an LLC, an S-Corp or a C-Corp?

An LLC would require to define terms of ownership, decission and cashout in its charter beforehand. A Corp is much more flexible, especially if you do not know how much your "partner" will contribute in the future. So you might want to copy the unusual way Wizards of the Coast did: 1 share = 1 hour = $50

So you own already 600 shares, and your partner owns zero. If he invests money or time he earns share and dilutes you, if you invest money or time you earn shares and dilute him.

WotC shares later sold to $1400, iirc - so it was a good deal for the artists who painted those tiny pictures for magic the gathering.

PS: Peter Adkison later wrote that he had no clue how a normal Corp works, and did not consult a lawyer because he had no money for it, and just handwaved a way, that sounded fair to him, to pay the artists without having any money. It worked out, thats all that counts.
On OSX, just press option and click on your wifi-icon. You'll see the signal strength, channel, speed, encryption type etc of the AP you're connected to expanded in the dropdown menu.
Doesn't seem to have gotten this popular account suspended:

https://twitter.com/untitledairlane
Parody is not really impersonation and Future Snack =/= Future Stack =/= Future Shack etc.

If they have a problem with it they shouldn't have named the conference after his identity to begin with.

It's first come first serve in my book and he definitely got the domain to prove it.

Isn't it like branding/marketing 101 get the twitter handle, get the domain, etc?
You're putting words in his mouth with this comment. I think he understands the legal situation just fine. He's accusing them of being "pretty fucking rude", not taking them to court.
You're right, but you're wrong.

You're right - we shouldn't celebrate alienating people who need help.

You're wrong, because there is no argument that can convince someone who doesn't care about evidence.

So, please forgive us our gallows humor about this. After all, these people are content in risking the health of MY child on their Jenny McCarthy-inspired HUNCH that vaccines are bad.

If anti-vaccine folks were only risking the health of their own children, their anti-science stance (or selective-science stance) would be tolerable. As it is, they're a menace.
That isn't limited to Scientists my friend.
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I think FogBugz's worst problem is its name. I feel stupid even suggesting it at work, and the name sounds silly so people ignore any suggestion I do make.

Trello is a good example of a much more (word-of-mouth) marketable name.
Does anyone else feel like Heroku's error rates on top of its higher costs makes Heroku badly overpriced?

It would be one thing if it was running on like a 10-20% premium but its premium is much, much higher. Or if its rare of errors was much lower.
You really can tell when people have websites not meant for any significant traffic. Site is down.
There should be an interest rate, because the value of money changes over time. There is a difference between the value of $50,000 in hand today, and the expectation of being paid today's $50,000 a year from today. That difference is reflected in the interest rate. Risk is also accounted for in the interest rate, although fundamentally, not all risk can be accounted for. There is always going to be the risk that the startup goes bust before it can pay back its IOUs, and it would be silly to expect an interest rate exorbitant enough to account for all of that risk. A rate of 15-25% is probably fair to the individual in a nominal sense (more than fair, actually), but it is unfair to the company. This is a case where the individual will need to bear some of the risk in the financial interests of having a successful company. He is not a loan shark, after all.
When wages are paid through Bitcoin, the fundamental Bitcoin incentive loop will be complete. The primary advantages of Bitcoin, including transaction fees and privacy, are lost when converting local currency to/from Bitcoin via markets. When conversion is no longer necessary transaction volumes will climb exponentially.
I have a dual screen desktop running Arch and I play games a lot, on the radeonSI Gallium driver and Intel driver.

The funny thing with multi-screen gaming on Linux is that the "default" target SDL picks is not your primary monitor, it is the monitor on the left. It doesn't matter what input order its in, or anything else, I can reconfigure my screens however I want but "full screen" always means leftmost panel.
What is he misunderstanding? There's nothing in the post mentioning copyright or suggesting the author thinks he has a legal case. He just thinks New Relic are being jerks.
According to another article, http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Squatters-don-t-sit...
, it is suspected that the squatter is intentionally running the AC full blast with the windows open.
I'm very concerned about the mass surveillance revealed by Snowden, but based on those links I can't really see that any cooperation was needed.

The last link makes it quite clear that this is about the NSA reflashing machine BIOS with a compromised version ("Through remote access or interdiction"). If the NSA decides to reroute your shipment of a new computer to their facility to mess with it, no amount of BIOS security is going to stop that. The same applies if they already have remote access (I'm guessing in that case it's about implanting a persistent backdoor in case the targeted user wipes his machine).

I would expect that they have ready-to-go compromised BIOS replacements with persistent backdoors for most popular machines.

The tomsitpro article suggests that this has been "solved" by UEFI signed BIOS firmware, which is just ridiculous. Does anyone really believe that the NSA does not have access to means to get stuff signed by CAs? Just looking at what they're trying to do they would be seriously incompetent if they did not (the CA system is a joke!). And even if they were so incompetent, what's to stop them from using a hardware flasher to flash the BIOS chip directly if they already have physical access to the machine through interdiction?
Given that they registered futurestack.io it seems almost certain they did check this. .io is nice and quirky and all but if .com was available you can be fairly sure they'd have gone for that either instead of or as well as the .io domain.
This seems like a project for Elon Musk
Pretty funny wish fulfillment where someone forces their own views on others. I fully support vaccination, but don't support this.
Freeing the art assets would be nice too, at some point. I really do not want to know how many millions of hours of designer effort have been spent modeling and texturing barrels.
You told me only about algebraic types of data. There exist other type systems that are equally valid.

For example, one can imagine a relational type system which describes values (which are finite sets of tuples having named, unordered fields) by their cardinality (0, 1, >1, 0 or 1, >0, or any) the field names they contain, and the types of the values of those fields.

You can extend this system in several ways as well; the type can include keys (sets of fields for which each tuple in the set contain distinct values) and dependent field specifications (denoting fields which are present/have a given type only if some other given field has a certain value).
US vetoes in the UN - http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/geoff/UNresolutions.htm

Most are related to Israel
I have never heard even one compelling argument for why paying for app.net makes sense.

I pay money and...? I honestly have no idea.
So, you're saying this guy's the new Michael Bolton?
Great post Travis! The email templates are extremely helpful.
The biggest issues are always soft stuff.

Salary isn't a big deal -- once you have a senior dev salary, a few grand extra doesn't make a difference in lifestyle. A good developer can always leave and go to work for the big guys (Google/Facebook/NetFlix/Amazon). The reason they don't is that it's hard to make an impact at a big company.

Company size doesn't matter. Some big companies have small groups that do cutting edge stuff, and some startups are run like big companies and/or have bad managers. People don't leave companies, they leave bad bosses or bad cultures.

Company reputation matters when trying to find a place to work. But once you work there, the outside perception doesn't matter as much (because you're working to change it, in theory.)

The 'rules' really matter. If a company has a dress code, a punch clock, or requires a specific college degree, they are cargo culting. You can assume that they have no idea how to treat knowledge workers.

The best piece of advice I ever got was "don't be the smartest person at your company". If you aren't surrounded by awesome people, then you will be brought down to their average. (See also "the Dead Sea Effect" for IT.)
Some of my old co-workers are working with this language because of Guidewire products. Initially the benefit was that you could write code with lambdas that would share a JVM with the product itself, but now that Java 8 has them, the only reason to keep Gosu around is that all that legacy code.

You would never choose Gosu unless you were working with Guidewire products.
I'd actually like to see your argument - I can see the possible benefit to business owners if their customers use Foursquare, but I've never been able to figure out why anyone would want to use Foursquare in the first place. What benefit does the user get out of checking in everywhere he goes?
1. Doing funky things with symbol under cursor. In past lives ive had documentation for things like assembly instructions, opengl apis etc displayed inside emacs.

2. Emacs macros.

3. Lack of hopping between terminal and editor.
On the other side, I rarely read the New Yorker. I enjoy the occasional article that pops up here, but I wouldn't pay to read any of them. They'll lose me as a reader by going behind a paywall.
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I don't think it's true that an LLC requires you to allocate equity statically at the time of formation. LLCs routinely issue equity to employees long after formation, and, to the best of my knowledge (I cofounded, co-managed, and eventually sold an LLC with several tens of employees), without modifying their charter.

No matter what your corp structure is, this is an issue you need to spend a few hundred dollars on an attorney on.
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So I'm going to London Startup School soon and I want to use this opportunity to talk to some people about my idea and validate it (or convince me it's not worth pursuing, equally valuable). Is it polite to try to start conversations like this or will people think it's selfish to bring up your idea when you've only just met?
I also use the same handle as a conference.
Me: @morgo Conference: @morgo_nz

I impersonated them with flight of the conchords jokes in 2011:
https://twitter.com/morgo/status/128488872165384195

Immature on my part. Very happy not to have my twitter account suspended :)
It is a novel.
Even McDonald's doesn't "get that right over all uses of their name" - there are plenty of shops in Scotland called McDonalds. (In particular, there is a Hallmark-like shop in Glasgow that has the same name as, and is on the same street as, a McDonalds hamburgers).
Given that most thumbnails are done with resampling to scale, I imagine this attack would work similarly there as well.
I'll add my personal favorite from the last few years: "A Murder Foretold" - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/04/a-murder-foreto...
We use it at work, and in fact my boss considers it and Kiln the best source control and bug/issue tracking software around, and I think it's pretty fantastic as well. The automatic gantt chart and probability of shipping metrics are pretty amazing. I don't know of anything else that lets you use git or Hg on the same repositories, which is great since you don't have to force your team to use one or the other.
WHAT?!??! Illegal kidnapping, torture and demonstrated government complicity: and all I got was this lousy 100,000EUR? They obviously need some decent lawyers.
You leaving immediately might actually make it easier for both of your your bosses. They'll have a reason for a fairly long project delay.
Yep, Zed is very nice, And it uses Ace editor component developed by Cloud9.
The pay wall isn't meant to attract people who "rarely read" the New Yorker. Those are the consumers they are OK with losing because they didn't make up an appreciable demographic for their business model anyway.
Not according to this article. They went by river to and from the sea.
Bullshit. These dipshits looked up the .com and the twitter handle, they knew exactly who he was and decided to screw him.
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> I know not giving in your two weeks is kind of giving them the middle finger

I don't know your frame of mind, but always, always give proper notice. Ask anyone who negotiates for a living, they will tell you that very few negotiations happen in a bubble, they are almost always serial and there is a feedback loop at work in all negotiations.

Or put another way, if you pull an asshole move now and quit without notice, don't be surprised if it comes back to bite you in the ass later on in life.

If you really feel like you can't work another day the bring that up to your boss, maybe he'll understand and agree to let you go on Friday with no hard feelings or reputation risk.

People can be incredibly compassionate when you open up to them. Tell your boss about your state of mind, you'll be surprised at both how well you feel after and how well he/she might take it!
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AWS has some network issues too: http://status.aws.amazon.com

Related?
Is this any different from your regular dedicated server provider? (Honest question, I don't know much about OpenStack.)
Proportional is easier to try to decode. See http://cryptome.org/cia-decrypt.htm for an example from 2004 about inferring words from a redacted US document.

From the Le Monde article: The space occupied by an "I" differs from that taken by "W," which can give additional clues, compared to the text-spacing known as "monospace," like that of often used in e-mailwhere all the letters have the same spacing.

From the NYT article: In January, the State Department required that its documents use a more modern font, Times New Roman, instead of Courier, Mr. Naccache said. Because Courier is a monospace font, in which all letters are of the same width, it is harder to decipher with the computer technique. There is no indication that the State Department knew that.
It's getting worse and worse... And their uptime is way worse than what they show. Today for example they started tracking outage almost 20 minutes after it started...
I agree with the central point: there's much evidence that Joel Spolsky knows what he's doing, and executives would be wise to implement his suggestions.

I've talked to engineering executives who agree, "I've read all of Joel's stuff", but then fail to implement his ideas at a concrete or abstract level. I don't know why.
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What sucks is that eventually lots of people will assume he stole the name he uses from the conference...
This has been my experience as well.

When The Verge launched, it was creative and full of interesting articles.

Something changed, and for the past 12-18 months, it's been pretty close to a "Cosmo for Geeks". They've also started getting some basic technology facts wrong (I first noticed this on their Nexus 4 LTE article, and have continued to notice it off and on through their latest Net Neutrality / Verizon vs Netflix articles)
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I thought the same about Far Eastern Economic Review, but after they installed a paywall I stopped reading. Everyone else did too, and it has since died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Eastern_Economic_Review
The improvement for me:

* speed of typing : I really appreciate not having to take my finger off of the main part of the keyboard to use arrows or the mouse, I also don't like the 2 stack (2 mode) switching for vi. Somehow I find it easier to remember the few keyboard cords the toggling of modes.

* works in a terminal : launch with emacs -nw and you can work across an ssh terminal with same syntax highlighting, same shortcuts

* available for most OSes : my co-workers use fancy new editors except they have to rsync code from the server back to their latest Ubuntu, OSX or Windows just to edit it.

* people like to customize it and there are modes for all kinds of esoteric languages and build systems : i don't fiddle much with my .emacs so it is not benefiting me personally but others swear by it
I don't think 'nobody' is name-calling. It's accurately, if not tactfully, describing a status of fame and recognition. He is not famous at all, and regardless of what we may or may not like about chiptunes and electronica, it is a niche market for people. His response to the confusion (which admittedly is frustrating and annoying) is simply confirmation of this lack in status. How much frustrating interaction on social platforms does your average minor celebrity (internet or otherwise) deal with? How do they respond, or do they even respond at all?

We are what we are by the actions we take. Reactive actions are still actions, and they stand alone at the end of the day. If you react to negativity with more negativity, that's telling of you, not the negativity that fed that action. It's human to lash out, but it's also human to choose not to do so.
Try to plug in headset and have the sound out of it, plug it out and have the sound on the laptop speakers, without going all hacker on it, or for example just try to use your bluetooth headset. Yeah. Nope.
What makes you think it's "huge"? How do you think the dedicated hosting industry has been operating for more than a decade? You can re-flush the bios, you can secure-erase the storage, etc.
Selling people on funding a staff programmer is a bit hard outside of a handful of institutions, I wager.
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