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That's a join venture dominated by Softbank (that's also a cell phone operator, and owner of Sprint).

Yahoo Inc. only holds 35% of it, and licences his name to this separate company.

User accounts are separate too, if you create an account everywhere in the world but Japan it's a @yahoo.com account, but in Japan it's @yahoo.co.jp.
It makes sense that a company's culture would be greatly influenced by the founders - the ones who shape said company. I've always believed this to be a one-way thing however: company culture will reflect the personalities of its founders, and that's it. Seeking to change yourself in order to build a better culture by proxy is certainly an idea with merit.
Can't help but chuckle at his apology / signature around the halfway point:

> Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds

Somehow I never noticed that before.
>As in, not us.

The concern here is that this sort of dumbed-down UI is going to lead to there being less of users like us in the future, since by removing options and choice, it makes it easier to use, but also reduces the incentive to find out more about how things work. The browser turning into something like a TV, for consuming content and nothing more.
We the end buyers should come together and make ourselves heard:

1. Cheaper ebooks (many reasons vs pbooks)
2. No fracking DRM

This whole hachette vs amazon thing is bullshit with the consumers and authors being left on the side while these middlemen argue.
You're right, tracking this here https://github.com/DefactoSoftware/Hours/issues/135
Manichean. Deterministic implies predictability.
Any RSS feed planned ?
We've added an MIT license without a disclaimer, people are free to do whatever they please with it.
You don't need to install CM, just root the device and install XPrivacy. You can open very small holes without having to grant full permissions (e.g. read file /sdcard/xxxx instead of read/write to the whole sdcard)
1. There is an exploit that leaves complete control of your phone to anyone without you even having to look at the screen.

2. Some applications want to use too much permissions on your phone. You probably don't want to install them.

And the second is a bigger problem? Really?

Android is the most transparent and detailed about what applications can actually do on your phone from any such system I've ever seen. People make concious (stupid, but concious) decisions to still use apps and ignore the presented information. This exploit removes all control a user may have.

By making this comparison in the first place, you are confusing the discussion already. Yes, Android can and should improve when it comes to user control. But this is a problem that leaves hundreds of millions devices exploitable even without depending on user ignorance. This exploit and the issue you mention are not even related.
The code is MIT licensed, so your contributions would be too. Sure they can make money off it, but so can anybody else who feels like forking (or even just pulling) the code.

If you find it a good base to work on, submit pull requests. If it's not for you, just move along.
The problem is that most people aren't even aware they're trading anything. That you consciously made that decision means the movement has already accomplished an important step.

Besides, gnumeric bugs will sound great when Google bans your account for deity knows why :)
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Also noticed the two different icons being used (compare the 'clock' in the logo and the favicon), doesn't seem to a lot of thought is put into it.
It's these little details that users like me - who are usually willing to pay for services like these - are put off because most probably these details are just the ones on the surface.
I'll probably stick with http://www.tickspot.com
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Every once in a while I see articles sporting the idea, especially as gadgets are outnumbering desktop machines.

But also, there are even few articles sporting the idea of using ARMs chips in servers.
> I would never imagine such thing - games via satellite - ever existed, let alone for Famicom!

And the UK had BASIC games for the BBC Micro broadcast over terrestrial analog TV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesoftware
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That is a great way of thinking about testing, and possibly even type systems. It really clicked with me, thank you for sharing.
Yes. I believe the same sophisticated attack could be used to target banking systems. It would just need a few more sophisticated services to be in place or more inside information.

But why bitcoin is targeted?

Because bitcoin is an open protocol, they could target it's root, mining rigs because that's where the value is generated. In banking systems, to generate money you need to have internal access and secure credits .
Variation of this game on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id904615413
At least, in your case, you can opt not to download/install. You can read those terms and you can choose either to install or not. Yes, nobody does, but maybe it is time to do it.

Let's not mix apples with oranges.

Privacy will always be a issue when you want an ``enriched experience'' from that app (although in some cases, privacy it is just being abused from other malign or commercial value).
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Oops, thanks. Should probably pay closer attention!

Maybe this highlights the pitfalls of excessively long writing. Or more likely the pitfalls of me commenting at 3am :(
It may just be a thought experiment at this point, but I think it's pretty clear now that all of the major browsers are unfortunately headed in this direction.

This rush to target "more simple Internet users" hasn't gone well for Mozilla and Firefox so far. All they've managed to do is create a dumbed-down UI that's harder and less efficient to use, and this has alienated a lot of Firefox's existing users. This is a big part of why we keep seeing Firefox's share of the market sliding lower and lower.

Users can forgive Chrome for its bad UI experience because it offers quite good performance and resource usage. Firefox, unfortunately, does not offer that (I know, I know, Mozilla has benchmark results that will show the opposite, but these aren't indicative of actual user experiences). When faced with two browsers offering basically the same flawed UI, then users will use the one that offers the best runtime performance and the lowest resource usage.

Going forward with this sort of a design, or even continuing down the existing path that Mozilla has been taking, ultimately won't be successful. Users have very obviously been rejecting Firefox because it now no longer offers a usable UI, nor does it offer acceptable performance and resource usage.
Telling people to stop using a Google product, because it's a Google product... from a Google blog platform, hilarious.
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Thanks malcom, to be honest im actually looking for things that help me move from my modest scripting background in system administration into understanding the actual systems programming level that malware operates at. Linux Systems Programming is a book i just picked up for example, so something that goes closer to the metal rather than the advanced stuff is what im after. Thanks a lot for the tip though.
Trying to spread Stallman's ideas by FUD does not help spreading Stallman's ideas. Stop doing that.

I don't get why free software zealots hate Android so much. It is by far the most "free" popular operating system ever made. Never has there been a user facing operating system in the possession of 100s of millions of people, for which you can readily download and study the large majority of code running the system on these devices. It is even possible to purge some devices of non-free code (including blobs) completely, if you so desire [1].

[1]: http://www.replicant.us/
Amazon swallows the loss. For example, with eBooks, they were purchasing wholesale from the book publishers for $15, and then selling them to customers for $9.99.

As much as I love my Kindle, and Amazon, and as much as I realize that the publishers probably extract more value from the entire chain than is reasonable given their contribution (as compared to the author, who I believe should be rewarded a great deal more) - I realize that we will face dark times in the future if Amazon is able to corner the eBook market.
But we don't know from the study if marriage is a cause or an effect.
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Oh that also looks great! :)
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At the same time, it hugely incentivizes improvements in computer security. After all, it's "our" fault for still using crappy and buggy Linux, Windows and Mac OSes, written in crappy and error-prone languages such as C and C++. Mind you, this crappy software is responsible for a lot more thefts than just bitcoin (e.g. China hacking and stealing trade secrets), but with bitcoin, you can put a definitive (if volatile) dollar price on the hacking.
Great post & it's totally true that company culture mirrors that of founders. I think this works through 3 mechanisms:

(1) Employees tend to ape founders, so whatever founders care about & value (in their actions) tends to filter down.

(2) Getting aspects of culture to stick (e.g. transparency) is hard, and requires real commitment from founders. So whatever sticks will tend to be whatever founders care enough to really push through.

(3) Founders tend to hire people who are 'like them', so a critical mass of employees end up being very similar to the founders.
I've been using Bing (and IE) for a few months now, after years of Google and Firefox.

I'd guess about half of my searches go like this:

* type into URL bar
* get Bing result
* after a quick glance: decide that result is useless
* copy/paste into Google

I'd love to use Bing almost exclusively (especially since I'm really happy with my Lumia 630), but it is really frustrating sometimes.
But forking blink/webkit would be a huge undertaking for anyone interested, wouldn't it? I'm not sure if there are that many companies out there who would like to go that route (imagine web browser made by facebook, that would be interesting).
Know the feeling. Same for me (beginner, completed Codeacademy...). The easy exercises here http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer are within our reach and there's always at least one solution implemented with python.
If I had a dollar for every time I saw the argument "I wish Mozilla would put resources into <project I like>, and stop wasting money on <project I don't like>"... I would have a big pile of dollars.
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I like the look of this and it's more what I'd be looking from in a css framework than Bootstrap or Foundation, which I feel I can never use in a project because most(all) of the projects I work on don't look like Bootstrap.

This looks like a great starting point. It's a bit like Normalize on steroids.
How do you know what is fair? Maybe the 25% more they were paying before were unfair? The monopschmopy arguments are all bullshits because there are plenty of ways to buy books. Maybe you could even buy them directly from Hachette?
It's not like Firefox is alone in that behavior, don't both Chrome and iOS Safari work the same?
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I think this would have a lot more value if integrated with ticket tracking systems which already contain a little of interesting information - type of tickets, type of work, component etc..
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Hi all, just wondering do you need such function when you browsing open source project(github)? Because you maybe just don't like it.
To nitpick, in the suggested experiment - bookmarks aren't removed. Although I guess you could compare the solution to "completely remove" them since they work a lot different, I guess you wouldn't "Love"-click something to read later or go back to, but their main site (Like NYT.com, BigBank.com etc). They'd be integrated into the ""amazebar"", but they'd still be there.

As has been mentioned in other threads to this discussions, tabs aren't all that important for the thought of userbase. They are people who sometimes uses tabs or never uses tabs.

Also, I, as a "Wizard/Enthusiast" user - got somewhat excited by the suggested experiment and think it kind of make sense. I wouldn't prefer using this myself, but I can certainly see benefits to a significant user share.
yarou obviously didn't say that they should focus everyone only on reducing Firefox's memory usage and performance problems. I'm not sure how you mistakenly got that impression, because that's clearly not what that comments suggests.

The main issue here is that we've been hearing that these problems will be fixed, or even that they supposedly have been fixed, yet they're still present years later.

Whatever work is being done clearly isn't having much of an impact. Users are still reporting problems with Firefox's performance and memory usage, even if those within the Mozilla community wish to deny these problems exist, or claim that they'll be fixed "soon".

Users can only take so much of this. With Chrome and Firefox offering UIs that are pretty much identical these days, but Chrome offering significantly better performance and significantly lower memory usage, any reasonable user will obviously consider switching from Firefox to Chrome. Many have done so already, and many will continue to do so as time goes on.
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The difference is - for every 1 book that a reputable publisher puts out, they reject 1000. Now, perhaps 500 of those books might have OK, and maybe 50 of them might have been quite good, and it's entirely possible that the 1 book they did chose to publish, was not as good as 10-15 others they rejected - but, on the flip side, it's highly unlikely that the publisher is going to chose one of the 500 dogs that never deserve to see the light of day.

The problem with Crowd sourced reviews, is that quite often, other people might like quite crappy books. The job of a publisher isn't to just find a book that they like, but that the general reading population will love.

I appreciate and respect what the publisher does as part of their filtering - I just suspect they are extracting more value than they are worth.

Hopefully established authors are able to negotiate increasingly more lucrative deals as a reflection of both the reduced risk, as well as the increased value they bring to the equation (as well as the reduced value that the publisher brings. I can't tell you who Stephen King's publisher is...)
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Are those services valuable enough for what publishers charge, though? I don't think all those services enter into the cost equation to the same degree. I would guess marketing to be a much, much larger expense than say editing (which presumably is a somewhat constant cost per page, while marketing is open ended).

Maybe it makes sense for authors to bond together to alleviate risks. Again, the question is, what is the right price for that service.

I'd say publishers are just a normal business. They provide some services that have some value. But they are not the gatekeepers they used to be anymore, hence authors should be able to get much better deals now.

As for marketing, a single person with a million followers on Twitter can probably achieve more than a whole traditional PR section of a big publisher? Or a recommendation on the front page of Amazon...

Sure PR still has some value (getting into newspapers and so on). But it's not the only way anymore.
I thought that Amazon demanded a most-favoured-nation clause in relation to the price Hachette charged other retailers?
Problem is what I want to build is far more complex than what I can build right now, need to take baby steps ;)
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This still seems more mathematical/text-book like than practical examples, reminds me of https://projecteuler.net/ which is fun to do. Thanks for sharing!
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Hi, I'm one of the people who worked on this and I wanted to provide a little background and a few clarifications.

Lightspeed is currently not a product. It's a collection of sketches and thoughts. It is also NOT the next version of Firefox. While some ideas might find their way into mainline Firefox at some point, many of the assumptions on which Lightspeed is based are the exact opposites of Firefox core values (e.g. no settings or customization in Lightspeed).

More than anything else, Lightspeed helps us think outside the box that Firefox is. It's a place where we can dare to explore more radical thoughts like not having any settings or or even menus. Having constraints like these stimulates creativity much like, for example, the character limit on tweets forces you to make your message more concise.

Ideas are worthless when they just exist in your head. Sketching out Lightspeed has helped us to make make lots of ideas more tangible, so they can be evaluated.

That being said, just reading through this thread has sparked some interesting new thoughts – we'll keep experimenting :)
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This looks cool! Will give it a go over the weekend. Thanks for sharing!
Ironically, one of the books that shaped my ideas on topics like this early on was the fictional 'The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism' by Emmanuel Goldstein in '1984.' Orwell's perspective as a dissident socialist is very unique and made for a lot of nuance. This is one of the places where it shines through, in my opinion.

In any case, in 1984-world there is an exam for moving the most talented of the middle classes into the upper class and least talented of the upper class to the middle. I think Orwell's thinking here was a 'keep the dangerous ones on the inside" strategy. But, I think there's another mechanism at work. Release valves and the creation of ambiguity.

A member of the underclass with undeniable talent and force of will is very dangerous to the order of things. If there are several of them pushing hard against a glass ceiling then pressure builds up. It also becomes very obvious the the ceiling exists. That's where Malcolm Xs come from.

Malcolm X recalls in his autobiography about an incident where he told his teacher he wanted to become a lawyer. The teacher responds that this is "not a realistic goal for a nigger". If he had become a lawyer he might have become one of the (as he saw it) one of those despicable, integration seeking middle class negroes. Blue pills.

Hitting a hard ceiling made the existence of the ceiling undeniable and the incredible force of his personality had no other outlet than pushing against this impenetrable ceiling.

I don't know if how obvious it was at the time that Malcolm X had the potential in him that he obviously exhibited as an adult. But let's imagine that the 12 year old Malcolm X was a 12 year old version of the 35 year old Malcolm X. A system that embraces that kid, makes him a lawyer. Gives him an outlet whiten it and celebrates him as an example of crossing class barriers or even proof for the non existence of those barriers is a more robust system.

BTW, I think it's wrong to read 1984 as a description of a conspiracy. The conspiracy is more of a metaphor, a way of easily explaining how things work. In reality, societies are memoplexes, evolved. To paraphrase Douglas Adams. "A memoplex that survives is a memoplex that survives." They are made up of surviving memes. Memes preventing class movement entirely are likely to bring down the memoplex. I think airtight class distinctions (such as a system of race based slavery) are fundamentally unstable for this reason.

There are interesting datapoints in accounts of ancient slavery. The Hebrew Bible describes a system of slavery with ways out existing in the ancient Middle east. Earning freedom. Sabbatical amnesties. Jacob came to Egypt as a slave. He rose to become a sort of chancellor to the Pharaoh. Ancient Greek & Roman systems of slavery had ways for exceptional slaves to earn freedom or even rise in rank within the institution of slavery. If Spatacus' leadership abilities had caused him to be ejected from slavery, his uprising would never have happened. He might have been a general enslaving barbarians and contributing gainfully to the system.
Yes I've done a number of these challenges, agree it's really good and would recommend to others. However this is still quite mathematical/text-book like (in a challenging and fun way though).
Would it? With this sophistication and latest exposures of CAs security I'm not fully sure that TLS MITM is a remote probability.
At the company I am presently working at, we have recognized that good culture is paramount to accomplishing great things. It makes everyone work on the same wavelength and leads to constructive collaboration, as opposed to politiking and defensive behavior. It is working really well for us.

Culture is not about hiring similar people. We have a fairly even breakdown of men and women and have people from various backgrounds and in different stages of their life. Yet all people mirror and identify with our core values. I want to share them with you because I, like the rest of our team, are really proud of them:

http://www.15five.com/philosophy.html

The last, and probably most important thing, is that none of this does not make sense until you know why you are doing what you are doing. We call this our WHY. It took time to define it, and we continue to refine it. It is our central tenet which keeps us aligned and motivated, and everything else in one way or another stems from it.
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You make a very good point.

That sensible and effective approach has become yet another victim of the failed quest to "improve the user experience" by throwing away or changing stuff that was working perfectly fine before. The new approach is almost always far worse than whatever minor flaws might have existed with the earlier approach.

And allowing the old, working approach to be toggled back on through some preferences dialog, through about:config or through some extension doesn't justify the bad change. If anything, it's actually somewhat offensive, because it now requires users to engage in yet more fixing of things that just shouldn't be broken to begin with.

When I start using a fresh installation of Firefox, I have to spend at least a good 10 minutes installing various extensions and reconfiguring it just to get a minimally usable experience out of it. That's not acceptable, and it's not justifiable.
I have no idea what you're trying to say. It may be that English is not your first language, in which case all credit for the skill level you do have, certainly I can't speak anything other than English with any competence.

But having said that - perhaps you could post what you're trying to say in both your first language and in English. That way people could check the original and possibly offer better translations into English. This would help us understand your question, and possibly help your English.
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Thanks for sharing! And good to know there're fellow programming learners out there sharing my pain/passion. This looks like what I was looking for. Will give it a go over the weekend!
All complex programs written in languages like C++ have memory leaks of some kind or another. If you really want to get rid of memory leaks, having Servo mature, and hopefully building a browser out of it would be a good start.