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He doesn't say that the area itself is Christian, just that it borders on "Great Rosia", which is Orthodox Christian.

He also describes "immense white bears" and dog sleds.

Polo doesn't claim to have been there himself; he's relating stuff he's heard from the Chinese.
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Monit issues takedown request for Inspeqtor (both open source monitoring tools)
But what about young men? Or young women? Or grown women?

While I don't necessarily agree with pekk that saying "30s and 40s" is ageism or discriminatory at all, saying "[people] are never offended at stuff like this" is exactly the problem the tech community is trying to solve with being more inclusionary of other people and cultures. Yes, people do get offended at offensive remarks. No, not everyone sees them a joke.
First, calling someone egocentric and elitist is not an attack, it's an observation, and in this case, an apt one. He has said so about himself in the past. My intent isn't to attack him, it's to describe him.

Second, he is not Aaron Schwartz, who the community rallied around and the government bullied to death. In this case, the government isn't even involved, it's various groups of people reacting differently to Pottering, some in ways that I find disgusting, others in ways that I line up with (not happy with him or his work, but not attacking him for it), and still others like you with blind praise and faith bordering on religion.

"You're comparing Apples to Oranges, when you say, but if you disable everything then and only then my favorite init system is faster than systemd."

I never said that, please don't attempt to put words in my mouth to bolster your argument, because it makes you look quite the fool.

"Let's not discuss what is better or not, you have to be a Software-Architect and not an untrained Software-Developer to discuss such things in detail without being a hypocrite, desinformative or misleading."

You're making an assumption about me while knowing nothing about me, and at the same time calling me a hypocrite? Please, you're shooting yourself in the foot with this one.

There is simply nothing defensible in your entire argument, as far as I can see. You make assumptions, call me names including "hypocrite", telling me how to think ("You shall keep this in mind, when you speak up without a filter")? Sounds to me like you're just as much a bully as Pottering. It renders your entire argument invalid; you may as well be calling yourself out.
To see this article search for the following on google and click on the top link:
"study highlights scale of african doctors brain drain"
Then let's wait for that step to happen before jumping to conclusion.
>The academic system is badly broken. Personally, I think that the only winning move is not to play.

Well, problem is, if you want to do basic scientific research (rather than engineering based on a preexisting base of scientific research), that system is the only game in town.
There was an article in Science on 3D space related to this.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6130/367
http://knowingneurons.com/2014/05/29/navigating-a-3d-world/
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>The real issue is that developed countries refuse to import doctors.

That's completely ridiculous. Developed countries actively import doctors, going so far as to genuinely trying to lure them by advertising the kinds of salaries they can get.

Countries like Sweden, Norway, Germany, etc. now get significant numbers of their dcotors from abroad. Because their own population doesn't provide enough doctors. Additionally, the foreign ones tend to be cheaper (both because they're paid less but also because you don't need to put them through education).

It's so extreme that in some developing countries of Europe, half the doctors leave for the above-mentioned developed countries.
It's quite possible to be angry about something, and also be polite in ones response.

This is also revealing: the idea that it is somehow dishonest if one chooses to not publicly verbalize one's own internal state.

We should think about that for a moment. This is the proposal: "I am being dishonest unless I verbalize my anger about a topic."

I would submit that dishonestly would require a more direct statement.

"I am not angry about your continued choices for ignorance."

That would be dishonest.

In my opinion, not saying anything about one's internal state can't be dishonest. No information was given.
This article reminded me of what Valerie Aurora[1] posted & discussed. She called for feminism values, and Lennart is calling for less hate. I get the feeling they are both talking of the same underlying problem.

On a personal note, when GIMP 2.6 first came out, I filled a bug report pointing to the devs that under Windows XP sans SP2, the program would crash on load. Instead of getting a real answer, I got some angry comments about not updating my OS and a ban from the bug tracking system. Some time later, they added Windows XP SP2 as a requirement. I still use GIMP, but whenever I find a bug, I just wait patiently until the next version to see if they have fixed it.

[1] HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8414180

Edit: found the bug report, it was SP2, not SP1 as I first thought. Also fixed some typos.
A lot of discriminatory or hateful actions can be written off as cultural. Racism is cultural in the Southern US. Doesn't mean it's acceptable.
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The specific bug was in the Varnish reverse proxy. It had to do with the non-functionality of the ESI ( Edge Side Includes ) "support". I really like Varnish and was making great use of it, and was happy to learn it supported ESI. I thought that if you change the contents of an ESI file, and then invalidate that file in Varnish, that Varnish would know the files that include it and invalidate them as well. Nope. Varnish seemingly has no recognition of ESI in regard to invalidation and simply includes the contents of the file, in effect treating them like regular SSI ( server side includes ).

I reported this behavior properly, and I was told that I don't know what I am talking about and there was no problem. The bug I filed was then closed without the issue being fixed or addressed in any way.

I can and will make a competing reverse proxy; because ESI is important IMO, and disregarding supporting it properly is silly.

I think Varnish is great; I'm happy it exists; I think it is silly to close a reported bug on the codebase without addressing it properly. The proper address to it is to simply say "No we don't really support ESI", just as I have said "No my parser is not really an 'XML' parser, because it doesn't really follow the spec."
>Where did the government funding go?

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1144
I must be very lucky... because after many many years of writing open source, being involved with at least three communities (IT security with hping, Tcl language with Tcl/Jim-Interpreter, Databases with Redis) I still have to receive serious attacks. Actually the only attacks I can remember are about my vision on how diversity should be handled (I was accused of sexism for saying that people are all alike), and a few company-driven attacks 99% generated from the SF area and for people working for competing companies, and with a big overlap of people accusing me of sexism (go figure...). Basically none of this was ever a great deal, and the remaining 99.999% of the OSS community was always awesome. Basically I'm just a single data point but as somebody involved for a long time in OSS, I can't confirm what I read.

Well, also consider this: I refuse most pull requests, and I'm not the kind of guy that is kind at every cost. I also am part of a minority, being very southern-european, from Sicily, often associated with the worst cliché of the Italian culture, Mafia, ... I also have a vision on software development which is very far from what is considered "good practice". One could expect me to receive more attacks than average.
No, they do not all require explicit approval to keep out spam. In GNU Mailman, this is a config option: you can allow non-subscribers to post or not.

All of the mailing lists that I operate on my own mailing list server allow non-subscribers to post. Due to my anti-spam configuration, this isn't a problem.

Traditional mailing lists, before the rise of spam, were usually this way.

And anyway, this is a separate issue. A list which does not re-mail postings from non-subscribers can nevertheless not do Reply-to: munging. So once you are on the list and participate in discussions, you're still sending messages to the list, as well as directly to those in the discussion.

Earlier this year I was involved in a mailing list discussion in which one of the parties was actually (unbeknownst to me for a while) a "persona non grata": someone banned from posting to the mailing list. His postings were not being seen by the subscribers, but only those in the debate. This list does use Reply-to:; he just (trivially) circumvented it.
It has little to do with "white males" and more to do with Open Communities with no barrier of entry needing to be extremely dismissive when a standard is not met, to make up for said lack of barriers of entry.

The vast majority of OSS projects that don't start from a strong core fail miserably and it's because of this. People extrapolate their real life professional behaviour to a virtual, open scene where assumptions of competence and commitment fall flat massively.

If anything, OSS needs more people like Linus Torvalds and Theo de Raadt managing projects and not post modern clowns with "white male" guilt. It's not by chance that Linux is possibly the biggest success in OSS history with real community contribution, and most of the others have been carried out by their respective cores with very little external output.

American PC behaviour is a disaster for OSS and that's why a lot of OSS is "awful" where it matters, which is in quality, in competitiveness and in leading the industry. Companies like Google and Mozilla lord it over OSS projects that are basically "glass house" corporative projects with extremely little external contribution (other than forking code from Linux, Apache, BSD, etc).

If anything the OSS is not dismissive enough of shit and this is holding us back.
Disagree with the first point. Sales obscures facts in order to convince someone to use your thing at their expense. Docs should put facts out more plainly and turn away developers from your framework as quickly as possible. If it's not what they want, say so.

Here is an example of 'sales copy docs':

Minuteman Framework

!!! Gets your missiles launched in seconds!
!!! Produce reports of completed strikes!
!!! Makes a great pasta salad!

Versus an example of 'real docs' provides and requirements:

Minuteman Framework

!!! Provides a C library and python, perl and ruby bindings for assembling, scheduling, executing, and reporting on minuteman launch capabilities for a variety of platforms.
!!! Supports only ARM and SPARC architectures.
!!! Requires 3 active nodes on 5 different networks for high availability.
!!! No REST API support.
The point is it was still a huge success.
Circa 2002-2006 I was quite active in the Linux community I.e. I contributed some code to a few GNU projects and a couple of kernel patches to solve problems that were, quite selfish really. But hey it turns out it wasn't just me or my company so I thought I'd contribute them. They solved real problems to be honest (driver bugs and crashes).

Having been on the end of a chunk of hate for about 40% of my work simply on political grounds rather than any technical grounds, I can understand this entirely and I have no problem with Lennart at all on this basis. I'm talking about patches, not reengineering either.

The basic problem was raising a defect "X doesn't work properly, here's a tested fix that we deployed in production". The answer was ticket closed. I reopened, and asked for an explanation. Literally "get fucked, we don't want your 'fix'". I replied "I'll patch my own kernel and SRPMS then" followed by a massive lecture from one of the project leaders on how I should be communicating with the community and that I need to be part of the special circle jerk club on that project to get a patch in. The defects were even removed from the trackers if the community members were rude to the outsiders to hide the fact.

So out of the goodness of my own heart I wasted 5 days with GDB debugging shit, wrote a patch that fixed it and raised a ticket with the patch attached, was closed, BANG. This happened 4 times on different projects.

So yes I do find that a number of the higher profile projects are purely powered by liquid asshole.

Unfortunately that makes me want to rely on the platforms less and has made me shift my focus to the Windows and BSD platforms which are surprisingly less political.

Argh. I even hated writing this.
I work on a project which sells millions of units each year. You could also argue that idiots committing code to the code base should be stopped. Yet I am very certain that if my manager started calling anyone an idiot and telling them they should have been aborted, he would very likely end out of work very quickly. Yet somehow it's acceptable of Torvalds? How? Good quality work can be done without telling people they are pieces of shit.
That doesn't means that it's being collected either..
systemd solves real problems that you may or may not have (or you think you don't have but affects you anyway, like systemd-logind solved various problems related to authetication and session that the old ConsoleKit had).

Linus Torvalds said in a recent interview that he don't like or dislike systemd, he even uses it and likes what the people of systemd is trying to do (but not necessary likes the way they're doing it), so yeah, even a person like Torvalds understand that we need what systemd folks are doing. Just that maybe this is not the best way to do it, but all folks just assume that systemd is bad and should be avoid at all costs.

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/65402-tor...
> But none of those ways have anything to do with open source

More bad arguments! He didn't say that open source is unique. Perhaps he's simply talking about the communities he's actually involved in.

> equating a concept with people

I don't think you do get it. Nothing about Lennart's terminology is particularly unusual - the 'open source community' in standard parlance is a fairly well defined set of people, organisations and forums that isn't particularly controversial to refer to.

I think you really are just using different words as everyone else to mean the same things.
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The problem mentioned--mistreating "nested data" by assuming independence between observations that may actually be linked--is definitely a real one and it's important to bring up, but I don't think it's as severe as suggested here.

How did the authors come up with their numbers on which papers had nested designs? I would argue that nested data is on a continuum and it's a matter of judgment and interpretation what to call a singular "research object".

If you are studying a single protein molecule, when can you start assuming independence? Protein molecules in the same subcellular compartment? same cell? same cluster of cells? same organ section? same animal? same litter? same species? same animal tech at the animal supply company? same experimental session? same solution stock?

It's not obvious where to draw the line. As long as authors are clear and honest about where they decided to draw that line in their analysis, I can assess whether I want to put stock in their conclusions.
Here's the research discussed at the FT link:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...
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Imo forever war is amazing, but stranger in a strange land devolves into bizarre fantasy. I'd strongly recommend the former if you're more interested in hard sci fi and the implications of real accurate (ish) relativistic travel.
Lennart specifically called out Gentoo; as a Gentoo user, I do want to speak up in defense of the Gentoo community.

I will concede the point that Lennart has, by far, probably received more vitriol per-capita from the Gentoo community than any others. I'm not going to defend any of the personal attacks launched on him.

However, Lennart writes very opinionated software, and the opinions it takes are more at clash with the Gentoo way than the Fedora way or the Ubuntu way. Furthermore it seems to me that Gentoo users are more conservative than any distro other than Slack.

What this adds up to is that a far larger fraction of the Gentoo community have issues with Lennart's software. There will be some fraction X of people who have issues with his software that will make inappropriate attacks on Lennart himself. Given that a much larger fraction of the Gentoo community has issues with his software than in other communities, the fact he gets a disproportionate amount of vitriol from Gentoo users doesn't necessarily mean that X is larger in Gentoo.
The 'introverts' who 'get enlightened' certainly don't need to find a way to talk. There's nothing to be said.
Honestly, it matters more whether their skills are being put to good use. 50k is adequate salary for anyone on the planet, and nobody complaining about that salary deserves that much sympathy. Complaining about grunt work when you could be better used is fine. Complaining about inequity in the system because others get paid much more is fine.
"Engineering for adoption", as you said, is necessary for something attempting to replace something as key as the init system and other core components.

With software like this, whatever the replacement, if it doesn't have adequate backwards compatibility, it will never see any significant adoption. Switching over wholesale at once is simply too difficult.
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No not a far-flung idea, and I would agree the iPad (or perhaps simply tablets) are perhaps the most successful here[1]. The observation though is that it is almost always thrown out there as the thing that it going to be really killer and it never is that thing. The Honeywell advertisement is a great example.

[1] My wife would use her iPad more for this if she could write notes on it. I'm looking at a Note pro for that application, and of course being able to pull up info from the filer rather than the 'cloud'.
Maybe that's because you have some kind of inter-EU arrangements?
Any rich country could replicate Cuba's efforts, but they don't want to. (That is, not sufficiently to actually get it done.) In contrast, some seem to have no problem exporting anti-doctors — uniformed killers and drones.

And all that from an island despite US's decades-long embargo and forcing the criminal Guantanamo Bay prison on them.
Could Bernie Madoff have an insight worth mulling?
how do you know that the companies that you trust so much because they presented you the price in US aren't just giving everyone the price in US because they are based there and not using any localization?
Cuba's healthcare niche is not necessarily limited to 3rd world medical care. Throughout the US/Cuba embargo the US had routinely carved out an exception to trade for Cuba's cancer/anti-cancer medications which have been viewed as cutting edge for over a decade. So perhaps another niche 1st world cancer research and treatments.
Thank you for your comment; I appreciate the acknowledgement. I do intend to do as you say and change the name properly, since basically it doesn't matter now that "registered modules" are gone. I have not done so yet simply because the framework is poorly documented ( as far as what is published ) at the moment, and I wanted to add the documentation properly when I take over a whole root namespace. Also; I am a bit unclear as to -how- exactly to claim the whole root namespace, since the way it is done is different among several of the modules I observed.

I assume I simply register a module with a root name to claim it, as sort of a placeholder pointing to all the component pieces. I don't want to include the actual pieces in the root module; just use the root module itself as documentation as I see it done among other CPAN modules.

I would like to point out that I realize that my feeling hurt through the discussion is mostly my perspective; hence stating that I recognize you have many other things to do. My frustration was that I had no knowledge that registrations "were on their way out" and my requests at the time to get it registered properly seemed to be ignored. ( I assumed because there were not enough people who cared about registrations at that point to handle doing it )

Once again thank you and I hope to move forwards and be an active member of the community.
The underlying issue is risk management. Customers want certain features within a certain budget, hence their need to constrain at least two of the variables mentioned in the article. They want the vendor to take the risk of going over budget.

Vendors, obviously, want the customer to take the risk. This is why we see articles like this.

If you want to apply agile methodologies in these situations, you need to keep the scope small and also constrain the time. That keeps the risk for both the customer and vendor manageable.
>'The real issue is after exporting them they probably don't send all that much money back home.'

It's my understanding that this is not the case. That remittance from the US is a pretty significant part of many developing economies [1][2].

I've yet to a met an immigrant professional in the US who didn't send huge amounts back home along with itent or at least hope of retiring there.

1: http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=94444
2: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-17/global-immigrants-s...
I also find it interesting that this option would not be available to Cuba if it were more integrated economically with the rest of the world. The first thing the IMF would force them to get rid of would be high-end public education programs, or at least put them out of reach economically for a large portion of the population.
Must not ignore the footnote:

"WHO has stated the reported numbers "vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak", saying there may be 2.5 times as many cases as officially reported [Reuters]. Cases in remote areas may also be missed."
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All good points, thanks for pointing them out. I'll consider each one carefully.
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Peter Thiel defines a startup as such in Zero to One - A startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

So is that different future one where there will be further penetration & distribution of existing Square products or will we continue to see Square more horizontally integrate services for businesses? I personally think they have lacked a clear vision over the past few years but have reshaped it and resold that to investors for a valuation 2x from 2yrs ago.
Why is speed up no option?
- Yeah, SSDs are great. It's save x00.000€ (where x >= 1) in company I work for.
- But also bottleneck and waste profiling while starting help us a lot.
- Decide also raid0, raid5 or another raid levels to gain speed up.
- Depends on technology here things like hotswap, jrebel, osgi or others.
- Another thing is used DB. Maybe a memory DB is an option.

Without speedup there not so many options.
- As already mentioned, test driven developing or like to reduce needness to start up
- As you said, multitasking. It's doesn't work for me, if I try to do more work. But it's work if I do some not directly related tasks like writing mails, contribute to wiki pages, grooming, reading articles or HN.