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Note that while I don't particular care that Obama got the prize, I also don't think it was a particularly inspired choice so I won't defend the award. I think frankly few people would - it was very much a sign of the time and I agree with you that Obama hasn't done much to deserve it in retrospect. And we shouldn't really have expected him to either:

> I can imagine some people may have believe that Obama's first election signified, well, Hope and Change.

I find that curious, though, because he went into the election with a relatively conservative platform. It's not that long ago that his policies would have made him fit squarely in the Republican party. It's presumably exactly because of this he was able to draw in such a big portion of the electorate. That, and being painted as the anti-Bush.

> One might as well say to a child "since you said you'd clean your room, here's some candy to encourage you to actually do the cleaning".

There's actual psychology research to back up the idea that giving a reward in anticipation of positive action is in many circumstances more effective than promising a reward after the fact (Influence by Cialdini covers several different approaches to this, with references) so that's not such an outlandish idea, though not perhaps with that particular wording.

In general, we have a very strong predisposition for consistency. If we are surrounded by signs that we are seen as the type of person who does X, then we are more likely to do X. But a promise of a reward does not signal we're the type of person who does X, it signals that we're the type of person who will do X when the benefit derived is perceived to be greater than the opportunity cost.

(It's not clear to be, btw., that the Peace Price to Obama even potentially had a beneficial effect on this basis; it's not like it's a lever you can pull and it'll always work as intended on every person - if you manage to do things right to trigger the effect, it improves your average level of influence)
I would never imagine that happened in Europe. Free market works if there is competition, but monopolies either natural or artificial need regulations to prevent from abusing their powers.

Personal story: I live in SF Bay Area and got Comcast. Net was working really slow and got outages few times each week. To get any support I had to wait 40m to hear basic advice like restarting router.

Switched to smaller provider Sonic.net. Everything works, just once got some problem (in last 3 months). My call was immediately connected to competent human which diagnosed the problem in less than 3m. Next day they proactively call to improve one more thing.

Contenders usually got so much more will to do things right than monopolies.
try one of the Illumos distributions like OmniOS or SmartOS. The legacy of open-solaris is well and alive.
> Why do you say you don't know where Scala is going? Our roadmap is intended to be pretty simple: stability + full Java 8 support.

Given that I hit serious, show-stopping Scala compiler bugs at least once every few weeks -- bugs that always have already been filed and simply haven't been fixed -- and that Scala binary compatibility across major releases is still a pipe dream, and that massive language warts don't seem to be going anywhere ...

... I'm not really seeing how that roadmap and reality come together. I've got a smidgeon of hope for the two Scala forks, but I know that's a long shot.

-- fulltime scala user
> Thanks to recent efforts at Netflix and Canonical, Ubuntu now supports watching Netflix with Chrome version 37.

Funnily, Chrome 38 is now out (http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/10/stable-chan...) after an emergency release, which shows how long these press releases take to plan.
>So we built social networks to replace them.

And now we aren't lonely!
Perhaps you could take into account that emoji and other fancy characters are heavy utf8 characters. UTF support doesn't usually mean "prepare for Swahili", but more "don't choke on the characters"
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Yeah, like when artificial intelligences enslave us all.
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The study argues that most bugs found in production can be reproduced with simple test cases. This does not imply that just adding a bunch of simple test cases would have prevented these bugs. At least some of the tested projects have very large test suites, and all of these bugs made it through that first line of defense.

All this implies that the projects weren't testing the right stuff. The suggestion to spend more time thinking about error cases is probably a good one; in almost all cases people forget about the fascinating variety of ways in which things might fail. On the other hand, when you have a large number of permutations to test, things get a lot messier:

> The specific order of events is important in 88% of the failures that require multiple input events.

In cases like this, you get a lot more mileage out of Jepsen-style torture testing and QuickCheck-style property testing, where the code is tested with large numbers of random inputs. This simplifies the programmer's job a lot, since they're no longer responsible for intuiting an exact series of inputs that might make something fall over.

Of course, not all failures are even this difficult to flush out. It's interesting that the authors got quite quick and substantial gains from their code analysis tool, especially when you look at how simple it is:

> (i) the error handler is simply empty or only contains a log printing statement, (ii) the error handler aborts the cluster on an overly-general exception, and (iii) the error handler contains expressions like “FIXME” or “TODO” in the comments
can you add https://www.wfh.io to your list? :)
- Wiliness to sit down and define requirements

- Clear strategic goals

- Continuous improvement

- Feasible deadlines

- Remote work

- Payment proportional to value added

This is the perfect project to me.

PS: An employee might be more interested in perks like iMac and free food. To me it's bull to keep people overworked and underpaid, hence why I consult.
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I gotta say, I love to be working in San Diego these days. The deluge of results coming from here or originating here and being re-examined elsewhere (as in this case) is just great.
The problem there is that every application needs to implement a macro recorder, and every application needs to implement history and undo. With small programs that all handle text the shell takes care of history and automation, while the other programs can focus on solving a new problem.

Why have macros and history reimplemented badly by every application when one application could do it well?
I've met a lot of executives who've become executives with that type of attitude. Affability is one of the key properties of a successful politician. If you seem pessimistic, defeatist, etc., people are not going to want you to be in a leadership position. You have to act like everything is sunshine and flowers and project that image.

Nadella did become CEO by patiently waiting and practicing good politics, which includes projecting a faith in the system and not ruffling feathers by asking your bosses to pay you more money.
Thanks DRM are now working on Linux.
>so where are the travel restrictions?

I think people are assuming we can contain any cases that arrive in the west which is probably largely true.
> A merged request triggers a web hook that pings a heroku app that performs a git pull on tilde.club using Fabric

Can I ask you to explain this in a little more detail? I've tried to host pages with Git and run into weird errors cropping into my HTML and webdev people telling me "GIT IS NOT A DEPLOYMENT TOOL".
A place where I can keep innovating, keep creating things that ship and get used. Where, if I know somebody who can help us, I can get them hired on.
Initial trigger has a noticeable lag until the timer starts. Otherwise, beautiful interface & the full screen feature is pretty neat.
I just tried it in Chrome 38.0.2125.101 (64-bit) and...

Unexpected error

There was an unexpected error. Please reload the page and try again.

Error Code: M7063-1913

So... yeah.

UPDATE: Looks like the problem was I had an old version of NSS installed (see http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/09/ubuntu-rolls-updated-nss-...). Upgraded that with

sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade libnss3

...and now Netflix works fine in Chrome.
Does it work in Ubuntu? Or only Ubuntu in the USA?
There's some finesse to using machine learning, but it's largely a blunt tool. There's no doubt that the research is going into automating predictive analysis.
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I hate to be an apologist for what looks like a login-grab, but Google Now is closing in on platform transcendence (browser, phone, watch, etc).

I could easily see a timer you set on your desktop triggering a notification on your phone or watch if you've left the computer. I hope that's where they're going with this...
Is that what he said exactly?

FTA: "He said it's not about asking for raises, and that women should trust in the system to reward them as they go along. Not asking for a raise is "good karma," because someone will know that that's the kind of person he or she will want to trust"

I read: "Focus on developing your craft and the salary (or control, or flexibility, etc) you can gain through exchanging your growing value will naturally grow as well." Being better naturally provides you with more options.
where did they get the yeti image in the demo?
i think it'd be helpful. i know commuting across london is a pain, so people may only be interested in a radius rather than specific location.
I am not afraid of a little hyperbole where technology is concerned, iOS 7-8 really were a lifesaver. It enabled me to carry on and intellectual life with the outside world, in a way that wasn't possible before. So again, not dead without it, but really fing bored!
Yes, but a lot of those are "remote - US only".
Client side prediction would help a lot. Online racing games seem to easily handle 300ms latencies.

I fully realize that the difference between virtual racing games and real live humans in hunks of metal is massive. I'm just saying that work on dealing with latency in situations which are more predictable and have larger margins for error than high precision operations have been worked on ever since QuakeWorld.
Partially valid: having different diameter tires can lead to lash or noise in the drivetrain, but that extra noise/stress depends on the diameter difference. You're not going to HAVE to buy all new tires if you have a blowout and need a new one. Your drivetrain won't explode if you put on a new tire with three used ones. Decent tire shops are able to shave tires to match the rest of the set if there's a big difference.
As a frequent employee in the past (I've worked there multiple times and in multiple positions), I'll second that it's a really great company (and frequently gets press for being on the forefront of privacy rights for it's users).

Unfortunately, when I bought my house, it was a new development and while it was pre-wired for Comcast and AT&T, those are the only options.
I don't know how trusting in test cases isn't the same as saying "hidesite is 20-20". Blaming bad test cases is easy; thinking of the right test cases up front is hard.

I agree that lots of random thrashing is good. It may not find all the bugs but boy howdy it will shake out many of them. Where I work we have our 'bot army' that is 100's of programmed clients that log into the same space and thrash around, chatting and videoing and switching their mike and headset on and off. Its a threshold for a release, to run a week on the bot army without issues (crashes, leaks, stuck bots)
I wonder if this is why syncthing just switched to the GPL: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/commit/9edce23e76c7fb...

Bummer.
If you could figure out how to keep those pesky recruiters out of my inbox, now there's a product!
To make money in the short term at least.
That's great! Thanks for the info.

edit: Didn't realize you meant you just ported it over and submitted the PR just now. Double thanks!
Thanks! The above comment took me probably about three minutes to write, and that includes thinking time. :-)
The point is it's a valid answer that wouldn't be considered a fuck up outside of the context of a women's conference. Having that context attached makes everything said much more dangerous.
OK, I apologize. Obviously it's wrong for me to disqualify you from discussion your own experience - but it seemed to me like you were generalizing your experience to apply to everyone else and claim that depression therapy is humbug, which is also wrong. As you say, "human experience can't be completely generalised".

A therapist who completely discounts external factors in treating depression seems to me rather incompetent. But then, external factors can and should be changed by direct actions. But a depressed patient may not have the will or energy to change them - in which case the problem really is the depression. Of course, if change to the external factor is truly not possible, then coping strategies is really all that can be done.
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i look at those boards regularly, some jobs are US-only but not all. on https://www.wfh.io, since march we've had 19% of jobs posted that are open to those in a particular country only.
So its become poison to speak at women's conferences? You'll toe the PC line or be raked over the coals by the public.
Well, Paul Graham became popular by writing online essays about Lisp, which was invented in 1960 and went out of vogue during the AI winter of the 1970s. Then he started Y Combinator and wrote Hacker News in a dialect of Lisp. If you think old tech is bad, why are you here? ;-)

More to the point, I think the discussion of tables vs CSS is worth reopening, because the original arguments in favor of CSS focused on having clean semantic HTML, and we all see how that turned out. Just go to http://reddit.com/ and view the source, you'll see <div class="spacer"> staring you in the face. So that argument is a wash. As for the specific drawbacks of CSS compared to tables, I think the original comment covered them well.
This is like an alternative form of "Yak Shaving." :)

Instead of going super far down a path, following each step along the way, and somehow ending up with a yak in your hands, you're immediately asked to find a yak and you rightfully ask, "what does this have to do with yaks?"

Yes, the command-line is powerful, but it is definitely a huge hurdle for most as they're really just trying to do something else. Well stated PG.
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O_DIRECT isn't about durability -- a broken device that falsely reports that data was committed will still be broken when O_DIRECT is used.

O_DIRECT is about bypassing the kernel's buffer cache (and, presumably, zfs's ARC) so that the software can implement its own buffering.
I think a lot of people pay attention to the new tech in the Tesla but don't follow any other luxury sedans, so they do come off a bit uninformed.
It's possible they eventually plan adding write support using xlwt.
This kind of stuff is part of the reason I started loving the Internet. It's also why I wanted to learn what Unix meant :)

http://silenceisdefeat.com/ was where I had my last free shell account.
While it is possible to have an unimportable pool, it is also possible to have ext4 and XFS filesystems that can neither be mounted nor repaired with fsck. When dealing with undefined behavior caused by bit flips, virtually any failure is possible, especially when you consider bit flips to kernel data structures. No software can save you from bit flips and if they are your concern (as they should be), then you should refuse to use computers that lack ECC RAM.

As for the articles that you link, they are correct to say that you want to use ECC RAM. However, there is nothing specific to ZFS that makes it require ECC any more than any other filesystem. It should also be noted that I wrote the official documentation on this subject. It can be found at the Open ZFS wiki, rather than the pages you linked:

http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Hardware#ECC_Memory
how does Netflix(or Chrome) knows that is running on Ubuntu, and not on other distro?
This is quite the generalization
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"Reasonabe" according to a low-standards crowd. I'm a different breed. I demand high-standards from myself and others. There's a fierce competition today, if you haven't noticed. And Google lags behind.
Worked for me in Canada.
I think for many or most use-cases, it would make more sense to have "off-line" deduplication (like, I believe, BTRFS does), as you can free-up space on-demand, when you judge it would yield you the most benefit and the system is the least busy.

I'm not sure how much benefit compared to the "real time" deduplication this approach can provide however, as the mapping table would still need to exist in memory, but I think there should be an increase to the write performance of non-duplicate data.

PS. My use case is that I have a few dozens of (linux-vserver) gentoo containers that obviously share many files and, unfortunately, trying to maintain a shared read-only mount of the core system doesn't seem to be practical/viable (as it does i.e. for FreeBSD jails, due to mostly the clear system seperation). The waste is not significant enough to really bother me, it would just be nice to avoid. The solutions that I am aware of are (not sure if I'm missing any, I'd be happy to be pointed to something else, if there is):

- integrated FS-level deduplication (ZoL, BTRFS)

- higher-level deduplication (lessfs and opendedup)

- hard-linking scripts (obviously at the file-level)
"Like the C memory and integer model makes writing secure C code borderline impossible, the Unix "single pipe of bytes that defaults to being commands" paradigm makes writing secure shell scripts borderline impossible.
Unix needs to be taken out back and shot."

What alternative do you advocate/propose ?

Genuinely curious ...
If municipal broadband and other significant competition for broadband existed, this wouldn't be such a big deal, but the fact is in terms of TV you have like 2 major satellite TV providers and 1 cable company available in most areas. In terms of broadband internet you have 1 cable company and maybe 1 or 2 DSL providers available.

Realistically, there is basically never more than 1 cable company per city anymore that I can see. Fiber internet and television is all but nonexistant as an option for the vast majority of people.

Long story short, after this merger, Comcast will be an even bigger media conglomerate with almost no competition in their core business. Expect higher prices and worse service.

That's comcastic.
Are you kidding? The semantic web was just a bunch of extra junk layers of indirection. Schematize everything, but nothing's actually using the schemata. Replace your <i> tags with <em> tags, because that's more semantic, and easier for a screenreader to interpret (this was a real argument made at the time). Write your actual page as an XSLT on top of what we'd now call your API - but XSLT is barely human-writable, never mind human-readable.
I assume it works on other distros also.
After reading about the abysmal coding standards of Toyota in the court case regarding the deaths of those people in the unintended accelreration cases I am leery. Having worked with embedded systems before, I know how hard they are to get right. I just wish that all these companies would realize that it's better (for the greater good) to opensource this instead of try to get it right all on their own. Look at how much better the web has come since there have been a few major open source web browser projects.
I'm willing to bet it will work in any Linux distro that has the newest Chrome installed, so Mint and Arch Linux will probably also work. Haven't confirmed yet though.
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So, I need 2? One iPhone, which doesn't have issues with prerelease versions, and two Android ones?
Sarte's reasoning is pretty simple: he doesn't want to become a component of an institution. He wants to be able to write as Jean-Paul Sartre, not Jean-Paul Sartre the Nobel Prize winner.
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You know, if I occurred I would get down on my hands and needs and hope that lovely blue piece of ethernet coming into my laptop. Not joking

I can only imagine what I would have done to indulge my intellectual curiosity without the Internet, sure I could have waited for people to bring me books, but that just makes me shudder. I also tried the early versions of Dragon and they were great, as long as you could also use a mouse to correct little typos and similar. So yes, not much use to a quadriplegic.

Edit: I forgot the: shudder
I am not sure. I think I've seen leads from non-US companies before but I may be remembering wrong.
Maybe it will be more time efficient to wait for them to send me a new 'rebranded' cablebox than wait in the line at time warner on 23rd street?
Sounds like it needs to be renamed. It has a serious image problem as it is.
I find it no more complicated than things such as figuring out things like clearfixes were in the beginning.
You touch on something important. Beyond the fact that the term monopoly gets thrown at a company without any further qualification of such a statement, there's no real thought put into how the company is using said alleged monopoly power to raise prices on consumers or create barriers to entry in the market.

Amazon's prices trend downward, constantly. Amazon is also itself a market facilitator, agnostic to which products sell, so long as they sell. High quality and low prices race to the top of customer ratings. Third parties sell on Amazon as well, providing a global market for local brick and mortar shops. Further, Amazon is by far not the only website selling things on the internet. The internet is pretty great at lowering barriers to entry.
I'm sure you've used Gmail for years when it was beta like many other software. Dual standards!
You have to put a location apparently.
sure, all links in this thread will be noted... any other links that haven't been mentioned yet?
I need a place where if I really have something on my mind I'm free to take a day and explore it. If I think I can improve the quality and codebase I should be free to do so provided I dont break anything or I make all the changes required to implement it fully.

Example: I wanted to start to implement std::thread and use of auto. It required us to start using c++11. I should be free to do this, fix anything, make sure devs are set to compile correctly and start implementing. I can do it locally, demo it and then get the green light to merge.
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Your making a lot of assumptions, but to be pedantic strait text + links is both pure HTML and a responsive layout. Sure CSS is useful, but IMO most of the pain from HTML / CSS / JavaScript is trying to recreate native application's pixel perfect layouts in a webpage. Also, I think you can embed all CSS functionality into strait HTML5 the advantage is CSS is concise not necessary. Granted, not something you want to create by hand, but if your code is generating HTML anyway it's not such a big deal. EX: <style>

In the end CSS was designed to allow you to swap CSS styles independent of the underlying HTML not add new functionality to HTML.