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I'm all-for supporting alternative solutions, particularly in the VCS space. SVN is not great for some tasks, but for some its still superior. Git is very popular but still not ideal for some workflows/project types. Mercurial is oftentimes a more approachable alternative to Git, but has less mindshare.

Personally I think variety should be embraced. Let each project use the VCS that works for it's specific needs/developers.

With this mindset, while I would have no issue supporting and making use of something like Fossil (assuming it's reliable), I would absolutely discourage the use of it's wiki and ticket systems, in favour of independent solutions that are not tied to the repo and repo software itself.
Why should the consumer ever be forced to jump through hoops to get something that they OWN to do what it should do out of the box?

I didn't pay for a license, I paid for the device itself, far more than it costs them to Manufacture. BTW, the FTC and FCC stand by that fact every time they issue an injunction forcing carriers to unlock out of contract.

Small portion? Seriously? in 2013 there were more than 500 MILLION internet connected devices in the US alone[1], spread out among 117 million households[2], but that's a small portion?

[1]https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

[2]http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/18/npd-us-homes-now-ho...
For those whore are still in University, consider taking a proof-based calculus course, the methods and rigor you learn there will help you learn more. The same can be said for a proof based linear algebra course, which for programmers is even more useful.
Yes, it is essential to work out etiquette and you don't want to mash people together unless they're actively working on the same project. Don't put Chatty Cathy from Purchasing adjacent to the guys trying to design and build the product.
I buy from itunes and Amazon (plain mp3s). The music downloader auto imports songs into itunes if you tell it too.
I'd hazard I guess that it's merely a few people aggressively reporting sightings near their home and that the vast majority of the rat population goes un-reported and is fairly evenly distributed. Unless I'm mistaken and it's only department employees reporting them, which would still have a bias, based on worker personality.
I'd like to know your thoughts on today's cheap oil prices-- assuming oil stays around $70-80 a barrel for the next few years, do you see that slowing down solar development/investment? In other words, do people keep their "eyes on the prize" so to speak, or are they dissuaded by temporarily cheap oil prices?
Yes, Apple's customers are typically ones who cross boarders and have international careers.
Good lord, are FPGA's that cheap now? I remember the absolute bargain-basement slow-as-bricks FPGA board running $100.
"On-disk on the local machine (or any machine) can take tens of seconds"

Surely you meant 10's of milliseconds. But even so, fastest SSD random access latencies are in sub-millisecond ranges.
> The second I plug my iPhone into my laptop, which is synced to my iTunes account, the only option I have is to erase all of my music.

There are two ways to set up an iOS device. One is to have it sync to a computer. This is what you have done. Yes, it's set to sync to a particular computer, and you can change that computer—but with this setup, the contents of the iOS device are just a copy of what's on the computer, so if you change the computer, it replaces the files on the device. Generally, it's not a great way to go, it's mostly a holdover from early iPod days. Second is to not have it sync to a computer. If you have more than one computer—or no computers with iTunes, this is a better idea. Honestly, there isn't really a good reason to plug the devices into a computer any more, except to charge.

> I love how people on HN blatantly just say "untrue". Really? I don't recall you being present during these experiences.

Why would we need to be present during for your experiences? We've all had our own experiences, where we've done what you claim is impossible.
Actually the case law means that the DMCA has been judged to have have an exemption for fair use [1]. Because neither Real nor their customers were trying to gain unauthorised access to copy-protected materials, it seems unlikely that their behaviour would be considered anti-circumvention.

1. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/07/court-...
Have you ever manufactured anything? A shitload of technology, engineering, and creative financing at huge risk is required. I'm not going to debate the semantics of what defines a tech company but I'd say their business model disrupting large incumbents and their rapid growth qualifies them enough for airtime here.
I have a small collection of related university courses that might be of interest - https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/blob/master/R...
Why do you need his browser just to disable this feature? If that helps scrolling is broken (AKA not the same as in any other site) in Firefox and Chromium under linux.
Yeah, I don't expect the typical OSHA-ignoring mine owner to adapt to a new economy, and they probably have achieved enough regulatory capture to keep out competing tech, but state lines are porous, and labor is relatively mobile, so if opportunity beckons across state lines, economic rationality may prevail.

So states bordering coal states--the ball is in your court!

I see plenty of wind farms and rigs on the interstate transporting large turbines to Iowa and Kansas, so maybe the labor will reallocate.
I suspect that this is what happened—they need to log into their Canadian account, which they somehow got logged out of.
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An Internet connected device does not equal a computer, I'm pretty sure more people have a cellphone than a computer these days too.

You have the means to sync and copy your music yourself around your own devices, there's nothing preventing you from doing that and as I mentioned it's getting easier with things like iCloud Drive now.
It's less common, but if you're willing to contract for the company then working remotely isn't too difficult to find.

If you want a salary, then it's easier to start off working on-site then ask to transition to remote down the line - or ask for more flexibility like 1 day off the week, etc.
I work as a software engineer for the last 22 years. ~4 of them as engineer manager, the rest as an individual contributor.
I hate offices. I worked in Microsoft in an office and it was hell. I was alone. It was not a team. It was me. It was sometimes better to email somebody then walk around to talk to them.
I love open office plans. Yes, it's disruptive. But if I want to tell somebody something, I lift my head and talk. Everybody can hear what is going on and they can tune in if they are interested. For people that have distraction problems, usually headphones work quite well.
Of course, I assume that people talk quietly and not scream their head off.
BTW, I am usually the one that give advice and information instead the other way around.
OP wants it from first principles as their maths is "poor" . I don't think Spivak is a good choice to jump right into calculus.

If OP wanted a more softer approach, Spivak's Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus is probably a better option first before going full Spivak.
>that thread does not show Zed Shaw in a good light

It seems that Zed Shaw does not show Zed Shaw in a good light. That behavior appears to be the only kind he displays. A single bug that did not delete anything and all his work can be recovered with a single undo command and he wants so badly to turn it into drama, while insisting he's the only reason their program exists.
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Really? I feel like I can do mostly the same - and possibly a little less - with my pocket device than I used to do with my PC in the 90s. (For context I grew up in the 90s as a child programmer.)

I feel like the devices do mostly the same stuff, just more of it, and more portably. With new caveats.

Obviously the hardware improvements have been incredible. The software capabilities? I'm less inclined. (Software is probably more stable - I'll give it that.)
CB'ers are not "Broadcasting". Broadcasting has a specific meaning and it is not permitted under a CB license.

And yes, you are exempted for ownership while under development, but your organisation needs a written license or permit, plus you cannot transmit outside a screened room.

The Experimental License is for those who wish to Transmit outside a screened room.

Note that the O.P. is in Finland, not USA and the licensing details vary with each country.

Source: Half a lifetime as a Government Radio Inspector.
If their intention was to stifle the competition, it seems logical that they would have prevented the device from accepting music ripped from CDs or music downloaded illegally. Alas, they did not do this, because the success of the ipod was predicated on widespread copyright infringement. Who would pay 350$+ for a music player if they had to pay for all the music too? No, this was a simple case of keeping the record companies happy with the DRM scheme. Remember, when the iPod and other players hit the market, the record companies wanted to sue them for facilitating music theft. Same thing happened with writable CDs. The consumer was not harmed.
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Oh, sure, on supply demand imbalances, I'd be ok with surge pricing if that's what you mean. I don't need prices to be constant for days, I'd just like them to be fixed at the moment both sides agree to the transaction.

It seems like that should be doable with current tech, without even affecting the price of many transactions (except the ones where drivers are going intentionally slowly).

The inputs for Uber's pricing are time, distance, and the demand multiplier. Google maps does a pretty good job at giving an expected time and distance for a driver taking the ideal route. The driver / Uber can toss in a demand multiplier. If we agree that the Google Maps (or some other mapping service) time estimate is "close enough," then we should be able to calculate the fee before I sit down.

The driver can then feel free to take a scenic route, but it comes out of their pocket, not mine, so they probably won't.

Or we can do nothing. I'm just really tired of cabs missing my exit "accidentally." Three of the last four times I came back from the airport. The last trip I directed every lane change from the backseat. I feel like I shouldn't have to do that.
After 22 years in software development, I have to say I am tired of all the new tools that supposedly solve all the world problems only to be abandoned in the next quarter.
There is nothing wrong to talk to somebody when you want to tell them something. A lot of times it's more efficient then email, IMs or other more fancier tools.
If I'm too lazy, then enlighten me with your work ethic. Show the evidence already or stop being crass.
Well, the question is how they're more a tech company than Gillette, I suppose. I mean, Gillette has disrupted shaving several times over its history.

I'm not precisely sure what Harry's is bringing to the table here (lower costs? online only?), but that's probably due to my old-school unix sysadmin level beard more than anything else.
It's actually kind of interesting. I think it might be helpful globally for clean energy. Cheap oil means people won't feel as much pain if a carbon tax is put in place to compensate for the externalities of using fossil fuels. So this is an opportunity for political movements in countries to push through a carbon tax now. Then when the price of oil goes back up (i.e. after OPEC has driven out the frackers and hurt Russia sufficiently), the carbon tax will make clean energy more competitive. I personally think that OPEC is shooting themselves in the foot over the long term with this move.
Two weeks ago, I actually met a city health department employee who focuses on rat populations in NYC. She was doing a survey of businesses along Avenue C (Alphabet City) in reaction to complaints of a swelling rat population on Avenue B. Apparently, Hurricane Sandy had washed significant parts of the rat population from Avenue C to Avenue B...and with the start of the cold season, those rats will be looking for warmer places to hang...perhaps on Avenue B.
Good: The long release cycle allows for better testing and increased stability.

Bad: You have to wait 6 months for the latest and greatest versions of software to make it into the distro (If not longer).
Uber has the benefit of employing the drivers, handling transactions, and controlling pricing. This allows them to refund unfair fares and to punish drivers for poor ratings. The technology is secondary.

As is so often the case, much of the expense and inefficiency of the government regulatory apparatus here stems from an aversion to intervene directly in markets.
What are the chances that the person you spoke to had any knowledge of the action you are talking about?

EDIT: For that matter, how do you KNOW that the ISP did indeed terminate your large encrypted file transfer?
I lived in the Lower East Side for 11 years, on Ludlow Street, from 1995-2006. It was common to see rats on the street at night, and one evening while walking home, a rat ran towards me and jumped. It landed on my leg, scurried up and jumped off.

But nothing quite as frightening as finding three rats one evening zipping around in my kitchen, ripping apart ketchup packets. Or the time my downstairs neighbors had an angry rat trapped in their kitchen (which was disposed of with a hockey stick).

I called the NYC Health Department hotline maybe 5-6 times. At that time, calling the number led to a voice mail menu, and the first options was "if you would like to report a rat infestation, press 1". This is no joke, some buildings were really and truly infested.

The city did nothing but to place poison rat traps on the streets. Only once did someone respond and come to our building, he just suggested that we fill up all known holes in our building with steel wool. The local hardware store had bulk packages of the stuff for sale, a popular item.

Our Chinese landlord solved the problem by calling a neighborhood expert. He brought his gigantic cat, who lived downstairs in the basement for several weeks. After that, we had no more rat problems for a long time.
Really? You accomplished that? Funny since even APPLE says it's impossible

iPhone can only add music or video from a single iTunes Library.

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201593
The selling point is that there's enough uncertainty and complexity in the process that many (most?) people won't successfully avoid charges for re-buying music.

The icing is that the mere existence of the complex, uncertain process insulates record companies from accusations that they're forcing people to re-buy music (as with the transition to CDs). Re-buying just happens to be the much more convenient option.
The past couple of years I've gone back to buying physical CDs and ripping them myself (abcde is fantastic) in the quality and format I like.

My music collection is synced to Dropbox and automatically syncs across all my PCs and to my phone.

I've also come to enjoy walking into music stores and browsing the music looking for something that I'll enjoy coding to, and a lot of the time here in Australia it ends up being cheaper buying physical CDs nowadays, especially if you're not buying the latest stuff.

There's more than just convenience.
The question is: in what way is a razor manufacturing startup superior to Gillette?

And the answer is: possible Amazon/Walmart/etc. buyout target--nothing else.

So, the investors are banking on the fact that one of the big boys is going to want to buy this out so that they can demand better pricing from Gillette.
And you...talker or doer?
Whenever I buy a song on iTunes (or any other online store), I immediately convert it to mp3, and move the mp3 to another folder that iTunes doesn't know about. Then I shut down that proprietary pile of cow dung and play, sync, etc. the song in any way I like, using any program I like, on any device I like. It's a bit of hassle, but in exchange, I actually get to feel like I own those files.

I think I started doing this shortly after Amazon got into a minor shitstorm for remotely deleting copies of 1984 (of all books!) from Kindle devices. News like this makes me happy that I've been doing what I've been doing.
I wouldn't say these are BSD users. If I am a windows user and connect to google's linux servers to search, does that make me a linux user?
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Ah, I see. Didn't realize it was that easy to reverse Paypal transactions (and I've obviously never tried to buy BTC with Paypal.) Back to the drawing board I guess! Any online casinos still take Paypal?
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Absolutely not true. The NYC Health Department handles calls directly from residents, and long-time city residents know that they need to call if they want the city to do anything to help.
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For many of the smaller scale oil extraction companies (in the US), they've actually suspended production because of the cheap prices. Hydraulic Fracturing is a very expensive procedure right now and the low prices are hitting the point where the costs of extraction don't pull enough revenue to get the profits the companies need to survive.

Oil has a sweet spot. Too expensive it can't compete with solar and other green energies. Too cheap and it can't be extracted at a profit.

As green energies push down that ceiling closer to the floor, oil is in for a rough time.

Finally, oil is subject to extreme geopolitical pressures. Two of the current pressures on oil prices are ISIS's selling of captured oil fields at discounts to fund operations and the United States and others encouraging prices to stay low so that funding is as menial as possible. Other countries' geopolitical power comes from control of oil (Russia), or transport (Turkey), or contributes the majority of their wealth (Norway) and so these countries have strong motivations to keep oil dominant.

It should be interesting times.
Home solar installation costs are too high. Rocky Mountain Institute, 2011: "Total soft costs—including customer acquisition; installation labor; permitting, inspection, and interconnection (PII); and margin and other associated costs—now make up approximately 70% of the total installed priced for a U.S. residential PV system."

http://www.rmi.org/cms/Download.aspx?id=11218&file=2014-11_R...

Australia and Germany have lower costs per KW installed, but the installation cost exceeds panel cost even there. This is a big problem. Even if panel cost goes to 0, installed cost will be maybe half what it is now.

Solar panels which are also roof components have been suggested for new construction, but that requires more roof design standardization than the housing industry is used to.

There are also "off-roof electrical costs". A solar installation usually requires a new meter box and additional boxes for inverters, control gear, and disconnects. Standardizing how solar systems connect at the meter box would simplify that.

The norm in Australia is now a one-day install. The US and Germany run slower, partly because more waterproofing is required. ("Every hole in the roof is a dagger through the heart of a house")
The same thing happens for app purchases, it happened to my while moving country. At the same time, I did not have any problem with the Windows Store or Google Play.
Never did I say diabetics can't eat sugar. Carbohydrates are fuel and all carbs are sugar. It says right there on the ada link I provided a link to above, " If eating a food with a high GI, you can combine it with low GI foods to help balance the meal. - See more at: http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/what-can-i-eat...

And the bottom line is the dietary dos and do nots for diabetics just don't apply to healthy people. They are on a different playing field.
The MGE case is not the sort of victory you (and Ars) present it to be. It's actually remarkably narrow and doesn't gut the worst of the anti-circumvention provisions.

In simple terms, imagine a box with a padlock on it. The DMCA says, roughly:

* You're not allowed to examine the lock to figure out how to make a key for it.

* You're not allowed to make a key for the lock.

* If you somehow get a key for the lock, you're not allowed to use it.

* If you somehow get a key for the lock, you're not allowed to give it to anyone else.

* If you somehow get a key for the lock, you're not allowed to tell anyone else information about it that might let them make their own key.

The MGE case tried to claim, basically, that once someone else has already unlocked the box, it would be a DMCA violation to look inside. And the court of appeals just said "no, that's not something the DMCA forbids" while leaving all the other bits (you're not allowed to have/make/distribute/etc. the key) in place.
It's possible, but I doubt it. The person on the other end was using a Nexus 6. I don't know first-hand how its microphone is, but I know my (high-end Android) phone can record voice memos with much higher sound quality than I typically hear from a phone call.
I came up with a similar list, in reverse chronological order: https://timelinee.com/t/SlqJWH/
No, this happens if you change your country in your existing account. I moved from one country to another, changed my existing account, and poof all my purchases were gone. I could get them for free again if I knew my purchases. This worked up to a certain point. Now, if I redownload an album that I already purchased, it wants to repurchase it again (after warning that I already have it).

It's a mess.
One day we are going to have thinking, feeling robots and all this prejudice against them is going to haunt us.

Seriously though, this is a great improvement.
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If you define the terms of the bet I might be interested. Perhaps you friends won't retire in oil-extraction jobs, I can see that potentially happening, probably not in my lifetime (I'm 33). But the petroleum industry as a whole: liquid fuels; lubricants; plastics -- I can't see that going anywhere.
I've been working remotely off and on since 1991, and for most of the time since 1998. I advise you that it's not as great as it's made out to be - often it is very lonely. When you're stuck on a problem, there may be no one to turn to for help.

I've gotten very good at finding the work, and recently decided to share my leads with others:

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/

These are only a few of the remote or telecommute jobs I know about - the others I just haven't posted yet, but will do so soon.
> He brought his gigantic cat, who lived downstairs in the basement for several weeks.

There's an interesting business opportunity! Rent-a-Cat, or if you want something more distributed, an online service that allows people to lend cats to one another :)
This is going to revolutionize the future of shopping. NO need to enter into a shop. Just point your smartphone camera along the product and get the descriptions. Fantastic..
Okay, so even if 300 million of those are phones/tablets alone (which they aren't), that's still 200 million computers for 100 million households, and in my book 2 is still greater than 1.

I'm honestly curious as to why you feel the need to treat consumers/customers like trash? I'm supposed to pay extra for iCloud drive because...reasons?

Why is your opinion that anyone who does things differently than you wrong? Because that's what you and everyone else here has said.
It's a holdover from when Java was supposed to be a language for small machines.

However, if you're being snide, let me retort "So why does everybody in Java immediately recommend that you use the StringBuilder class instead of String?"