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An F# CodeEngine is currently in the backlog for the v1.0 release. It'll be the kind of thing that evolves quickly I think. Thanks!
This might just be my view, but I don't think it has ever been accepted as normal. It's simply that the sticker price fails to represent the actual price of the product, a common practice throughout history. Once, it was common practice for handymen, construction firms, and automotive repair shops to hide additional costs in contracts. That practice went away quite fast as soon as consumer protection laws required that the cost was upfront and known to the customer. We can also see the exact same pattern with banking and travel, where hidden fees and surcharges was common practice everywhere until companies was forced to start informing customers.

If Lenovo laptops informed the customer prior to sale, then this would be a trade. They could have told the customer about the additional advertisement they would show on the sold device, how much they would earn, what private data they would transfer away from the device and sell. That to me is a difference in kind to what we have here, as I do not see an informed customer willingly accepting the adware deal. I would very much like to see the court judge if there has been a "fraud in the factum", that is, if there has been any "meeting of the minds" between the seller and the customer regarding this "discount consumer laptop".
Nah, 4.1 will be a LTS release and embedded systems are notorious for using ancient kernels.
So how many years of discussion have to happen before you would consider it thoroughly discussed? How many years of top distro's using it by default before you would consider it vetted?
The closed caption that I saw printed "treason" and that's what I heard. But then, they also mangled Ed Catmull's name into something like "at maul", so I don't consider it definitive.
It took a while, but this is a solid release with some really fun features added.
They didn't "de-stabilize" UK, they just re-gained their freedom (as much as they could, they're still tied with 100 different ways to their old masters).

It's not like some small nation came and took Wales from the UK -- which would be actual de-stabilizing.
They really should, but I can't even get a cert update on my little home router, do you think a fridge maker is going to do that? Probably once it's out the door, they will pull the one programmer that writes the app and put him on then next fridge or the oven. It's very difficult to see an appliance manufacturer going back to update.
Personally, I'm excited for the change. Waiting any longer to adopt systemd could have had serious repercussions on the entire community (across distros). Big players are already using it; RHEL7 and CoreOS. It's time for a paradigm shift with our approach on managing infrastructure.

Both the sysvinit and systemd crowds have brought up great points - issues that needed to be addressed. The strong willed nature of the *nix communities is what makes them great. Strength in numbers. "Fighting" is a natural process; whether it's a team or a family.

Incredibly excited to see what kind of impact this has on computing as a whole. Time to learn something new.
>just following orders so to speak

I say we give them their just deserts - hang 'em high and let them be a message to any other collaborators that this sort of shit is not tolerated in a civilized society.
We had package manager support in our prototype and will have it in the main branch again for the v1.0 release. First nuget, then npm and bower. There will also be extensibility points here to introduce new package managers easily.
ln -sf /usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target \
/etc/systemd/system/default.target

Problem solved.
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One of my favourite things about FreeBSD is that it acknowledges that updating will always have edge cases you don't think of. So there's a text file that you read as part of the update workflow, and when specific steps are necessary, you follow them. I've never had an upgrade go wrong with FreeBSD, which is more than I can say for any flavour of Linux.
This looks great, but I'm not willing to put down $75 to alpha test a product.
Hurr durr I'ma sheep
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No, please don't. Just make it ring a bell.
Our backlog includes support for a PHPCodeEngine and framework support for Laravel and Symfony. Its not the first thing on our list but it will happen!
Doesn't sound like agile development to me. In Agile development you usually refactor as you go. Refactoring is not a separate task, it's part of the process.

http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/refactor.html

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatIsRefactoring
How gzip uses Huffman coding
This is the great part, because the will probably have API compatibility for a lot of the little parts.(like logind) That means we will not have a mono culture going forward.
There exists a classical model of the photon after all
> This will lead to a lot more efficient and maintainability of the Linux OS

How does consolidating functionality and control into one piece of software increase efficiency and maintainability? In my past experience, monolithic software efforts can be more efficient in the beginning, but they quickly become a maintenance nightmare as fewer and fewer people understand all of the moving parts.

You don't have to look far to see the effects of this: the Linux kernel is filled with small "I'm not sure we can remove this but I don't think it does anything" comments. You can also see it in the SaaS market as they move towards microservices, away from the monoliths of yesterday. You can see it in the giant corporate structures who take 6 months to requisition a smartphone for testing which will be obsolete in another 6 months.

The init system has the flaw of being too distributed to offer intelligent coordination between processes, but I'm not sure that following the pendulum swing to the complete opposite end of the spectrum was the best choice either.
I'm not sure i'd use this. Visual studio is a great tool, and is about 90% of the reason I use dot net.

That said, though it's improving, Javascript support still has a long ways to go. I find myself writing increasing amounts of it as Knockout and Angular become standard place. I crave to have some of the features that I have with editing C# while editing javascript.

If you provided that, i'd buy a license. Though my preference would be a plugin (like resharper) as opposed to a whole new editor.

I'd also pay a lot more than $75. I already pay $150 at home, and $300 at work for resharper, i'd pay the same for increased javascript support.
Releasing "state secrets" (or whatever spin the gov't wants to put on being embarrassed) carries a pretty stiff penalty that could be worse, or at least as bad as, enemy combatant.
Instead of "genuinely imperative" I meant to write "genuinely impressive".
The P6 design supports both hygienic and non-hygienic macros because they concluded there were strong use cases for both.

I think the Rakudo devs implemented hygienic macros first because they were expecting them to be more difficult than non-hygienic.
Don't be afraid to lose other people's money.
Do whatever you have to do before you have to take care of your parents, your wife, your children.
Find a mentor(s) so you avoid mistakes, so maybe you get funding.
Sop up all you can from the Internet/Youtube. We never had it so good. You can learn about startups, pitching, finance, programming, etc.
Be careful who you select as friends. Don't dismiss, but fade the ones not interested in success.
Don't think that any project is too big for you.
Don't separate yourself from society. You can't just program in a dark room. You need to get out and meet others or you'll miss something important.

If you wait till things get cheap you'll be at the end of the line (I'm thinking of not starting businesses like auctions, search, employment, etc. in the 1990's because everything was expensive. )

Learn about Robert Kiyosaki's (Rich Dad, Poor Dad) four quandrants.

Investing
Learn what's meant by secular & cyclical bull markets and what their length is. Learn how important demographics are (Right now my "baby boom" generation is trying to sell it's homes to a generation with fewer people.) Learn what normally happens when the Fed pumps money into the economy. First it goes into the stock market, then the economy, then inflation takes hold. Since the emerging economies (Asia) will grow faster then the older developed economies (North America & Europe), over a long period of time the returns should be higher in Asia. If you have a long period of time (100yrs) you don't need to take risk. You can simply invest in the big, growing companies that increase their dividend year after year. Buy when there's blood in the streets. After a disaster is always a good time to invest somewhere. Just because some junior mining company says they've found an anomaly, it doesn't mean anything. So few mines prove to be economic it's unreal. 1 in 1,000? 1 in 10,000? Look it up. There's too much :)
On meta-design and algorithmic design systems
unless you put huge amounts of effort into maintaining precise tolerances
It's more that when you do need to get hands on, the code's pretty minimalist, the manuals are very good quality, there are fewer moving parts so less to go wrong, there's a good focus on code quality etc etc.
A 90 minute delay by immigration because someone didn't bring the right paperwork is not the same thing as being imprisoned.
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Because "analysts" have a long track record of accurate predictions, and banks never lied to their own clients trading against them.

And it's not like everyone has said Tesla will be a success story.. Remember the countdown, and the jumping monkeys on TV predicting the company's collapse?

Here's what I want: Every "analyst" who says something must have an exhaustive list of all the predictions he has made in the past, and the outcomes of those predictions. Displayed to the watchers as he babbles (Like Steve, his picture, and his percentage: 80% correct).

If they're better at picking stocks than flipping a coin is, I won't call Paul the Octopus[0]

The whole "Market Analyst" profession thing doesn't make sense: If someone's as good at picking stocks (and as cocky about their prediction), they should be wealthy. I don't think I'm the only one to be able to link a cause to a seemingly natural consequence. After all, it's not like being good at another profession where making money doesn't "naturally" follow (say painters, for example. It's not being a great painter that'll make your rich, Van Gogh used to paint for food)... Their profession "is" the very act of accumulating capital, so if they're as good as they claim, they should have plenty.

When I look at some of the jumping creatures on Bloomberg and co, saying "Oh, it's definitely going down." with all the gesticulating, I want to tell them "Then short it for $10 million". You know, that'd be just someone putting their money where their mouth is.

There's no incentive to make correct predictions as long as:

- They don't have money at stake when doing prediction/divination.

- People don't have access to the track record of the analyst (is he as good as tossing a coin?).

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Octopus
We got to add that for linux 4.1 someone get on that.
It's misdirected. There needs to be legal consequences. There is nothing about maximizing profits that says be a moral citizen when doing so. The only way any corporation will be reigned in is through the legal system.

We should be publicly shaming the politicians that let this (comcast) happen or worse, are a part of the scam.
It's too bad Ticketfly doesn't have a bug bounty program. That payout would have been interesting.
What are your BSD problems? There are great options for the Desktop (PC-BSD), Server (FreeBSD) and Embedded (OpenBSD).

There are thankfully a few non-systemd linucies around - Gentoo, or others have mentioned Slackware.
.Net is going cross platform. What are you going to use if you develop on OSX or Linux? It won't be VS
Founder of fluentCODE here. Really happy to see this posted, we just pushed really hard last night to get the site up. Lots of good comments -- I'll just add that we will be a lot more than just a C#/VB/JS editor. We've got plans to build CodeEngines for F#, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, CSS/SCSS/SASS/LESS, PHP, python and lots of framework specific bits for each of those.

We're a small team working hard on a product we believe in. Ask anything and I'll try and respond if I don't fall asleep!
Hinton gave a well attended keynote at the recently concluded AAAI 2015 conference in Austin, in which one of his concluding slides simply stated in a headline font ...

"GOFAI is finished"

I'll explain the irony of this dramatic moment. The AAAI is the Association of the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Its annual conference is the worldwide gathering of university graduate students, and a few corporate labs, presenting their research in the disparate niche areas that have something to do with smart or human like behavior. All these niche areas have their own annual conferences,... Robotics, Planning, Semantic Web, Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, pattern recognition, speech processing, theorem proving, and so forth.

GOFAI is "Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence", and is used to represent the line of mostly symbolic AI research made popular by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, and others back in the 1960-1970 era. It was those folks who as peer reviewers made Hinton's life awful. The NIPS conferences over the years became the home for connectionist researchers, as opposed to the AAAI.

Now the wheel has turned full about. The triumph of Hinton's approach allows him to tell thousands of young researchers that their own research approaches are finished unless they incorporate deep learning.
The stable API/ABI is for _user_ space, not kernel space.
"...one fool says `this is old, and therefore good`; the other says `this is new, and therefore better`..."
Yeah, i was about to sign up but didn't because it was asking for too much permission.
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This is awesome nostalgia, but tell me, for those who have never seen a CRT display, does it have any meaning to you?

Seeing this, I wonder if the world has forgotten what a computer is. Now we've got devices, for example phones, and the computer (and the Internet) is right at the surface of the device. When we used CRT displays, we knew our display was just a repurposed television screen that communicated with a separate and discreet computer, which was another (and different) kind of machine.

Same with modems. When they screeched and howled, the duration of noise and the "seeking" nature of the sounds was a clear indicator that we were connecting to other devices at a distance, devices that were not always available, over connections that were tenuous.

Now everything is immediate and ubiquitous. The computer has been subsumed into the terminal itself. And what was distant is at our fingertips.
Would it be possible to have it access only your personal profile data? The permissions screen shows an Organization Access section with all my orgs checked.
Where did you get that idea? The BSD people (just FreeBSD, mostly iXsystems employees) are simply working on a port of OS X's launchd, which has no similar session/seat management component as logind, from what I know.
Seems like an awfully large datacenter - 1.7mil sq ft? That is more than 2x (closer to 3x) the size that Google/Amazon/Microsoft build.
This man has been taking a photo of everything he touches for the last 11 years
Because our government doesn't respect the sovereignty of individuals to sell services that involve their own body?
One major thing that we get from systemd is cgroup management, that gives resource and namespace management at a per process level. This has actually been in the kernel since 2008 but to use it you had to have some really bad ass programmers to give you an access interface to the features. It's now trivial to run a hosting server where each site has a set amount of cpu and ram without the virtualization overhead. Before that the option was openvz and before the option was virtualization.

There is a very loud minority in the linux community that doesn't want things to change. There are a ton of linux users who's lives this improves, and they are not as noisy.

Debian is the larges distro and when the maintainers took a vote systemd won with like a 60+% majority. Almost all other distros that are going to, have switched over the last 3 years.
also for osx: http://questbe.at/pophub/
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Not sure if the "Who would have any interest in tracking people in this manner?" is really relevant. Based on the collect all, hoover all metadata etc that seems to be going on, _anything_ remotely possibly useful seems to be interesting.

And the big thing is that this data can of course (and will be) correlated with things like cell tower location, wifi hotspots all kinds of other metadata.
If the userspace API/ABI never changes, maybe a more useful use of the version number would be to reflect kernel API/ABI changes?
anyone know recent performance numbers of gccgo vs the go compiler?
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These type of class actions do consumers more harm than good. The exorbitant legal fees are ultimately reflected in prices.

If there's wrongdoing with extremely diffuse consequences, that's what the government with its GS scale attorneys are for.

Lawsuits, like email marketing, should be opt-in not opt-out.
When corporates list such achievements as above, they need to do full disclosure like how many old type jobs are destroyed due to their actions/products/services and how much time it took for the effected people to readjust to new reality.

How could anyone put a definitive number on that? It would be an exercise in creative economic writing at best. Plus another stack of papers no one read beyond the abstract in the press release.

And what would be the goal, the desired outcome? Should we not pursue innovation that leads to increased productivity in existing sectors? Would those jobs not disappear if Apple built a datacentre in Iceland or on the east coast of the US?
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The only problem I have is that (some) kids get up so early. Being tired and having to take care of kids is difficult. Other than that, I fully agree with you: just think of ways to make hanging out with your kids more fun/interesting.
I gotta say this is a pretty cool app. A lot of the UI seems to be declarative. Very nice, considering donating.
From my interpretation of smhenderson's post, one of Debian values was a very slow pace of change and old but well known pieces. In this light, systemd still seems too controversial. Fedora adopted it because it was an in-house project, archlinux tries to use cutting edge as much as possible, so it's irrelevant for that interpretation.

I only read part of the Debian voting process, it's wasn't years but I admit not knowing how long systemd was discussed in Debian's ML before that. On archlinux board's, adoption was quickly reached (without too much user troubles).
"Long ways to go" is a bit of a colloquialism and not necessarily a misspelling.
> In recent years, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg have all scored tickets to Burning Man.

Um, Larry and Sergey have been going to Burning Man since at least 1998:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/the-fi...
Band-aid gives relief locally and temporaily. Add a new band-aid when the old one does not stick anymore.

If band-aid is what we got before the system is fixed, then that is what we can use.
The fact that companies do this is in some ways a good thing. Their freedom to relocate and move profits acts as a check on governments continually raising taxes.
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Smart timing. With .NET pushing for cross-platform, there's going to be space for a good IDE until (if they ever do) the porting of Visual Studio.
How heavy is it? I was looking for a lite IDE (if there is such a thing) for my netbook that installs all in one directory.
The very notion of a service like coinbase is problematic, and coinbase's implementation is especially poor for privacy. First, they are taking an inherently trustless system and demanding a very high level of trust for AML/KYC requirements, which is unavoidable when dealing with fiat conversions. Why not just trade directly in bitcoin (of course few people want to do this which is why coinbase exists)? Specifically however, coinbase by default keeps your private keys under their control, which is where the bigger violation is IMO. They push everyone to go through their service and not use bitcoin directly, so they can track and control everything. The blockchain may or may not even be involved in some of their schemes (they offer a fiat-fiat service that supposedly involves bitcoin!). This is inevitable, as they are a company out for profit not an idealistic bunch of ancap hackers, but they are not just looking at public blockchain data. Even their name is a conflation, coinbase is a technical term for the block reward transaction.
Did you get Privdog with Comodo Internet Security, if so can you share what version of Comodo Internet Security it was ?
Xamarin Studio.
>> "We have regular office hours year round for startups who want to talk about what they’re building, or get advice on dealing with investors."

Are these office hours for YC companies only or all startups?
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No Dashlane love?
https://www.dashlane.com/

Been using their premium service for about 2 years now, couldn't live without it.
What about the constructions jobs that it takes to build and maintain those data center warehouses?
Systemd is not a big blob, it is actually fairly well structured in its source repository. Each part has its own disable flags on compilation and makes independent binaries. You should think of systemd less as a "program" and more as a software compilation for the core system.

Yes, there is a chance that components of systemd could suffer bitrot, but I'd argue its less likely that a project under the tutelage of Red Hat in the interests of its enterprise crowd will see the rot that other projects like xinetd have in recent years, where major contributors just stop, the whole project grinds to a halt, but because its not part of some broader software project nobody notices to pick up the slack (note, my example has gone through periods of rot and revival when someone notices its become a problem). If one component starts rotting the bugs will pile up on the systemd bug trackers and the broader project will notice and respond more efficiently since everything in systemd uses the same semantics and code formatting and the developers will be more comfortable changing their working directory than their repository.
Maybe you did not read. Here is copy-paste for you:

cool-retro-term

"cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight."

So:

a) It's supposed to be a "terminal emulator."

b) It does not automatically convert the atoms that make your fancy iMac with retina display into a CRT from the 70s, nor it makes you travels back in time. File a bug for that. However, it does say that it "mimics" it.
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At least you've never read it as "With enough bugs, the shallow eyeballs will be found".