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Wikipedia has a policy against this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restoring...

The wayback machine just captured it once, and that was after the deletion.
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Rails has been around longer and will have a lot available for it. Both have huge communities, but I would say Rails is more mature and widely adopted as of now.
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yes, it's expected that you'll never do or say anything bad about past jobs(/companies/environments/people).
But other side of this status quo is enabling all the assholes to be assholes and just helping them to continue behaving/acting like they do.

that's a bit offtopic though.
Yeah i can see that it is a lot of work. I could be reduced to influential companies that are listed in the stockmarket or are somehow else classified as influential.
Food-watch for apps and devices... I am just winging it now. Time to do some googling.
I tried half a dozen replacements after the Readerpocalyse and finally settled on https://kouio.com/ - been very happy with it ever since. The only real gripe I have is the lack of sane sidebar feed list ordering by default.

I wish they'd start charging for it.
This isn't about confiscation, it's about tuning one parameter of our society to achieve a more optimal result. The tax code is already heavily used to encourage some behavior and discourage others. While I would agree that it is being overused for this purpose (thus producing the crazy complex code we have now), at least property taxes are fairly simple.

It's like tuning the inflation rate or monster respawn rate of an MMORPG to get the most enjoyable game. Property taxes should be high enough to discourage ineffective use of space, but low enough so as not to discourage effective use of space. Too far in either direction and you end up with empty buildings.
We've done similar things at work (using a Redis queue and a Go co-process), but I actually really like the idea of using a fairly common and well-liked delayed job interface in Rails and swapping out the worker underneath. Cool idea.

One minor suggestion for the author (post doesn't have a comment section). `:timer.sleep(10)` is explained as "sleep for 10 seconds", but sleep takes millis as an argument (http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/timer.html#sleep-1).
I get that Stallman preached and so it must be, but I've never understood why I should care. It's just a hamfisted attempted for the pro-GPL crowd to define terms the way they want, so that the debate can be framed in a friendly manner.
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It's not that it's boring, it's that it APPEARS boring. Take math for example -- try sitting down with a seven year old and teaching them fractions and ratios. Unless you have an exceptionally curious kid, there simply isn't a way to explain it that doesn't feel like dragging fingernails on chalkboards to the kid. Games are a way to alleviate the introduction into mathy things like this, the ideal state being one where the learner takes pleasure in the math itself once it is appreciated.
Seems like it would be bad to encourage people to do this by allowing the article to stay up.
Great, HN is now officially reddit.
Christoph has a consultancy business. He uses his GPL contributions to help advertise his abilities.

If companies take his work under GPL and don't contract with him to write new code, they are damaging his income.

You want programmers to earn a living don't you ?
Hosting companies that sound like their names might frighten someone who is very ignorant of technology.
Yea, they are using AtScript currently, but when Angular 2 is released, they will be moving to TypeScript: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/03/05/angula...
Both good points. I didn't realize that this wasn't written by someone not on the core team.

As previous responses have shown, I didn't think through this comment too well. Just trying to articulate a feeling I had about a lot of recent posts regarding React, but it looks like it doesn't really pertain to this article.
Not contradictory to me. The second statement does not say nor imply anything about Myspace, or anything about an engineering culture at Myspace.
Yes, the calculation of the Dow Jones is a complete joke, but, funnily enough, it has tracked the fairly sensibly calculated S&P 500 surprisingly closely over time.
On one hand you agree with RMS on the existence of a problem (">> which are more closed/dangerous than what we ever had"), on the other hand you are criticising him for not doing enough things right or being detached from reality (well, I believe back in the 80s many people would think that the expectation of a license like GPL being as successful as it is today, would be detached from reality).

The problem with this (correct me if I'm wrong) is that you neither seem to suggest an alternative course nor care to act yourself towards a solution. RMS, on the other hand, does and most would agree that his actions have yielded a net positive effect in today's ecosystem.
The core logic was defined as a function. The shorthand 'try3' was macro which calls through to that function.
During the DrinkOrDie busts of 2001, agents used the computers of those busted to impersonate them to chat with and further identify other members for a 2nd wave of busts.
> Your wrong.
The DJIA ignores market cap and just uses share price.

I'm fairly certain I made no claims this was how the DJI currently behaved -- I was making the point that a better market valuation could be achieved by examining the market cap in addition to share price.
The CEO of my last employer decided to post his own Glassdoor review
The correlation between SPX and the DJIA will generally be quite high, because sampling 30 stocks (and generally those with the biggest market caps) gives you a good estimate/representation.

As a result, over short periods of time, the spread between the two will be relatively small.

Over long periods of time however, the spread can be significant. See the following:

1. http://avondaleam.com/dow-jones-vs-sp/

2. http://www.thumbcharts.com/101035/DJIA-vs-S-P-500
(Compare 1, 2, 3 and 5 years)
Is that true? I recall myspace creator "tom" being its very public face in the early days, and it only got sold to newscorp after it was already big.
They have their reasons, but its hard for me to judge whether they're silly since they haven't made their legal analysis public or publicly explained why they've chosen the course they have.
Agreed, but given their differences, the historical correlation between the S&P and the dow is absurd. https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX%3A.DJI&ei=Wef5VPmw...
We don't look at the source code of algorithms submitted to the contests, and the code is not made public unless the entrant chooses to share it in our forum.

(I work for Quantopian.)
You can make SVG responsive and thus change the image depending on size http://demosthenes.info/blog/744/Make-SVG-Responsive
You can declare which ad networks you're willing to show ads from when you set up google ads. It should be entirely possible to include only Contributor.
You're ignoring the fact that this guy and The Conservancy tried to work with VMWare for years to correct this, and they gave them the run around.
Suppose I grabbed a copy of the sources of NT, and then started modifying it and released a product based on that, without getting licensing from Microsoft. Do you think people would be "oh, this is why using Windows is risky .. there are many different interpretations of what the MSFT license means"? Of course not.
I am sitting here in my corporate cube,and this makes me want to go to Indiana, and play with FPGA's
I remember reading GEB 15 years ago, and being amazed, even though I did not understand half of what he was saying. I need to pull it out and read it again. Then set aside at least a little time every day ............
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Thanks for these! I didn't know there were alternatives to ArcGIS.
Here's the ioccc.org page for this entry:

http://www.ioccc.org/2012/endoh1/hint.html
It's not just Russia; when you dabble in geopolitics, everything becomes a bargaining chip. The PR benefit of hosting Snowden is short-lived; his profile will fade over time if he keeps his mouth shut. Eventually, when Russia wants to improve relations with the US, they will likely use Snowden as a bargaining chip. He's not worth much to Russia, but the US wants him really bad. So they can use Snowden to extract something they want from the US (reduction in sanctions, for example) for relatively little cost to themselves. But there was always very little downside to Russia here, and a significant amount of upside: right now, the upside is in holding Snowden up as an example of US hypocrisy, but later that upside might be that he can be traded for something more valuable.

I'm not trying to single out Russia as a bad actor here -- the US behaved in a very similar fashion with Soviet spies and dissidents in the 70s and 80s. This is why you don't want to get involved with geopolitics - your future is controlled by situations outside your control. Snowden strikes me as a smart guy who knows all of this, which is why negotiating a return to the US makes sense for him.
It is real, but from February and it involves situations where like a domestic dispute where one person who said no is arrested and the remaining says yes, not every situation

http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Fernand...
Targeted ads have some appeal. But, I'm still not sold. Here's an example of why. My wife and I started watching Parenthood recently. There are some very moving scenes in which a couple comes to terms with their Aspberger child's condition. Having the scene ripped away from me to see a car ad (for example) would be maddening.

While it's a good show the scenes are definitely written to have an ad every 10-15 minutes or so. Writers who make it in screenwriting know their bread-and-butter comes from advertisers, so they alter natural story arcs to fit 10-15 minutes slots. It's no wonder that BBC and PBS have better stories: their writers don't have to worry about fitting ads in.

Again, I don't mind product placement to an extent. Parenthood must have 2-3 scenes every episode with an Apple product in focus. Don't alter the flow of a story to fit in an ad though.
I had the same issue with college classes about software design compared to skycrapers. In my mind software has always been much more dynamic. I'll admit I like them too dynamic (lisp, meta, reactive, context oriented, AI). But even carefully constrained software is moving. Biology is also very fitting.
DJB a software engineer who doesn't listen to other's input and believes that his way is always the right way. Despite the fact that his software is solid, I try to avoid it all costs because it is a huge pain to configure and manage and doesn't follow the UNIX way at all. It follows the DJB unix way, which is terrible if you want to use anything that isn't DJB.

Also tinydns is fundamentally broken because DJB doesn't believe in split views.
Maybe it's different for a decorated war hero to show a notebook to a mistress than for some random contractor to steal thousands of classified documents and release them on the Internet.
Their metallurgists have come up with a novel process: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=.... (the last full stop is significant but HN strips it and I can’t work out how to reference the patent directly)
Excuse my poor understanding of Ruby's GIL, but is the need for an Elixir worker because Ruby is by default single-threaded, and therefore actual default concurrent Sidekiq workers are not possible? Or this a problem scaled up to the degree that we're talking ~thousands of jobs per second that Ruby's limitations start to show?
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Tech companies urge Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage across the USA
Sure. You can blacklist sites. I don't believe there is a whitelist option at the moment.
Affero GPL is the only license that has made sense to me business-wise. If EMC prevailed and it was based on some flaw in the GPL, then fine let's correct it and everything would be (eventually) better. But if the linking provisions or other fundamental theories in the GPL are found the be unenforceable or fatally flawed, it would give me pause. I'd have to research the ramifications and whether it's a precedent that would defang the license in Germany and effects globally. I think most of my customers would be ok with some kind of commercial license that also provides them rights over the source itself. If GPL is a risk, I'd ditch it. I have no enormous legal budget, so if companies start thinking they can win GPL lawsuits, it's not worth it.
> "According to LWN's article they found linux kernel's source (radix tree, scheduler)" [1].

Presumably when LWN article states "code can be downloaded from VMware's web site" they got it from the open source tab on VMware vSphere's download page [2].

[1] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/635290/e501ce0264c182f4/
[2] https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_...
Caveat: At least in the US and ASFAIK :-

As long as the company provided you with the properly assessed strike-price and FMV for your options at the time of exercise (upon which they become shares) I don't think the founders are obligated by law or otherwise to disclose any investments to their employees.

Even though you may be a founding engineer, officially you are still an employee. You are not on the board of directors and/or until the time of exercising options you were not a shareholder. Hence the company likely has no obligation to provide you with the details of the company's financials.

On the other hand if you exercised your options based on incorrect FMV the company provided then the additional tax burden would not be your fault but I am not sure in your situation what recourse you have. As others may have suggested your lawyer should be able to answer that.
Ive seen this suggested before and it seems counterintuitive at first, but get rid of helmets. Get the game back to something resembling rugby. Hard helmets give a false sense of security.
Sorry but that is not fun. We should have more respect towards volunteers time.
Right, it's not immediately about copyright, per se. But the GPL relies entirely on copyright and if this ends up setting a precedent that you can't use copyright to enforce the (unfortunately vague?) terms of the GPL, that weakens copyright.
Deluge is great, especially since it's an option for Windows as well, but qBittorrent seems more stable to me and is cross-platform as well.
Using terms 'intuitively' usually means (often unconsciously) including a whole lot of ideological baggage. I actually do disagree with your model of the world; I don't think groups have interests as such, but that individuals have interests, many of which overlap to some degree with similarly situated people who could be said to be part of the same class.

The problem with the Marxist approach to theory (which arguably the fault of Marx's followers as much as himself) is that it over-emphasizes class membership to the point of abrogating individuality. In theoretical discussions,t he experience of people whose experience is more nuanced or at odds with their apparent class status are often dismissed with the claim that the individual has a 'false consciousness' of his or her own situation; While capitalistic (and implicitly, patriarchal) social models do aim to be self-sustaining by promulgating ideology about 'the way things are' and domesticating or even commodifying dissent, the Marxist ideological system can be just as much of a straitjacket, which is one reason for the relatively recent rise of intersectionality theory, with women, ethnic minority groups, sexual minorities and so forth asserting their separate and distinct identities. This is a big reason that left politics seem so fragmented, because each new identity group often plays out similar social dynamics to the one that gave rise to it; so you could say that Marx identified working, middle, and upper economic classes, and that feminists later sought a distinct identity because Marxist theory described some of their issues but ignored a lot of others; in turn black feminists, lesbian feminists, and so on had to carve out their own identities because the main trunk of feminism seemed to be constructed out of white and heteronormative assumptions which ignored distinctly different aspects of their experiences, and so on. Intersectionality theory comes at things from the perspective that people can have membership in multiple classes and that the interests, assumptions, or structures of those classes don't necessarily align neatly.In the context of this discussion, I'm saying that sex work is a lot more complex than just something that negatively affects women as a class, and to to simplify it into such is to marginalize quite a lot of people within the class of sex workers by saying that their experiences and perspectives are irrelevant and should be ignored.

I can't tell whether you mean to reference blackface as just an example of a class issue or to draw an analogy with sex work. If the latter, I think it fails because blackface was about excluding capable performers from the white economic market for entertainment despite the demand for their output, whereas class-based objections to prostitution rest on the argument that any kind of commercial relations involving sexuality are fundamentally exploitative/oppressive and should be forbidden.
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I personally love insects, and even have a fondness for spiders, but even while I love to watch them weave webs, I still get that yikes reaction when a spider lands on me unexpectedly, and can't stand wasps or bees near me, even though I know they're more likely to sting me if I swat at them...it is definitely an ingrained thing, or I'd be able to watch a bee crawl on my hand without fear, just as I would watch fascinated when it gathers nectar from a flower.
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I think it's difficult to draw a line between improvements and derivative work (what your "entire work") could be. The GPL plays safe and requires redistribution of everything. I'd play safe too, with BSD I could end up seeing a company getting rich starting with my code and locking me outside of any improvements. I'm not so generous.
Well, I wanted to point out that as far as open-source goes, it has a pretty good definition and in the larger scheme of things, the actual open-source license used does not matter, all that matters is to get people to contribute.

But people contribute when they've got reasons to do so and many people believe in copyleft. And the GPL is an interesting case, because it happened because its author hated copyright, so he decided to turn it on its head and use it to his advantage. And in a world in which copyright (and other IP laws) keep getting worse, copyleft gets even more relevant.

To the issue of whether copyleft did any good versus MIT/BSD, well, would have Apple open-sourced WebKit if it wasn't for KHTML's LGPL license? I'm inclined towards no, but truth is, we'll never know.

On GCC on the other hand, its authors not only used GPL, but actually made it hard in the actual code for proprietary extensions to happen. This might have been good 15-20 years ago, when the landscape was dominated by proprietary compilers, but now I consider that we're better off with LLVM taking off.
Interesting chart! While this does show the potentially drastic impact that one company can have in a 30-constituent index, the S&P 500 (with its market-cap weighting) is not completely immune from one company potentially dominating as well.

For example, IVV, an index ETF that tracks the S&P 500, currently has > 4% of its assets in AAPL[0], due to Apple's immense market cap.

0. http://www.ishares.com/us/products/239726/ishares-core-sp-50...
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Yes, you got that right.

My first computer was a Timex 2068. Like many I eventually went through a love/hate relationship with Microsoft products, to eventually realise, that when compared with many enterprise companies, Microsoft is quite good.
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Ugh, and it's all so true. I don't miss that place one bit.
> It's already pretty much dead, hardly any project uses it any more.

Hahahaha ! Almost every single device you own or will own will include GPL code, from your phone to every television to (soon) your light switches and light bulbs.

After the world ends, the only thing still alive will be GPL licensed Linux kernels running robots (assuming that's not after the int64_t time_t wrap time :-).
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Hi,

Is this article relevant given toolbox - https://github.com/coreos/toolbox. As I understand it toolbox can provision Python to a host too e.g. toolbox --bind=/home:/home python "$@". This method would be preferred as toolbox is available out-of-the-box and avoids additional installs. I have attempted to use - https://github.com/tazjin/coreos-ansible as an example. However, I get complaints of the interpreter not being available.
"This means that if we're all voting from the same IP (for example at the office), it just won't be taken in to account. We also need to submit the story from a different IP."

Seems to be encouraging people to circumvent the anti-voting-ring policy.
It's amusing to see that McMillen's entry is now tagged with "may not meet notability guidelines." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McMillen

I suspect that this belated effort to quiet everything down will just make for an even noisier and messier debate.
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Michael, can you explain this more? "[Storm] Topologies are written with functions, macros, and objects. These things are specific to a programming language, and make it hard to work at a distance -- specifically in the browser. JavaScript is the ultimate place to be when creating specifications."

I don't really get it. Storm Topologies are built in Java or Clojure using a builder interface, but the data structures for topologies themselves are actually DAGs that serialize using Thrift. It's true that this is a bit heavy-weight compared to something like JSON or EDN, but offering an alternative is a discussion in the community right now. What would your ideal representation of topologies be, actually?
For some projects, they could release the code as open source, like they did for Wave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave#Open_source
> Don't be diluted in thinking the founders will "take care of everyone".

The normal phrase is "...deluded in thinking...", but in this case, "diluted" is probably appropriate.

I am amused.

Staying on topic...

If you've got any significant stake in the company, you do have an interest in any deals being made. Sometimes it is the case that the current shares will be diluted so that the new investment can be accepted. It depends on how much was reserved at the start.

So you may have been holding stock that was worth 5% of the company, but after the investment it could now be less. It really depends on how the deal was structured (how much for how much basically).

You may not (as a non-founder) have a say in the terms of the deal, but you need to be kept informed.

I've seen cases where the founders will dilute themselves, but not the smaller holders, to try to be fair to them, but that doesn't always happen.

Maybe its time to read up on your corporations by-laws, which may spell out how and when they have to notify you of these sorts of changes.