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Sounds great - let us know how the time travel thing is coming along. In the mean time, the US will have to deal with the present situation in some way or another. They already spend billions on aid, are they not supposed to deal with the other side of the coin - threats?
How am I supposed to take a person writing about the NFL seriously when he or she puts periods in between the letters?

This is a mediocre article, at best.
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Rust doesn't have custom allocator support yet, so no, it's not currently possible to make this error ;)
It would be nice if you included this info on the page itself. It wasn't obvious to me from the title that this demo requires VR; it's not just WebGL.
Sounds perfect for North Korea. twirls moustache
I agree with the sentiment. Charging for pirated content is among the worst things someone can do. It’s also why I was at least a little bit glad when the megaupload/rapidshare sites were taken down. There may be an argument to be made about traffic costs and the like, but that doesn’t legitimize anything.

Nevertheless, the real issue here is that those services exist because there is demand for them and the "legitimate suppliers" don’t seem to feel a need to attend it. As Valve’s founder put it "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem".

Is there any service out there with Netflix-level breadth of the titles available? Is there any service out there that let‘s you watch without having your name associated to "adult videos" in various databases? Is there anywhere people can turn to when still underage? Is there anywhere people can go to for getting the latest "fappening" leaks?

Hence piracy.

Yes, some of those reasons may be questionable or outright wrong, but given that the situation is what it is, why not try to at least make the best out of it and settle for some youtube-like service/agreement where the content creators will get at least some share of he profits and at least some control over the contents can be retained?

The argument about torrents vs "tubes" however seems pretty irrelevant. If you want HQ videos, don’t mind the wait and have plenty of storage available then torrents are likely the better choice. If you need something right now, don’t have much bandwith or storage and don’t care much for quality, a steaming service might work well enough for you. That there exist some unscrupulous streaming service providers is no different from torrents containing malware or torrent-indexing/tracking-sites/communities engaging in similar behavior as streaming services.
Cool. It's a nice trek if anyone like the idea. I wonder if they'll try lugging the camera towards the summit next.
Oh, so that's why I see only 5 or so skin-coloured pixels.
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I am still waiting.
Unless you need Windows just slightly more than you need Linux, or your hardware doesn't work properly under Linux, or you need software that Linux, even Wine, can't run. Or your processor isn't even capable of booting Linux, but it can run Windows (Intel Atom Bay Trail comes to mind).

--edit apparently Bay Trail does support Linux. The big hype when it was launched was that it would not, that's where my confusion came in
Does this support running X over SSH? The biggest drawback for me with Windows boxes was always a lack of X support for applications I want to run on remote servers.
Congratulations. Today you figured out that startup accelerators, incubators, hubs, conferences and hackathons are just businesses trying to make money out of your enthusiasm and efforts. They don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it to turn a profit.

To answer your question, some of them take equity and others take cash. Either way, you're getting screwed. Unless, of course, you just keep finding investors to pour money into it. If that's your objective, the price is usually worth it.
You need drivers for time sources for a start, there are enough of these to use full time devs for years...
Re: Investing in the Escalades, can you explain how that business model works?

Does the owner of the vehicles lease the vehicles out to drivers who then use them to provide Uber Black-car service?
Out of interest, are there more types of SQL injection, or are they all a case of inserting a semicolon, and running a second query afterwards to get the information you want?

Surely that is something that could be disabled at the driver level for security? Make sure it only send one statement at a time.

Correct me if I have missed something.
That's what we tend to do in fact. We support whatever dictator is in power because it's better for business.

With Iraq we believed that they were still hoarding WMD's that they had from the 1980's. As we now know, that turned out to not be the case, and they actually did destroy them. Before the war, it was reported by most media outlets that WMD's were still in Iraq. Then you had the UN weapons inspectors who kept being thrown out of Iraq. If the weapons inspectors had been allowed to remain and do their job, there wouldn't have been a second Iraq war.
forgot about those, good point
I dig the ability to cross into remote file systems transparently (much like PowerShell). Running "df -h //devwinserver1/c$" is cool, as is the ability to clean up cruft when a Nagios disk alert goes off, all from the comfort of my bash shell.

Plus, with Xwin running, I can utilize cluster SSH to make managing Unix servers a bit less painful from my Windows machine (corporate standard image I have no control over).
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Indeed. It's kind of weird there's no package manager beyond setup.exe in Cygwin. There's even a port of rpm in the package collection. I wonder if Cygwin misses some bigger piece of functionality that is a requirement for rpm. Or maybe it's just good enough for most of use cases.
500 Startups does this too. From their website:

"We invest $100k in exchange for 7%, and charge a $25K program fee for a net $75K investment."

Not quite sure why some accelerators do this.
Unfortunately the mandated apps the company uses are still going to be pretty shitty as long as they are selling those to management instead of the teams.

For instance, the example with the home button immediately reminded me of Sharepoint.
What's safer than imitating SP in the corporate hegemony? (bland, overcomplex for its purpose, incredibly frustrating workflows)
"When making purchases, one purchase is monitored by up to 5 arbitrators. Each one of them has the right to return money to the buyer"

I'm positive I'm not reading that right. You've created a currency where I need permission to use it?
I mean, no problem, but, ultimately, cygwin is walled off from certain parts of the system and you're just going to have to deal with the fact that WinNT has major differences from Linux for some tasks. I use cygwin sometimes too but it makes more sense "in addition to" than "instead of."
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While I agree with the premise of the post, I do think that the use of design is changing in enterprise software. All of those products have been around for awhile now and I think that the idea that you need designers and good design is just a relatively new concept for ESVs. I can see it happening at my own company, a couple of years ago UX wasn't really something we considered, but now we are hiring UX people for all of our products. So I think you'll see this change going forward, it's just the enterprise is always the last to join the game.
Is this what "mission success" looks like?
"people with expertise are being replaced by people without it"

Worth noting that the replacements presumably lack expertise initially but inevitably improve along the way. Being paid to learn isn't all bad and is better than occurs for many trades.
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Better naming pattern: SingletonAntipattern*.
Personally, I skipped taking Linear Algebra in college, because I assumed it was basically 'Algebra II' and intended for people who weren't taking math-intensive tracks, like liberal arts majors. Although thankfully in my 3D graphics programming class we spent some time on Linear Algebra, so I got my misconception cleared and saw how it was useful (even though it looked like Voodoo magic to me how it worked for most of that class).

So yeah, maybe I'm just an outlier, but part of it may be a naming issue also. "I already took Algebra way back in 8th grade and it was a breeze! I don't need to take another Algebra class!"
Posting the results because I said I would. But there are only seven of them so they're definitely not representative of anything significant, sorry.

1. Do the terms of your employment prevent you from contributing to GPL-licensed projects during the course of your work?

* No, I am allowed to contribute to GPL projects as part of my work.: 7 (100%)
* Yes, my work forbids me from contributing to all open-source projects: 0 (0%)
* Yes, my work forbids me from contributing to GPL projects specifically: 0	(0%)

2. Regardless of your answer to 1, is your decision to contribute to a project on a personal basis affected by whether that project is GPL-licensed?

* No, the GPL does not affect my decision: 1 (14%)
* Yes, the GPL makes me more likely to contribute to a project: 3 (43%)
* Yes, the GPL makes me less likely to contribute to a project: 3 (43%)
* Yes, I only contribute to GPL projects: 0 (0%)
* Yes, I never contribute to GPL projects: 0 (0%)

3. Do you think the GPL is a good or bad license choice for standalone/executable projects?

* The GPL is a good choice for standalone projects: 5 (71%)
* The GPL is a bad choice for standalone projects: 1 (14%)
* I'm undecided or indifferent about the GPL: 1 (14%)

4. Do you think the GPL is a good or bad license choice for library/framework projects?

* The GPL is a good choice for library projects: 1 (14%)
* The GPL is a bad choice for library projects: 5 (71%)
* I'm indifferent or undecided about the GPL: 1 (14%)
Actually this is true and it isn’t. I mean, for sure ‘how intuitive’ is not a good metric for enterprise products, which usually come along with a big bunch of days for training, because you have a small number of users, somehow forced to use your product for a long time.

If you’re investing in reducing the ‘time to learn’ (learn the semantics of your product) you’re probably focusing on the wrong thing.

Yet, all these products (and I work on those a lot) are not well designed as a symptom of missing care for the “cognitive cost” for the user.

Anyway, the products listed in the post are way better than others. Which is sad :\
The amount of salary doesn't really matter so much as the fraction of it you are willing to live on long term.
Many competitors is good for the users. We have more choices and they will compete to provide the best to the users.
I thought about it too. Most biological systems that grow are examples of recursion (like trees). Most human manufacturing systems are examples of iteration (production line, building with a crane floor by floor).
Commonplace, but what's the amount? Often they ask you to set aside 5% to 25% for them.

The one we went through got most of their fees via "highly recommended" legal and accounting service kickbacks, which charged far higher than market rate monthly retainers, for doing absolutely nothing in some cases. Lawyers and accountants who stood to benefit were literally partners at the fund... We decided to stick with our own accountant, and the accelerator got extremely upset at us for doing so. Some shockingly unprofessional, threatening, vague emails and lots of criticism for not choosing their accountants.

You are correct that the people running these funds will get paid no matter what, and will have absolutely no financial incentive to make you succeed. Quite the opposite. Ours in particular has done a lot to minimize their work, drag out anything they're required to do over months, and get rid of companies as quick as possible after their investment.

These can still work out, just know that these aren't the tier #1 funds that we're used to hearing about. Founder beware.
It's actually a mixture of both. Some extremists(particularly ISIS) firmly believe they are in they end times and are carrying out what they think scripture dictates, others are involved for the reasons you stated.
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Pretty cool picture, I love how Orion is in the sky and the tower itself looks somewhat like my favorite constellation ;)
This. This is software that is used to make money, not do something overly simple with pretty colors.
What would happen if he got fed up and quit, or was hit by a bus? I assume the article covers that too, but as you mention it's a bit painful to navigate, and since you seem willing to summarize/quote a bit, I thought I'd take advantage in a most selfish manner.
Yes. From the stock bash prompt, run "startxwin". With the resulting xterm, you can launch any X apps within Cygwin, or you can SSH in (with appropriate flags and xauth config, etc.) and blow back X apps from the remote Unix box. It's really nice.
If I receive a newsletter and there is no way to unsubscribe without logging in and/or going through hoops, I mark it as spam.

If I sign up on some service with email+service@gmail.com and I get a newsletter from some other unrelated company, I mark it as spam.
I guess so. The question is whether it's worth spending $1k on a laptop with such a restriction, vs. just buying a different one for about the same price that's actually expandable.
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I started 2 companies through YC and Techstars and strongly disagree with this. Both were incredibly valuable and well worth the equity for us.

Edit: I didn't mean to say that all accelerators are worth it, but I disagree with the sweeping generalization that all accelerators are screwing their companies.
I agree. And when you add Chocolatey to the mix (just add it with an elevated cmd.exe as stated on chocolatey.org), you're about half-way to a GNU/Linux-ish Windows. (In elevated PowerShell, I actually used "choco install cygwin -y" after doing so!) I think in Windows 10 this is supposed to be even better with their OneGet framework that will be compatible with Choco. Things are looking better for those who have to use Windows but want the power of the GNU/Linux environment. It is thanks to which I no longer need VirtualBox anymore, granting the benefit of allowing me to run code a little more efficiently.

The only gripe I have is I would really like to use openssh-server on Windows the way I do on GNU/Linux. I have yet to find a comparable solution that is opensourced and free.
Whatever network effect exists is very weak. Look at it mathematically. Say there are two social networking sites A and B, of equal size. If you combine A and B into one, the number of users doubles, but the number of potential individual connections quadruples. That's important, because what you care about in that space is being able to connect any two specific people. So there's a huge benefit to combining even when both networks are very large.

Now, say you have two cab hailing apps. Combining doubles the number of users and the number of drivers, but if both are large to begin with, there's probably a negligible benefit in terms of reduced hailing times. Thus there is little pressure forcing a "winner take all" outcome.
Yeah, sorry about that. I've updated that but the CDN propagation is a bit slower than I'd like.
Default Windows shell also has `findstr`, which works very similarly to grep. It's also quite fast.
3) He could start using VMs like the rest of the world... physical access really isn't needed except for physical security (making sure the rack is locked and access is controlled), which data center employees can manage (Fairly easy)

You don't seem to get that stratum 1 servers require connecting to actual hardware as the time source (stratum 0, typically GPS). I don't know of any VM seller with provision to hook actual hardware... And even if they did, I'm not sure they could offer the low latency needed.

For some stuff, you just need your own rack.
Those lectures are fantastic. Pro-tip: watch them at 2.5x speed (you'll keep up just fine, and you can always pause to play with the concepts in Sage or whatever).

Bonus: when you switch him back to normal speed, he sounds stoned out of his mind.
Are there examples of enterprise software with "good taste"? I'm sure someone out there must be doing it correctly.

I agree that the interfaces from the screenshots looked cluttered, but I think a contrasting shot of a properly designed enterprise app would have made for a stronger argument.
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I use https://encrypted.google.com/ which lets me stay on the english version.
They already are deadly. Those spinning blades can do a lot of damage to a person. Just check drone forums.

All instances that I could find were accidents. So far.
I checked the index to see what topics she typically covers and found a story which I thought was well-written (NSFW for prudish workplaces; no inappropriate images though) -

http://graphicdescriptions.com/27-mitcz
They don't make any comparisons anywhere in the linked article. The only mention of the RPi is in the context of connectivity with other devices:

> And the Micro Bit can even connect and communicate with these other devices, including Arduino, Galileo, Kano and Raspberry Pi, as well as other Micro Bits

In fairness this is really just a press release, not a news item. The tone and technical content of the release suggests quite probably that it is not written by one of their technology hacks (and by that I mean journalists such as Rory Cellan-Jones). Rather it's a management level tech summary or proposal packaged up for PR use.
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I work in enterprise software as well and unless the UX/features of an app is critical, you are spot on.

On the product I work on, one of the major GUI client is heavily used by power users with direct decision factor on the deals. It gets a lot of effort and polish and IxD folks go to client sites and maintain a feedback loop.

Other parts of the app are meant to be used by, well, "lesser" users (from a sales PoV) and get less IxD time/effort. It's all very rational.
If only SV could first get a few decent restaurants they might not feel the need to invent industrial chemical food.
Look at what the Project Sputnik people are saying about getting Linux working on the current XPS 13 -- they're working on drivers for various portions of it that don't currently work currently on Linux. (If you install Ubuntu on the XPS 13 today, it will have problems.)

It's great that Dell is doing that, it really is. But if they were building a laptop for Linux first, they never would have sourced those components.
And I remember (from a decade ago as well) having to recompile my kernel to use those binary graphics drivers :)
You could simply limit the pages through your robots.txt and slowly expose them in your sitemap. That would give you control over how many pages are spidered. If you want all your pages spidered and you dump millions of pages into the system the bot will hit you hard, but that's only because you offer a lot of pages to begin with, so that's where you can throttle the accesses.
It's also an advertisement for a Call of Duty game.
Restrict it 100% in robots.txt for now so it at least works? And then once you've managed to get through to a human (lol, good luck :( ) at Google, you can go from there.
The design challenge behind a modern enterprise app is also way steeper than on any consumer app.

Enterprise apps like CRM, ERP, HR, etc. need to cover a myriad of use cases and local/regional/global intricacies. They achieve this through configuration and even customization options. Nobody, ever, uses enterprise apps out of the box.

So your iPad app now needs to readjust and reconfigure itself based on customer defined data models, page layouts, workflows, triggers. And by customer I mean some yokel at Accenture/CapGemini/etc who is at least three layers removed from the person who wrote the requirements, plus never had any real training on how to configure the app.

And as they can change even stuff like field labels, your beautiful and simple UI now needs to handle huge strings in random places, etc.

Source: Running a team that builds a very successful enterprise app in a specific vertical. And we're spending a huge amount of time on protecting the end users from all the tasteless forces between us and them.

Props to the Salesforce UX team, who are fighting the same fight. Go look at the Salesforce Wave analytics app - truly wonderful UI. Their way of drilling into a donut graph is simply awesome.
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It would also be really nice if Cygwin did a quick ping on all of the package hosts and then ordered them in order of least latency relative to you. Oftentimes I have to re-start the install process because I accidentally chose a host that's slow enough to delay the install for hours.
This is why I never type google.com into my browser. So annoying.

My current workaround is a search provider with

https://www.google.com/search?num=50&tbs=li:1&fg=1&gws_rd=cr&q=

http://ready.to/search/en/?sna=goo-v&prf=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g...
actually I'm pretty sure Bay Trail do run Linux.
Anyone interested in getting started with linear algebra can check out this printable tutorial: Linear algebra in four pages: http://minireference.com/blog/linear-algebra-tutorial/

The page also links to another short tutorial which explains more of the geometric intuition behind linear transformations.

Neither tutorial can serve as a full course, but reading them will give you a good overview of what linear algebra is about.
Can we seriously stop using 'drone' for both remote controlled multi-million dollar military grade weapons and quad-copter plastic toys that cost $20? It's fucking stupid.
No reason you can't look at the recent commits yourself and determine if they are 'mature' enough for you.
Could someone tell me exactly what was wrong with the home icon in the top corner? I'm not defending the design - it looks like crap, but I couldn't put my finger on why that particular bit was wrong. There's a home icon top left in my browser as I type this.
That works for search but do you have one for maps and their other sites (like blogger)?
Silly question, but wouldn't putting something like Crawl-delay in the robots.txt file (somewhat) help alleviate the situation (if it is respected)?

Or maybe even just block crawling of the entire site except for the homepage?
This particular one was £50k investment for 9% equity, plus they send an additional £50k to the company, which is transferred immediately as a "service charge".

Writes off £50k of your SEIS allowance as a business, which as I'm sure you know is like gold dust for the first £150k, as 50% of the investment can be written off against investors income tax, then a further 30% if the company fails.

If the company succeeds, the investors pay no capital gains on sale of shares.
Oh, you might be right. I must have misread it then.
Just a heads-up, this appears to be _related_ to NSFW content. I say "appears to be" because I got a nasty "you're trying to access some sketchy domain and your admin has been notified" warning when accessing this through my work computer. Nothing in the title or URL seems to suggest this so I figured I'd share share in case anyone else may have a similar setup.
Being a very successful lawyer is probably comparable to being a very successful developer. Unless you wanted to be "a lawyer"?
Atlassian products are pretty and functional to boot.