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I made a rule to never pre-order after SimCity 5. I broke that rule when I saw the price of skylines, the small dev team that was producing it, and the support they wanted to put in for modders.
How about not forcing me to register before I can see the site?
On time management(2008)
Yes, but there is a pattern of EA ruining previously good development houses. It's like expression, "The common element of all your failed relationships is you."
How is it(removing uber services) helping employment,given we know that uber increases demand for taxi services ?
I spent 9 years of my teenage life trying to learn languages in US schools. It was a complete waste and I remember none of it. The approach was ineffective.
This is why people use NoScript. Not that we're Luddites, but rather arbitrary scripts means arbitrary vulnerabilities that are automatically exploitable.

It's not that we don't want to see your cool new site built in Angular 2.0, but rather the principle of least privilege[0] is even more relevant with respect to the web.

People wouldn't think you're crazy for leaving Java applets off by default (even when they were popular), and it's an ad populum fallacy to say that just because everyone uses JavaScript you should trade your own personal security so that developers can use AJAX instead of a form POST.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
The thread on Twitter contains some interesting comments too. She is going to publish the report this week I think.
>>> Not to mention their Office 365, MSDN, etc lines that are mad profitable.

Combined with their Azure services, they've developed several other valuable streams of revenue. Probably enough where they can give away their OS for free in order to gateway these users onto their other products and services. This is a classic business move, the same thing Apple has done for years with its products.

Granted, they're not the biggest, but they are starting to put a dent in Amazon's market:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608726/cloud-computing/clo...

"Our commercial cloud revenue grew 147 percent this quarter, driven by both Office 365 and Azure. Our commercial cloud annual revenue run rate more than doubled this year and now exceeds $4.4 billion and with this rapidly growing scale we continue to expand our cloud gross margins."
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Yeah, I shutter to think what the world would have been like if a lot of open source software were actually free and un-encumbered by the GPL.
In a way, services like AirBnB and Uber remind us of how very rarely things actually go wrong. In a way, they act as correction to the usual scaremongering we get through most mass-media: "you can ride in uninsured cabs with complete strangers and sleep in unregulated and potentially dangerous flats, and you'll likely be fine anyway".

This said, good on the German government for forcing the company to actually respect their laws. Being a trendy net-based startup is not a license to flaunt all rules, especially consistent rules that exist for very good reason.
They were never making money off the pirates anyway. This way they can get more people on their services, on a more secure OS that will be evergreen, potentially paying for extras, and at the very least helping their ML algos.
He's right. Driving a car is something like 1000 times riskier than commercial aviation. We still have about 30,000 vehicle fatalities per year.
Wouldn't that be more in the scope of PAM than an SSHd?

Edit: https://github.com/Yubico/pam-u2f
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Reasonable? For the price it costs to get from Berlin's city center to the airport, you could easily drive your own car to Hamburg - and probably back.

I really don't understand why it has to be so expensive. For inner city trips the gas costs are a negligible part of the total price, and most drivers are being paid minimum wage. (I've actually heard quite a few taxi drivers complain about minimum wage being introduced because their employers claim that it's too expensive for them and they need to cut costs.)

Either there are too many taxis out there so they need higher prices to be able to pay for the time where they just stand around waiting for customers, or somebody is getting rich.
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And it looks like someone's already done it: http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/neil/sicp.plt/1...
Crap now I'm scared of meditating kind of.
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> Apple did not decide to fork KHTML and then pick a license. If KHTML were GPLed, Apple would have forked a different project, or perhaps even started from scratch. The end result would have been the same.

You're making a baseless assertion. Apple ships an enormous amount of GPL software with OS X. It makes no sense for them to write an entire browser from scratch just to avoid the GPL when they're perfectly happy shipping bash, emacs, samba, etc.
This is a very good question. I also want to know if there are examples other than major successes like Google and Facebook.

One issue is when you want to hire people and you want to feel confident that you are offering them a "real chance" for financial success, even if it is a slim chance. I mean if you know that it is very likely that even when "you" have a win (whatever your goal is) and your investors have a win, still your employees don't benefit significantly, that will be a sad story.
I tested myself to see if I fit the stereotype by trying to explain this joke to a Japanese friend, in Japanese. After a collective effort which determined that there isn't a concise noun phrase in Japanese that's equivalent to "bilingual"/"trilingual" etc (anyone else know if that's actually the case?), I think the point was communicated, which I hope implies graduation to at least some limbo between "American" and "bilingual".
> Once your city becomes a certain size the game goes from City Builder to Traffic Management Simulator

Sounds like a good reflection of reality.
I saw this post on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9216299 and thought it would be interesting to write something similar in OCaml
>> She just sees me as a sales person trying to sell her some scam.

This is where you are mistaken, to her it's not just a ring, or a scam. It's her as a little girl dreaming and looking at the engagement rings of other women, imagining the day she'll be able to 'show off' one of her own. Sad to say, but in our culture, this stuff means a lot.
Blaming apple seems a little dishonest.

The same happened to me too.
When I cleaned the screen with an alcohol-based wet tissue...

It does get worse on the edges as when wiping it the liquid tends to get on the edges so it affects that part more.

The screen is coated with a fine (a few microns) layer.

If you care so much about your Mac to read the actual care guide, you can see it clearly says not to use anything else but a cloth with water.
given we know that uber increases demand for taxi services ?

Do you have a reliable source for this assertion?
Good friend of mine was finalist around the early '90s. He know has a totally simple 'senior dev' job at one of the big SV company's service centre. One of the things that keep reminding me that success depends on so many things, hard math skills are one of them.

Unfortunately, I'm a guy with a very bad impostor sindrome, and a) whenever I see guys like him in worse/intellectually less challeging jobs than me I think I must be just lucky b) whenever I see guys like him I think I must be useless. :)
Awesome, good job Bitbucket!
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With new services like ShapeShift, I am unsure if this is an appropriate or even enforceable option - and will increase the probability of pushing Bitcoin and crypto-currencies underground as far as the UK goes.
I'm not sure about the state of automatic license plate scans in Germany but it's a huge privacy issue and there was a big uproar when they were first introduced on some motorways for enforcing tolls for large transport vehicles. Germany is generally very anti-surveillance.

Even so, vehicle insurance doesn't come from signing the right documents. In Germany you don't get the seal on your license plate without passing mandatory regular inspections.
And bike is potentially deadly
Actually, Cyrillic is an interesting case. The Unicode standard does define completely-separate codepoints for the Cyrillic letters, even for the ones that look "just like" letters of the Latin Alphabet. Greek letters that look exactly like Latin letters get the same treatment.

It's difficult to come up with a logical explanation for why European languages that use their own alphabet get their own codepoints, but ideographic languages need to be "unified", even though the actual letters as used in those languages look different.

The "Han unification" was fundamentally a bad idea, and persists for historical reasons. Back when (some) people thought a fixed-width 16-bit character representation would be "enough", it made sense to try to reduce the number of "redundant" code points. Now that Unicode has expanded to a much-larger code space, I would think they'd choose differently.

Unfortunately, that kind of sweeping change is unlikely any time soon.
That's why you put them on staff. You should be close enough to them to know what they are working on, and redirect them when necessary.
Now I can just hope for some hugely overdue improvements to the "Issues Tracker" in Bitbucket. Does anyone know of any 3rd party enhancements available for improving the "Issues tracker"?
Most of the time it is laziness and writing or wanting to write quickly. See for example also the Dollar sign [1].

[1] http://observationdeck.io9.com/why-is-the-dollar-sign-a-lett...
If it is a service I am using for personal use, it does not put me off. IME, in the business setting, for whatever reason, some people seem to have an aversion to seeing numbers related to pricing in a foreign (to them) format, though.
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>> thats what everyone is charging for stores these days after all
But as soon as Microsoft starts doing it, everyone will bury them in negative reviews and criticism for being evil, greedy and the reason the industry sucks. The "everyone else is doing it" excuse doesn't work for Microsoft, people just want more reasons to hate it.
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How does it increase demand for taxi services?

If your answer is by making it dramatically cheaper by externalising the costs of running a sustainable taxi business... then how does having a greater number of people employed on wages that they cannot afford to live on benefit anyone?
It's important, but countless quant/quant dev knew this before the crisis. At most banks, nobody cared. Otherwise I agree.
Marco Arment appears to have done pretty well on the Tumblr aquisition.

"As for me, while I wasn’t a “founder” financially, David was generous with my employee stock options back in the day. I won’t make yacht-and-helicopter money from the acquisition, and I won’t be switching to dedicated day and night iPhones. But as long as I manage investments properly and don’t spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that’s exactly what I plan to do."

http://www.marco.org/2013/05/20/one-person-product
> If Leap schedules things correctly, in part because they are a private company and have incentive to do so

I don't know what you think the TTC does all day, but it's not sit around and say "if only we had competition, we'd make the busses better". It may not be possible to schedule to avoid busses bunching up during peak times, if that's how traffic behaves. The only way to fix it might be to run an excess of under-utilized busses, which cuts into profit margins. Which is something a private company with higher rates might be able to do, but the TTC is limited because service has to be accessible to everyone.

The risk of a private company like this showing up is that it'll decide to focus intensively on the 20% of routes that yield 80% of profit. This bleeds the public transit service of funds needed to run less profitable services at off times that are used by people without 9-5 jobs, or people in less privileged areas. So the rich get better bus service, and no longer subsidize the service for the poor.
I bet your insurance won't cover you if you drive around people for profit. Look it up.
Maybe there's a market for "ethical rings" that work as a token / certificate of a donation. For example restaurants like to show all kinds of diplomas on the wall at least around here.

So she should pick the charity. I'm sure it's easy to find ones which the husband would not have donated to on their own.

Classification societies already by the way have established ways to do development aid verification.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...

On the other hand, just withdrawing the amount in cash and setting it on fire might cause less harm to the world than a blood diamond. What a bachelorette party... :)
It crashes on start for me on my MBP 13, so I'd say no.
Several IndexTank employees did well. I can't tell you the exact numbers, but some went from essentially zero net worth to owning property in the Bay Area.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/11/linkedin-buys-real-time-hos...
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Cool find. Added spatial dimensions always intrigue when presented visually (rather than logically or symbolically).

Edit: this makes me wonder what other eliptical orbits might look like. Would the 4-sphere have to rotate about the barycenter to give the effect of this: http://www.polaris.iastate.edu/EveningStar/Unit4/Graphics/Pi...
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Is that really that unusual? All foreign languages are taught this way in German schools.
There are still OEMs who will have to pay for it. I think the number of people who actually upgrade their version of Windows rather than just buying a new device is relatively small.
"Emergent demand" is the idea that there are people who would like to drive in the centre of big cities, and the only reason they don't is because the congestion is so bad.

This often comes up in the context of building more roads to alleviate congestion. It won't work, the theory goes, because when congestion reduces more people start driving, until the congestion reaches equilibrium again.

If buses take cars off the street and reduce congestion, the same argument applies; emergent demand will mean any cars taken off the street will soon be replaced.

Personally emergent demand has always struck me as a rather defeatist idea :)
> #00 Philips and a swiss army knife and you're sorted.

ThinkPads use #1 JIS Phillips screws almost everywhere, with some #0 JIS apparently used for internal parts. (I haven't encountered any #0 myself, just #1.)

#00 is definitely too small. You may be able to get away with it, but it's much easier and less likely to damage the screw heads if you use the right size driver.

The "JIS" is Japanese Industrial Standard, a slight variation from ordinary Phillips.

Wiha screwdrivers are my favorite; I use a #1 Wiha for all my ThinkPad work.

Here's a discussion:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/screwdriver-kit.5093...
Over here (Finland), the mandatory insurance covers passengers (and driver) also in your car, not just third parties. Different countries obviously have different practices. I can see that this is a problem in countries where the vehicle's insurance does not cover its own passengers.

(In fact, the mandatory car insurance here even covers personal damages of third parties at fault if they are pedestrians or are riding a bicycle; i.e. if a bicyclist runs a red light and collides with a car and hurts himself, the care cost is carried by the car's insurance. If the bicyclist hits a tree, the tree has no insurance... this applies to personal injuries only, not the broken bike. Any damage to the car is covered by the bicyclist's insurance if any.)
For the criterion of the title,
i.e., "where are they now?", from
the article and more, sadly, it
sounds like a Math Olympiad
is not a very good way to do well
on the criterion.

Why not very good? Because it looks
like the students are given what, for
the criterion, is poor direction
and use of time and effort.

E.g., when I look at my education
in math and its use in applications,
most of the best of the education
had nothing to do with anything
like a contest, especially a
contest in the early and mid teens.
Instead, the best education was
well selected, well presented
material into the best work in
math, e.g., via the best authors --
Birkhoff, Halmos, Rudin, Royden,
Neveu, Tukey, Kelley, Suppes,
Simmons, etc.

Or, my impression of encouraging
kids in their early and mid teens
to pursue math is to
give them some enrichment
material such as Pascal's triangle,
some number theory, various
puzzle problems, a lot of
recreational math, etc. Why?
Because mostly the people
directing the efforts and
selecting the materials are
not very well educated in math.

In simple terms, to have kids
do well on the criterion in the
title is just to have the kids
proceed along the main line --
get through the standard
high school material in algebra
and geometry, with some applications
to high school chemistry and physics,
and then move on to a fairly
standard college major in math --
calculus, modern algebra,
linear algebra,
advanced calculus,
ordinary differential equations,
advanced calculus for applications,
partial differential equations,
point set topology,
measure theory,
functional analysis,
probability, statistics,
stochastic processes,
etc.

Then that background
promises to be good for a good
answer 30 years later for
the criterion "where are they now"?
It is, but please note that OpenSSH uses very little of OpenSSL's code. None of the serious bugs lately had any impact on OpenSSH.
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By default you can only unlock 9 of the 25 tiles. Largely for performance reasons I think but there is a mod that will enable you to buy all 25 (2km x 2km) squares, giving you a 100 sq km area to build your city.
How does Uber exploit its employees? Nobody is making drivers sign-up for Uber. Nobody is keeping them signed-up by force.

The whole problem with Uber can be solved if governments deregulate the taxi industry. I absolutely agree that you need an insurance that covers the passengers, but what else except more frequent technical checks? Taxi licenses are an artificial way to control the supply, so I am adamantly against them.
I didn't say that. Regulation and vetting is there for a reason. It helps minimise the risks of several things. But it costs money.
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They're gonna cover 98% of cases. The rest can be picked up be remote operators.
And honestly their strong suit was never the software itself so much as the awesome ideas that came from the Will Wright, Jeff Braun, and their team. For instance, The Sims. Not a great game technically, not much innovation there are far as game play. In fact it's quite generic. But the idea of creating an AI-driven character that has it's own emotions, it's own life? That's legendary stuff. But they've always seemed to try to appeal to the masses, watering down their games to the point that they become boring over the years. Their games went from interesting complex simulations to disney-like worlds where everything is nicely polished, but not very intriguing.

And this doesn't even factor in all the mistakes that EA has made.
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I wonder why my searches never turned this up. I ended up making my own: https://github.com/alexbecker/password-strength
1000 times more risky as measure by what? People drive a car far more often than fly in a plane. I'm sure flying is still safer, but the comparison should take into account the differences.
The article says they "bought old NABI buses and refurbished them"

Replacing seats doesn't need structural changes to the bus - but if you've brought a coach that has six steps and a sharp right turn as you board, there's just no way to adapt them.
The examples you give are examples of privilege which benefit the wealthy [who happen to be mostly white] and the only thing that's affected is "rider comfort", which is not real value when you consider the business is a transportation company and not a day spa. There's no reason they can't offer an alternative. But the reason they can and do offer an alternative is pretentious.
What functionality do you lose if you build it with that option?
I don't really think that's a pattern.

I think it's a result in AAA development in general being in a slump.

If anything, I'd say Ubisoft (outside of one or two lone bright spots like Rayman) has been worse than EA the last few years, with the rotten cherry of Uplay on top.
The subsequent versions of Windows are far more locked-down/limited with respect to user control and customisation than XP, which is likely why it lasted for so long.
It makes it easier to order a taxi. For instance in the case of Germany, I've sometimes walked a distance simply because I'm not sure if my German is good enough to handle the phone call to the taxi dispatcher, or just because I don't know the number of the taxi company/dispatcher/order central. With an app, I know how to use it.
You're obviously not a "rock star" or "code ninja" then. What's next, you're not going to have tits in your slides ???
> Is that really that unusual?

In the US, yes. Or, at the very least, at my high school.

The other classes had weekly vocab quizes and grammar tests, with English instruction, whereas we learned German... in German.
How do you know that people can't live on the wages you are talking about? Why would people drive for Uber if they aren't profiting enough from the job?
From the article:

Disables and removes dependency on OpenSSL. Many features,
including SSH protocol 1 are not supported and the set of crypto
options is greatly restricted. This will only work on systems
with native arc4random or /dev/urandom.

I haven't dug into the source code, but I'd wager that the crypto options that remain are Ed25519, ChaCha20-Poly1305, etc. (Don't quote me on this, however.)
My, god people. The number of those supporting the useless regulation is so great it astounds me. If you want to regulate something as simple as driving people around, claiming drivers need licences, permissions and passing some sort of exams certifying they are indeed capable of driving cars with passengers, why don't we regulate something much more critical, like software development?

Software runs the world these days, you can't just let people with no licences write shitty code. Politicians and bureaucrats should join their forces and decide whether each individual programmer is of a certain level. If not, he is banned from writing code and should be fined or imprisoned if he ever tries to do that.

Or let's regulate musicians. You know, it would do good. I'm so tired of all these useless crappy bands that write all the same music, thinking they are different. Even though I don't listen to them I also think others shouldn't be listening to them too, as this influences people's tastes in a direction I cannot approve of. So yes, licences for musicians!