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> Most "desktops" today are in fact laptops, and the reason you want to have the CPU sit idle is battery time.

That's a fair point. I'd argue that ZFS doesn't chuck that much extra CPU time that most people would notice. However if you're one of those guys that likes to tweak your power settings to the nth degree, then ZFS probably isn't best. But those kinds of people are more likely to run a tiling WM instead of a full fat compositing desktop environment; and such like. So they're definitely not your regular desktop users

> If you're not pooling disks together but just have the built in disk, and usb hard disks that you conenct occasionally you don't get much if anything from ZFS, but you get the penalties it incurs...

You seem to have missed quite a number of useful ZFS features off your list. Ignoring deduplication (as that is extremely memory and CPU hungry), ZFS has snapshotting, checksumming, superblock recovery (even if your journal gets trashed, you can recover it), online data integrity checks (no annoying wait screens for fsck to run through), better compression algorithms than is supported in most other file systems...

I could go on, but suffice to say that ZFS is an improvement over many other file systems in other areas than just software RAIDing.

That all said, in an ideal world desktops would be running HAMMER (DragonflyBSD's file system) over ZFS. I do love ZFS, but HAMMER seems a slightly better fit for desktops / laptops as it has the aforementioned features but without many of the data centre stuff that home users wouldn't need. A better compromise. However I don't see much interest for HAMMER outside of Dragonfly.

> And it's not a substitute for backing up your disks either...

Nobody suggested it was. However ZFS does also have backup features built into it too.
From that list, a 2013 overview of the platform (pdf): http://blaauw.eecs.umich.edu/getFile.php?id=498

AnnArbor SmartZone funding, http://www.a2gov.org/departments/finance-admin-services/smar...

U of M test track for smart/autonomous cars, http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/03/univer...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Pg85UES...
Twitter now supports iPhone’s slow motion videos
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Techstars encouraged a US company to move from SFBA to London?
I love the Windows Phone/SkyDrive (or rather, OneDrive) sync, especially once 8.1 brought full resolution syncing. But I wish that when I deleted photos on my Lumia, it'd delete them on OneDrive. Means that I have to take every bad shot out twice.
Microsoft’s HoloLens Has the Potential to Be Transformative
These arent the most damning criticisms, you have to read the full reviews to get those.
Noooo, then you should hop over to Barcelona/Madrid.
> I know what you’re thinking. Why the f*ck would you move out of the mecca for startups?!?

Actually no, I can understand perfectly well why you would move out of a ridiculously expensive city - but not why you would move to one of the few cities on earth that is about equally ridiculously expensive.
Anyone who has ever lost or accidentally saved over a file should appreciate git. They might not appreciate the complexity of git, but they can see the purpose.
I assume in that case subscribers will have no qualms using ad-blockers.
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I didn't even consider that this might not be ARM. There's Cortex M0, M1, M3, M4 you'd be silly to call a product M^3 if it wasn't related. If not it would be lawsuit fodder because it certainly sounds too related to be coincidental.
It could also be said that mechanical watches are rubbish for keeping time compared to their digital counterparts. Always gradually moving away from accurate timekeeping, they must be rewound to keep proper time. They don't sync with the official time distribution services so are not guaranteed to be accurate.
You should checkout specialized job-boards for working abroad like http://jobsintech.io (Made the Front page couple weeks ago)
In most cases the kids will have a ball in a different country
I think they are great, would add Python + Django also .

students who choose RoR will have a very good advantage as there are many gems which can simplify the creating of SaaS apps .
May seem obvious to some, but just a warning. The southern hemisphere's seasons are the opposite to the north's, as are when summer internships happen.
IMHO the state of static type checking/code analysis in ruby is still deplorable and this (well known, rather trivial) approach won't ameliorate the situation. Even javascript has more to offer in this respect. Who would have suspected that 5 years ago.

Since I still like ruby's syntax, my hopes are that crystal (http://crystal-lang.org/) will one day become more mainstream (and maybe be adapted to some extent in mainstream ruby).
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We currently prohibit trade, and yet there are still drug dealers...
-Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline by Mary Shaw and David Garlan

-The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
LOL.

Or start a functional-reactive-concatenative-meetup group here
Honestly I'd pay $10 for youtube given the quantity of letsplay/podcasts I watch through yt. $10 is definitely not beyond the realm of possibility.
If you enjoy this, you might also enjoy the Smithsonian's 3D image library, with models you can download and print:

http://3d.si.edu/
Your LTV is wrong if you forget that you excluded these customers
Maybe people would subscribe so they could actually find what they're looking for. Good luck finding a specific movie or a series episode right now. It just doesn't work.
The most important item is completely out of stock :/
Oh I was paying attention (with the caveat that I started reading it late, around 2007 or so). I just happened to also understand the relevant legal aspects better than PJ and 99% of the posters, who, let's admit it, were software nerds like you and me. The difference is, I had familiarized myself with aspects of the laws in question, whereas most of the posters blindly spewed their ideological beliefs.

For instance, I enjoyed the essays by PoiR, which made a lot of germane references to case law and CS theories, but their premises had tenuous connection to legal reality at best. Or guest posts by mrisch, an actual legal scholar, whose posts were rewarded with comments no better than Slashdot, drowning out any thoughtful conversation. And even then, how many such essays were ever posted? If you thought most of the stuff posted there was good "signal", it probably just means you are not familiar with the legal aspects and enjoyed the content because it appealed to your biases.
I'm definitely not going to advocate that someone not try to better themselves. If you feel like you want to try to overcome some part of your personality that you're not comfortable with then that's a positive thing. I do, however, think that after multiple failed attempts at overcoming that trait, it's best to reevaluate your perspective on it. Sometimes it's best to admit that something is just a part of who you are and that it is, in fact, a flaw. Of course, we are all flawed in some ways, but it's how we learn to live with those admissions that will determine your self-esteem. Sometimes, even, what we think are flaws from one point of view are actually advantages when viewed from another. For example, procrastination is generally seen as a flaw or a "bad thing", but if you learn to take advantage of that by fully thinking out the problem you're actually trying to solve when you finally DO start working, you might might find that you create brilliant, innovative solutions to difficult things. Solutions that the non-procrastinator didn't think of because he was too fast to the keyboard.
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> relatively to all the history of humanity

I'm curious how you think that privacy is stronger now than any other time in history?

While the "small town" / "small group" effect was definitely present in the past, if you ran afoul of said group, you could always leave it (and the stigma) behind. Now the Internet allows people to inspect your history wherever you go. It becomes inescapable. This is something that has never existed in the past (aside from becoming so super-infamous that news travels between disparate groups, I guess).
Where does this Disco?
I was waiting for a project to attempt "perpetual" powering. Next: harvesting human heat ?
A much better workaround would have been to install SuperFish as that completely disables all certificate checking on SSL.
I think you misunderstood me.

What I meant was that contracts in a language like C# give me the ability to statically verify the program at compile time. It is not a "nicer way to add conditional testing logic" but a way to formally prove correctness in my programs.
I worked remotely from Tahiti for a few months. It was an amazing experience that I'll always cherish. Now I just need to convince my new boss to let me do this again somewhere else.

For those of you in the pacific time zone (sf bay). If you're interested in doing this, I recommend Tahiti or Hawaii. It's three hours off from pacific time during the summer months but only 2 hours off during winter. You can easily work a local time of 6-3 which would be 8-5 in PT. This gives you the rest of the day to enjoy paradise.

A tip on how to convince your boss to let you do this: Plan to go on a two week vacation somewhere. When asking for time off, ask your boss if they mind you working remotely for a couple weeks following your vacation. It might just work--and like in my case I found out that my boss didn't care if I stayed longer.
Done? France also ban advertisement on alcohol and cigarettes but the number of smokers isn't decreasing..

But I agree, drug use should be legalized but of course advertising for them (ANY kind of advertising) should be forbidden: note that this is problematic as many movie could be considered as a kind of advertising for alcohol, cigarettes, etc.
As an FYI, the Chromium bug has now been unrestricted for public viewing - https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=437642
9 Irish women CEOs and founders that are making their own startup luck
Math for eight-year-olds: graph theory and the Euler characteristic
Uber finally accepts cash – for autorickshaws in Delhi
The Internet of Things will aid criminals and burglars
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I've experimented with PlayCanvas and the upfront load time is a deal breaker. It feels bloated. Three is impressively small (although I know it doesn't try to do nearly as much).

Phaser, on the other hand, seems alright for 2D though their docs could be better.
Facebook Messenger unofficially available as OS X app
Tell HN: Monetizing Websites with Advertising Will Lead to Economic Collapse
(Reposted from an earlier comment.)

I am deeply concerned about the increasing quantity and intrusiveness of website advertisements.

Not that I and others find them unpleasant or obtrusive. I am convinced that today's ads are a "coal mine canary", warning us of impending economic collapse.

Via HN I recently found a chart of advertising spend as a proportion of the GDP since the 1920s or so. It is just about always 2%. So if the economy is booming, then advertising will boom in a sense, but only in a strictly limited way.

It is very easy to make a new website, it is not hard at all to attract people to it, but it is quite difficult to come up with ways to monetize a website other than by publishing ads.

Consider eCommerce - you need warehouses, people to ship the product, you have to deal with payment processing, keeping Kevin Mitnick out, backing up your DB.

My own site mostly has articles and essays. When I first tried AdSense in 2004, within just a couple of hours I could tell that I would earn three grand that month. Registering for then implementing AdSense was quite a lot easier than than selling physical products.

The total number of websites is growing far faster than either the GDP or the population, thereby yielding less and less advertising money per web page.

Typically, webmasters try harder to convince visitors to their sites to click their ads. Hence we have "Like us on Facebook" popups before we can even determine whether we actually _do_ like the content.

This House Of Cards is going to break down - and _soon_. I myself recently installed Privacy Badger and NoScript; I blackhole analytics servers in my hosts file: "127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com".

My own website would be an acceptable solution for some: I don't use it directly to earn money. I work as a coder, however my site helps me to promote my consulting services.

But there are many sites that are quite costly to operate. There isn't much they can do to cut those costs.
Totally unrelated, but I did a short contract about maths for a Ben who was based in Puerto Rico, was it you?
As does nagios' http check with the -c option. Basic monitoring helps solve so many problems.
...and the fact that it kind of suggests that you might not want to trust a Linux distro to get security right on your boxes if they are unable to fix their SSL certs after 3 days.
For a startup, outside of some very rare circumstances (inventory financing or equipment financing, with pre-existing great credit), you're not going to be able to borrow $225k with corporate liability. It would be entirely on the founders.

Having financed 2 businesses with personal liability (credit cards) and lost about $200k each time -- there are reasons you might not want to do this. It still makes sense in some cases. I'd probably do it again. It's probably not a good option for most people most of the time, especially if they can raise investment.

External investment also provides other benefits (validation, connections) that debt financing on credit cards doesn't.
I've recently had some luck using an old Microsoft Kinect and their free library of scanning software:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/

You can get a Kinect V1 on ebay for less than $30, but you need a graphics card that fully supports DirectX 11 and a somewhat powerful machine to scan objects. Unfortunately, you can't scan small objects because the Kinect goes blind a less than a meter, but I have been able to scan people and print out recognizable busts of them. I don't know if the Kinect V2 is any better.

Cubify has a portable handheld 3D scanner that looks like it might work well, but I can't afford the $400 to try it out:

http://cubify.com/en/products/sense
How does the twin deficits hypothesis fit into your world view? [1]

Capital inflow is due to a trade deficit, that is to a large part financed by government debt (taking in money from abroad).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_deficits_hypothesis
For what it's worth, Google has an office in Sydney (AFAIK this is where Google Maps was born).

Have you considered looking at a Working Holiday? This will allow you to stay and work in Australia for 1 year, 6 months per employer and can be extended to two years if you work on a farm for a little while. It's also easier to get a sponsored working visa (457, for 4 years) in Australia than in US.

Have a look at http://internships.com.au/ there's a bunch of good information on it!
All of us should meet up some time ;-)
Not to change the topic, but I've been thinking about doing the exact same thing with advertising tracking codes (e.g. DoubleClick). CookieSwappers of the World Unite.
I would probably also bring some Scala/Clojure stacks.

Otherwise the list seems quite ok.
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Great. Thank you for the information. I'll give it a try.
I predict there is much more to parenthood besides fostering adventure, unfortunately. Educational and social stability come to mind. Relocating your family for two entire months is easier said than done.
Just finished Nate Silver's "The Signal and The Noise". Interesting collection of prediction case studies, seeing what can and can't be effectively predicted. Good for correcting black-and-white thinking.

Currently reading "Naples 44", diary of an intelligence officer there just after the US landings. The author is classically trained enough to immediately fall in love with the place despite the war, so it's a strange mix of lounging around Paestum and the stark effects of war.

Next in queue: pick one to re-read from Iain M Banks or Pratchett.

(Presumably Clausewitz is in your reading list somewhere as well; his book is unfinished but contains both good quotes to mine and real insight into how few military problems are about actual fighting itself.)
Hey friend, I was just joking about "This is unacceptable." Sarcasm :) I do `rm -r -- /`. Very cool project.
It's currently legal to sell vaporizers
I don't want to offend anyone, but really Apple has become a lousy company. The single only thing that still flawlessly works is indeed the "glossy surface" (article).

Their hardware, sold as rock-solid, is partly flawed. My (and thousands of other users ) Macbook graphic card broke after 12 month.
The OS and their software has become bloated inconsistent and buggy.
Their customer service is so bad, it even beats some of the worst telecom companies in my country.
Their sales people are good looking but technically incompetent.
Some of Apples technologies (Applescript, Objective-C) are just awful.

I think Apple products and services are only usable, if you have a lot of money to throw around and if you don't really rely on them, but look at them as toys to play around.

Using Ubuntu and Android now, I can admit that the UI is not nearly as sexy. But stuff works or can be fixed in reasonable time.
I'm sure they would, but it's often a little more complicated than that. Who will pay for the wife and kids to move along w/ the office? Will you take the kids out of school for two months? They're not unsolvable problems but as someone with a 10 and 12yo kid it's definitely a legitimate concern. And saying "just say home, it was your choice to have kids" is a valid response, but that means you're forgoing the team building and being a "good fit" with your colleagues, which isn't awesome either. :-/
I did something similar once, but realized pretty quickly I had been in the wrong directory when I hit return after "rm -rf *" - I cannot remember why I realized so quickly, it's been over 20 years, but it seems to me I had multiple terminal sessions going (probably via screen) and freaky stuff was happening in one.

If I remember correctly, I was in /dev when I meant to be in a sub-directory I'd created for testing purposes. Some of the freaky stuff included losing command echo, e.g., since my TTY no longer existed.

Fortunately, since my work involved backups, modems, and a few other things, I had a pretty good grasp of major and minor numbers and was able to recreate my TTY using mknod. After that, panic dropped considerably and I could at least poke around and figure out exactly how borked the system was.

Another time, a colleague and I spent hours trying to restore from tape to a filesystem we were pretty sure was corrupted. We tried every trick we knew - and learned a few more along the way - but eventually, at least in part because we were stressed out and sleep deprived, we had something along the lines of the following conversation:

"The FS is borked, right?"

"Right."

"We're confident the backups are good, right?"

"Right." (We'd built the backup system, it was in use on hundreds of servers across the company, we'd never had a failed recovery....)

"So let's reboot into single user, newfs the disk, restore from tape, and boot back into multiuser."

"Uh..."

"I mean, we cannot possibly make things worse, right? This machine is thrashing."

"Yeah...."

"So?"

"OK."

It worked. When we returned to our senses, we realized we were lucky it had, realized we were deluding ourselves (we could have made things worse), and realized that if it hadn't of worked, we would have been fired in all likelihood: We'd made a decision way above our pay grade, as it were, with no management knowledge at all.

The next day, as far as they were concerned, we'd spent hours slaving after midnight to save a build machine and we kept the design group working. We just smiled, awkwardly.

Oi.
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> In casual conversation everybody understands that it doesn't mean "absolutely every company".

That's not true at all! There are lots of people (myself included) who tend to interpret things very literally, and would not recognize this subtlety. So not EVERY person understands that...

... oh. Never mind.
The book is Rainbows End.
It's both what's being offered and the frequency of it. Regardless, unemployment is high here so the quick cash argument is also valid.
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The problem with big companies such as Google who have offices in Australia is that they just ignore your application or will direct you to the European recruiter.
Thank you for the info about Working Holiday, I will indeed check it out.
How to generate 500 signups per month for B2B SaaS startup
Hopefully they will provide such functionality, but I don't think in the nearest future.
I'm all for banning ads for drugs (alcohol is a drug) and I support plain packaging for cigs (and other drugs) but let's not compare tobacco to weed as 1:1's. Marijuana appears to have REAL medical uses unlike tobacco. I know, I know there was a time where "doctors" said tobacco was fine for you or even good for you [0] but I don't feel like it's a fair comparison to what doctors are saying today about weed. I'd like to think we've gotten better as a planet about filtering out quack-claims about things like this. No doubt there are people claiming weed to be the end-all-be-all, cure-all drug and I agree those people are crazy or seriously misinformed but I do believe there are proven, legitimate uses of marijuana in regards to medicine and the medical profession.

[0] http://www.healio.com/hematology-oncology/news/print/hemonc-...
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I guess my first approach to that would not involve overloading the import statement.
Hopefully bup will implement something like that for the backuping.
It's not fundamentally reliable either.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_File_System
"The Catalog File, which stores all the file and directory records in a single data structure, results in performance problems when the system allows multitasking, as only one program can write to this structure at a time, meaning that many programs may be waiting in queue due to one program "hogging" the system.[2] It is also a serious reliability concern, as damage to this file can destroy the entire file system."

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7876217
Agreed, a lot of developers still use Perforce in my experience (my own indie studio included). I don't think this will make anything better for game developers generally. The big stumbling blocks are: Git is not artist/non-programmer friendly; and an inability to lock a file when editing (specifically binary files or files that are difficult to merge, e.g. complex level files like Unity's).
Thanks, this sound perfect. Exactly what I was looking for. Are you working for them? Do you have a contact to apply directly to?
Yeah, I can imagine that. They're probably overloaded with applications from all over the world (at any given office).

There are a lot of good tech companies in Australia! Good luck and let me know if you got any questions, I've been down here for almost 2 years on a sponsored working visa, it's lovely and not nearly as deadly as rumored :)
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