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It really depends of the Idea, genuine idea executed well, is priceless, even simple Ideas, but no matter how good your execution of a bad Idea is, well you won't get anything valuable out of it, maybe just loosing time and money, and considering that without Idea, there's no execution, ideas are worth a lot. The problem is: there are not really that much good Ideas as people like to think.
Dogma was not done by a comedy group and was not funny. Or insightful. Or good in any way.

So no Dogma, should not be compared to Life of Brian.
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Did that law get passed?
AT&T isn't an iPhone. I have an iPhone on SFR and it works fine. If the network is built properly than any phone should be able to use it just fine.

I certainly hope Apple disconnects themself from that deathstar and chain called AT&T. Because everywhere else (except maybe the UK where O2 had the exclusive) the iPhone works just fine.
why "no other company has been able to"

I gonna take a wild guess that it's because Apple folks don't want to hear Steve Jobs say those magic words.
Ask HN: Achieving high security and privacy by daily re-imaging of your system
I'd like to have my system re-imaged every single day (for
example, automatically every night, or whenever I shut it
down, or just before I travel with it).

Why do I want to do this? Because it cleans up the system
and instantly gets rid of all malware, junk, and hidden
data. By hidden data I mean temp files, URLs, snapshots, and
buffers written out by browsers, editors, media players, etc.

If you start searching for hidden data, you'll find that
there is plenty of private information that is not found by
"cleaning" programs like CCleaner.

I'm focusing on Windows here but my question can apply to
Mac and Linux as well.

How to achieve it? I've thought of 4 ways:

(1) Carefully create a complete system (OS and applications)
on a virgin disk and then run it as a read-only disk. I'm
not sure that Windows can be set up like this since it
needs to write to the registry and other places.

(2) Carefully create a complete system on a virgin disk
and image that disk over to your "working" disk whenever
you want to refresh your working system. The working disk
is writable, so Windows will be OK.

(3) Write a script that first wipes your disk and
re-installs, one by one, the OS and all your applications
from a trusted source (like a DVD or a read-only external
drive) by running the actual install programs, and then
applies all your settings (i.e., options, preferences,
defaults).

I already maintain a readme file that documents the settings
I use in every app I install, and it is not a huge list in
my case. In some apps, settings can be applied only through
the GUI so this could be a hassle to set up.

(4) Create a VM that has the OS, applications, and settings
that you like, and start a fresh instance of this VM whenever
you feel the need.

In all of these cases, I'm assuming that the user maintains
a clean separation between his data and the apps/OS. In my
case, all my data lives on a separate volume. (Even data
can be untrustworthy--like JPEG images that cause buffer
overflow exploits and macros in Word documents--but let's
leave that issue aside for this question.)

I see pros and cons with each of the methods above.

What are your thoughts?

Which way would give good security and privacy, but not
entail a huge hassle?

Is there a commercial or free product that already does this?
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I can think of some sort of hypothetical scenario:

I'm using my Android phone loaded with some sector-specific application that's, let's say, not written so well. Occasionally, when I go scan something at the factory with it, it takes a while to process because there's more data than the author thought there would be (or something like that), and the application hangs for a few seconds before returning an answer that I need to do my job.

I'm just playing devil's advocate though, I have no idea how common that sort of thing is or if it should be the default behavior. Just that in an open environment, there might be some less than stellar applications that the user should be able to control, rather than the phone.
a lot of places that are subject to FOI requests have policies in place to delete emails more than X months old (where X is given as part of the policy). Keeps costs down more than anything I think - FOI can be very expensive and time consuming (although it is a good thing).
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I think these kinds of harsh reviews are where a video would really come in handy.

Mostly because it seems like it's almost too horrible to believe. Also (though fanboys will never truly accept the problems) it's just too easy for them to respond with 'you're doing it wrong!'

This account does speak to some specific points, but I'd be nice to see some clear examples that all can see and discuss, instead of just describing general experiences. Shouldn't be too hard to collect, either, if the phone is consistently this bad.
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Who would have known... it really is an OS.
Isn't this the place where microsoft can both innovate and hurt google ?
Some ad replacement technology that replaces unusefull or distractring ads , with more usefull ads , and probably in less quantity.
There biggest advantage over google here is that they don't depend on advertising money , so they can select add experience that is best for their users.
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The iPhone doesn't have to deal with this because it doesn't support multitaskeng, hence an app becoming "unresponsive" isn't such a problem. To be honest, I would be rather angry if the OS shut down my browser process just because some image-heavy website slowed it down for a few seconds.

One of the reasons I like Android is that I got more control over stuff and I know I'm not alone. Some people don't like the Apple "we know what's right for you" mentality. My point is, people are different, there's no "average phone user". This is not a question of technical skill as there's really nothing technical in "wait" and "force quit". Some people like to be in charge, some people don't, personally I do.
but at least they offer your money back, most don't.

Well, my point is that this money back is basically worthless: say, at some point, your server was down for 4 hours, and you pay $100 / month. This means you would get $0.55 refund for 4 hours of downtime. I'm sorry, but to me that sounds like "we guarantee this amount of uptime, and we back it up by absolutely nothing!".

Not that I expect my damages to be repaid, not at all, but a webhost's availability guarantees are only as good as the money they put in to back it up. If they would, for example, promise to pay back a month of service fees, it would not recover my damages, but at least shows they're a lot more serious about the guarantees they're giving.

Anyway, I do not have anything against Linode, not at all: it's just that I'm wary whenever a webhost is this unclear about availability guarantees. I probably had a few too many bad experiences in the past.
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Every company invents. even incumbents.
Google can upstes so many industries because it's business model enables it to give stuff for free(or less then free).
I don't see how this means that Gladwell wasn't in error. All it says is that the webmaster missed the error when he uploaded the text version to the site. So what? he/she's a webmaster, not a copyeditor.

The error had to come from somewhere originally, right? It couldn't have come from the correct version that appeared in the magazine or its PDF version. The comment mumbles something about HTML editors and their "errors", but it's ridiculous to suggest that an HTML editor would change 'eigenvalue' to 'igon value' when automatically importing text from PDF. No sane program would do that, least of all an HTML editor. It couldn't have been an autospell error either because "igon value" isn't in any spellcheck list.

No, it remains likely that "igon value" was there in the article as Gladwell wrote it, got fixed by the New Yorker's famously punctual fact-checkers, and the fix was ignored by Gladwell as the original text version was posted to the site and later made it to the book.
Thanks! I take it there's no reference to Bel Air either?
Isn't it possible to do that with any program with no external dependencies?
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Yes. There are two parts to this: parties in a trial are free to present any evidence to the court, no matter how it was obtained.

However, the court alone decides the value of the evidence presented, and thus the weight it places in such evidence.

Obviously statements from people suspected to be coerced in some way is not considered high-value evidence.
Apparently, you aren't supposed to know that IPCC's climate change reports are based on raw data that was lost some time in the 1980s. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article693... This article makes no mention of that fact.

You are supposed to know that the overwhelming consensus of scientists blah, blah, blah. How the author can gauge the scientific consensus and find it unchanged, less than a day after this information was released, is quite beyond me.

I'd be willing to bet that the overwhelming consensus of scientists today is that climate research needs an open audit, right now, to see which of its conclusions are based on tainted data and which aren't. Until such an audit is conducted, no one knows what we know.
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Maybe the guy has a defective phone. It doesn't seem that his experiences line up with anyone else's. My 'underpowered' 192MB HTC Magic certainly doesn't have these problems. Seems strange of him to assume that this is the experience that many others are raving about.
actually, the iPhone OS does support multitasking, and it's used quite heavily. you can start a call, then the phone app continues to run in the background while you start something else. the iPod app runs in the background playing music while you're running other apps. and so on.

even if iPhone didn't allow multiple apps to run at once, it would still have to deal with crashes. it handles them by unceremoniously quitting the dead app and sending you back to the home screen.

claiming that an average user should be able to know what to do with a dialog box that gives the options 'wait' or 'force quit' ... man, that sort of thinking by competitors is exactly why apple keeps winning all the time, isn't it.
I really like where Assaf has gone with this, and am interested to see what he comes up with as time goes on.
In Britain? Nah. The UK has become less gymnophobic over time, not more.
Perfect example of the kind of straight-forward writing that is needed to help people to help people understand what's going on. It'd be great to see writing like this used to explain evolution clearly. (It may exist, certainly should exist, but I've never seen it.)
Yes, it is. But it does a disservice to science by putting "skeptics" outside the wire. Science is skeptics. Science is the relentless asking of the questions "why?" and "how?" Science is what's left when the dross of human fallibility and uncritical thinking is boiled away in the cauldron of intense public scrutiny of underlying data.

This isn't the "best" way that scientists should respond to skeptics, it's the only way that a true scientist can respond. Anything else is just playing at science, dressing up opinion as theory, or argument from authority.
Losing data is rather suspicious when your private conversations include many direct mentions of how you would prefer to delete data rather than give it up to your opponents.
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Not bad... but unfortunately the part it leaves out is critical (at least for me). How do you get that formula at the end?

This, unfortunately, is the problem with a lot of "make math easy" articles. The topic itself is not easy, so at some point, you need to bring in tough math. What I dislike is that the article doesn't make it clear how critical that bit is.
The problem is that making every single conclusion open for debate (while good in theory of course) lacks a mechanism for the crackpot problem.

Is it a good use of your time to argue with people who believe in astrology? How do you draw the line between a crackpot or idiot, and a serious dissenter?
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Make up (or find) as much gnarly, twisted data as needed to throw at your code to convince yourself that it will respond gracefully no matter what comes along. (Then if you can, get someone else to.) If it can't - or you can't test all conceivable ways it can fail - then you need to either rethink your design or switch languages.
And any non-deterministic algorithm (that ignores the values of cards) will return to its original state with probability 1...? Do you need to add an extra caveat to this?
>> "no one knows what we know"

One thing I don't really particularly understand is what value the knowledge would be.

We already know we should use less energy, be more efficient, use cleaner energy. You can't really argue against those. Anyone who thinks we should continue burning coal/oil/etc forever isn't thinking straight.

But what is the aim of climate research? Just say it reported "We'll all explode in 10 years". What are the chances we'd be able to all group together and change the climate ourselves? What if it went wrong? Doesn't seem wise to me.

Obviously I can see some uses - eg if it's expected to be a lot hotter for the next 10 years, then we can plan for that etc. But the amount of money being poured into the research seems a bit over the top for the likely return.
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To take your example, a restaurant, the most important factor in success is how well the kitchen works. That requires a solid head chef. How well will that chef run a business when he or she's also running a kitchen? That requires them to specialize in two domains, rather than one.

There's a reason why corporations are more efficient than coalitions of self-employed singletons operating in a free market. The transaction costs kill you. In order to specialize with sufficient depth to compete in pretty much any non-local market, you necessarily must either work for someone else, or hire many other people to work for you - and thereby make your specialism planning, coordination and managing, rather than anything else.
I still maintain that Java is not a good choice for a mobile OS. Dalvik might be the best Java VM ever in the history of personal computing, but it's still just a VM. It cannot beat native code, especially on a mobile device like the Droid. I think GCC is smart enough at producing fast, tight machine code. And then there's LLVM. Why choose Java?

<BEGIN RANT>

I'm sick of people going on about how programmer productivity is more important than performance. I seriously don't give a fuck about programmer productivity. I only care about the end product. You have a 600MHz processor with about 128megs of RAM on your mobile device, and you still can't make it perform well? There was a time when desktop computers were slower than that, and programmers optimized the hell out of their software to make it perform acceptably on the limited hardware. I can't believe that a company like Google can't make Android perform at least acceptably, if not blazing, fast.

<END RANT>

I consider performance a feature. If it's not fast, I'm not using it. This is how I choose my desktop software, and this is how I choose my mobile devices. Currently, I'm looking at some Symbian devices. Symbian might not be the best mobile OS, but it's extremely responsive even on my mum's ancient Nokia 6600.

EDIT: removed offending "bring on the downvotes" comment.
Wait, what? Development IS fun. Bull$#@! corporate politics is not. (And yes, I understand the nature of humanity and all that.)
I've been wondering why it is so easy to stay motivated in repetitive games, but not in work. Maybe it is time to add bonus quests, experience points, badges and leveling to the issue tracker.

Or maybe not - by now I am actually sick of that kind manipulation, to the point that I don't even want to try foursquare.
@olefoo is right.. Open source is definitely a tactics! For startup inc, it is a excellent to build a product to sell for profits.

The same is for Enterprise Software... it is also a tactics..
And for good writing in general, read Orwell's Politics and the English Language.

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

2. Never us a long word where a short one will do.

3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Full essay:
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html
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I'm upvoting, but go take a deep breath. The world will not turn on you just because you like your software to be fast.
The problem is idiots, managed idiots.

C devs read way, way, way too much into performance issues with managed environments. I'm currently running a large system on an embedded device using a managed environment and its FINE. However we have been careful about our implementation.

The problem is when less "able" teams are able to use managed code to create software on an embedded device. They can be utterly careless with the resources on the device as they are commonly used to playing with desktop where you can get away with a lot.
They then create something that doesn't work very well and the C hackers point and laugh and state that managed software and embedded devices is a no-no.

If anything managed teams just need to appreciate the limitations of the device and be more careful when assessing what toys to use. Do that and the managed world is full of win.

Update: "Idiot" is probably a bit harsh. "Naive" is probably a more apt description.
Yes, it is. I've had embedded systems boot straight into busybox like shells for example. Even more fun, the system didn't have a BIOS at all (it was hard wired to just jump into a location in flash, were we placed the Linux second stage boot loader to uncompress the kernel image to RAM, which then executed the shell immediately. Even the shell was really mostly there to aid debugging - in production use it'd immediately spawn the main app for the system.

As long as the kernel has whatever drivers you need compiled in instead of as modules, and as long as your app either doesn't directly or indirectly spawn lots of child processes or if it does it takes care of wait()'ing for them, and as long as you don't need any getty's (without spawning them yourself) there's no problems tearing out everything and replacing it with a self contained static app.
Sorry, went a bit overboard there :)

Performance is something I feel strongly about. At this point, people who know me are sick of my rants on how product X is too slow.
If an app crashes on Android, of course there are no questions asked. We're talking about unresponsive apps, not crashes. And as far as I know, the iPhone only allows "system" apps to be background apps. You can't listen to Spotify while browsing.

About the other issue: I think Apple "keeps winning all the time" because of the combination of the consistent experience they deliver bundled with a competitive line of auxiliary services (such as iTunes or the App Store) and very strong branding. There's nothing wrong with that, but I don't think that artificially limiting the choices available to the user is a huge contributing factor.
The email you're referring to is fairly embarrassing, but not being able to supply some source data from ~25 years ago still doesn't exactly look like a smoking gun to me. Storage was much more expensive and unwieldy back then.
>>I don't think he will break religion's special status by attacking the beliefs of people.

The only data point I know well enough to talk about (Sweden) contradict your hypothesis. The "Swedish Dawkins/Russel" was the philosophy professor Ingemar Hedenius in the 1950s. He almost made Dawkins look like a bible thumper.

It did work well... and Sweden 60 years ago was probably about as religious as the Midwest is today.

I see no reason to give old magical ideas like Xianity, Judaism, the Asa religion or Islam more respect than new ones like Scientology.
It is important to automate the downstream processing so that you can perfom it both on the raw data and on the cleaned data. This lets you investigate the sensitivity of your conclusions to your various assumptions.

For example, if the conclusions are supported by the cleaned data but not the raw data, you need to worry about whether you have accidently written your conclusions in by hand during the cleaning process. One way to investigate this is to have two cleaning scripts, a lax one that only does no-brainer corrections, and a strict one that makes those delicate judgment calls. Then you can reprocess. If lax cleaning of the data supports your conclusions then they are fairly secure. If this sensitivity analysis reveals that the difference between lax and strict cleaning matters to your conclusions, then you groan, because you have waded into muddy waters and things are much harder than you initially thought. Maybe you have to recruit an assistant to clean the data blind, without knowing what the "right" answer is, or maybe you need to go on field trips to do direct checks on instruments.

If your research has important and expensive implications for public policy other people will want to do this kind of sensitivity analysis themselves and reach their own conclusions.
>>Indeed, what chance has she? Mr. Dawkins speaks as if being a Catholic is equivalent to being dead.

Well, Dawkins doesn't believe in brainwashing defenseless children to believe things without testable basis.

(If you consider that a strange position, well... it do say something.)

At least these days, the kids probably don't have a large risk of getting mental problems for life by being sexually abused by the religious teachers...
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