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I've been recently involved with a software procurement process /rfp recently.

The manager in charge of the process was A LOT more interested in CYA and selecting the product that had the most documentation to defend his choice (Gartner quadrants, other customers, etc.) than in taking risks or actually selecting the "best" product or sticking his neck for whatever he believed the best provider was.

Not unsurprisingly, Oracle and IBM provide a lot of what he needs to show upper management, and so tend to be in the discussion a lot.

You don't have to defend hiring IBM, but you DO have to defend using open source software X with support from local company Y. RedHat and similar do provide a level of "IBM-like" services for large companies, but most open source software doesn't have the support levels and on-site teams required (or sometimes IBM offers those !! Edit: as someone else pointed out, Oracle offers MySQL support too).

smtddr's point about having someone to phone is VERY true for these kind of conservative companies. (also, I've seen the kind of behaviour he documents about people trying to - and succeeding at - claiming credit for projects)
Well there is Zeitgeist in Ubuntu..
There's https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres-macros for PostgreSQL.
I am not sure how many people realize that stakes at these negotiations are asymmetric. If EU gives in to Greece's demands, then another EU nation might want to pull off something similar. So in a way a EU's loss would be amplified because of precedence set by this example. Furthermore, Greece could come back again for help because it could not fulfill the promises it makes after the current renegotiations (assuming the went through). In game theory's speak, someone's loss does not equal to someone's gain, which is means non-zero sum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory#Zero-sum_.2F_Non-z...).
sflacker has a library that does this for Postgres: https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres is the connection/query/etc part, and https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres-macros actually links with the postgres query parser to provide compile-time SQL syntax checking.
The hyperinflation ended in 1924, the Nazis took over in 1933.
There are exceptions to every rule, in Zimbabwe you could have 24/7 electricity and a fibre optic internet connection in some areas, and I can't even get fibre to my place in South Africa.
Really can't believe the diff here, nice catch.
It's a terrible broken system here in Australia. Being originally from Europe, the fact the you buy a house (or many houses for that matter) and the rent them out is completely beyond me. It's a system where e.g. 50% (or less!) of the population can own 100% of the property market.

But I get it, as long as the politicians have their hands in the property market as well, it will be, and remain, a broken system until eternity.
It's quite likely your friend uses a generator or inverter. It is quite likely 24/7.

Load shedding's occurrences have also only been something more recent (past few months).
I'm pretty sure they do have to respect the vote. EU bureaucrats are far too frustrated with the EU parliament for it to be merely symbolic
Urgh really? That is so disingenuous I actually feel a bit dirty after reading it. Sorry, but surely you are invoking the comparison to North Korea because you hope to argue against guaranteed income by association.

Also, a bowl of rice a day really is fundamentally different to a guaranteed income that can be spent as the recipient wishes. It is more like food stamps in the US.
There are also websites that try and pump up the currencies as get rich schemes.[1]

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/2gzafs/spou...
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And Europe doesn't have landlords?
völkisch means folk-like, meaning 'of the people/liked by the people'. The term predates, massively, any idea of race. In fact we have the same word in Swedish (folklig) and it has no politically incorrect air about it.
That is not a settled question, though.
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To me, the defining feature is automation. A "programmable" system is one where smaller actions can be composed into larger ones and saved for invocation later (by name, in response to some event, etc). I don't know much about photoshop, but judging from what people have said, it seems to meet this definition.

I will concede that "programming," in the sense of "I've been programming for the last couple hours" or "He isn't very good at programming" implies the use of a Turing complete language. Photoshop would probably fail here, along with more programmer-y things like writing html.
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Pretty sure the situation is the same in much of Europe. Used to be different in the UK but these days the housing market is now all but in the hands of buy-to-let rent seekers. I read recently a startling figure from one of the large estate agents in the UK - 60% of house purchases are cash purchases, no mortgage involved!

Oh and yes - UK politicians too really do have their hands in the property market. Over a third of them report rental income on the register of member's interests.
It makes me think of the typical "mooks" that you see in TV shows and movies. They're not there to pose any serious challenge to the protagonist; they're there to make the protagonist look good. He gets to show off, get the crowd on his side, and win. Later on, once their reputations are higher, they'll go up against serious contenders. The journeymen, of course, will go up against the next crop of up-and-comers.

Still, the fact that this exists means that boxing has a serious problem - their version of the minor leagues has such a dearth of talent that they have to resort to this WWE-style entertainment to make a name for themselves. You don't see this with MMA; there are enough people willing to fight earnestly that they don't need it.
Like all entertainment, there is a power law distribution to income. If you're, say, the 20th best in the world in a solo sport you probably do ok but earn orders of magnitude less than the best player. It makes better financial sense to participate in team sports if you can, for this reason. Or just get a job in something like tech where the distribution is much more equitable.
Did you have to do this on a whiteboard or paper as part of the interview process for your job? The point: not being able to do this on a interview in completely contrived circumstances with all the anxiety that comes with close scrutiny of a person who had the power to determine your future career is not a good gauge of your ability to do so when matters, given all the resources we as developers generally afford ourselves.

My biggest problem is that the vast majority of these tests is they only test two skills, neither of which is all that critical to software development beyond a certain minimum threshold: recollection and pattern matching known solutions to familiar problems. In my current level of competency with a decade of tenure in software development is this: if you're asking me to solve problems which I can easily "solve" with a few minutes of searching the web, you probably don't want or need someone like me whose spent the majority of their career on big projects which require a multitude of disciplines from being creative to quantifying results to forethought of future use to systematically testing and releasing at a minimum of risk....

What I find ironic is that I've never been tested on some of the few rote tasks which I find most developers struggle with: committing/branching/merging/commenting code, producing post release documentation, developing robust API functions, etc etc
Ah you were the one that created that whitehouse backdoor! Thanks for that!
The problems the Greeks face are a lot more complicated than that. For one previous governments (ages ago) manoeuvred things in such a way that future Greek governments would end up holding the bag for their unsustainable and populist measures.

The 'austerity' policies you put between quotes hit the regular Greek population where it hurts and meanwhile do nothing whatsoever to really affect the future of Greece in a positive way.

To see the problem in financial terms applied today only is to miss the wood for the trees, this problem goes back decades.
Can confirm UK ISP was unable to reach arxiv imgur mit or nytimes.

Ycombinator and reddit were A OK though.
It's great to see this kind of point made in articles intended for the public, rather than imply causation where it has not been shown. I feel that this is a major step forward for popular science reporting; the journalist deserves credit here. Another great example from the same article:

“Risk doesn’t mean cause,” he notes. “These are risk factors helping us to understand ideological pathways — but not a cause in itself.”
Well, sure, and that's what I did, but the meat of the problem was the validation. E.g. couldn't assume that required fields would be present.
We published a huge list of conferences at http://techconfs.co. List has not been updated yet for 2016 dates, but maybe you can find some new conferences of interest on the site.
We don't share any code between the microservices.
>BERSERKR is a persistent backdoor that is implanted into the BIOS and runs from SMM

Yeah that sucks.. the BIOS is never out of the picture thanks to the SMM. Intel should find an alternative solution for the minor functions provided by the SMM (APM, thermal management, etc.).

Also from wiki: "Due to this fact, it is a target for malicious rootkits to reside in,[10][11][12] including NSA's "implants"[13] which have individual code names for specific hardware, like SOUFFLETROUGH for Juniper Networks firewalls,[14] SCHOOLMONTANA for J-series routers of the same company,[15] DEITYBOUNCE for DELL,[16] or IRONCHEF for HP Proliant servers."

And using the TPM may not help you:

>TPM Vulnerabilities to Power Analysis and An Exposed Exploit to Bitlocker

"The ability to obtain a private TPM key not only provides access to TPM-encrypted data, but also enables us to circumvent the root-of-trust system by modifying expected digest values in sealed data. We will describe a case study in which modifications to Microsoft's Bitlocker encrypted metadata prevents software-level detection of changes to the BIOS"

Though it sounds like they need physical access to do this.
No, a small laser won't fry a normal camera. And how will you know where all the cameras are anyway? Also that would be very illegal.
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No, sorry, I was unclear, using an existing parser was fair game. The meat of the problem was on the validation/actually get data into the DB side.
It's not DNS - it's how the actual packets are supposed to get between you and the server, that got messed up.
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But how many of those do we see on the market today?
I, personally, do not think ISDS should exist at all. It constitutes an undermining of democratic self-determination.
Pretty much anything about politics degrades rapidly, which is why politics is 'off topic' in the guidelines.
nanog thread:
http://seclists.org/nanog/2015/Jun/586

Basically what's happened here is that Telecom Malaysia told one of Level3's networks (AS3549 - Global Crossing) that it was capable of delivering traffic to... anywhere on the Internet. Global Crossing apparently didn't have the usual sanity checks in place.

Because of how BGP works, once GBLX decided the route seemed reasonable, it immediately proceeded to dump huge amounts of traffic on the tiny Telecom Malaysia. This isn't incorrect behavior on GLBX's part (accepting the routes was incorrect, but sending the traffic was correct once they were accepted). This is way more traffic than Telecom Malaysia was prepared to handle.

Every tier 1 network gets rid of traffic as soon as possible (because it reduces their costs), completely ignoring performance or whether a route seems sensible. Telecom Malaysia therefore claimed to the most attractive route from anywhere near Malaysia to most of the world.

Level3 is one of the biggest telecoms in the world -- and in fact the biggest by far in that region. This means that most of the Internet probably stopped working for anyone anywhere near Malaysia.
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Dragonfly has some pretty significant hardware advantages for passthrough and FOV, but the biggest challenge is really at the software level, which is common to all our devices. (Full disclosure: lead writer at Leap)
There is no shared code (aside from dependencies, which are managed independently) - the "master" repo is simply a list of git refs (by way of submodules), and a script to bring up the services.

Microservices must be compatible with each other. We cant simply bring up the latest version of "microservice A", because comsuming "microservice B" may not have been updated to account for API changes (which are enforced by testing contracts). Thats what this master repo is for, to track which microservices work with each other.

Obviously, the master application is dependent on the microservices. Microservices are dependent on specific versions of other microservices, etc. That is the problem I am trying to solve.
I wish javascript had some kind of flag so you could get it to act sanely. All the comparison operators would work like they do in sane languages; type conversion wouldn't be quite so automatic and insane, etc.
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Unless the standard's changed in the years, we (South Africans) view Zimbabweans as having a very good education system, extending to math literacy. Perhaps that view might be biased as most of the Zimbabweans we would be exposed to (or any other country really) would be the 'cream of the crop' due to the best and able affording to get scholarships to study in other countries.

BTW, I'm 25, so I'm talking about things that I've seen in varsity from 7 years back to this day where I interact with varsity students.
I've spent the last three years either working for a company actively implementing facial recognition (and other biometrics) into both security/identity products and consumer retail products or just researching biometric technology in general.

I've come to the conclusion that there won't be a great shift forward in these technologies until someone comes along and completely reinvents the concept of privacy itself. I've seen retailer after retailer try to implement improvements to consumer experience (either through beacons and directed coupons or through some sort of identity recognition) only to be met with ENORMOUS backlash [1] from consumers freaking out because the store can tell where they are in the store at any given time. In security, iris recognition, voice recognition, and facial recognition are all methods of identification that cannot be stolen and yet all are methods of identification that freak people out to no end. They'd rather carry around an ID that can be stolen, copied, and sold on the black market thus ruining their financial livelihood for the rest of their lives than switch over to a more reliable biometric based method of identification

Privacy as we knew it is dead. It died a long time ago; hell you could probably argue that it started to die the first time anyone published a phone book because if I knew your name then I could figure out where you lived. Biometrics, to me, is a recapturing of privacy and personal identification because you no longer have to worry about relying on third parties to protect your identity (which is obviously not working [2]), YOU ARE YOUR IDENTITY. Your face, your voice, your fingerprint, your iris, all of these things cannot be spoofed and are uniquely yours and cannot be taken away from you.

As for the article, this is a perfect example of the kinds of things that require a reinvention of the notion of privacy. Used to be if you were captured on camera in public no one knew who you were unless someone you knew saw that picture and could identify you. Now with facial recognition, that's not possible anymore. But Pandora's box has been opened and it cannot be shut again so articles like this just seem totally pointless in light of that- they're missing the fundamental issue that facial recognition is a thing that exists and it's not going to stop existing just because we're all unsure how we feel about it. Yes I absolutely agree that facial recognition needs to be an opt-in where it can be, like on Facebook or Twitter or whatever. However we're living in a time when absolute right to privacy and anonymity in public no longer exists, and we need to figure out how to navigate that fast or else all of this biometric technology that can and should be used to make life easier is going to be regulated all to hell and we'll be stuck in paranoia-ville and afraid to leave our homes.

[1]http://consumerist.com/2013/05/10/nordstrom-decides-to-stop-...
[2]http://www.cnbc.com/id/102752205
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Atlas Shrugged is indeed mind blowing. The reason is because you can actually see this sort of thing happening (depending on where you are, in my case, Brazil).

It gave me a new respect for entrepreneurs.
The cosmological principle works when considering a large enough scale. A solar system of a particular type of star, even though that star is pretty average and unremarkable, is not really large enough.

Although the numbers are indeed not too far off.
It's a serious idea, presented in a sarcastic way.

Defaulting on all Euro debts, exiting Europe, bankrupting the banks, issuing a new currency is a viable solution. Yes it's a horrible hang over to live through but it means removing the horrendous debt burden for the next 50 years. See how Greece is having trouble with every IMF payment in the past few months? If the EU has its way Greece will continue paying chunks of cash like those for decades to come. Better to burn everything down and start over. They might even pick up some Russian and Chinese financial support along the way.
There's a big difference between accidentally breaking something and doing it intentionally.

I think some people get too caught up on blaming individuals for accidents. Which I think stems from the culture of litigation and offsetting unforeseen costs. While there obviously should be processes in place to prevent accidents from happening, gross negligence aside I do also think we should stop hunting down individuals to compensate our own greed.
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You have to do the Dr Evil voice when reading those denominations aloud
Transparent screens are definitely the way forward, but don't discount the possibilities of camera-to-screen passthrough within Gen 1 VR devices. Ultimately the distinction between AR and VR is going to dissolve to the point where it's just different ends of a spectrum -- add enough objects and backgrounds to the real world, and you get a virtual world.
That's ridiculous. By that type of metric Comcast is the #1 isp.
I'm pessimistic about the chances of TTIP being stopped. For all the public outcry and actions of those brave politicians standing against it, I have a feeling that negotiations will side with the money.
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Sounds like you manage this manually.
Why not have a CI server (travis, jenkins, w/e) build each microservice seperately (e.g. after a push to master) and then attempt an app release with all microservices?

You can also do parametric jobs in jenkins which could allow combining arbitrary microservices versions

Or just version your APIs and declare explicitly what microservice uses what version of the API to communicate with the other service.
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Hope you'll give it a shot; Image Hands significantly reduces the kinds of jitters that can ruin a decent user experience. In case you haven't yet, be sure to calibrate and optimize your tracking: http://blog.leapmotion.com/troubleshooting-guide-vr-tracking...
ISDS isn't the only problem with the treaty, though. It's just another problem that highlights how much TTIP would empower corporations at the detriment of private citizens.
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I'm not from a Ruby/Lisp background, so I don't know how symbols are typically used, but the explanation of why symbols are required is to prevent collisions if two libraries chose to use the same property name; so given that, what is the point of the Symbol registry? I don't understand what the value of a symbol that is referenced by a string is, over simply using the string?
Not just in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_laws

In France in particular, there's a full ban in public places, even if there's no gathering.
You'd have to find a way to make it worth their while, which applies not just to Chinese people but to anyone. You could try providing the software as a web service with a recurring subscription fee, especially if the application is inherently not useful off line, such as a messaging service. Another possibility is to have an idea that's so great it gives someone a competitive advantage, and then let customers pay you not to provide it to anyone else, which is sort of like what hedge fund managers do.
I just remembered, GBLX was bought by L3 a few years back - I'm guessing someone has a "tighten up route maps for GBLX ASN" ticket open in their backlog at the Level 3 NOC.

The people managing peering for AS 3356 and AS 3549 should be the same group, no? ("That DB we don't share the URL of" seems to imply as much.)
Oh cool, an in-memory lightweight NOSQL database. In the context of pervasive computing I can see its multiple use cases. A embedded device with limited computing capabilites would be able to store, process and act on sensor data in near real-time.

Can this database be also embedded in applications?
I'm implementing a Forth-like language in Z80 assembler. I implemented a Basic when I was younger (... +-30 years ago) and I must say it's quite painful to do... Even an emulator which makes crashing painless, it feels harder than I remember it back in the day.
It avoids mathematical formulas, okay, but that doesn't make it plain English. I read the first sentence at least three times and I am still not absolutely sure that I didn't miss something and it says something (slightly) different then I think.

I then only read a couple of sentences every couple of pages and the impression I got was that it is essentially as technical as any axiomatic definition just without the clarity and compactness of mathematical formulas.
Strange coincidence, I just read a reddit comment discuss how studies linking iron deficiency to autism are not very significant.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/39iyys/in_a_study...
If you just make sure to always use === then this is exactly what happens. You can use tools like jslint to warn you if you accidentally use ==
The question is: Who paid for the studies. We in Europe where told how much we could get from TTIP -- afterwards, the EU had to revise the figures again and again. Also it was predicted, that people in the EU will have 500 EUR extra per year ... but nobody guarantees, that everybody will have the same figure.

I predict, that it will go like with the Mexico treaty. I lately saw a documentary about it and they said, that some people in Mexico have more money -- but the poor people have less, since many farmers are in disadvantage because of the treaty. Also many workers have disadvantages, because worker prices have dropped on both sides of the border.