I dunno, I've been doing linux since the slackware days, and I remember when Microsoft was astride the world, bullying everyone.
In this case, for Skype specifically the underlying tech is ReactXP https://github.com/microsoft/r... (which just takes react-native and extends it to the web) and is not just open source but pretty righteously herded by Eric Traut on github with respect and fast merging of contributions on a valuable project.
I'm having a hard time feeling indignant about the behavior here, rather I'm using ReactXP in a project of my own because it's good tech with a good license and good community management. Even if it feels like hell just froze while I'm doing it;-)
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You may like some of the Doctorow books - Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom for instance - I think they are on the strangely-named http://craphound.com/
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I've enjoyed all the books so far - the Atrocity Archives in particular and I haven't read the Jennifer Morgue yet but I'm looking forward to it.
Peter Watts is also pretty good for a nano- look at future crime.
Cypherpunk is what "they" are pigeonholing the genre IIRC.
It gets Cory Doctorow and the boingboing crew going as well, which must be worth some whuffie
I have often thought of writing up a FAQ. I haven't done so yet though.
Your mileage will be pretty high if you do your commute - as long as you recognize that and take it seriously, I think you'll be fine.
The first thing to do is think like a cyclist I think - with regard to clothing. Padded shorts. A good fit on the bike etc. No elevation change is good - you can take it easy on the way in and not be sweaty at all, that's a major plus. Otherwise you have to shower and stuff, a significant drawback. If you intend to do the ride in the rain too, you'll want fenders and good rain clothes. The goal isn't to stay dry (nearly impossible!) but to stay warm (very possible, and the only important thing really) I'd also put in a vote for a bike bag rack, and a good bike bag. I use a bag from Arekel Overdesigns that I like a lot. It's the briefcase model and fits a 17" macbook pro perfect.
Once you think you have everything set, do the ride some time when it isn't important, like the weekend as a dry run. Make sure it's okay. Then just go for it:-)
Other things, if you're in the dark, lots of lights, both directions and sides if possible. Make sure people know exactly where your rote takes you in case there are problems (flats or an accident). Make sure you're good at changing a tire on the side of the road (practice while watching TV if you're not)
If any of these is too simplistic, sorry - I have no idea what cycling skills you've got under your belt already, if it's already sounding too complicated, maybe look around for a bike club in your area - there must be one - and make friends there. Those types are always willing to help with advice
You may have been going for funny, but on a factual basis this is FUD
Horsepower will not factor in a collision, unless as a contributor to speed, but we'll assume speed is capped by speed limits and both vehicles are capable of attaining the limit.
At that point, it's down to weight per vehicle and design.
The Nano isn't going to weigh as much as the average car, but the design was touted (in the press release, at least) as being designed well, with intrusion prevention, crumple zones etc.
Which is to say, it may fare just fine, but at the very least you have no data otherwise and using horsepower to conclude it won't is just silly
If I were the driver of a moped / motorcycle in India I'd be thinking about these calculations but expecting to be on the losing side of a very-- heavy Nano (compared to me) and I wouldn't be so thrilled if it became popular...
Huh. I don't know about you, but as a person that races bikes and thus trains a lot I practically live in spandex some weeks.
The only people that appear to "dig" my tight spandex and l33t leg muscles are red necks. At least, I think they're shouting positive things as they whiz by in their trucks (note, sarcasm)
Seriously, the only time chicks pay too much attention is when your spandex isn't so good at camouflage on the male bits, and then I feel more like I'm a zoo exhibit - not exactly the attention I want.
Just sayin'
But I do bike commute. I just do it because it's good for my outlook, not for popularity (since it doesn't make you popular with anyone, that I can tell)
Well, that's a little extreme. The parent poster pointed out there was an equivalent option.
So to restart your reply with that extra data, it would be more like "so, if you're child needed to cross the road and they could jaywalk or take the crosswalk, they'd always take the crosswalk?"
Note that I'm not saying the old vaccines are proven risky like jaywalking - just saying that there are two alternatives being compared , not one alternative and the lack of something
"Lightning is a fairly new development. Its first public release was in early 2006. However, being based off of the same backend code as Mozilla Sunbird(TM), it is maturing quickly"
It got some positive press recently, does it work? Is anyone using it?
Now - I'm going to start by saying I'm ignorant here. But from what I read(* that's the ignorance part) it appeared to me that the country is now stable, the intervention was a good thing (had consensus from world community etc) and it basically worked. It is also my understanding (* ignorant again perhaps) that we were nearly dragged into it in response to genocide.
Where am I wrong? I'm honestly looking for enlightenment just about the whole Kosovo thing - I am not looking for comparisons to policy past or present.
I used to run a server on the campus of a university.
Winter rolls around, and I left the university for winter break.
While travelling around, I got a call that indicated the server was sending a lot of mysterious traffic across the internet and "they" had unplugged it.
Well, that's not good...
Apparently I was the victim of a sendmail exploit. Alas. What can be done?
I had to call and direct the reinstallation of Redhat 4.2 remotely through the hands of a geology grad student until it was on the internet, then finish rebuilding and restoring the machine remotely from my father's pathetically slow macintosh, on a dialup.
Did I mention he likes to drink a lot, and when he does, he plays crazy-bad music (like, Celine Dion) at extremely high volume on his stereo, which is in the living room directly below and open to the loft the computer was in?
That was a long night.
The server was up and fulfilling it's educational mission again the next morning though, minus one security hole:-)
> On the ther hand, I've seen at least four or five different explanations of how CO2 will > supposedly lead to catastrophe. Some say it's the same insulating effect as a blanket, some > say it has to do with reflected/refracted light off the molecules, some say it has to do > with infrared vs ultrviolet transmission. You'd think these folks would at least talk to > each other to get the story straight.
Wait, what if CO2 reflects infrared light differently than ultraviolet light, due to different reflection/refraction properties, and causes it to have a blanket-like insulating effect?
Put another way, what if the "four or five" "different" explanations you read were simply the same explanation at varying levels of detail?
Please, hit the books, and stop hand-waving.
I recognize politics wants to interject since so much policy depends on the science, but we should at least endeavor to keep the science at the heart of it as clean as possible, being the nerds that we are.
Any citations on that stuff? Sounds interesting, and I like data. Absent that, these are no better than the assertions you enjoy cursing about while attacking all possible messengers.*
Also,
"truth is every case of actual vote fraud that changed the outcome of an election has been Democrats doing what comes natural to em; cheating"
Truth in the hands of a partisan is a slippery thing, and absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. e.g. your statement does not show that Republicans don't cheat.
"I work for an operating system company, and fully support open source policies, especially for publically-funded projects. My question however, is just how much will the average citizen get out of having access to highly technical source code? Unless they are well schooled in programming, they likely won't even understand what the header files mean."
Surely nothing good could come out of something like that, since it's impossible for a mere layman to self-train and provide any help to existing researchers...
I see what you're saying (and nuggz made the point as well), and I recognize that evidence collected illegally won't be admissable, but still.
No warrant, no search. This is one of those "The State knows best" deals, and I disagree on principle.
I always thought we're supposed to give the individual the benefit of the doubt in the US, implicitly assuming that the state does not know best unless there is proof otherwise (peer-reviewed, obtained transparently and with appellate recourse) otherwise.
"It is no defense to a prosecution under this section that the peace officer was acting in an illegal manner, provided that the peace officer was acting under the peace officer's official authority."
What???
So, if the police are acting illegally by not having a warrant to search my house and asking to search it anyway, I'm obstructing and this law makes it legal?
Ohhh - but they were acting under official authority. That's so comforting.
I didn't know that - fascinating. San Francisco vs California politics are always (well, almost always - depends on how much my taxes go up as a result) fascinating to watch or learn about. Thanks
Not replying to your post in general, but your take on San Francisco is sadly funny because there was an enormous ugly elevated freeway ("The Embarcadero Freeway") that neatly cut off the waterfront from the city leaving less than 100m in places;-)
It collapsed in a quake in the 90's and was removed completely, not to be rebuilt (you have to take surface streets through the city or go through Oakland to avoid the traffic).
That is a solid defense, and your reasoning sounds valid. Your original post just hit my "NIH" detector pretty hard and for some reason I felt like saying something.
I had actually thought the same of web app test automation tools (mostly crap, expensive, brittle) until a colleague of mine started working with Selenium
It blows me away - he's able to code up tests extremely quickly and he has access to the Javascript DOM so the tests aren't that brittle. He said it takes around 1-2 hours per test. Granted, he's a superstar (Hi David!), but even allowing for engineering bragging that's a pretty big time reduction for web app testing.
No offense, but the management side of me just toted up the total employee carry cost for 6 months at somewhere between 100k and 200k (depending on benefits and taxes and overhead) and immediately wanted to see a product evaluation for test automation tools in that price range.
The maintenance costs on the licenses will probably be a wash compared to the in-house maintenance costs on a tool that takes half a year to build and will most likely be dwarfed by the cost of new test creation anyway
Classic buy-vs-build, basically.
None of which is on-topic, just remember that $50 worth of books isn't the cost when you write software, it's your total employee cost plus the opportunity cost of anything you're not doing instead...that adds up tremendously fast
You proclaim you can make a more resilient setup with centralized, network-accessible services, but you were unable to find (and permanently fix) a one-PC bandwidth problem in two months?
Now, I'm all for centralized services when it makes sense, but you haven't sold me in this case;-)
Nothing personal, that one just jumped out at me. Maybe it was the idea of watching baby birds hatching live...
It's important to note that the methodology of that study, and most nutrition studies, is crap and can't really be used to draw the conclusion that is trumpeted.
If you had RTFStudy you'd have seen that the women in the low-fat group didn't actually lower their fat intake much, and the study involved self-reported data (notoriously bad in a nutrition study, man do we humans lie like thieves to ourselves about food and money).
And there was a drop it just wasn't statistically significant. Is that because the women didn't actually drop their fat intake as much as they said, much less as much as they signed up to?
Who knows?
Bad science is killing us indeed, just remember that when you say that and then point to a science article, you may not be helping:-)
Speaking of bad science and your "eat what you want" diet, substituting bacon grease (not a great fat) in place of crisco (horrible mutant fat) is actually a good thing.
Most Americans really just need to turn the TV off and get the heck up off the sofa, then they could have as many corn muffins as they wanted.
I used to think the Hungry Man breakfasts (something like 1000-2000 calories depending) were ridiculous until I realized that you actually could burn 2000 calories before lunch if you were, say, a lumberjack. Typists should stick to a half bagel though;-)
Perhaps it's really just bad math (calories in - calories out = weight change) that's killing us.
I'll finish this not quite strung together post by just saying that bacon is tasty.
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I dunno, I've been doing linux since the slackware days, and I remember when Microsoft was astride the world, bullying everyone.
In this case, for Skype specifically the underlying tech is ReactXP https://github.com/microsoft/r... (which just takes react-native and extends it to the web) and is not just open source but pretty righteously herded by Eric Traut on github with respect and fast merging of contributions on a valuable project.
I'm having a hard time feeling indignant about the behavior here, rather I'm using ReactXP in a project of my own because it's good tech with a good license and good community management. Even if it feels like hell just froze while I'm doing it ;-)
You may like some of the Doctorow books - Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom for instance - I think they are on the strangely-named http://craphound.com/
I've enjoyed all the books so far - the Atrocity Archives in particular and I haven't read the Jennifer Morgue yet but I'm looking forward to it.
Peter Watts is also pretty good for a nano- look at future crime.
Cypherpunk is what "they" are pigeonholing the genre IIRC.
It gets Cory Doctorow and the boingboing crew going as well, which must be worth some whuffie
Ah, but +1 on the Hacker's Diet, a no-BS diet that actually works
:-)
Goes a long way to dispelling the Unix Guru stereotype when you're actually *not* the guy with the beer gut
I have often thought of writing up a FAQ. I haven't done so yet though.
:-)
Your mileage will be pretty high if you do your commute - as long as you recognize that and take it seriously, I think you'll be fine.
The first thing to do is think like a cyclist I think - with regard to clothing. Padded shorts. A good fit on the bike etc.
No elevation change is good - you can take it easy on the way in and not be sweaty at all, that's a major plus. Otherwise you have to shower and stuff, a significant drawback.
If you intend to do the ride in the rain too, you'll want fenders and good rain clothes. The goal isn't to stay dry (nearly impossible!) but to stay warm (very possible, and the only important thing really)
I'd also put in a vote for a bike bag rack, and a good bike bag. I use a bag from Arekel Overdesigns that I like a lot. It's the briefcase model and fits a 17" macbook pro perfect.
Once you think you have everything set, do the ride some time when it isn't important, like the weekend as a dry run. Make sure it's okay. Then just go for it
Other things, if you're in the dark, lots of lights, both directions and sides if possible. Make sure people know exactly where your rote takes you in case there are problems (flats or an accident). Make sure you're good at changing a tire on the side of the road (practice while watching TV if you're not)
If any of these is too simplistic, sorry - I have no idea what cycling skills you've got under your belt already, if it's already sounding too complicated, maybe look around for a bike club in your area - there must be one - and make friends there. Those types are always willing to help with advice
You may have been going for funny, but on a factual basis this is FUD
Horsepower will not factor in a collision, unless as a contributor to speed, but we'll assume speed is capped by speed limits and both vehicles are capable of attaining the limit.
At that point, it's down to weight per vehicle and design.
The Nano isn't going to weigh as much as the average car, but the design was touted (in the press release, at least) as being designed well, with intrusion prevention, crumple zones etc.
Which is to say, it may fare just fine, but at the very least you have no data otherwise and using horsepower to conclude it won't is just silly
If I were the driver of a moped / motorcycle in India I'd be thinking about these calculations but expecting to be on the losing side of a very-- heavy Nano (compared to me) and I wouldn't be so thrilled if it became popular...
Huh. I don't know about you, but as a person that races bikes and thus trains a lot I practically live in spandex some weeks.
The only people that appear to "dig" my tight spandex and l33t leg muscles are red necks. At least, I think they're shouting positive things as they whiz by in their trucks (note, sarcasm)
Seriously, the only time chicks pay too much attention is when your spandex isn't so good at camouflage on the male bits, and then I feel more like I'm a zoo exhibit - not exactly the attention I want.
Just sayin'
But I do bike commute. I just do it because it's good for my outlook, not for popularity (since it doesn't make you popular with anyone, that I can tell)
Well, that's a little extreme. The parent poster pointed out there was an equivalent option.
So to restart your reply with that extra data, it would be more like "so, if you're child needed to cross the road and they could jaywalk or take the crosswalk, they'd always take the crosswalk?"
Note that I'm not saying the old vaccines are proven risky like jaywalking - just saying that there are two alternatives being compared , not one alternative and the lack of something
I had to look up exsanguination.
New word! Thanks
+1
"Lightning is a fairly new development. Its first public release was in early 2006. However, being based off of the same backend code as Mozilla Sunbird(TM), it is maturing quickly"
It got some positive press recently, does it work? Is anyone using it?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightnin
Now - I'm going to start by saying I'm ignorant here. But from what I read(* that's the ignorance part) it appeared to me that the country is now stable, the intervention was a good thing (had consensus from world community etc) and it basically worked. It is also my understanding (* ignorant again perhaps) that we were nearly dragged into it in response to genocide.
Where am I wrong? I'm honestly looking for enlightenment just about the whole Kosovo thing - I am not looking for comparisons to policy past or present.
I used to run a server on the campus of a university.
Winter rolls around, and I left the university for winter break.
While travelling around, I got a call that indicated the server was sending a lot of mysterious traffic across the internet and "they" had unplugged it.
Well, that's not good...
Apparently I was the victim of a sendmail exploit. Alas. What can be done?
I had to call and direct the reinstallation of Redhat 4.2 remotely through the hands of a geology grad student until it was on the internet, then finish rebuilding and restoring the machine remotely from my father's pathetically slow macintosh, on a dialup.
Did I mention he likes to drink a lot, and when he does, he plays crazy-bad music (like, Celine Dion) at extremely high volume on his stereo, which is in the living room directly below and open to the loft the computer was in?
That was a long night.
The server was up and fulfilling it's educational mission again the next morning though, minus one security hole
> On the ther hand, I've seen at least four or five different explanations of how CO2 will
> supposedly lead to catastrophe. Some say it's the same insulating effect as a blanket, some
> say it has to do with reflected/refracted light off the molecules, some say it has to do
> with infrared vs ultrviolet transmission. You'd think these folks would at least talk to
> each other to get the story straight.
Wait, what if CO2 reflects infrared light differently than ultraviolet light, due to different reflection/refraction properties, and causes it to have a blanket-like insulating effect?
Put another way, what if the "four or five" "different" explanations you read were simply the same explanation at varying levels of detail?
Please, hit the books, and stop hand-waving.
I recognize politics wants to interject since so much policy depends on the science, but we should at least endeavor to keep the science at the heart of it as clean as possible, being the nerds that we are.
Any citations on that stuff? Sounds interesting, and I like data. Absent that, these are no better than the assertions you enjoy cursing about while attacking all possible messengers.*
Also,
"truth is every case of actual vote fraud that changed the outcome of an election has been Democrats doing what comes natural to em; cheating"
Truth in the hands of a partisan is a slippery thing, and absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. e.g. your statement does not show that Republicans don't cheat.
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* http://slashdot.org/~jmorris42 posting history, a funny frothy read
/me reads post
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Ok,
Hmmm,
Whoah
Wow! A critic of the 'polarized' environment equating socialism with pro-terrorism and using 'moonbats' as a descriptor.
Potentially well-reasoned, then just whacky. You're not helping here, man.
I wonder what the functional MRIs would say when you are exposed to left or right propaganda?
Good studies there: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/0601
The best part of science is that you don't even have to believe it for it to be true!
Perhaps you're just a slave to some pro-empire/profiteering biological imperative?
Either way, there will now be a resounding plonk, and it will be good.
Slightly restated:
"I work for an operating system company, and fully support open source policies, especially for publically-funded projects. My question however, is just how much will the average citizen get out of having access to highly technical source code? Unless they are well schooled in programming, they likely won't even understand what the header files mean."
Surely nothing good could come out of something like that, since it's impossible for a mere layman to self-train and provide any help to existing researchers...
I see what you're saying (and nuggz made the point as well), and I recognize that evidence collected illegally won't be admissable, but still.
No warrant, no search. This is one of those "The State knows best" deals, and I disagree on principle.
I always thought we're supposed to give the individual the benefit of the doubt in the US, implicitly assuming that the state does not know best unless there is proof otherwise (peer-reviewed, obtained transparently and with appellate recourse) otherwise.
Preventing "self-help", why would you do that?
I'm sorry, but I'd be obstructing.
Did you guys read that? You should:
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/mca/45/7/45-7-302.ht
"It is no defense to a prosecution under this section that the peace officer was acting in an illegal manner, provided that the peace officer was acting under the peace officer's official authority."
What???
So, if the police are acting illegally by not having a warrant to search my house and asking to search it anyway, I'm obstructing and this law makes it legal?
Ohhh - but they were acting under official authority. That's so comforting.
I didn't know that - fascinating. San Francisco vs California politics are always (well, almost always - depends on how much my taxes go up as a result) fascinating to watch or learn about. Thanks
Not replying to your post in general, but your take on San Francisco is sadly funny because there was an enormous ugly elevated freeway ("The Embarcadero Freeway") that neatly cut off the waterfront from the city leaving less than 100m in places
It collapsed in a quake in the 90's and was removed completely, not to be rebuilt (you have to take surface streets through the city or go through Oakland to avoid the traffic).
It isn't missed...
That is a solid defense, and your reasoning sounds valid. Your original post just hit my "NIH" detector pretty hard and for some reason I felt like saying something.
I had actually thought the same of web app test automation tools (mostly crap, expensive, brittle) until a colleague of mine started working with Selenium
It blows me away - he's able to code up tests extremely quickly and he has access to the Javascript DOM so the tests aren't that brittle. He said it takes around 1-2 hours per test. Granted, he's a superstar (Hi David!), but even allowing for engineering bragging that's a pretty big time reduction for web app testing.
No offense, but the management side of me just toted up the total employee carry cost for 6 months at somewhere between 100k and 200k (depending on benefits and taxes and overhead) and immediately wanted to see a product evaluation for test automation tools in that price range.
The maintenance costs on the licenses will probably be a wash compared to the in-house maintenance costs on a tool that takes half a year to build and will most likely be dwarfed by the cost of new test creation anyway
Classic buy-vs-build, basically.
None of which is on-topic, just remember that $50 worth of books isn't the cost when you write software, it's your total employee cost plus the opportunity cost of anything you're not doing instead...that adds up tremendously fast
I'm sorry - but something's amiss here.
You proclaim you can make a more resilient setup with centralized, network-accessible services, but you were unable to find (and permanently fix) a one-PC bandwidth problem in two months?
Now, I'm all for centralized services when it makes sense, but you haven't sold me in this case
Nothing personal, that one just jumped out at me. Maybe it was the idea of watching baby birds hatching live...
It's important to note that the methodology of that study, and most nutrition studies, is crap and can't really be used to draw the conclusion that is trumpeted.
:-)
;-)
If you had RTFStudy you'd have seen that the women in the low-fat group didn't actually lower their fat intake much, and the study involved self-reported data (notoriously bad in a nutrition study, man do we humans lie like thieves to ourselves about food and money).
And there was a drop it just wasn't statistically significant. Is that because the women didn't actually drop their fat intake as much as they said, much less as much as they signed up to?
Who knows?
Bad science is killing us indeed, just remember that when you say that and then point to a science article, you may not be helping
Speaking of bad science and your "eat what you want" diet, substituting bacon grease (not a great fat) in place of crisco (horrible mutant fat) is actually a good thing.
Most Americans really just need to turn the TV off and get the heck up off the sofa, then they could have as many corn muffins as they wanted.
I used to think the Hungry Man breakfasts (something like 1000-2000 calories depending) were ridiculous until I realized that you actually could burn 2000 calories before lunch if you were, say, a lumberjack. Typists should stick to a half bagel though
Perhaps it's really just bad math (calories in - calories out = weight change) that's killing us.
I'll finish this not quite strung together post by just saying that bacon is tasty.
You need ChatterMail and an IMAP server that supports the IDLE command (uw-imap does, for instance, they may all support it now).
email "push", using open standards, but with a chattermail license