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Is the 'gap' between the fastest RAM and the fastest disks bigger or smaller now than the gap was 10 or 20 years ago? Googling can't stop an opinion war.
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Well... answer me this: Which category is an SSD in? RAM or Disk?
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Another simple CSS trick that I found useful in the past. One can never have too many CSS tricks.
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Both Atlassian and FogCreek started off as bootstrapped businesses. However, Atlassian is clearly the winner even though it started long after Fogcreek. Two products enter, one product leaves.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Both Atlassian and FogCreek started off as bootstrapped businesses
Translation please? what does that mean?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Atlassian hawks a crappy wiki they call "Confluence".
Being forced to work with it I can only wonder how much worse FogCreek could have been to loose to this crowd.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Linux.Wifatch compromises routers and other Internet of Things devices and appears to try and improve infected devices’ security. It's the malware we deserve, but not the one we need right now. Wait ...
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Quote: Wifatch’s code is not obfuscated; it just uses compression and contains minified versions of the source code. It would have been easy for the author to obfuscate the Perl code but they chose not to.
*sputter*
Obfuscation is built into Perl as a first class language feature. 
Quote: The threat author left a comment in the source code that references an email signature used by software freedom activist Richard Stallman (Figure 2).
Fig2_17.png
Am I the only person who after looking at the countries with the majority of the detected infections wonders if a certain TLA is using this as cover to deflect suspicion away from themselves if it leaks out from the handful of sites they're actively targeting (like Stuxnet, etc have).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Potential uses of LEDs are not limited to illumination: smart lighting products are emerging that can offer various additional features, including linking your laptop or smartphone to the internet. Move over Wi-Fi, Li-Fi is here. More reasons to stay inside and not spend money.
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Guess you messed up the quote - The one you present here is also used here[^]
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Aww nuts. 
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Potential uses of LEDs are not limited to illumination: smart lighting products are emerging that can offer various additional features, including linking your laptop or smartphone to the internet. Move over Wi-Fi, Li-Fi is here. "How many people does it take to remember the Li-Fi password?"
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Daimler's dreams of self-driving big rig trucks just took one step closer to reality. The automaker has conducted the first-ever test of its semi-autonomous Highway Pilot system in a production truck on a public road, driving an augmented Mercedes-Benz Actros down Germany's Autobahn 8. Well at least if something goes wrong, it's a fairly light vehicle.
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This is from the company that made the Sensotronic brakes. What could possibly go wrong?
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As if the unemployment figure wasn't high enough already. I'm still waiting for the AI that replaces all those overpaid managers in charge because they're by far the biggest cost factor out there...
Nice technical toy, but in reality it solves a problem that does not exist.
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Google’s Nexus devices began life as a proving ground for Android. It was meant to showcase what Android was capable of, and how the platform would move forward. And I don't "need" to eat this delicious fourth pastry, but here we are.
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Until Android patches are distributed via a Windows update like mechanism Nexus devices are the way to go for security updates. My current phone is an HTC M8 picked for a combination of better than most patching, an uSD slot (so I can hold all my music locally), and availability from my carrier. With Nexus devices now going to 128GB and changes in US plans meaning there's no longer any reason to buy direct from your carrier (if you can afford the full price up front anyway - and I expect vendor financing installment plans to expand beyond Apple in the near/mid-term) I'm 95% sure my next phone will be a 2016 Nexus.
As for the Android patching system improving I'm not holding my breath. The Linux kernel not having a proper HAL, officially because the kernel team didn't want the overhead or to risk tying their hands if they came up with a better way to do something (but almost always also with a smirking 'and to make it harder for companies that don't have open source drivers that the kernel team could update in sync themselves'), makes fixing anything at the lowest levels requiring access to code that various 3rd parties don't make available publicly. To fix this, the least impractical option would be for Google'd to get all of the SoC/SoC sub-component/misc other chip/etc designer companies to give them access to their code instead of providing BLOBs to only the OEM building the phone. More infeasible options would include either forking the linux kernel to build in a HAL into the android kernel (IMO political suicide in the FOSS world), or to convince Linus that the current situation has to change. There're enough kingdoms that'd need to accept major changes to their bits of the platform to make a change on the level of adding a HAL that without his support there'd be no chance of getting everyone to play along nicely.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"A major advance reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do." [^]
"For more than 40 years, researchers had been trying to find a better way to compare two arbitrary strings of characters, such as the long strings of chemical letters within DNA molecules. The most widely used algorithm is slow and not all that clever ...
... in a paper presented at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put forth a mathematical proof that the current best algorithm was "optimal" — in other words, that finding a more efficient way to compute edit distance was mathematically impossible." Edit: However, note:
"But researchers aren’t quite ready to record the time of death. One significant loophole remains. The impossibility result is only true if another, famously unproven statement called the strong exponential time hypothesis (SETH) is also true. Most computational complexity researchers assume that this is the case — including Piotr Indyk and Artūrs Bačkurs of MIT, who published the edit-distance finding — but SETH’s validity is still an open question. This makes the article about the edit-distance problem seem like a mathematical version of the legendary report of Mark Twain’s death: greatly exaggerated." My reading of this fascinating Quanta article is that it describes progress towards defining Intractable, Complete and NP-complete classes of computational problem. However, I disclaimer that by asserting my profound ignorance of the higher-levels of computer-science theory. I welcome correction and instruction ... on that ... however 
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
modified 2-Oct-15 23:59pm.
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Sounds familiar; don't we get this every couple of years or so?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: don't we get this every couple of years or so?
Well, Esteemed Man of Pie, I may have had it every few years, but I never got it, and still don't.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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We probably get similar articles every year or so; and will until/unless one of the major computational bounds is actively proved one way or the other.
On the flip side, the article has what's probably the best mundane friendly explanation of P vs NP I've seen in a long time if ever.
Quote: The informal version: if P equals NP, we could quickly compute the true answer to almost any question we wanted, as long as we knew how to describe what we wanted to find and could easily recognize it once we saw it, much like a finished jigsaw puzzle. The vast majority of computer scientists believe that P does not equal NP.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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In this article I’m going to tackle the review process by discussing what a good code review should look like. I laughed, I cried. I thought the ending was a little too predictable though.
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This is what good code-review should look like: [^], to be followed-up, of course, by the burning of the apostates.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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It reminds me the fact that, my senior colleages fight together about their coding styles!
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