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I've read it multiple times, I still do not understand the simpleton strategy...

I think 4ad has a good point here. It's been a long time since I has the same kind of thinking: Shuttleworth won't spend all his money in Ubuntu indefinitely and/or he wants his firm to be financially sustainable over time. They've tried hard to make a living out of desktop market, and it never worked out. Now they cut it and focus on B2B markets. No longer expect Canonical to make innovation for the end user market in foreseeable future.

The way he is expressing his bitterness to the open source community in its Google+ post is telling.

We may expect Ubuntu to drift slowly into the once-in-a-time-popular distribution graveyard.

I'm glad finally someone notifies it. Thank you and +1.

There's actually an item about that in Scott Meyers's Effective STL book.

Item 23: Consider replacing associative containers with sorted vectors.

I though having multiple cache levels was about a trade-off between performances and costs. The closer to the cpus (or the fater cache lvl), the more expensive it is.

Is sms channel really secure? Isn't it a plain text channel, as opposed to an unencrypted channel?

I was thinking Andrei Alexandrescu did invent the D language.

After reading the article I found diagram cute, that's true. But I still don't understand the method how they are generated. It's not even discussed in the article. I don't know the benefits of it, how do you analyse a diagram?

It sums up to a big text advertising a cute poster.

As far as I know people go to kickstarter in order to kick start projects. Not every games are 100% complete when submitted to kickstarter.com . That is a simple prototype, right. And still it is an exciting one, as far as I am concerned.

So no, not disappointed at all.

I was thinking that kick starter was all about helping in project to "kick start". So obviously for me, I find it normal that's there is still no game at this early stage of development. Or rather: 10% complete development so far.

It looks like people get "wrongly" used to dev studios submitting projects nearly completed. But those are more like the exception than the rule. If look closely to the list of kickstart submission I think that's the case most of the time for software development, that is they are far from completed. And the lead developer has an idea and needs fund to work full-time on his idea and/or hire folks for helping him out. For instance: lighttable of Chris Granger. And I think that's what is thrilling about kick starter and launching a startup. That's all about taking risks.

Since 2005? 10 years long in production? And while the code is open, no-one ever seen the bug? Is that the power of open source??

In the example of the Apple bug, I've read it took eighteen months (!!) to discover it after it has been committed in the source code base. As a consequence, I would be interested in knowing, for each bug, the time it took to discover them.

Also, I assume that once discovered, the time to fix it is usually negligible. Usually. And as long as you don't count the time for full deployment in production...

"And to the open source thing -- it sat there for 18 months." !!! Just .. wow. If it was the first time we heard such stories. But it happends many time with the linux kernel source code and all. I definitively conclude that source code begin open to everyone is not a mark of higher quality.

At 400wpm I began to skip most of words.. :-/

opensourceapple.com ? If it's an open source part in apple code, then couldn't I fix the issue on my own machine? (by removing the second goto fail; and recompiling)

Extract from the website: "While on a planet’s surface, the view out into the rest of the universe is nearly endless! This means even from the surface of your own planet, you’ll be able to see moons and other planets in the distance. To ensure the game runs with a variety of graphics cards, we have implemented an algorithm of sub-resolution to be able to display a quantity of blocks a individual graphic cards can manage. " May you elaborate on that please?

Nice idea, but I am wondering: will too much fight impedes space development? Space discovery would really be what I'am looking for when playing such a game. Saying that, I might not be in the set of targeted customer for the game...

When will you release the game?

Cute!

Same question here. I am a total novice to Python, so it might be a stupid question. When I launch with python2.6 it does not find the RestrictedPython package. If I launch with Python 3.2 then it complains about the "print" syntax.

You should design a native app.

yes it would be great to avoid the words to overlap. And also when I begin to type in a word I cannot switch to another target, I must finish the current one. It is ok! But could you make the current bigger and red instead of orange please? :-)

I am not sure you will find. It seems to me that the point of this demo is to submit minified javascript code for an online coder competition.

It seems to me it is not a "real" AI. I began a game, and after complete development on my side (about 5-6 moves), the opponent AI did only developed pawns, which shows off its limits.

I am not a javascript expert. but given the size of the code, I doubt there is a great IA underluying. Actually I've browsed the mignified code in order to find the AI implementation. The only clue I spot was a call to the Random() function. I won't state it for sure, because I wasn't able to understand the whole code. But I highly guessed it is the basis of the AI implementation. :-)

Thank you for your (double) feedback! :-)

I should follow your path. Do you have a visa? Or do you plan to find the firm and request the visa then?

Yeah right me too. I live in Paris since 2005. I've learnt to dislike the city. And when I read all what happens in the silicon Valley, it feels more and more the wrong place...

I don't understand: " I really like Azul Systems' hack of using the EPT/RVI virtualized page tables as a hardware read barrier for real-time garbage collection, and with a single-address space operating system I think you can do the same thing on hardware with a regular MMU."

I understand real-time garbage collection, but what is EPT/RVI virtualized page?

I am just wondering here: two blog post from a startup in "stealth" mode. One about CSS "advanced" tricks. The other one about criticizing Chrome browser. Are those guys about to release a competing Web-Browser? :P Too less cues to know, but still the question popped up in my mind.

It would explain the criticizing tone of the article. Don't make me tell what I didn't tell: they could be proven right or wrong, it is not my point. I don't want to follow the debate about Chrome performance here. But what I suggest is: unknowing the real goals of Aptiverse's business and their interests I would backup a little bit and try to look at the big picture. And avoid religious Emacs/VI war.

But well then, I am trying to make bold bet anyway. They could be about to release a new ground-breaking web-browser in the near future, make everyone switch and fix the issues they announced in their blog post. Don't know what future is made of! :-)

I would go further with your argument (which is perfectly valid for me) for the sake of completeness: it helps them to have a foot in web standardization and, more importantly, to offer a viable alternative solution, fully integrated and "in control". Secured. I don't think it is only a matter of "speed". :-)

Before Chrome they were to the "mercy" of the leader in the market place: IE - with its OS companion MS-Windows, the first "barrier" to the the web. Which is the main playground of Google. IE was not really moving the web forward, and known for a lot of issues. I remember people reluctant to use they credit card on the web, because of their unconscious feelings of MS-Windows/MS-IE insecurities. Stuff evolved A LOT from there. Microsoft IE is now much more respectful of the w3c standard AFAIK, more stable, etc. And as you see, from that stability emerged a lot of business. I could not envisaged so much possibilities if the status-quo was still holding today as in 1998. I would make a bold statement, saying that thanks to FireFox, Chrome, Hackers, we are now seeing all those startups...

It was a very important challenge for Google (and it is not finished) because they have incentive in people using the "open" web more and more, as you told. The more user on the internet, the more time they spend on it, as you said, the more they watch ads/spend money/consume. And I still know people frightened by this "Tool" that they don't understand. Viruses, Credit card number steal, etc. "Who are those guys, the Anonymous hackers?" I was asked not a long time ago. I was visiting friends owning a PS3 when the PS3 network have been closed down because of act of pirating, totally chocked by its useless video games. Etc, etc. Long list of example.

Google understood early that it was in their interest to work on that matter. Those topics will take more and more place in news in the near future, I guess. Google won't be able to sort everything out of course. But they were needing to push further the control of their own fortune. Chrome was a step forward going into the action.

They are still working on that full "Vertical" offer. Chrome was just ONE part of the full scheme. They've released Android, now they are releasing Google Pixel. Tomorrow, Google glass. That must be exciting times at Google because the work of so much year is taking forms, and I guess it will translates in even a better future. At least they are showing to me that they perfectly envision from a long time ago which the treats are and the challenges for their business. And how to tackle them. Facebook, native guis, any other kind of "closed" web (as opposed to open web) are another kind of threats, but that is another story, I guess... :-) .