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apps that have been signed by a recognized distributor may also damage your computer; the signature isn't proof against errors or intentional maliciousness. So that wording is ridiculous.

And 'It can't be trusted.' Really? That's ridiculous too. It's entirely possible it could be trusted. There's lots of software that Apple hasn't signed which is trusted and has been for decades.

This dialog just confirms suspicions. The intent is clearly and explicitly to throw FUD on, wall off and eliminate non-Apple-approved software.

We game developers look forward to seeing your magnum opus. Be sure to let us know how your discussions regarding optimizations and ship dates go with your publisher.

This could possibly be the dumbest reply ever on HN.

The motd file, by convention, is displayed whenever you log in to a Unix box. It has been this way for longer than you have been alive.

There is no question of 'use something else'. There is no app store for alternatives to /etc/motd. There is no dialog box that pops up that asks you what alternative to motd you would like to see.

The standard unified method for determining what a system file is composed of is called 'man'. This has also been around since long before you were alive. The author demonstrated correctly through the use of this tool that the ubuntu system for displaying the motd is (a) needlessly overcomplicated, (b) totally broken, and maybe most importantly (c) at odds with its documentation.

Please log out of the internet.

What a nonsensical fabrication. Who would believe this stuff? What purpose does Ron Paul (or his supporters) have in making this up?

The '16 trillion' is reached by aggregating all of the dollars in loans regardless of their term (page 131 of the actual GAO report) So super-short overnight loans which were rolled over day-to-day were counted, e.g., 365 times a year.

The GAO notes that this is ridiculous on the same page that the article cites, and then goes on to provide a more representative table on page 132, showing the annualized yearly average outstanding loan amount on a counterparty basis ('term adjusted'). Total loans come out to 1.1 trillion, not 16 trillion, and that's over a 3 year period.

"In late 2008, the TARP Bailout bill was passed and loans of $800 billion were given to failing banks and companies. That was a blatant lie considering the fact that Goldman Sachs alone received 814 billion dollars."

Innumeracy is a real problem. Political innumeracy is even more serious.

This is an unusual statement to make, because in practice in the last decade, Java-based solutions are nowhere near 100x as fast as Perl/Python/Ruby based solutions; in fact I've found them generally to be slower.

The difficulty lies in defining what 'fast' means. It's possible that the JVM is more highly optimized than, e.g., the perl bytecode engine, but the highly abstracted Java libraries (FactoryFactories etc.) tend to be far less efficient and have larger memory footprints and significantly more stack-passing than the equivalent ruby/python/perl equivalents.

"Yesterday I tweeted three simple rules to learning NoSQL. Today I'd like to expand on that. The rules are:

    1: Use Mon" CTRL-W

It doesn't matter what Wayne has always said. He's designed a collection of fragile shell script hacks that want to be run as root that fundamentally change the behavior of key system commands.

With all due respect, ruby is a language, and rvm is a collection of really fragile and dangerous shell script hacks.

The problem with perls (5, 6, N) is that most of the competent, intelligent committers were either (a) subverted by O'Reilly contracts into being ardent defenders of the status quo, (b) fed up with waiting for years in order to get unintelligible exegeses from a chief committer who apparently lost all interest and was unable or unwilling to delegate, (c) driven into bafflement by the rivening of p5p into scads of unmanaged sublists and lost interest, (d) discovered thriving and engaged communities in languages not riddled top to bottom by political, organizational and leadership problems, or (e) fell into the black leather-winged embrace of crufty corporate nonsense that is python.

The numbering system merely hastened the demise by further making sure that any sensible interested committer would first check to see what was going on with the latest branch, discover it was the same godawful non-navigable incompetent mess of splintered crazy version wreckage floating abandoned on a lake of ennui that you can trivially see before you today, and run like fuck in the opposite direction.

The principal problem with perl today is that it still exists, and that last tenuous skeleton crew of 2-3 smart people who still struggle in vain to breathe life into its long dessicated corpse is still capering about claiming that there's still! some! path! to! relevance!, rather than doing the noble thing and finding employ as dishwashers or carpet cleaning fluid salesmen.

vim (and other editors) have lockfiles, recovery files in case of session crashes, and assume directory locality (e.g., oops I opened the wrong file; :r filename).