mortdeus

I'm not usually one for indulging in conspiracy theories, but if there was ever a shady coincidental happenstance. This "overdose" definitly deserves to be looked at more thoroughly under a metaphorical blacklight.

Its not a brain dead idea from a corporate policy to maximize profits. Datacaps allow them to not expand infrasture to accommodate growth.

Imagine if Google adopted a policy where each user was only allowed 300 queries a month. That means Google wouldn't have to expand their infrastructure to satisfy a growing demand for information. The only reason they don't do this is because Google profits from each query.

ISPs don't profit from their consumers downloading more data, it only costs them building more infrasture and employing network admins to maintain them. Its just internet providers generate a ridiculous return in profit for the amount of money they actually invest to provide internet. ISPs don't need to compete with other ISPs because how profitable internet is for them. They need incentive to provide better service and until something like Google Fiber forces disruption in the market; engineers will have an artificial roadblock preventing them from innovating.

For example a cloud based OS where users can access their PCs at home in realtime from terminals abroad will never be a reality until America is upgraded to fiber optic bandwidth. It causes to much latency to download and mount your filesystem onto a local machine. Anybody with experience using Plan 9 remotely understands this problem and knows I'm right.

As we become more dependent on the cloud to sync data between our mobile devices and PCs, datacaps will stifle innovative growth. Its something we need to vehemently battle to shift the market in our favor.

And this ladies and gentlemen is when healthy capitalism turns into corporate greed. Internet needs to become faster with more bandwidth so engineers can design products that utilizes it. I can think of several ideas that are stifled because of America's draconian internet service providers. I'm not a big fan of the government stepping in to fix things the free market wont, but this is one of those things where companies should be forced to innovate because they choose not to compete. Providing the internet is too profitable for them to need to compete. There is something wrong with that in a capitalist economy.

I'm a float. looks in mirror no wait... I'm definitely a double.

Though it is worth pointing out that worldwide internet coverage would provide a great resource for those living without suitable education and work opportunities.

One of the hardest parts in eliminating poverty from the poorest nations on earth stems from the lack of economic infrastructure in those countries. We can keep giving them rice and supplies but until they have work opportunities that provide a way to purchase their own life essential resources; the fundamental issue causing the poverty in the first place will remain unsolved.

Internet is a good step towards providing that infrastructure.

He kinda has a point.

Go might be young but the underlying compiler suite is derived from Ken Thompson's c compiler written for plan9 ~25 years ago. Also taking into consideration that the people developing Go have an impressive history of innovation; its not an uncommon by the time somebody actually finishes developing that critical software, for the compilers and runtime to receive vast improvements via new useful diagnostic tools and optimizations.

That or a metal gear. My hopes are on the latter.

Oh and in case people want to see a demo of Acme. Here is Russ Cox giving a tour of acme.

http://research.swtch.com/acme

How about instead of writing just an opensource sublime text clone. We sit down as a community and discuss how we can create an even better editor than Sublime Text.

There are some awesome text editors out there that have features I wish were in sublime text but sadly arent.

For example, Rob Pike's acme editor has some really awesome ideas like mouse chording, (contextual right click. middle click command executions, etc), 9p vfs interfaces that allow plugins to be written in any language.

And then there are little experimental editor ideas like Conception with great ideas that are worth checking into.

https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception

Sublime Text gets alot of things right, but during my experience using it and using acme. I often find myself wishing there was a way to take both editors and mash them together because using one often makes me miss using the other.

All I know is that they need to start making decisions like minimizing their css and js scripts and fetching jquery from Google before I start taking them serious when they say the best engineers in the fed are working on it.

<script src='//assets.healthcare.gov/global/js/lib/jquery-1.8.2.js'></script>

https://www.healthcare.gov/css/all.css https://www.healthcare.gov/js/all.js

Im pretty confident that Go will be around for at least as long as C/C++, python, and java remain relevant.

If im ever being interviewed by Google, i'm going to say "hold up let me google the solution to that real quick."

A good engineer spends about 95% of their time discovering new things to learn about their craft. An even better engineer uses what other engineers have already discovered and shared with the world to further their understanding.

If the world only consisted of the "even better" engineers things like this wouldnt ever exist. http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

When I hear, "I want you to develop a mini google.", I feel that the only right answer to the question is, "No thats not a problem that needs to be fixed anymore. Lets actually fix a real world problem that affects real world people."

There are very few new generation software engineers that are truly hackers at heart. Its really sad when a company like Google doesnt even know how to look for them anymore.

Do you have any open source projects? The first thing i'm looking for as a developer when I visit your websites is a link to any code you have written. Which as far as I can tell doesnt exist?

A programmer without a portfolio of source code is like a painter without a portfolio paintings.

I assume Google scouts are usually looking to hook the exceptionally rare "Monet" and "Picaso" software engineers swimming around in an ocean overcrowded by "PC techs".

There is a quote by Linus Torvalds that is fairly relevant here. "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

Your resume is nice... Cute even. But without the code to back it up, there is nothing to critique your actual skills.

There needs to be legislation that allows foreign scientist's visas to be rushed to the front of the line when they have a science convention. I mean just imagine if doctor A had information to present that would help doctor B find a cure for HIV or something just important.

Are we really making it that difficult for the smartest people in the world to convene and discuss all the new smart stuff they know with the other smartest people in the world?

But the Kardashians are just so much more interesting. Have you seen the buns on that Kim girl?

Linux needs to be sold in department stores like Walmart and Best Buy to explode. I think this guy seriously underestimates how disconnected everyday people are with tech. Everyday people don't understand the point of installing Linux when they have Windows. However when shipped on devices out of the box people don't need to question the purpose. (Take android's success as the key example of this.) Even Linus addresses this as the key problem with Linux's market share (or lack therefore of).

IMHO If Microsoft executives really want to begin turning things around for their company, they need to take a step back and really refocus their philosophy towards becoming an innovative software company again.

I guess Android has a different kind of sandbox than most typical software fault isolation based sandboxes (e.g. NaCl).

Its more reminiscent of plan9's per process namespaces than anything else. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/names.html

Regardless, the main issue that was preventing Go from running on Android was the linker's inability to link go pkgs as a shared library. Fortunately support for external linking on ARM is scheduled to land in the go1.2 release.

http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.2#gc_changes

When it comes to go support for NaCl, llgo is imho the most promising solution for that. http://github.com/axw/llgo

Native Client, Android, ummm, pretty much any environment that is encapsulated in a sandbox.

An ideology of "Its good enough to thwart 99.9% of the population, therefore its good enough for me." is a very harmful ideology to have when it comes to security because you do nothing to deter mass adoption of the insecure technology.

While an individual person might not be at that great of risk because the amount of crackers willing to exploit touchID is limited to a minute demographic of people, the real harm comes when many iphone owners who share your ideology start using touchID instead of the more secure locking features their phones provide just because its more convenient.

Consider what happens when there are 100,000,000 million insecure phones out in the world. To a motivated cracker/spy/terrorist this is a huge ocean of potential suckers/victims vulnerable to exploitation. While most of these people aren't worth targeting, 1000-10,000 people might be.

This is why rejecting broken security technology is a cause everybody should rally behind. Even if you are never a victim of a black hat, you may very well suffer indirect consequences from the exploitation of somebody else.

I wrote a response to your comment but it became rather long so I decided to make it into a blog post instead.

http://mortdeus.blogspot.com/2013/09/linux-core-component-po...

I just hope nvidia builds wayland support into their proprietary drivers. I mean if nvidia chooses not to support nouveau as their main DRI drivers, thats fine. However the least they can do is make sure they do as much as they can to invest in Linux moving forward and not force users (and app developers) to make painful decisions regarding whether they should use the proprietary drivers or nouveau.

For example if nvidia decides to focus and invest all their effort solely into mir and unity support for their closed drivers, thus giving everybody who backs wayland the shaft in the process, its going to end up being a major problem for developers like myself. Philosophically and pragmatically.

It took me a little more than 10 seconds with google search to find this ebay bitcoin scam.

http://bitcoinfan.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-selling-bitcoins-...

If something seems too good to be true; it probably is.

plan9 support is maintained with the main go repo.

You dont. Just support python 3. If you HAVE to support python 2. Then use a symbolic link.

Microsoft needs to quit acting like a lil bitch.

it is gimp isnt it.

gnome tool kit. Note that gnome is pronounced gi'nome just like gnu is pronounced gi'new.

The only professionals in this business are the people who are coding while everybody else is typing words that dont compile.