There is definitely a voting ring for NYT. They are pushing hard to vote up their articles here. I usually just tune them out as low quality materials.
Using the VM only work if the size of the cache fits in the process address space. If your cache size is greater than 4GB in a 32 bit machine, you will have to manage the cache on disk. It becomes less of a problem now with 64bit machine.
It's how often people claiming to have the utmost integrity turn out to be crooks. Yes, it's innocent until proven guilty but your words now are already smearing the prosecution. You have already claimed there's no basis for any wrong doing. Do you know the facts? Why don't you wait until the court sorts out the detail?
It's funny how all the defenses presented in HN are character witness. Do you know for sure that they didn't send out fake invoice to trick people into paying them money?
From what I heard the corruption in China has decreased due to mulit-prong approach to fight it there. Public execution/long jail, increased wage, more media exposure, forced financial disclosure, anti-corruption agencies in multi-levels with broad power, and other measures. It helps that the government takes anti-corruption up as one of the top priorities in its agenda.
That was not wrong. I have more than one India friends told me that the postal workers would open the the boxes and take whatever inside. The system is simply not trustworthy enough for people to do online shopping.
If the MVP methodology is so great, why has it not been adopted more before? Nothing is new under the sun. The full feature development has been so pervasive and successful that it must have done something right. Basic economic evolution.