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• Are there Negative Impact of opensource on commercial environment?

  - by Lostsoul

  I know this is not a good fit for Stack Overflow but wasn't sure if it was good for this site also so let me know if its not and I'll delete it. I love programming for fun but my role in my company is not technical. I have always loved the hacker culture and have been trying to drive that openness within my company from day one. My company has a very broad range of products and there are a few that are not strategic to us so I wanted to open source them (so we can focus on what makes us unique and open source the products that every firm has). Our industry does not open source(we would be the first firm to try this) and the feedback I'm getting from my management team is either 1) we'll destroy the industry or 2) all competitive commercial firms will unite against us and we'll be wiped out either way. I disagreed on both points because I think transparency will only grow our industry and our firm (think of McDonalds/KFC sharing their recipe openly, people may copy you, competitors may target you, but customers also may feel more comfortable buying your product. The value add, I believe, is in the delivery and experience not in hoarding the recipe). It's a big battle in my firm right now between the IT people who have seen the positive effects of sharing and the business people who think we'll be giving up everything (they prefer we sell parts we want to opensource, but in their defense this is standard when divesting something). Our industry is very secretive and I don't want to put anyone(even my competitors employees) out of a job yet I don't want to protect inefficient people by not being open with everyone. Yet I've seen so many amazing technologies created in interesting ways just by giving people freedom to take apart code and put it back together. I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts(doesn't have to be to my specific situation, I'm looking for the general lessons). Its a very stressful decision(but one I feel I must make) because if we go the open source route then there will be no going back. So what are your thoughts? Does open sourcing apply generally or is it only really applicable to software? Is it overall good for people in the industry and outside? I'm actually more interested in the negativeness effects(although positive are welcomed as well) Update: Long story short, although code is involved this is not so much about code as it is more about the idea of open sourcing. We are a mid sized quant hedge fund. We have some unique strategies but also have the standard long/short, arbitrage, global macro, etc.. funds. We are keeping the unique funds we have but the other stuff that everyone else has we are considering open sourcing (We have put in years of work & millions of dollars into. Our funds is pretty popular and our performance is either in first or second quartile so I suspect there will be interest but I don't know to what extent). The goal is not to get a community to work for us or anything, the goal is to let anyone who wants to tinker with it do so and create anything they want (it will not be part of our product line although I may unofficially allocate some our of staff's time to assist any community that grows). Although the code base is quite large, the value in this is the industry knowledge and approaches we have acquired (there are many books on artificial intelligence and quant trading but they are often years behind what's really going on as most firms forbid their staff from discussing what they are doing). We are also considering after we move our clients out to let the software still run and output the resulting portfolios for free as well so people can at least see the results(as long as we have avail. infrastructure). I think our main choices are, we can continue to fight for market share in a products that are becoming commoditized, we can shut the funds/products down(and keep the code but no one outside of our firm will ever learn from it) or we can open source it and let people do what they want. By open sourcing it, my idea is that the talent pool in the industry will grow because right now most of our hires have the same background (CFA, MBA, similar school, same experience,etc.. because we can't spend time training people so the industry 'standardizes' most people and thus the firms themselves start to look/act similar) but this may allow us to identify talent that has never been in the industry before (if we put a GPU license then as people learn from what we did, we can learn from what they do as well and maybe apply it to other areas of our firm). I see a lot of benefits but not many negatives while my peers at the company see the opposite.

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• When removing a bunch of files from a website, is 301 to the start page appropriate? [closed]

  - by Uwe Keim

  Possible Duplicate: What to do with random pages after a 301 redirect? Currently, we are working on modifying the contents of a website of one of our products. Since we are re-positioning the product, we would like to delete roughly 50% (around 200) of the pages of the website. My questions, in terms of SEO are: Would it have a negative effect if Google suddenly sees the large page drop? Is it OK to provide a 301 to the start page of the website for all removed pages?

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• Frustrated by the VS2012 'Light' and 'Dark' themes?

  - by ihaynes

  Like me you may be have been frustrated by the lack of colour in VS2012. The flat look, reminicent of the early 'Gem' OS is bad enough, but when the only choices are a washed out white look or the deadly all-black look, it's not an easy product to work with.Fortunately MS themselves seem to have quietly taken notice of this, or at least one of their developers has, and a 'Color Theme Editor' extension has been released. This comes with some much better colour schemes (I'm using the blue one, which is fairly close to VS2010) and also allows you to create and edit themes youself.This extension doesn't come up when you search 'Extensions and Updates' but can be found at http://tinyurl.com/6rhkdejWith this, using VS2012 finally becomes a pleasurable experience.

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• Master Data Management - The Trend Towards Multi-Domain and Other Realities

  - by Mala Narasimharajan

  In my quest to keep my fingers on the pulse of MDM, I recently found a pretty interesting article.  The article was published in Information Week and provides some interesting statistics from a recent survey conducted by the analyst firm, The Information Difference.  Let's take a look: Of the 130 organizations surveyed, 53% have live operational MDM implementations 81% of those with live operational MDM implementations report broad success - a huge improvement over 2011's 54% 64% developed a business case prior to their MDM deployment, while a daring 32% went ahead without a business case.    The article goes on to talk about the shift in vendors from focusing on customer data and product information management to one that is oriented around multi-domain master data management as well as other realities around MDM.  Take a look at the article. For more information on Oracle's master data management suite, click here. 

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• What's the best web entrepeneur's conference to go on

  - by user4845

  Our dream as business partners was always to go to a conference overseas. Now that we can finally afford to, we have no clue of which one to go to. Which conference would you guys suggest from a web entrepeneur's point of view, if there were just one to go to? Perhaps something that included a bit of marketing, new thinking, innovation, inspiration. We were very keen on Google IO previously, but were concerned that it would be very Google product focused. Huge thanks!

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• A question on choosing the next programming language between C/C++ and other languages

  - by SidCool

  I am a java developer (web app and standalone applications) who knows JavaScript, HTML, CSS and has mostly worked on Web applications. I have no knowledge of C/C++ or any other lower level languages. I feel like I should strengthen my CS basics by learning a fundamental language. Should it be C or C++? I am also inclined to learn Objective-C. Does it need basics of C or C++? Or should I go for new languages like Python, Google's Go etc. I know this is a cliche question asked very frequently, but I can use some help here.

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• Is there benifit to maintain a large project with bad code?

  - by upton

  I'm currently maintain a large project with more than 100000 LOC. The code use the MFC as its framework, in genral, it only has interface part which heavily use the mfc api and a business logic part which full of bad code, confusing logic. The company has some small features delivered to the customer each year(most features are adding code to exisiting project, finding some reference of some api or variable and it' s no different with fixing 3-4 bugs ), most of the tasks are to resove issue and optimize performance . Like other company with maintaining position, it value people who knows much logic about its product. There are people who can quickly finish the job on such project, is it worth to train myself like such a programmer? Is there benifits to work on such project for a long time?

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• How to ensure that a member variable is initialized before calling a class method

  - by Omkar Ekbote

  There's a class with a parametrized constructor that initializes a member variable. All public methods of the class then use this member variable to do something. I want to ensure that the caller always creates an object using the parametrized constructor (there is also a setter for this member variable) and then call that object's methods. In essence, it should be impossible for the caller to call any method without setting a value to the member variable (either by using the parametrized constructor or the setter). Currently, a caller can simply make an object using the default constructor and then call that object's method - I want to avoid checking whether or not the member variable is set in each and every one of the 20-odd methods of the class (and throw an exception if it is not). Though a runtime solution is acceptable (better than the one I mentioned above); a compile-time solution is preferable so that any developer will not be allowed to make that mistake and then waste hours debuggging it!

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• How to enjoy Firefox with their lot&rsquo;s of version.

  - by anirudha

  many developer want to use many version of a application. Firefox have not facility to stand alone installation but here is a trick to enjoy their nightly and stable version both. make a folder anywhere in your system. make two folder the name depend on your choice. in first install the Firefox Nightly and second install the current stable version 3.6.12 now the application already add to your start menu otherwise add them manually. now you can use both version nightly and stable. if you deug your web application in IDE such as visual studio or other then they force to open the default browser set in your system they open the version who you use last time. if you use last time nightly then they open your web-application in nightly otherwise in current stable version.

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• Why do you have to manually type variable names while debugging?

  - by SoboLAN

  I've seen this in a lot of IDEs (even in the most popular and heavily used ones, like Visual Studio): if you want to watch a variable's value, you have to manually type its name in the Watches section of the debugger. Why can't there just be a list of all of them with checkboxes next to them ? The developer can then just check the box next to the one he wants to watch and that's it. Variables with identical names can probably be numbered in some way (for example a, b, x(1), x(2), c, etc. I've seen some exceptions to this (NetBeans or BlueJ), but there are exceptions to everything, right ? Maybe it's a stupid question, maybe not, but I've always wondered why this is so.

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• What am I risking if I don't update my SDK/JDK and bundled runtime/JRE every time there's a security update?

  - by rob

  It seems like there's a new major security hole patched in Java every other week, and I would assume the same goes for other development platforms. After years of frustration trying to get customers to install and configure a compatible JRE on their systems, we started bundling one with our software. (By bundling, I mean we extract a copy of the JRE in our installation directory--we don't install the JRE and configure it as the system default.) The problem is, it's a hassle having to keep that JRE up-to-date because first we have to retest everything to make sure the update didn't break anything (it has broken some of our third-party dependencies in the past). How seriously, if at all, are we putting our customers at risk if we don't update our SDK/JDK and the runtime/JRE that we bundle with our product every time there's a security update? Is it reasonable to just update on a periodic schedule--say, once every 6 months or so?

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• Javascript Only Search Method [on hold]

  - by user2118228

  I need to put a search function on a website that is going to be on a CD-ROM with no access to the internet. It has 80 pages, and about 500 'items', so I'd prefer to not have to hard code 100's of 'if statements if possible. I've found a few programs you can buy that will index and generate results (Zoom Search, JSS Index, The German Guys') but there are odd quirks with each one. Plus I would rather code it myself to get complete control over it, and to really understand what it's doing. Basically searching for a few words would display the product image and description; clicking on that would take you the related URL. This is kind of complicated, I can't find an easy solution not dealing with hundreds of if Statements. Has anyone ever created anything like this or know a better method? I'm not really sure a better way to go about this. I've used PHP/MYSQL for search results before, but this cannot run any php.

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• Multiple vulnerabilities in Thunderbird

  - by chandan

  CVE DescriptionCVSSv2 Base ScoreComponentProduct and Resolution CVE-2012-0451 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability 4.3 Thunderbird Solaris 11 11/11 SRU 8.5 CVE-2012-0455 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability 4.3 CVE-2012-0456 Information Exposure vulnerability 5.0 CVE-2012-0457 Resource Management Errors vulnerability 9.3 CVE-2012-0458 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability 6.8 CVE-2012-0459 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability 7.5 CVE-2012-0460 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability 6.4 CVE-2012-0461 Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability 7.5 CVE-2012-0462 Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability 7.5 CVE-2012-0464 Resource Management Errors vulnerability 7.5 This notification describes vulnerabilities fixed in third-party components that are included in Sun's product distribution.Information about vulnerabilities affecting Oracle Sun products can be found on Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts page.

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• Multiple vulnerabilities in Firefox web browser

  - by chandan

  CVE DescriptionCVSSv2 Base ScoreComponentProduct and Resolution CVE-2012-0451 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability 4.3 Firefox web browser Solaris 11 11/11 SRU 8.5 CVE-2012-0455 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability 4.3 CVE-2012-0456 Information Exposure vulnerability 5.0 CVE-2012-0457 Resource Management Errors vulnerability 9.3 CVE-2012-0458 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability 6.8 CVE-2012-0459 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability 7.5 CVE-2012-0460 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability 6.4 CVE-2012-0461 Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability 7.5 CVE-2012-0462 Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability 7.5 CVE-2012-0464 Resource Management Errors vulnerability 7.5 This notification describes vulnerabilities fixed in third-party components that are included in Sun's product distribution.Information about vulnerabilities affecting Oracle Sun products can be found on Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts page.

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• Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Java 7U9

  - by RitwikGhoshal

  CVE DescriptionCVSSv2 Base ScoreComponentProduct and Resolution CVE-2012-5086 10.0 Java 7 Solaris 11.1 10/12 SRU 2.5 CVE-2012-5083 10.0 CVE-2012-5087 10.0 CVE-2012-1533 10.0 CVE-2012-1532 10.0 CVE-2012-1531 10.0 CVE-2012-5076 10.0 CVE-2012-3143 10.0 CVE-2012-5088 10.0 CVE-2012-5089 7.6 CVE-2012-5084 7.6 CVE-2012-3159 7.5 CVE-2012-5068 7.5 CVE-2012-4416 6.4 CVE-2012-5074 6.4 CVE-2012-5071 6.4 CVE-2012-5069 5.8 CVE-2012-5067 5.0 CVE-2012-5070 5.0 CVE-2012-5075 5.0 CVE-2012-5073 5.0 CVE-2012-5079 5.0 CVE-2012-5072 5.0 CVE-2012-5081 5.0 CVE-2012-3216 2.6 CVE-2012-5077 2.6 CVE-2012-5085 0.0 This notification describes vulnerabilities fixed in third-party components that are included in Oracle's product distributions. Information about each CVE can be found on Java SE Critical Patch Update - October 2012 Information about vulnerabilities affecting Oracle products can be found on Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts page.

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• What is a "cross-functional team" actually?

  - by Idsa

  The general meaning of "cross-functional team" is a team which combines specialists in different fields that are required to reach the goal. But it looks like in Agile cross-functionality means not only combining different specialists, but making them mix. Henrik Kniberg defines cross-functional team this way: "Cross-functional just means that the team as a whole has all skills needed to build the product, and that each team member is willing to do more than just their own thing." But where is the line drawn? Is it normal to ask developers to become testers for an iteration if it is required?

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• Validation and Verification explanation (Boehm) - I cannot understand its point

  - by user970696

  Hopefully my last thread about V&V as I found the B.Boehm is text which I just do not understand well (likely my technical English is not that good). http://csse.usc.edu/csse/TECHRPTS/1979/usccse79-501/usccse79-501.pdf Basically he says that verification is about checking that products derived from requirements baseline must correspond to it and that deviation leads only to changes in these derived products (design, code). But he says it begins with design and ends with acceptance tests (you can check the V model inside). The thing is, I have accepted ISO12207 in terms of all testing is validation, yet it does not make any sense here. In order to be sure the product complies with requirements (acceptance test) I need to test it. Also it says that validation problems means that requirements are bad and needs to be changed - which does not happen with testing that testers do, who just checks correspondence with requirements.

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• Live Webcast: Introducing Oracle Identity Management 11gR2

  - by B Shashikumar

  Please join Oracle and customer executives for the launch of Oracle Identity Management 11g R2, the breakthrough technology that dramatically expands the reach of identity management to cloud and mobile environments. Until now, businesses have been forced to piece together different kinds of technology to get comprehensive identity protection. The latest release of Oracle Identity Management 11g changes all that. Only Oracle Identity Management 11gR2 allows you to: Unlock the potential of cloud, mobile, and social applications Streamline regulatory compliance and reduce risk Improve quality of service and end user satisfaction Don't leave your identity at the office. Take it with you on your phone, in the cloud, and across the social world. Register now for the interactive launch Webcast and don’t miss this chance to have your questions answered by Oracle product experts.Date: Thursday, July 19, 2012 Time: 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern

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• the problem i have now visual studio team know.

  - by anirudha

  once upon a time i have a problem in visual studio that i declare here. they never thing what i want to say and i can't tell them clearly as they want. today i got the mail from visual studio 2010 connect that they tell me " problem can be solved in future version" that's a good thing i feel something better because anyone can't believes but i tell them many time. atleast they hear what i want to say. but i never believe on them even before that i get the new version of visual studio. means may be believe possible after the new version. because i know that they are slow slow and slow. last time i found that they tell that they launch visual studio on 20 march  but atleast they launched them on 12 april as adobe lauch their other product in creative series the link for connect is here

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• How to structure an application which reads UPC barcodes

  - by tugberk

  I have no previous experience on creating a project for a seller which will use barcode reader. I am trying to put together a small project but I cannot figure out how the pieces should glue together. I will create a sample with Motorola Scanner SDK to read barcodes and from that point, I have couple of questions: How UPC barcodes work in general? AFAIK, a barcode stores the manufacturer and product info but no price data. Should I store price information inside a database which corresponds to barcode data? I would really appreciate if you can guide me here.

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• Suggestions to Purchase a System76 Ubuntu Pre-Installed Laptop

  - by user2956795

  I am looking to buy a new laptop that well supports Ubuntu, and recently came across the Ubuntu laptop manufactured by System76. I am not familiar with this brand although it seems to me they produce Ubuntu laptop with good performance. The price listed on their website is also not that expensive as compared with a MacBook Pro, or ThinkPad T series, or the Dell XPS Developer Edition Has anyone used System76 Ubuntu Laptop? I'd like to ask for your opinions. How is the experience. Is it worth to put the money on?

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• Help! GUI design tool for web & windows applications (2 replies)

  Hi All, We are currently looking to buy a Windows &amp; Web GUI design tool. Our company is doing softwares for Windows &amp; Web application with Visual Studio 2008. Our clients will be using this tool to build screenshots. Projects delivery should be faster with this tool. Do you have any suggestions ? Of course, a Microsoft Parter product is better... Thanks for your help! Simon Levesque Sonim6 Inc.

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• Multiple vulnerabilities in libexif

  - by Umang_D

  CVE DescriptionCVSSv2 Base ScoreComponentProduct and Resolution CVE-2012-2812 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability 6.4 libexif Solaris 11 11/11 SRU 12.4 CVE-2012-2813 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability 6.4 CVE-2012-2814 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability 7.5 CVE-2012-2836 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability 6.4 CVE-2012-2837 Numeric Errors vulnerability 5.0 CVE-2012-2840 Numeric Errors vulnerability 7.5 CVE-2012-2841 Numeric Errors vulnerability 7.5 CVE-2012-2845 Numeric Errors vulnerability 6.4 This notification describes vulnerabilities fixed in third-party components that are included in Oracle's product distributions.Information about vulnerabilities affecting Oracle products can be found on Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts page.

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• Where to get ads for my website ?

  - by Divyanshu Negi

  I am the developer of the website named viewloud Now as my website is getting around 100 visitors per day so i was thinking that i should put some ads on my website but it is really very hard to find the best advertising plan which can benefit me the most. Google adsence . Is it a good choice ? Will google adsence allow me to open a account there with such little traffic on my website. ? Please help from last two months i have done a very hard work to bring such tarffic :p i know it is very less but i am still working on it .. so please help me guys. Thank you Divyanshu

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• ASP.NET Pivot Grid: How To Enable Compact Layout Feature

  Check out this short ASPxPivotGrid video that shows you how to enable the new compact layout mode: The new compact layout mode helps you save space. And its easy to setup. Watch the short ASPxPivotGrid Compact Layout video and then drop me a line here with your thoughts. Thanks. DXperience? What's That? DXperience is the .NET developer's secret weapon. Get full access to a complete suite of professional components that let you instantly drop in new features, designer styles...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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