FN-styrkan i östra Kongo-Kinshasa, Monusco, har för första gången genomfört en attack mot en rebellbas tillhörande den ugandiska rebellgruppen ADF-Nalu. Två helikoptrar deltog i lördagens anfall, riktad mot ett rebellfäste i den mineralrika provinsen Norra Kivu, som gränsar till Uganda.

Minst tio människor har omkommit i ett bombdåd i staden Maiduguri i nordöstra Nigeria. Två bomber exploderade med kort mellanrum i ett affärsdistrikt nära flygplatsen vid sextiden på lördagen. Dödssiffran väntades stiga, eftersom många fastnat i det brinnande och raserade huset.

En man fick föras till sjukhus efter en brand i en lägenhet i ett flerfamiljshus i Hagsätra i södra Stockholm på lördagskvällen.

camperdave writes "I was recently going through a pile of receipts and other papers to put them into order by date. Lacking one of those fancy sorting sticks they have at the office, I wound up with all sorts of piles and I was getting confused as to which pile was for what. Finally, it struck me: Why don't I use one of the many sorting algorithms I learned back in my computer science classes? So I swept all the papers back into the box and did a radix sort on them. It worked like a charm. Since then, I've had occasion to try quicksorts and merge sorts. So, when you have to physically sort things, what algorithm (if any) do you use?"

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1. Software is a process.

2. It's never finished. There are always bugs to fix, features to add.

3. Usually, when one company buys another, they buy the software, not the process.

4. It would be more realistic to contract with a developer or group of developers the way book publishers contract with authors, or studios contract with directors. You buy N books, or movies, or albums. Then the creative person gives you what they contracted for.

5. Don't try to hire employees to make products. You need to be able to take creative risks. It's hard to do within a corporation. By "hard to do" I mean impossible.

6. Unlike movies, books, music -- software continually evolves. So even if the initial creator moves on, there always has to be the equivalent of a show runner that stays with the product, the kind of person who does what Vince Gilligan did on Breaking Bad, for example.

7. I've now moved on from two products, one through acquisition and one by passing off to a new management team. Both times the product died.

8. I'm still trying to figure this out.

Vladimir Putins vapenhot ställer hela Europa inför ett storskaligt stresstest. För EU håller Ukraina på att bli den största och besvärligaste utmaningen någonsin.

alphadogg writes "Security and how to protect users from pervasive monitoring will dominate the proceedings when members of Internet Engineering Task Force meet in London starting Sunday. For an organization that develops the standards we all depend on for the Internet to work, the continued revelations made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have had wide-ranging repercussions. 'It wasn't a surprise that some activities like this are going on. I think that the scale and some of the tactics surprised the community a little bit. ... You could also argue that maybe we needed the wake-up call,' said IETF Chairman Jari Arkko. Part of that work will also be to make security features easier to use and for the standards organization to think of security from day one when developing new protocols."

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En brutal knivattack vid en järnvägsstation i Kina krävde på lördagen 28 människors liv, medan 113 skadades, enligt nyhetsbyrån Nya Kina.

En 50-årig ägare av ett massageinstitut åtalas för att ha våldtagit en kvinna och sexuellt ofredat fyra andra, skriver Göteborgs-Posten på nätet.

Check B & B of your package for CPAN inclusion.

Generate a test to check that all namespaces are clean

Load (and optionally decrypt via GnuPG) user/pass identity information

Simplified data plotting with SVG

Check for uncleaned imports

An anonymous reader writes "Columnist Jon Evans points out that the tech industry has been slowly getting stranger over the past several years. When you look at the headlines individually, they all seem to make sense, but putting them together and trying to imagine them popping up a decade ago really illustrates how odd it has become. Quoting: 'In Japan, some half-billion dollars' worth of cryptocurrency vanished from a site founded to trade Magic: The Gathering cards. In New Zealand, the world's greatest Call of Duty player has launched a political party to revenge himself on those who had him arrested and seized his sports cars. In Britain, the secret service is busy collecting and watching homegrown porn. Here in Silicon Valley, mighty Apple just revealed that a flagrant, basic programming error gutted the security of all its devices for years. Google, "more wood behind fewer arrows" Google, now has its own navy, to go with its air force and robot army.'"

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