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If it were me, I would not go. I would love to be paid $200k, but it's not a life changing amount of money worth the risk I see associated with going there. (if it were $500k+, it starts getting a bit different)

If you want to do it for the experience, that's one thing, though there are many places in the world that are fairly safe without bearing the same risk at the moment, and I'm sure spending one year in a completely different culture will be a life-changing experience!

But if you want to do it for the money, this isn't a significant amount of money in the long term.

But, of course, that's just my opinion. :)
Here is my reasoning --

An Atom Z530 1.6GHz core has almost exactly 2X the Dhrystone MIPS of a 1.0GHz ARMv5TE-based network SoC (I actually ran it; those are not bogus vendor marketing #s).

A9 probably has much higher IPC than ARMv5 -- but I doubt it's high enough to beat an Atom running at 60% higher frequency; that is a hell of a gap to close architecturally. I also suspect Atom has higher DRAM bandwidth; the A4 pkg looks a bit small for x64 DRAM. Finally, A4 may or may not have more than 1 core; Atom definitely has 2.

I am talking pure performance, not performance per watt, which is not interesting to me in this situation. I can almost always find AC if I'm using something iPad-sized.
Man, I loved your story! You're probably the best guy to give our friend here an informed opinion as a technical contractor. That was a completely different level of returns and it was your company.
What I'm most interested is people's experience with selling successful iPhone apps. What have you done to gain more exposure? My marketing plan essentially includes creating a cool one-page website that is simplistic and sells the game with videos/screenshots (I've already a hired a designer to design it). Also to talk about it on twitter/facebook/reddit/HN/etc. Also to get my friends and a few local businesses to talk about it. Maybe contact some companies like Appular to see if they'll support it. I fear that none of this, except maybe the last one, has any chance of getting me wide exposure. Are there good app review websites I should submit it to? What else would be good?
I mean, yeah, it's technically the right thing to do. But it's just shy of impossible to implement, and it presents a goofy user experience to your users.

oAuth is actually really easy to implement. I've done it several times now, never takes more than an hour.

I also find the user experience to be pretty solid too. Whats your specific complaint?

It is, after all, just somebody's Twitter account, not their banking credentials.

Problem being many people use the same password for Twitter as they do for their email.
Much though I love duct-tape wallets, they're unsuitable for many applications. I wonder if there's a slick way you could retrofit an existing leather wallet....
Perhaps. But if you look at the comps, PA investors got a sweet deal.
Revenue, revenue, revenue.

Apple haven't even bothered to talk about market-share, because they _don't_ care. They only care about how much revenue they get. Market-influences that obviously, but they're willing to remain in a smaller portion of the market -- smart-phones -- if it nets them greater revenue.

Which is does. As Jobs pointed out in his last keynote, Apple has made more money than Nokia. He didn't mention market-share.

End of the day it's the company with the most money that wins.

So, with a big war chest of money, strong revenues and an intention to gain more market-share; Apple is only just beginning it's war on the phone market. If I were a gambling man, I'd bet on them releasing a cheaper version of the iPhone in the future -- this is a no-brainer, since it would be the same pattern they've followed with the iPods and Macbooks. Nokia and their peers should be freaking out.
It's awesome that he uses iPod nano sized units for form not following function.

It seems like a shuffle would make the point, but they're too small to be really manageable in this context. If only form didn't follow function. sigh
There's going to be an election in March, and the results of it will help determine what sort of place it will be for the foreseeable future.

It's clear that if the sunnis and the shiites can't share power politically, that the levels of violence are likely to escalate. If they can, they'll likely stay level or trend downward.

That said, if you're seriously considering it, I'd read some of the numerous accounts from journalists and other non-combat professionals who have spent time over there.

If after recognizing the possibility of changes in the security situation, the dangers associated with working in Iraq (both physical and mental) you still want to go.... go ahead.

But personally, I wouldn't even consider it. Making money isn't really that hard, and there are countless interesting experiences I can have that don't involve substantial risk of trauma.

That said, everybody's money threshold is different, and it's a lot easier to say no to $200k as somebody who already lives comfortably and has a family to take care of, than it would be to say it as somebody who isn't yet financially comfortable, and whose passing would affect only parents, not wives/children.
Aside from the lack of draconian fees, how exactly is this different from a credit card? Are they liable for government regulation as a credit agency?
Judging by the success of social games, I would say there is a "real-world" incentive to actually pay. Sure you don't have to, but then you might not be able to play FarmVille anymore! That's a real-world problem for a lot of people.

It is true, however, that you'll never not be able to buy a house because of this though. Thank god for that.
Maybe a bit of an improvement over the current method of using passwords would be to take the user's username and password, immediately using them to connect the account using OAuth, and then store them no longer. This would make the connection persistent if the user changed their password, and would eliminate a lot of the risk.
It's spelled kwedit.

Honestly though, I don't know. It probably has something to do with the consequences of not paying.
btw: url is joubee.com :)
Companies that stand to gain from internet censorship lining the pockets of the right government officials?
No necessarily. These people are always 'confident' that they will get their way, but I'm sure all but a very few of them are pragmatic behind closed doors. It's just playing to the media circus; creating an image for the general public.
It reminds me of the aftermath of 9/11, all of the soccer moms in my rural home town, running around and buying up all the bottled water and duct tape in town, like they expected The Terr'ists to be interested in bombing Middelofnowheresburg, PA.

Keep in mind that Flight 11 and Flight 175 - the two aircraft that struck the World Trade Center towers - departed from Boston Logan International Airport. It makes you wonder what happened internally in the Boston PD after that event. A very high profile incident in everyone's recent memory originated from an area under their watch, so my guess is the paranoia stems from their desire to never be associated with such an incident ever again.

The paranoia runs deep elsewhere. Though not the first skyscraper you'd ever think to target, Boston's John Hancock Tower (tallest building in New England) is similar to the World Trade Center towers in which the elevators and stairwells are all contained within the core of the building. Working in the building, I can definitely say that security gets a bit antsy when the turnstiles buzz when something may be awry.
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On security in 2010:

1) Afghanistan can still be dangerous. The risk for a trigger puller/door kicker is very high, but for an IT contractor it's about the same as riding a motorcycle 50-100mi/day in Seattle.

2) Iraq is actually safer (on base, for IT contractors) than living in a lot of big but not especially nice cities. The biggest risk is honestly chronic health conditions (like a heart attack) or people having emotional/relationship/etc. issues and self-inflicted injury.

3) Kuwait is INSANE. Specifically, driving off-base is insane. I drive about 2-3h/day between US bases, and see one obviously-fatal motor vehicle accident on the highways every day. The only time in my life I've ever done CPR and treated arterial bleeding (I'm an IT guy, not a doctor!) was responding to a Kuwaiti on Kuwaiti vehicle accident a couple years ago. I'd say the risk is about the same as riding 50-100 miles/day on a motorcycle, drunk, in a not-especially-motorcycle-friendly city.

4) Qatar is like Kuwait only safer.

5) Bahrain is safer than Kuwait and fun, except on Thursday/Friday when lots of drunk Saudi weekend guys show up, turning it into Kuwait-level danger.

There are lots of reasons to do or not do this, but safety is basically not an issue (except if you're driving between bases in Kuwait, which people don't really do)
I'm actually most impressed by their payments via 7-11. Finding a way to transfer cash to an online account is actually really difficult, should you find yourself in that position. If PayPal accounts could be loaded via 7-11, I think that would be surprisingly popular.
Indeed. Their service seems to have gotten worse since their move to Rackspace. I mean, I know they were sort of outgrowing EngineYard, and it wasn't the right platform for them technically, but it was still better than its been since the move.
This is the sort of time saver that will cost you time later, when you want to spend your time on authentication even less. Twitter is wanting to cut off basic auth because of "security issues" (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ#Whenareyougoingtoturnof...), and while OAuth isn't required now, it likely will be soon.
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Just a single commit wherein DHH changes all the version numbers from 3.0.pre to 3.0.0.beta (curious, what's with the extra zero all of a sudden, or rather lack of it prior?).

Isn't that what releasing open source software is all about? I recall my astonishment recently when tagging 1.0 of my project on GitHub and making a blog post about it caused some actual excitement from people. Amazing to me was that the code hadn't changed dramatically for weeks; bumping the version number was the only real significant difference.

I think I understand the excitement of finally seeing a project "done," yet still it feels a little odd when you're the project owner and calling something "done" can be more like a fleeting feeling rather than an absolute.
This sort of thing is inherent to the idea that you have to get government permission to build a structure for your own use on your own property.
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You made some unwarranted presumptions. I haven't checked out Mixergy myself -- which has no bearing on whether I'm cut out to be an entrepreneur. I was merely asking for others' opinions.
I agree with you about the body of history here. The doctrine is in no ways new or radical; I still think it's a bad idea, and it's gotten a lot easier to incorporate since the days of the East India Company when you needed a Royal Charter to incorporate.
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I think it's a 1st-gen Apple remote, with a bit of help from photoshop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Remote

And I agree with japherwocky. It seems awfully cynical and the author seems to just want to complain about a pithy phrase.
That's so insane it is almost intriguing.

So basically it is a stored value card but you effect the purchase of the card after actually spending it. That is the insane part. However, since you're only using the SVC to purchase bits which were free to the company anyhow, and there is presumably no cashing mechanism, fraud-related concerns are negligible. (Oh no, extra records in my database. How ever will I cope.) Granted you're not going to get anything near 100% payout on the SVCs, but because the purchase step is later, it doesn't present a massive brick wall to conversion. And because people's Facebook identities are semi-durable, there is an incentive to pay these if (big if) the user wants to have a second bite at the apple with the same merchant or another merchant.

Branding it as the Promise-That-Isn't is probably not a great idea, though. That destroys the social norm that you'll pay for what you "promised" to pay for. That is a very, very strong social norm which is extraordinarily effective in the real world even for low-trust interactions -- for example, see pizza restaurants or sit-down restaurants. (Anybody can get a pizza created "on credit". Similarly, almost every pay-post-eat restaurant is theoretically vulnerable to dine-and-dash and yet it is rounding error on their businesses.)
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An opposing viewpoint: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/d...
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I hope this is good sign.

I'm developing a simple-but-powerful desktop QT app that I hope to port to symbian and Android at a later point.

As an application framework, QT (developed by Nokia) rocks and it would be nice to have it target lots of open platforms.
Flip this around: if nobody knew it was there, then nobody checked that it was built to code. And, well, building codes are generally held to be as useful today as they were back when Hammurabi wrote down the first one (of course, in his day enforcement was a bit more strict...).
I prefer the command line as well for version control (regardless of flavor), but git's porcelain is pretty horrendous. I think the worst offender is git-checkout, which can switch branches, detach from a branch entirely, or just update the working copy of a file with a different revision.

However despite the power and complexity of git's interface I find I better understand and feel more comfortable with git after one year of daily use than I ever was with subversion and cvs even after a decade.
The Catholic church will have you believe that that the only prevention method is abstinence - which really hasn't helped the African continent in curbing their HIV infection rate (some statistics show that as much of 60% of the populace are HIV positive).

The Church isn't guilty on its own by dissuading the use of condoms - there is a whole lot of cultural stigma attached to the use of condoms too but it sickens me that an organisation that spearheads other great humanitarian efforts can be so blind about this issue.

Earth to Church: People have it off.