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It was interesting to follow this experiment but have to admit it was against the odds since day 1 (and it's especially easy to say so in retrospective).

In terms of regular users, there are tons of dirt cheap chinese no-name android devices that more or less work. For 100 euros, you can get an acceptable Android phone from a major manufacturer (LG, etc). FirefoxOS was competing in a similar price range, however offered much less to the end user. I guess it's fair to say that it didn't deliver any extra value.

When I was using FirefoxOS and poking around the code base, I saw potential in their web-first platform as an introduction to programming. It's much easier to write some basic HTML, CSS and JS than to figure how to do the equivalent in Java for Android, etc.

However, things like ionic or phonegap and reasonably good, and it's hard to compete with them as they produce something fairly acceptable and available to run on the vast majority of the smartphones.

At the end of the day, I really appreciate Mozilla's work on this project. Thanks to all the volunteers who contributed to the project. You are amazing people :)
For one thing, Android is based on the Linux kernel. The very same kernel that is driving the majority of servers on the net right now.
It's really cause no one wrote any Windows apps, and a lot of the ones that were written have been removed because the respective companies don't want to maintain them. The Kindle reader for my Windows Mobile phone was sooooo buggy.

If it had the apps to back it, Windows would have been okay as a touch OS. But that whole thing totally failed.

Microsoft should have put the Courrier table into production. It was ready to go. That one move totally killed any chance at Microsoft making it into the tablet realm (and really set them back 2 ~ 3 years as a consumer tech company)
Not sure what's good about associating this company name with terrorists. You could just as well list hipermarkets where they bought food. It clearly wasn't obvious, even to some three-letters agencies, that this guy is going to do what he has done.
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Yeah, also the original IBM PC which inspired a lot of complaints, replacements, and a change when the IBM PC AT arrived.
As someone who last few years got into photography, I can't wait for computation to be used more to produce better images and more innovative systems. The one for example is camera with 16 small sensors that will probably be flop, but will open doors to so many others that will come after it.

I personally can't wait.
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Taking that interpretation would mean any interview where you write code would violate your employment agreement.
Is there significance to NTP requests in relationship to DDOS?
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Just as a counterpoint, I regularly saw Firefox os+phone ads on giant billboards in central Warsaw.

If there was to be any market interest, I thought their targeting and marketing efforts like this were pretty spot-on.
We're affected. All Cloud Storage reads/writes are down for 14 hours now :(

Edit: It's back up now.
Not that I'm aware of. You're thinking of GRE tunnel DDoS mitigation providers like staminus and blacklotus.
I would be interested to hear from an art historian or dealer why his work is considered so important. The article lists other artists like Warhol who appropriated found photos into their works. So if he wasn't the first, what did he do so differently that makes his work so valuable?
You're absolutely right. I guess it's hard to be entirely magic-free. In this case, I'm pretty happy with the underscores thing since it's one pretty simple rule. Happy to hear alternatives, though. :)
The last time I checked (about a year ago), their web site said that the project is not ready for public. I bought a firefoxos device in October 2014 which came with FirefoxOS 1.3, and got to agree that it wasn't ready for public.

So that explains the lack of marketing.
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If all of an applicant's code is owned by their current employer would "whiteboard" style code also be prohibited in an interview? I guess I'm wondering where the line is drawn.
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here's some video: https://gcaptain.com/video-first-footage-of-future-uss-zumwa...

Wish they had got footage from another ship since that tends to show how quite ships are.
This is why I don't really interview my sub-contractors. If I run into someone at a meetup that I think seems smart, I ask them if they'd be interested in picking up a small project. If they accept, I... give them a small project. No resumes. No demeaning interrogation. Straight to work on something real. And I pay them.[0]

If they do well, I give them another one. If they don't, I tell them I'm sorry but I don't have any more work for them.

Thinking more deeply on the issue, I think I want to know as little about a potential candidate as possible.[1] I don't want to bias myself against them. I've had a lot of bad experiences in my career and I'm sure I'm not perfect at keeping my prejudices to myself. I want to get people into the chair as soon as possible, get them working, and judge from the work. Once I see work getting done, it's really easy to ignore everything else.

[0] I don't think I can even make someone do an "interview assignment" for free. I'd be receiving something of value--their labor--but I'd have no accounting of it for taxes and I have no desire to try to figure out how to keep track of something like that.

[1] Yeah, I'll say this probably includes whether or not they have any experience with programming. If they can't do the job, we'll find out soon enough. If they can do the job to a satisfactory degree, why do I need know how long they've been doing it before? Give people a chance to surprise you.
Pricing per-month is not the way to go. They need to move to streaming, and price per-event. $5 per event sounds like a great deal, and I bet I'd end up spending more than $40/month at that rate at least at certain times of the year (i.e. when my favorite sports are in season).
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Light field technology

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But that's the thing: Sesame Street wasn't created for two-year-olds. Or rather, not just two-year-olds. It was created for kids as young as two, maybe younger, and as old as six or seven, maybe older. But the increasing focus on Elmo is stripping the show of its capacity to speak to anyone older than maybe three in a useful way. It's come to the point that it's probably detrimental to older children, really to all children, because, as the author points out, it may (inadvertently?) teach things like, "Intrude on personal space! Whine and quiver your lip, kids! Guilt gets things done! Cuteness will get you everywhere!"
Good. I can't remember anyone other than Mozilla actually being excited about Firefox OS. It seemed like a massive sinkhole on the company's part that drew resources away from the development of the browser.
They did say they have a lot of work that went into the hull to get something that would be efficient.
And the vast, vast majority of startups fail.

So.
>Wouldn't really feel we should claim that we understand how the whole process works."

It's more like classical vs quantum mechanics [1]. Both are correct in their limit. And yet we also know that neither is actually True. With respect to genetic regulation we understand the largest terms in the non-linear system, and many of the smaller terms. Does that mean we 'understand' it completely? No, but like physics, we understand it 'completely enough' for many engineering purposes. The fun of it is that there are still exceptions and edge-cases to play with and learn from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_principle
The office character of Todd Packer was probably based on Ballmer.
I bought the DVDs when they came out, about 10 years ago. Look for "The Best of the Electric Company." It was, and remains, totally brilliant. My two elder children loved it, and couldn't get enough. My son (who is now 10) never got into it, but I'll somehow forgive him.

Really and truly, the Electric Company was a very, very clever show that mixed humor and education in a unique way.

The company that produced these DVDs never imagined that children would be watching; they imagined it was only nostalgic adults. So the "best of" DVDs, when first produced, included condom ads! After enough parents protested that this wasn't the most appropriate kind of advertising to put on a children's DVD, the company issued new ones with more child-friendly advertising.
I play, enjoy, and have ascended in gurr's Android Nethack. I find it has a really natural interface, although it's certainly different from terminal. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbd.NetHac...
How do you define "extremely expensive"?

Always-on scrubbing will typically run you $10k provisioning and $6-9k monthly for 100mbps of clean bandwidth from most of the providers.
Does ohshit stand for something else clever? I know the Android API uses "What a Terrible Failure" to serve a similar function.
14 hours?! Are you able to do anything within what they provide? Can you access your data in some way to move it elsewhere or something like that?

But wow... I thought 15 minutes would be a huge downtime for a service provided by Google.
The best way to show that you get things done is to have a record of things you've done to point to.
> If tomorrow we decided to use a new language, I could pick it up in a few days...

If all you've written is OO code, this is probably false bravado.

Chances are you're not going to be productive in Prolog or APL in a few days without some prior exposure to those concepts.
> They can read all the books I read when I was a kid,

Hang on. Some old books sell well and so keep getting re-printed, but they're not very good.

There are some great books for children created each year.

The Kate Greenaway award is mostly (but not entirely) for younger children (because it's an award for excellent illustration) and the Carnegie award is mostly for older children (because it's an award for older children).

This website compares books that are "most read" (eg Roald Dahl) and "most loved" (eg not Dahl). http://whatkidsarereading.co.uk/
There is also a bias against enterprise developers in that most often their work is on proprietary systems, leaving no code artifacts to view on Github, which a lot of companies have started using in their recruiting process.
Employment agreements like that are certainly frustrating. I've had experience with a few.

One thing to realize is that your employer can't really retaliate. The hypothetical iOS app I mentioned is set up for one purpose: to let candidates show they can do work the company is looking for. Not only will the code be thrown away, but it wouldn't make any sense to use it.
If that was the case I'd expect the upload to be consistent but slow. Since it was intermittent, I believe it's an app issue.
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I love the work of Mozilla in the browser space, Thunderbird, Rust and online freedom.

Having web pages as native apps goes back to Web Widgets on Series 60 phones, followed by WebOS.

On the Series 60, almost everyone favoured native Symbian and J2ME apps to web widgets.

WebOS sadly failed to gain major traction.

Windows Phone and Android devices can be obtained by fairly low prices and have the advantage of native apps, Webviews besides the browser. On Windows Phone the WinRT is exposed to packaged web apps.

So although I respect their efforts, I never really understood the effort, given that they were under the same OEM constraints as Android and the reviews of the available devices weren't that great.
Holy crap. They cross from the uncanny valley right into an Orwell-Stephenson character -- disturbing for its realism.
Presumably the "burning water-skis" cited refer instead to burning personal watercraft, also known by the trade name of "Jet Ski". A water ski is a wooden or plastic board that is mostly submerged in water while in use, making it quite difficult to burn. The whole ICD exercise seems to be about the accurate use of the English language, so this error does not inspire confidence.
> That hasn't been the case for Google...

On what platform? Google in web search is a monopoly, Google or Apple in Smartphones are not. That matters for most of these things.
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I've always regarded that paper as the 'Godel's Incompleteness Theorem' of Security.

I'm not saying that the security field had a 'Hilbert's Program' before then, but it certainly couldn't have one afterward.
But when they tried to pioneer privacy respecting ads in the new tab window, they were repeatedly and roundly criticised here, too...
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That's why I went into consulting as well: six weeks off a year was priceless to me. But I've recently accepted a permanent role again, with less time off than I've had in years, simply because of the huge salary.

It's a little humbling to realize that I had a price, after all.
ZTE was selling their ZTE Open C which came with FirefoxOS 1.3 on ebay.co.uk, that's where I bought it from. I lived in the UK at the moment but I believe they were shipping it worldwide.

Checked the ebay listings again, there are a few sellers from Australia, the USA but seems like the ZTE listing is gone.
That's too bad but like everyone else said pretty obvious what the outcome would be.

I wonder what a third player in the mobile OS market would look like and if it's even possible at this point. Microsoft is basically number 3 at this point, right? Yet they have so little market share that companies are activity leaving their marketplace.

I wonder if the next mobile OS isn't an OS that requires apps to survive but, instead, offers a crazy amount of integration experiences. For instance if someone came up with a way to unify how to call a car then integrate that directly into the phone (so ultimately it wouldn't matter if it was Uber, Lyft or even yellow cab).

Maybe not the best example but I'm getting the feeling creating a phone that needs apps to be highly functional is simply not possible at this time and another angle is needed to break in.
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> The voice was changed slightly to sound like neither individuals

I think the audio is just low quality. It wouldn't make any sense for them to do that.
It was presumably done over UDP where it's trivial to fake source IP. What's the minimum size of a valid UDP-based DNS request? Let's guesstimate 25 bytes. Then 50M/s * 25 bytes = 1.25 GB/s. Or 10 Gbit/s.

Is that really so impressive these days?
Also note that the 6.0.1 update for Android introduced a slightly different tablet UI again.

Since 4.3-4.4, tablets have sported a bottom bar with 3 buttons centered. Now two of them (back and home) are found in the bottom left corner, while the "switcher" button has landed in the bottom right.

While this seem to be nice when holding a tablet with both hands, it also works well with "Fitts' law" as corners are easy to hit with a mouse.
Kind of like saying it's awful how people paint Hitler and Nazism in general in such a dehumanizing evil light, when they rebuilt a war-torn Germany into a well-oiled prosperous country (To be fair, they genocided some minorities¹. But still, people. Still.)

¹ - Assuming that the holocaust happened. It is my understanding that a lot of people deny that any ethnic minorities were killed by the Nazi regime and that the entire thing was fabricated, but the overwhelming opinion is that a number of people perished in the camps and a not insignificant amount of the survivors were severely maltreated.
Intel woke up and slightly adjusted its strategy after Qualcomm Chinese antitrust case blew up.
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I'll use myself as an example -- I work as a programmer in the Defense industry. I've wanted out for years. So every so often I start sending out resumes and going on interviews.

After wasting about half of my vacation time on (multiple) rounds of interviews with each prospective employer (that ultimately lead nowhere -- most often, a potential employer who inexplicably stops communicating with me), I give up.

Then, when I need to find a new job (project/contract ending, etc.), I do the safe thing and apply to other defense companies, because getting an interview almost always results in an offer (and no multiple-rounds of white-board hazing either). After a while at the new job I'll start looking outside the industry again --- and promptly get pounded back into my pigeonhole :)
The mask kinda looks like a cosine filter rather than just a simple grid to make many pinholes. If so, then it might be a small version of heterodyne light field camera.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/Mask/
Oh yeah, I've read about them targeting some specific countries (Spain, Brazil, Poland, etc). So it might be that the parent commentator lives elsewhere and didn't get targeted :)
OP here. This popped up elsewhere, thought I'd share. I'm a bit annoyed though because all this does is show that we can take sonar reflections and create an image from them, doesn't say anything about what the dolphin is doing with it.

It would be a much more interesting experiment to look at just applying the same imaging algorithm to non-location noises (just dolphin chatter) and see what it looks like.
Yep, lots of these point-of-sale machines are (still!) running XP Embedded which is, AIUI, pretty heavily targeted. Apparently -- but not surprisingly -- they aren't updated all that much so they're pretty susceptible to being compromised.
There's also ohshite() :-)
Not taking a side here. :)

What do you think sssgen is missing that I could rip off of Middleman?

Or in general, what do you think is missing from sssgen to make it feasible to use for 100K+ -page sites? I'd really like to hear your thoughts.
Is that why Elmo is an evil Sesame Street Fighter character?

http://flavourmachine.com/sesamefighter/

(Inspired by http://www.deviantart.com/art/Sesame-Street-Fight-Elmo-Bison...).
>On top of the interview itself, there's the hours of studying you have to put in.

Yikes, are people really doing this, or feel like they must?

If I'm interviewing, I expect to be asked about previous projects, maybe my Github portfolio, and so on. I also expect to be asked how I might approach a given problem within my area of work. I can't imagine studying that - I'm paid to do this stuff every day.

So are we talking about stuff that isn't related to my area of work, like brain-teasers and random algorithm questions?
Boring! The singularity point has already occurred. https://medium.com/@yanazendo/proof-of-work-steganography-63...
This is exactly why I decided to resign from my last job instead of looking for work while in it (in addition to the crippling stress that caused me to look in the first place). There simply isn't enough time to find the right fit if you don't really quite know what you're looking for - even being remote on a very open schedule the time it took to take recruiting calls, do resume and code test work was very high. Granted, I already had an offer outstanding when I decided to do that, so I was reasonably sure I would be able to bridge the gap to my next job using savings I had accrued. Now I've found an interesting job paying MUCH better than I was expecting which will in the near term greatly overmatch the investment of some of my savings in the time to look.
Totally with you here. My kids were at the right age for elmo and Teletubbies when those phenomena got popular. Elmo "worked," but Teletubbies blew Elmo out of the park. My youngest would stop walking and stand transfixed at the TV when Teletubbies came on. It was positively creepy. A British friend said it was very controversial because of all the child psych research that went into capturing the kids' attention. The "Tinky Winky" controversy came along much later.
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> “We are proud of the benefits Firefox OS added to the Web platform and will continue to experiment with the user experience across connected devices. We will build everything we do as a genuine open source project, focused on user experience first and build tools to enable the ecosystem to grow.

This doesn't necessarily mean that Firefox OS is over. It means that it's over on the phone but it might move to those "connected devices". I bet Mozilla will release a more precise statement soon.
Not to mention that FirefoxOS wasn't even properly built. I have yet to see (and given today's news, probably will never see) a review of FirefoxOS where the reviewer doesn't mention the OS crashing multiple times.
> He's not adding anything interesting to the photos.

I like this about it. He adds a banal, trivial, perhaps non-sensical comment that satirizes the emptiness and one-sidedness of communication on today's most popular social platform. And the timing was perfect.
"I remember a storyline years ago that perfectly encapsulated this: Episode 3280, Season 26."

Too much detail.
I feel like the standard for PTO is 10-15 days, and often it's 10 day

Just my experience, but yeah, what I've seen is a 15 day minimum, and I don't explicitly filter out places that offer less.

Perhaps it's the type of companies I go for? If I recall correctly, Google, FB, Amazon, MS etc. all offer 15+ days for new hires, and most other large companies try to at least match them.
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> There is no substance on earth more addictive than Elmo is to a two year old.

The way you put this refutes your argument. Sesame Street isn't about feeding addictions. Children are addicted to sugar, too. The genius of the program was always its ability to give them more substantive fare while still enchanting them.

IMO the article makes some key distinctions, while remaining good-humored and self-aware. That's the opposite of being a "bitter internet pundit". There's real psychological insight there, applicable beyond Sesame Street, and (the grad student in me wishes to add) some fine cultural criticism as well.
If the point of storing them is to search for credit card matches, I don't see how you could salt them in any useful way.

Beyond that, most things display first four & last four, so you can probably assume they have that too.