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From a comment in the USA today that the OP linked to:

Interpretation and Confirmation that the end day of Mayan 2012 is sure and near.

Mayan=may-an

may=can=know=knowledge=wisdom

wis=know; -dom=doom=The Judgment Day

an=and=十=X=Jesus Christ

Mayan 2012= know the end day Jesus Christ 2012

wow, just wow.
Prolly should have read the rest of the book first, as shown in the link before, this isn't an issue
Indeed they are. Very astute of you to notice. My point being that TC deem what is good or bad based on the direction the wind is blowing. Buzz was downright nasty, now you can follow them on it.
Flash wouldn't murder the iPad, it would murder the appstore, and that's why you won't see it on any apple mobile devices.

The battery life issues are something that could easily be taken care of with some optimizations.
HTML5 storage.
Ah yes, that "submarine" thing. We really need to get this whole software patent thing taken care of.
10-year rule was replaced in 2008 with "exit tax" - you have to pay taxes on all gains (realized and unrealized) and then you can go about your own business. Realizing gains to pay tax is a pain, but it only gets unbearable if your assets are illiquid.
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I'm happy with my Picoscope 2205.

http://www.picotech.com/oscilloscope.html
What about a cane? Can I have a cane as my affectation? I was just outside and it is gorgeous cane weather.
And that LinkedIn is the best data set there is on this matter, however sparse the data is.
I know so many US expats over here, and only a few have had visa-related issues (all resolved well).

survivorship bias
You raise an important issue, which I've written about before (http://blog.mhartl.com/2008/09/21/mass-assignment-in-rails-a... and http://blog.mhartl.com/2008/09/21/finding-and-fixing-mass-as...) and emphasize in the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book. Happily, in this case there is no cause for concern.

(1) The book uses test-driven development for the most part; the snippet you pasted is just enough to get the "failed signup" test to pass, and is not the full implementation. (2) The code you copied doesn't even save the user, so there's no potential security breach at this point. (3) There's no admin attribute yet. (It's coming in Chapter 9.) (4) The User model is protected by attr_accessible in any case, as discussed in Chapter 5 (http://www.railstutorial.org/chapters/modeling-and-viewing-u...). There's no way to tell from inspecting a controller action whether or not there's a security breach at the model level.

N.B. Just yesterday I exchanged notes with Yehuda Katz on this very subject; he and Carl Lerche both agree that Rails should close the attr_accessible security hole by default, much as Rails 3 now escapes the output of Embedded Ruby by default. My hope is that we'll see this implemented in Rails 3.x, for some value of x.
If you want to wake up, go outside immediately after you get up. Looking at the bright sky will get you waking up properly. Applies to all ages, and especially applicable to getting over jet lag.

Also. lay off the late night web browsing. The bright monitor light makes it harder to fall asleep.

Finally, get some exercise. When you've exercised you sleep much better.
Indeed. See my other comment. :-)
just got the 'ready for sale' email from apple, for an app i submitted about eight hours ago! if they can keep this up, we might be able to approximate the release cycle that web programmers enjoy.
We do this in-house in my research group already, as a way of letting anyone use fairly complex-to-setup AI systems without installing them on every machine. Even lets you use heavyweight AI from, say, Flash without doing something godawful like porting it to ActionScript, because Flash can just call out to some webservice for the algorithm it needs. Or, build a demo you can distribute to people elsewhere without having to distribute the backend as well, because the GUI phones home to get its algorithmic work done on our servers.

It's worked pretty decently, but we keep it internal because we just don't have the compute resources to offer things like SAT-solving or logic programming or planning as a service to the general public.
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http://codespeak.net/execnet/ is the correct one..
isn't http://www.directededge.com/ already doing "AAS"?
I'm not sure if this is correct - the only bits that kept the ML brand were the private wealth management and some parts of the non-US global markets division. Even then, officially the full name is still "Bank of America Merrill Lynch" and I think only a minority would keep their employer listed as "Merrill Lynch".

Merrill Lynch was not bought by BoA until September 2008 and the merger did not legally complete until December of the same year (followed by company-wide rebranding throughout 2009). So I think the flow on the graph shows those that were made redundant when Bear Stearns collapsed in March 2008 and then went on to employment with ML before the BoA merger, which happened nine months later.

EDIT: grammar.
Flash isn't one of the foundational technologies of the web.

If it has to use the embed or object tags, it is not foundational.
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So Flash on OSX has been complete crap for years because...? And you want me to believe that "oh, on the iPad/iPhone it will be different" because...? Oh, right, 10.1 will fix all sorts of problems that couldn't be fixed for years because...?
I'd be fine if flash disappeared.
Murder the App Store? How so? I'm always confused by such statements. They don't seem to make any sense. Enlighten me.
Flash wouldn't kill the app store any more than html5 will.
I quite like the look of MacRuby, my favourite on the list. Wondering if it's a plausible way to kill two birds with one stone, learn Ruby and a little bit about the frameworks available to me on my Mac. Only one way to find out I guess.
I get the feeling, but rationally, that would be equivalent to a company that simply promises (say, in the Terms of Service) not to mess with your data.

I may actually trust a company on such promises, but the real risk is in this scenario: the company goes bust and some weirdos seize control of the server. In that situation, it doesn't matter much that the data is encrypted, if the keys are available too.
I highly recommend the book "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Mihaly is well respected professor of psychology and management at Claremont University. I don't say this lightly - there is no other book that has had a greater, positive impact on my overall life. Enjoy!
Assuming Apple provided the necessary API, and Adobe implemented them, is there any reason Flash couldn't decode a video almost as efficiently as the iPad's media player?
One of my favorite takes on this:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
They could call up Adobe and say “Hey guys, Flash is blowing it in our OS, why don’t we get a few guys together and work it out?” But they won’t.

Hmmm... It seems to me that Apple has called Adobe up for years to get a few guys together and help Adobe move their apps up to Apple's latest APIs, to run native instead of emulated, and all sorts of other stuff, and Adobe has always dragged its heels.

I'm guessing Apple and Adobe just don't get along and it isn't as simple as saying that Steve doesn't like them.
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I don't see anywhere where it says, or even implies, that it is "very important news." It seems like Arrington just felt like doing some personal-blog-style ranting.
You seemed to have the particular issues I was thinking of there in your bug tracker already, and it seemed to be acknowledged that the underlying problem was still there in 1.4.1 but hopefully fixed in what was at the time the nightlies and is now presumably 1.4.2.

But that isn't really the point. While I commend you for trying to provide a cross-browser portable event model, the fact is that the changes in 1.4 got it wrong. If that had only affected jQuery itself, it wouldn't have been so bad, we could simply not have used the affected features until they were working properly. But it didn't just affect jQuery, it broke handling of change events for controls like checkboxes fundamentally in IE, so that well-established workarounds like the old "onclick='blur()'" trick were no longer effective either.

That particular bug took us several hours to pin down after we moved to 1.4, and ultimately our only solution was to back out the change and go back to the 1.3 series until the fix.

There was a similar situation in the upgrade from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2: what sounds like a minor bug-fix type release actually changed the way visibility was tested significantly, which caused problems for an occasional colleague of mine who was working with nested potentially-hidden views (i.e., one of a set of outer containers would be visible, and within that there were things like tab/accordion structures where some of the information would also be hidden). Again, while I don't doubt that the change was made with good intent and obviously the performance of the newer approach is much better, it pulled the rug out from under an existing project, and forced the people maintaining it to stop and go back over previously working code so that it would continue working with the new jQuery.

As I said, I've been using jQuery for a while and generally I've liked it. It's useful and I'm grateful to the developers who share it with the rest of us. But the original poster was asking about putting in the effort to migrate an existing project that already uses another library to use jQuery, in part because of issues of modularity and compatibility. I can't recommend that without reservation if even point releases might introduce the kinds of backward-incompatible change I've mentioned here.
Yeah, and we've just begun cleanup :). There's still a bunch that can go, there's plenty of stuff that's no longer necessary or supported, and over time, I'd expect that to go away entirely.

Also, the long term goal is to remove more from the TS "core", and move that out to plugins, so the core will be sleeker. Of course, we'll also add on new features, but hopefully many of those can be implemented as plugins as well.
That's as far down the page as I got. I was willing to ignore his suggestion that Jobs has no idea what he's talking about (willing suspension I guess), but after reading that a proprietary vendor plug-in is "foundational" to the web, I lost all interest. No one owes Adobe anything. If Apple sells an "Internet"Pad that doesn't run Flash, and people buy and use them then that says Flash isn't a required feature.

Simple as that.

Personally I've been running ClickToFlash and Flashblock and find the web a better place. I only click boxes that I expect to see video in.
English is not my first language and I find it very frustrating when people nitpick on words. The first year of my fashion studies was (more or less) devoted to the meaning of the word 'fashion', but I still manage to understand what people mean by using it.

What I meant was statement in the sense of fashion[1], which is the connotation of your clothes, 'reavealing information' as you put it. But if you are deliberately buying geeky t-shirt or 'easy' clothes, you are still making a conscious statement, for example "I'm a geek" and "I prefer comfort over fit". In the event that the selection of your clothes is not deliberate, there's still the connotation of them. For example, with 'easy' clothes some may look at you as a slob, while others sees you as laid back.

While you can be outside of the 'fashion system', your clothes still have meaning, to you and to others. If you want to read a proper simile regarding fashion, i.e. not with http headers, I can (almost) recommend the works of Roland Barthes [2].

[1] http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_561533193/fashion_statemen...
[2] http://books.google.com/books?q=roland+barthes+fashion
Bleah. By Stack's own admission, the first of his beefs with the IRS was getting caught in an "organized religion" scam. I didn't read past that, but I understand his third beef is akin to that.

(The second is legitimate, it too put me out of a job in 1987 and on a bad career path for a long while, but the problem was more with the Congress that removed the safe harbor just for us "technical professionals" than the IRS which then enforced that.)
I'm not sure what you are trying to point out to us dorfman.
Google doesn't like being indexed, but neither do the other search engines
http://bing.com/robots.txt,http://duckduckgo.com/robots.txt.
I couldn't remember the name of that quiel, or quill, or something like that.
It's not that the book itself made him appear suspicious, it's that there are shared elements between the book and the letters. Further, it wasn't just that he owned a copy of the book, he threw it away in a manner that indicates a consciousness of guilt.

[not that I necessarily agree with the above - it's just my interpretation of the passage]
I enjoyed the vantage on how PR works.
Neat! I didn't know that what I call "The Zone" had been formalized.
"There might be dramatic changes in our global climate in the future."

"Pfft. Crazy talk. The Earth has always been exactly as it is now."

"We might be contributing to these changes because of our polluting ways."

"No we aren't. It's too big. There's no way that 6 billion people could have any effect on the Earth's climate."

"We think we have some evidence. Look..."

"HAH! Look, here, see? Your numbers don't all match! You're a fraud! You just want money to continue your prestigious work!"

"Uhm ... sure. But look, the climate affects a lot of things, y'know."

"Yeah, so?"

"So, here's a partial list of things which might be affected by climate."

"LOLOL! There's no way one thing could be blamed for all of these! No way! That just proves you're a crock!"

...But, uhm, hey, thanks for contributing to the debate, or something.
Does the employee get any say in whether he contests his status, or does the IRS tend to do this unilaterally? (This has obvious and multitude implications w.r.t. risk and reputation.)
A School for Hackers?
Is there one? Who would be interested to join or open one?
> How can this happen?

Good question. I don't think Google published a list of the multiple sources they use to find new websites.
I think it's not too far fetched to say that all URLs they can see though any of their service would be added to the Googlebot queue.
Sending an email to a Gmail user with a link to admin amahi org might be a trigger...
But nothing is sure.

> Does PageRank and their famous incoming link equations not matter?? How can this be so off?

It's not off really. To Google's eyes, www amahi org == admin amahi org. They became interchangeable. Here's more details on this...

Since the end of 2007, subdomains of a specific domain are all linked together somehow.
Ref: Matt Cutts [http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/about-me/] in a blog post here [http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/]

What this means is that Google knows that www amahi org and admin amahi org are related.
In your case, they were more than just related; they were pratically identical (in content).
When Google finds duplicate content on your site, it might decide to use one version or the other in search results. In Google's eyes, both URL are interchangeable, and so they will be used interchangeably.
And this is particularly apparent in your case, where searching for "linux home server" on Google will sometimes show admin amahi org, sometimes www amahi org, as the first result.
Or when searching for "link:admin amahi org" will return pages that link to www amahi org.

Ref: Duplicate content [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...]

> How long will this last?

Nobody can say. They never give any estimate on how long re-crawling a site will take.

> We have gone to WMT to dramatically accelerate the crawl rate of www amahi org

You should do the same with admin amahi org, after you've changed a couple of things (more about that below).

> More importantly, how can we prevent this from happening again?

Multiple ways: robots.txt, Canonicalization, Sitemaps...

robots.txt: it's pretty easy to make robots.txt dynamic:
.htaccess:
<Files robots.txt>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

robots.txt:
<?php if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'admin amahi org') { echo "Disallow: /"; } ?>

Canonicalization: See details here [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...]
Basically, you should add a <link rel="canonical" href="http://www amahi org/...> in the <head> section of your pages.
This will indicate to Googlebot your preferred URL.
Again, it's pretty easy with any scripting language... Just hardcode the "http://www amahi org part of the @href, and put the rest dynamically.

Sitemaps: You should submit sitemaps for both admin amahi org and www amahi org on Google Webmaster Tools.
In fact, you should create only one sitemap, containing only www amahi org URLs you want Google to see, and use that same sitemap for both www and admin sites.
Submitting this sitemap through Google Webmaster Tools could help Googlebot pick up your 301 Redirect, and your new robots.txt, a little faster.

Good luck with this!
I agree this would be bad if Apple significantly strengthened their position but I think the market would push back if it really got bad. People love their porn.
On Windows, Flash has tunnels to your video card to let its hugely parallel processors burst-decode a ton of information at a time. It can’t do that on OS X, from what I understand — mainly because Apple doesn’t want them to.

I can't believe this. VLC does not use 70% CPU to decode a 720p video, and it's not using any hardware acceleration other than an overlay. (Or maybe it renders to a texture; either way, it works fine even with a GMA950.)

It also appears that vidix supports OS X, which lets you actually offload video decoding to your nVidia card. (Edit: maybe I'm wrong, I was thinking of VDPAU, not vidix.)

So... I call "LIES" on this. Apple loves arbitrary restrictions, but OS X does not have many. You can make your GPU do whatever you want, even on Apple hardware.
This is exactly right.

Flash is a plugin for the web, and unfortunately for its creators, it has not evolved enough to be of clearly superior use in another capacity. A while ago Flash replaced Java for embedded interactive media content on the web. Java did not disappear because Java could be used to do other things. Would GE Medical Systems write their diagnostic imaging software in Flash? I think we all know that would not happen. But GE would be fine using Java, and so would the FDA who audits their software before it can go to market.

My point is, Flash is going to go away. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next month, but eventually it will go away. And it will go away because its creators did not innovate and keep evolving it so that it would be useful in a changed environment. This is the tech industry, the environment always changes. Even worse for those who want to keep doing what they were good at yesterday, it changes in unexpected ways.

Let every entrepreneur on this board take what is happening to Flash right now as a cautionary tale. Let's not rail against it, we should learn from it. This is how we evolve the American technology industry, by taking these lessons to heart.
How technology takes fashion to the next level
Apple can serve DMCA notices till they're blue in the face. Outside the US people will just laugh them off.

Not to mention that if they start prosecuting their customers that's terrible PR, and the ones most likely to jailbreak are the ones recommending iPhones to their friends and family (i.e. the technically inclined), and also the ones who would make a huge fuss about it. It really would do them no good at all.
Like everything in life, there are always exceptions. I generally won't sign NDAs either but I gave the green light to signing one today in a case where our potential client is abandoning their dev team due to failed promises, technical issues, and a timeline that has kept getting longer and longer. This client wants me to review the application as it stands now to determine its quality and figure out what needs to be done to fix it.

In this case I was okay with signing an NDA that was solely restricted to the data residing in their existing database, and I added in a clause that specifically excluded source code, design, technological processes, etc., from the NDA. To me, it's not unreasonable for someone to ask for an NDA to prevent the disclosure of data such as contact lists, email addresses, login names, and other private details.

I won't sign NDAs that cover ideas or anything technological, but these kinds of NDAs are just due diligence on the part of clients, in my opinion.
I heard this term used by another programmer recently, and didn't realize it was referring to a specific psychological concept. Awesome.
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I wouldn't, how would I enjoy one of the few fine animations on Newgrounds: http://www.reddit.com/r/animation/comments/b24nd/the_wonderf... or enjoy another round of Fancy Pants Adventure: http://www.kongregate.com/games/DrNeroCF/fancy-pants-adventu... ?
Things like the 3.1.3 update are precisely why my next phone will run Android, not iPhone OS.
Yeah, I read that passage with my Suspicious Hat on (nobody gets geek culture! nobody!), but if all the facts they lay out are factual, I can't object to the chain of inference there; it is at least plausible.
Another great book, for me, was 'What do you say after you say hello' by Eric Berne. Flow is also good, though.
Google uses Flash outside of Youtube. Google Translate and Analytics are two that come to mind. I'm sure there are others.
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>In this vein, it should also be noted that there's no guarantee that licensing H.264 actually covers you for every patent.

I'd assume that if someone would be foolish enough to sue a h264 licensee, MPEG-LA (or it's members) would be quick to counter-sue them to oblivion.
Upvoted for your mention of dressing to signal your respect for others. It seems many geeks rarely think of this. To many geeks I have known, their down-dressing is about their comfort and desire to buck mainstream culture. That's fine, but it would be nice if they realized that dressing nice at work or out with friends can also mean you think those around you were worth some effort. After all, you don't have to look at yourself all day, but everybody else does.
It's immature to expect Google/YouTube to provide two (or more?) copies of every video just to satisfy the open source community, particularly one that would only be compatible within their own browser.

They're probably moving in that direction anyway and will release the codec as an open standard. It is also likely Adobe will support it in Flash to maintain maximum compatibility. The real question is whether Apple will bite...
Has anyone here used a service like prMac and found it worthwhile?

I'm about to launch my first Mac app and I'm struggling to apply myself to the marketing aspects and would love to just get on with coding my next idea; so I was thinking of using prMac but now it doesn't seem like such a great idea...
Nothing is wrong with it except that most of the damage was caused by the genius idea of building below sea/water level in an area known to be inundated with hurricanes which tend to cause increases in sea level and then neglecting to maintain the levies to keep the water out. It surely wasn't individuals and various levels gov't making cataclysmically bad decisions, no sirree, it was global warming. Also, the gov't should have had more boats on hand for actors to rescue puppies.
Please excuse my brevity- that is what I was trying to say with "(not noticeably)". Technically, or course it will slow down code not using the conditional.
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