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> So, Google has a responsibility to check each and every app for malicious intent by the uploader?

(...)

> The ultimate responsibility of what you run on your computers lies with you, (...)

This touches on something that has been nipping at my brain lately. There seems to be a widespread assumption among many developers that end users need to be more educated about technology, that it is not the developers who need to make these things simpler to use, but end users who need to understand the underlying system better. In other words, that the general public needs to catch up to technology instead of technology being more usable for the general public.

I think that is very wrong headed.

> Now if only people would read those warnings and think for a bit before clicking 'ok'.

Well, it only tells you it wants to read your address book, not that it wants to read your address book so it can spam all your friends (as an example). Joe Somebody wouldn't be stupid to allow a wallpaper app to read his address book if he was under the assumption that the app would just use that data to let him email nice wallpapers to friends.

> This is analogous to people receiving an email that instructs them to open a malware attachment.

Only if every app the user installs requires following email instructions and opening an attachment, and that's the point. There is little to discern the malicious permissions from the beneficial ones unless you are intimate with how the app is supposed to work. This is why a higher, more knowledgeable authority should at least give apps some level of review.
In fact many try to get a winner startup. I see a flow of online intensive startups, think in a way to connect people in the real World. Try to see this way, instead to get people from the real World to the online World, look the other way around.
You meant perseverance.
Nothing. If you read past the flaming click baiting headline you will find that this is just an AT&T billing anomaly where they aggregate transfers and bill them late at odd times.
s/Macros should be used/Macros must be used/

;-)
I agree that class should be more important than race in making these decisions, but it's also true that, on average, poor minorities have more disadvantages and more to overcome than poor whites.
Or... Did the .NET/C# folks copy the reflection from Java or invented it themselves?
So, because it's a conservative thinktank talking about the issue, poor whites are not in fact being discriminated against? I wish I could cancel issues just by getting a partisan organization to talk about it!

I mean, the point is simple math. If you have a certain number of people you are going to admit, and you give bonuses to certain groups, you are equally penalizing others. People shouldn't be permitted to pretend otherwise because that's disingenuous; if you're going to do that, do it forthrightly and honestly. The fact that it's a challenge to forthrightly and honestly say "We want to discriminate against poor white people" sounds like a feature to me, not a bug.
I think the criticism would be that if their philosophy used to be focusing solely on search, and now they are doing other things, these side projects were never part of the "endgame". Perhaps they suffered from this.
Well said. I found a similar passage on Reddit the other day.

No. Every single fucking day I wake up like a goddam bull, ready to charge out and destroy everything in my path. Maybe I'll start a new business, maybe I'll buy a house, maybe I'll get in my car and drive to Texas, I don't fucking know, but I'm going to do something that makes me happy. Sure, I used to be sad and pathetic like you, not sure what I wanted to do with my life, until I realized, there is no "single thing". I want everything. I want thick juicy steaks still dripping blood, I want wide-open blue skies, endless summer, ice cold glacier water out of the skull of my enemy. I want to fuck until I scream, drive up the face of a cliff, ride horses in France, blow 10 grand on peanut butter or maybe just buy the biggest suite in the place and sit around ordering pay-per-view. It's your goddam life you spineless fuck, no one is going to live it for you. You better wake the fuck up now, or you're going to turn around, look at your Chrysler Minivan, your mortgage, your pot-belly and your thinning hair and wonder with crushing regret where it all went, how you got here, and what the fuck do you do now? Goddam, I want to slap you and wake you the fuck up. You want to know what to do? LEAVE THE FUCKING HOUSE and go explore. Fuck a midget. Create a stand-up routine and do open mike night. Yeah, you aren't funny. Get over it. Learn something new. Go out and live.
Then again, there is something to be said for a nice nap.

Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/comments/cm06w/dae_f...
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I work for a start-up in a smaller city. I was lucky to find this job when I did and now we've been acquired by a very large company which will remain anonymous. With the acquisition, things have changed we have to use the technologies listed in their corporate policy.Any enjoyment I had working here is now gone.

My family and I have made the decision that we want to move to San Francisco. I want to find a job there and work on a new challenge. My real passion is for Rails and other open source technologies. I've been a speaker at a couple of conferences and I have contributed some to open source. My work experience for the past few years is mostly .Net which I no longer want to have much involvement with.

My plan is to puts loads of code up on github and and possibly travel there to network.Is there something else I can be doing? Are the odds stacked against me?
Well, it's more the difference between a swiss army knife / leatherman and a Wusthof chef's knife. Yes, the former have a ton of more features but if I'm mainly going to cook, and I cook a lot, the leatherman's or the swiss army knife's blade is going to be an annoyance (even though it's great for occasional use). Obviously, I'll choose the specialized device.

That's basically the advice I give to my friends who ask me about the Kindle. If you read a lot, it's a great investment but if you don't read much, you'll be wasting your money.
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My inference from the times I can remember him mentioning it: Basically, Steve likes dynamic typing. He feels that arbitrary language-enforced constraints just get in the way. Haskell is the most strongly statically typed language in existence, so obviously it's not his cup of tea.

If you read his most recent rant, you can see that although it's technically about visibility modifiers, it can read as a condemnation of compiler-enforced constraints in general.
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Solve the problem before you code the solution. That may be obvious to this crowd, but I learned it the hard way!

That's likely far from obvious to this crowd (if it has been paying attention). Paul Graham advocates the exact opposite: "exploratory programming", where you start writing the program without even knowing what the problem is, let alone the solution.

I personally agree more with you than with Graham, though.
It was entirely about ensuring that postgres worked properly on Solaris - nothing at all to do with build speed or anything like that.
Ok, let's pretend for a moment that you're an intensely weird person who finds meaning in others due to a conscious decision to self-actualize. "Hey honey, we've been going out for a while, and so I've decided to gradually incorporate you and your feelings into my rules to live by. One step at a time, of course."

Then why aren't we allowed to integrate religion into our rules to live by? Are some things "external to the self" allowed, and others disallowed?
I agree with Dave on pretty much all of this, except for one sort of off-topic point: though speech is protected by the First Amendment, Apple's behavior towards other parties is irrelevant as far as 1A protections go. The 1A doesn't apply unless there is a government actor involved... just sayin'.
How much are SAT prep classes worth anymore? 30 years ago maybe, but today thanks to government requirements, kids go through yearly or twice-yearly standardized testing from elementary to high school. A significant amount of instructional time is spent on practice tests and strategies. How much more is a high school junior going to learn about these tests in a prep course?
What's the reason for shifting?
Today when I took the courage to visit the dentist. The result is good, no more little annoyances :).
They were right about what worked for them, but wrong to think it would work for you. While I wasn't there and can't refute your claim of their disdain for anything but full immersion in CLI vi with no GUI aids or non-standard helper keys, it is true that if you want to be able to do basic functions on any version of vi on any system (including one with no graphical environment) then you are better off knowing the keyboard commands. That said, it sounds like you found a way into it that suits your needs...good.
Wow, that's an experience and a half.
It must have taught you something positive, no?
Short summary: SWA believes it's not obligated to comp you meals and a hotel if a flight is cancelled because the airport itself screws up.

Meh. Have you ever had a flight cancelled because of lack of gate availability? I haven't.

I get better customer service from SWA than from any other airline. This article is preoccupied with the notion that Delta or United is going to use SWA's change as cover for even worse changes to their contract. Uh, ok? Delta and United also don't offer almost completely transparent pricing, either. I trust SWA enough not to freak out about changes like this, and even without fine-print changes, I don't trust Delta in the least.
I consider this an MVC routing gem (yml):

<code>
routes:
- domain: :user_id.mydomain.com
- uri: /:controller(/:action)*
</code>
But in all your example it's not simply less features, ie they are not a pure subset feature-wise of some other product. The Leica M9 for example may have many less features than a Nikon D3, but it also has a couple of things that no other camera on the market has. Macs have the killer feature that they can easily run OS X. The Kindle is the only device which both lets you both use an e-ink screen and buy and read kindle books.
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Can't emphasize this enough. I've talked to countless people unhappy in their career that can't get out of it because of a family and an addiction to their current lifestyle. They continued to expand their spending as their income incremented, leaving them in a risk averse position.

The lesson I take from every conversation I have with these people is live simply and lean even as your income grows, and when you have that great idea or urge to try something radically different, you can.
Yes, this is exactly what i have been thinking about, and wanted to confirm if this was perhaps just my own conclusion, or general law of the universe as it were
"Hats off to all you nuts and bolts web designers. The unsung heroes of the software industry."

That's right, nobody can sing about them because they won't shut up about themselves.

There's more to software than the web, and even then, the unsung heroes would be the guys who wrote the DNS servers, etc. Web designers get plenty of recognition, especially around here.
It is indeed a CDMA limitation, not an Android one.
Sure, it's debatable. AFAIK, the only people who have paid for studies of the classes are the companies that produce the classes. And those studies, of course, show a significant improvement.

There's no debating that SAT scores are highly correlated to income. And there's very little evidence that SAT scores are reliable predictors of college success.
Nah, Tweetie (the iPhone Twitter client in the screenshots above) also has a built in email client for sending links. No need to leave the app.

And yes in iOS 4 if you DID need to exit the app it would be in the state you left it when you returned.
I object to the blanket characterization of defense contractors as public servants.

I mean, you wanna complain about crooked unions -- let's take the dollar figures, multiply by about a million (literally), and there you are with the defense contractors. And most of them never even deliver a product, or deliver a crappy unwanted product years late and billions over budget. If teachers operated like defense contractors, we'd have spent a trillion dollars over the last 10 years on a system to blast knowledge into kids brains using lasers and have nothing to show for it.

It's not about political allies. Eisenhower told us the same thing, there's a republican-approved stance for you.

I mean, geez, I'm all about more efficiency in government spending. I'll go for the higher dollar figures for things that don't provide anything for the country first, and get to small dollar figures in the education system about 10th.

Also. I think, not to put too fine a point on it, but you're likely either ignorant or lying when you claim that you work harder than teachers. You're on hacker news right now. Teachers have 6 hours of teaching with 3 minute breaks, followed by curriculum development and grading. I don't care what the study says, that's more work than the overwhelming majority of office jobs.
Amazing. So what's the end result? How do you feel after having done it?
Not a real complaint, but I got my DX too soon, had to pay custom charges, and the model I got is US-only. I figured they'd never have all-Web access in the UK, as my previous Kindle 2 only did Wikipedia. Then they fixed it in the 2.5 upgrade, and I can't go webbing on this.

My silly fault for rushing in, but I figure 5 years' reading will pay off that £300 investment, and it's great for Japanese comic books!
That is an interesting assertion, what is it based on? My experience working for a year in Appalachia (late 90s) tells me that rural poor whites have a pretty rough time of it, my experience tutoring in Cabrini Green (when it was still enormous, early 90s) taught me that poor minorities have it terrible as well.

I have no idea how to compare the disadvantages each has to overcome, let alone quantify one set vs. another. I think the experience of the rural poor in this country is often overlooked compared to the inner city. They are in my experience both utterly pathological societies, I cannot imagine having the sustained discipline to escape either one.
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Congratulations from me too!
Are you reading black-on-white or white-on-black?

Google recently updated the Android maps application so everything is white during the day, which really annoys me. black-on-white is kind of obnoxious and wastes battery unless you're in full sunlight. But of course it's shinier, and shiny always beats functional...
I remember reading an article about how a certain set of traffic lights (I think in New York City) were left on entirely automatic cycling - at least on Shabbat for the Orthodox Jewish community. I can't find the article anymore.

The disabled button thing is a pretty well known secret. It's not always true - plenty of elevators and crosswalks do have functioning buttons. Since we have no way of knowing which is which, it seems a better choice cost to press the button and maybe get a reward than to stand there and not do anything and get punished.

I've certainly sat at crosswalks not pressing the button and the light not changing - until right after I pressed the button. It makes you feel like a fool, and nobody likes feeling like a fool.

Ideally I'd like to see the signs and buttons removed, but it's a waste of money. Better to have a bunch of people being fools than paying that much per button just to remove it...
Start with your own small ideas. Maybe they won't make a whole living, but like 1/10th of a living. Make ten of them.
Yet I cry every time I'm at work, being forced to to use red hat enterprise. The dated gnome desktop gives me shame.

Viva debian. And consequently Ubuntu.
I asked if you'd ever changed a segment selector in userland code and why. You said "yes", didn't say why, blew smoke about how "Intel says its possible to change them!" (no shit?), said changing the stack segment selector is "defensive coding" (again: userland code practically disables segment addressing, except for conveniences like the TEB at GS), made reference to a "published standard", and then called me a "supposed" security expert. And, let's be clear, you're the expert that can't remember the eight (8) GPRs on x86.

I'm convinced you can code, but I'm equally convinced that you had no business berating someone else for asking questions about how Cygwin handles its stack, because you don't know either. Don't pile on to people.
I was thinking more generally about downtown. I counted 10 between Belltown and Pioneer Square.

But to your point, there are 2 Starbucks' directly on 1st; one in Pike Place and one just up from the ferry terminal.
Related anecdote: I've actually googled my password and found a unecrypted database table on a deserted sandbox page.
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Fresh out of school, go join a startup. Get some experience, learn what it's like to be a startup and when you have that big idea, you will be 100% more ready than now.

Oh, make sure you start saving now, have 6 months of living expenses in your pocket.

We're hiring, drop me an email if you are interested.
I believe they did that in this study. It's not a single class, but many classes.
No, it is not that simple. The question isn't "Does a poor white applicant have the exact same odds as a poor black applicant?" The question was, "Are we biased against poor whites?"

If you believe, as many do, that there are fewer minority applicants because of institutional racism and therefore you decide to weight their applications higher is that biasing you selection process? Or is it cancelling out bias present elsewhere in the system?
I don't know, I always thought xmkmf was the more elegant solution.
I agree, I don't like the AT&T pre-installing crapware either, and it should be easy to uninstall. Your gripe on that point is caused by AT&T, not Samsung though (as coderdude mentioned).

I think on Verizon the Galaxy S doesn't have as much bloatware.

By the way, if you buy online from AT&T the Captivate costs $150 instead.
Whoever leaked this is guilty of treason, and if any of the informants get killed over this, the leaker should executed.
PDF: Fine

HTML: Rename file to .txt and it lets you read the HTML page like a text file. But it's not perfect and sometimes complains.
> Red Hat abandoned the desktop community/didn't take it seriously and then are surprised that someone who does gets all the mindshare and community goodwill?

I don't know how a statement so riddled with misinformation got upvoted so high. Your comment is not only wrong, it goes out of it's way to spread FUD. So much wrong, I just don't know where to begin.
This also works for SQL commands: use SELECT before UPDATE/DELETE with the same WHERE clause for sanity check.
i may be starting a web project in August, if you'd be interested.
Like I said, I think it should be based on class primarily (if not exclusively) instead of race.

But there is still racism in this country and it overwhelmingly is against minorities.
Well in our basic training we learned never ever to give up against the toughest physical conditions and just keep going no matter what happens. I guess now I can apply the same thinking to the other problems I face as a programmer in my professional life. No matter what the problem is, there's always a way out, you just have to keep going at it without losing hope.

Also serving under the risk of losing a subordinate's or one's own life kind of changes the way you look at things at a different perspective. You realize most things you ever worried about or got pissed at don't really matter that much, as long as you have your health and your bodyparts intact.

Also now I value my time (and life) more and see it as something borrowed rather than taking it for granted.
to give us hope ...
"waiting is, until fullness."

Lack of patience can push us into doing all sorts of useless work just so that we feel like we're doing something.
> So, because it's a conservative thinktank talking about the issue, poor whites are not in fact being discriminated against?

Actually, my beef is with Think Tanks in general - I don't care what ideology they ascribe to. I should have made that more clear.

Think tanks exist to produce content that promotes the views of various Washington factions. They are arbiters of neither fact nor truth. They're political campaigns for ideologies, except instead of stump speeches you get blog posts and various "white paper" studies. It's not intellectually wholesome content, and skates a very fine line between propaganda and "informational content."
Could you go into more depth on this?
Thanks to http://manybooks.net/, either would work perfectly well for texts in the public domain.
I doubt they do any more. America's "elite" seem to have lost all respect for America's poor whites; they're "rednecks" and "white trash" who live in "trailers" or "McMansions" and shop at Wal-Mart and watch NASCAR and blah blah stereotype stereotype. If you're a poor non-white you're a victim of society, but if you're poor and white you're an ignorant hick. Poor whites are pretty much the only group upon whom it is socially acceptable to look down, nowadays.
But (at least the intent) is to penalize the overrepresented groups because they have already benefited from being born at the right place to the right parents at the right time. That's why there are they're overrepresented in application numbers. The point is to counteract bias already present in the application and evaluation process.
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The 4H example in the article was odd. If you are president of 4H and want to go into some sort of agricultural field, what they hell are you going to do at Harvard or Yale anyway? You aren't even applying to those schools. You are going to a large land grant university, where the top agricultural programs are located. In a sense the deans at these elite colleges are correct. The odds of the 4H President being happy at Harvard are probably quite low.
I'm afraid of the unknown, I guess.

I did notice some weird javascript in an email virus attachment the other day. It used a bunch of escaped (hex?) values and other obfuscation techniques. Point being, it didn't look like anything you'd want to run with an accidental double-click.

Being that I run winders on the desktop, running Opera with JS off gives me a (possibly false) sense of security.
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Posting here is a great start, what's your email address? Several companies that I know well are complaining about their inability to find good Rails developers here in SF. A good company will value passion and the ability to learn over X years experience in Y, as long as you can convince them that you can deliver.
The odds are certainly not stacked against you. It would appear the best way to make your career change a reality is to quit your job.

Connect with your network and see what jobs are available.

With several speaking engagements and an acquisition under your belt -- I am sure you will add value to another company!