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I think this was probably one of the worst responses you could have given. The email seems to indicate that the guy feels guilty about buying your laptop, and that his offer is an attempt to ease his conscience. Now he's thinking to himself that he tried to set things right but couldn't because you responded by being a jerk.

The second best thing would have been to cooperate and get the files - and I would have suggested this if you needed them - but the best would have been to refuse to cooperate with him on the grounds that you don't want to ease his conscience when you belive him to be guilty.

Too late now, I guess, but that's what I think.

(Apologies if I sound rude or blunt in this comment; I don't have the time to revise/edit it.)
(Total nitpick that I wasn't initially going to post, but it's now appeared in several of your posts and it's driving me crazy: you're using "debit" where I think you mean "debt". A debit is an accounting entry indicating something has been deducted from an account; it's basically part of an income statement, reflecting a one-time payment. A debt is money that's owed to someone else; it's part of a balance sheet, and is permanent until paid back.

Confusion is somewhat understandable when you consider that the opposite for both is "credit". When used with an article ("a credit"), it's the opposite of debit, a one-time addition to an account. When used without an article ("banks extend credit to borrowers"), it's the opposite of debt, a sum that is owed to you by other parties. English is a funny language.)
Using timing attacks in this case is almost not possible any actual web user would know that, do you think you can accurately analyse that the application's choice of code brunch in 35000 requests successfully? (in a multi-threaded attack)

Unless you are sitting by the server physically or it's in your localhost (even than, not for sure) timing attack simply not feasible.
No, it still does not!
They never were, it was a myth.
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Ok so sh is good for small one-off scripts, fair enough. But why? Why shouldn't a sh language be good? Why can't I interface with other programs (that have bindings) natively in an sh? Why is it considered a good thing to make it a complete pain to do anything non-trivial with sh? As for the argument of keeping memory usage low that's a bunch of crap vm's are usually comparable or lower.
android is kept in git, not the main archive.
The question isn't whether or not it's an acceptable way of terminating an agreement, the question is how does a merchant act properly in handling such a situation.

Calling the creditors when a) the missed payment is for a pre-paid service; b) is a small amount; and c) the service hasn't been used by the customer... is completely inappropriate.

Even more inappropriate is when a merchant builds their entire business model based on a combination of infrequent auto-renewing payments, a complicated cancelation process, and crazy cancelation terms. Canceling at some gyms, for example, is more complicated and requires more effort and notice than leaving an apartment. That's sneaky (and by design).

Is it stupid to cancel your cards as a way of ending your contracts? Yes. Is it stupid to take draconian measures to get money from a customer who doesn't want and hasn't used your service? Yes.
It was an error - sorry. I meant to put it under KP. thanks for spotting.
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Yeah, it's true that the buyer needs to be convinced, but don't underestimate the persuasion of well-connected, senior-level VCs
My cat, just fallen from the 5th floor, She's injured, I can't stop crying
Friday night, I left my window open while I wasn't in the room, my cat jumped and fallen into balcony, five floor below. We took her to the veterinary, nothing showed up on the X-Rays, she can hardly walk but she seemed fine.

Today I noticed she can't move her tail, she didn't go to her litter. I afraid that she's paralized. I didn't stop crying since.

I feel guilty, I spend 170€ for the veterinary something I could'nt afford, (My girlfriend is still studiying and we have a child) I don't want her to leave. She"s been part of my life for four years now. Always sitting next to us, next to our keyboard, listening to my programming problems.

I've heard a lot of "It's just a cat". Well fuck off. That was my cat. We shared so much in four years, so much time, stolen in a lap of a second.

Sure, nobody will remember this in 100 years, but if she goes, a little part of me will die too, today.

I'm feeling so bad. I'm devastated.
They did enable hardware acceleration for some parts of HTML5 (and it's quite impressive when used), just not for Canvas. They're not alone; no implementation of Canvas was hardware accelerated until IE9. If you ask me, hardware acceleration of Canvas is a no-brainer, and it should have been in the very first implementation. It's frankly embarrassing that it took IE9, of all things, to make browser people realize that graphics hardware is orders of magnitude faster than software rasterizers, and that's important.
Robert Lustig from University of California San Franciso has a great explanation, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM, that shows all the metabolic pathways that fructose takes and why it is bad for you.
One problem with that that didn't seem to get mentioned in the article is that it's an arms race. If your company doesn't play, you have a resume that might give you a less-fancy name for the same position as your friend's. Sure titles and resumes are not the whole thing when being hired, but everything else being equal, you always have "well that second guy does have experience as manager" when it doesn't mean he actually managed anybody.
Actually a free registration. If you don't want to register you can go to www.bugmenot.com and find a login that someone else has already made.
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you are correct, of course, it's a mistake I make often. It's funny, I think mistakes that are not made obvious by the spell check actually make you look dumber than mistakes that would have been caught by the spell check.
a design issue: as I scrolled down the page, at half way I was confused if the city name was associated with the map on top of it or below it. of course I could have scrolled back to find out which was which, but it seemed a poor design if I had to do that.
Your benchmarks suck
>or at least retraining and job placement that's actually effective.

Figure out how to do that, even at an exorbitant cost, and you have yourself quite a business model. As far as I can tell, it's not something that has been figured out yet, in the private or public sector.
I guess I should just go look (though I haven't been using Node for anything for about 8 months), but what does it do for binary data then? When you load a png file, what do you get?
It's easy to understand where the annoyance comes from.

There's a big difference between comparing a "good written" flash thing which you make yourself and having the flash enabled while browsing the web. With first you can demonstrate Flash's superiority, with the second you're picking up all the incompetent code written by anybody and almost 100% of it is used only to make something totally unimportant just moving to get an attention from you.

When we consider Flash as the content delivery mechanism and not the movement based attention taker we're left only with videos and games on the web. But both should be optimized for mobile. For video, transcoding is needed. For games, better writing them native.
Am I the only one that thinks these industry conferences are a complete waste of time and money? They seem like more of a boring vacation than an actual opportunity for education and networking.
Thanks to all three of you for the insights.

It's amazing how strange something can appear when interpreted in a different social or cultural context.
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Wow,

Eery thing about the scene this article sketches is that these are the winners of the last thirty years' corporate shoot-out.

In the manner of a usurping monarch or Stalinist dictator, it seems that "uneasy lies the head that wears the crown"...
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Pop-up? Toolbar?

People laugh at me when I say that I disable Javascript and only enable when I absolutely need it. Thanks for letting me laugh back. :-P
Just char * to a memory block abstracted as the Buffer class.
Ellison's beef with salesforce makes Zuckerburg seem much much more mature.

But yes, I think it has something to do with having long lived ultimate power. It messes up your compass.
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How to Choose the Perfect Handbag
There are so many handbags on offer, how to select the one that would complement your figure and go with most of your outfits? See fashion expert tips.

What purse style would work best with your figure?

Never mind the current fashion: your handbag should first of all complement your figure. A tiny purse on a largish woman looks a bit silly. But even though large bags are in fashion now, don't go overboard, otherwise the bag will distract attention from your person.

If you are slim and tall, go for a round or square shaped purse. If you are not very tall, a bottle shaped handbag would look best. And, of course, a not very large backpack works perfectly for any figure.

Most handbags have adjustable handles, so make use of them. Large bags should never hang at the level of your hips: if necessary shorten the handle, so the bag comes to your waist line. And if you wear a backpack, it should not hang down over your backside: adjust the handles so it is just above your waist. This looks better, doesn't put as much pressure on your lower back, and forces you to keep a good posture.

What color should you choose?

These days handbags are very colorful. Of course, this means that you can no longer have just one bag that would go with any outfit you wear. However, if you wear a lot of blue, orange or green, a matching color purse would make your outfit complete. Fruit prints are currently 'in', with the most popular being cherries, peaches and apples.

As far as prints go, a plain, one-color handbag is more practical as it is easier to match with your clothes. However, if you wear a single-colored dress, adding a bright, multicolored handbag might be a good idea.

Also each season of the year favors different handbag colors. All greens are very popular in spring, while red and orange are often seen in autumn. Winter favorites are white and all shades of blue.

And, of course, black is still a classic, which goes with any outfit. Brown handbags, too, are still popular although they are not very practical: a brown bag would only work with brown or beige clothing.

What are most fashionable purse materials?

Leather is always a classic, and it works for any situation and with any outfit. However, other purse materials are fashionable now. Fabric bags can look very stylish, as well as a mix of fabric and leather. Straw bags are simple, and create a great look for the summer. Moreover, since straw looks very natural, it works well with a summer outfit of any color.
Why do I learn computer science?
So, I am confront in a dilemma, Could I learn computer science? Could some cool guys share me with the experience for that?
As a java developer who's moved over to ruby the JDK 7 feature list was starting to make me think it wouldn't be such a painful language to work with. Just 3 features would have made me think about working with java again. Type inference, closures and collection literals. Anything else they're working on for the java language is wasted time. They've never been great at writing APIs, they should stick to improving the language and letting the open source community drive the APIs forward.
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I've used beanstalkd before. It has transaction, timeout and sleep features. What I don't like about it is that it adds complexity to server setup for such a simple thing. I've seen queue libraries built around redis which is a win since I'm already using that for other things (check out hotqueue http://richardhenry.github.com/hotqueue/).
Some more surprising bits:

Venture capitalists were smoking pot in my backyard and passing out on my couch.

I like hard music that is not happy music—Metallica, Eminem, Rage Against the Machine.
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Memcache is designed to be run on a trusted network and only accessed by trusted clients. Therefore sharing a memcache daemon in its current state is not recommended at all.

See http://www.slideshare.net/sensepost/cache-on-delivery on what can be done with a publicly accessible memcache daemon.
Terse != rude

It might appear that way when your expectation is a reasoned response, but sometimes terse succinctly makes the point.
>this undue loyalty they have been giving to companies in exchange for a meager pension after 30 years.

I don't know about the private sector, but public sector pensions seem generous to me. Especially if you take the first 'early retirement' plan you can get on, if you live for an above-average period of time, it's really quite a lot of cash. Did you know that after you retire and start drawing a government pension you can go back to work in a different department (while drawing your first pension and a paycheck) and if you stay in that new department for a specified number of years, you can retire again, and draw two pensions? Also, your pension is a percentage of your salary... your salary when you retire, not an average of your salary.

That's always been my backup plan, anyhow... if it didn't look like I was going to do ok as a business person by the time I was 30 or so (we're down to a month, and I'd say it looks like I'm doing okay. Not great, but okay.) the plan was to get a government job with a pension.

Really, it makes little sense to work for the government when you are young. your pension is calculated based on your age and your years of service, so as far as pension contributions go, years you put in while older earn more pension, and entry-level salaries for most government jobs usually suck compared to the same position in the private sector. so it makes sense to work in the private sector, gain experience and take advantage of the quicker ramp-up in wages while you are young, then at some point switch to a public sector job with a pension as you get older.

Now, personally I'm relieved that it looks like I'll be able to make it on my own. I don't really think I have the temperament for public-sector work. But economically speaking, it looks like my backup plan, which is to say, working in the private sector while young and the public sector while old is basically sound.

but you do have a good point that staying in one place for 20 years is going to, uh, limit your options when it comes time to move around. I'm just saying, the pensions the public sector kicks out, at least here in California, and assuming you live for a while after you retire, make their total compensation packages look pretty attractive for people capable of that sort of work.
Corn land was used to grow hemp extensively during World War 2 to make rope (due to the Japanese blockade of Malaysia/Philippines where our rope was made at the time.)

The department of agriculture made a small film about growing hemp to educate farmers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne9UF-pFhJY

If we removed corn subsidies and began growing industrial hemp for hemp fiber (clothes, paper), hemp seeds (food, complete protein), and hemp oil (energy) it could go a long way towards transforming the American economy and American society.

Unfortunately right now although hemp is technically legal to grow in the US with a license few, if any, licenses are issued.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp#Industrial_growth_under_li...
I fought similar battles (but at a much smaller scale) trying to change some of inane dialog box text/tooltips in InfoPath for a feature I owned as a PM. I was an intern, but the pushback was rarely along the lines of "Your version isn't better" but rather "We can't handle the globalization/internationalization/testing/etc burden of making the change."
Retraining for what? From what I can see retraining efforts are mostly a waste of money - you can apply for as many jobs as you want with a training certificate, but in this economy there are no jobs for people without actual experience.
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If you are running Java or compatible, I recommend JPPF: http://www.jppf.org/
I'm not surprised. I find it very difficult to explain what I do. Tried to summarize it on my LinkedIn-profile as "Opportunity Cloud Builder" but, yeah, it's quite corny. :)
I for one find your (former) ignorance of the widespread nature of gunplay in America strange. Were you raised in a bubble?
Use any screen as a virtual touch screen
+1 for SQS. It pretty much matches all your criteria to a tee. The replication guarantees messages won't be lost, and will occasionally result in duplicate messages.

I think another potential downside is that the messages get purged after 14 days.
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I'm not too familiar with Scala, but I guess you mean when you use structural types?
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> I run it through cpp first

Any particular switches you use?
All of the characters appeared on the screen at once. Instantly.
Clippy for Emacs?
Is there some reason to expect one to be faster than the other? Each is essentially JavaScript plus vector graphics. Some particular implementations might suck more than others but they are ultimately the same sort of technology.

If anything, I would think that Flash has the potential to be faster since it was designed from the beginning to do only what it does, whereas <canvas> is an extension to the already massively complicated technology blob that is HTML.
Your write Java the Langauge should just die! The should work on the VM/GC and JIT. Programmers should work with Clojure or Scala.
We use rabbitmq and celery, both awesome projects. And both teams are always on irc if you need help.
This story reminds me a bit of my girlfriend's dad.

He worked for a defense contractor as a designer. At the time, everything was done freehand. He got laid off in the early 90's and these jobs pretty much dried up, then started to return 5 or so years later. However, everything was now being done with computers and he couldn't get a job in the field.

He has worked minimum wage jobs ever since.

I feel lucky that in software development I can keep on top of technology trends even if I were unemployed. That is how it has played out so far at least, but will it always? When will the next breakthrough, that which turns the working world on its head, arrive? Hopefully long after I retire, lest I miss the boat like so many did in the past.

So far this field generally produces the things that which drive its own productivity, which means by nature I have had an advantage of understanding new tools moreso than other fields may. I have a hard time callously telling these people they must adapt or die because I recognize that adaptation is being pressured upon them by a field foreign to their practice. Its like your boss coming in tomorrow and telling you that your future employability is based upon your ability to understand why 14 year olds are all ga-ga over Robert Pattinson.

And if you're reading this and don't know who that is, I expect your resignation by the end of the day.
I certainly did not want to say that for any A and B, if the only way to have B is to have A, then we must have A. In some case, however, B is either a fundamental right, or is necessary to exercise that right. Here, B is the right to privacy and free speech.

To exercise your right to free speech, the only reasonable way is to use the Internet. And you need to run computer code to do that. Similarly, to protect your privacy, the code you run (all of it) has to be trustworthy. And I say that to be trustworthy, the code must be free, at least for you. Conclusion: running free code (and only free code) is necessary to exercise some fundamental rights. Therefore, everyone deserve it.

The positive/negative freedom argument comes from the facts that (0) the four freedom are way more important than the freedom to proprietarize software, and (1) they conflict. If you want to preserve the greater freedoms, you have to sacrifice the lesser one. Now, people could be reasonable, and respect the four freedom even when they are allowed not to. But I think we can agree that many people aren't reasonable (the most famous example was X).

I now understand your usage of the word "property" was indeed legitimate.
the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME from freedesktop.org's XDG Base Directory Specification.
I saw you are in the bay area. You should contact the REACT taskforce they specialize in online and technology based crime. http://www.reacttf.org/

This is a great team, I have dealt with them before and they won't give you the run around like other places.
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Why didn't you set it to on demand in the first place? Having it on full time, then having it off full time seems a bit extreme in both directions.
Because they are a distributed network? Because they are more difficult to switch off?
I believe that the massive download sites are a bad habit. It's a step back. It's not only about copyright. It's about who governs the internets.
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I found an XSS on facebook.com and am able to steal httpOnly cookies, now what?
Back in July, I searched for and discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability on facebook.com, as well as what I would describe as infrastructure flaws that give me the ability to steal httpOnly authentication cookies used by Facebook. So far I have kept all the details to myself.

What should I do now?

Should I give away 4 days of hard work and disclose the vulnerabilities privately to Facebook?

Should I adopt full-disclosure and release the details concurrently to Facebook and everyone else?

Should I sell my findings to the black market? What is the harm really, beside some more Facebook spam until the flaws are fixed? You can reply to my post using this PGP key: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.test/5884

Should I sell them to legitimate buyers, penetration testers, private investigators, ...? Where are the TippingPoint ZDI or iDefense VCP of web site vulnerabilities?
I use Teleport on the mac... it's a bit more user-friendly as it has a proper preference pane.
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Count me as skeptical. Ratings of past jobs only work for people who do one project per month, otherwise a single dispute distorts the rating. It's prone to extortion and manipulation. You do that feature for free or I'm going to ruin your score. People will spend lots of time massaging their online profile instead of getting work done. Lots of useless blogs, tactical contributions to open source projects, etc.

The only way to find out whether someone is good is to see first hand what he/she has done before or work with them on something small and then build on that.