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Your comment looks like you assume that the majority of internet users have an informed opinion about privacy on the internet. I deny that assumption.

My observation is that more than 90% computer users don't have a clue. They don't know how computers work, what they store, and what they send. I've even seen computer engineering students that don't know that Gmail does semantic analysis on their e-mail, despite the presence of targeted ads and a very good spam filter.

Now, of the 10% who do have a clue, most don't know the exact nature of each threat to their privacy. They just know they are being watched by Big Profitable Companies that sell each other their data. They don't always know that they can protect themselves from some of those threats, let alone how. Even when they do, it requires some effort up-front, and the benefits tend to be long-term and invisible.

Therefore, the extremely low percentage of people who use adblock, noscript, Tor or whatever isn't the result of most people doing a rational cost-benefit evaluation based on informed opinions about privacy on the internet. Indeed, I suspect that among those who do an informed opinion, very few have deliberately chosen not to use privacy helpers like adblock, noscript, or Tor.
Sorry, instead of it being a site where your wealthy greedy self could gain a meaningless personal advantage over others it is a site that is trying to make the world a better place for everybody. I know it is useless for "everyday folks" from your class, we'll try harder next time.
Even the smartest person in the world will have to learn our architecture and codebase, our processes, our logins, our machine names, etc.

No matter how amazing they are, I'm not giving them the root password on the first day or letting them redo the databases or write major code changes.

Everyone requires training.
Are they really shamed? I would like to believe this is true but I have trouble coming to terms with the idea that people taking bribes have any shame at all.

Unrelated, The 5th Pillar (the organization that came up with the zero-rupee note) seems to have an office building very close to mine. I've seen the bill pasted on the back of cars and can see their wifi network from where I am.
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Perhaps you would like to explain what is wrong with morally condemning others when what they did is in fact morally wrong?

It's very simple and clear cut: he distorted the truth in order for him to get an advantage and put others at a disadvantage. There is no greater good behind the lie, it's just self-interest.
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Doesn’t look programmable, though? That would make it next to worthless for me, unless it’s possible to hack it easily (not that I would be able to do that).
Every day I discover a new reason not to use dating websites. I think if all these dudes used this time to improve their social skills, they would one day realize such hacks are pointless. And if you imagine adapting these techniques to RL, things start to look really creepy, don't they :)?

Unless they are teens, that's like a hack 'how to avoid natural human communication'. Nevertheless, I wish them good luck in dating experience.
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I am asked this question now days by the interviewers. And it seems that they are not impressed by my answer. I am also not sure which project to tell them. Almost all of the projects were very interesting and challenging to me. I enjoyed working them and learned many things during work. Even when some task was boring like writing documentation, I made it challenging enough by automating it and didn't wrote the documentation myself but wrote the script that did it for me. What interviewers are looking for in this question? Can I tell more then one project? What was your most challenging project and why?
That's not the pattern I see when looking at the op-code/cycle chart. I recently implemented part of a C64-emulator in JavaScript and it seems very much like every step takes a cycle.

For example the instructions NOP(or CLI, STI, INX etc), 1 byte, 2 cycles. 1 cycle for fetching the instruction and one for executing the fetched instruction.

LDA addr,x seems to be pipelined a bit though. It's "AD lo hi" in memory and takes 4 cycles unless lo+x > 255, then it takes 5 cycles. The lo+x calculation seems to occur while hi is being read.
It's not lying, it's called social engineering.
Aside from a strange lead-in, there is a larger picture about identifying the dynamic of a team and how to build it. We should prevent these situations by identifying red flags in the hiring process early on. Sometimes that isn't good enough, but to his point, we shouldn't make that same mistake twice. Never heard of this, but it could be a good practice to do a post-mortem in the hiring process after an acidic resource is gone. I'm sure this problem runs rampant in all industries, where they have a much less tolerance.
node.js is another blessing to web-development like django was to me a while back - allowing me to hack interesting things in new ways, with smarter interfaces.

but one bonus i notice about node.js is the ability to even do tcp stuff using js and with callbacks! i hadn't done a lot of hobby-stuff with low-level server stuff, but node.js is helping me explore that area now.

what do others think? i hadn't used the other comet options available witn python and ruby implementations, but i think node.js leverages existing knowledge of ajax-aware devs.
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I'd pay $5/month for somewhere I could direct my cron email to which would (a) store everything for future reference, and (b) intelligently compare them from day to day and forward me the emails where something significant changed.

The hard part is (b), of course -- you'd need to figure out things like "the number in the 'up X days' line changes each day, so that's not worth flagging as important".
So if a woman that is into you would lie and deceive others in order to be with you, you would want a relationship with that woman?

If someone were to do that, it would destroy my confidence in them. The whole relationship has started with a lie, no matter if I like them or not.
It could very well be that because after he created all the fake accounts he felt the confidence he needed.
One of the delightful things in programming a 6502-based computer is the relative importance of the OS. In those times, you had complete control over the machine and you called the OS (or the ROM routines) to do whatever you wanted it to.

I remember that when I had to do floating-point math or calculate a screen address (something convoluted on an Apple II) I would simply call a subroutine in ROM and pick up the results.
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What? iPhones have a bug? Well uhh... look over there, Android has a bug too! Why aren't you paying more attention to that, huh? What are you some kind of anti-apple bigot? Shame on you for noticing this bug!
Social engineering is a euphemism for lying or hiding the truth. It is at its core based on manipulation and as any tool it can be used for good of for bad. Using it to get sex is not what I consider "greater good".

I suppose calling it engineering does make one feel better though... it almost sounds like something positive.
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Morally wrong by whose standards? Just because you consider it morally wrong, does not make it morally wrong by all standards, or even necessarily by society's standards.
Android bug might be more severe, but you have to give it that the iOS bug is more alarming.

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Even without his later 'roid years Bonds is statistically by far the best batter of his generation and one of the top 5 of all time (Probably #2, just a sliver behind Williams).
I think it's the part where he is hiding the truth about how he seduced her. Or it could be the part where him and his friends lied and led on a bunch of people online.

Or is it ok if those other people were jocks? What if they weren't jocks? What if it was you and you couldn't get a date because of them?
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FB asked for and received a waiver from the SEC for their restricted stock plan: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc200...

Basically since the restricted stock holders are employees that didn't directly invest money they're not being considered as counting against the 499 limit (which to me seems perfectly fair).
Mine repeatedly failed on the 1st,2nd and 3rd

I set a 'recurring' alarm feature last night and it went off this morning
Morally wrong by general societal standards such as:
* lying is wrong - especially when done with self-serving interests in mind such as in this case. They lied to the other members of the site and he is hiding the truth from the girl. He KNOWS that what he did is wrong and he knows that she would dump him if she found out.
* more lying is worse - he now wants to "automate this"

So this is a typical case of someone breaking the rules, getting away with it (even getting commended!) and then wanting to break the rules on a larger scale.
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Oh please. Do you really believe this?

The quote is directly relevant to the piece. It fits completely within the context of the article (personality vs. success).

I don't think something should be disallowed, just because it falls out of your narrow sphere of what's directly permissible.
> The whole relationship has started with a lie

You keep using that phrase but I do not think it means, what you think it means.

Should I be worried that my relationship 'started with bribery' because I handed the maitre'd $20 to get us a good table?
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http://grapev.in

This was a little app that I built over the course of a few weeks to learn Rails. Or maybe I learnt Rails to build the app. Not really sure.

Anyway, Grapevin is a way to share a personal playlist. Sign in via Facebook/Twitter. Choose up to nine of your favorite songs. Get your own grapev.in/you page to share with your friends. They can click on your songs to play them and check out your taste in music.

It's somewhat rough around the edges, but check it out! If you like it, please share with friends (both the site and your playlist!). Anything is appreciated. It's my first solo app of this scale, so I don't have much experience in actually getting it known to people. :)

And if you see bugs (of which I already know some) or just have general feedback, let me know here or tweet @grapevinapp.
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Until the next phone maker decides that selling a different type of charger or cable is going to add a few dollars to their P&L.
> Google wanted to raise the game by fast-tracking browser innovation and enabling development of next-gen web-apps, and they have.

We're not there yet. The underlying promise of the browser as application client is still largely unfulfilled. And mainstream adoption of emerging web standards is still hampered by 'patchy browser support' (read: IE8/7).

> CSS3/HTML5, canvas, etc.

Compared to the state-of-the-art, these emerging standards are fairly unambitious, as they need to be given the history of browser development. For Microsoft to support these things is a no-brainer because as exciting as they seem to web devs, the open web as software platform is a weak competitor.

> Would the IE team have finally knuckled under to pressure to improve standards compliance in IE without Chrome?

Very hard to say. But it's clear that the vanguard in the market share war against IE dominance is held by Mozilla, not Google, and they deserve a lot of credit for how far we've come (lower than 50% share for IE now in most Western countries).

> The fact that the Chrome team has been able to put out a top-notch browser that continues to gain market share hand over fist is just a side benefit.

While I agree that Google often successfully pursues a strategy of leveraging a small but critical market share in order to change markets rather than dominate them, it was the focused and determined cooperation of all the members of the WHAT WG that rescued web standards. Nothing less would have worked. Now that those members are increasingly at odds with each other, Google may start to find it needs to compete head to head with Mozilla in market share in order to get its ideas adopted.

Anyway, I love using Chrome even more than I loved using Opera before it. Congrats to the Chromium team on the milestone.
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Tipping low-wage customer service workers for unadvertised services and favours is now some sort of evil "class" issue that indicates greed and corruption?

Do you get mad when other diners at your favourite restaurant tip better than you and get friendlier service for their trouble?

Give me a break.
I don't know whether you should be worried. I do know that this type of behaviour is antisocial though - it promotes unfairness - people that made reservations or are waiting outside have to wait longer because someone has bribed their way in.

Maybe next time someone will pay $50 - because it is not something to worry about,no? - and you'll have to wait 15 minutes to get a seat.
My preferred description of this crap is "mystery meat navigation"

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnavigation.html

Ahhh, good old webpagesthatsuck.com. In itself it kinda sucks in 2011, but lots of good advice there still.
Well, I've not heard the song - but I think main voice is making a comparison between being an anally-retentive, controlling jerk and being a successful achiever.

The main point being; if you like the latter - you put up with (or celebrate) the former.

I can't see any reference to underachieving in the lyrics - I think you might be projecting some personal assumptions.

The main speaker is most definitely talking about being a high-achiever.
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I think it's a little unfair to dismiss this design pattern just because it's not immediately discoverable on page load. It really depends on the context in which this is used. Also, while better looks is one thing, having less controls on the page leaves the user with a smaller cognitive load, giving them more attention to focus on and process the content.
Now imagine humans do find some artifact somewhere, they develop subtle theories and even religions based on it but in fact that was just an object set there as a prank, funded by alien fans of some alien movie 2001 equivalent.
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I'm guessing it's because the iPhone alarm bug has probably affected millions of people and the Android bug has probably affected far fewer? And because this isn't the first time the iPhone has had a bug in the alarm system.

The vast majority of Android users probably haven't noticed any issue with SMS.
I think it depends on context and execution. For example Twitter always used them over tweets in their app, and it works quite well, or do you disagree?
Great idea! To be honest though I lean more towards toughening them and selling as nightclub lights. Even the smallest of places spends megabucks on their lighting rigs, and this would be a toy that every bored sound tech would love to play with :)

Edit: I'm not the only one to have thought about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cLLyfop3QI

Edit2: This company appears to be offering them for sale in sizes up to 32x32x32: http://www.seekway.com.cn/e/ledsys9.htm
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Reckless incompetence pervades the industry because it's long been accepted that there are no real consequences for it. Even if I formally prove my program to be correct, I couldn't offer a warranty because I can't get a warranty that any platform will actually execute my program correctly. Compilers have bugs. CPUs themselves have bugs. And of course every mainstream OS is a huge chunk of native code that casually does unchecked pointer arithmetic, with a long sad history of bugs.

Nobody wants a verifiable platform badly enough to hire talented engineers who take quality seriously (a group that I only wish I could say includes me) to build one starting from sand. Instead we all ship crap for maybe 1/100 the cost, and get what we deserve.
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Deception is but one tool in the social engineer's kit.

If you're good you can get what you want without making any assertive statements whatsoever, just by using the right tone of voice.
No, they're doing it because otherwise they can't sell iPhone 5 in EU
> So you've done this online? It worked well for you?

So we can't condemn this unless we have an alternate suggestion for those that can't get any? "I'm not getting any, so immoral hacks are OK"? You could use the same argument to justify rape.
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I think you're correct, I found other problems in my reduction too.
With everyone congratulating the Chromium/Chrome team so much, I'd like to add that none of this would be possible without the WebKit project.
>"Girls stuff their bras, and play all sorts of mind-games to get guys to like them. I would consider social engineering fair turnabout, man! The guys are way behind in this area!"

This is only that start of it. If you think date-engineering is something typically done by creepy men, you may want to reconsider.
5 upvotes and nobody has asked for her number yet.

So, how can I get her number?
Dude... were talking online here.

Everybody is 7 foot high jock on teh internetz[1]. Everybody is lying and people discount for that. So unless you lie a bit you started loosing your ground even if you are otherwise the tallest building. Take your moralism somewhere else - cuz. this is teh internetz (and its serious business too!)

You remind me of people who keep whining about cheezy tactics in games - they are there so use them. Have you ever heard that winners are those who are willing to do stuff, losers won't?

[1]: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online...
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“Hello from Gondor” seems a bit out of style – perhaps “Greetings” or “Welcome” would fit better :)
Many mathematically unbeatable games of chance (lotto, progressive slots, video poker, blackjack, etc.) can become +EV under the right circumstances. That said, the analysis is not quite as simple as quoted:

"Tomorrow's Mega Millions jackpot is $208 million; the odds of winning are 1 in 176 million ∴ the EV for each $1 ticket is positive 18¢!"

...because (as the later tweets point out) you don't know how many tickets will be sold, and the math needs to take into account the possibility of "split jackpots" in which two or more people win the big prize(s).

A more rigorous analysis of "when is it rational to purchase a lotto ticket" in the general case can be found here:

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Yes, that is the reason. wget doesn't seem to have been updated to support subjectAltName yet. If you do a search for "wget subjectAltName" you'll see that patches have been submitted for such support. I guess support will be rolled out eventually.
I will have to dig up my 6502 documentation, but, IIRC, by the time the processor executed the NOP (CLI, INX etc) it already fetched the next instruction, so, if it's another NOP, it will complete in one cycle instead of two. Unless you crossed a page boundary, which implies a one-cycle penalty.
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> I have a recurring 7:05AM and then a bunch of 1-offs for 7:10, 7:20, and 7:50, and they all worked fine.

Hah, I thought I was the only person who did this! It fixes three problems at once - no chance of the AM/PM error (alarm set for 7PM when there's a meeting at 8AM - whoops), no chance of turning it off and falling back asleep, and no need to screw around with snooze if I decide I need 10 more before getting up.

I'd never heard of anyone else doing this... I wonder if this is more common than I thought?
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I see, but that's not how it worked on the C64 at least. I did some raster-programming and counted cycles a lot.
I'm completely with you. Never had problems swiftly identifying common ground and starting a conversation - isn't that what profiles and messages are for?

Seems some people just aren't happy with the poor response rates on dating sites, but that's just how it goes... not everyone you find attractive will find you attractive. I imagine that the "cheating" method wouldn't produce better long term results, as not cheating means those you talk to genuinely want to connect with you.
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Nearly same picture here in Russia as well: http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/ru/browsers.html?date=2010-1...

Despite very different picture in general (Safari is nearly non-existent, Opera is rivaling Firefox for the top), Chrome is steadily climbing in popularity and should reach 10% mark soon.
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A good long-form news service.

Because I hate poorly formatted overly-long articles surrounded by awful offensive Flash ads.
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Nope, FWIW
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Last time I checked USA was a democracy.

These kind of glib assertions play much better when they are factually correct.