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Having used both (flash extensively, js less so), I agree that flash's closed plugin status completely sucks, and this is major.

That said, for nearly every other aspect of developing thick client RIAs and complex visual experiences, flash/flex/as3 wins by a mile. From IDEs to the display api to as3 apis in general to the true object oriented architecture to lack of browser inconsistencies to client side storage to sockets and networking options to modular applications.

Say what you want about flash. It certainly has its problems and it has certainly been abused, but let's not ignore all the areas where js is still playing catch up and will be for a long time (even it's just IE). Flash has been a lead innovator in web-based interfaces for many years. Even if it's true that it's in decline, completely discounting such an important technology only shows ignorance.
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I think in the past 4 years or so Apple has dramatically changed, for me it is no longer the cute cuddly company of the early 2000s and esp since the iPhone launch Apple seem to be indulging in monopolistic and anti-competitive practices similar to Microsoft in early 90's/early 2000s. This latest stunt of gouging developers is the last straw for me. It seems to be part of Apple's march to become the new Microsoft in "evilness"
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And around 60 other companies know about my browser:
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Although the title is a bit of a lie, I'm liking the Sam's Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours book right now.

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Dreamhost has a reputation for being pro-free-speech, and there are some anecdotes online that support this. Their TOS are also on the more friendly side, from what I've seen. I've also been quite pleased with their hosting in every other respect.

(disclaimer: founder is an old college friend)
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I tend to agree with this sentiment.

When I read a title like this, I pretty much assume that I'm not going to get any decent semi-objective information from the post.

It's flame-war fodder if you ask me.
It's still impossible to host the root domain of your website on S3/CloudFront or serve it through an EC2 Elastic Load Balancer.

www.mycompany.com - OK
mycompany.com - needs an EC2 instance and Elastic IP

This is because the only way to point your domain at Amazon is with a CNAME record and DNS does not support default CNAME records. It can only work if you add your CNAME record to the 'com.' top-level domain, which is impossible. See https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=32044
Why do they have FullSync on the front page? Last file update: 2005-03-08. Review page [1] has loads of mentions of non-running, non-syncing, and "too buggy to depend on". Not exactly a stellar project to be featuring so highly.

Meanwhile, it seems their navigation hasn't really changed, just received a new coat of paint. On the ScummVM pages, for instance: still shows 5 items in the main nav, unless support / develop is clicked. Then 4 more menu items and breadcrumbs appear, mouse-over menus on develop and the new ones, "support" changes to "donate", "share" appears out of nowhere, and the styling changes (different mouse-over font color on the navbar, for no reason). They also still have the crappy click-to-reload-the-page-to-navigate on the download-files list, side-by-side diff doesn't show word / character changes, just by line, and anything to do with the repo (browser, patches, etc) is a complete style and layout change from the rest of the site.

Put it back in the oven, it's not done yet.

[1]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fullsync/reviews/?sort=usefu...
Why won't Google help devs make $$ with Android Market gift cards?
The logic is that people who can only afford 1/10 of a standard dwelling are better off living in a doorway and carrying all their stuff with them everywhere they go with no permanent address, instead of having 100 square feet to call their own. The benefits of learning to always be on guard outweigh the laziness that being able to lock a door causes people to develop.
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Molly Lewis wrote a song about wikipedia after being kicked off it for not being notable enough (it's geeky and hilarious): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxWhzJWJ4U

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I would imagine the case made was to support iPads - presumably a small segment of visitors but I'm sure the agency devs wanted to play!
Well I have a CV. The first page is the summary and normally you have a good feeling of my competences and you could toss the rest in the bin.

But generally as a consultant people recruiting me look if I have done a similar project. So all the rest is summing up all the projects I have worked on. If you're interested you can read it.
At least people can do view source this time, though obfuscated JavaScript can be a pain.
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The thought of Apple killing flash just about makes me sick. I really don't want to be forced into paying the 50-100 percent Apple premium for hardware just because they managed to "kill" a technology everyone decided to hate for no reason.
I believe the Winklevoss claim was that Mark committed to build facebook for and with them. Then, he cut them out of the deal, without terminating their agreement. "Who had the idea" is less important than "we were business partners, but you cut us out without terminating the agreement first."
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Is "I don't have facebook" the new "I don't own a TV?"

Congratulations on avoiding a popular website you crazy unabomber.
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FWIW, the founder of About.me had really good connections--he'd already had a previous company acquired by AOL, for instance. And some have argued that About.me fabricated their initial user numbers.

So I think maybe About.me is an unusual case.
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I wonder how much longer it will take before americans get enough to take a stand about this. I suppose it would never reach critical mass with flying because not enough americans are flying to care, which is why I can't wait for TSA to follow through with their plan to set up their nonsense at bus stops and subways.
Where does the $70M figure come from? Not challenging you, just want to be able to cite toe source myself. This is outrageous.
Bill Mann failing to realize the potential of science & technology is not new. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/History_of_Mi...
Yes, I know git can do that, and I know pushing doodoo commits is bad practice; that was my point.

However, I prefer not to try to use a laptop for real work (because even the fastest laptops are much slower than a current Mac Pro). So, since I can't feasibly take my ginormous Mac Pro with me, as soon as I leave the office the repo on that workstation won't be my "local" one anymore.

Before moving my code into Dropbox, to avoid pushing something incomplete, I had to manually deal with transferring my local repo to the next computer(s) I was going to be working on it (typically that would mean copying the repo to a laptop for the plane, and then to a workstation at the destination).

That process was annoying and wasteful, and using Dropbox fixed that for me. Hooray!
You're missing the point. There are times when it's useful to model things as commodities, and times when it's not. Here, you see Union Square Ventures modeling startups as commodities:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/08/venture-fund--1.html

but they would be the first to tell you that their investments are not treated as commodities when they're deciding on whether to provide follow-on investment.

Even traditional commodities - say, apples - are treated as commodities when they're being bought and sold in bushels. But when you go to pack your lunch, suddenly, you're inspecting for ripeness, bruises, etc.
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I think 1st world should ideally,

1. Minimize income tax.
2. Maximize wealth tax.
3. Impose tax on idle cash.
You've got a built-in distribution network in restaurateurs.

Consider some signage that restaurants can post in some high-vis locations telling the customer to review on your app.

Oh and your search box is broken on the main page. And I hope that you have some deals in the works to give your users gift cards.... I hope it's true.
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not if you're looking for a C++ developer, or not necessarily if you're looking for a performance tuning engineer...

the point is that it doesn't really tell you anything, i could be wasting my time on a phone call if i find out he was only writing python tools to help with packaging and deployment when what i want is a rockstar python developer to help create highly scalable wsgi compliant rest servers.
A 40x multiplier for a company growing as fast as Zynga is is totally reasonable. They aren't a Fortune 500 blue chip whose growth is primarily constrained by the market and macroeconomic factors: there are still more people who have not experienced the joy of virtual cabbage farming out there.

I wouldn't sell my index funds and buy Zynga, but if Wall Street is investing in them, I think that probably isn't in the top half of dumbest things Wall Street will do this year.
Wilkinson & Pickett's The Spirit Level possibly did for laissez-faire economic theory what the Declaration of Independence did for the divine right of kings.

It is a statistical fact that people who live in countries which promote greater wealth equality are on average happier, healthier, and enjoy better relations with their fellow man. Redistributionism has won. As they say, live in America to get rich but in Europe to be happy.
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Are you kidding? If they didn't do that, how would they demonstrate a trap that made any sense? That would have been far worse, I think.
Weren't the sites down for a while too due to JS problems?
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Unfortunately, I discovered this by trying to find an article I had once read (about the effects of caffeine usage) by doing a Google search on my iPhone and then clicking the link, which detected I was on an iPhone and redirected me to m.gawker.com (or m.lifehacker.com or something like that), throwing away the hash URL and putting me at the root of the site. As there is no safe way to do a 302 redirect with a hash URL this strategy is doomed to fail.
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I'm a little worried about losing what is to me one of the main advantages of Flash: that it can be blocked. So your all singing, all dancing website shuts the hell up and behaves like a sedate page full of text and static images.

I mean, I can block JS, but it's irritating to have to. That's generally used for useful things like navigation. Flash marks something up as useless pizazz.
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Oh, right -- good point.
If you know C++ I'm guessing you know object oriented programming and its terminology. The only thing new to you in Java should be the syntax so start with a template for defining a class and work your way up from there. My background is mostly in dynamic scripting languages like javascript and ruby but applying what I knew to learn Java was pretty easy. The only thing new was all the extra type declarations. Don't worry about generics and the reflection API in the beginning because once you get used to the syntax figuring out how generics fit in your code and how to make use of them will be pretty easy. If you're looking for extra motivation to keep you going you could try writing an android application, that's actually how I learned it. For extra moral support you could pick up a book but in my experience programming books get outdated pretty quickly and the online Java docs cover pretty much everything you'd need to know.
Agreed; the former.

However the option to also receive alerts in exchange for my email address would be a nice additional option (emphasis on additional... main use would be the former).
It tells me he already got through Google's notoriously thorough hiring process.
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Uh you're high. You're in a bubble...

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Alexa: http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&...;

By what measure are you talking about? Ah of course. The "It's shiny new so hot right now within my small circle of friends!" metric.
I used to work in video games and yes we used it for level design and initial import in to 3DSMax. The artists then built an optimised geometry to match.

Designers love it as they can get exactly what they want and artists love it because they do level iteration with high poly difficult to manipulate levels.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 360 view was very confusing because it wasn't really 3d. I was dragging my mouse in so many directions, only to find, only the horizontal component affected the presented image. :(
It isn't for lack of trying. Here are the slides from a proposed, but not accepted, talk for GDC 2009. http://www.playuptools.com/csroby/media/GDC_Sketchup_09.pdf
Hmmm - that's the last guy I'd have thought was worried about people's civil rights...
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The new design looks much better than the previous. I digg it.
Derp. There are many applications that I cannot run on my computer because my computer isn't an apple. All of these could have been written in flash, and thus been cross-platform. Apple doesn't like flash, because they want people tied to their platform. (Obviously, I'm not talking about plain javascript here, though.)

One of these days, a "must have" killer app is going to come around--that could have been written in flash--that will force me to buy an Apple. At a ridiculous premium.

I don't think that's too hard to understand, predict, or dislike, given that people have been bitching about a similar strategy from a similar company for many years.
There a huge irony to this post. Look who made the site: http://criticalmass.com

It's talent that matters, not the platform.
Oh whatever. I can see it on me iPad. And iPhone. And Android. Who uses a fucking computer these days anyway? Programmers? ;-)
Wow, I was like 9 during that period. Thanks for telling me what happened!
As I understand it after reading http://quatermain.tumblr.com/post/3345687143/why-are-vendors... , there's a big difference:

Canonical wants to take 75% of revenue, leaving 25% to Gnome/Banshee.

Apple takes 30% of the sales price - the same part a vendor would get, taking away 100% of the revenue.
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granted--google is quite thorough--but it doesn't directly translate into this candidate being a match for your company based on motivation nor skill set.
If you can easily replace him, in the cold heart of day then you should look at all the options. Firing him is one, but it's better to look at his skills and weaknesses and see if there's anywhere else he would fit to still provide value.

The kindest way to do so is this:

Before you fire him, try to measure what he's doing and the value he generates. Look for alternative employment for him in company as an option and bring him into a meeting room with two people, explain that he's underperforming and develop a performance improvement plan with him as well as offering the alternative employment if it's appropriate. Minute the meeting, give him the option to change the minutes and get him to accept them over email. Re-evaluate his performance again over the next couple of months and make a decision. Once that's made, bring him back into the meeting room, inform him of your decision, stick to it and act on it.

Having said that, you're in an at-will state so the type of thing I've described probably doesn't happen there. It's really down to you, but I've always sought to get the best out of my employees. Not everyone is a rockstar (to abuse the word horribly) but some people can be solid, dependable backup players.

You should also think about the effects of terminating this guy's employment on the morale of others. Unless it's obvious to everyone else that he's not doing his job, or that he's causing friction and problems in the office people may react badly. You need to manage this.
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Assuming that you're open to feedback if you're posting it here.

- while subjective, paragraph justification is generally considered to decrease readability (and it's objectively ugly!)

- use bold/caps/emphasis less and it will stand out more

- it strikes me as odd to list so many references

- consider paring down the references and LinkedIn stuff and replacing that freed space with your non-coding hobbies and interests (my #1 hiring consideration)

- it's illegal in many places to discriminate based on appearance (stuff you can't change) so many employers will discard resumes that contain a photo of the applicant to mitigate future risk
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How about:

1. Provide only essential government services

2. Enforce the law for everyone--no limited liability, no secret police, no pollution quotas, no wars of aggression

3. If they aren't hurting anyone or the environment, leave productive people and their wealth alone
I imagine that if you use it for professional purposes you still have to pay, Pro version that comes with, for example, ability to export to other formats, costs around 500$.
Judging by the pronunciation, I can't see how both 'e's can be accented. Unless you say "ray soo may".
The _reason_ everyone decided to kill Flash, is because it, combined with pdf reading, is responsible for the majority of browser crashes.

The push here is to eliminate an unnecessary layer from the web stack. And I would point out that while apple has taken the steps to rid flash from their mobile platforms, they aren't leading the charge per say, they are just a very large player in this space.

Finally, just because flash dies, doesn't mean you'll have to buy an apple computer, last I check FF / IE / Opera and even gasp Safari run on non-apple platforms.
"The tax rate? 1.5%. And remember that neither the federal government, nor California, tax gains on most employee stock options at all."

Absolutely false. When exercised non-qualified stock options (the most common kind) are taxed as income (at the federal level) based on the difference between the strike price and the current fair-market value. This is true even when the options are in a non-public company. Every time I've exercised options I've had to pay tax witholding, and the income and witholding were reported on the relevant W2s.

I don't know how most states treat options; I live in one (WA) that doesn't have an income tax.
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I find your fire quickly maxim terrifying, but then again I live in a different culture with different labour laws.

Do you really think that OP's man management skills could be so infallible that he's already getting the absolute best from this guy? If he's not a cultural fit, then it's distinctly possible that the things that motivate the others don't motivate him. Surely it's better to make sure that the employee is as motivated as he can be, and is given an opportunity to improve before just throwing him out of the door.

I would never again work in the types of places that follows the maxim you describe. I've worked in those types of places before, they're horrible, hollow experiences where everyone chants about how awesome they all are and pulls all-nighters instead of being with their families, just to hide the deep seated job insecurities underneath.
> monopolistic and anti-competitive practices

Any examples of these? Honestly, I can think none. Wanting their cut from stuff sold in their app store for their platform is absolutely fair, IMO.

Apple doesn't even have a monopoly, like MS ha[sd] in desktop OS market. Apple don't do falsifying anti-Linux/FOSS campaigns, lobby standard committee for substandard standards, ship substandard software (IE, Outlook) with their OS, or stop innovating for years when their bundled crap software becomes default choices because of their OS monopoly, etc.

Want to run your [non-3D/non-high FPS] software on iOS without Apple's permission, paying $100 for developer licence or learning Objective-C? Make it a web app with simple HMTL/CSS/JS (see the demos at http://jqtouch.com). You can have native feeling, run it fullscreen, have a homescreen icon etc. All of these friendly supported by Apple.
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Well, probably not according to the stats.

But for me, personally, Github has won, I prefer it when projects have a Github repo
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Nice site. We don't need Flash anymore you say?

Keep me posted when RTMP media, video/webcam/audio capture, audio analysis, content protection is supported cross browser in HTML and JS.
I think TechCrunch just threw that in there to meet their Quora quota.
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