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> But they have nobody but themselves to blame for not investing in security.

Ah, the classic rape defense. It was her fault for walking down that alley.
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I used Python for 6 years and had no idea about sys.settrace()
This seems pretty amazing, but I guess there's no way around letting users work on arbitrary JavaScript and XSS? http://jsfiddle.net/wk7sK/
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I'm sorry. Saw it just after i submitted.
> place clients according to risk and past medical history of its employees

shudder This is the part where a small employer can basically be forced to find an excuse to dismiss anyone with a serious illness, who is then doubly screwed. A public option would have been so much more humane.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/7/751100/-How-I-lost-my...
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I think Microsoft / Facebook / Apple have had far more impact on the world than Green Peace and all the other NGOs combined.
The problem isn't the performance of mobile apps. We're about to release an ipad app that could've easily been a webapp—it is 90% implemented via javascript+HTML, animated with CSS transitions, all in a UIWebView controller. We do a lot of app-side caching, but I think a sufficiently-motivated javascript dev could do something similar.

The problem is that by not making it a native app, you're cutting yourself off from "the way people get apps" for their devices. The app store is a distribution mechanism that just can't be ignored by a serious mobile developer.
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No, we just use Dropbox.
Considering the main press release quotes Jobs[1], this is unlikely.

[1] “Our philosophy is simple—when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30 percent share; when the publisher brings an existing or new subscriber to the app, the publisher keeps 100 percent and Apple earns nothing.”
Basecamp is awesome if a lot of people involved are non-technical. They tend to get dizzy looking at Jira/Trac.
Perhaps the signing functionality offered by HelloFax will give them enough differentiation

I think the editing capability is key. The signature feature might work for a device with a stylus but is difficult with a mouse. I opened up an image editor and wrote my signature with a mouse. The result wasn't legible (at all), and more importantly, it didn't match what I consider to be my legal signature. So users would probably need access to a scanner to upload the signature image.
Agreed. I don't see the luxury market gents trading in their Panerai or Patek Philippe for a TikTok anytime soon.
I've spent time working with companies that do GDS systems (basically travel ticketing back-end infrastructure) and talked with a few startups in the affiliate/rewards space.

Load management is also used a lot in business schools as a case study of how more complex pricing schemes can be used to extract a higher average price than would be indicated by a traditional macro-economic demand curve approach. Basically you're segmenting customers and also varying pricing based on available inventory.

Airline seat inventory and hotel rooms as well are an interesting problem because they're essentially wasting inventory - if you don't sell a hotel room or airline seat before the day it's available, it becomes worthless. That's why airlines and hotels love to have reward systems where you're compensated with free travel/stays - it's a way to get value from something that might otherwise go to waste. (This is also why Priceline works - they are a way for hotels to get rid of excess inventory on a no-name basis.)
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IMHO, Obama and company got carried away. They saw this opportunity to enact something comparable to Social Security and Medicare, and wanted to go down in the history books as having achieved something similar. Unfortunately, like any big project in Washington, this one was laden with loopholes, sweeteners, etc. In other words, a total mess.

It would have been far better to pass a series of smaller laws. Start with: it's illegal to discriminate based on pre-existing conditions. Then, create cross-state markets and let insurance companies compete across state boundaries. Then, let families buy into the Federal government's health insurance program (if our elected reps can do it, why can't we?). And so on.
I really like how he moves the argument from "Does Apple have the right to do this?" to "Should Apple do this?" I'm really surprised: this is what I've always been taught to call bad revenue. I could understand a bit better if they were a struggling startup looking for any possible profitable business model, but they are printing money already. I'm left shaking my head here. Even the folks who often rush to Apple's defense seem to agree this is a mistake. For me, this is the first time that I've looked around Apple's walled garden and wanted out.
For what it's worth, I don't think my satisfaction with U-verse has anything to do with my (not) being an average user. Working from home as a developer, I put my Internet connections through the wringer. That's not even considering the half dozen other connected devices in the household, including some that are streaming Netflix and Hulu fairly regularly.
I've heard a few people refer to this type of thing as 'gamification' these days. The term seems to be skewed in the same way in that achievements are the way people seem to think anything becomes a game.
I'm more and more impressed by Yehuda's ability to translate technology.

While cooking last night, I listened to The Pipleine, Dan Benjamin's podcast with John Siracusa that episode's guest. John and Yehuda feel like long-lost cousins. The dudes are in the trenches rooting around interpreters and instruction sets. Then, they give the rest of us quasi-nerds something to grab on to.
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I think Apple is counting on platform fragmentation to win here. Apple may be thinking that with WebOS, WP7, and Android, these big companies will probably get their biggest profits from Apple if Apple continues to be the biggest shareholder within the mobile platforms.
> (a 2wire, don't know the model details)

Probably 3800HG (V?), or something else in the 3000 series. I haven't been inside AT&T for many years, but Lightspeed/U-verse is all the 2wire 3000-series ("MediaPortal?" Fuzzy on that).

When I first started in IT I teched its regular DSL brother, the 2701. I still have one flashed with employee firmware, which unlocks what AT&T doesn't want you to have (parental controls and remote management and so on).

I say this without any former employee bias (my parting from Ma Bell was unsavory at best): the HomePortal line is a pretty solid device, for its target market. At least with traditional DSL if you don't dig the device (and if you know what QoS means, you won't), there's a plethora of other things out there. You can find something else to do gateway things, and the 2701 will act as solely a DSL modem if you ask it nicely.

Lightspeed/U-verse, though, well...

> I agree that they have atrocious customer service (still having connectivity issues after numerous technician visits due to old/crappy last mile cabling)

Finding an excuse to blame it on your in-house wiring, too?

Count your blessings, though, I'm in the same boat with Comcast and I pay per-visit unless I yell, which I hate doing because I've sat in that chair.
I bet he isn't the only. If he got $20m, somebody else probably conned the government out of a lot more. How much money is wasted on this sort of bullshit?
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Note what the article states:

"The majority of migrants to Quebec are English-speaking – 33 per cent of the anglophone population is made up of immigrants, compared to only 7 per cent of the French-speaking population – and inflows of foreign migrants contribute to higher poverty rates among anglophones."

"A wealthy minority exists within the anglophone community, skewing their average income data upwards"

It is this Westmount/West Island wealthy minority I'm referring to when I say you should look at occupation and income levels.

There's no surprise blue-collar francophones earn more - that was the whole impetus behind the Quiet Revolution.

Programmer salaries in NYC are about three times what they are in Montreal, while the cost of living is only about twice as high. Salaries in the US have a very real effect on Canadian ones - it's so easy to get a NAFTA visa that the US and Canada basically share a labor market of programmers.
Can anyone shed some light on the oft-repeated "let them compete across state lines" conservative argument? Is there any chance that less regulation could actually foster some healthy competition?
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I fully agree, but all it really says is, "learn how things actually work, people!" This is still mostly fluff and identity politics, hoping people who know they're old-school will upvote it. Flagged.
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I think a more relevant portion of what Joel what talking about is the 'full stack'/'ductape' programmer. The number of times I've seen people optimizing their for loops instead of their DB queries or their caching mechanisms in a web app is simply astounding. Few people realize that there is far more 'slow' code in the parts they didn't write than the parts they did write.

Think about it, in the 'full stack' of browser -> client -> interweb -> web server -> app server -> db server the little bit of code that you wrote is minuscule compared to what you didn't write. Tune up your TCP stack, tune your webserver, add cache headers, add indexes, etc. Most apps can drastically increase their performance with out even changing a single line of code. And when you're tuning up your code, look for single lines of code to change.

Definite protip in there on debugging with wireshark.

We had a client once that we could only login to their IMAP server but not download mail. A little bit of digging with wireshark and we figured out that he had some old POS router that couldn't handle window scaling. Solution? Turn off window scaling on one of the servers.
I don't think the inventors of the inPulse (or other watches with similar functionality) spent much time thinking about the utility of the device. Is having to look at a small subject line on the cramped display of a watch really better than simply taking out your phone and reading the whole message? I remain unconvinced that the watch will make my life easier in any meaningful way compared to the alternative.
It reminds of Nokia's effort at implementing NFC I read about somewhere recently - to buy a soda from an NFC-equipped vending machine, you had to bring the phone in contact with the machine,make a selection, wait for a text message asking for confirmation, and then respond to the message before you got your drink. The designers were convinced that this would be easier than simply putting in a coin and getting your drink.
mtrack

a clone of trac done in php
With support for multiple projects.
Mercurial and Subversion

http://mtrack.wezfurlong.org/
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They could put all executed code in a cookie-less domain, that way it can't access any private resources on your behalf (modulo XSS bugs on other sites). This is what the Google code playground does:

http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/
Even then you'll be better at what you do if you learn to balance your life a bit. Go outside and enjoy the sunshine every now and then.
I am terribly sorry but due to the need to get a green image my company has forbidden the use of paper. It's totally stupid but my boss is a complete environment nut and I could get into real trouble if I broke the rules.

I sorry the fax machine is busted. We are required to attempt to have it fixed before we can get a new one, but the repair guy won't get here until Monday.

Big companies do stupid stuff all the time. Take advantage of this.
At least we heard about this one before it got acquired by and then shut down so that the founders could work on companion technologies in their new company.

Kudos to HelloFax, this is exactly what I've been seeking for a long time. I've been making do with MyFax's intermittent free trials but this service is worth paying for.
It is broken ...and expensive.

My health insurance (not from US) has worldwide 100% coverage, except for the US. To get a US coverage, I would have to double what I am paying now.

The US health system is twice as expensive as any other health system in the world.
> Higher level tech would reveal the cablebox is running a version of MS Windows that only supports 2.0 sound over HDMI.

No equipment associated with U-verse runs Windows, aside from a PC connected to it.
I'd include that under "ATM machine", more or less.
Again, the assumption that everybody is a web programmer. No wonder people approach the command line with obsequious awe!
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I'll grant you the $8 trades.. but that's not what Goldman Sachs et al are making all their money from. Ameritrade and pals are great but they're not the people sucking all of this money out of the system. I still have no idea how all of the other people who aren't Ameritrade are getting so much money, but I know they are, and I know I haven't seen a lot of results for the broader economy.

Microfinance is a rounding error, and structured products almost put us in the Oklahoma dust bowl about 18 months ago.

... wait, you're extolling the virtues of payday loans? As if loaning money at a high interest rate to financially unsophisticated poor people on bad terms is a new idea?
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24Mbps for $60/mo here, and I easily (and regularly) max that out.
If Sony did not take a loss on every console sold, I wonder how much of an issue this would be. Ff they sold a PS3 that was 50% more expensive but with the feature "install whatever you want and don't worry about getting banned from PSN" could they could solve that problem?

Of course, the content folks at Sony (who thought the rootkit was OK) would probably never allow for it. Not that I'll ever buy another Sony product unless they can prove a changed heart and a commitment to bring back the quality that put them where they are.
Man, I have never seen the code playground before. This makes using their APIs so much easier.
Thanks man
you're the one touting the ipad. whatfeatures does it have that I can't do on a rooted nook?
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I find the U-verse in my part of Austin (South Congress) to be amazing, but I also don't have a TV plan (24Mbps for $60/mo as noted above).
Is there anything like Watson available as an API or web app?
Anything that can make sense of, say, a list of words or a question.
It seems he used Mechanical Turks (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome).
No fluff intended. And no upvotes phishing - I don't write for upvotes. Been bothered by this, and hope to help someone understand this is important.

Good day!
erm, i looked up the answer. frames are inertial, thus photons don't have a frame of reference.
Leave me in a house without internet and I promise I'll either burn down the house or make delicious food with recipes invented on the spot.
So how long is a second?
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Test your node.js servers super ez (and free):

http://jsapp.us/
Didn't negotiate a thing. I was pretty naive about that sort of thing at the time (really was still until the last few years, and I'm 35 now) and didn't know that bargaining was an option. I was just unemployed, broke and 22 and had a giant bill that I didn't know what to do with. I thought a bill was a bill and a debt was a debt, and had never even had a credit card in my life. Soon after that, I got a $9 an hour job at a factory and started making payments...
That store example is flawed. They stand out because of a well-executed marketing strategy built around being a single-product shop, but in the end it is a matter of execution rather than of just not selling more products. In other words if they were selling three products, and if they were well-known, they would've still gotten most business.
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So I've been using "ditz" on a few projects and I quite like it. It's about the most minimal bug tracker you can get, but I like that the bugs get checked into your scm, right along with the code. I also like that I don't need to launch a browser to add or edit bugs. It fits in beautifully with distributed VCSes like darcs or git.
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Hospitals in the US over-prescribe, and over-treat, because health insurers will pay.

Drug companies will charge US customers more, because health insurers will pay. Good luck importing drugs from ebay - it's not legal!

Doctors, and hospital managers charge more, because health insurers pay. Good luck getting an unqualified doctor to prescribe penicillin - it's not legal!

If the government was paying for more of it, they would train more doctors, and force drug companies to lower prices (as they do in most countries). Removing the profit motive in public hospitals makes them focus on better care, not more expensive care. Then the private sector has some real competition (Australia and Canada both have private health ... it's better than the US for most people).
This title is a little bit misleading...

A more relevant question is not whether graduates of certain school do or do not make more, but rather, what causes them to do so. And analysis of students who were admitted to such elite schools, but chose to matriculate elsewhere, shows that on the basis of income alone they had very similar success outcomes. Only for very-lower-income students was there a noticeable advantage to attending the elite school, where this metric is concerned.

Thus, the important factor is the "type of student," not the "type of school." This is borne out in their conclusions as well:

"Consistent with the past literature, we find a positive and significant effect of the return to college selectivity during a student’s prime working years in regression models that do not adjust for unobserved student quality for cohorts that entered college in 1976 and 1989 using administrative earnings data from the SSA’s Detailed Earnings Records. Based on these same regression specifications, we also find that the return to selectivity increases over the course of a student’s career. However, after we adjust for unobserved student characteristics, the return to college selectivity falls dramatically. For the 1976 cohort, the return to school-SAT score for the full sample is always indistinguishable from zero when we control for the average SAT score of the colleges that students applied to in order to control for omitted student variables."

Furthermore, I would importantly mention that while these studies are valuable, they do ignore significant changes in the nature of student bodies, labor markets, and educational institutions since the original cohorts are first observed; their findings can't fairly be 100% extrapolated onto current populations.

I could go more into the weeds here, but I think it is not ultimately necessary. Interesting paper, I think less exciting than the works it cites in its introduction, but still quite neat.

TL;DR = Schools don't matter; students do.
In a civilized country, if you knew what the prescription would be, you could just walk into a pharmacy and buy it. The dotor charges $600 and provides no value. He exists to charge rent on his DEA license.
Good to know, thanks. I am actually considering moving to AUS, however not because of health care, being from Europe. Good to know its "socialist" in Australia too ;D
if the kids enjoy the toys who cares how they market them to parents.
You beat me to it! Fantastic article from a former startup CEO (I worked for him about 10 years ago). I thought I had heard all the arguments before I read it.
What does it mean by "normalized CSS"?
YouTRACK--a keyboard-friendly fast fast FAST bug tracker from JetBrains (of IntelliJ fame).

http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack

After I gave up the concept of tracking bugs and doing feature planning in the same app (sounds great but has never worked in practice), this tracker became my default for any projects where I have a say in the matter.

We moved from JIRA because administering a JIRA installation is practically a full-time job. Have also used Fogbugz, Redmine, Mantis, Bugzilla over the years, so that list is my main basis for comparison. I hate YouTRACK less than those.

Edit: I see they are now offering a free hosted version for the first half of 2011.
Wristwatches, really? Who wears a wristwatch anymore?

Don't these people have access to a phone, or a computer, or a tablet, or a cable box, or a car stereo, or even a sign outside a nearby bank?

Even if they don't isn't there someone near by with one of those devices that they could simply ask?

Sure, you can make the argument these are 'smarter' then your grandfather's wristwatch, but is it really that much work to take your phone out of your pocket?

Nobody wants a device they need to carry on their wrist that is less capable then their smartphone. To borrow a phrase from Sean Parker, we need "to put a bullett in this thing".
I think that someone else said it here (somewhere in these threads), but I believe Medicare mandates that everyone is charged the same price for procedure X, but doesn't mandate what that price is. The point being that if everyone gets the same price, than Medicare always pays the cheapest rate (since there is only one rate).
VoiceRally has been my goto app to see what is happening between brain cycles on work. Thanks for adding the pause button. I can't read that fast!

That pause button is a great example of iterative development. You guys got the first cut out there, saw that the next step was the pause button, and added it. Nice work. Bendyworks FTW.
Skype head Zennstrom eyes China start-ups
I live in Austin and got uverse for $30 / month. 10 megabits down and 1.5 up. I honestly can't complain.
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IANAL, but at first glance it would be 5 years federal, 6 years for Washington state. In practice they probably wouldn't let him into the US.