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So find another job or another career. I'm not being mean: there are still jobs that are 40 hours per week. If those jobs don't appeal to you, switch careers and find a work-life balance that does.

People get exploited because they don't act on their other options. I work 40 hours a week.
Not the OP, but my profile has notes on where to find my email address, if that offer is open to more than just the OP.
Does anyone have the actual stack ranked list of important qualities?
Infrastructure. If you can't depend on the roads, you can't offer a delivery service. If you can't depend on running water, you can't operate a restaurant. If you can't depend on electricity, you can't have a movie theater.
Hey, a place where women are dressed in burqas, have to be escorted, have a separate section in the bus and the metro is not considered liberal. Free trade != liberalism
Thanks davidw. I'll get a copy of that book. I expect to have to put in a couple of years of work to make this successful. So small steps are exactly what I'm looking for. I only know one person who has written an app. I'll try to contact him.
I'm a bit confused about how to install and run it (I'm pretty new to Clojure). Can you flesh out steps like "compile core.clj"?

I tried lein compile but that failed. I did lein jar instead. Then I did lein repl (didn't have a lein swank task), which downloaded some processing stuff and then gave me a reply. I tried running (start main), but it said it couldn't resolve the symbol start. Do I need to do something to include the jar?
Thanks, this is all really helpful! We're aiming to have more accurate hours information than anyone else and we're investing in several techniques to make that possible. And I completely agree about the domain name, that was just to get us started right away.

Thanks again!
The CSS is completely broken. It's impossible to tell what this thing is supposed to be.
That's what makes this study interesting. Instead of a "hey, maybe this works" regimen, the foods excluded from the diet in this study are individualized according to the patients' measured allergic response.

It would be interesting to look at the data, even with this small sample, to see how different the individual diets ended up being.
nmapping localhost doesn't sound very effective.
Wondered when someone would mention that. Had seen the link to it in the comments on the Cringely article, posted by a Cringely sceptic. Weird coincidence that it happen the month it was due to be decommissioned.
I agree that "lack of culture" is not a good reason to criticize Dubai, but I think the fact that foreigners are damn near kidnapped and treated as slave labor in order to build skyscrapers is certainly worthy of criticism.
If so, they seem to have appropriated the 1998 definition of "Startup".

Hiring 1000 people at once doesn't seem like the best way to maintain your startup's corporate culture, but it does seem like an effective way to burn through $250M in funding. All they need is the fooseball table in the middle of the dev space and they'll have that oldskool dotcom vibe nailed.
I'm not terribly familiar with these sorts of storage systems at a low-level, but I definitely noticed some similarities between this and the way Windows Azure Table Storage was designed. Seems they both use the Paxos algorithm which would explain some shared features. [1]

I'm curious to learn more about how the two compare. Mostly because our company uses Table Storage and its been interesting discovering the limits of these large NoSql storage systems.

[1] Table Storage using Paxos - http://bit.ly/hspRbm
I thought Ubuntu had AppArmor on and configured by default for many/most of the popular services (Apache etc). I often see 'updating AppArmor profile' log messages in system updates, in any case.
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> [...] in his right mind [...]

Exactly. Interesting way to kill loads of programming links already available via google. Then again - they already worked hard on moving the content around without leaving any redirects behind.
The article actually said that technical excellence was important, it just said that it wasn't as important as some of the people skills.

I can't really see Google dropping technical competence as a qualification for managers. I've heard that from 2005-2007 (before my time), Google brought on a bunch of non-technical managers from other companies, and the result was a pretty uniform disaster. Most of those managers are no longer with the company.
http://www.9to5mac.com/28032/aapl-patent-watch-advances-in-i...

Check the post date.
iPod touch 4th gen is same curved body design and you can clearly see pogo pins - so its nothing new in iPad 2
I get to see companies of all sizes grapple with various problems and the most interesting thing I've noticed is that each company has a "culture" that influences everything it does. So if it's an insurance company, they're going to think in terms of risk and coverage. If it's a manufacturing company they're going to make decisions based on flow models and statistical process control. If it's an quasi-military organization, they're going to think in terms of hierarchical structures.

It's neat to see Google continuing this pattern by applying tagged data collection and statistical inference to their quest for organizational optimization.

I can only imagine what it's like to work in a large-scale IT operation in the porn industry ;)
Thanks for the information. Do you have a cite for the fact that non-Market applications aren't subject to the kill switch?
What if you can't disable root login (i.e. it's a cloud server)?
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/03/11/business/201103...
Marathon was relatively successful I thought. I was a PC-loving Doom guy that hated Macs at the time (a bit of a waste of energy, but I was 13), and I remember at annoyed I was that people described Marathon on the Mac as being better thn Doom.
I feel you Rory. Sometimes I find myself spending more time building a plan than building a product. Good luck with Robmenot. Neat concept...
I'd really love to see Naughty Dog do a series of articles with this kind of technical depth on making the Jak and Daxter games, or even Uncharted although I can see why they'd want to keep some of the tech private in that case.

Naughty Dog has always been one of the developers that raised the bar for both visuals and gameplay on the Playstation and reading these articles it's clear to see why.
This article might also be of interest, based on the information available from authorities in Japan: http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/nuclear-crisis-in-j...
I don't get why people recommend chkrootkit + failban/denyhost.

I would recommend OSSEC to anyone looking for a serious host-based IDS (it does all those tools do + a lot more and very light weight).

*link: http://www.ossec.net
Thanks for those.

Another interesting video, if you haven't seen it already - Quantitative Easing explained:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k

"Printing money is the last refuge of failed economic empires and banana republics and the Fed doesn't want to admit this is their only idea." Don't worry, it's (partially) tongue-in-cheek.

"In other words, we will see massive inflation, possible even hyper-inflation." Do governments ever learn? This is what happened in the Weimar Republic and is happening today in Zimbabwe.

Where I live (Ireland), the government is trying to do option 1 and 2, without success so far. Austerity measures are hurting the economy short-term by dampening consumer confidence (fortunately, internal consumption isn't everything, as we are an extremely open economy and will pick up as exports grow.) They'd possibly be trying option 3, except the European Central Bank controls our currency and ECB rules state that a country can't run a deficit over 3% of GDP without incurring major penalties.
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This headline is too positive by implying that Americans are choosing to save. Rather, they are hitting the wall. The gains here are overwhelmingly from defaulting on mortgages. Also the credit card companies have withdrawn $1 trillion in credit lines, so people can't pay cards with other cards any longer.
"I can only imagine what it's like to work in a large-scale IT operation in the porn industry ;)"

I've heard it's about the most unsexy thing ever. The technical aspects are all about shipping massive quantities of data cheaply and reliably. The, erm, video-production aspects are about presenting a picture that will satisfy customers and leave them coming back for more.

In other words, it's pretty much like Google or any other big-data startup (and there're employees at Google who used to work in the porn industry). Not having been a part of it, I don't know what the culture is like, but I've heard it's pretty much all business, and they have significantly less fun than we do at Google.
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And yet, when its phrased like that, it (almost?) seems perfectly reasonable. It's easy to miss the "obvious" issue, and I've been following the skeptic scene for years!
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Only as long as you use the default paths and enforce the profiles... which should be the default for most people. But I think it's worth mentioning in case you have a specific application which you reverse-proxy, or install nginx, or ....
Just as there is competition in automobile safety, there should be competition in community safety. Yes, there are national regulations, but I would argue that most cars exceed those regulation and brag about their 5-star crash ratings. Such would also be the case for communities designed by the Mercedes' and Toyotas of the community regulation business, should such brands be permitted to evolve.
Nokia must have a huge sympathy capital, with all these people genuinely invested (at least emotionally) in their success. What do you suppose is the reason for this?
It's funny that I haven't used Visual Studio for real work in years, but starting with it in college means that there is One True Highlighting scheme as far as I'm concerned: white background, black text, keywords are blue, constants (including strings) are red, and comments are green. Using anything else feels like sleeping in someone else's bed.
I'm so happy to hear that Mr. Shah and his wife were able to purchase a 350k house after pushing their debts off on taxpayers and dollar holders.
you actually need to download and make jars of the minim libraries (https://github.com/ddf/Minim and http://code.compartmental.net/2009/11/02/building-minim-with... will help) and then add those jars to the lib folder.

then run:
"lein repl"

once in the repl:
(compile 'music-as-data.core)
(ns music-as-data.core)

and then you're good to go!
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The only thing I can think of is playing chess. However, the problem is that most people play chess superficially and without deep thinking and focus (the "groove" in my original post). This means that trying to use chess to explain it could backfire. I can see someone saying "See, I can talk to you and still play chess!".

This is a tough one. I'd be neat to find a study somewhere that dives into this aspect of our work. Google searches for phrases such as "programmer concentration" or "programmer focus" return sites for schools and the like where they have programs that concentrate on software development and the like.
I think you're reading 'more order' as 'more [bureaucratic] orders.' an unregulated environment is great for experimenting and starting things, but order is important for maintaining what has already been built and providing the long-term stability that makes business predictable and thus worth investing in. Otherwise, as your enterprise becomes profitable it begins to incur ever-higher security costs, quickly resulting in a situation of diminishing returns.

This is why you don't see very much inward investment in places like Russia, Somalia and so on. The barriers to entry are very low for anyone with capital and an idea, but the barriers to exit are very high. Consider the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky
You should also look at the grsecurity kernel patch:

http://grsecurity.net

It can really help to harden a system by making it much, much harder to exploit buffer overflows, making it impossible for users to see any processes other than their own etc. It's a great kernel patch and I highly recommend it.
I found that, while it looked great, for some reason on every install I tried (granted this was a couple of years ago, but I tried on various distributions and hardware) - the mailing engine tended to silently fail - which was fairly critical.

Denyhost, while not as sophisticated by a longshot, is dead easy to install and take care of the SSH brute force issue.
I was just pointing out a trend. It seems that more and more companies are trying to appeal to the start-up types. I'm not too optimistic that these big-corp-in-start-up-mode ideas will work, most people are not up to the task. I view this kind of mode as an exception not the norm.

Personally I don't mind working hard. In my case the work has been interesting enough and I'm viewing the long hours as an investment to acquire certain technology experience. At the same time I do feel an increasing urge to go and start working for real start-ups again.
The article seems to talk a lot about how to reproduce the guides, and how great they are.

It doesn't provide any context as to why these are supposedly such great guidelines to follow.
Agreed. If running a server, I'd choose Debian or Slackware over Ubuntu any day.
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It could also mean that technical competence is not a management bottleneck at Google.
Actually, the trifecta would be:

1. Update your software.

2. Use strong passwords, or public keys, for all accounts, regardless of how unimportant they seem. A strong password is one with letters, numbers, and possibly special characters, 8 or more characters in length, and is changed periodically.

3. Don't run unnecessary services or services with a poor recent security history.

Disabling the root login is a legit choice, though if someone figures out your sudo-capable account, you're equally screwed, so use strong passwords always.

Changing the ssh port only stops the people who aren't targeting you specifically, and even those people aren't always stopped. It is trivial to scan a host to find where ssh is running, regardless of the port you put it on.

fail2ban or denyhosts are OK for preventing brute force attacks, but OpenSSH and most security sensitive software already has timeouts, among other measures for preventing brute force attacks. Which makes fail2ban more of a nuisance-prevention measure (i.e. you see fewer brute force attacks show up in your log reports, and thus making it easier to see the more dangerous threats), rather than a core security measure.

If you performed your three steps, but ran an insecure version of any service (particularly those that have elevated privileges), you would still be easily exploited. fail2ban or denyhosts would prevent most services from being exploited due to weak passwords, so that's probably not a hole you'd have. And, changing the ssh port does nothing for you if your system hasn't been updated and is running exploitable services.

I used to do security cleanup and post-mortems and data recovery as a contractor for folks who'd had systems exploited. 90% of them were due to running old versions of software, and the rest were due to weak passwords (which may or may not have been prevented by fail2ban; in a couple of cases the exploiter used the webmail client to brute force the weak passwords...most people don't include the webmail client logs in their security considerations, and thus wouldn't configure fail2ban to ban attempts on the webmail client).

I'm not saying your advice is not useful, just that it's something you do after you get your core processes in order.

Edit: Formatting.
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I don't see what you are trying to say.
Google translate is a machine translator, it could be less accurate, but it scales very well. It is probably translating millions of pages per day. You are comparing a system to generate voluntary translators for your quiz application to Google translate, these things are very different and technology wise Google translate is a few orders of magnitude more complex.
> Interesting that they want to move into cloud & software products so aggressively.

Well if, looking at the future, CPU time will be commoditized and centralized implying less sales, they should try to get in on what /will/ happen which is the cloud business. Makes sense.
iptables already has all those features. I find "frontend" scripts like CSF confusing and distracting, because they throw in everything under the sun, including stuff that might make no sense in my particularly use case.
I think he has the arrogance of someone who is excellent in one area, but foolishly thinks it will qualify him to be excellent in other areas. Let's not forget we're building a huge psychoanalysis on a throwaway email here.
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It would have mattered greatly, in Nokia's favor as it would have forced them to innovate, and if not, at least replicate in order to maintain market in the US. The problem is now, they had such a huge market share in the "non" smart phone world which is now beginning to move to the smart phone world, only to find that they are the bottom of the list now. Having a market presence amongst real competition will not only help you, but will force you to stay alive.
Restrict root login from a particular IP address

AllowUsers root@112.113.114.115

I use AllowUsers to ensure only users I want can login from SSH.
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Securing a server is relatively easy - what people need to look past is securing the system as a whole.

Some day something in the servers or network you are responsible for will probably be breached in some fashion. You won't expect it. You'll find out. You'll panic.

Think past securing the perimeter and think about what happens when that fails... because it may. Are you using SSH keys internally to walk around systems? Are they secure?
What happens if someone accidentally leaves a test account open somewhere and somehow, through dumb luck, ends up with root access to your kickstart server or whatever config management stuff you have?

Now - what will you do when you have to start from scratch? Everyone likes to say once a system is compromised you have to format - but that becomes a daunting task if you're talking about hundreds of systems including the systems used to manage those systems. Do you nuke everything from orbit? Can your business afford the downtime?

You need recovery procedures as much as you need security... and you need auditing procedures to ensure that your security and recovery procedures remain valid.... and you need auditing procedures to ensure those auditing procedures are followed.

Complexity also breeds problems... keeping systems simple also makes them easier to manage.
I think "lack of culture" is a good reason to criticize if Dubai is advertising itself as "having" culture.

They are criticized for posing and hypocrisy, which to me it seems, is universally considered a universal negative trait.

Is Laos paying large PR firms and selling itself as "having culture"? Is Vietnam? Are they fooling anyone? Not really. Dubai has been selling itself as something it is not and underneath it is pretty much and empty shell, and I think that is what was being pointed out.
Why can't you disable root login on a cloud server?
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the API is really good :-) got a windows phone 7 client up and running in just a few hours on friday. Can't wait to see what comes of the service!
http://codecube.net/2011/03/lmnd-st-for-wp7/
He's too much of a professional to say so, but I think many people will get the feeling that this decison was motivated by "The AOL Way".
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Not unexpected from Oracle... I wonder if their management == Yahoo's ?
This is where firewalls come in handy...

Disabling remote root login isn't as big a deal as it used to be - as others have said, if someone gets your administrative account you're pretty screwed anyway - and if they get your password for sudo, it's the same thing.

Other than that, it really depends on what you mean by cloud.
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Yes, I noted in my blog post that the story about the patent application came out September. 'Breaking the pogo pin story' wasn't the purpose of the post.
After some supplemental reading, the hypothesis of ADD/ADHD symptoms as a reaction to food allergies has been tested before[1], the authors had done a previous experiment published back in 2009, and it appears this experiment was designed to avoid criticisms[2] of past experiments in the field.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8257176
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17048717
If the guy outta Venice knew his stuff, he'd have immediately delegated those tasks to others and got back to his own business, rather than do them all himself.

Such is the art of management.
Well, most small businesses fail in the first few years. But that doesn't stop millions of them from becoming viable. We tend to think that the ecosystem only has room for a handful of Internet or technology companies, but that's far the case. Sure, the Web itself is something of a black hole for profitability, where more often than not the startup itself is essentially the product. But this is not representative of the wider phenomenon of small business formation. It's becoming much cheaper to create and run a small business, and as a result the rate at which new businesses are launched has grown.
What do you expect in a country that has more lakes than all other countries combined? I actually see dozens of lakes on that island on google maps and others that have islands in them. http://goo.gl/maps/O19P
If the South Vietnam/United States/South Korea coalition had beaten the North Vietnam/Soviet Union/Red China/North Korea coalition, it would be a much nicer, safer place to live.
Instead, it's a backward wasteland ruled by bandits that's barely - barely - starting to get its shit together.

We must be in two different Vietnams. Sure, there's a lot of poverty here, but I feel a lot safer here than I do almost anywhere in the U.S. Friendly people, fantastic food and the tremendous natural beauty of the country make me happier to be here than anywhere else in the world. I have no idea where exactly I'd find this backward wasteland you describe.

No doubt Vietnam would be further along in its development if the West had just left it alone to develop at its own pace, but I think it's clear where the blame lies for that.
Yeah - I dont' live there anymore but on one trip back I noticed (I don't smoke either) that every place that had over-counter cigarettes now had it covered over.

It's been a wildly successful effort with long term benefits for the province.
What people need to realize, is that there is a reason why the free-ranging cowboy had to stop existing, all the cowboy-poetry about the sadness of barbed wire fences notwithstanding. More order means more economic activity.

I think you are only partly correct: there was a natural barrier imposed upon free-ranging economic expansion right where the west coast of North America meets the Pacific Ocean.

Although I don't dispute any of the points you make, you left out the question of economic scarcity. In the case of the cowboys, if land were free then moving a herd to fresh pastures would be a simple matter of calculating time * # of animals lost per day of transit. but once you run of free land, then you have to start estimating the opportunity costs of your neighbors as an input to transaction costs, and it's cheaper to put contractual arrangements in place than to settle disputes.