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The data breach he allegedly carried out is reported as a known quantity. The only allegation that needs mitigating is that it was this person that carried it out. If one is unsure of the details then it would be "reportedly" or an "unconfirmed source stated" or similar, no?

Thanks for your viewpoint though.
This is the poster child for using http://foundrs.com : virtually incorporate with your co-founders, see how far it goes, when it gets serious convert into a real corporation.

Benefits: no corporate taxes, no accountant to pay. Vesting is automatic (4 years, monthly, just like founder stocks in a Silicon Valley startup). And it's legally binding (thank you copyright law, for once you were useful).
As a UW Alumni, I say props to Biddy Martin. If you read the note from the legal counsel (http://www.news.wisc.edu/19196), they are actually withholding quite a bit of information. Not to mention the general tone of the statement is a polite "fuck you, we're not doing anything wrong, and we stand by our faculty."
"do first, ask for forgiveness later" applies to software design, but it doesn't apply to the IRS. Firstly you could have spoken to a personal accountant for next to nothing, and there is such a glut of lawyers out there that it's easy to get one for much less. As with any other pros pick these helpers via recommendation from other that have had good results.

PS I say this as someone who did a DIY incorporation and had to un-do it at a later date when it didn't make sense...
So basically everything that's in Android 3.0 and most of which is in Android 2.2. Apple starting to play catch up now.
IMO, OS X is the easiest path to getting familiar with UNIX. I think it captures most of the good parts of Linux/FreeBSD, but without a lot of bad ones (like bad/no graphics/wifi drivers, etc).
IndexedDB or WebSQL... why not both?
There's considerable discussion going on over at Public Web Apps over shortcomings in IndexedDB and the possibility of Mozilla exposing an embedding of SQLite. SQLite is the world's most widely deployed database. It would be hard not to call it a standard.

SQLite is a stellar implementation that provides working database primitives: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011AprJu...

But it's too early to tell if the same would be true of IndexedDB.

It would be great if more web developers would get involved in these discussions. It would be healthier for the Web to have two competing APIs.
You appear to be confused. The argument is that power in general (rather than nuclear, specifically) is required to feed the world. I thought that obvious from the part I quoted (i.e. the statement that we could get by with no electricity), but it seems that you misunderstood.

Once "nothing" has been eliminated as an option for where we get power from, we move from there to the fact that nuclear is one of the safest options. Reducing our demand for the less safe power sources saves lives, but there are always tradeoffs.

Who dies, for example.

Probably one of the best things we could do would be to reduce coal usage with an increase in nuclear power. Several thousand people die each year in coal mine accidents alone. But they're mostly poor people in China, so the non-human costs (political, economic, etc.) have so far dominated.

The whole point is that we ought to do the best we can to make the most realistic tradeoffs possible and to avoid taking worthwhile options off of the table, especially when the largest risks are political.
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Someone never learned what "limited liability" means.

The whole point of a corporation is that you aren't personally liable for its debts! You just paid $400 for no reason!
I wish this post was around when i was in the 9th grade so i wouldnt have spent so much on Kevin Trudeau's Megamemory just to learn this.
(Old debate, but still)
I would argue that claiming to refute left wing "exploitation" arguments by focusing purely on intra-country variation, as if the US economy lived in a bubble isolated from the rest of the world, is attacking a straw man. The "modern left" is far more concerned that American capitalists are "exploiting" highly productive cheap foreign labour, to the detriment of US-based jobs in many sectors. After all It's the people that don't have jobs that are the major welfare beneficiaries and don't have any capital to invest in China.

Regardless of whether this is ultimately a good thing (even those without access to capital to invest in multinational ventures get cheaper consumer goods...), the fact that on a macro scale cost of labour is related at least as much to geography than productivity is pretty fundamental to left wing arguments that the rich are having it too easy and many US citizens without access to capital wouldn't be able to afford to eat without welfare and some protectionism.
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If you aren't interested in supporting call/cc or other control-transfer constructs like exceptions it might be easier to just use ANF.

See Kennedy's "Compiling with Continuations, Continued" for another perspective on the ANF/CPS choice: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/akenn/sml/Comp...
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India cannot be free from corruption unless it disintegrates like USSR.
Thank you.

I run tmux inside iTerm2.

I'll clean the theme up a little and make an isolated repository.

Looks decent in 8-color terminal as well.
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| One of the things that I notice is that bugs that are raised usually gets fixed only if there is a business impact.

Isn't that a good thing? If you're running a business, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to spend development effort on things that don't have a materially positive impact.

| As always work needs to be prioritized [...]

Yes, and typically, bugs that can be worked around or don't block anything have fairly low priority. Again, that seems like a good thing.

It seems very counterproductive (and borderline malignant) to engineer a strategy for manipulating the development team into fixing problems that, ostensibly, don't have much impact on the business.
The point the OP was trying to make is that such legislative changes make it easier to catch bribery (and thus -- it would diminish).

If paying you a bribe is illegal -- then I'll do it and cover my tracks. If paying you a bribe is legal and as bonus I get my money back if I rat you out -- then that's awesome for me. But the likely case is -- you wont be asking for that bribe anymore -- as you know it's now a lose/win situation.
good stuff. can it also compare the response of each and report which one of these is not like the others?
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And also those who like to keep a good relationship to the officials they have to work with on a daily basis. I can't prove or test it, but I assume that this category contains the biggest amount of people AND money concerning bribery. "Doing favors" to each other is just a basic social activity, especially if the other person is one with the power to change your life to better or worse.
I'm not sure how you use Craigslist but I've primarily used the site to sell a few big ticket items - and it flat out works. After listing a couple of cars on some larger, more feature rich sites for several weeks without any traction, I listed on Craigslist, received multiple inquiries from day one, and sold within 10 days. Granted, this has more to do with the scale of the user base than the actual product, but I'm not sure you can completely separate those two aspects in this business space.
I'm pretty sure Steve Irwin was a conservationist though... Aka -- he went and wrestled with Crocodiles but he never shot them - certainly not for sport.

// Being an Aussie -- we'd never really heard of Steve Irwin until he died. At which point he moved from being a tosser to being a national hero.
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Could you expand a little on what happened in your particular circumstances? The advice "Never accept the word of a lawyer on anything" seems a little controversial, to say the least.
I like the idea [edit: on a second thought, as commenters pointed out, the described process is extortion, not bribery].

Unfortunately, improvement requires that bribe reporting system is not corrupt (police, courts, etc.), which, I think, is not the case for countries with high corruption rates.
So, how much do you spend on web servers (not including databases) per week? You could fix Ruby templating, or just multiply that by 10. Or you can try to overhaul the templating. It's a boring problem.

Databases are much more interesting. You simply can't scale databases up trivially. A N times linear improvement in the code (due to, say, caching) means you don't have to throw N^2 servers (if that's how your database scales) at the problem.

Linear load reductions have superlinear cost reductions for things like databases. Linear load reductions have linear cost reductions for web servers. This is why people don't care so much.

Though yes, it would be nice to see Ruby templating a little bit faster.
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You know, that's a really good point. I may go straight to StubHub if I'm really into seeing ballgames, but am I really going to remember the hot new startups focusing on apartment rentals, spa services, or used car parts? No, I'm just going to Craigslist for any of my peripheral needs.
There's a fatal flaw in this scheme: the person who accepted a bribe is now in position to extort money from the briber forever.
Done.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3534
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It's easy. Just have make a publicly visible issue tracking system. Issues could be tracked, and punishments recorded (if applicable). You could put a little bit of identity protection in (i.e. Officer 123 vs Customer 345).
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It's not a competition though. This guy has been through a rough experience dealing with starting a company, and he has decided to share it with us.

Not to be rude, but I'm unsure exactly where your story fits into that.
So you were at a competency level where you couldn't get Hello world to work, switched to another language and based on that, conclude that your choice of language plus editor is miles ahead of anything MS could offer?
I suppose in the end it comes down to how much stuff you can (or want) to hold in your head at the same time.

My limited company has cost about £50 in administration and set-up fees so far. But the cost of learning enough stuff not to get myself in trouble has probably been tens of hours of otherwise billable time, plus the ever present risk of doing something wrong.

The problem is that it can be hard to know what is actually difficult, and what is easy but just expensive because not many people know how to do it. It would be nice if somewhere there was a definitive guide to what is worth doing yourself for any given hourly rate.

E.g. if your time is worth £50/hr then doing your own company set up is worth it, but you should hand off pay roll taxes to a professional. If your time is worth £100 an hour, then you should do these three things to cut cost a little, then outsource the rest.
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Records:

- Customer 345 reported a bribe.

- Officer 123 has been cleaned from false reporting.

Non-records:

Customer 345 thrown into jail for possession of drugs.
Everyone here's already given solid advice to you, so I'm here to offer my two cents from a slightly different perspective.

In "Outliers", Malcolm Gladwell points out research that indicates there are three requirements for a job to be satisfying: "autonomy", or you getting to decide what you will do or how you will do, "complexity", that the job is full of tasks that engage you emotionally and intellectually at a "Goldilocks" difficulty level (not too hard, not too easy), and "connection between effort and reward", i.e. the harder you work the more you get rewarded.

In my experience, while learning new programming languages, frameworks, and software engineering concepts, since my learning happens in my free time I have bucket loads of autonomy but I often misguage the complexity level and sometimes fail to offer myself any opportunity for reward in the long run.

Hence, here are two more pieces of advice. Firstly, work on a real project, ideally for a person in real life. Someone who breathes, feels, and is willing to drink coffee with you. Ask _them_ what they want, tell them you're trying to pick up a new skill and want to help them out! What better connection between effort and reward can there be than helping a real person? (I hear people saying "money, money, money!", and yes I hear you).

Secondly, start at rock bottom and learn everything from scratch. Assume you know nothing. Be the proverbial empty cup; a student approaches a Zen master with a cup and says "Master, teach me everything you know!" and the master proceeds to fill the student's cup with tea until it starts to overflow hot water onto the students hands. The student looks confused until the master responds "How can I fill your cup when it is already full?". Then, once you get started, offer yourself increasingly more difficult challenges and concepts. Continually progress your knowledge. Even in a language as sublime and as easy to initially use as Python there are always more concepts to learn, more elegant approaches, faster methods.

Good luck!
Yeah but this wouldn't address the key problem outlined in the article. The issue this is trying to tackle is that of people being forced to pay bribes for things they are legally, perfectly entitled to. The corruption this is aimed at is the corruption endemic to the civil service/government that it's impossible to avoid in everyday life.
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In the US and China, yes. Outright bribery is rare, but people with "connections" get special treatment.

However, the article is about India, a country where corruption is so rampant that there's an Association of Dead People, who can't afford the bribe to have themselves "reinstated" after they were reported dead.

"Hi, I'd like to report, my in-laws declared me to be deceased, and have stolen my house and land."

"Hmm, your name? OK, it seems you are dead."

"Yes, and my house has been stolen. I'd like to file a complaint."

"You can't."

"Why?"

"You are dead."

People spend decades trying to get back on the books. It would be hilarious if it wasn't true.
Good luck! And hope to catch you guys in Singapore :)
Could be that I'm missing something, but the dark versions don't seem to be the same as in solarized: http://ethanschoonover.com/img/solarized/solarized-screen-ja...
No. They are trained to expect a reward for effort; they get rewards; and then they think it's because of effort.

(Frankly, I think your misreading is a symptom of the same problem.)
Yes. It turns out 12GB of RAM does come in handy. (I have the same setup, Win7 w/ Ubuntu VM).

What's more annoying is doing port mapping through VirtualBox's XML configuration files, but this is a one-off task and not too complex. I'm seriously considering purchasing Mac OS X Server edition and using that in a VM as well but I can't figure out if this actually works. Does anyone know?
Seems like you somehow attribute being "a real html5 browser" to supporting contentEditable.
Not sure if technical ignorance plays any part there, but just for your interest: contentEditable/designMode first appeared in IE5.5: that's the summer of 2000.
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LOL: I can not access your blog spot to know how ironic it is :-P.
Just like the bosses who get to put the bug fixes on their resume, now the author of this piece can put his efforts on his.

You aren't suggesting that he sacrifice his own self-interest for the sake of some company, are you?
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As far as I know, there is no issue. Think of iWagerr as a notepad-like web app that simply allows you to record or track all of your wagers (financial or not). There is no money passing through iWagerr (no credit or points system either), just a tally of whether or not you've won or lost bets, so that $1000 riding on Butler vs VCU might as well be 1000 burgers or a trip to the Bahamas.

So to answer your question, I wouldn't have an issue with people using it to track their financial bets (though, admittedly, I'd like them to use it to track their non-financial bets, since those are typically made with lighter, less-serious intentions!).
But not in all places. http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2007-09/sep17_07bear.h...
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that you can just launch Terminal.app on OS X and enter 'python'. Or edit a file, save as <file>.py, run it through "python <file>.py" to see immediate results.

A little more complicated: download the Google App Engine SDK, start developing Python webapps on your workstation. You don't ever have to deploy it if you don't want to.
Interesting. Seems there are multiple views on this.

According to this article Dr Mitchell Taylor, a leading expert on polar bears, is persona non grata at climate change conferences where there are no other polar bear experts because he reports that polar bear numbers are not decreasing, contrary to their reports:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherboo...
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Well I guess shit like that still happens
TechCrunch is not over.
It's just that the great-stratups-are-everywhere environment matured. It's less novel.
And the marketing playground is for non geeks = less tech blogs readers. These are all good news.
.NET code is C++ code. The CLR is written in C++. In many ways this kind of argument is pointless, because it's really about a way of creating a piece of software, than particular to any one language. But some languages make life really hard here - in C++, you need to build a runtime.

I'll assert that memory is not normally a constraint in most situations that need to scale (i.e. not constrained clients), these days. (Though I will say I have noticed that Firefox 4 is significantly slower than FF 3 when switching tabs, and I believe it's because of memory reduction optimizations they've put in because of everybody moaning about bloat. I'd prefer it use more memory and less CPU.)

JIT optimizations like PICs? For over 20 years. The benefits are magnified in languages that make many operations virtual, so you see it in things like Smalltalk (very long time), Javascript (Chrome's V8) and Java JVMs (methods virtual by default so it's a win).

Re slow startup - you're deluding yourself if you think there isn't much software that doesn't have startup time issues. I need only restart any machine I have to know how slow initialization is; with HDD transfer rates in excess of 100MB/sec, there's no good reason for it to take more than 10 seconds or so when no hardware has changed. You're simply not aware of how much faster things could be if startup were faster because you're used to how slow everything is. You just know you can't e.g. fork utility X more than 200 times a second in a script, but don't realize it might be 10 or 100 times faster with a different approach.
As an employer I usually ask and like to hear this kind of feedback... So it really depends on the person on the receiving hand and what kind of vibe you have from him...
The title jokes about YC, but anyone this resourceful at hacking an audience is interesting in my opinion
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>The subject is interesting given the current economic climate

You mean the one that's improving apace with expectations?
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While I disagree with most of Arringtons written opinions I do respect the fact he managed to build a highly successful blog. I do however think that the quality has disappeared from techcrunch and 90% of the stuff that gets published on TC is tabloid crap. This is why I've taken TC off my RSS reader and now instead read The Startup Foundry.
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Techcrunch may be over because it has become irrelevant to the community of entrepreneurs/developers. Michael sometimes writes an interesting column. The rest is like a TMZ for the rich people of the silicon valley.

There are real issues like these: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2291336 which they refuse to cover
In the 70s you had "computer bureaus" that owned the mainframe that you would rent time on by the hour. A lot of the early MUDs ran in spare capacity on these. Exactly like the cloud...
I found this quote to be pretty good:

"If it was not for MG Siegler (Apple fanboyism aside) and Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch would be a content-free environment. The rest of the writing has become incredibly self-referential and stale. Paul Carr has the magical ability to consistently write articles that say nothing other than what he did yesterday. Sarah Lacy keeps writing about startups in Indonesia that no one cares about, because even startups in first world countries like France can’t seem to make it. Alexia Tsotsis has no clue about underlying technology or any context but continually injects her opinions and should instead write for PopSugar. Steve Gillmor occasionally adds a rambling grandpa perspective. Robin Wauters, Leena Rao and Jason Kincaid are all competent at summarizing the news, and even add a bit of context, but their content is no different than what you can read elsewhere."
Exactly. You can use intelligence to find setattributevalue (or SetAttributeValue, or was it setAttribute?) easily enough, but unless you remember what it does, you won't ever look.
It didn't help USSR, though. Corruption is rampant in Russia.