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My side project involves recognition of captchas; it is a pretty tough one-time time investment to create a recognizer, involving machine learning, image manipulation and statistics, but as payment is on a per-captcha basis, the income after that is passive income. I started with this a few years ago, and after two weeks of obsessive-compulsive hacking, my first dollars started flowing in. All in all it now gets me something like $2000 per month.
I actually considered mentioning a carbon tax, but figured it would derail the discussion.
I think this depends on how experienced you are. If you are only a few years out of University, then perhaps you should go and find the original author and ask them why the code is the way it is, before you dive in to "fix" things.

On the other hand, if you've got decades of experience then you probably know what you're doing - don't waste time, just get on with it.
Firefox will highlight the tab if the title changes, which might work for you.
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Apple doesn't actually have to be fair at all. They do, however, have to keep their shareholders happy, and that means they have to be careful not to do things that will significantly hurt sales.
The basic reason is unfamiliarity. Unfamiliarity breeds fear and fear breeds irrationality.

Is it worse to die of radiation poisoning than, say, in an automobile fire? Both can be horrific ways to die, but most people today are likely to be more afraid of the former.
It didn't deserve to be removed in my opinion. It wasn't hurting anyone by being there.

That being said, I can understand why Apple did remove it, because it doesn't make any business sense to enter a PR war over the relatively miniscule amount of profit they'd make from this app.
Nipple mouse. (The red dot in the middle of my ThinkPad keyboard.)
My company barely existed in the 90s - it was some research project at Stanford.

And feature sets like "processes transactions" absolutely do go away because technology (and its applications) moves forwards. This was a large part of the success of MySQL: relational databases started getting used in applications where transactional integrity really wasn't that important, and they were better off working around it (or just showing inconsistent data to the user) rather than paying the price for transactions.

Or look at this recent discussion surrounding Google Megastore:

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2011/02/comparing-google-megasto...

Megastore suffers a large latency penalty for ACID semantics. In many applications, it's better not to take that latency hit and instead settle for eventual consistency instead.
Is that the IE3 icon on the cake?

Or maybe it's because the cake don't support full-resolution png icing.

Anyways, huge improvement over the first one, which was only black and white:

http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/
Clickable:

http://www.novogram.com/

Cool! One quick suggestion:

Fade by about 20/30% the newspaper/magazine rack images surrounding the sign-up box.
> A human touch generally results in higher yield than automation with most marketing stuff, though.

Do you think that's because readers recognize it as being "more human" and are more interested, or because humans are better at making copy than automation, or a combination of the two?
At this stage it seems that it will cost more to clean up BP's Gulf of Mexico spill than the aftermath Fukushima.
Nipple. My current laptop doesn't have one, and I really miss it. It's a the top of my list of requirements for my next laptop.
Grubwith.us is really appealing to me. I've wished for something like that for some time now. If I could make it, I'd be grubbing with them today..

I also think the concept is very appealing to restaurants as well. Adding value for everyone seems like a sure win to me.
I have some trading models and financial tools that I license. They're currently generating about $200/month, but I'm expecting that to increase within a year. I'm also working on an iPhone game with two of my roommates right now that I'm hoping will bring in a couple hundred a month, but that's just a dream at the moment.

The tools probably took around 80 hours. The models probably are hard to say because a lot of discovery was done over time; actually implementing them only took a weekend. The iPhone app is probably going to take around 40 hours, but it's as much a learning experience and labor of love as it is an effort to make serious money.

I'm starting to focus on looking for passive income, though. I am entering a PhD program in the Fall, so an extra ~$1000/mo will make a huge difference in standard of living.
I think it really is because you're in a bad mood.

There doesn't seem to be anything backhanded or condescending about this gesture. Hasn't the IE team been doing this since before FF beat them in market share?

This is more like the owner of Chevrolet sending a cake to the president of Toyota.
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I started a company this January based of a product I saw in a book that I knew would become incredibly popular. It brought it in quite substantial income for the following 2 months, and I sold it in the third :-).

I do this quite often!
I've tried to use it on my Android phone, but it hates my English accent. If I talk to it in a borderline-racist American accent, it does better, but not enough for me to actually get anything done.
Similarly, a lot of folks I know dabble in 'adult' orientated side-businesses.

Most people won't be up-front about working in that space publicly.
As my Android apps started becoming more popular, I started seeing piracy of my apps skyrocket. At the time, Google didn't have their application licensing system in place, so I built my own. With the licensing system in place for my apps, I was also free to distribute and sell my application binary on my own, without fear of it being pirated.

After seeing piracy drop dramatically and talking with other Android developers with the same problems, I decided to build a site around it and sell my system to other developers.

It took me about 2 weeks to build www.androidlicenser.com and I saw my first $40/month subscription within 5 days. It still brings in about $500/month consistently. Google has since come out with their own licensing system, but it suffers from the limitation of it only working for apps purchased through the Android Market which, in a world with many Android Markets, isn't good enough.
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Ya, scratch that.

Which brings up a good point. With Bitcoin, there is no concept of chargebacks. Once bitcoins are sent, they are gone.

When you wish to make a purchase with a trading partner where trust has not yet been established, the http://ClearCoin.appspot.com escrow can be used to protect the buyer.

For this transaction escrow would have been free to use, as the amount is under 100 BTC.
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Why are people downvoting this?

I'm not saying it should necessarily be upvoted or anything, I'm just wondering what part of it people are taking exception to.
Bitcoin is backed by cryptography. The bitcoins in your wallet cannot be spent by anyone else.

Now if there were no network access, then there's a problem. I might accept your transaction but without access to the network I couldn't know that you didn't already spend those bitcoins elsewhere.
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There's hardly any configuration with AppHarbor. I've launched several projects on it already and it is as easy as Heroku. On the other hand, Azure requires a lot of application customization and configuration. So you can think of AppHarbor as "Azure done right."
with every panic blog post that comes out I think 'you just delayed coda2 by another day'
Thanks! I made it a bit darker for better appeal.
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Did they also hold a mock funeral for Firefox when IE9 shipped, a la iPhone/WP7? Or are they finally done with that kind of moronic behaviour?
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If the landlord leaves the master keys unprotected, he most definitely shares some of the blame when the apartments of his building are broken into.
I believe you've misunderstood me (I can see how what I said was ambiguous), so let me clarify.

What I mean is that you're using a different version than is being tested by the other authors. So for example, if developer A used flex 2.35, but developer B has flex 2.36 installed on their system, they might get a different result (or a bug, or a security flaw in the resulting binary) etc.

I'll add that this isn't without cause - it has caused me personally many hours of errors.

Note that you can use autoconf to require exact versions, but then you require that the developer install an exact version of bison, even though they aren't touching the parser (or exact versions of autoconf even though they aren't touching the build system).
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Apologies for the link bait nature of the title. I'm a bit new to the business of self promotion. Perhaps I sometimes get carried away when dreaming up ways to get Mighty CV noticed.

Agreed - skills list looks lame. Time to refactor.
That's probably fine as long as you're just compiling .c to .o. I suspect it breaks down in the face of anything more complex. For instance, I've got a problem right now where I need to use objcopy to turn arbitrary binaries into .o files, and that requires knowledge about the toolchain on the user's machine which, as far as I can tell, can only be gathered by compiling a throwaway file and sniffing its output with objdump. That's exactly the sort of task which autotools is good at, but I'm desperately trying to find a different way to get at the information so I don't have to introduce autotools to what is otherwise an already... erm... interesting build chain.
I couldn't have said it better myself.

Perhaps a little mention would be good, but the way they make it the key points of the post, and so many people commenting on it accept it, disgusts me.
And?

How do you clean up the area around the reactors? How far? What would it cost?

When will the evacuated people return to their homes?

What will it cost to clean up the reactors?

What will it cost to replace them? How long will it take to build new nuclear reactors and where?

Who will pay the japanese people the loss of property due to radioactive contanimation?
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The photo at the start of the article is of a Red Panda, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda, not a fox (of any kind).
that is supposed to be the meaning of "firefox" http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/firefox-name-faq.htm...
Martin is right, but I did want some feedback on the first draft of my résumé too.

I agree my skills list does look bad. Just listing a selection of gems and mentioning a few website does not a skill set make. I'll take a look today and try and improve things. Thanks for the feedback.
Maybe it's to say thanks for supporting the other half of Windows users Microsoft forgot, Windows XP users.
I remain in two minds about idea of charging the kids.

There is no doubt they did some things they should not have. And I don't doubt there can be a decent case built against them. But as someone who actually had something from his teen years come to bite years later, it's not pleasant. At least in my case it was a MAJOR maturing moment(also the worst day of my life). May be it will take a lawsuit to get these kids to mature up...to that extent anything that gets em to mature up before they really get screwed would be fair.

I'm not merely advocating another chance but actually something that gets these kids to be a tad more thoughtful about their actions. It's not always easy to do that when you are 16 and full of adrenaline.
The comparison to rape is in VERY poor taste and you certainly didn't have to copy it here.
I am fairly sure that is not true, e.g. http://arewefastyet.com/ does not show a clear lead over others, and that is by firefox devs themselves.

Notwithstanding real usage, sensible benchmarking, concrete experience etc.. I'm just arguing it is not _clear_.
I help run a hotdog stand in NYC with my uncle in the summer on the weekends for fun and (ridiculous) profit.
Put simply: bitcoin mining is a race with hypothetical hackers. A hacker trying to create fake bitcoins would have to create hashes faster than the real bitcoin network.
"There is nothing magical about the "web-based software realm" that separates it from other sorts of software and development and allows it to bypass the issues that cause the cost of fixing a bug to sky-rocket like this the later in the process you leave it."

Sure there is - people writing easily deployed consumer software don't write code like this. It's crazy to spend months designing software, based on things you think you know, when you could just build and release it and have far more information in far less time. Anyone who writes software where the deployment cycle is measured in minutes to hours (that's anyone on the web, or desktop or mobile apps with auto-updaters) relies on an iterative process of code -> release -> gather data from real users -> refine the product -> repeat.

People who don't do this get creamed in the marketplace, because their competition does, and their competition gets far more information to build a better product through it.

Most of the stuff taught in Software Engineering courses is complete bullshit when applied to the types of problems that actual practitioners face. This is because the field of software engineering is far broader than most people can imagine, and certainly more than you can teach in an undergrad education. A development cycle like you site is pretty much the norm if you're writing embedded microcontrollers for avionics (actually, the cost increases are probably even steeper). Very few people are writing embedded microcontrollers for avionics. For the majority of us, who're working on software developed and deployed over the web, the cost curve you cite is ridiculous.
This is like someone finding an unlocked door to
the apartment building's maintenance office,
taking the master keys from there, [...]

Yes, in theory, it is. But in practice, it's not. Especially if you're still a kid. It's easy to miss that there's something going on in the real world when you're doing damage "just online". (I know I sound like the "You wouldn't steal a TV! Why do you download movies?" crap-ad, but I hope you get my point.)

I've been a 16 year old idiot myself. After doing some stupid things to a website I was threatened with some trouble. I could avoid it by having extensive talks with the site's owner, and paying for their losses, but still, I learned my lesson: everything you do on the internet, in the virtual world, has an effect in the real word. Also it was an urgently needed wake-up call for me; I learned to think twice and since then haven't done any nasty stuff without considering its impact.

So in my opinion some sort of punishment is needed for the kids to learn their lesson. The FBI or other federal institutions shouldn't be involved. Talk to them, I'll guess they're nervous as shit right now! Just bill them the time you needed to tidy up the mess they left (or a fraction thereof), and I think both sides are good.
Cut the guy some slack. It's not like he's asking $10/month.
I stand corrected. I guess Fire Panda does not have the same ring to it.
Forgive me for being naive, but isn't this question completely backwards? What are you doing asking for the money if you don't already know why you need it?
Most innovation happens this way. Get some existing idea, develop on it and market/sell it off as a better alternative. Seems simple. If only.
Great tools. Good luck to all the founders.
When I read about BitCoin a while back I thought it might be a cool startup idea to build an "online banking" interface around it, along with mobile apps, etc. To sort of, bring it to the masses (non-technical folks). One analogy might be Github which took another burgeoning open source project and made it more accessible through an excellent web interface.

However, I got discouraged after reading some things about the failed e-gold project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold#2008_court_trial

Namely that it looks like you'd need to be licensed as a money transmitter to avoid serious legal trouble if the thing took off. And I assume being licensed as a money transmitter means reporting identifying info on who is sending/receiving money. Anonymity seems to be big amongst the bit coin community but may not be as important to the masses. Not sure.

There may be some way to avoid it, sort of like how torrent sites don't keep any copyrighted info on their servers, or actually going through the process of getting licensed, but I assume there would still be tons of legal scrutiny just like the torrent sites receive. The idea of running a startup where you are being sued by everybody is not especially appealing.

Has anyone else pondered this?
Thanks to you and others for the broken link report. Fixed now.

The consensus seems to be that my skill list sucks. I've modified it a little, but I think there's still room for improvement.
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This account buries the lede in investigation details.

The key points (if I understand correctly) are:

Fraudulent SSL certificates, trusted by all but the very latest browser versions, were obtained by unauthorized parties for 7 hostnames: 'addons.mozilla.org' and 6 others not yet known (but possibly 'high-value' sites like "Facebook, Skype, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla").

The possessor(s) of these rogue certificates could plausibly impersonate those sites in HTTPS traffic, except with regard to the very latest browser releases. (The latest Chromium/Chrome and Firefox for the first time include a certificate blacklist in their source code, and noticing this change began the author's investigation.)

Traditional certificate-revocation methods are supposed to prevent this, but can be made to fail silently, indefinitely, by the same sorts of attackers who can intercept and alter other traffic. Thus older browsers may continue to be subject to such impersonation indefinitely.

All the compromised certificates appear to have been issued by a company called USERTRUST from Utah, a reseller/delegated-authority via Comodo. It is speculated that a "state level adversary" could have been responsible for the creation of the illegitimate certificates. There's been no official statement by the Certificate Authorities; the above was deduced from the source code changes and data in the EFF's 'SSL Observatory'. Mozilla has issued a statement on their security blog:

https://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/03/22/firefox-blockin...
Create some litmus test apps, then. Put up a "Christian Cure" and "Muslim Cure" app and see if they get taken down or rejected. It would be interesting to see the results.
I'm now nearly 25, and the amount I have changed since I was 16 borders on the immeasurable. Teenagers are glorified children. We seem to forget how little reflective capacity we all had when we were teenagers.

If I were 16 and hacking some stupid website, I would think, sure this is "wrong", and I might get in trouble, but I probably wouldn't think that it would matter 5 years from then, or 20. Truth is, a criminal infraction can fuck your life up worse than is deserved. You could be forbidden to immigrate to your wife's home country, denied any worthwhile job you can find, or spend a sizable portion of your life in a smaller cage than they house animals in.

There's a reason juvenile law exists, but we forget it. We charge 12 year olds as adults. This isn't that different.

Hell, where I live, a lot of employers will check the sheriff's website for public arrest records. These aren't convictions, they're arrests. People are being denied jobs based on accusations.

I've never gotten so much as a speeding ticket, but even I realize what a load of shit this all is.
If you looked at the image you'd notice it's simply an HTML tag. I'd assume the data wouldn't be accessible with javascript.

It's the way it should be, just imagine the vulnerabilities having js enabled microphones would have.
Configuration magic aside, have fun supporting everything in http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Makefile-Convent... . You never know which features your eventual users will rely on. That's one of the main problems automake solves.
> It wasn't hurting anyone by being there

I have to respectfully disagree. I'm glad they got rid of this stupid app. It's simply hate sugar-coated with psuedo-science. Apple made the right decision.

"app store removes questionable content" -- How is this news? It's not like the app store is known for being a "free" or "open" platform in the first place.
Nothing I said implied that there weren't a large number of people affected by the Chernobyl disaster. You are making valid points regarding efforts to lowball the count, but it also seems as if you misunderstood my previous comment.

To be clear, many people were afflicted by radiation poisoning long after the event.

I'm sensitive to the situation in Japan, both in terms of the human tragedy and the FUD, so I think I'll leave it at that.
This app may or may not be offensive. Personally (being straight) I find the idea of a "gay cure app" or "gay cure seminars" or "gay cure exorcism" despicable and repulsive.

That said, I don't believe an app shall be removed because it may be deemed offensive (by whatever standards).

Or as Voltaire put it:

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it."
Most people don't commit Makefile, but do commit configure and Makefile.in (both of which are still generated automatically, but it's not quite as bad as committing config.status or Makefile).
However, the perception of being unfair can potentially hurt Apple.

I'm sure a number of religious conservatives are going to be unhappy with Apple's removal of the app.

People like me (who think the app is absurd and are not religious conservatives) may not like the removal of a religious perspective even though we disagree with it (as long as the app doesn't violate any laws, advocate violence etc.)
FF team reciprocates by putting out a decent browser. Everybody gets cake.
I have a game on the iOS app store.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/river-cross-logic-puzzle-game/id...

It brings in $100+ per month. I'm pretty happy with it.
Have you ever seen the BeOS people icon?

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Probably more of a combination of the two. Automated posts are pretty obvious, even to the less technically inclined. Lots of people will use something like "spyntax" (stuff like "This is {awesome|cool}, {take a look|check it out}!") to generate reusable copy, but it still generally feels fake. That's about the extent of human touch most people will give things if their goal is complete automation.

If you're writing posts/excerpts/replies manually, it's way more authentic and believable. Language is obviously super important in marketing (especially online), and it's one area where computers still have lots of improvement to make.
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