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In general, bloggers focus on traffic for their blogs; after all, numbers of visits and page views are easy to quantify and are useful if you are looking for advertisers. However, the most successful bloggers will say that collating these figures is not what’s important; rather, creating a community around a blog is the essential part.
I haven't watched the video yet, but will be shocked if it contains ideas that it would take 52 minutes to absorb in written form.
Then you have a great big log full of passwords, pretty much negating any security benefit of hashing them in the first place.
Blocking /dev/random when entropy is low is the correct behaviour, but it is a system-dependent behaviour. Darwin (Mac OSX) has the two sources behave identically.

The Darwin man page justifies this behaviour saying:

/dev/urandom is a compatibility nod to Linux. On Linux, /dev/urandom will produce lower quality output if the
entropy pool drains, while /dev/random will prefer to block and wait for additional entropy to be collected. With
Yarrow, this choice and distinction is not necessary, and the two devices behave identically. You may use either.

and then contradicts itself later by saying:

Yarrow is a fairly resilient algorithm, and is believed to be resistant to non-root. The quality of its output is
however dependent on regular addition of appropriate entropy.
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Although, these things are true of Sweden as well.
The catch is in the word hopefully.

Wishful thinking is not a successful way of doing things in engineering.
It does sound like some kind of hoax, but at least it's good enough to fool some supposedly smart people. The independent observer is an "associate professor of theoretical physics" at one of the major universities in Sweden, which hopefully means that he knows a thing or two. If, on the other hand, it's something that actually works - then it's big.
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That should address their accessibility concerns :)
Which is different from baiting. If you say "I know this is going to be downmodded" you're saying that you realize you are taking a contrary opinion. If you say "Downvote me all you want, you bastards, I'm still telling you the truth whether you like it or not" you're baiting.

It's an important social skill to acknowledge that something you're saying might be offensive. Lots of times I realize that I'm being undiplomatic, but can't come up with the right words. A disclaimer like that can help keep the thread from descending into flames.
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How could one reasonably and humanely find that information actionable?

It completely debunks the theory of disparate impact, assuming you believe IQ drives general problem solving ability. This information would be useful in rejecting a huge number of baseless lawsuits.

It also suggests that racial gaps in education are here to stay, and nothing can be done about them. Therefore, we should accept them and move on.
It's free if you have an iPhone dev account. :)

And in response to the last line of the README, it loads and builds absolutely fine in Xcode 3.
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> The more people that move here, the better. Our culture is built on blending other cultures together and changing from generation to generation.

This used to be true. It is no longer true. Now, many of those who move here fight to preserve their distinct culture, and to stay separate and apart. Thirty years ago, immigrant parents forced kids to only speak English even in the home. Newly arrived parents look for ways to have their kids speak their native language and stay within the group for their friends, saying, "I don't want them to be like Americans."

Among the various immigrant communities I'm familiar with, the "melting pot" ethos is history except in rare cases.
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Well, I think we're looking at it from different angles.

You see good outsourcing companies as those that have technically competent engineers. That's not how I see it.

I think part of the reason big companies are still outsourcing to India is not because of the low cost of technical competence, but rather, the low cost of process management in developing IT-related software.

For example, when you outsource a module to be built by the offshore team, you may end up with code which is not world-class quality in terms of maintainability or performance, but you will end up with something that matches the requirements you gave. And if something seems out of place, they will be able to trace it from the bullet point in the requirements.doc file down to the module stored in VSS (yes, sadly, probably VSS, not subversion or git), to the unit test cases that cover it in unit-tests.xls.

This is because all the companies that are outsourcing their IT are not doing it in the hopes of getting good code, or because they're not technically competent enough to write the required code (most outsourced code is of the CRUD variety as people have mentioned here) they are doing it because its cheaper than having a whole team to track requirements, and make sure they map to UI elements in the right places and that the code is documented in a way that someone down the line won't be able to complain about it not being understandable, and that the unit tests are in place and all of them are checked-off.

I guess if you're outsourcing work that requires technical competence, maybe you're right about other countries working out better (I have my doubts but don't have any reason to disbelieve you) but I think a majority of the outsourcing success stories (involving India) work because their outsourcing needs have less to do with the actual code quality and more to do with the process involved in writing boring enterprise CRUD apps.
He's saying that revenue is in the region $20-30 Million.[1]

That's... crazy. Awesome, but crazy. I knew Minecraft was a success story but not to that extent!

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gjrf4/iama_indie_game_...
My vote goes for The Little Schemer. It's short (but don't read it all in one sitting), entertaining, and will teach you some important concepts.

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02...
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I like the sound of this game, much more interesting than just reading techy news all day. What do we get when we win? Is it better than the knowledge I currently get? Something like kudos from people I'll never meet?

remove tongue from cheek

Seriously, why? This would seem to me to be the perfect way to breed people who care more about karma than content... and they're the problem, IMHO.
That's very true and I couldn't agree more but all causes need figureheads and knowing Gus as I do I'm sure that once he's got through this situation with help from the community he'll be right back in there to help the other people in similar situations that aren't able to raise a similar level of support.
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As predicted it is now front page on one of the biggest danish newspapers http://www.b.dk/
Previous HN thread on a similar topic: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2262527
You are probably correct. But you know, dev. tools are like IDEs/Editors. Once you get settled with one, there is a level of comfort with the tool, you dont get with others.
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Given you're trying to sell a product, the NSFW in the sample coupon (i.e. the green one) seems like a really bad idea.
An informative comment by a Dane in this thread suggests that the Danish immigration system tries to prevent immigrants using/exploiting its great social welfare benefits while contributing little to the society or causing problems like forming ghettos.

A straightforward way to address this issue is to deploy a point system currently used by several countries, including Canada and Singapore.

I wonder why Denmark and the US, in particular, do not use this obvious sort of point-based system. There will likely be a massive 'brain draw' towards the US if this is implemented and specialized Startup Visa may not even be needed if the criteria/formulas are selected well.

In the Danish system, it looks like the criteria are not optimized towards its real goals and use non-optimal proxy criteria like EU citizenship to make decision on immigration. This creates many weird cases like this (it is obvious from his resume that Gus will contribute as much or more to the Danish society than an average Danish citizen, yet he cannot stay there) and many we did not hear of.

Note:
It is true that the politicians needs to balance the issues of cultural assimilation with economic advantages gained from getting all these qualified immigrants (for example, the US might not want 2 million qualified Chinese and Indians coming in every year and form cliques within the country), but this requirement is easily satisfied by a good quota/bucket system.
Granted he chose to take the role but I'm left wondering whether it was out of ego or a feeling a need to pursue career progression.

He seems to have decided in the mid-2000s that he wanted to turn his design ideas into more general, far-reaching philosophies applied to other areas, which I see his move into management as part of. I must admit to being a bit skeptical; I think he's a great designer but don't really buy the "it's like design but for X" sort of analogies. Sort of wish he stuck with art & design.

His first book in that vein was 2006's The Laws of Simplicity, which applied some of his design thinking to life in general. I didn't find it very interesting, but a lot of people did, so maybe it's a matter of taste. His upcoming book is on applying design ideas to leadership, Redesigning Leadership (forthcoming May 2011).
Codeweavers, the creators of Crossover for Linux and OS X, do this. I emailed them about it around a year ago and they never bothered to reply back, even though I've bought several licenses from them over the years.

https://www.codeweavers.com/login/
That's tricky. Let's say we upvote "valuable" comments not just merely those that we agree with. The problem is, that we will see comments fitting with our own views as valuable.
The same problem is with comments we don't agree with.
So honestly, upvotes are just as much about agreement as they are about value in many cases. Because of that I think downvoting comment simply as the sign of disagreement is OK, if even for the sake of symmetry. You don't expect your car to turn to the left when you turn the steering wheel to the left, but slow down, when you turn it to the right.
If you click up-arrow to express agreement, you may click down-arrow to express disagreement.
I do sometimes upvote comments even if I don't agree with them, but I cannot remember downvoting a comment I do agree with.
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"Some people feel that this is being misused by immigrants. When they normally talk about immigrants they talk about arabs, africans etc. And there is some truth to that."

Are you suggesting that the immigration laws were made to catch/discourage a specific group of people?
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I disagree. For what I understood, downvoting should correspond to irrelevancy, not disagreement. So I would interpret this disclaimer as "I know that what I say is irrelevant , but..." - wait, why are you saying it then?

Nothing wrong with an "I know some people may find this offensive" disclaimer though.
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Ok, dumb question.

I looked on reddit for it, as well as google. No dice.

What is an AMA in reddit speak?
Interesting but there are a lot of things I would not suggest. For example, the article suggests that expiration month on credit cards be listed "exactly as it appears on the card" while failing to mention that there is no standard. The author suggests you do NOT include the name of the month next to the number but many cards use the name of the month so listing expiration as: 01-Jan, 02-Feb makes a lot of customers happy. I would read this article as great suggestions but it doesn't mean the advice applies to your store perfectly.
Very true, but just because you can't help everyone doesn't mean you shouldn't help someone.
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A graphic designer should be aware of many things while working on his projects, besides pleasing himself and his clients.

Long time ago it was not that easy to be a Graphic designer without creativity and Accuracy of observation in everything.

Nowadays, it’s pretty easy to learn new things with all this detailed tutorials and tips.
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If it isn't too slow, you could do the parsing with some remotely-updatable JavaScript, using UIWebView's stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:.
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Yes but you would never get anyone to admit it of course.
I'm a RISD alum and totally back the changes that Maeda is trying to make. You have a hotbed of amazing creative talent and a bunch of faculty who fear change and will not evolve to meet the needs of the market.

As an example, I am looking to hire 10 people, all of which could come from 1 department at RISD. Even though there post graduation placement rate is pretty low, it took several months of me chasing him down via email/phone to get a meeting and this is one of the more commercially oriented programs.

In a market where there is a lack of great UI designers RISD should be taking a lead positon, but it is stuck in decades past.
Absolutely. If I'm searching for journal articles, I'd love to be able to explore a network of citations. I want something to capture that experience of going to a library shelf organized by subject and browsing what's nearby. But it needs to scale to all works ever published.
I think I have quite a lot of them (Firebug, greasemonkey, NoScript, Scarpbook, etc.) but the thing is, I don't close my browser every hour or so. Startup times are nothing if you don't do startups too often.

What would bother is any performance impacts with them running. However we don't have figures for that.
An issue that magnifies immigration issues in the EU is that populist rhetoric tends to focus on the total immigration headline figure (ignoring emigration), not noting that many migrants are short-term, such as students, and that EU rules compel member states to allow immigration of other EU nationals to take up employment.

This leaves anti-immigration politicians with powers not of the scale of the problems they conjure. I think that accurate reporting and holding to account of politicians by the media would make a big difference.
"Should correspond" and "does correspond", in this instance, are not similar.
To be fair, Apple's guidelines suggest that you avoid settings in your app as much as possible.
I thought it would be actual opcodes and run - if you could save to a raw, headerless bitmap from Paint.
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wouldn't content producers rather use kickstarter?
Good call. That's actually what I meant, didn't realize what I was quoting. The awareness is so important- it's a lesson I always seem to be re-learning, because you don't realize how many different ways people are taking cues from you.

The most accessible examples are the industry "gurus" whose everyday lives and everyday mundane thoughts people seem to be so interested in. When they say "people look to a leader" they really mean it - they are looking at you whether or not you feel like you are actively leading at that moment.
Last month's Game Developer magazine had a great breakdown on his entire growth process.
That's not what's going on here. Some of the pictures that it's been showing me have come from times that I definitely wasn't using facetime (one was from while I was driving, even). Something is triggering it to take a picture, but it's not facetime.
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The hashing should be done in the client's browser. The plaintext password should never reach the server (which is capable of sending emails).
It is very difficult for me to take a side without hearing views from all the sides for a story. Google was not much help.

Any links where I can see the Denmark Government's Point of View of his kicking (any relevant documents etc.)?
Very interesting. Possibly another aspect to this bug.
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FYI, you have listed several books twice (SICP, Intro to Algorithms).
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The right-wing parties like Dansk Folkeparti have recently begun talking about a reform in which new immigrants wouldn't be eligible for social welfare for the first one or two years. I am strongly against such legislation because it makes potential high-caliber immigrants feel like milk cattle. When you're a newly arrived immigrant in the highest tax bracket, you deserve at least the same basic level of social welfare as everyone else in the country, from day one. From a marketing perspective, Denmark's social system is one of its greatest strengths. Were you to listen to Danish politicians, you'd think the country had a monopoly on creativity and innovation. The reality is that Denmark is solid in those areas but not enough of a stand-out to make it a unique selling point. If the country wants to draw more highly skilled immigrants, it needs to make them feel welcomed.
Very interesting, especially for people like me ( English is not my mother language ) these basics are useful to build a strong knowledge about Writing.
I've got a cheap Samsung phone that takes phantom photos too. Why I'm not worried?

A: It's front-facing, so it's never of me.

B: The phone is completely worthless, so it never takes decent photos anyways. (Generally of my pocket.)

The only reason people are spooked is that Apple has higher expectations (also, tribal instinct). My buddy's Nexus phone module will crash constantly, requiring a reboot before use of the camera. His response: "Eh, whatever."
If the quality matches, that's a great deal. I life in North Africa. But do you have any idea (which university, how to apply, requirements...)
If someone creates and conversation and re-uses a password, that password is emailed to everyone they invited. There is no way to avoid that and still use a group password.

Edit: Furthermore, the password is not associated with a specific email address or user name. Even if someone has access to a conversation's password, they don't know who the password belongs to.
Not too long ago, I was thinking about a "second chance lottery" for Hacker News submissions that never gained the traction they deserved.

Wouldn't it be kinda neat to have a webapp that locates all of the HN submissions with just 1 lonely point from the past day, and picks one at random to feature prominently?

Along similar lines, last week I whipped up a little tool called Momentum that lets you "pre-promote" links that you plan to submit to HN, so that people who think a link is interesting can plan to up-vote it when it's actually submitted:

http://momentum.pressbin.com

Ironically, I submitted Momentum to HN ... and it never gained traction.
The problem with immigration is that it can never be undone. There is no Ctrl-Z with immigration. Germany would for instance never get rid of the non-assimilating Turkish population.

That is why immigration policy needs to be conservative - even if it means that you reject some people who would make excellent citizens.

You have to get it right the first time.
Updated list: (still unsorted)

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I am primarily self taught( with some minor help from my father, when I was a child ). I don't work for any of the "cool" places you mentioned, but I do have a reasonably successful ecommerce business.

I did go to school, but I began programming tiny asm programs at ~8 years old out of my dad's 8086 book and my obsession with software expanded from there.
I don't know, do the admins not get sent the email too as they are subscribed? It's a loooong time since I used mailman.
Can anyone please contribute to how this works?
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You can state it even more generally -- given any task, there is no algorithm to check whether a given program does it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_theorem
I thought it would be for „Piet”...

http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
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An MX-based setup does not use the cPanel provider's mail server, so it should be more reliable/secure/convenient in a dispute/etc. If you also use your @gmail.com account to send mail, it has the added benefit of allowing you to migrate off GMail easily, should it ever start to suck (just set up an account elsewhere and change the MX record - people should already have you@yourdomain in their address book).

Additionally, most spam filters take the sending host into account ("this host is known to have sent a million spam messages today - let's not bother talking to it"), but this information is lost (untrustworthy) if you forward via another mail server; it's likely that GMail has a better spam filter than your cPanel provider, so try to give it all the information you can.

There are some minor other issues - faster delivery, less wasted disk space on the cPanel provider's end, message sizes are limited only by GMail - but the above are the main ones.

Do note that you need GMail "for domains" instead of just a @gmail.com address. The "for domains" version is free, though (perhaps up to some upper limit - 50 mailboxes?).