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I still like paper books, because when I'm reading on the couch with one, there are no distractions. A computer offers too many other things to do besides read.

Another thing that you can't yet do on the computer is highlight. I highlight important sections as I read technical books and it improves my comprehension immensely. As an additional benefit, when I come back to the book, I have to spend much less time hunting around for the information I need - the things that I've found valuable in the past are already made prominent.

Try doing that with a Kindle :)
For crying out loud, it's not a "class system" it's company hierarchy.

Contract workers are not employees they are temporary hired hands they get fired and reallocated on company whim for company purposes, that is the nature of their jobs, they are easier to fire and hire than full time 401k employees. Not everyone gets the company car home with them.

What disturbs me is that you keep pointing to the fact that they are mostly minorities as if Google deliberately chose minority workers for these jobs, the sad fact is that these low end jobs are typically occupied by minorities.
I believe his statement also applied to things like your friends uploading embarrassing pictures of you and things like that, which is essentially paralleled here.
How does the Facebook Attach a Link feature work?
How are images and text automatically imported? Is there an API or some magical jQuery plugin that does this?
Sigh. Guess I'll have to retract my comments, in light of how great the working class has done the last 15 years or so.

This isn't an argument about statistics and how to fudge them (seriously spend some time in NH or KY or MI, take a look at what your company pays for your healthcare and contemplate paying that out of pocket on minimum wage).

This is about whether or not unions have been systematically demonized for the last 30 years (they have) and whether advertising works (it does).
I think you are over-reacting. Regardless of if it is in the TOS, Dropbox and every other company on American soil has to follow the rules set forth in the new TOS. If you want to ensure privacy of files stored on Dropbox I suggest you encrypt them with Truecrypt, or Keypass. Both tools work well with Dropbox. I for one would not suggest leaving my encryption implementation, key management and so forth to an unsupervised third party anyway!
To be fair, the same happens in the stock market:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_stock#Artificial_Inflatio...
If its not a class system, whats the need for color coding badges? Don't you think an electronic badge will prevent and authorize access no matter what color it is.
It absolutely does have an affect on the bottom line. How much do you think it costs to feed an employee for a year? On top of the gourmet cafes, don't forget that an employee is never 50 from food throughout the day. Now multiply by the 25,000 employees. You'll get a number that is very big even for a company of Google's size.
Yes, unfortunately Christain couldn't make it to the sprint, we would have liked to have him there. However, Kristjian (sp?) from CCP who maintains Stackless was there.
GNOME an Apple copy? Unity's not developed by the GNOME devs but by Canonical. Since Lucid, the behavior of Ubuntu has shifted somewhat to match that of Mac OS X. Traditionally, buttons defaulted to the right hand corner of the window rather than the left and multi-touch tapping has been remapped to match OS X's style (two finger right click, three finger middle). Compiz has the window picker plugin similar to Exposé along with a cover flow-like window switcher. Now you've got he Unity Launcher with Spotlight/Quicksilver/Gnome-Do functionality. The Add/Remove Applications tool has been around since Breezy in 2005, predating even the iPhone App Store, and provided the same functions as the Software Center and the Mac App Store.

GNOME can be tweaked to look like OS X or Windows or whatever you want, but it's because you can mix and match things like themes and window managers. If you just used vanilla GNOME 2.x with Metacity, I don't think you'd find much of a similarity.

You could say that Ubuntu or GNOME3 borrows functions or aesthetics from other contemporary desktop environments, but GNOME "forever been an Apple Copy?"
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Design is very sleek. I question though why "add friends" is located on the top nav bar; seems better suited to the side panel.
I myself have witnessed the "layoff with a nice severance bonus". It actually seems to work out nicely for both parties.
Good things to think about if you work for just about any large company. Staying late is a great opportunity to meet the people who work daily for your benefit. You might be pretty surprised with the conversations you end up having. My 2AM talks with our lab's cleaning lady were a surprisingly significant factor in successfully getting through my thesis.

That said, I don't think it's unfair to pay people a standard wage for their particular job, even if others nearby are being paid more for a different job (I'm lumping various perks in with salary to form a general concept of "payment"). This does create an unfortunate sense of division between those who have them and those who don't, but then again I don't think the average janitor is really craving a daily massage.

If this division truly bothers you, there are two great ways to help employees with menial jobs while maintaining a practical respect for the laws of salaries and supply and demand. First: give them healthcare. Second: help pay for their education, or the education of their children. These are far more expensive than access to the company gym, but they're also far more effective.
Nice, the CCP guys are great maintaining Stackless... Kristjan and Richard do a great job on it. If there are any clues or tips on how can I help out, it would be a pleasure.
Here's one vote for focussing on py3k sooner rather than later, fwiw :). I understand you're anxious to reap some rewards and see (more) production use at this point, but as a big fan of much of what was done to the language in py3k and having made the switch already, PyPy vs. CPython 3.x is an unhappy dilemma for me :).
I would agree. I do think that corporations should not be treated in precisely the same way that individual persons are treated. Corporations have (arguably) far too much power as is.

But I think that the level of privacy that allows one to request to not be videotaped against their will extends to corporations in some circumstances. Unless there is something truly fishy happening here, and there is not much evidence that there is, I believe that Google is within their liberties to be upset over this.
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Mining is supposed to fade away in importance - it was just a way to bootstrap. And huge computing power applied to mining means that it's so much harder for a hostile entity (hello, US government) to plug in a supercomputer and steal control.
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It's so that security guards and others can enforce area bans just by looking at your badge. For instance, some gatherings might be open only to white badges, some to white + green, the shuttle probably isn't available to yellow badges, etc.
screenshots!!! ,screenshots!! Did i say screenshots!!!!...Because right now i dont know how the F the site works.
I did a benchmark of Unladed Swallow 1.5 years ago and at this time PyPy looked like a very academic project. It could not really run any interesting code. At this time Unladed Swallow looked like a great project since improving cPython rather than starting from scratch seemed much easier, especially since Unladed Swallow based their JIT optimization on LLVM's JIT engine.

I also recall reading PyPy's blog, especially a blog post about their Prolog based JIT prototype and I thought "wow, this sure seems like a complicated way to implement a JIT engine, I wonder if they will ever implement something that can run real code".

Fast forward to today and Unladed Swallow is dead and PyPy has implemented a Python implementation that's compatible with Python 2.7 and beats cPython 2.6 on various benchmarks. Pretty impressive and kudos to the PyPy team.
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Sensationalist means describing routine and/or innocent things in a way that makes them seem like a bigger deal than they are. As you surely knew.
Not true:

http://min.us/lnx0gs is me posting a status update that can only be seen by a list of people that I've created.
When I need to write comments on student work, I can't really type it. (Maybe in a few more years, but the technology for introducing your own markup to an electronic document is still clunky, awkward, and bad at letting you draw arbitrary connections between things.) So I write it, and I do occasionally and increasingly get comments from students that it's hard to read despite being a basically conventional and legible cursive script. I don't really have any alternative (because printing would be a lot slower and grading already takes up more hours than I really have), and it's not really anyone's fault; it's just that they're out of practice reading cursive.

Of course, they're also out of practice reading anything, but that's a separate problem.

For the people that suggest that cursive is dead and students don't need it: how are you proposing that they take notes and take tests? Computers are still not quite pervasive enough to assume that everyone will have one with them at all times, besides which there are good reasons to keep them out of the examination room if you do sit-down exams. You could tell them to print instead, but why would you force them to slow down like that? Non-calligraphic cursive is faster.
Back when I was heavily into blogging, I co authored a book called Beyond Blogging http://amzn.to/mBHONG and self-published it via CreateSpace (for Amazon and BN.com) and Lulu (for iPad).

The idea was to create a Think and Grow Rich type of book for bloggers and writing types, but I'm not sure we executed as well as I wanted to. I think it reads well and a lot of people have enjoyed it (Sold around 750-1k copies to date), but it's on a topic I'm no longer interested in so I'm probably biased against it.

That being said, most of the people we featured in the book continued to be successful, so I'm proud of that (that we chose well).

Was also great to interview people. We had interviews recorded for the 2nd book (including Seth Godin, Andrew Warner, Mitch Joel, and 10 others), but opted against it.

Was a great experience though, and I not only enjoyed writing it, but also enjoyed the pieces of the publishing industry that I was able to experience.
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There's nobody with an off-switch.
I think he's betting on being able to implement better than apple.

He states:
My biggest challenge isn’t winning over converts from my competitors: it’s explaining what Instapaper does and convincing people that they actually need it.

So if apple deploys this everywhere, more people will understand it. Since Instapaper already has such a huge user base, established users will (supposedly) say 'oh, I use instapaper. It's much better'.

So apple creates new users, which are then drawn to Instapaper's superior service.

This is all dependent upon Instapaper actually implementing substantially better, but so far apple has sucked at multi-device syncing of, well, just about anything.
As a minority myself, I think it's unfortunate that the proportion of people of color is apparently unbalanced between the "yellow badges" and the "red and white badges".

However, I think this reflects more on the disparity in Ivy League schools (which Google prefers to hire its full-time workers from) and the computer science/manual labor fields in general than any inherent racial bias within Google itself.
Relying on physical vs ephemeral conveniently ignores that the cost to reproduce something has no relation to the cost to produce something. The other person/party not being aware of what you've done is pretty irrelevant regardless of whether something is physical.

In the real world you also have criminal law between you and the other person before you purchase something and establish that civil contract.
It's the system they chose to keep things in check, I'm not aware of their inner works as I'm not their HR guy, even so color coding doesn't suggest a 'class system' (my gmail labels are color coded) it's a just a system to keep things in order.
Let me speak up just once to object (and simultaneously confirming your QA ;)).

I am a vegetarian, but rarely discuss it, unless someone explicitly inquires about my motivations. Personally, I do think that killing an animal for food is immoral, but moral is not absolute.

What if a desert nomad family is starving? In my position I can barely imagine what it is like to be starving, so I am certainly not in the position to judge them for killing an animal. What if I meet someone who has saintly behavior, but enjoys a steak every once in a while? He or she has probably brought more happiness to the world then I ever will.

Borrowing from Matthew: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"
I'm a bit tired of those "just never ever store passwords in plain text" statements applied way too much universally. Sure, for websites, most of time, bcrypt+HTTPS is one of the best choices. But the article in subject never mentioned that it's about the websites.

One fact. Unless your ISP uses some sort of digital certificates, or authenticates you based on physical connectivity (like port number on switch, DSLAM or whatever), your ISP stores your password in plain text. And that - controversially - is a Good Thing.

It's because your ISP had decided that connection-level security is way weaker than password storage security. The cables may run all over the city and they're harder to protect. The encryption takes place every time when you authenticate your connection, so nobody with a network sniffer would obtain your password easily (active attacks are still possible, but they're harder).

The real rules are much more complex, based on the environment your system's working in — the connection medium, geographical diversity, supported authentication schemes and so on. The only absolutely universally true rule is "secure the whole system as much as you can, starting from the weakest link in the chain (but don't invent your own schemes)".

(Sure, there are public-key crypto, zero-knowledge password proof schemes and so on - and they should be used if possible - but, for example, one the best security options a typical home router could offer for PPPoE is a CHAP with MD5 hashing as defined in ancient RFC1994.)
Hmm good catch. :)
Okay. CSS and color scheme need to be improved. Definitely need to think of how to explain the message more clearly. Nicer graphics, easier-to-read fonts. Check.

What does everyone think of the idea of a user-controlled, up-ranking newsgroup where the highest rated investors receive the proposals from the highest rated entrepreneurs? I know the site isn't beautiful. It's a concept. I just wanted to get the bare bones framework in place and launch it... Of course I want it to be pretty, but I'm more concerned about whether the idea can hold water. I spent a week on it because that's how long it took to write the code; the "graphics" took about an hour. I want to test the function before I spend time beautifying. I want to know if this idealistic model actually pans out and rewards the investors who take the time to rank on it.

Specifically, at the end of the month, I want to see the quality of the proposals that go to investors and whether we get any interesting startups funded out of it. Hopefully in green tech, non-profits/NGOs, etc, as that's where I'd really like to see this go.
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Which Michael Moore expose(s) concern themselves with non-issues?
My black-hat days are behind me, but isn't it SOP to copy a version of the uncorrupted file under another name, and run it when you're done with your cruftiness? Or incorporate the old code into the .exe along with your insertion?
depends on what kind of book you are talking about; Q&A sites have largely replaced the 'reference' book. Do you remember last time you looked something up in a paper dictionary?

I mean, yeah, the 'general knowledge' or 'subject overview' book is still quite competitive, but for reference material? dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other look up tables used to be a fairly large and profitable class of books; even most 'subject overview' type technical books used to include appendixes with lookup table data in the back; I remember most of my old programming books would consist of 2/3rds to 1/2 "subject overview" stuff that would still be printed today, and the rest of the book was a listing of available library functions and their options. Anymore, the first bit, the subject overview, is still best done in book format, but the second part? the bit where I can look up library functions to see their options? that part is much better done online.
Are we pretending anyone actually calls it that?
I don't buy it. If Apple creates new users, more often than not they will keep them. I wouldn't count on Instapaper's huge user base (which I'm guessing is mainly the tech crowd) influencing normal, everyday users.

Sherlock beating Watson was a prime example where Apple's execution was somewhat similar (some say worse), but it still killed that product.
That perspective assumes pay is the only thing that matters in the bundle of benefits that counts as a job. Given that one can make a job better or worse in zillions of ways, mandating a minimum wage probably makes both the employer and the employee worse off compared to allowing them to reach a free mutual agreement on terms.

It might make employees worse off by reducing their hours, by reducing the training budget, reducing flexibility of work hours, reducing job security...or by reducing perks such as free food.

Here's an example: Suppose you're running a videogame company and you need to test your new videogame. If it were legal, one strategy might be to pay a small army of junior-high kids, say, $1/hour to test your videogame after school. The kids would go for it because they get the ability to play hot new video games in a relaxing, low-pressure environment, with free snacks and drinks and even a small amount of pay, where ordinarily it would cost them money to play videogames. As a side benefit, they'd get valuable exposure to the work environment, make business contacts, possibly discover a new career.

Now pass laws demanding a minimum wage. The junior high kids are priced out of the market; if you have to pay a large wage you'll hire fewer but more qualified people rather than more, less qualified people. Now it's much harder to get started in the field. A $13/hour testing job is a different job than the $1/hour job. More stressful, harder to get, and quite possibly less effective.

So change your quote to "You'd prefer to take less (in exchange for offsetting benefits that are more valuable to you than to me), but offering you that deal would be illegal!"
Matthew is committing a tu quoque fallacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
I've known a lot of people who became cynical of organized labor because of their personal experiences with it. Corruption and violence in labor unions exist in reality, not just in the media--as do more mundane problems.

Also keep in mind that American unions are different from European unions. I believe that in Germany, unions are routinely major shareholders in the companies their members work for. This is a very good system, because it incentivizes the union to favor fair outcomes that are beneficial to workers without damaging the value of the company. American unions actively resist this arrangement.
1. Average person knows how to use paypal (or thinks they know).

2. Setup paypal like web-interface for bitcoin e-wallets.

3. ...

4. Profit!

Have a look at the official bitcoin application and the paypal panel. There is not much difference and bitcoin panel actually is simpler since you can do less actions there.
I signed up. It's looks well. I'm not in any rush to use it though since Facebook offers this exact functionality.
For me (and I suspect quite a lot of other people), PyPy and CPython 3 both suffer from the same problem: lack of support for third-party libraries. Moving to Py3k would only exacerbate that problem for PyPy, removing their current support for the likes of Django and Twisted.
K&R is the book people recommend because it WAS a great book for like 12 years. It just hasn't been since about 2002.
yeah; this is what scares me more about bitcoin than e-gold.

With E-gold, the government went after the owners, and they were able to shut the whole operation down; I lost maybe two hundred bucks worth of gold.

Now, when the government decides to shut down bitcoin, what happens? there is no central 'off switch' - just like drugs, they will have to go after the users, or like illegal information, they will have to go after the viewers.

I mean, I think I'm being a little bit paranoid here, but I just don't see the government leaving a system that works so well for money laundering in place, and all the things I can think of the government doing to dismantle bitcoin seem like they would be quite unpleasant for the users, over and above just losing the money invested.
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. The Play.
Congrats! Sounds like a success to me. How'd you make the decision to self-publish? Did you try and shop it around to literary agents first, or go straight to the readers?
I don't know enough about FB apps to know if this is under your control, but I am presented with the following annoying message when I follow that link:

> Sorry! We can't display this content while you're viewing Facebook over a secure connection (https).

I am wary of FB apps to begin with, since they are so viral, and switching off https doesn't make me feel more confident.