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SEEKING FREELANCER - Web Designers & Developers - Kansas City; Palo Alto

I'm working with a small group of freelance web designers and developers in Kansas City, MO. We prefer to work locally; but remote work is a possibly. Also, since I will be moving to Palo Alto in September, I am interested in working with developers and designers in the area as well. Contact information in my profile.
Just like most of web design, all of this seems so insane. We can't use pixels, so let's use ems. But ems don't work, so we need rems. Those don't always work, so let's also specify pixels. WTF!

Great post, though.
> It could certainly generate interesting discussion.

But likely it won't, like most articles about politics and highly charged subjects.
I think I read the same article; it was a very inspiring piece for a sophomore in HS just learning C.
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EA's central technology development team is searching for developers of all experience levels. On the junior end we are looking for build and integration engineers. For the middle experience bracket we are looking for people to perform technology development on systems-level libraries (I/O, concurrency, etc.), support to existing game teams, and porting to new platforms. On the senior side we are possibly looking into doing research into GPU computing (OpenCL and DirectX 11). Ours is a primarily C++ environment though we highly value experience with x86/ARM/PowerPC/Cell SPU assembly as well as C#/.NET.

I will be happy to answer your questions or forward on your resume to the hiring manager -- my email address is mburke@ea.com, or you can reach me through the contact methods in my profile!
I am a longtime Ubuntu user and I turned off Unity as soon as I figured out how to do it. It is really really wrong IMO.

Shuttleworth should realize that a desktop computer with a mouse is very different from an iPad and things that are all the rage for tablets are not necessarily good for desktops.

For example on a desktop you have a mouse which has very high precision and accuracy, whereas on an iPad you have your fingers which are not very accurate at all. Thus, tablets make sure they have few and large buttons, while this is not necessary for desktops. In desktops you are allowed to have more and smaller buttons.

Also, tablets usually have limited real estate so that they make sure any program you use can take up the entire screen. Desktops on the other hand can have huge screens and thus should allow people to have several windows open and visible at the same time.

Unity is cute for the first time but it is almost unusable if you have multiple windows open. I want to see which windows are open so that i can switch between them easily. Unity requires several button pushes to find a minimized window.
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But in reality it did, or at least I'd say as much.
SEEKING FREELANCER - REMOTE ONLY: App is more of a personal events tracker... Basically its an Event Recording mechanism which stores events that are happening in Ones life. Able to log those events...data, images, videos.
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That was a very long-winded way of saying "I don't really know. What do you think?"
I doubt anyone is going through by hand to censor comments.. It seems much more likely that a high number of down-votes or short posts triggered some kind of anti-spam filter.

I think the reason for the 'ghosting' rather than something like account deletion is to make it harder for spammers to notice and circumvent spam filtering. I know that craigslist does this too.

It sounds like you are being filtered in error, which sucks. Maybe the easiest thing to do is to make a new account?
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Assuming a body is actually produced, what are you going to produce to support your claim that the story of how it was obtained is "made up"?
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I'm suggesting you don't understand how these things work, and thus making bad judgements.

When Arabs see Americans celebrating the invasion of Iraq, they see that as "Americans celebrating the destruction of an Arab country and death and humiliation of its people".

Such broad generalizations are not a good way of looking at the situation.

When people celebrate these kinds of things, they're not celebrating the "death" of civilians. They're celebrating a blow to the international imperial bully. Now I'm not saying this is OK, but it's not any less evil than Americans celebrating the successful invasion of Iraq.

EDIT:

To put it in a slightly more formal way:

Event X occurs, group A views it as Y (something undesirable), group B views it as Z (something desirable).

Group B celebrates (wrongly) the occurrence of "Z". Group A sees it as: Group B is celebrating the occurrence of "Y".

Group A then wrongly makes an assumption that Group B celebrated the occurrence of Y.
> Obama gave the order and an American commando team went in, had a firefight, and killed bin Laden.

One thing that was unclear to me is if Bin Laden died in the firefight or was killed afterwards. From the article: "After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body."
I'm going to offer a healthy bit of skepticism here but it frightens me the way this is being reported.

Specifically:
"...justice has been done". American military and C.I.A. operatives had ...shot him to death.

Obama:
"I authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice."

Obama:
"His demise should be welcome by all who believe in peace and human dignity."

Is that how we conduct justice now? I am not satisfied by this outcome. I would rather have had him in custody showing we hold the higher ground when it pertains to morality and justice. Its no surprise to me now that our morality and judgment is an illusion which I thought, ever since I was a kid, was what made America great. The fact that Obama plays off people's emotions in his speech to gain support for this outcome is purely disgusting.

And lastly, you believe this because the media and Obama says its so?
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What do you have against his compatriots?
How alive is terrorism, really?

How challenging would it be to poison a reservoir, poison random groceries across the country, blow up the Alaska Pipeline, etc. Any motivated terrorist would attack us where we aren't so vigilant. I'm honestly pretty unsure about how many motivated terrorists there are out there-- if there were out there (and well-financed), couldn't they be crippling us with a dozen different types of attacks?

The TSA is like putting your hand on a screen door to keep out the wind. We've got better things to do with our time and money.
Given that we haven't seen anything new from OBL in so many years, it also means that we don't know how he aged, or the state of his health at the time of death (remember the rumours about kidney failure, for example?). Seeing his body may be quite a revelation, in many ways.
Reports that Navy Seal CT units under JSOC took down Osama
Since the news broke, I have been curious to see which units were involved. I'm sure we will never know all the details but reports have been showing Navy Seals being involved. If Navy Seals are involved, then it's likely that the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group did the deed since they are the Navy's counter terrorism unit. The linked article reports this as well.

Lots of news stories have been posted on this event, but these guys are the hackers of the U.S. military.

Edit: Another play by play description.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/05/obama-gives-order-bin-laden-is-killed-white-house-time-line.html
What do you want? A death certificate?
Some of these conspiracy theorists are themselves a part of the propaganda machine for the various ruling regimes, but what troubles me is that some people actually find these ideas plausible: "You know brother, the Americans are not asleep like us, they calculate things well".
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I have yet to see anything come close to the power of Flash for interactive content creation. I find it humorous when people release things done with HTML5 and everyone says "whoa this is amazing" which is true, but it's been possible since some of the earliest versions of Flash.

It will take a lot more than the ipad to kill Flash, it will take people to build alternate tools that allow easy creation of interactive content... not a device that doesn't support the standard (standard is in italics because it isn't technically the standard, but it's what lots of people use, the majority anyway)

An example of this from today: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/h1mc6/interacti... and then http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/h1mc6/interacti...
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Seems like the answer is -- "no" for mobile. Sure, there has been an announcement about hardware acceleration, but how many of the existing handsets will be able to take advantage of this? There are a few components to this question -- 1) hardware capability; 2) manufacturer support for an upgraded OS; 3) the carrier willing to push it.

Fact is, with all the android devices out there, Flash is a joke. Initial impressions are proving Steve Jobs right, future technical advances will have a steep slope to prove otherwise.
If you are a citizen, then yes. Of fucking course you should.
Oh no he is dead for sure (his services not needed anymore means execution), but its made up as in clear cut cops and robbers. The US has engaged in such theatrical for decades in that part of the world. General Zia was another example, its the old "prop up, villainize, create military passage, burn all evidence" tactic. Also used in South America, now in Libya, etc.
I honestly have better things to do than write essays on a forum of which provide me no real value other than an ego stroking.

Could have fooled me. (zing!)

Couple of ideas:

- Proxy performance isn't enough to determine intentional performance degradation. Maybe that is something they're trying, but don't jump to conclusions just yet.

- I'd imagine nobody has anything out for you personally, but more likely is that your account has been flagged by the software.

- I believe Reddit does something similar to handle spam (not the performance degradation part).

- PG said they were experimenting so perhaps you got punished by accident. Or maybe it is working as intended and if you quit with the crappy comments your situation will improve. :)
"12.08 pm Can I say how deeply moving it is that a man named Barack Hussein Obama gave the order for the operation that killed Osama bin Laden?"

That's perhaps the most superficial thing I've ever heard.
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Um, yeah-- it sure is.

50% of Facebook logins are specifically to play games. Most of those games are Flash. (source: http://socialtimes.com/facebook-gamers-hours-per-month_b2415... )
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They already see it as a suicide plan and manage their expectations from there.
One of the great things about Linux in general is that this is non-news plenty of users who don't use the default window manager anyway. Prefer something else? Just switch. You're not married to the window manager like you are on OS X and Windows. I'm very happy for that.

(Edit: I should clarify that I'm writing this in anticipations that the general sentiment will be that Unity is terrible. If you don't think it's terrible, then it's also not an issue.)
Which is actually quite interesting - how did he manage it for 10 years? And then find himself in Pakistan sipping chai in the morning?
I don't think it is as black and white. It could be a signal that they aren't a real buyer, or it could be a signal that they do want to buy.

This is what I say when a potential customer of significant value asks for a feature. "That is an interesting feature. That is the first time someone has requested that feature. I think it might have some value in our core code base and other customers might find it useful. I can build the requirements for the feature into your PO. I'll find out when we can deliver that functionality and we can start working on it as soon as the PO is signed."
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Abbottabad literally looks like a resort nested in the Swiss Alps.
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Are there really people who apply for programming jobs but aren't able to write a simpler version of that program?

I find it extremely hard to believe, but I've read on two other blogs that it's a common test given to interviewees.
And this is just one domain in which Obj-C falls short. For another example, compare doing linear algebra for graphics in Obj-C vs C++ with a nice matrix library.
> Its actually one of the easiest O.S to install.

Hmm, really? I love OpenBSD, but last I checked the installer tells you to create slices then drops you straight into fdisk. Has this been polished up? I'm just concerned "one of the easiest to install" would give a n00b the wrong impression.
Flash is still the gold standard.

I'm still surprised that there isn't a more concerted effort to get Flash on more devices. HTML 5 is literally almost a decade behind Flash (Flash 7 feels like the closest, which was 2003).

The HTML standards body just moves too slow (basically all standards bodies do, its the nature of the beast). Look at how Silverlight has changed since its been released, compared to HTML.

I'm personally a fan of the plugin model in general. I feel like the only thing browsers should have is HTML/CSS and a way to talk to the DOM (maybe treat the DOM as a RESTful service). And then plugins that can be hosted for things like Javascript, C#, Flash, etc...
I suppose the source of the data is giving this greater weight.
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That would be "nothing" then.

OK, sorry to waste everyone's time.
I kinda liked Unity at first but after a few days of using it I am really finding I am not as productive and am switching back to good old gnome. I think ultimately its failure is the difficulty of seeing what apps are open and switching between them quickly.
Your last suggestion seems to make things less democratic understandably, but how would it be implemented?
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Yes, can this "War on Terror" now please end? The great boogieman is dead. Time to dismantle the security theatre and give our freedom and privacy back...
But on the list of people the planet is better off without, OBL was close to the top.

This mentality is purely what makes man appear so primitive in his nature and is exactly what got us into this mess in the first place.

Bin Laden: On the list of countries the planet is better off without, the US is close to the top.
I have to say, as an Awesome WM user, I was sceptical of Unity. But after a day of using it, I think I might never go back to Awesome. It is just ridiculously well thought out, in a way that I have never experienced on Linux before. It really is a leap, if only for the methodology they used. I hope other distros start doing this kind of deep analysis.
I'm really liking sublime text 2. With TextMate 2 no where to be seen, I could see this taking over. However, the tab completion does not work for me, nor the go to anywhere (this is with a .java file).

I would like to see collapsible code (you know, where you can collapse a method or something to hide it).

I'd also like the console to be a full working python interpreter (for instance, currently for loops dont work)

Looking forward to more updates!
How is this poll going to work if we can't see the upvote tallies?
It's really nice considering it's still considered to be in alpha. The shortcuts are a bit odd and I would definitely need a cheat sheet to keep using it. I'm personally an emacs and textmate guy but I could see this definitely being my replacement text editor. Give it a try!
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I've certainly had applicants who really struggled with it.
> - Why send back an array ref instead of using the CGI way? What is the advantage it brings?

If you design a fibonacci() function, would you make it print the result to STDOUT, or return the result as a return value?

If the specification is to print to STDOUT, a web server needs to make a trick to capture the output using tie, PerlIO or anything else, just like FCGI.pm does, and that's inefficient.

> - Are all the $ENV variables available? (SCRIPT_NAME for example?)

http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/PSGI-1.03/PSGI.pod#The_Envi...

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This is frankly not the time to push ridiculous conspiracy theories about the CIA being in bed with Osama.
Is FizzBuzz getting used so often in interviews that we're supposed to expect that people will have seen it before, thus the need to put a twist on it? This may say quite a bit about the unoriginality of interviews, if that is the case.
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On the contrary, I find that Unity is much more keyboard friendly than Gnome. Multitasking with the keyboard is very easy, just hold super and press the relevant number. I find that it is much more conducive to multitasking once I got used to it. Give it a fair shake. It's different, and I had some initial revulsion, but once you get over it, it can be one of the most pleasant desktop experiences you've ever had.
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I'd echo naner and schwabacher, and also say that defending PHP isn't going to bring pg down on you. If you have a history of poorly-received comments, that might be the place I start looking.
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Body = the story of how it was obtained? Since when?
If you scroll down to ~10 hours ago (2PM PST on Sunday) that's where he makes the first tweets about Helicopters in Abbottabad.
Do you dictate the language in which it's written, or let them choose? That's the only thing I could see being a valid hangup for anyone applying to a programming job...
> Is that how we conduct justice now? I am not satisfied by this outcome. I would rather have had him in custody showing we hold the higher ground when it pertains to morality and justice.

I'm confused as to what you're unhappy about and who you're blaming for this outcome. Some courageous soldiers attempted to get an elusive mass murderer and bring him to justice. During the attempt there was a firefight and he was killed in the exchange.

It is obvious that this outcome is upsetting for a lot of people, but not for the same reasons than yours. This man caused a lot of griefs to many families, not only in the U.S., but also throughout places in the world where Al Qaeda has stricken, (including Afghanistan). Some scars are still not completely healed.

Those words, "His demise should be welcome by all who believe in peace and human dignity", simply serve as solace for the fact that they were unable to take him alive.

Now, turning this into an Obama thing is your own prerogative. Was he taking credit/responsibility in the video? To some extent certainly, but I didn't perceived him trying to play with people's emotions.
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if he was in a mansion, the Pakastani government must have known more about his whereabouts than they said they did

That's certainly possible or even likely, but it's not like his name would have been on the utility bills either. Many of the homes in my town (not mine) have a finished basement...off the tax records.

It'd be easier to hide a famous person in a big walled compound than a smaller dwelling.
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It's no secret that many in the Pakistani intelligence community were overtly pro-Osama. It doesn't mean the whole country or government shared this feeling, nor that the intelligence community is still as pro-Osama (or at all given the jihadist attacks in Pakistan in the last few years). This kind of complicated situation has existed in Pakistan for a long time, and the US is fully aware of it. To a certain extent this kind of situation exists in most countries in the region.
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Hold tight and keep your hopes up. Maybe one day you'll see it in first person and full 3D.
Agree.

Rejoicing in the assassination of anyone, even such a criminal, seems crass.

All the congratulatory uproar strikes me as a little bit surreal.
A guy in Abbottabad appears to have tweeted about the helicopter, as it was happening. http://twitter.com/#!/ReallyVirtual