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Has anyone built a WebKit for iOS? I routinely use the Mac Webkit for desktop debugging but a quick google search reveals no such beast for iOS.

Does anyone have any idea if it is or can be done? Remote debugging on iOS would be outstanding.
Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion
Chattel slaves. Wage slaves. What's the difference? Discuss.
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As an Irishman, taking my "roots" for granted, I and my countrymen find Irish Americans visiting quite amusing in how much emphasis they put into this "identity-seeking" behaviour. Perhaps your astonishment is only reflecting a lack, or insecurity, in this area, of yourself.
You're probably too young to have had many people treat your hard work and money with disrespect. You'll think about it differently further down the track when you learn that it's worth trying to do the right thing when you can.
Why should one identify with a country they may have never been to, or a culture they may never have experienced? What's the point of romanticizing an intangible connection that only exists if you want it to?

As a person of mixed-raced descent, the idea that I should somehow be confused over where I "belong" always amused me. I am myself - the incalculable chain of events that led up to my existence are not particularly informative or suggestive of who I am or should be.
The other thing about the "I learned nothing in college" mantra is that folks dismiss what they have learned if it's not directly related to earning a paycheck.

Intro chemistry isn't going to help you in programming, but at least you'll better understand it when you see chemical labels on bottles. I am constantly amazed at how much basic stuff the general public does not know, with a passing familiarity with statistics probably being the greatest, deepest hole.

I can't service my own car. Even if I could, I don't have the time nor the facilities to do so efficiently. But even if I had learned how to do that kind of work when I was younger, I'd be a fool to say "I didn't learn anything from it". Just because I'm not using the knowledge proactively doesn't mean that it's not knowledge, or not useful. I feel the lack of that knowledge when people start talking about motors - it's a world I don't have any purchase on, and this common knowledge would benefit me socially even though I wouldn't be proactively using it.
Can you avoid these issues by establishing an SSH or VPN tunnel through the 3G/4G connection?
You may want to check the spelling on your profanity there.
A big name company with a good reputation at the start of your career is a good social proof, since you would have beaten a lot of people to the role, and have been exposed to a successful way of doing things. Other things are important too but it means far from zero.
this is what was so hard for me when I was trying to learn 'leadership' or whatever you call it. What most people call 'likability' - I call 'being an asshole'

Different people have different behavior preferences, and if you think 'likable' means more passive rather than more aggressive, you are likely going to do the wrong thing in most social situations.
A friend from high school - he got top grades, got into a great school, got a MD and a PhD, married a beautiful, smart wife, became a surgeon, and had a healthy son.

After all of this, he went back to his grandfather overseas (who was very old) and told him, "I did everything you told me to do".
Nobody disrespected anyone, that's just business sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, which ever side your on you just keep going. No right or wrong here, if it was that case always do the right thing, in this case the other business just lost talent, they wanna compete they can by offering or matching it.

Just business.
Let's play silly pseudo evolutionary psychology. Asians come from long over-populated, labor intensive cultures. Rice paddy agriculture is one seriously backbreaking way to earn a living. The Chinese world also has a millennia old exam culture.

I really think the Asian grind mentality is a product of thousands of years of history. There were different pressures in East Asia.

White nations historically maintained much lower population densities, leaving things less competitive. Whites have pursued more capital intensive, less labor intensive ways to earn a living (e.g. massive thousand year old stone barns for dairy cows and cheese making).

So asians come here to this white nation with the built-in grind mentality. It doesn't work.

What I don't understand is why our overlords are so hell bent on turning this nation in to an overpopulated, hyper-competitive place where everyone has to grind. Stop letting people in, please.
There is no arguing with the facts. Copyright does attach itself at the moment of creation and that limits other people's free speech right when it comes to using your work.

However, as I was pointing out, there's a limit on your rights, like for how long you get it, what is restrictive and what isn't (fair use etc.) It is not a free ride. Especially since it is a restriction on 1st amendment, the American courts have taken a fairly narrow view on what you can restrict people from doing.

There are restrictions exactly because its a limitation on other people's free speech. And thats my point.
I don't think the Doomsday Argument is that interesting. It may be trivially true, but it doesn't tell us anything interesting or predictive.

If it is true, it can let us put probabilistic upper bounds on the future of the human race. For instance with 99.99999% likelihood I can tell you that the human race will fail to succeed in expanding colonization of other stars. As much as we may dream of the stars, we will never reach them.

Similarly the odds of our maintaining our current population levels for the next thousand years is something like 40%. That is both interesting and predictive. Its meaning, however, is highly debatable.
They weren't rejecting their roots, they were answering the question you asked: they were from Canada.

"Where are you from?" isn't synonymous with "what is your ethnic background?", especially when there are 3rd and 4th generation Canadians of Asian decent.

A lot of people will recognize when being asked that "Where are you from?" is supposed to be a politer way of asking "So why aren't you white?", but refuse to play along because it feels kind of asinine to say you're "from Taiwan" when your family has been in Vancouver for close to a century and you've never even been to Taiwan.
It sounds like they are only meta-gaming. They aren't doing anything because they are genuinely inclined to do so. It is hard to show heart and passion when your only ambition is to attain a level in society for the sake of levelling. It's called -> you're trying too hard!

Weird that Asians behave like this given the wealth of zen philosophy in the east :
‘A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.’ ~Lao Tzu
Wolfenstein covers the Thousand Year Reich, that's gotta count for something...
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That's a pretty good return for the Horowitz + Original founders team who bought it for $2.75 Billion in November 2010..
This package looks really nice, but it doesn't look like it has the ability to record. Anyone know of a package like this that helps with live processing of recorded audio?
I think a lot of people would try to use other services if this goes through.
Big Music is fucked. There have been so many times when they could have taken a graceful way out, and switched to a new realistic and reasonable business plan.
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I run a small new business that uses Tapjoy (formerly Offerpal) to process payments. My account was approved and I submitted all of the required paperwork over 7 months ago. I launched my site about 3 months ago and have generated a few thousand dollars in profit. Amazingly enough, I have not received a single payout from tapjoy even though all of my credentials are valid and their account dashboard shows the money they owe me. I have been contacting their support lines and the users who approved my account for over a month now. Every time I contact them, I get the run around: "This matter has been transfered to our accounts department", "This matter has been escalated", etc etc... Always the same crap, never any answers. Any time I try to call them, I get the message: "This mailbox cannot receive anymore messages, we're sorry an error has occurred" and the line goes dead. Am I being screwed here? I haven't found many people complaining about their services (other than missing points)... Anyone have similar experiences?
If this goes through, I wonder what would happen to Skype's Linux and Mac support. I'd hope MS would still support it, but I don't think they have any Linux software currently (I'm not positive about that, so please correct me if I'm wrong) and the Mac version of Office is always delayed compared to the Windows version. I hope Skype doesn't similarly languish.
It's not about "rejecting" one's roots. My parents are from Pakistan. Or wait - my mother was born in British India before fleeing during the partition. So which am I? British, Indian, Pakistani, or Canadian?

Canadian is the least complicated and requires the least amount of baggage. Why make it any more complicated?

If you would like to inquire into my personal practices and thought patterns, asking about my religious beliefs, favorite authors and my college experiences matters more than where my parents were from.
Maybe I've missed something, but what has changed in the two years since eBay spun off Skype at a valuation of < $3B to make it worth more than $7 billion today?
TFA talks about how this "could play a role in Microsoft's effort to turnaround its fortunes in the mobile phone market".

Personally I feel this could be more about Microsoft strengthening its enterprise communications portfolio. Communicator/Lync is a giant turd, and this could be their play at Cisco's market, rather than Apple/Google's.

(Incidentally, the Skype chief exec Tony Bates is ex-Cisco)
Nutrition isn't the only issue. Hunter-gatherers have a much higher chance of a violent death; not just because of the risks of hunting, but because tribal warfare drafts the majority of able-bodied men. Even the ritualized warfare commonly used among present-day hunter-gatherers is likely to cause deaths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Before_Civilization
Hilariously unlikely, unless your definition of "a lot" is small enough to cover the more neckbeardy sorts in the Linux community and maybe a few ABMers.

Most people just don't care so long as the software works well. (Whether Skype does work well is debatable, but given its popularity, it seems to work better than the rest of the options available. EKIGA SOFTPHONE, EVERYONE!)
> The problem, as with white geeks, is that Asian-Americans disproportionately aren't learning how to bs, how to promote themselves and their products

Actually it is the attitude like this -- the attitude that equates self-promotion with bullshit -- that causes problems for people with an engineering mindset. Not only does such attitude (1) show that you consider yourself superior (bravo) to people who are doing the hard and often boring job of marketing/campaigning, but it also underscores (2) that you, at a fundamental level, do not value communicating with other people, and therefore do not value other people (marketing, at its basic, is communication), and (3) that you will not make a good leader because you lack the social intelligence needed to observe others, learn from your observations, and to pay attention to the details of your and your company's public image.

Social skills are not bullshit; they are intelligence just like everything else. The fact that you only know how to do math does not show that you are intelligent; it only shows that you are specialized. The fact that women prefer men who are good at socializing is, ironically, direct Darwinian selection for intelligence.
I hope all the IP is included in this deal.
Weren't we talking about Google or Facebook buying Skype a few days ago at $1-3 billion? What the heck happened? Insecurities?
I guess the Linux client will stay beta forever... sigh
Does anyone know how this compares to CocosDenshion?
Huh? I understand that Microsoft is sitting on billions in cash, but couldn't they just pay a dividend?
A few thoughts:

When we see the mac version stagnate, we won't be able to say MS has sabotaged it - skype did that before on their own.

The linux version has never been on parity with the others - will it be officially killed? Might MS actually put resources in to it to make it work as well as the others?

Overall, good on MS for doing this. I'm assuming this may bring on some more interesting dynamics to the google voice / skype party.
just remember that skype's product was already starting to suck before microsoft bought them...
The only reason you did that is because they looked Asian, of course they would react badly.

My mother is a recent British immigrant. However, I didn't grow up there, I don't have any connection to there other than extended family we visit occasionally, and nobody looks at me cock-eyed when I say that I'm Canadian, because I'm white. I would find it pretty annoying if people questioned me further about that. Who are you to judge how I define my heritage?
Based on the quality of the author's writing and the clarity of his thinking, I'm looking forward to reading that book. His book Applied Cryptography was one of the best written CS books I've ever seen.
It would change our understanding of history a bit. Nobody has found a proof that Fermat could reasonably have successfully proved the theorem with. People have developed numerous false-but-tempting proofs that Fermat could have had. I believe that since Fermat never mentioned this proof again in the 30 remaining years he had to live, it is generally believed that Fermat actually realized his own error before publishing and that's why he never laid it out; he would not have had a reason to think he would need to explain not following up on a margin note.

A short and successful proof using nothing but math Fermat had would probably not rewrite mathematics qua mathematics, but would almost instantly be an astounding story for how we could have missed something like that for so long. It would itself be worthy of study to figure out how that happened!
Probably some are, but the only ones we tend to hear about are those which are not. The more visible ones are also likely to have the most and loudest followers.
The value of the dollar's dropped.

Not by that much, but it's certainly changed.

That, and ebay never figured out how to monetize it. MS likely has some plans in place to aggressively make money from it. I'm a skype subscriber, and probably will continue to be one, assuming they keep at least the same level of support for Macs.
The markets changed a lot. I don't know much about skype but I do think that's probably a huge part of this.
That's probably best, after what they did to the Mac one.
If this graph is to believed, it looks like they are on their way to doubling in size since then:

http://skypenumerology.blogspot.com/2011/04/summer-recession...
Don't forget about the Android and iOS apps. No doubt those will be killed off as well.
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Reading that article brought to mind a sarcastic question I heard addressed from a skin to a young punk decades back:

"So who is in charge of this whole anarchy thing anyway?"
Many people think that it costs nothing to anyone to recruit a person into a job. I think the recruiter would not agree with "no right or wrong" - they put in the effort to find this guy, shepherd him through the recruitment process, is now not getting paid and has missed the chance to put someone else into the job who would have stayed. I suspect that recruiter might feel somewhat less circumspect about the outcome.
Hey! I was the founder / developer that wrote the stats system for JIRA, and I'm quite proud of that code! :)

But I'm worried as I've read a few people on this thread say that JIRA is made for managers and not for developers. As the guy who was here from the beginning - I can say that it is definitely true that we made JIRA target managers - we found that too many people using Bugzilla spent all their time reporting status upwards, and if we could automate this, then developers could spend more time coding, and less time reporting.

But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be a great experience for developers. As someone who longs for the day that I can spend 10 hours coding (I'm now co-CEO, so I don't get to code as much anymore), I want JIRA to rock for this use-case.

But I'd love your feedback on where we need to improve. What is the 'inner loop' of JIRA usage for yourself? What functions do you do 20 times a day that we should make lightening fast?

I'd also love to know which version you are using. We've made some serious speed improvements in the last 12 months, as well as introducing keyboard shortcuts for the most common actions, so you can get around much faster than you used to. In JIRA versions >4.1 press '?' to get a list of shortcuts. My favourite is '.' when you are viewing an issue.

But seriously - would love your feedback. Or email me: scott@atlassian.com
yeah it does..

https://twitter.com/#!/h5bp/status/55022617471623168 (this is actually directed to you)
> A lot of people will recognize when being asked that "Where are you from?" is supposed to be a politer way of asking "So why aren't you white?"

In my case, I'm not white myself, so there's no way my question would be perceived as "so why are you different from us?".
It's been many years since I was on IRC, but IIRC you couldn't use netsplits to get oper rights, just an @ for a channel takeover -- until services came back online and you got booted.

Man, netsplits and +++ATH0 CTCPs and really wicked channel bots ... those were rather a lot of fun. Almost 15 years ago.
They do, and a solid 2.5% at that. Not that Im saying this is a good idea, though...
Interesting to note that the market cap of Vonage is only 1.04B. They might have been able to buy up every single other VOIP company on the planet with the remaining $6 Billion.
Paying a dividend will not save Microsoft. Even Microsoft realizes that.
Oh man, this guy is awesome.
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"Currently, Node doesn't provide a default way to create dynamic pages."

I don't see one either, am I missing something? http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.7/api/ (I do see one mentioned in "Recommended third-party modules" but that's not "default" or to use probably a better term, batteries-included.)

Node does not seem to be generally pitched as a framework to push out more templated page-oriented PHP-style web pages. Isn't this supposed to be most of the point of Node.js that it's meant for other use cases that are poorly-served by the page-oriented servers and frameworks?

And for that last one, while it is true Node wouldn't be my first choice I have seen sites based on Apache where I could see using Node.js to server images and do something else Node-y. Some common configurations of Apache can be really freaking heavyweight per-request before it even necessarily gets to your code, and using a separate server to serve up static assets is common. True, Node wouldn't be my first choice but I'm not sure it's necessarily a terrible choice.

The first one is true; like I said, it does have errors, and is generally poorly-written. But I think a lot of it is that he's writing from a perspective that you don't share, but not necessarily a wrong perspective.
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> The value of the dollar's dropped.

Since the owners are almost all US-based (I think), fluctuation in the dollar against foreign markets shouldn't have much impact on Skype's pricing. Even so, the dollar's value against the Euro hasn't hardly changed at all: eBay announced their sale of Skype on September 1, when 1 USD = 0.7 EUR. Today. 1 USD = 0.6975 EUR.
This approach is not really novel or difficult; it's extremely unlikely that something this simple would have been missed by everyone for so long.
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Agreed, not zero but company name and pay should mean relatively little at the beginning of your career. Be driven primarily by challenge, fun and learning. If you get all that then use company name and salary as the next determining factors.
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There is always a persistent threat of Apple bringing Facetime to the PC desktop so that people on iPhones could call people with PC.

By purchasing Skype, MS could bring Skype to WP7 and offer it preloaded.

There used to be a time when MS could get traction simply by bundling their product everywhere. A competitor like Skype would be abandoned simply because they couldn't outspend MS. Imagine, $7b is a lot of money. You can give away $1b of free calls to get Live Messenger kick started, or run Lync for free. MS has lost that swagger that used to create their own reality.
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The headline on the article's page says "nearly $8 billion".
Skype is losing tons of money and needed to get out with whatever users it had. Microsoft can then sync this up with their own communication clients for a joint play.
Rumors were that Facebook was going to buy it. Microsoft probably had to go up to $7 billion to top their offer.
Microsoft finally gets back in the game? I'm as big a fan of Google as anyone, but it's nice to see Microsoft win one.
I reject that set of skills not because I don't value communicating, but because I think it's a terrible way of communicating. The world has an unbelievable, enormous, tedious, completely indefensible surplus of self-promotion and marketing. Marketing fills every public space and enters every public discussion. What good is it? Look, you have made entire hard and boring jobs of it. Are you doing something useful? Who is it useful to besides you?

Buying into an obnoxiously self-promotional attitude is defecting in a giant Prisoner's Dilemma. It's enriching you only by taking away from others, and at the expense of filling the world with crap. It serves only to make my life and others' a little worse as I filter through "good self-promoters" to find people who are good at ordinary, interesting, non-self-promotional things, who do and say things I actually want to pay attention to. So no, I don't think people who engage in a bunch of self-promotion are stupid or inferior, just selfish and shameful. I will leave money on the table all day in order to not deal with the crap.

Hey, it's relevant to the article:

Having glimpsed just how unacceptable the world judges my demeanor, could I too strive to make up for my shortcomings? Practice a shit-eating grin until it becomes natural? Love the world twice as hard?

I see the appeal of getting with the program. But this is not my choice. Striving to meet others’ expectations may be a necessary cost of assimilation, but I am not going to do it.
"I've been to my high school reunions, and the truth is, none of them turned out to be anything remarkable."

80% of Asian kids in America go on to higher (+12) education. 53% degree attainment (other races are less than 30%). Comprising less than 10% of the population, Asian populations at the Ivy League are ~25%+ (nearly or more than 30% at Stanford and MIT). Asians in America make more on average than all other races.

Asians seem to be attaining alot in a country where they are less than 10% of the population and objective metrics of achievement are even possible. There could be something about the "bamboo ceiling", but Asians are doing objectively better, on average, than the average white, black, or hispanic person.
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What was the reason for this being buried immediately? Honestly curious - not a valid topic?