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I was recently recruited while employed via LinkedIn, so it's not only for the unemployed. Additionally, it helped me land the job because I saw that the two owners and I had some mutual colleagues from the past. I'm almost certain that we wouldn't have discovered that without LinkedIn (or at least not during the course of the interview).
I'm not disagreeing that it's the direction things are going, but I don't think we should take the "I'll just try to make money from concerts" attitude from musicians as a good thing or one they embrace. It's more of a surrender and it's not good for consumers.

This future everyone is living in may be one where artists start recording only 5 song EPs and playing a lot of shows, which I would consider a major loss. There will be many albums that don't get recorded because there's no financial incentive. I already know some great musicians who have given up on albums because they're not willing to pay $20k to record something nobody will pay for, despite the fact that there is plenty of "demand" for the content.

You get worse content when you don't pay people for creating content you like. If that's the future people are accelerating toward by taking things without paying for it, then they're just going to get the crappy music they deserve.
Time to create an "iOS Developer Foundation to Fight Patent Trolls". I will be happy to donate 1% of my revenues to such an organization who promises to fight these buggers on behalf of us.
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The plan is to eventually charge companies to find teams. It's true that the site might be a single use for many companies (leave once they hire a team) but I think that's a common problem for any recruiting site.
Thanks for pointing out this issue, Ben.

I am curious why you did not mention whether there is an option to simply delete your Google Apps account before letting the domain expire?
Instead of 'cat image.png', if I want to see the image, I just 'image.png' (zsh's "alias -s" magic).
Making sure to renew your domain name is a good solution if you actually want to keep your domain. But what if you are done with that domain, and purposely let it expire? Is there a way to delete your Google Apps account entirely before letting the domain name expire, so the next person to register that domain can start from scratch with Google Apps, as if that domain had never been used before?
Also recruiters, sales drones, and professional networkers lol ... get lots of contacts from those.

not as much for entrepreneurs and senior management types
It's LibreOffice, not LibraOffice... right?
Yet another argument for the destruction of software patents and/or moving to another country to start a software company.
I was excited when he started talking about the resolution differences but then quickly bummed that he didn't even scratch the surface to talk about just how the changes affected the development.
This sort of "web applications" make me question the value of the Google's "web app store": so far the only true web application from the store I've seen, were Angry Birds. The rest I tried were either Flash applets, or, in this case, require some "Roozz plug-in" (which I wouldn't install). What's the value added by Google here? Only to tell me that I need Google Chrome, because my IE9 is "not supported by the web store just yet", and use Chrome to play Flash or launch installation of some weird plugin (which, by the way, doesn't seem to have problems with me using IE9)? Will such "web apps" even work in their own Chrome OS?

What's even more puzzling is why LinqPad needs all that? Downloading setup package from their own website is much more straightforward way that 1) doesn't discriminate people by browsers they use; 2) doesn't require any 3rd-party plug-ins which most of the people are grown to be wary of.
blech. this is an alright recipe to being a standard nerd/web developer and reads far too much like a list of things the author has done, especially the hobbies part which imo has bugger-all to do with being a hacker.

my personal idea of a hacker is someone who knows _everything_ and is not afraid to take advantage of that knowledge. of course it's impossible to know everything, but the best hackers I know do a very good job of approximating that :)
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Although I've been on LinkedIn for years it's had no significant utility value for me.
Sure, but how long have you been using it? I've been a user for at least 2-3 years and I'm about to give up.
that webkit will render faster than a terminal emulator is just pure fantasy, is like saying that a smart phone with all the fancy apps will eventually use less power than a solar powered calculator. you ppl are addicted to osx overdesign. no graphical user interface will beat a keyboard in the right hands, like it or not. pure fantasy, hipster hackers
However slightly developer hostile this may be, it's great for users. This was very well needed and i'm glad Twitter implemented it!
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Interesting to hear the differences between the two platforms re: design constraints. Helps explain a lot about why it takes many other apps so long to develop an android version. Looking forward to a better Android version of Bump, since the last wasn't always reliable.
I never use LinkedIn. Seems useless (even for business) when there's Facebook.
great idea. oauth login w/linkedin failed
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I guess Bing has a little catching up to do in its misspelling detection.
When you use Twitter, you give Twitter access to your DMs. This seems like common sense to me.
Haha, the irony.
Good idea to talk to a lawyer? I'd wait until you're actually sued before wasting your time and money worrying about something so stupid. Most people aren't going to sue you if explain what you did (and why) and it's obvious you had genuine intentions.
I like sfalma, google was/is difficult to spell too...
Although I am not entirely sure what you are attempting to communicate, what I will say is this:

If you do not provide direct user access to a pseudo terminal through a terminal emulator, then you will undoubtedly lose functionality. You need both the pseudo-terminal and the terminal emulator. If you do provide direct user access to the pty through a terminal emulator, then what the hell is the rest of the crap there for?
Excellent shortcut for previewing files from the terminal:

#!/bin/bash
qlmanage -p "$@" >& /dev/null

Opens any file in Quicklook, ctrl-c to close, or use the mouse. If you want it to stay open, just add final &.
When a domain is being reclaimed by someone signed into a different Google Account than the previous admins, check if the domain's whois creation date has changed, and if so, make it mandatory to wipe out the data previously associated with the domain before continuing.

In addition, password resets via email requested at domains having the whois creation date after the account creation date should probably be disabled.
Have you figured out how to convince patients that giving you the information is worth their time?

Older patients won't/don't have the technical ability (however simple it may be) to fill out an online survey quickly and younger patients will want incentives for their time (and the info). I'd tell each patient that their doc needs to monitor them and that rather than constant appts they could fill out this survey every other day. That should convince people.
thanks, will look into it
Bitcoin uses a distributed timestamping server. The paper literally states that "new transactions are broadcast to all nodes". This effectively means that they need a global broadcast to the majority of nodes for every bit coin transfer.

This doesn't scale in terms of number of nodes, and it doesn't scale in number of transactions. They can not compensate for an increase in the number of transactions by adding more nodes because instead of distributing the work load over the nodes, they are in fact replicating it.

The rationale seems to be that as long as you have more honest nodes than malicious ones the system will not be hijacked. Of course, the chance that a Russian botnet has more CPU power than you do is quite real. They go on to say that if an attacker has more computational power than everyone else they would do better to use it mining coins than to break the system, and they seem to leave it at that. Counting on the rational behavior of potential attackers does not seem like a good strategy to me.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I'm pretty sure this thing will simply not scale. It reminds me of Gnutella, which implemented search through scoped flooding and somehow promised both scalability and coverage. I have the same feeling here. Scalability _and_ security in a peer-to-peer network? Surely you jest.

When something sounds too good to be true it probably is.

edit: link to the paper: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Require a phone number and send SMS for accessing domains which have previously expired.
I'd suggest learning C as soon as a basic grasp of programming (variables, condition, iteration, basic data structures and abstract data types) is there. C is the lingua-franca of programming: advanced algorithms are often implemented in C (or in C like languages), other language concepts are often expressed in terms of C language concepts. "Gold standards" of systems programming are the C POSIX API and BSD sockets (best books on network programming use C for all of their examples). Learning UNIX and the GNU tool chain is also important.

Learning a non-imperative languages is also vital: most importantly Lisp such as Scheme and a strictly and statically typed functional language with type inference like Haskell or ML.

As for Ruby vs. Python, it's an implementation detail. The languages are close enough as if you know one, you can learn the other when you need to (at a new job, or when there's an open source project you'd like to contribute to). Make sure to be fluent in one, however, as "scripting" is a vital skill (especially if you have to deal with a production environment or build/release tooling).

Same principle as Ruby vs. Python also goes for Java vs. C#. I would, however, suggest learning C++ and/or (one of) Java/C#, as they're rather widely used in industry (and not just for legacy work).

Important thing is understanding the fundamentals and seeing the overall patterns.
Who has said that price is a reliable indicator of quality? The chief claim is that price shouldn't be the _only_ purchasing criteria.

And no one has claimed that goods of any kind are essential to a "good quality life".
You are correct; that is what I meant. Users may have used the same password on the psn and their email account though. If sony did the right thing and only stored salted hashed passwords then that would be mitigated a bit.

Another option would be to send out a new password via mail to the billing address if they had no other way to do it electronically. Out of luck if you moved since then. Make the old password a requirement so mail thieves cannot steal your account.

I was pissed that I needed to change my credit card number because of these clowns. If someone wants to make a cool startup make a credit card number that is a one off that will only work for a certain time frame(extendable), dollar limit, and business name(though this one might be tougher because the business name given to the credit card company might be different than the business name I would enter).
A bank company
Twitter Should Move Away from Ruby
One in 14 downloads is malicious
Adblock Plus seems to be as effective for video ads as it is for regular ads.
I love these compare-and-contrast articles about developing on different smartphone platforms, but I'm interested to see how the second-tier ones go, as well. I've heard that webOS is a delight to develop on, WinPho is bad, and I'm not sure about Blackberry OS or the other lower-tier ones.
That won't work for existing customers since requiring a phone number must be done when initially signing up.

In addition, expired domains purchased by someone else won't be usable with Google Apps.
Yes Virginia, That Is Linux Running on JavaScript
Here are his technical notes: http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
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> It's more like listening to Einstein (or Chomsky) on politics -- very good in one field, rather over-confident in another.

Chomsky is very careful to heavily reference and back up his political opinions, so I'm a little confused as to how he is over-confident in the field? I assume you simply disagree with him?
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the only thing that pisses me off is the guy posting how many years he was administering UNIX systems and how this monster was an "obvious" step in the field, web designers are quite arrogant
My google sense failed me this time around to find information on this FSW 11 in Berlin. Care to explain? Is it a conference, can anybody come?

I am really interested in DSNP and am fairly well versed in GNU/Linux and can do some programming, Java and Python mostly. I work as a web-frontend developer guy. Can I be of some help? Do you need testers, peers, documenters?
That sounds like RedBeacon (which I think is a good idea). My take was that Zaarly was person-2-person, not person-2-biz. Maybe I'm wrong.
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He did talk about it. He says that the declarative XML layouts make it easy to iterate the UI, but hard to make it pixel perfect, and is therefore akin to web design.
Absolutely. In the poll earlier this week, I was hesitant, but now I can agree with clarity. This is not constructive for the growth of our industry.
Sadly there's a lot more to economics than econometrics, or else banks would be run by bots.
Thanks JoshFraser, I have appended a note to the blog post to check your comment on here. Although the Google Apps team may have altered their policies according to my blog post which I contacted them about 2 months ago. This issue is still a serious matter. I would have still been able to access the person's Amazon account using a wildcard email address. Although it does lessen the blow if a social engineer takes a hold of your domain as they might not be able to get into your GMAIL, but the real lesson here is you shouldn't let your domains expire with any form of identity or online accounts still attached to them.

It's also a cautionary tale of what you leave up on the cloud when you abandon your email account. I could have potentially found a lot more damaging information from gaining access to this persons email.
Hey Hopeless, thanks for taking the time to comment.

Your notification periods sound spot on. Early (1 month) to allow purchase order & client holidays + potentially clients wanting to let a domain lapse. The system could then do another whois lookup expiry check before sending out the 1 week left reminder.

I take your point about the monthly subscription model. Thinking of the monthly services I pay for I tend to log in pretty regularly. As you say Flaregun isn't really like this. You would dump your domains into it when you first sign up, then login every so often to add a new domain (10-30 seconds). So payment options are:

1. Keep it monthly and perhaps reduce price.

2. Charge a one off fee (local program) - it could even be some kind of spreadsheet addon. However I favour a webapp as it is the easiest incarnation to iterate and further develop. Also a local program would need to always be running to display / send the notifications.

3. Yearly subscription. Domains are yearly so this would kind of tie in. Getting into a customers head if you thought Flaregun solved a problem for you, you probably would be fairly loyal - i.e. it's not a try it, see if I like and if I get on with it I will keep it kind of product. You either want it or you don't. But I always feel an upfront yearly cost increases the barrier to subscription. I wonder if a yearly cost with a 100% money back guarantee if not satisfied, could be the answer.

Any other thoughts / ideas appreciated.

Cheers,
It's a great tool for business development. Whenever I want to meet someone at X company I look at who I know there/who can introduce me there. Very valuable. You can't do that on facebook, it's too nosy/I'm not facebook friends with my business acquaintances. Also good to know their background.
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Has anyone tested Opera?
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He brought up his own credentials because he is amused that others have questioned them. I find that reasonable and not "bragging."
This kind of sounds like Semantic Design's DMS software Reengineering toolkit and the Parlanse language.
It'd be really great to see Creative Commons-style licenses printed on product boxes.
My exgirlfriend passed away a year and half ago. My last words to her a year before she died were cruel and ugly and consequently I didn't hear from her family about her death, but learned of it from an online obituary of a small town paper.

I was not friends with her on facebook (our relationship predated it), and so I cannot tease out our memories there.
But the loss remains and I find myself returning to her obituary every few weeks.
One thing I always think about brain emulation/mind uploading/strong AI research is we need an legal/ethical framework in place before we get there.

I still think it's far off, but not everyone does.
If you believe consciousness is a property of running a brain or sufficiently advanced brain model, at what point are you allowed to stop running your model and it's not murder of a sentient? At one point can a model claim rights?

Especially as their goal is to use it for drug tests.

Also, can you simulate a brain without a body or is say hormones/blood sugar/nervous system not easily separable?
Now, let's see which of these browsers fix this issue the fastest. My bet is that Chrome will be the first.
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Previous (and good) discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002602
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Note, Facebook will look at your linkedin profile than contact you through facebook
Address is my favorite one: any homeowner's address is a matter of public record. What a great security question to use all over the place.
I remember a site produced for WWW2004 (May '04) which had this functionality. The wayback machine has some of it: http://replay.web.archive.org/20041217231727/http://w3photo.... I haven't read through the actual patent, but it would seem like possible prior art.

[edit] it was built with this: http://fotonotes.net/
I feel slightly betrayed that the link says heroku.com and it isn't actually a Heroku blog.
A similar thing happened to me. A Google HR staffer sent me an unsolicited offer for a job at YouTube. I accepted, and...

A week later I sent an email asking "how long is the usual turn-around time on this?" Google's HR person said she would let me know by the end of the day, and that was that last I ever heard from her. All further communications were black-holed. I suppose I was unusually lucky to get that last message.
It is a pity, but it's completely understandable since this is one man's year-old hobby project.
A few weeks ago I tried to register Google Apps on a domain I purchased, and found that it'd already been registered by someone else. I sent an email to the support team explaining that there was a previous account and that I was the new owner, and upon proving that the domain was now mine they deleted the old account and had me start anew.

Obviously, while the email-support method is safe, the automated system for unlocking admin access based on "proof of ownership" is pretty scary! Seems like this could be solved by requiring you to prove ownership and then releasing new auth info to a linked email account on a different domain. That helps to establish both present ownership and a chain of ownership back to the last time you had authorized access and were able to adjust the "emergency email account" setting. It's not perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better.

It also seems to me like someone wanting to abuse this right now could do so pretty easily: you can confirm that a domain is available and that it has had a google Apps account set up in the past before you spend a dime, so you can just set a computer to trawling known Google Apps domain names (e.g., by looking at traffic on large mailing lists) to find ones whose registration has expired.
Do doctors and contractors have more sources of empirical data (or more widely known sources), or are they simply more willing to look for them?

I think the culture would be a vital part of an ecosystem of empirical observation. For the sciences generally, the culture predated the sources and gave rise to them. For medicine, I think a culture of empiricism was imported from other scientific fields. For contractors, they are very motivated to note what works, what breaks, and what enables them to make more money.
IANA astronomer, but I believe that the typical method of planet detection relies on the assumption that planets revolve around stars. They can detect planets by measuring the tiny wobble of stars caused by the gravity of revolving planets. So I was wondering how the hell they detect free-floating (orphan) planets. The article explains that they use gravitational microlensing, which is a pretty cool technique. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_microlensing

From the article:

> A 5.9-foot (1.8-meter) telescope at Mount John University Observatory in New Zealand is used to regularly scan the copious stars at the center of our galaxy for gravitational microlensing events. These occur when something, such as a star or planet, passes in front of another, more distant star. The passing body's gravity warps the light of the background star, causing it to magnify and brighten. Heftier passing bodies, like massive stars, will warp the light of the background star to a greater extent, resulting in brightening events that can last weeks. Small planet-size bodies will cause less of a distortion, and brighten a star for only a few days or less.
You missed my point. I'm arguing theorizing around statistical data is only half the battle to the scientific equation. The other part is putting those theories to the test and quantifying the results in meaningful way over time. Again and again. Without the again-and-again part, you only have theoretical knowledge. Theoretical knowledge is not a "hard science". Involving data does not make a hard science. Applying heuristics to the data does not make it a science. A computerized model does not make something science. The weather-man uses science when developing a forecast. The forecast is not a hard science.

Take minimum wage for example. This is a theory with supporters in both camps - some for, some against. Well, how can we ever measure if a minimum wage is having a positive influence? How can we continue in support of a theory with no supporting evidence? Pile on 500 more concurrent theories, and you have a cluster-fuck only Krugman could defend.
Doesn't appear to leak in Chrome 13.0.767.1
it is a phonetic problem, people read s+f as 'sv' so they cannot type it
I've been using Cloudflare since the beta, and I think I love them almost as much as I love Apple.
Don't forget its cousin: "on a mobile computing device."