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Having a team as Mike describes will make all the difference when it comes to work/life balance and ability to deliver to their clients consistently. It sounds as through their culture is one where each team member is passionate about their core focus, and more importantly, has each others back. My read is that this team is very self motivated, reducing the overhead for managing it, and thus reducing a lot of the typical problems with "job shops".

I can't say I go for the completely "virtual" company, but I doubt you will find 11 people that fit a core culture in one geographical location, so I get that.
I've never come across this way of laying out the date:

"01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700"

What about correlating the mnemonic digits to period sizes:

"06/05 03:02:01PM '07 -0400"

(with timezone offset coming between hours and days)

This would correspond to iso:

"2007-06-05T03:02:01.0"
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I'm always a bit sad that sci-fi books/ideas that are cutting-edge and shocking at the time are either diluted or delayed so much by the time they hit film that they're no longer particularly surprising when the hit the vast majority of people who'd watch a sci-fi film but not read the book form. The awe of newness often gets replaced with action/horror.
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I don't see how the time spent on a page correlates to value for the reader. If I read faster or slower than someone else and spend less or more time on the page, it doesn't change the value provided to me by the article.
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How is bitcoin like the gold standard? Bitcoin is backed by what? It's more like a purely speculative currency. It's artificially scarce and worth nothing apart from it's perceived value. At least with gold there are many industrial uses for it. You can't do anything with a bitcoin other than trade it.
I'm not sure foreign policy operates in a realm where contradictions and consistency play any major role. It's too nuanced and complex for that. Very much a case-by-case, detail-by-detail, type of situation which is subject to change at any time. (often in 4 to 8 year cycles here in the US) I think it's generally understood that the US, being the last standing super power at the moment, isn't going to be playing by the same rules as everyone else in most circumstances.
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I agree.

The new format is much more readable but just as difficult to write. I would still need to consult the manual -- or at least copy/paste a working example and modify it.

Still - One might argue that readability matters most. This is especially true in large projects with many developers working on the same code.
I'm sorry to hear that you're leaving. Thanks for posting about your reasons for leaving.

In any case best of luck with your move. You may want to drop by Noisebridge in SF sometime, you might enjoy meeting some of the people there. Since you're in Palo Alto, there's also Hacker Dojo near you as well.
my 2 cents: it's not - or at least it shouldn't be - a lifestyle choice.
I run MSE, I barely notice it speed wise, and haven't had any malware or viruses.

On your comment:
> the proper solution is to have better security on the machine.

Strongly disagree; if you look at this MacDefender issue, there is no flaw in OSX that is causing infection, users are installing it on their own accord. But what anti-malware/virus software can do here is warn or prevent the user from installing this in the first place, as it should detect the virus/malware signature.

This is why you need it even if the underlying OS is secure, to try protect users from themselves.
David Nielsen in a well-referenced post: http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/systemd-in-gnom...

>Lennart in follow ups to his proposal explains that systemd could be separated into a core set of interfaces which could take replacement backends that support e.g. FreeBSD so long as it implements the interfaces systemd cares about or as it was their init system.

So the idea is not to abandon non-Linux targets, but to offer varying levels of support for them.
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Whilst it is true that these techniques can slow down a reverse engineering attack, I doubt that the slow done will be significant in the case of a dedicated pirate.

The techniques listed in the paper are aimed at the detection of debugging tools, with the idea of shutting the program down in that case. The trouble is that detection is a very hard task. The methods described fall into two categories - detection of a signature of the offending debugging tool, or detection of a heuristic. Signatures aren't much use - yes, you can quite easily detect the presence of a stock Ollydbg, but you can't easily detect an ollydbg that has been patched to scramble it's signature - and patching programs is what pirates do!

Heuristics present another problem altogether. They have the problem that they can return false positives - ok, so you have checked how long an operation took, and it was over the top of the threshold. Unfortunately what you don't know is that I'm encoding video to highly efficient h264 from a raw RED 4k file, with the encoding process given top priority. Heuristics tend to punish legitimate users for dubious protection from pirates.

In my previous job I was responsible for anti-piracy measures in our DRM product - I always privileged code obfuscation over tool detection techniques for exactly this reason.
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It's just sad how over and over again people make the same mistake in seeking technological solutions for the problems that have nothing to do with technology.
Totally agreed, I like the idea but the numbering scheme really leaves me scratching my head.

Going big to small would be way nicer, especially if that was the standard representation as then you'd get lexical ordering for free within time zones.

I can't imagine these guys made that decision lightly, they are too smart for that, there must be some other background to it.
Errr.... consuming 6000 calories and burning off only 1300 would cause you to gain more than a pound. That might be a daily intake for someone weighing 600 pounds, but it's hardly the situation for your run-of-the-mill fat person.

Putting it in practical, personal terms -- I was laid up for six weeks for medical reasons this winter, and my bad habits continued for the next six weeks as well. Over that period I gained about 18 pounds, one of the worst periods of weight gain in my life. Simple math (and ignoring the data presented in the article!) tells you I must have been eating about 5250 excess calories a week. Roughly speaking I was probably eating 23,000 calories a week when I should have been having 18,000.

Now suppose I had gained that weight on a low-fat diet. The study cited in the article suggests that if I had been on a low-carb diet instead, I wouldn't have gained any weight at all! That's a pretty significant result. (Of course, in practice I was on a "whatever" diet.)

For those of us living on the edge, trying to shave off 500 calories a day, the knowledge that not all calories are created equal is a Big Deal.
I agree, numbering it in order of period sizes would be easier than remembering the arrangement of the canonical form, especially for international users.

(Also, it would be "2007-06-05T15:02:01.0")
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If there is a Bitcoin bubble you can be sure that there will be people doing things like this, regardless of whether it's ethical or not. From the site visitor's point of view they're not getting a cut of the mined coins, so their high CPU usage is purely a waste and annoyance. If widely deployed, this sort of browser based CPU wasting enterprise could bring Bitcoin into disrepute and be an excuse for governments to treat it as a cyber-threat.
I agree - it's kind of hard to capture the spirit of it when things have changed so much in the meantime. I'd certainly want to watch it though.

However, I would LOVE to see a film adaptation of one particular more recent cyberpunk-style novel, River of Gods by Ian McDonald. It's staggeringly brilliant, and recent enough that it wouldn't be dated in the same way.
You could have the phones belonging to passers-by ring instead, might even make the scary location tracking stuff more obvious?
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Not to mention that Apple is the only company to have started building a defence to the 'clueless user' problem,with the Mac App Store. It's going to become increasingly more difficult for trojan horse authors to convince users to install their non-App Store application, the more that people become accustomed to that being the way to install software on a Mac.
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It has an urban population of 96,900 that is fairly large by Scottish Standards. Inverness and Stirling have ~70,000 each and they are cities.
"A low carbohydrate group (LoCHO = 1800 kcal for men; 1500 kcal for women), a low fat group (LoFat, 1800 and 1500); a third group also consumed a low carbohydrate diet but an additional 300 kcalories were provided (LoCHO+300, 2100 and 1800). The order of average amount of weight lost was LoCHO = 23 lbs, LoCHO+300 = 20 lbs LoFat = 17 lbs." That's not quite the same math I used, but it seems to pretty strongly suggest that a LoCHO+600 group would have have lost 17 lbs, exactly the same as the LoFat group.

Perhaps there is some reason to doubt this study, but saying "It is so not" is hardly a rational rebuttal.
I thought this was the common way (gibi that is) to refer to harddrives in the OS, I thought that that was the reason harddrives were 100gb when i bought them but only showed up as 93gb on my computer.
I'm an Israeli living in Austria for over 6 years now & I honestly don't see much of a difference between Goldstar/Macabi and any other (Czech, Austrian - supposedly renown for their quality) lagers I can get here.

Seriously, beer is a working-class beverage: find something else to be a snob about ;)
> but to offer varying levels of support for them.

That means no support. Offering bulletproof vests with varying supports of bulletproofness means the vest is not bulletproof.
'What we failed to ask was, “Who cares?”'

I think that's the first thing I asked myself when I heard about Blippy. Is it their over-enthusiasm towards funded startups that blinded them, or just shortsightedness?
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It's artificially scarce and worth nothing apart from it's perceived value.

Are there any official currencies that this doesn't apply to?
I can't speak for others, but I nearly downvoted you for the first sentence which was just a gratuitous snark. I ended up not downvoting you precisely because the rest of the post was informative.
Forget the "rapture" - instead I would just love a respected service that guaranteed to look after my pets if I got hit by a bus, etc.

So maybe a spoof business like this could be turned into a really good thing?
The first point your link makes is that Drive-by downloads includes user intervention: "Downloads which a person authorized but without understanding the consequences".
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Seconded. This'll help to cut down on the amount of material I wade through myself trying to keep up with the full feed! Maybe I'll even be able to get some code written again! =]
Unfortunately what half of those questions tests are pointless - don't test C++ minutia (especially not in 2011), test whether the candidate can code.
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Interesting idea, in effect these are Android-specific ASICs.
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"us guys, who are not part of Anonymous"

Anyone can be part of Anonymous at any time just by saying so. At least, this is my idea of Anonymous. If Anonymous is doing something you like, you can either follow instructions that some other random (possibly secretly organized) person/group has posted to the internet, or you can simply decide what you think would be a productive action for you to take. Anonymous doesn't like Organization X, and wished to cause them economic harm by DDoSing their servers, you join in the DDoS, or, if you are more thoroughly versed in infosec, you can engage in a different sort of attack. If you don't support what Anonymous is doing at that particular moment, you can simply choose not to participate.

My idea of Anonymous is that it changes from day to day, both in members and in structure. It may become more or less organized depending on who views themself as a member on that particular day, or who supports the currently popular "operation".

This may be a naive, misinformed, or idealistic view, but it's the view I've always had. Anonymous can't be disassembled, since you could imprison every member of Anonymous today, and tomorrow an entirely different group of people could reconstitute it to just as much effect.

I would be glad to hear alternative opinions of the nature of Anonymous.
I was at the Bank of England museum checking out the first "notes" the other day, and they date back to 1694. That's a little older than 100 years.
It's almost certainly too much to hope for, but my impossible dream is that this gets done up like it's the 1980s with circa-2012 CGI. A bold kind of retrofuturism we haven't seen yet in film.

I'm hoping for Rez!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tStDX7QHNwI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlscv56UhbM
Let's hope it is as good as Johnny Mnemonic

no, wait, that movie really sucked
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I think that apology was a mistake. Gibson got it right when he said the future is harder to predict now. I think that covers any 'mistakes' he might have made. If he'd known the future in fact he wouldn't have been able to write such good fiction.

When I first read Neuromancer it (obviously) didn't feel dated. I think going back and correcting things would make it bland. At the time the bit with the payphones was eerie, but now if you did that with cellphones and GPS it feels like less of a deus ex machina is messing with me and more the gov't is overstepping again. sigh. Which is really not the right vibe. I don't expect a youth to pick up Neuromancer today and comprehend it, no matter what you do to it.

More than anything Gibson writes culture. He once said he writes descriptions, but he's focusing on describing people and subcultures. I think the cultural era which he wrote his first trilogy for has past. The cultural era he wrote the second trilogy for is waving goodbye, but I think it's still very accessible to youth. His following books practically document the very era they were written for, which is a fun consequence of writing science fiction set in the plausible present.
TermKit could really help unix overcome the problem of discovery.

On the command line it takes extra steps to discover the switches and arguments that a given command presents. It's easy to miss a specific incantation that will bring forth the full power of a given command in a given situation. Git, for example, has an amazingly rich command. It's hard to discover what you can do so most people end up using just the few commands that they absolutely need.

Just as TermKit offers a selectable list of directories when one types a path, it would be great if it could provide a structured way to build commands invocations, that presents options and perhaps help content as you go.

In addition to helping newbies dive in and get stuff done, it would help more experienced users continually advance their knowledge of how to get the most out of the tools they use.
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Is it hard? Always? If it is so hard then why is it around. How would you go about parallelizing even mildly CPU heavy work loads on node.js?

Node.js and the like are awesome, but only if you have no blocking calls and your CPU usage is tiny. Otherwise you get the performance of a single threaded server. You know, because that's what it is.
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If an intellectual/conceptual framework has bad income demographics, it's time to question the wisdom of adhering to it. (Which is also not to say that a high average income is any kind of validation. It's not!)

However, if an heretofore obscure genre of music has bad income demographics, it might be a good choice to go long on it. (Blues, Country, various roots musics, etc... Also, if the genre has already achieved mainstream sales, go short!)
What happens when you break "learning" down into specific tasks? Is the compound learning of lots of simple tasks accurately represented by the generic "learning" graphs for complex tasks?

Steep may not be the correct word. Complex may be better.
From my understanding of "good," a lot of atheists will be taken and a lot of fundamentalists are going to get left behind.
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We'll still have all the non-Christian fundamentalists, of course. They might be a bit toned down after having discovered that they worshiped the wrong god, though :)
> Cleanup [...] kinda shocked that there isn't more to it.

Perhaps not with this "first generation" of OS X malware.

On Windows some malware replicate to files and have other self-preservation quirks making anti-malware software necessary.

> I think the "Geniuses" at the Apple Stores can manage.

Against simple malware, yes. When crackers start investing time and effort into their malware (like on Windows), it'll be a different case altogether.
How will these guys make money? This sounds insanely expensive.
I feel like the graph is a poor choice in illustrating this idea. As it's central to the argument, the rest of the article falls apart, in my eyes.

First - why do both graphs start the user with 0% performance? Humans come into a new program/context/etc with prior experience. Put a child who's used Word before in front of ed, and he'll probably do well. Put him in front of vim, and he'll probably struggle to write a sentence.

Second, not all performances are created equal. The dependent axis should probably be some measurable output. Typically, something with a "steep learning curve" takes longer to master, but has much greater payout in the end. (If it doesn't, people generally don't learn it.) Compare making TV Dinner with cooking a family meal. The TV dinner is easier to learn, easier to master, but having "100% performance" in making TV Dinners is still not on the level of being even a good cook.
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Here's his response

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2550979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdEOB8Uv3UY&NR=1
Ah, this is annoying.

Selling is only allowed to people in the US? What on earth for?

I realize it's available free but I wanted to buy for the principle of the thing.
In their belief system, maybe that population was subject to the wrath of [insert divinity here]
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There's some numbers at the top that I -assume- are storage and transfer limits... But they aren't labeled, so I can't be sure.

I'm also a little worried about the lack of privacy policy or TOS.
"I feel like the graph is a poor choice in illustrating this idea. As it's central to the argument, the rest of the article falls apart, in my eyes."

What, in your eyes, does the word "curve" refer to then?
Title should include, "if you are going to seek funding". While I agree on outsourcing and consultants (even though I am one). Keeping your "tribal knowledge" in house is critical. I have worked with many distributed teams, and have come to believe that it can be just as efficient as in house so long as your team selection is skilled at working in a distributed fashion. There are a good deal of cost reductions in a properly distributed team that relies on communication mediums such as Skype, which can be a god send for those that are self funding their ventures. Not everyone is looking for venture funds and some of this advice is just plain bad and counter productive for those that are not.
This test sucks - I just spend 15 minutes and I don't even get a result!
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Facepalm - you're right, my regexes got a little too aggressive. I've reposted it with the formatting intact.

I also posted a version as PDF - again it has the linked TOC which makes it easier to navigate. The PDF isn't as nice as the HTML though.

[PDF] http://bit.ly/inAWAc
Not really, it is essentially rapidshare except they don't need to store as much data and they are backwards compatible with torrents. A pretty smart way to seed their service.

FWIW Rapidshare is about $6/month.
I'm a bit skeptical on the usefulness of this. As far as my coder nose goes, this has a really really bad smell and if I saw this sort of stuff in my codebase I would feel an urge to punch somebody.

From a productivity point of view, since this is presumably used by developers, we can safely assume these are people who spend at least 10 hours a day typing (coding, internet etc.). Most of our lives are spend behind a keyboard yes?

That being the case, we can safely assume that most of us are pretty good typists. Even a marginally good typist can punch the keyboard at 60 words per minute. Considering the average English word length of 5.7 characters that gives us a speed of 342 characters per minute, or 5.7 per second.

Do you really really need to increase your mental load for translating acronyms/abbreviations into words in order to save fractions of a second? Really?
I believe bittorrent traffic is subject to heavy deduplication. But what about legality?
Not to mention that they navigate in a minefield of copyright and IP issues.
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It's a non-response. All it does is asserts that the reader will find flaws in the blog post I cited if they go read a dozen unspecified books.