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Thanks Sebastian :) Some of the things I tried to point out in the post are things we often over look.

If you're a carpenter running a shop, it's a no-brainer to buy tools that help you be more productive and make your life easier. But, there are other tools or things we use every day, whose cumulative effects can be as important as the one big tool we spend most of our time on. Making the same smart decisions on those smaller things as we do on the larger ones isn't going to impact your bottom line in a meaningful way, but can dramatically impact your quality of life.
More seriously: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-147

The discovery indicates there are many more free-floating Jupiter-mass planets that can't be seen. The team estimates there are about twice as many of them as stars. In addition, these worlds are thought to be at least as common as planets that orbit stars. This would add up to hundreds of billions of lone planets in our Milky Way galaxy alone.

wtf
Explosion? From this article it looks it's a single piece of malware that people are having trouble with. Hardly an explosion.
The problem with "teh womenz" is that up until that point I was thinking of adding that list to a set of programming resources I'm sending to a friend of mine who's been learning programming recently. And sure, she'll have to deal with that kind of attitude eventually, but I'm not going to throw it in with the basic training resources.

Talking about "teh womenz" is a good way to end up with a dearth of women in your general vacinity.
The real question is, given the terrible performance of the RenRen IPO (which was hyped up lot), how will LinkedIn perform tomorrow? Anyone have a guess?
Sure, it's got some market value in general, but how much is it worth accumulated in a single place?

The same as its market value in general.

Large parts of the reserve cannot be spent, used, distributed in any significant way. So how much that gold backing part of the system really worth?

I believe you're referring to the U.S. gold reserve at Fort Knox?

That reserve is worth its value to the owners (U.S. citizens) as an asset. For example, your family might have an expensive set of solid gold and silver cutlery, continually handed down. It's never actually used, and is kept stored away. However, if one generation of your family loses absolutely everything, at least the gold and silver cutlery would be one valuable asset your family could cash in on.

Not saying that it's reasonable to suspect otherwise, but at the moment it seems we use money, because the government tells us it's OK to do so and what the value is. Is it really the gold backing anything in that case?

President Nixon removed the U.S. dollar convertibility into gold in 1971. It is not gold backing that currently gives the dollar its value.
As most, if not all, learning books have you do exactly as you listed I'm not exactly sure why you're against starting with books.

It's just a rule of thumb.

Most books are just crap. I own a lot of them and have read most of them. They're great for programmers. From experience handing them to complete newbies, they're awful. Once you get past the tutorial they turn into a few hundred pages of greek. As well, being even over a hundred pages makes the book an investment for a newbie and most people are lazy. If the book is too thick it'll get lost under papers and forgotten promptly.

That being said, not all books are like this. I am considering handing out copies of The Little Schemer to any friend who is interested in programming. It's succinct, well-written, and teaches just one thing -- concepts. It doesn't teach a language, theory, libraries, and list a few example programs. Just one thing. That's enough for a newbie.

So that's why I say, just do a tutorial first before you delve into a book. Learn only enough that you can muck around and make a few basic things to impress yourself with and decide whether you're having a good time.

It's humour. Relax.

It's not really funny. Not because I'm humorless and uptight. It's just not funny.

That's why it says "other hobbies". "Other", as in "in addition to" or "besides this one".

Misunderstood. Fair enough.
Google chairman: Internet blacklists make us more like China
This is about control, and corruption. Keeping the policy erratic and temporary gives SF politicos ongoing power.
IMHO this is a sisyphean task, new policy has opened Pandora's box with questions popping up from it in a much faster rate that can be answered.
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twitter xAuth is not secure. Why do you want me to hand over my username/password to a third party service?
Seems like a fun project!

Does anyone know what the practical use of something like this would be?
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But every new miner decreases the output of each mining rig. Posts about spending and using bitcoins benefit those who have bitcoins far more than "Free money" posts do.
Could you elaborate on what unarguable, inherent value bitcoin has?

Tobacco and alcohol at least have direct use value, even if nobody will trade you for them. Bitcoin is useless without it's exchangeability.
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Or for that matter, display the actual twitter.com page and keylog the credentials. It's a native app, after all.
having to pay big retention bonuses tends to have a significant downward impact on the value at acquisition.
| "So, 'let's whack off the DNS'. Okay, that seems like an appealing solution but it sets a very bad precedent because now another country will say 'I don't like free speech so I'll whack off all those DNSs' -- that country would be China.

How exactly does one whack off a DNS? That seems pretty inappropriate.
And that's exactly what xAuth is. It just drops the pretense that oAuth inside a developer-controlled webview is trusted, authenticates directly using email/password, and then stores a token like oAuth.
What percentage of dark matter could this explain?
Seatbelts protect you from stupidity. So does antivirus on windows, when it works.
Venmo's privacy settings need work. You can't hide the $ amount and publish only the payment description. You can either publish it to all friends or keep the whole payment private.
somewhere between "damn kids, get off my lawn" and "things were better in my day"

i have noticed that whenever i speak about anything, anywhere, there's some guy who always gets up and asks "what if that's bad or wrong?"

this guy just happens to have access to a major bully pulpit.
China piracy cost U.S. firms $48 billion in 2009
Not every great hacker team wants to deal with marketing, sales, bureaucracy and other chores of running a company.
It always strikes me as overly audacious when anybody makes a quantitative claim about how much piracy costs, as if they know how many people would have paid, had pirated alternatives been unavailable, and the benefits of viral marketing.

Also: "It also concluded 2.1 million jobs could be created in the United States if China complied with its current international obligations to protect and enforce intellectual property rights."

Really?
You can say shit on the internet.
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Couldn't agree more. As much as I dislike Gruber's style (all snark, all the time) the man is intelligent. How he does not see that less sharing of credentials equals better security is beyond me. This is clearly a security win. Definitely a usability loss but welcome to infosec. That is the battle.
I've added my email and twitter to the main readme, would be great to hear from you.
They all wish. Shouldn't the "convicted felon" be at the top?
So pretty much a shit sandwich from Twitter. The thing is Twitter probably would not have been nearly as successful without all the 3rd party mobile apps, and now Twitter is screwing with the people that contributed to Twitter's own success.
> Honeycomb is still proprietary, isn't it?

It is proprietary but users have enormously more freedom than they do with the iPad. Just the ability to side load apps makes a universe of difference. Further I'd be very surprised if most of the current crop of tablets don't get the upgrade to (open source) ice cream sandwich at the end of the year.

> And Motorola is notorious for locking down its devices

The Xoom bootloader is unlocked, so presuming ICS gets released it should be possible for people to flash it on there even if Motorola doesn't want to do it.
If you actually read it you would see that its Sarah at her best (making good big picture conclusions based on sound evidence) instead of her worst (gossiping shallowly about something she doesn't really understand.)
How do you know that you are real and actually not a stimulation by some kid in another very advanced world?
Do you like to be tortured by this kid, due to the lack of legal entities in that world that protect your consciousness?
Is it the feeling that it won't be easy (if it's possible at all) to get Free Software on these systems?
Pretty sure Emacs has menus:

http://jrock.us/emacs-menus.png
So you're saying that there's 37 8x10 color glossies, with circles and arrows, and a paragraph on the back of each one?
The big problem with his "stuck in traffic" scenario is how do you find the space to take off. Not to mention the legality of the whole thing.

Granted, it's a really cool demo, but he needs to admit that there is little real-world practicality.
> Accidental stupidity ("our database got hacked") won't.

How does this apply to native clients?

> So if you actually want to protect your users, you can now take yourself out of the loop.

That doesn't even begin to make sense for a native client. Insofar as it comes to security, trust, and data storage, the native client is the user, and they can't be taken out of the loop.

This differs quite a bit from a web service, which is a situation in which OAuth actually makes sense.
change it. people need to be able to spell it correctly in google. the downside is that you must find another name as unique (in search terms) as this.
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There are several orders of magnitude fewer neurons in the fly vs humans. For the fly, we are reconstructing neural processes using EM slices that range from 50 nm to 7 nm in thickness. At that scale, we can reconstruct neural processes and actually see synapses -- just because neurons are in proximity doesn't mean they are actually connected in the biological sense. Since I'm not as familiar with human neurons, could you tell me at 10 microns, can you resolve the axons, dendrites, and more importantly the synapses?

Any references to papers would be great :)
I agree. I think it can be easily implemented as a slight modification to a standard terminal: bind some UNIX socket, announce the address in an environment variable, and then accept connections and commands from applications that are interested in enhancing their output.
I think the browser has become quite a bit more stable since the last release but I still run into more issues with it while browsing then I generally do with firefox or opera. I work at microsoft so I'm also a little biased against ie9 after dogfooding the beta bits due to peer pressure.
Pretty typical from zdnet. That site is mostly garbage.

Just as Gruber doesn't say nice things about Microsoft and/or Windows, neither do Ed Bott and Mary Jo Foley say nice things about Apple and/or OS X.

Ed Bott's Windows Expertise: http://www.edbott.com/weblog/

Ed Bott's Microsoft Report: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott

Mary Jo Foley's All About Microsoft: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft

You can safely ignore 95% of everything these guys say about what they perceive to be the opposition. They make Gruber's bias look like child's play.
You must not have parents with computers. It's not stupidity - it's the assumption that what you see on the screen isn't actively lying to you. For somebody accustomed to being told that the computer is always right, this is a hard thing to grasp, and attitudes like yours really don't help.
Awesome. My only concern is the time to set up the wings, which seems quite a work. He says the wings are under a zipper, and there's the big mast that needs to be raised, this can't be quick.
No, that organization has other interests to protect while this one would be democratic and transparent. I am serious guys.
Good stuff. We had some issues along these lines at my last job. We were never clever enough to auto-restart though and just perodically restarted things manually and disabled opcode caching.
His focus is on serving the third world. It is clear in the video you need a runway and you don't have one when stuck in traffic. Or probably the room you need to deploy the wing.

I think he should play up the fact that this takes off with half the speed Marty McFly would need to turn on his flux capacitor.
I had a similar problem for an HCI project where we used a Greek word as the name and we got reamed in our reviews for the name being "unusable." I'd say change it -- it doesn't evoke any connotations for the user nor is it easily pronounceable.
The only logical use case is as a driving plane, because using it as a car more than the absolute minimum necessary would be prohibitively expensive.

First: insurance. You would have to insure it as both a plane and as a car, and insurance companies aren't going to know how to handle that, which means they'll either refuse to touch it or charge a premium. Even if such vehicles became common enough for insurance companies to get comfortable with them, they're still probably on the expensive side for cars, and repairing collision damage on airplanes costs a lot more than repairing comparable damage on cars. That's not normally such a big deal because collisions are much less common for airplanes, but with this vehicle you would combine the high collision risk of a car with the high repair costs of an airplane.

Second, and more importantly: maintenance. The FAA requires that periodic inspections and preventative maintenance be conducted at regular intervals, and those intervals are defined in terms of the number of hours the engine has been operating[1]. Airplane maintenance is way more expensive than car maintenance, but every hour you drive this thing on the road will count as an hour towards maintenance required at airplane rates.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tach_Timer
It takes about 5 minutes, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8b0oR0-Pgo&feature=playe...
It's pretty easy with open source products ;)
Exactly. I think the only 'practical' use would be in very rural areas (where laws may be very lax...or bendable).
Due to the way Android garbage collects & prunes processes, it depends. It's a task switcher/recent apps view.
It takes years to build an overnight success.
You know they launched XP in 2001, right?

and that it'll be supported until 2014?

I think that's actually a remarkably good track record of supporting an operating system (for comparison, Debian EOL'd 2.2 in 2003)

I also think Microsoft cares entirely too much about it's users (to the detriment of advancing the platform for fear of incompatibility).

Putting Debian on that Netbook was a smart move though, Windows 7 Starter Edition is an embarassment (it's very close to being cripple-ware), and while all I hear from people who use Netbooks is that "they perform just fine for surfing the web and emailing", I didn't find that to be the case with Windows 7 installed (but it really does run fine with Linux).
Interesting discussion here, but I just want to highlight one point: consciousness happens not because of the brain, but actually of his interaction with the external world.

So Designing a brain won't make consciousness. If constructing a brain model needs $1.61Bn, then constructing the virtual world might need a dozen and may be more. After that, uploading a brain copy to the brain computer and a world copy to the world computer will create a real person like you.

No one actually can prove his existence. We are a bunch of mixed senses. And since this can be a stimulation, we can't prove that we are real and we do exist. Certainly, you can know who is behind you (and probably there is someone); but only by committing suicide.

But an interesting question that pops in my mind: Does our world allow more than one self-awareness existence? That is, if I upload my mind to a computer which is stimulating my same world, wouldn't it be me?
Yes, he drove it 1400 miles, and it does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, with a top speed over 95 mph. In the air it goes 40 mph, so it's definitely more able as a car. But it's also a boat and a snowmobile! "The propeller has 3 uses: in the air, on the water with pontoons, and on the ice it'll really go."
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And here it is taking off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN6IlPBNRMQ
Vancouver is climatically bankrupt (exception: Apr - Oct, then its the most beautiful place, heaven on earth!). Costs are about half of what you're paying. I lived there for a decade and went to college there, let me know if you want to know more.
A real "legal advice" is a professional advice, as is ascertained by the board, which gave license to the person (lawyer), who is qualified to dispense such legal advice. Giving a "legal advice" when the giver is not licensed to give such advice is dangerous to public interest, and is discouraged through laws and customs.

Now, any person can give any other person an advice on legal matters, as long as the target of the advice is not fooled into thinking that he got the real certified stuff. To stay on the right side of the customs the easiest thing to do is to confess to lack of credentials and make things abundantly clear by directing the other person to the real professional after expressing your initial concern or opinion.

Now, it might seem backwards to you, and you might expect that the default would be "people talk shit all the time, so no one should listen unless the speaker actually provides credentials". This is how it works in most areas, but not all. In particular law and health are two areas where the state saw it fit to go out of the way to protect the least savvy members of society by twisting the default setting the other way around.

Obviously, this is not a legal advice on how to give legal advices, or any other matter.
You can get access to the gestures back by connecting your iPad to XCode.
I was simply supplying what a solution was--which has nothing to do with Google's likelihood to implement it.
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The IPO is going to fare well. It's LinkedIn after all, most people have heard of it and many will want to get in, despite not knowing the revenues, because in this environment they are more worried about being left out.

Not a criticism, maybe the revenues will in fact justify the valuation, I don't know.
let's just hope none of them come our way
How do you verify if a domain has a google apps account? I actually need this for a different, legitimate purpose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_Compact_Halo_Object

Basicly, there is not enough baryonic matter (stuff like protons and neutrons) in the universe to explain the observed effects of dark matter without invalidating a lot of other observations.
I remember getting a frantic call from someone about this. The SF network was an example of what not to do :)
It seems like the takeoff distance could be greatly reduced if they were able to momentarily use both the wheels and prop. That or some type of mechanism that detects when the front wheels are leaving the ground and switches to the prop.
"worthless"? More like "worth 18.7 million"!
This approach which is very common completely breaks the security OAuth was designed for.

If my app hosts the browser control, then there's nothing stopping me injecting custom javascript into the page to listen for input events.

Not to mention having to store the key / secret in the app (unless you use a proxy).

OAuth fails for mobile.
Companies that actually build things have two enemies when it comes to patent warfare. The first is competing companies that also build stuff. The best defense against them is obtaining a large patent trove. This creates a mutually assured patent destruction situation, shielding the company from competitors' patents.

The second enemy is patent trolls. They don't actually build anything, so defensive patents are useless.

Because of this, the most prudent thing for a company to do is aggressively acquire patents with one hand, and lobby for the abolishment of these patents with the other hand.
The only way to do it securely is the way Flickr's App does it with Yahoo OAuth. Launch Safari. Terrible experience, but very secure.
I hadn't considered the case of updating whois information. However, to resolve that issue I'd simply provide a mechanism where you could flag your account as pending an authorized whois update. Then, when the whois is updated, google would not take any action since the update was pre-approved by yourself.
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Our business hosts off of AWS and two other hosting providers, in addition to utilizing Cloudkick, Sendgrid, Geckoboard, Dynect, and Chartbeat.

It is my job every day to "worry" about how PAAS providers might not be able to deliver services to my business.

We're now in contact with Cloudflare to see how we might progress, but understand that a random posting that says "don't worry" without any substantial background makes me worry.
I was a long time Opera user and love its configurability and full keyboard support for general browsing, but the Chromium dev tools won me over from a developer perspective and I disliked switching between the two.
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