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You threatened me with the handgun that you said you had in your manhattan apartment, stalked me, publicized my profiles on various websites in an IRC channel ostensibly about programming, violated (plagiarized) the intellectual property of some nice people I'm rather fond of, lied about the former and continue to do so and to top it all off...

...keep trying to play the nice guy act because now you have some skin in the reputation game because of your nodejitsu thing.

No, I'm not going anywhere. People deserve to know what a scumbag you are, especially if they're going to be doing business with you. They can make their own decisions after they have the facts.

N.B. His behavior against me was triggered by my calling him out for not apologizing for plagiarizing code.
http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/

Googling for "praise effort not intelligence" will turn up a bunch more references, but most of them (at a glance) are referencing the same work by the same individual(s) (Dweck, et al). I didn't have this saved in my pinboard, so I had to go find it again.

I have to snark a little about a giftie not investigating this for themselves. (snark snark snark) :-)
Brightcove (an online video platform based in Cambridge) has APIs for content CRUD and player customization. There are open source SDKs available here: https://github.com/brightcoveos
I fail to understand why public services get shut down because they're 'not profitable'. I don't want my government to be 'profitable', I want it to provide services for the greater good of 'the people', of which I am occasionally a member.

Police and fire departments don't get shut down because their EPS was well below guidance, and schools aren't closed because they don't have a clear revenue picture for the next quarter. Congress has been going for over two hundred years and they've never once been in the black.

Yet libraries, parks, and public transit should all be 'profitable'? I'm confused.
Europeans think its sewer water, and you have to wear (or be) a wife beater to drink it. North American's think its gold -- At least here in Vancouver, its usually the most expensive thing at the bar and people only buy it if they're really treating themselves. I think it tastes fine (not great, but definitely not bad).
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It's been a LOT worse this year with the Pirelli tires compared to the Bridgestones of last year.
thanks for this one, I'll add it to the list
probably is bud light now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_InBev
Which one should i select for building a website? Django or Zend
Hi,
I want to run a website.I am a newcomer to web although i experienced c++ development.
My concerns for website are:
- Security, mainly for user account/password
- Scale, to some degree it will decide my success or failure
- Performance to access
- Potential functions with Web Instant Messager embedded in Browser(could be light consideration now).
Based on the above, should i select Django or Zend?
Thanks in advance, your opinion does matter for me :)
AHAHAHA! Hilarious troll. Now I remember why we had to ask you to leave the #node.js irc room.
It's not a proper balance unless it has provisions to dissuade those who misuse the process. "Lol our bad" and putting it back up, with no compensation for that downtime or penalty for false accusations doesn't actually do anything.
Just because the title doesn't make it clear, this is an episode of a Ruby-themed, discussion-oriented podcast (which I'm on) where we discuss templating languages like Haml, ERB, Sass, etc.
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Speaking of pharmaceutical patents, I'd like to see two changes:

1. There should be automatic licensing of the patent to anyone who wishes to make the drug, at a royalty rate on gross sales determined by statute. I'm thinking something around 5%.

2. The patent term should be extended from 20 years to something like 100 years.

The idea here is that drug companies invest huge amounts in developing new drugs. Many of these don't even pan out. Some make it into production, and they are patented for 20 years. The drug company then has to charge a lot to make up for that huge investment before the patent expires, and the generics come on market.

So, for the first 20 years we consumers pay something like $30-50/month (after insurance--it could be $200 or more a month without insurance) for these drugs until they go generic, then it drops to around $4/month (and that is without insurance!).

Under my proposal, the generics would come out right away, for maybe around $5/month, and the original company would make back its investment over a very long term instead of needing to make it back over a relatively short term.
I absolutely agree. It's just that I think he meant that normally, when someone feels threatened about something that might really hurt him, it will be quite hard for him to react smartly and calmly and much more likely that he would freak out.
Ah! Good to know.

He definitely had the most memorable--and cathartic--pitch that night.
Great news for related sites too -- I'm thinking of Quora and Namesake.

Quora has been able to thrive and create a truly compelling site in a short time, even with LinkedIn Answers having so many numbers in its favor.

Namesake has been getting traction and executing well -- their valuation has definitely just gone up as well.
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To the comments in the posting re: CentOS release cycle. Might I suggest looking at Scientific Linux (SL) http://www.scientificlinux.org/. This is also a derivative of RHEL sponsored by Fermilab & CERN for the scientific community.
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The perfect solution for what? Annoying regular users?
No one asked me to leave, and there was certainly no "we" involved.

At the time you were dox'ing me, I was busy (getting ready to take a trip to SE Asia IIRC), and mostly absent. When I saw what was going on in my logs, I left of my own choice, no one said anything to me except for a couple members of the community that told me what you were doing.

Anybody (what few I did) that I spoke to about the incident were quite perturbed by your behavior.

I don't think you're actually capable of understanding how inappropriate and erratic you were acting.
Under the Conclusions section:

"The United States needs a means of space access that costs much less than the current launch systems. Foreign competition continues to chip away at the US commercial launch industry. A dramatic expansion in military, civil, and commercial space initiatives could help fuel a technology-based economic revitalization in the United States, but this expansion will not come about unless drastic reductions in space launch costs are achieved." (emphases mine)

SpaceX has done a lot towards meeting the goal of providing drastically cheaper launch vehicles. Their cost per launch is far cheaper than what NASA was able to deliver. Even in 1994 it was apparent that commercial space flight would -- at least in part -- be the key to keeping the United States in space.
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Dehumanisation could be arguably not as applicable as some of the others but it isn't difficult to see parallels between a 'number in a prison' and an avatar; In a forum, the person can address the avatar without thought of the individual (human) behind it.

I don't think my point was anything to do with surveillance. It is an interesting thought that Zimbardo would draw that conclusion though.
Yes, Twitter is interested in keeping casual API developers such as yourself. It's the people who wish to make full Twitter clients or base businesses upon their API who are being made to feel unwelcome.
Any article on zombie apocalypse preparedness that doesn't even mention shotguns is obviously worthless.
I think it's more that if the BSD guys are interested in keeping gnome available for BSD, they have the freedom to port it, or implement the interfaces that gnome requires/expects.
that is not a straight forward question since it depends a lot on the car and how you are driving. for instane, is it an automatic, is it a manual, is it an electrohydraulic with automatic clutch, double clutch, dog-shift gearbox, how responsive is the throttle etc. also, are you driving on a loose surface, tarmac, icy conditions? what does the torque curve of the engine look like (for instance, does your car have a whopping big turbo that has to be kept above a certain RPM to have power on tap?)

in an ordinary car: use your right foot. it is likely that this is what you are used to so your right-foot motor skills (pun intended) will be significantly better. if you have tried to brake with your left foot, and you are not used to it, you have no doubt experienced that you will tend to apply too much brake too quickly. and at the other end: if you have a braking system that takes a lot of force and you have grippy tyres, your left foot will probably significantly weaker as well.

if you want to play around with it a bit I can recommend gokarting. gokarting is brilliant for practicing braking with your left foot as most rental gokarts have crap tyres that are real easy to lock up at even modest brake inputs :)
Pacman doesn't verify the integrity of packages before installing them. This is a pretty major security hole, in my opinion.

If you're concerned about running a secure and stable production server, Arch should probably be your last choice.

Don't get me wrong, I think Arch is a fine distro, I just think rolling releases are a scary idea for production servers.
It's nice to remember that real people are there behind the apps.
First of all, this is awesome. Thank you!

Secondly, I am reading through this and came across this:

14. Should I still be a programmer?
"I lack the fundamentals of Computer Science, the things every programmer should know: Algo's, Data Structures, Operating Systems an understanding of compilers and being profficient with linux."

Relax. That's true for 99% of all programmers.

I feel like I am in the same exact boat as the original poster. However, I am a senior in college who has several interviews lined up. I have interviewed several times before and always flop on the "fundamental questions". Is there any further advice someone can give me? Thanks in advanced.
Any money Twitter makes is a result of Twitter having users. It doesn't matter if they're selling member data or charging for the service: they need people to use the service, one way or the other. If they wish to have me in their inventory to 'sell', they'd better provide a service I wish to use. Yes, free members are customers.

What happens to businesses who ignore their customer base? They lose them. I hope you don't operate your own business with an attitude such as that.
I've always thought Raskin's ZUI held some promise as an alternative UI paradigm. I'm pretty much a quicksilver addict now and use that to kind of combine the command line and GUI desktop worlds a little bit more at least.
I didn't hold much hope for systemd when I realized it was being done by the same people that came up with PulseAudio.
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I know nothing about systemd in particular.

One thing you can say about current Linux windows managers is that they are held-back by the overall system's latency.

That is, some random script starts somewhere starts while you're in the middle of typing something and you're like "why am I suddenly crawling?"

In that sense, demanding that the graphic system have more control over services in general actually seems rational. Today, BSD, Linux and Solaris have lots of resources as server OSes but its pretty clear none of the server developers give a toss about the latency issues of the Linux Desktop. Concentrating on one OS would let them patch-to-suit so this might actually quite good.

At the same time, the reason the current Gnome panels main-menu takes umpteen seconds to appear is that they feel compelled to each time parse the pathological menus format specified by Freedesktop.org. And so there's lots of other stuff to do to go present to a desktop that "spritely".
Have your sales increased due to it?
If only there was some way we could verify any of this. Ohh yeah, http://nodejs.debuggable.com <= Full logs of the node.js room.

So what is this troll accusing me of doing? I've threatened you with a gun? Let's jump to 09/02/2010. I am "JimBastard", and you are "callen".

[21:31] JimBastard: would any judges who wants to promote testing in nodejs vote for our project? with an hour or two to go we are trailing by a very slim margin for the utility category. the leading team had more judges vote on their stuff, so they have a higher weighted score.
[21:32] tjholowaychuk: JimBastard: which one is above?
[21:32] sschuermann: JimBastard: What are oyu pointing out to?
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[21:33] JimBastard: tjholowaychuk: we are being edged out by, http://nodeknockout.com/teams/prague-js . seems like a good project, but i feel ours has more long lasting utility
[21:33] JimBastard: i wouldnt want someone to vote for us without looking at both projects objectively
[21:33] JimBastard: we are, http://nodeknockout.com/teams/the-nyc-nodejitsu-ninjas
[21:34] callen: JimBastard: if I give you a gun, will you start shooting people who complain about javascript's type system?
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[21:34] JimBastard: callen: for 5 star votes right now, ill do just about anything
[21:34] JimBastard: also, i have my own gun so just tell me who
[21:35] JimBastard: :p
[21:35] jesusabdullah: While I wish my own project was doing better, I really liked the idea of prenup
[21:35] callen: JimBastard: grumpy java bastard trying to learn js. driving me nuts.

What's up troll?
I loved your reaction.

But this isn't about your attitude, this is about far more serious things: Beer. Leaving Germany for good end of this month and - well.. Israel's beers are f...ing (well, it's kind of on topic with your app, isn't it?) baaad. So my choice in the future, after being spoiled in a country of beer drinkers, is

* Local brand starts with G (Ugh...)

* Local brand starts with M (Really. Life's too short to drink that)

* Weihenstephan (which seems to be from Germany, but the fact that I never heard about it here gives away how decent it is. Seems like an export-only product)

* Stella

So - rest assured: You're not alone. If you remove all the better alternatives, Stella is really okay. Kind of.
If you're going down the Gnome-as-an-OS rabbit hole, why not just build a distro? Integrate things as tightly as possible and provide the best possible user experience. This just seems like a poor choice otherwise.
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This is absolutely absurd on so many levels. There is a thread going around the desktop-devel mailing lists about the GnomeOS. I just don't get the rationale and, frankly, I think the Gnome community is being myopic and shortsighted.

However, I think there might be something more subtle at play here. Redhat. It's well known for some time that Redhat was providing the majority of funding for Gnome either in dollars or people hours. If Redhat could exert their influence over the rather influential Gnome project (Gnome is not known for strong internal leadership nor strong political/business acumen), it could potentially pull of something it has been trying to do for years: hurt Ubuntu.

That being said, it seems Ubuntu has been making the moves necessary to be less dependent on Gnome/GTK. I hate to sound all corporate espionagy but this really feels less about Gnome and more about the corporate players.

And leaving the tinfoil hat realm, if this is all about Gnome and what they want...I feel this is going to be a rough road and they don't have an idea what it really means to build an OS and being responsible for everything: upstream development, apps, drivers, hardware....the list goes on.
Do I have to repeat the mantra, "Security is not a product, it's a process" to satisfy your pedantic streak?

Why is it that you assume that I am not educating my users just because I am looking into Mac anti-virus software? Did I say that anti-virus software is the end-all be-all of security?

I have windows users here also. Every one of them runs anti-virus, and it has saved my department countless hours cleaning or rebuilding machines. I have the metrics to prove it.

If you really think that an enterprise can get along with education alone, you clearly have not spent much time in the IT support trenches, dealing with the average computer user.
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Hello HN,

I am currently a CS undergrad and just received a response for a position as an intern at an IT company developing tools.

I was wondering if anyone could suggest some material to review prior to the interview. The job description was vague concerning pre-requisite skills and I have a very solid foundation, but this being my first technical interview I'd appreciate any help I can get.

Thanks!
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The comparison is a bit flawed. It would be rather odd to say that Twitter is trying to shift usage of their service to official clients out of 'malice'. Clearly, they feel it's a business strategy that is in their best interest. That could be due to stupidity, but I don't think they're out to specifically cause trouble for developers. A reasonable guess is that they're working on restructuring the business to make it easier to make revenue, and are displaying apathy and a lack of gratitude towards developers.
Care to do an analysis of the impact to your app's sales when this is all over?
I'm interested too. Nokia hasn't been able to sell many Maemo phones, I'm not sure how having Windows Phone 7 would really improve that. They seem really good at selling cheap phones, but not smartphones. Maybe with Microsoft's marketing muscle they'll do better.
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Lol....

[15:09] <JimBastard_> ive got like 200+ gigs of VSTs
[15:10] <JimBastard_> and then like 30gb of just drum samples
[15:10] <callen> listentorick: here's how this works
[15:10] <JimBastard_> pretty much every VST i could find over a 5 year period
[15:10] <callen> listentorick: you mention something JimBastard_ thinks he knows about, then he one ups you
[15:10] <nefD> you can use it as a musical scratchpad if you want to mess around, you can use it in live settings (pun intended) very well (at least, in my experience), and its extremely competent for full fledged composition
[15:10] <callen> listentorick: best thing to do: don't bother.
[15:10] <listentorick> :)
[15:10] <caolanm> haha
[15:10] <JimBastard_> always with the personal attacks, everytime
[15:10] <JimBastard_> i've never produced or released any music
[15:10] <JimBastard_> http://myspace.com/yeoldewreckingshoppe
[15:11] <listentorick> when I create the killer app which I'm failing to think of, I'll get a shiny mac
[15:11] <JimBastard_> (links a shitty myspace that hasnt been updated in years)
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[15:12] <callen> JimBastard_: at least I don't sit on IRC one-upping people when they're discussing their passions.
[15:12] <JimBastard_> no, you are just a hater who doesnt produce anything and attacks people he is jealous of
[15:12] <callen> :)
Stella is the beer which snobs love to hate- because it's marketed different in America than Europe. (Note to self- don't ever let your brand fall into that trap)

There are few topics as polarizing and annoyingly superficial as which beer is "piss-water" and which beer is "good beer."
no, he was talking about there being three different settings for the three different phases of the corner.

during friday and saturday sessions they will gather data to find optimum diff settings for the different corners. then during the race all three settings will be controled by a single knob. you can sometimes see drivers fiddle with the diff knob during in-car shots in the race. (you also sometimes see them letting go of the wheel with one hand to adjust the brake bias setting -- which for some reason is often not on the wheel)
Looked at it. Very cool but I'm looking at browser based games for now. It seems to be only mobile.
I've always thought Stella was the beer hipsters drink now that everyone knows about Pabst.
Slightly off topic but considering the volume of fake-anti-malware programs, I wonder what proportion of porn is distributed not with any intention of titillation but as pure threat - "here, this proves your is infected, pay-up".

By that token, I wonder if at point, malware "companies" might actually pay have new "threat-porno" produced. "No, it doesn't need look good but make it really offensive and scary"
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Let's go find your last days on the IRC. I'm trying to have conversations about servers and you are interrupting us with...I don't even know.

[09:20] JimBastard: yeah, with rackspace i get to control the guy going to the rack with a REST api
[09:20] JimBastard: hrmmm, i need more traffic on our sites right now so i can stress test the new fucking proxy version
[09:21] V1: The 3 minute install is only possible if you actually have rackspace account
[09:21] JimBastard: V1: aye
[09:21] JimBastard: <3 rackspace
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[09:24] callen: JimBastard: boo
[09:24] JimBastard: ?
[09:25] callen: JimBastard: ?_?
[09:26] callen: JimBastard: you know Hans Zimmer?
[09:26] JimBastard: from the die hard movies? yeah
[09:26] callen: lots more than that, but sure.
[09:26] callen: JimBastard: pure dramatic orchestra kitsch. It's like cotton candy with string and brass instruments.
[09:26] callen: JimBastard: I am addicted ;_;

This is the last thing I saw from you on IRC:

[01:21] callen: JimBastard: boo.
[01:22] HAITI: cheers
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[01:22] JimBastard: ?

(nt for a while)

[03:09] callen: JimBastard: wake up.

( i stopped responding at this point , no point getting trolled on IRC )
It's not necessarily that systemd needs something available only under Linux, but it was designed from the start to run only on Linux. Its author didn't want to care about other operating systems and wanted to use all the nice things available under Linux, e.g. cgroups.
The RFC in question: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bmoeller-tls-falsestart-00
I'm not sure GNOME is becoming a Linux-only project, but if it were, I wouldn't see anything wrong with that. I think it is somehow similar to the window manager issue from a few years ago, where some people wanted GNOME to support lots of different window managers, which meant they had to work around the quirks in each of them, or limit the functionality to the lowest common denominator.

Sometimes, an issue in the desktop environment needs some deep digging for proper fixing. Having to dig deep into each of the supported platforms is daunting and will probably lead to a worse user experience. So I think they should just pick their platform and work on it.

Nobody expects Apple, for example, to support the Mac OS X UI on different kernels/platforms, even though Darwin is very Unix-like. Apple actually go one further and only support their own hardware. Why can't GNOME focus like Apple does?
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The majority of malware we're seeing right now is not coming from porn or filesharing but from advertising networks on popular websites, poisoned Google search results, and the like.