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Based on your personal experience, you may well know more about this industry than I do. But I certainly had the impression that, while spamming is LESS profitable today, that it still had a net-positive income flow. This impression came from sources like this: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/2008-ccs-spamal... (admittedly, 3 years old).

A brief dip into unprofitability will not destroy the industry because (as you say) another dozen n00bs will join. But I believe that an extended period (say, a year or two) might kill it off -- the "n00bs" could not operate without the extensive infrastructure of tools and those WOULD be damaged or destroyed by unprofitibility.
Aren't they behind a password/NDA wall? Perhaps I didn't see that information when I was looking at it?
. Making money, he said, was not seen as a good thing to do. “The culture is changing, but it will take time.”

There's your marketing problem. If being an entrepreneur was only about making money, I wouldn't want my culture to encourage it either. They should focus less on materialism and more on making a difference and creating jobs.
Glad to hear that, I'm picking mine up today. And this move from Samsung just made me even more happier. The future is looking bright.
Excellent article. The Mickey Mouse Protection Act always made me uneasy. What's to say they don't extend protection yet again? Perpetual copyrights are no less than tyranny in a media society.

This article talks about an instance where works that had previously gone into public domain were brought out of it. Granted, this was done to bring US law in line with International Treaties. It still feels wrong though.
This is a brilliant article.

It captures everything that's gone wrong with the Indian software services industry — no emphasis on curiosity, exploration, or problem solving. If you think about it for a moment, that's also exactly what's wrong with CS education in the country.

I've been trying to hire a good engineer for the last four months to expand our dev team. We're not a startup — we're part of one of the largest ad/PR networks in the world. We're great paymasters and offer the opportunity to work on some really cool products. And we're based in New Delhi, India.

I've met at least 10 people in the last eight weeks — all of them engineers, and none of them seem to know what we're talking about the moment we say things like NLP or Node. In fact, they're not even curious. Just scared, and uninterested in being pushed out of their comfort zone. For eg, one guy told me he ONLY does PHP using the Cake framework. I asked if he had played around with any other framework, he said no. The only reason he was stuck with Cake was because the place he worked at said Cake, he learnt Cake and he used Cake ever since. I asked about MVC and I got a blank look.

I just wish I could come across another computer engineer (outside the existing team) who's curious about programming, who still thinks it's magical when the code you write translates in to cool stuff happening on your screen and in boxes all over the world. Who realizes that you're not writing software, you creating an experience for a user and every bit matters.

Either they're terribly hard to find, or I don't know where to look :)
Yes, but it's ABI incompatible with 32-bit or full 64-bit. https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/ is an implementation.
Skype down. Again.
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It is a truly excellent phone. Two minor faults: no notification led, in-call volume could be higher.
I don't think that makes much difference, as long as it's performed at compile time.
While there is no Technical Merit in Infosys training he and I both went through, I think there is a definite value add in therms of the exposure and connections to so many people from so many places.

It would be hard to digest, but you will know that most people (in these trainings) can't do what you would think is a SQL with basic join. And if you are among the one that can, you are the star and in the top percentile. :)
The biggest problem is that we dont have "easy money" in europe and there is no real tech hub like the valley around here.

Investors want to know upfront how you plan to make money and phrases like "we will figure this out later" wont help you if you need to raise money.

If this sort of thinking changes maybe we will see more billion dollar companies in europe.
I'm afraid to ask what version of IE you use, since I succeed to drag the bookmarklet in IE9 :) I've found the following workaround for IE users:

1. Right-click on the link

2. Select "Add to Favorites"

3. Click "Yes" on security warning

4. Select "Favorites Bar" from the "create in" dropdown

5. Click "Add" button
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Social and networking are two diverse words which are when joined together kind a enormous concept. There is no doubt that net has modified this planet into a world-wide village. Everyone has his or her online presence.
I was expecting to see something completely unsolvable on a trackpad.

But I was proven wrong: http://i.imgur.com/QO8pY.png

This looks pretty sweet, I wonder how the shape matching works.
>PG mentioned that his firm never managed to get a NYT article.

At the same time though, this is an airport and government bullying, not some tech startup. I know we have our heads deep in this tech world, but come up for air for a minute and see that the differences in topic area might have had some kind of influence too.
> the judgment of peers and superiors, augmented with whatever metrics are deemed useful.

No. That's merely saying "Their performance should be measured" with a few more words.

> augmented with whatever metrics are deemed useful.

So, once again, I repeat: What metrics are useful? You can't judge someone without knowing what metrics you are using.

> Just like most other jobs.

Most other jobs use specific metrics. When you come up for review, you know what you are being judged on. Take a sales position. The total revenue brought in, along with net profit from that revenue might be one metric that is useful. For programmers, meeting deadlines and customer needs consistently might be one of those metrics. For a writer, meeting deadlines for first draft, second draft, as well as overall sales of a book.

In the end, you are simply saying the same thing over and over again: Judge them by whatever useful means. You've yet to provide any opinion on what those useful means might be. If you don't know, just say you don't. But don't pretend like you are offering any insight. Essentially, you've answered the question of "What's air speed velocity of a laden swallow?" with the answer of "The air speed velocity of a laden swallow."
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Too soon for these suppositions.

It's like the "users don't scroll" myth. If a user is reading to the bottom of the page he will flick it up to see if there's more below. And it's the designer's job to make sure that the right content is findable above or below the fold.
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"Germany’s approach, which Mr. Davidson said typically starts with acquiring a deep understanding of the problem before making the decision to act was exactly the opposite of the culture he saw both in his home country of Israel and in America."

They should appreciate different approaches instead of calling them a "problem". It's ridiculous to tell the Germans to become more like America or Israel. The German strategy has its problems and so does America's.
The more relevant conclusion is that Gates/Allen could hack.
Wow, that's the exact opposite of what I ran into:

https://skitch.com/jameskilton/fdcir/motioncaptcha-demo

It's a good idea, just needs to be a little more on the lenient side for those of us who aren't artistically inclined.

Edit: Hmm if you go faster it has a fuzziness to it:

https://skitch.com/jameskilton/fdci7/motioncaptcha-demo
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2 legs good, 4 legs bad.
This is the result using cloc:

Bench files blank comment code
cpp 4 145 236 501
go 5 153 239 546
go_pro 5 132 233 457
java 8 151 352 605
java_pro 8 157 351 772
python 2 110 204 334
scala 2 104 224 384
scala_pro 2 59 62 230
Yes, and it's nice to avoid the increased memory overhead of running 32-bit GTK and 64-bit GTK. The increase in shared lib overhead is still fairly significant.
If Windows 7 was $30 I'd update my wife's two computers tomorrow. As is I see no reason to shell out over $200 for one upgrade from XP and one from Vista.
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Why does everything need to be just like Silicon Valley? Everything being like Wall Street certainly didn't help either.

I especially laughed at the line that perfectionism and proper engineering are bad for startups. This explains a lot. (Yes, when it comes to selling stuff that doesn't work and you don't need in the first place, Europe has a lot to learn. Every service-based industry does better in the US.)

Meanwhile, the amount of companies founded per year is on a steady rise, so there is a entrepreneurial movement, it's just different. Not saying that either approach is perfect, don't get me wrong. It's just that I don't get those "Europe is worse because it doesn't have companies like Facebook" articles.

Neither Europe nor the US has lots sweat shops with Asian conditions, are we both now hopelessly behind this and should mend our ways?
Seems like it would be quite a bit easier to solve than the current text-based capchas. You don't even need to do OCR.
If you don't like it, don't buy it.

That's not what vendor lock-in is about. Lock-in means that after you bought it, you can't reasonably switch to something better, something that commonly you didn't know about or that didn't exist when you made the initial buy. For example, when offering integrated services, lock-in might mean that they won't allow a third party to integrate with their suite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in
The only real businesses affected by this are Instapaper and Dropbox. The rest are just cool applications that our bubble media props up as enterprises.
Logic can be expressed mathematically, and you will be in a lot of trouble if you don't understand how it works... especially in programming.
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Google doesn't block you from releasing your own apps, though. They don't use the Market to enforce their interests (and if they would there's Amazon's app market etc).
Absolutely spot on. It's not lack of funds or the absence of a proper ecosystem, it's a huge cultural gap.

The whole school system is fundamentally broken. Since elementary school to the very last stages of university education I've been told to study, work hard and eventually, with time, gain access to some big and famous corporate in a responsability position, get a lifelong contract, settle down and enjoy life. That should have been my professional life goal.

Entrpreunership isn't even remotely considered. It's like it was 'none of my business', as companies were somehow a father-son 'inheritance'.
Add to that a very entrpreunership-adverse legislation (for an LLC equivalent in Italy you need a 20K deposit upfront and you'll be paying, at the end of the day, more than 50% of your profits in taxes) and you've got a recipe for disaster.

Also, the public opinion seems to have no or little interest in the matter, and the situation looks dreadfully stagnant.

Fortunately, there are sparks of cultural changes lately, especially with the younger folks, but it's a change that won't happen overnight for sure.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be snarky. (Although if you're not a member of the dev program, I don't see why you care about this information?)
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I highly doubt that would be a factor in that decision.
1920x1080 is native resolution only for iMac 21.5-inch and Mac Book Pro 17-inch(1920 by 1200) so it probably isn't the most widely used resolution among apple users.
And most of 960 grid layouts actually use 940px for content (20 pixels are left for margins) - so that would fit with scrollbars anyway...
Also, even if you would have two sites using full 960px, you would still have to align windows with pixel perfect precision not to cut anything out.
LLVM is being used as a static compiler. There is no LLVM virtual machine - the compiler emits native machine code.
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True, this is not a story about generating investment interest but about attracting attention to the issue and painting the government as a villain. The story is favorable because it leads the audience to pre-judge the situation in favor of the current airport owners.
I would argue arithmetic is founded in logic, not the reverse. It's foolish to believe mathematics are anything more natural than an invention predicated on logical notions.
This is probably going to hurt performance a whole lot more than proper GC, because now the compiler throws in a whole bunch of retain/release statements where they aren't really needed.

Unless they're doing some pretty strong analysis to remove redundant reference operations.
I have a feeling that this will work like broadband to small towns. The major carriers are only marginally interested in making it work well right up until someone makes a move toward municipal broadband, and then suddenly everyone takes a great interest in providing service.

Until there's a viable competitor in the Linux space, Flash on x64 will continue to be a choice between several bad solutions.

The only thing that could change this would be if Arm CPUs started supporting the x64 instruction set. Then Android's position in the market would likely make a compelling business argument for a 64-bit Flash. I'm not holding my breath.
A brainstorming meeting is not a place to offer harsh critique. I think it's okay to offer variations of an idea during a brainstorm, but not outright critique. This is a situation where you want creativity to flow. After the brainstorming, everyone needs to think critically about the ideas and have a time for debate when deciding what to execute.

So to answer your question, it depends what mode you are in. Are you still in the idea gathering phase? Then let bad ideas in. If not, then it's time for critique.

(I base these off of a talk I heard by Craig McNair Wilson, a Disney Imagineer. Here are some notes someone else took on the same topic.)

http://www.theparagon.org/archives/2006/02/03/brainstorming_...
I'm saying mathematics might be sufficient to express logic, but it ain't necessary.

Geez all the downvotes for a statement that isn't even controversial?
It seems that they were reduced to guessing the PIN's and/or brute forcing them, hence the initial comment from RSA about increasing PIN length.

One would have hoped that the LMC admins would have detected a brute force attack against their RSA servers, I guess they were already infested with keyloggers?
It looks like the kind of optimization that a compiler could do pretty trivially, and you shouldn't have to be concerned about as a human, as it makes the code less readable.

Then again, Javascript is a strange animal here as the code is provided to the execution environment as plaintext instead of bytecode/assembly. I guess a JS-to-JS compiler such as closure could handle it.
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On my netbook, hulu/flash uses 100% of the cpu to produce unwatchable video in full screen, while netflix (today) uses around 10% and looks just fine.

On my linux desktop, flash in full screen is even worse than my netbook.
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A major omission of his energy analysis is the concept of Energy-returned on Energy-invested or EROEI. EROEI simply means how much energy it takes to produce a give unit of energy. Taking this into account provides a much more meaningful analysis than just looking at simple reserve and consumption numbers.

For example, it doesn't matter how many billions of barrels I might have in a field if each barrel takes 2 barrels to extract(except as perhaps a chemical feedstock).

It's absolutely meaningless to take theoretical oil reserves and simply dividing them by currently yearly consumption and concluding that we have hundreds of years to go.

The easy oil has been extracted and all that is left is the hard stuff. Even Saudi Arabia is drilling wells that sit under a mile of water.

McCarthy mentions extracting uranium from seawater for christsake! That is really crazy.

Also, it doesn't matter if all of our energy problems could be solved by building a million nuclear plants if the building of them takes so much capital no one can afford it. Again EROEI for nuclear is negative until the plants actually start producing electric.

And it doesn't matter if we have tons of electric if all of our transportation infrastructure requires oil products. Converting all of that infrastructure is going to take lots of capital and energy.

Check out theoildrum.com for lots of good energy articles.
If you're looking for a REST framework for Django, be sure to see this table:

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At this point (mid-2011) Django-Tastypie is the clear winner by its number of authors, updated codebase, documentation, and overall activity.
Thank you! I've been looking for something else ever since Readbility switched to their newer, heavier, slower version.
It was entirely separate. I drafted an email that explained my interest in the position and then offered this as a supplement.
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>>># People insult each other in bulletin board. I am not kidding. This is true.
>>># Guys leave useless and flirtatious comments on blogs of girls in the internal blogs.

You are probably looking at it as an issue specific to those companies. I am looking at it as a larger issue - herd mentality and a bigger issue in culture.
Having said that, I take it that it is the responsibility of company to make some strong statement by kicking such employees out. If users can be trained or disciplined to behave in an online forum like HN or SO, I do not see why it can't be "enforced" in these companies.

If this is happening in these companies, it is something these companies should take up seriously - lest it destroy their very existence - you can't have angry & misbehaving waiters to serve customers and expect to do well in a restaurant business.

I am with you on your other point. Even I would hate it when someone would insist upon me to stay for 9.5 hours (though I have always had flexible managers in TCS & Cognizant) who were never particular about it. I can't comment on Infosys, as I have not worked there.

As for using crappy software for check-ins I really think it is pathetic if that is the case. At least I have never experienced such bad software being "enforced" in my 9+ yrs in these companies.

I give it to you that these may be the 3rd or 4th best options for someone to start their career, if not in any startup. The advice I would still give people in these companies & the ones who join anyway is that: be aware of the industry you are in; connect with a larger community outside and be passionate about technology and least of all "not to get institutionalized".
this should be read by every Malthusian environmentalist.
This site is quite old and is actually an art-project started in 2004 or 2005 (just Google for 'ubermorgen' in combination with 'google will eat itself'). At this time the price of the shares was much lower.
I think it's still easier to ensure performant code as reference counting is more deterministic than GC. I assume you can turn off ARC for compilation unit if you want, so performance critical code can be manually managed.
In cases like the article posted on the discussion of energy, it's hard to make cases without numbers. I admit that I hadn't read the article when I initially posted. I should also add that I didn't downvote your comment.
why does it take so much capital to build a nuke plant? Sounds like a regulatory problem.
It would be easy to solve if you were doing it perfectly... harder otherwise... and I bet if you do a perfect shape (ie completely on the line) it gets refused. Or at least, that would be clever if so.
as a small client and in touch with other small clients, no, very definitely NOT just an assumption.
If the latency cost of multiple requests is so significant couldn't google just lump everything into one (base64 encode the image)?
Naieve reference counting incurs a bus lock across all processors on every assignment, more or less. That's quite painful.
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this was already submitted & commented: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620870
I wouldn't go authorizing other people's devices with your Netflix account willy-nilly, because I'm pretty sure they'll cut you off pretty quick.

To your point about the security of DRM, that's an overly idealistic view of things. It's simply not true that the one person with expertise to break an almost-perfect DRM is going to rip every movie and torrent it. Hell it's trivial to rip any DVD and that's more than Netflix quality already. The studios are not the blundering idiots that the hacker community would like to believe; they realize all this, but they're not just going to roll over and go DRM-free just because of an absolutist argument. Instead they're going to keep pushing the envelope (and paying!) for ever-improved DRM to cut down on piracy as much as they can. It may be a losing battle, but if it is it's lose-lose for them so they'll keep fighting it.
I'm very disappointed that you still can't upload files in Mobile Safari. I "get" the whole no filesystem thing, but come on at least show the photo/video picker.

Little impossibilities like this make mobile web apps perpetually less useful than native apps, and that sucks.
Hell, in it's current form it's entirely client-side; hardly seems like it should even count as a CAPTCHA. $(form).attr("action", $("#mc-action").val()) and you're done.

Even with server-side validation, it's still trivial to break; it only requires tracking a line through an otherwise blank image.

This is fundamentally unusable as a CAPTCHA, and can't be made significantly better. The whole point of a CAPTCHA is to be difficult for computers and doable for humans, hence stuff like warped characters and image categorization. Tracking a line against a blank BG is not difficult for a computer.
>Adobe doesn't want me to run Flash on 64 bit linux?

It is hardly surprising that a large company doesn't see much ROI in tailoring a consumer oriented product for a tiny market segment. Given that Flash Player is losing relative and perhaps absolute web presence and the frequency with which Adobe must patch it for security vulnerabilities, creating a version for the tiny minority of consumers who use 64 bit linux for browsing doesn't make a lot of sense from an economic standpoint. The fact that the beta wasn't being brought up to date is probably a reflection of market realities rather than any bias against the platform, and given that a reasonable workaround was available (i.e. a 32bit version), it is hardly surprising that the overall project was dropped.
Americans don't like to talk about it, but they should better learn how emulate Europe rather than the opposite. The USA is nowadays more similar to Europe than to new developing economies. While Europe hasn't the high growth it once had, they know how to maintain an economy that retains prosperity for most of its people.
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If I recall correctly the opcode for the jump absolute was C3, and the conditional versions we C2, CA, etc. The destination was two bytes, 16 bits, little endian.

The JR - jump relative unconditional - was hex 18 followed by the number of bytes to jump, calculated from the byte after the JR instruction to account for the pipelining.

From memory - I could be wrong, but it's close enough.
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