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Coding and software engineering are not the same knowledge. Coding is just a small part of the big discipline. The difference between software engineer and a coder with even years of practice is the same as between a poet and a full-time typist.

Memorizing syntax (and may be even some standard idioms) of 20 different languages doesn't make you a software engineer, and of course, you can code something after a day to week of practice, but it will be a mere amateur coding, not a programming.

Of course, such kind of coders are dozen for a dime, because having a dictionary doesn't make you a translator or even speaker of the any human language. After memorizing some basic words and you can use some very basic vocabulary and copied sentences from a phrasebook, but you cannot read even a news paper, let alone a non-fiction or a scientific book. You cannot even watch a TV - they're speaking too fast.

The idea behind reading other people's code is not about finding familiar syntax or code blocks, or even use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V it is about appreciating and understanding the ideas which leads to this exact code and not the other, why this and not that, which is impossible without engineering knowledge.

No amount of memorized syntax can compensate the lack of practice. You may learn the syntax of 50 programming languages, it is not a substitute for years of practice with at least one of them.

Memorizing standard idioms also does not make you a programmer. You should understand why there idioms emerge and remain here, which ideas are behind them, which technology, what are advantages and disadvantages. This knowledge makes you a software engineer, and this knowledge will give you respect of others.

Producing yet another python tutorial, without ever realizing that keeping it short, full of idiomatic examples, and ability to grasp the big picture in an couple of hours is a huge advantage of the classic tutorial http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/ doesn't make you a teacher of humanity.

And of course, language matters. just look at this http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting and try to appreciate the differences in readability and self-explanatory between PHP and Python/Ruby. Try to grasp why carefully chosen syntax of Python/Ruby is different from chaotic approach of PHP. Unfortunately we can't see the bloatedness of Java syntax on the same page.
I read that and all I heard was, "I can suck my own dick."
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You're both half right. The thing to remember is it's limited on carriers because the overall supply is limited. Many people that wanted a new phone and might well have bought an iphone if it were available certainly walked out with the closest substitute: android phones.

OTOH all indications are that when in stock the iphone kills android head to head. The conventional wisdom was that this happened on AT&T because if you were with sprint or verizon and wanted an iphone you left and went to AT&T. This again was half true. However the other half was that when the iPhone came to Verizon it killed Android head to head again.
Wait, are you saying that it is impossible to write a review that is useful for the reader unless it is a review of a product which is not going to change in the future?
Bitcoins are a digital currency without a bank. If you kept all your money in cash at your house, and failed to secure your house, then someone could steal it. Sure, you could try to catch them based on the evidence they leave behind (fingerprints for cash, logfiles for bitcoin wallets), but once they have the cash, it's nearly untraceable.

But if you have banks that store Bitcoins for you, then you're trusting their security processes, not your own. We don't have Bitcoin banks yet. For BC users, maybe that's worth looking into.
The new Chrome hack forces embeddable content hosting sites (e.g. imageshack) to choose between supporting https, or giving up the analytics data they gain from being embedded on so many pages. It also forces sites with embedded content to implement hacks, converting img and other embed tag uris specified as http into https uris. But if the underlying page is loaded over https, obviously you either want to try getting the resource over https or not at all. What other sane thing is there for a web app to do other than convert all such uris from http to https when serving a page over https? Many uris will break that way, but it's better than not serving any of them. And, if that's the only sane thing for a webapp to do in that situation, why not put that logic into the web browser? As I mentioned in reply to gst, browsers supporting HSTS already have several modes of "force https for a uri specified as http". Adding one more hardly seems like an unacceptably ugly hack.

Regardless, embedded content sites that would be swamped if all requests were over https, and sites that map http://foo and https://foo differently, are going to have to figure out solutions, or they'll stop being embedded as more sites enable https. Even under the status quo, mixed content warnings and symbols are a little bit scary and sites wishing to go https-enabled or https-only will encourage members to use embeddable content hosting services that support https.
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And we'd all have flying cars and unicorn puppies.
"Those who mention the profitability of iOS devices as a plus are probably about as numerous as those who mention multi-tasking."

These are both uncommon concerns, to be sure, but they're not both odd.

The difference is that the former has no direct effect on the user experience, at best it's an enabler for continued updates.

There might well be a use for the phone in which true multitasking is desired, if you need that use then wanting the feature is no more 'odd' than someone wanting a plumber's snake because they're a plumber.
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Not really a big deal at all. These are some middlemen who wanted some biz dev money for bringing in clients. Read closely and they "bring technology" to wineries, they don't operate their own wineries. Scvngr probably realized these guys were going to ask for lots of custom work without the $ to justify it.
The part you seem not to get is that if you have a bad engineered product, it's only natural that you have to invest more than those who don't have poorly engineered products, regardless of how bad your track record ends up being.

As for your claim IE is no more dependent on Windows than Safari or Firefox, I will have to take your word for it, as it has been a long time (almost a decade) since I last inspected IE and what interfaces it used from the underlying OS. At that time, they both seemed very intimate.

And yes. I derive a lot of fun from observing Microsoft.

As for investments in an OS affecting all software running on it, it all depends on the fix not being the introduction of an improved API, as software using the old one will remain vulnerable.
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Nice idea, jftr opera already offers an http server inside your browser, it is called unite, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#Opera_Unite

I just had a look at your page and it seems you used java for providing the ftp server. How do you handle devices behind firewalls/NAT?
It isn't even Brazilian.

A comment from the article: "Vostu is an american company founded by former Harvard grads, with development studios in Argentina and targeting the biggest market for social games in LATAM, which is Brazil. JFYI."
How about checking the logged user's IP address on each page refresh and storing it on the server, and if there's more than one IP for the same user, invalidate the session?
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Nice work guys, any gzip support for js, css, and static html?
I got around the problem of needing to show data from a non-SSL map server on an https site by using reverse proxying. So my javascript requests the map tiles from a URL on my site (over https), the server then forwards the request to the real map server. That should work for Cloudmade's map server. Not sure if you could do that with Olark.
Couldn't agree more. I thought I was an outlier when I signed up for VPS.net and for the first 4 days experienced and outage every day and eventually one that took the site down for 2 days. The support was garbage as well, constantly going through the whole Level 1/Level 2 transitions which is almost unusable for such a technical service.
I wonder why it took them so long to release this. Given how picky they are with who they hire, and the sheer number of engineers they got, why did it take them over a year to come up with such an essential product - a Facebook app for the most popular tablet device?

I'm also going to say that their iPhone app leaves a lot to be desired. Many features are missing, like inability to edit/delete posts, picture abilities and so on.
On the non-mobile side, their API is infamously bad. Without wanting to sound negative about them, I do wonder why they hire so many "top software engineers" and what they have those guys working on.
Wallet encryption isn't any help against keyloggers and other local malware that can observe your use of the wallet. And wallet encryption simple enough for average folks — a short passphrase of their own choosing - is easy for digital pickpockets to crack.
Yeah its quite close to our first name: http://www.nodejscloud.com :)
It actually would not necessarily be difficult to trace the thief of your bitcoins. All btc transactions are logged publicly; a victim can watch the blockchain and record every address that receives his stolen coins, and this may produce good leads as to the thief's identity.
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>Mine was plugging in the power connector backwards on a super important ide drive (it was the only backup for an already failed server) and watching smoke issue from its controller board.

yep this could cause you to lose a job.

> Having to explain what I'd done to the boss was so scary, I slunk home with the drive and traced the power circuit with my oscilloscope until I found a capacitor that had blown short. I soldered on a through-hole replacement and it worked!

pulling this off, however, could land you a job!

lesson: mistakes are human. talent and initiative are rare.
Just an idea, maybe allow people to login with Twitter, and add comments, and simply click 'I Like', and that score effects the position as well.
For me: The basic marketing advice is, is anyone you don't know is willing to pay for it?

Try to do surveys with the targeted demographic not you or related people. You may have an idea how much you or coworkers would pay for it, but that is biased and anecdotal.

If you're selling to business, go to network functions and ask what they think they'll pay for to use it (Open q) or would they pay for this with $$$ (Closed q) [0][1].

When you have an idea of how many people will pay, determining profitability will become much easier. Asking for data points from successful entrepreneurs for comparison with an unknown market is pretty silly to me and shows lack of understanding of your own value [2].

An example of value would be a Ferrari. Although a Ferrari costs more to make then the average car, the sale price is far higher. Why? Because the average consumer associates high sale price with premium value. That's a pretty basic explanation.

Disclaimer: I'm not doing SaaS or experienced with it.

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Closed-ended_...

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Self-report_s...

[2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Value_%28econ...
If your GPU has access to the same memory your OS is running in and you can make it run your own code, isn't the machine vulnerable?
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I don't. :-) It's Apache FTP server wrapped in an applet.
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To be fair to the Scavngr folks, inexperienced self-flattering wankers that they are, I don't think it would've made any difference whom these people chose as a technology provider as it is evident that Vintank lacks the basic clarity required to a) identify and understand current or future trends in the market and b) they can't even keep a fucking blog afloat, a pretty basic task that should've been learned after a three-year history of ... what it is these people do again? A digital think tank for the wine industry? Obviously not a work tank. Because that would entail actually having a skill.

I cannot speculate what caused them to chose Scavngr over any other service, what type of agreement, if any, that they had in place with them, nor how they were going to measure results if any were to be produced. I also cannot name the particular strain of toxoplasmosis that would cause someone to believe that a company whose business model depends on mass adoption would somehow see that restricting a subset of functionality to a particular industry segment would be financially beneficial to them. The person who wrote this so-called review is ignorant, uninformed and unqualified.

Scavngr isn't dedicating any resources to these types of products because there is no market for it. It's as simple as that and their board has told them to spend their money in another direction. Sorry, you lose.
Do you know anything about American Apparel? You'd be better if with your money in a mattress than in their stock.
I can't imagine Rackspace would be happy with the impact that would have on their clients...
Thanks! We would mostly be targeting people who would want a personalized experience for occasions, but anyone would be free to book through us.
If these were really "promises", they'd be in writing, no? Why is this being handled in a blog post, and not in a lawsuit for breach of contract? Something seems to be rotten in Napa Valley...
Thanks, and yes. We'll be focusing on people booking for occasions.
It does in Silverlight 5 through the XNA API.
Since Bitcoin miners have awesome GPUs, malware could use the victim's own GPU to crack their wallet. (And then go back to mining... for the malware owner.)
palm rests get too hot. not enough to burn, just enough to make me sweat.

i use my MBP 15" (mid 2010) on my desk almost every day. i didn't know the underside of one's wrists could sweat so much. i actually look forward to opening it in the morning when i know the metal will be cool to the touch.
I'm going to go out on a short limb and guess that most users here don't understand who Vintank is or much about the wine industry in general. The group at Vintank are hardly 'middlemen wanting some biz dev money'. I've had the pleasure recently to meet Paul Mabray as I'm currently diving into the wine world myself with an idea I've already pivoted on once with, and I can say with a lot of confidence that these aren't just another group of marketing guys trying to make a buck. Paul has a phenomenal reputation in the wine world and is one of the preeminent voices when it comes to discussing how to bring the old way of thinking by most wineries to the new ways of social media. If things went down as Paul described, then Scvngr snubbed a whole industry, not just one company.

Edit: Vintank also share the same passion for unifying and making wine 'facts' free for all in the same way that SimpleGeo does with location data. Anyone who spends more than 5 minutes in the wine world knows the horrible state of fragmented / incomplete wine facts (not reviews,tasting notes,ratings) and how that holds the industry back as a whole.

Just trying to paint a picture of who Vintank is for those here who don't know.
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Resisting reactive impulse is one thing, but do you not find that you have a limit when it comes to willing yourself to do difficult things? Assuming that these things come one after another, of course.
I'm willing to agree that capacity for hardship is infinite in a sense, but I would also contend that it gets harder and harder to call on your willpower/self-control if you've already had to do so many times in the same day.
Silverlight 5 is a better comparison, this blog has the details: http://muizelaar.blogspot.com/
Works until the malware scans the disk for keydata remnants from 'deleted' files (or even old swap pages).

And this guy was trying to implement this 'offline savings' strategy, but didn't completely understand the privacy lifecycle and transaction details — and thus last the keys to a $180K balance:

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11104.0;all

Vanished in a poof of pure logic!
If there's a malicious keylogger on your computer, your Bitcoin wallet is probably the last of your worries.
Why is a native Facebook application essential on a device that has a serviceable web browser and a netbook-sized screen?
Scvngr, not Scavngr.
No apologies because none are warranted. Just watch Apple for a few years and you'll see how routine this is.

What if WebGL turns out to be a flop? (I know it's unlikely at this point, this is purely hypothetical) If that were the case they didn't launch some new thing and have a bunch of people using it in their apps or on their websites in production, thus be obligated to support it. They are cautious about introducing new APIs. That's it.
I think there's a good chance you'll get your Android then come back. All of the controversial technical decisions Apple has made have proved well-founded, whether it was excluding Flash or limiting background activity. (Their legal decisions have been less well-founded, but they've been willing to change course very quickly there.)
"There’s always a fine line between persistence and desperation, and you don’t want to cross over into desperation."

I think you cross that line right about when you decide it's a good idea to email someone every day to get their attention.
Bitcoin GPU miners are a quite small subset of Bitcoin users, and they're probably not the least knowledgeable.
Summary: Quicken 2007 is PowerPC code, which means that it won't run on the next OS X, but it's too difficult to port to Intel. So for the past few months they've been trying to embed Rosetta into it instead, and if it goes well they may re-release the PowerPC codebase with Rosetta attached.

It surprises me that Quicken's code was written in such an irreparably PowerPC-specific way that it justifies months of Rosetta integration work. Intuit previously had experience developing Quicken on 68K (Mac) and Intel (Windows), and had just undergone the 68K-to-PowerPC transition, so PowerPC was hardly their one and only architecture.

Wild speculation, but what if the problem isn't really how the code is written, but that the developers who understand Quicken 2007 are gone. (What if even the people who understand how to compile Quicken 2007 are gone?) That would certainly explain a preference for an emulation-like solution over making small fixes and recompiling.
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Actually, if I have tens of thousands of dollars or more in Bitcoins it's likely to be the very first of my worries.
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The benefits of going from carrying cash or writing checks to swiping card were clear - the benefits of going from swiping card to swiping phone or poking into some application are not so obvious.
The 40% is relevant because it means Apple is taking most of the smartphone profits and it's just one manufacturer. I think with the long term trends we will see Android gradually replace the dumbphone market. Low end hardware, fragmented versions across carriers, and low margins of return as time progresses. Apple is aiming at the upper end of the market and I think they're succeeding pretty well if the profit share is anything to by.
Nope, sorry to disappoint. I'm pretty objective.
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I've read this real-life money / storing all your money at your house analogy a few times related to BitCoin. It seems disingenuous. There are just too many physical things that separate the dangers of BitCoin and hoarding money somewhere in your house.

- I don't have to worry about 6,500,000,000 people having access to my house. At most, there is a market of around a million or so who would live in close enough proximately to me.

- I don't have thousands of people across the world tapping on my windows to find out how easy they are to break into.

- I'd trust the chances of a local thief being caught more than a hacker across the globe stealing BitCoins being caught.

I could go on and on.

Right now, the BitCoin landscape is like the Wild West, probably even worse. Systems simply aren't in place to really protect people, and you have the potential to steal from anyone in the entire world.

In real currencies, we have systems in place to protect holders. In the U.S. we have the FDIC, which insures bank accounts up to a certain amount. This insurance incentives people to keep their money in banks instead of the house because it's safe (both physically safe from theft and safe from bank failure). My understanding is that there are BitCoin "banks" but there is nothing guaranteeing these deposits. There are also established systems in place to help prevent theft. Police departments, close physical proximity to others (neighbors being able to see odd activities), etc. to prevent thefts.
What's wrong with dumbing it down?
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If there is a one takeaway for me here, it'd also be "don't be programmer, be a domain expert who happens to write good code". Well said!

As for the frustration you have by observing people doing mundane tasks; I bet every person who has had some decent exposure to programming have felt this way at some point (i.e "re-entering parameters by hand in excel"). And this seems so prevalent that sometimes I wonder if people should be force-fed process automation in their daily tasks. Say, we start from schools where children are deliberately given such exercises where where they have to perform tedious tasks; and then they are taught to spot and come up with ways to automate in order to speed up. Organizations could also have such culture in place where they constantly look for things that may be unnecessarily consuming employees' times, etc.

PS, obviously I am not talking about programmers as it's in their mindset to try to optimize any work they're confronted with.
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"They need to step up where Apple hasn't and make their consumer level data plans inexpensive, open and user friendly."

Did you miss where Apple negotiated the dump pipe iPad plan?