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This McNamara individual is trying to steal the "massive douchebag" achievement from Bobby Kotick. I'd say he's on the right track.
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Nothing wrong with being an indie game developer. The problem is with the culture in the corporate game houses, not something inherent to game development.
Yep, but unless I am mistaken and a newer version has fixed this, you can't put an equation into a line of text. You need to position it in an absolute sense and leave space in the text using spaces.

The feature I'm suggesting about would allow anchoring an image to a character and allow the text to flow around it.
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I think it's the iPad app that has been discussed recently.
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Ask HN: What is the average out of college base salary for software engineers?
I recently graduated with a Computer Science degree and various job applications are asking for "desired base salary" and "Desired total compensation". I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to these things and I'm not sure what an appropriate amount to ask for is.

The positions I'm mostly looking at are junior to mid-level web application development (specifically rails) in SoCal.

Thanks.
I don't understand why people have to build everything with Javascript. Objectively there is nothing that makes Javascript better suited for games than Flash/as3. I don't think that last ~0.5% of lacking Flash adoption is bothering anyone.
There are no good IDEs for javascript. Library support is bad (Greensock? Flixel?) You don't honestly think that your 99$ library holds its own against these completely free features: http://flixel.org/features.html
Also People can much more easily steal your code and images than in Flash.

As soon as Javascript really catches up with Flash on most of these things (which will still take a few years) we hopefully can program in Native Client which will destroy both Javascript and Flash.

Extra topic on why browsers refuse to implement native client:
If someone could explain what stake Browsers have in Javascript, I'd love to hear it. I have two theories:
Browsers want to keep the web as "open" as possible. This means Javascript, because native binary executables would close this up immediately.
On the other hand, I don't really understand the point of this openess. Every other market in existance goes by fine with binaries. Vendors give you tutorials and examples on how to build software. So what is the point of being open? To steal code? I don't see any other reason anymore.

So I don't really think it's about being open for browser vendors. It's about control. If anyone can trivially write their own layout engine, has their own favorite language on the client....what are browsers worth then? Absolutely nothing, they would be degraded to cURL.

It can't be security. Obviously javascript can call c code too, Nodejs does it. It's about sandboxing, and I see zero reasons why it can't be possible to sandbox pure c properly.
That is accurate, I had accountants quote me £1,000 or more for ten invoices a year. It's absolutely crazy for something that takes two hours a year to do, and it seems to me like the space is ripe for disruption.

Fortunately, I found a much, much cheaper accountant. I don't know if it'll come back to bite me in the long run, but it was the only way to keep the company profitable.
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"fluffy is puffy takes longer to crack than J4fS<2."

Assuming the attacker brute-forces all 3 word combinations, maybe. But "fluffy is puffy" is a valid English sentence and language is a rather poor source of entropy.
> Apple can execute well but a lot of their success comes
> from their brand.

It's the other way around. The big part of the brand was created very recently. Starting with iPod and then exploding with iPhone and iPad.
It's only the four years since the first iPhone appeared.
Do yourself a favor, find that 1997 WWDC Jobs' talk and watch it. He knew what he was doing 14 years ago.
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I loved the fact that they implemented a send feedback on it. If only Chrome had a send feedback button option!

But I don't think it's that intuitive to black the info out. I've sent a few blackouts already and I didn't even realize I should black out the info. I didn't know I could do that until I saw someone else do it. So I think they need to make that part a lot more obvious.
It's a shame that they can't be bothered to learn about security, since they're in the business of holding other people's money. It seems that they have killed their amazing opportunity, and deeply harmed the public's confidence in bitcoin at the same time.
I don't really see it. FDIC insurance promises to give you dollars. Worst case, they just start the presses.

A precipitous drop in the value of the dollar would be unpleasant (including for for Americans with savings), but I don't see what FDIC has to do with it.
No, it seems to have gone fine. A lot of people (including Mt. Gox) decided to start taking security more seriously, and the price of Bitcoin has increased slightly.
The UK's Met Office - who provided Weather Forecasts use it for their new Weather Observations Website (WOW): http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk

It's a site that allows the public to submit weather observations from anywhere in the world. Since launching 31 days ago, we've got 1.7 million weather reports and probably spend about 0-30 seconds a day (on average) on maintenance.

App Engine has some big pains (SSL has already been mentioned) but if you don't require it (we don't), I think it's a fantastic tool.

The multiple versions, quick deployment (new build inc all testing&configuration can be completed by us in <5 min), automatic scaling and the fairly good dashboard are fantastic. Plus, our infrastructure costs in development (before heavy load testing) was $10 for 3 months of work - absolute bargain! Even after heavy load testing, it was a fraction of what a real server would have cost.

I'd say the biggest difficulty (or barrier to entry) is the datastore design. It's very easy to think you're in SQL land, and you're not. And because of that, it's very easy to burn yourself quickly. But, the design gives great scalability. We wouldn't be able to manage the size of the data we're expecting in 2 years+ in a typical environment.

So, I think it's great :)

(Disclaimer: I was part of the team at PA Consulting that built WOW)
The FDIC doesn't have a fraction of the money needed to insure a fraction of the money...

Sure it does. The FDIC makes an annual assessment on financial institutions ranging from 2.5 to 45 basis points to keep the insurance fund solvent. In 2009 there were many special assessments to replenish the fund.

Insurance is always leveraged. Those skilled in the art are actuaries.
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But FCP is essential to the business of many professionals. And FCP, as a carbon, 32 bits only app, was in a dire need for a cocoa upgrade for years. Unsurprisingly, the professional crowd is not very happy.
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I'd be going for Publisher. Even the Office addicts at work hate Publisher.

I think PowerPoint is bad just because People think that Other People will be impressed by superfluous animation and other shinies. They don't think back to the time someone last presented them with a crappy PP preso with far too much animation. (Oh and I'm sick of helping kids at work re-encode to WMV so they can embed movies in it :/)
QT7 pro had far more possibilities than QT X. It's largely used by professionals.
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Timing attacks are not a problem if you're using it to hash passwords. Also, Javascript implementations don't use doubles for pure integer arithmetic.
Yes, of course, and everybody knows that. The gold standard was abandoned across the world in the 20th century because it's unsustainable and inflexible. Please stop promoting this conspiracy-theory nonsense.
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I wondered, too, so I had to look this up http://cm.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/fork shows that it is not the whole address space:

RFMEM If set, the child and the parent will share data and bss segments. Otherwise, the child inherits a copy of those segments. Other segment types, in particular stack segments, will be unaffected. May be set only with RFPROC.

So, it basically is a way to start a process that shares all its globals (including static variables, I think) with another process, but not other memory. That is more secure than having threads, but also more restricted, as one cannot share heap-allocated structures between such processes. I guess this feature gets used most in Fortran code where nothing gets allocated dynamically.

It also makes it easier to selective kill a thread of execution from the command line, but I do not see when that might be useful.
Security theater, political theater, Broadway -- it's all theater.

Chomsky and Edward Herman go over this in detail in "Manufacturing Consent" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...).

When the public starts to see it for what it is, it will lose its effect, and the playwrights will have to find a new tactic.
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You can also initialize the words in more pythonic way:

with open('/usr/share/dict/words') as wordlist:
words = set(line[:-1] for line in wordlist)

Or, for one time check you can stop reading on match:

import sys
lookup = '%s\n' % sys.argv[1]
with open('/usr/share/dict/words') as wordlist:
[ sys.stdout.write('Dictionary password: %s' % lookup) or sys.exit(1) for line in wordlist if line == lookup ]

As for the objective, this checks only exact dictionary matches. In real world, you'd use cracklib to check any dictionary based or weak passwords rather than reinvent the wheel. See http://gdub.wordpress.com/2006/08/26/using-cracklib-to-requi...
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I don't know how a student could call himself a Business Developer and keep a straight face.
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2716446
If I'm not misunderstanding your purpose, why not just:

1) Take those md5 unsalted passwords and
2) bcrypt them

Then upgrade the users to non-pre-hashed bcrypt as they log in?

?
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To me, what the post sounds like is "act now before it's all gone!". And he's the guy selling the product.

I think the VCs realise that an end is coming. And they are trying to get their %s into as many of the important founders companies as possible, so they can continue to harvest even when their industry is no longer relevant.

Think about it: The VC industry itself is going to be a casualty of the internet. These few guys controlling huge funds to decide at their discretion which companies to invest in is the exact kind of industry that is ripe for disruption by more direct investment methods...that would be offered by the internet.

Additionally, as more and more people get rich on the internet, it will be increasingly easy for new companies to raise money from individuals and then relying on profits to grow instead of venture capital.

The post here, intentional or not, sounds like these guys realise that their age of power is coming to an end, and they want to do one final milking.
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I'd had great experience with paypal. Were you getting lots of chargebacks?
Is there any money to be made in mobile analytics?
There appears to be numerous free analytics services for mobile Apps (although no dedicated service for m-sites?)
Is there a market for a premium offering that delivers something not currently covered by the existing analytics companies?
Techcrunch have said its not Project Spartan - http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/30/facebook-ipad-spartan/

Additionally the article has been updated with:

One source says its "highly unlikely" that Facebook’s announcement next week is the iPad app.
I do not reuse passwords site-to-site, however that nullifies almost none of the risk in storing passwords in plaintext over storing hashed passwords. Perhaps you can explain why you think that if you disagree.

At any rate, that the market provides "what people want" (this is not always an uncontroversial statement) is precisely why airport security can not be deregulated. People tend to undervalue security until it's too late.
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The new theme looks good but the boundaries between the elements doesn't seem well defined, giving a floating appearance to them. Also the background is kind of glary.
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Funny you say that because my neighbor has a half-pipe (apparently, that's how it's spelled) in his backyard and I've never heard his son talk about editing video with FCP. And he actually does have a fair bit of video, as he uses a helmet cam.

On the other hand, I live in a surfing town and a lot of the kids recently have been moving towards OSX and FCP for their movies (the ones that are doing it seriously anyway). Haven't seen a lot of stuff that the skaters do, since most of the skater kids I interact with at work are more into photography rather than film making.
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Why do you think that isn't what this is doing, only with fault tolerance to allow more than one scheme upgrade?
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Also, it should be mentioned that it has over 30k functions. Some of these are so obscure, that if you happen to only use one of these functions, the high monthly cost could be justified.
...and for some reason businesses feel the Facebook Like clicks are somehow relevant for them.
Why give up jQuery and learn another scripting language?
I guess it depends what that something is, are we talking a centralised platform for usage analytics of standalone apps? or analytics of traffic to mobile sites?
Can someone explain this to me?

var sprite = cocos.nodes.Sprite.create({file: '/resources/ball.png'});

And then it's assigned to a box2d object:

var bdy = world.CreateBody(bodyDef);
bdy.sprite = sprite;

How does box2d know how to deal with a cocos2d sprite object?
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I just now took a look at tinyvm and I find it very readable. It reminds me of my own C coding style.
While I agree that the first code is pythonic and nice, the second code is quite the opposite of that. Why forcing imperative code into a list comprehension? It is a lot easier to read as nested loop, as it doesn't build a dummy list with some strange "or" operation:

import sys
lookup = '%s\n' % sys.argv[1]
with open('/usr/share/dict/words') as wordlist:
for line in wordlist:
if line == lookup:
sys.stdout.write('Dictionary password: %s' % lookup)
sys.exit(1)
Due to how round-off is specified, cumulative errors in floating point calculations should average to 0 for typical workloads.
I think it would depend on whether your college education included a significant number of courses that would help you perform well in web application development. For example, I know of some programs where only 1/6 or so of the material is somewhat related to web application development (including the English classes and otherwise being generous). Also, do you have any relevant experience or projects?
In this era of software bloat, a compact yet functional app is a thing of rare beauty.
Because the juicy bits got cut off due to the way github is displayed on my phone. Sorry I couldn't see that portion!
Typical advice in salary negotiation books is also to not be the first to state a number. Try putting in "competitive * " or something like that, and then later put * based on my skills and experience, or at least that's their advice.
Am I the only one who finds that action malicious and unflattering? It's one thing to try to hack into systems that you have no access to, and an entirely different thing to replace /bin/login to harvest passwords on a machine you have root access on.

I really don't see this as touching, warm or fuzzy at all. It has nothing to do with hacking, it's just a way of getting everyone's passwords.
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If I can observe your (SSL-encrypted) login session, I can time how long the server takes to process your (presumably real) password. What makes you think password hashes don't need to worry about this?
To be more precise, Asa Dotzler recently became a Firefox product manager. And quoted not just in one blog article.
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Although I appreciate the clean design, I find it blinding, I'm going to use it for a few days and see how I get on but for now, the plethora of white space seems to hurt my eyes!
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I've learned everything related to web development on my own. Other than a few security related courses, I wouldn't say I learned much about web development in any of my courses. I've got a few personal projects that I've done in Rails as learning experiments and have definitely mentioned those in my resume/cover letter.
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By using one's brain. Understanding the code. Knowing what effects what. And by running it, particularly the changed flows. The disadvantages to tests/TDD is (a) it assumes the developer is stupid, and (b) even if he is not, he has the additional burden of creating and updating the tests as he goes along, slowing him down. Yes there can be downsides to not having tests/TDD. But the upside can vastly outweigh the downside, in many situations. YMMV.
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Of course it does - the strength of the US economy.

The US economy may be fucked up in many ways, and may face some harsh transitions if it can no longer rely on the strength of the dollar as an international currency, but it is still a large economy. The loss of that strength will not magically result in the dollar having "no backing".

Certainly, if the dollar was replaced by the RMB internationally, the dollar would start to drop against other currencies - until it reached a realistic equilibrium point.
So I assume if you use bcrypt, you only verify the password once upon login, and then store a cookie that verifies the user is logged in? That brings other security risks.

But the alternative seems to be to make every request very slow, because it would require bcrypting the password with every request.
Powerpoint is my favorite MS product by far (and even on its own). It is very much the PC to Keynote's Apple. Powerpoint is awful out of the box, but if you know what you are doing, you can have total control over the diagrams.

David Byrne loves it too ;)
Also, although I've focused a lot on lazy functional programming languages lately (http://fexl.com), for my main scripting work I've been using simple token-based languages. Most of these languages are domain-specific (e.g to hedge fund accounting or certain web-rendering tasks), but I also have a Turing-equivalent token-based language which is concatenative in nature. I think my language is simpler than Forth because I use a global key-value storage context which supports ordered iteration, giving you the power of "hashes" and "lists" without actually having those as first-class data objects.

My point being that I'm becoming more enamored of the tinyvm approach, namely the use of "opcodes" with very simple operational semantics. And I also like the ability to embed these languages inside other programs written in any language (e.g. C, Perl, Lisp, Ruby, Java, whatever).
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Pretty much every useful currency these days is "backed" by absolutely not one single atom of metal.

Which, it turns out, works just fine -- the belief that gold has value is roughly as magical as the belief that saying some words can turn wine into blood (and a prime sign of religious dogma in both cases).
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I fully agree, but I'd focus more on the length than on the character set. It is not a problem if the password contains only alphanum characters, as long as those are random.

For instance, a plain alphanum password of length 9 is stronger than a password of length 8 that allows for special characters. (because 62^9 > 94^8)

In other words, adding one character to your password is as good as choosing from a bigger character set.

Okay, beginning at length 10, you'd need to add two characters, but that's really all you need to do up to length 20. (which is an insane length for a random password anyway)
No, you're not the only one. That doesn't seem much like youthful mischief to me; in 1980 RHM would have been 48 (with a teenaged son RTM)!

That's if the story is true -- and we have no evidence to suggest it is.

P.S. Also I don't know what the author is talking about with regards to the encrypted files. Modern crypt(3) is clearly not something you use for reversible file encryption.

P.P.S. Ok, Wikipedia says there was a crypt(1), written by... Robert H. Morris. And it had weak encryption, to the extent that crackers for it were widely available in the mid-80s. Maybe this is plausible.

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt_(Unix)#Command_filter_cry... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer)#B...).
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There is a difference between reading the statement as "mtgox offers some services which make it look bank-like" and "mtgox is definitively a bank as defined by applicable laws".

The difference, in case you're curious, is willful pedantry, and really just clutters up the thread.