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Missing blog post - 'Why I will never pursue cheating again
Two days ago I found a prof's blog post called 'Why I will never pursue cheating again'. I appeared at the link below but is no longer there. I assume that he was asked to take it down by someone! Im looking for it to read again and waybackmachine.org does not have it. Is there any other way that I can get it? (Im going to email him and request it, but Im not sure if he will be permitted to share it anylonger)

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-i-will-never-pursue-cheating-again.html
Very curious to see how long this agreement is for. I'd be concerned for Zynga if there was not pre-built renewal clauses.
You are probably correct.

I don't even know why I like GitHub as much as I do. I have decided not to pay them as I can't really justify the amount (Dollars are not cheap in Africa) - so I host my repos on one of my Linodes and have them backed up to S3 every day. This works perfectly well, and I have no problems doing it, yet I feel like I am missing out on not having them tucked away on GitHub.

I suppose the feeling is similar to my feelings of Linux vs OSX. There is nothing (apart from Photoshop) that I cant do just as well on Linux, but I still feel like I am missing out by not being on OSX.

Its probably just that it seems all the "Cool People" are using GitHub.
Good points. Regarding the dual monitors, I find being able to move quickly between workspaces in Linux/OSX to be a good alternative (I use three workspaces for programming).
Even if it's not the intention of the github creators, I think this is secretly one of the biggest strength of github. The reason is because it encourages you to publish incomplete or less than perfect code. How many times have you heard "yea I definitely plan to open source that project... I just need to clean up the code a bit" and since programmers are never happy with their code they never release. This coupled with the existence of project pages means that you can easily pick out the 'finished product' code from the 'how the hell do i solve this small problem' code
> Sure, but that wasn't done for any of the picture he didn't choose.

In which case the following holds: the picture is copyrighted by the individual (a legal subject) who pressed the shutter or, in case the button presser is not a legal subject (i.e. an animal), by the owner of the camera, or, in case the work is commissioned on special terms, by the entity who commissioned the work.
Your story is certainly one to remember though (and lucky that it was a business owner!) I have to say though, it's quite fascinating to watch my friend work. She would make a gifted detective...
ZF2 may fix a lot of the complaints I (and other folks) have with Zend, but right now it's really hard to recommend it.

It's actually pretty much in the same league as CakePHP: old and slow. Not much to recommend it right now. (Symfony2 actually can pull in Zend-based libraries on its own without a problem, which is why among the more sarcastic of us I've heard Symfony2 described as "Zend 2 but actually here".)
If you have only one offer, then that could happen, but it's unlikely if you have more than one offer or at least several interviews (and I would always mention this).
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Because I might be turned down for a job or apartment or loan because of my political views ?

And because it's frankly nobody else's business how I vote ?
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If you're not going to be actively developing it, or sharing it with anyone, why on earth would you want it up on github anyway? Their value-add is collaboration, as a sole developer on a personal project I can't think of anything useful they bring to the table.

"a common place for everything" for me is ~/code, which is included in my automated daily backups.
Try to instruct a noob on configuring Apache for vhosts or adding users to mysql then come back and tell me the deployment story for LAMP is so good.

Node.js wins for deployment if you ask me. Node.js + riak handily beats the pants off of the LAMP stack. It's so easy I'll tell you how to do it right now:

1. Install node, ./configure && make && make install
2. Install riak, make all rel && mv rel/riak /usr/local && export PATH="/usr/local/riak/bin:$PATH"
3. Install your app: scp -r remote:/my/app /web
4. Install dependencies: cd /web/app && npm install
5. Run your app: node /web/app/do/something/cool.js

Back to my coffee.

(I'm being somewhat facetious and these instructions don't get you startup services and such, but I do believe that Node.js stacks are much simpler than traditional stacks and easier for devs that have to wear the sysadmin hat too)
Part of the problem is that it can be difficult to identify the Einsteins early enough to give them the visa when it would still matter. However, I don't think it would be difficult for an established scientist to gain US residency even under the current miserable system. Top athletes, entertainers, business people, scientists, and so forth inhabit a completely different universe.

As for "running out of land"... that's actually a little ambiguous. California could probably triple in population, and we'd still have some rural-ish areas in the extreme north. Japan, because of the density of its cities, actually preserved its rural character in some areas, and this is a country with a population density of 337.1/km2! In other ways, California has already "run out" of land. Ever drive from Orange county down to Tijuana? With the exception of a military base, it's basically sprawl all the way down. I suppose we could increase the coastal population by building high density housing on the coast...
Wow, really? I would have never guessed HN-books is all client-side, but that does explain the jumpiness of the UI.
Not insanity at all. Look up "found object as art" (Marcel Duchamp's readymades etc.) The whole concept of art in the 20th century was redefined by this idea.

Copyrighting ideas is deeply entrenched in contemporary art. As a matter of fact, contemporary art is entirely about ideas as opposed to craft.
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Because simply having certain beliefs and opinions and making them public can have social and economic consequences.
I believe real cause that managers don't know math, bureaucracy or disability to see the big picture. Simple rule in our company we buy the best tools (software / hardware) that money can buy, because mathematically it make sense (there are a few exceptional cases)
This is a false dichotomy.

If you like what you can do with a computer, then you like computers, even if there are aspects of computing you do not like. No one expects a person to like absolutely everything about computing, or to never get frustrated with it. (In fact, I would argue a certain amount of frustration can result in a rewarding experience.)

Conversely, no one likes computers in some sort of abstract sense apart from what you can do with computers. If computers didn't produce any output no one would be interested in them in the slightest.

What this man is basically saying is he prefers GUI as an interface but he's willing to use command line interfaces if that's the only option. Which is not very interesting.
We just finished a game, written with the Corona SDK. We're just doing the music now and then we are releasing. It's my first game in more than 20 years (I wrote games for 8 bit computers) and we documented the progress; i'm currently setting up a blog to post that. It's a casual game, the idea is that more will follow. I'll post the link to the blog here when it's up.
It seems to me that that is exactly what this has the potential to do. It's only being framed in the language of centralized government because people might not be ready to deal with the truly revolutionary implications of such a system.
It might have started off that way. I didn't download it until recently. But nowadays it has all sorts of social networking features I think would disqualify it from being an MVP.
It is a total straw man. But tell me you don't know developers who would make the argument anyways. I've employed people who made similar arguments.
buyers and sellers in a market needn't individually be aiming to arrive at an efficient or socially beneficial outcome

Yet we have regulation because we've seen sellers destroy the environment and take advantage of buyers left and right.

voters in a democracy needn't individually be aiming to elect someone who will be best for everyone's interests

Yet Congress has shone time and again that corruption and cronyism are at it's heart, even if it sacrifices what is good for the people, the economy, or the government. (I don't think the system is even working right now, but that doesn't mean it won't in the future; the US has gone through times lime this before.)

employees of a company needn't all be concerned solely with the company's success

But what happens when employees only focus on their own reward? Companies like that become intolerable places to work at that are hugely inefficient, generally surviving only by cannibalizing itself or by simply leveraging its mass in a pseudo-illegal way). The corporate system is designed for everybody to be doing what is best for the company (which might not always be profits), but that breaks down, too, when everybody starts pursuing their own agenda to the exclusion of anything else.

Systems can take a certain amount of perturbation and survive, but, just like Stuxnet and the centrifuges, if you introduce too much disorder in a system, it will break down. In human society, it seems selfishness, that drive to take care of myself regardless of what it means to anybody else, is often the root cause of that (it certainly is in all the above cases).

It's too bad we can't be a little more communally-oriented (without needing to live in the forest in a VW and not take baths ;). Who wants to do a sun-dance with me to find some extra pollen for the hive?
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Zappos started as a website with pictures of shoes and a price. When someone would order, they would go down to Footlocker, buy the shoes, and ship them off.
I don't want a strap, they restrict my movement and require lubrication to work. I want a wearable 24/7 solution that's unobtrusive. The suggestion here is that you can attach the arduino sensor to your clothes and get reliable data.
It shouldn't be their job at all, I agree, but the practical consideration is that they'll have a line of complaining students in their office that they can't exactly get rid of.
Similar, except it uses the exact same song for every "pummel".
Not a very good strategy to avoid bloat... Not even mentioning you will end up with 100 times the number of tools you have now. I would not call such a system more simple, indeed it would be inferior on all possible points.

In a real system, even basic utilities rarely looks like a CS101 homework result. This is perfectly fine, especially in this case the amount of feature in gnu echo is perfectly reasonable, and the size of the executable will likely depends on various header than code size when the code is so small anyway.
Not if anyone is still bound by the decisions of the majority.
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And then in a couple of months when you have to come back and figure out where that weird bug is hiding, you probably will wish that you spent a little more time writing your code properly. Just because PHP lets you write horrible code doesn't mean you should.
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Doing an X-ray every year even when it is not needed, does cost more and does not improve your health. Actually, your body gets more doses of radiations increasing the risks. Thus one can say that at the more expensive place your health gets worse.
I am not sure I see how this proves anything, it could be argued that all measures that have been taken have "bent" the curve down which has kept it in line with GDP, and that without those measures they would have "bent" upward at a higher rate than GDP.

There is no precedent to compare against so it is unknown whether not taking those measures would have been better or worse.

In my view healthcare is no different than national defense, in fact it is a a form of national defense. Any argument that can be made for or against nationalized healthcare can be made for a nationalized army and or police force. The only difference between the two is which DNA is being defended against, other humans, or microrganisms and our own DNA.

We all know national defense is expensive, but should it be privatized? I know I do not want to shop around for my own private army to defend my life, I also do not want to shop around for healthcare to defend my life, I want the best the the society I live in can provide.
I've heard Werner Vogels talk about this subject before. He chose Ruby for one of their projects specifically because they wanted very fast iterations, even though they new it wouldn't scale and they would have technical debt down the line. I don't think you are accurately describing how Amazon does things.
That's borderline "stop motion". Not what the goal of Photoblurr is.
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I concur with all the above. It doesn't take a fortune to keep developers in really nice machines. I do prefer to get my developers laptops, though (unless they explicitly prefer not). Convenience is just too nice (not too mention the occasional time at home always pays for the extra cost).
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I believe this is the deal they worked out when Zynga and Facebook were in talks after Facebook credits came about. Zynga knew how much money they were going to lose by giving up a % of virtual items sold, so this is a way to make extra money. I really wish I knew how much revenue this translated into.

On a similar note, Zynga needs to do everything it can to establish itself as a gaming platform of its own. I know they are trying to do that but to most people their games are still known as "facebook games."
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>information the users provided years ago

Just curious, but what in particular? Their profile page, logs of forum conversations? And how does he/she generate the guesses? It seems like optimally you'd have some kind of tool which constructs permutations of likely words (sun, 5un, sun!, etc).

...Honestly just curious, promise I'm not planning anything evil.
Voting is an inherently public, civic act. It's not a personal matter. Your vote has a direct effect on lots of other people. Why shouldn't you be accountable for that?
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There is this concept of "flow"- a break in your concentration (for example, because your IDE is too slow to keep up with your typing) can often be enough to push you out of this state of flow.

Sure, if I know my compile is going to take a few minutes I can plan for it, and work on other stuff in the mean time.

But for me the tiny interruptions really add up, and contribute to me not being as productive as possible. This is especially true when you're hunting a bug, or working in a tight TDD loop where you're constantly editing/compiling/testing. Having to wait for the machine is a real morale-killer.
Yeah, but you're talking about the most bland of the bland sort of health concerns.

Emergency medicine, life threatening medicine, you don't shop around for the lowest cost, cause you won't be able to be happy about how much money you saved when you're dead.
I would find it useful to be able to not include sites in the history. I don't need gMail, fb, picassa, sudoku and many others in history.
If you look at the Golang source code (copied here: https://gist.github.com/954801 ) you will see that they have something similar. But they use two's complement as well to compare the true or false.
The Unix Programming Environment has a discussion of vis on page 172. It notes that you can use 'sed -n l' to do the same thing.
Exactly. In the eyes of the law, there are two catergories: humans and everything else. Monkeys/mechanical processes are everything else, and it is irrelevant to try to determine a monkey's intention (in the eyes of the law), just as it would be worthless to debate the intentions of the can of paint. In the eyes of the law, non-humans have no intentions.
> Widespread, permanent unemployment is one of the less favorable possible outcomes.

Wondering why you think this is a less favorable outcome - presumably if there were robots that could make all our whims come true it would be closer to a utopian society. The value of "employment" for itself seems nonsensical - the ability to procure things that people want seem to be the better barometer of a society's wealth.
If you define individual productivity as the amount of misuse of hardware resources , then yes. In all other cases, no.

A few pretentious programmers wanting fast hardware to play with is one thing, but demanding it and proclaiming that programmer productivity has increased and thus all programmers deserve the best possible hardware is laughable at best.
That's great! I would love to hear more, and possibly if you guys are looking for any help?

Let me know.
>In the paper, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, the team writes, "as human-like artificial agents become more commonplace, perhaps our perceptual systems will be re-tuned to accommodate these new social partners."

The researchers probably think that is likely, else why did they specifically choose subjects that "had no experience working with robots and hadn’t spent time in Japan where there’s more cultural exposure to androids."
Here is a large JavaScript loader comparison matrix.

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Edit: All of the loaders can apparently load in parallel.
Only? Isn't that enough of a reason?
This advice seems like it would be applicable for an interview for any type of job.
A small personal project without collaboration does not really get much value out of GitHub anyway. If you want a backup just rsync it somewhere.
Just make your small projects public, and with a proper copyright. It's incredibly hard to get someone to pay attention to you and your code even if you want them to. Nobody will notice one way or another.

GitHub is the Library of Alexandria, not a safety deposit box.
>But that's where this logic leads.

Clearly you get diminishing returns here. And in your example you selected the comparison points (MBP'10 vs '11) so high and close to each other that the effect is negligible. jasonkester on the other hand is comparing "crap hardware" and "good hardware"...there the effect is huge.
Does this attitude bother you? 
This is not made up, you can check the accounts.
Additionally Sidechannel timing attacks against EC2 instances have been very successful. The attackers have been able to get very close to the machines and in some instances on the actual box.
What you see visually doesn't tell you anything about the team's thoughts on testing, automation, how/if they do code reviews, what their thoughts are on working remotely, if they care about what hours of the day people work, etc.
We're trying to fundamentally change how people write, collaborate, and discover code and the sooner people stop thinking of us as just a repo depository, the better, because we've never been about that.

Ask yourself what kind of markup we'd have to charge on storage space and still be able to grow our business when most of the repos we host are less than 1 MB.

We charge what we do because it makes money. Money that allows us to continue hiring really talented people that are all focused on building an even better service.

Doing things like including private repos with our free plan would eat into our margins and only satisfy the people that are likely to never convert to a paid plan. Frankly, I think being able to use all of the tools we provide for the price of a pint of Guinness every month is a damn good deal.
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Regarding compiled languages, I wouldnt really mind a poor man's workstation setup as long as

* The compilation is done remotely on a beefy server with no CPU/Disk IO/Disk space issues.

* I get several monitors. they don't even have to be big - 17 inch is fine - as long as there are at least two.

* The dev box is able to handle its software responsively. I souldn't have to reboot it. Ever. Hell any dual core with 2GB of ram, a linux distro + emacs would do.

Currenlty my 600 euro i7 box at home would probably put my work box and the team's remote compilation VM to shame. Both. At the same time...

Interestingly, from reading the comments i feel that startups are actullay more inclued to supply devs with good hardware than established players. I was expecting quite the opposite.
I share your concerns about data security etc, and I didn't make the decision lightly - in fact I used to host my own git repos (raw git, not web sites like gitorious). However, my trust in them grew in time and when genuine rock stars like Aman Gupta joined them (I use his stuff everywhere) I realised their brain trust far exceeded my own. They can probably do a better job than I can of keeping my data safe. And paying them for it helps; I'm just one customer but collectively we keep the lights on over there and I know they take it seriously.

Anyway YMMV but out of all the outsourcing decisions I've had to make recently, github was one of the easiest.
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I'm not sure I know what you're talking about. I was talking about Data Binding in the context of Microsoft technology. So, for example, when you want a grid to reflect an entire database table you can define the table and this with two lines of code (grid.datasource = table and then grid.databind()) the grid will reflect the table. It takes care of all the hard stuff as far as pagination, sorting columns, and even updating and deleting are taken care of automatically.

It is a really quick and easy way to do things (and I don't question how amazing it is in its depth of ability). But it creates almost constant chatter as the grid is reflecting all changes off the database.
Between BitBucket and Dropbox, it takes me no time at all (well, a little time to sync Dropbox, but I'm busy in those times).
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