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I've sent plain text resumes for freelance gigs, and it hasn't been a problem before. Oddly enough, I've gotten more negative comments for PDF resumes than for the .txt resumes.
thanks, i'll try and write them up. any particular areas you'd like to see expanded?
Obligatory pedantic reply: the OP would be engaging in ad hominem if he argued that Dave Winer is wrong about real names on g+ because he's a curmudgeon. Instead, he argued that Dave Winer is wrong about real names on g+, and also he's a curmudgeon.
Isn't NPR is doing a disservice to the survey organizer by biasing the results with this article? It seems any replies would be pretty useless now.
I hate when I get email newsletters from do-not-reply addresses.

If I have a question or suggestion based on what I just received I'd like to be able to just hit reply and let them know.

I'm happy to get genuine ( non-automated ) questions from sites but don't make me jump through hoops to give my answers.
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SSH buddy? I don't even have a porn buddy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgnDHbeVGG4
Umm. "Hey, let's maximize our one-day traffic spike by polluting our pages with AdWords to the point where it's impossible to tell what is a legitimate interface element!"

First impressions are everything, and this spammed-up approach is ruining any long-term gains you really should be shooting for.
Thanks for confirming, polymer. It was strange to read that section of Winer's article. Just so people know: if you're viewing a post, I believe you can click on the timestamp to the right of the person's name, e.g. "Yesterday 9:45 PM (edited 3:02 AM)" to get a permalink to the post.

Or if you see the post in your stream, I think you can also click the dropdown arrow at the top-right of the post and select "Link to this post."
Maybe for you! I know that a majority of people I meet I introduced with my real name. "Hi! I'm cdcarter." just doesnt roll off the tongue.
"It's the same superficial analysis we see with every single thing Google does."

Superficial isn't a synonym of "wrong". Sometimes the superficial explanation is the correct one. Sometimes people expend a lot of cognitive effort looking for the complex, nuanced answer when the superficial one was correct all along.

And sometimes not, of course.

But I would argue that the idea that Google isn't giving one thought to how much money Google+ is going to make them is the bizarre position, absurd on its face.

I'd also observe that any given action does not need to have one motive. Google can want a "real community" (also because a "real community" is more likely to be active, cause people to spend more time on Google+, and thus see more ads and generate more ad revenue), and also want to have better information with which to target you. There's no contradiction, and there's no way in which one is the "real" motivation and the other is false, they're all just mixed together. There's a whole lot of people here trying to draw lines about what's the real motivation and what isn't when there's no room to draw the lines in the first place.
Current scientific knowledge says that going faster than light is impossible.
You could actually perceive women-only gyms and scholarships as a response to events such as this. How would you react to being told your presence caused bad behavior, and so you'd been disallowed? Why, you'd create a space from whence you couldn't be removed--by making yourself the only entity. However, that's not to say it is an ideal solution. Also, I've never really understood that aphorism, "Can't have your cake and eat it." WTF was the point of giving me the damn cake if I can't eat it?
...how do you expect to find a way to do so cheaper than than a university, given that all other entities which can meet the governments requirements for getting grant charge so very much more?

I'd relax the government's requirements and allow more entities (including individual PIs) to get grants.

I'd also demand that universities itemize their overhead costs. Every commercial property manager successfully itemizes the cost of a building, electricity and cleaning services. Every outsourced HR agency itemizes employee payroll costs.

As a taxpayer, I'd like the government to properly audit these services and bar any universities which overcharge from getting further grants.
I strongly object to your characterization of black men. I've played pick-up and organized basketball with people of all races for > 15 years and this has not been my experience.

Honestly, it sounds like you don't play basketball, and certainly not with said "black men". I recommend trying it - I think it would change your mind.
Which we demonstrably do as an industry. When neither NASA nor Knuth can write 100% correct code, the rest of us can't reasonably expect to pull it off. Human beings doing meticulous work make lots and lots of mistakes, and I welcome any feasible tactic that stops mine from being released. Sure, automating "I got a confirmation after pushing the button" seems hokey on day one (it's not as if you'd otherwise commit and go home before having seen it work) but somebody is eventually going to make a change that unexpectedly breaks it, and I want to know about it.
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Empires in decline get progressively more brutal. Sounds like Aaron Swartz became an embarrassment so is being side-tracked from the good work he does.

I am not 100% sure of this, but I think this is probably true: similar to the case of Eliot Spitzer who as governor of NY was investigating Wall Street. So, I think that Wall Street had their lackey the US Government (via the FBI) dig up something on Spitzer to bring him down. I believe that this situation is called a plutarchy.
Checked the figures and 1.3Kw is the average (24*365) for Arizona.

Surprising - when I lived in Houston you needed AC running 24x7 for 6months of the year and all the other appliances where electric.

I assume, being in the desert, Arizona is cooler at night and they use propane/oil heating in the winter?
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Generally, I find that I often find that its only worthwhile to find someone on Facebook if I have their real name and common friends.
Why, therefore, it matters at all that
these words "didn't exist anywhere in
the article" is beyond me.

What is the purpose of the quotation marks then? Irony?
This kind of thing happens a lot more than you think. Unless the existing site has a patent thicket, my advice is go for it.

If this is a project that you care about, and one at which you can do a better job, then don't let anything hold you back. What would our world be like without competition?
There used to be web-based Rails debuggers, didn't there? I haven't used any kind of Ruby debugger since 2007. I just keep an SSH screen with "bundle exec rails console" running. I'm of the impression that this is what most people do.

So what's the win here?

Even with CSRF protection, you still have to worry about who can talk to port 3000 on your machine. There's a "rails server" running on my Macbook pretty much every day. I bought a whole separate Macbook because I was worried about the attack surface that Rails runs with by default. Adding a remote shell to the mix doesn't seem like a win.
Ah, the game of hot potato. The reporter ended with it. The person asking for a test case wins.
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Nice spin: he's been charged for "excessive downloading".

Way to ignore the physical break-in to install a computer directly on a network switch. I, for one, hope that he gets a criminal record at the very least (plea deal). This really puts the crime in a different league.

Unless I have my facts wrong, in which I'm willing to be corrected.
Hi Matt -- I got complaints from people on Twitter saying they couldn't click through to a page I linked to on Google-Plus. I probably should have said that specifically in the post (though I did say it in a comment).
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I, for one, welcome our new avioid overlords.

Seriously though, the elegance is just breathtaking, i'd love to get myself one of those.
"5. Keep passwords as encrypted for security. Decrypt them in application when required." stopped reading there
Underdo your competition.
"Economic growth" for who, is the question. Would you rather live in a country that has a better performing economy in the aggregate even if it means the median (not the mean) citizen is worse off?
The NSF should host them free of charge. We shouldn't expect a private money-making corporation to host them as a public service.
I'm going to suggest you read more of Steve Blank's writings if you've never heard this definition before. Maybe try " Four Steps to the Epiphany" or the like. (Or, if you can't handle that, try the Entreprenuer's Guide to Customer Development.)
Oh I was thinking the ink would be worth $$$ for tattoos that only show up when you're drinking - like little details like flames that appear around an otherwise unadorned area, etc.
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This is law. But in practice if you will get new job in reasonable time - you should be ok. But of course - this is grey area and you'd better secure new job before leaving old one.
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Yes, I cannot agree with the way TTC has pressured developers based on "copyright" claims.

I wonder if TTC has a patent on "methods to deliver tetrominos to clear lines."
Gotcha--if you want to point me to a couple of those tweets, I can pass that on to Google+ folks to check into. If someone shares a post publicly (as opposed to sharing with a limited circle of people), we definitely want people to be able to read those public posts.
Way to ignore the notion of intent when evaluating a "crime".
Check your history. California Edwards AFB was the backup landing site but became the primary landing site for most of the early years of the program. A runway was built and maintained in Florida but never used until the 90s.

According to wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Landing_Facility, the runway was too good at its job and ended up breaking landing gear. So they spent 6 years sanding it down. But when I was a kid and asked why they landed all the way over there, someone at NASA told me it was the unpredictable Florida weather.
In case it wasn't clear from the parent, Debian doesn't do this (at least not automatically).
(I'm one of Domainr's creators)

Nice work! We've been meaning to build out a Domainr CLI but haven't been able to make time for it -- we were hoping that somebody might put one together via the API.
"it is about... removing people who spell their names in weird ways, like using upside-down characters"

Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
The ones who dare to spell their names with upside down characters.
Actually "swombat" unlike yourself I'm a creative professional who holds a design degree. As a CTO do you read articles on how to be technical?
I'm too tired to find the reference, but some woman recently got sentenced to serve 90 days (thereabouts) incarceration for planting a garden in her front lawn in contradiction to local ordinances. Of course this is a prime example of civil disobedience, as she intentionally flaunted this absurd law, challenged it as best she could in court, then paid the price of losing.

The point is, you can be tossed into the clink for just about anything if you are brazen enough to openly challenge the law and don't prevail. Judges don't care much for the proles challenging the state.
That's nice. The factor is about 5000. Census records are used for howmanyofme.com (1990 and 2000) - there were 423,777 Robertses versus 2,406 Winers, and there were over 4,000,000 Michaels versus 82,000 Daves.

I'm sure there are "lots" of people with your name in the US, but you aren't named Michael Roberts. Trust me. I am unGoogleable.
Considering all the bots and spam accounts that pollute twitter, I'm not sure if I agree.
They are targeting you, yes. But "you" is loosely defined as someone who reads email newsletters about cat toys, not necessarily "John Smith, cat toy enthusiast".
Damn that's a disgusting characterization. Really awful.

Anyway, the key point of my piece was this:

"Simply put, a real name is worth more than a fake one."

Do you doubt that?
"You see, we are almost certainly moving towards a world where the only computer we own will be wearable, or simply a smartphone."

I just don't think that's true any time soon. Anyone that needs to type out a paper for school, for example, might need something more than a smartphone. Or someone that likes to read on screens larger than 4". Maybe the author is counting on holographic projection or the like?
Well, a physical break-in would be a matter for the local police, maybe state. Federal prosecutors don't get involved with those cases unless it's the Pentagon or something.

This is only at the federal level because the "unauthorized access" crossed state lines. (Aaron was at MIT when he was knocking over JSTOR servers, probably in NYC.) So the prosecutor is only going to worry about that part.
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Data not backing up hypothesis is not cause for worry. That's just part of science, and the result is still valuable.

The fact that no gravitons have been found below 2 TeV is data from which useful conclusions can be drawn about their nature, if they do exist.
an interactive demo would be better, the developer should have a look at Github Pages (http://pages.github.com/)
What would you call a company that from its start uses a well-known scalable and repeatable business model?
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> it is not legally permitted to target advertising using real identities,

[citation required]. As stated, this can't be right because my physical mailbox is chock full of real identity advertising - mostly related to credit cards but not only.
The heading above the images is somewhat misleading:

"Check out what these pushovers look like: Demo"
Yes. Again, that is the official title of the work: imagine that it had been at the top of the linked to page, ironic quotation marks and all.
I don't understand why people are bringing issues of the availability of scientific journalism into this. I agree that the prices and paywalls involves are ridiculous and a bad idea for a variety of reasons, but that seems orthogonal to the issue here.

I don't think anyone is denying that Swartz committed a (possible series of) minor crimes. Claiming that "information should be free" doesn't stop them from being crimes. What's shocking is the response from the government, which appears to be using this incident for its own purposes rather than to preserve the rule of law. No one seems to really be asking why this is happening, and I think that is by far the more interesting question. Is the justice department trying to expand its reach, as the article suggests? Is this a deterrent for future "hackers"? Has one of Swartz's numerous hornet nest-kickings pissed off someone high up, who wants him removed from the playing field?
I was expecting some kind of geek-oriented MREs. Of course, if you ask the right lab rats, MREs are already geek-oriented.
Ha, at work and didn't feel like Googling. This Wikipedia thing is good!
Your development team is slow.. What can you do?
The fact that someone is a fanboy means that the branding worked very well (and yes even if we're talking about a non-commercial brand like Linux). As a designer I believe in the power of UX, but marketing (i.e. product positioning) and other factors also play a role.
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But a piece of paper is easier to snatch than having your passwords written down nowhere - without stealing a whole wallet or breaking into houses.
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I'm thinking a combination of Twitter and Intercom should work great. Use Twitter to make a quick plug "New feature: Turbo Widget 2.0" and then make a more involved pitch using intercom.

My problem right now is that I have my user's email, but probably only 10% have signed up to follow our Twitter account.

Email still rules... Ideas?
I read the article. Directly before the excerpt you quoted, as related by the same individual, you have the following quotes:

a) "Most of the kids had left", b) "obviously at that point the people who had attacked you guys had run off"

So how, exactly, were the police to arrest the attackers?
Banks have deposit insurance because they operate under the fractional reserve system and loan out almost all of their deposits, putting them at risk of failing and losing all your money. Hence FDIC and whatnot.

The bitcoin network doesn't do that, hence no need for FDIC. The apparent risks to the BTC network are that a malicious entity gains control of > 50% of the network's computing power and uses that to illegally modify the blockchain, or the network goes down. The network is so big now that only the largest botnets would have a hope of the former, and it would take a global calamity like a scorched earth world war, asteroid, or EMP from an intense solar flare to accomplish the latter.
"You and I know you can code an app and produce a simple clean home page. Everyone here can."

In my experience, that is absolutely not the case. I've only attended one Startup Weekend, but as a developer I was outnumbered 3-1 by 'business' people. That is not a problem in and of itself, but this article goes a little too far for my tastes.

"The code" has to feature in there somewhere- without developers an event like Startup Weekend would become a massive echo chamber of people throwing out and presenting wonderful startup ideas that might not even be technically possible. It has to have a slight 'hackathon' element to it in order to establish what you can do, and you need to create basic prototypes to validate whether you ideas actually work in the real world.

"If all you build this weekend is a landing page that describes what your company will do and asks for an email address to be notified when ready, and if you manage to get 50 emails, that is far more of a real company than a team who builds something that works but no one asked for it."

I'm not so sure. I could create a landing page for my web site that will interface with your toaster through a public API, and allow you to remotely prepare a bagel whenever you want it. That doesn't make it a viable business because what I am describing isn't possible (well, yet...)
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Thanks and good luck with your launch!
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It's using DOMNodeInserted (when available), which does fire as each element is created.
Read the next few sentences!

The whole point is that Thunderbolt will let you plug your smartphone into a keyboard (to write that paper), or a projector, video camera (FireWire), or an external RAID array (eSATA/PCIe) for that matter.

As soon as the Thunderbolt/Light Peak socket gets a little thinner, anyway :)
Awesome, so basically if I'm already a great engineer/designer I don't have to worry about engineering or design anymore!

But hey it is true that it can be too easy to get lost in the joy of building and forget about the business.

There's just so much out there to explore and try when you're a creative type that it can really help to stop and think about the 'big picture' point of what you're doing and why on earth anyone else (customers, etc) should care ;)
The breakthrough here was to design wings that torque and twist differently in many different places giving this machine more of the lift, propulsion and flight options a real bird would have.

You know who else designed wings that twisted? The Wright Brothers. Think about how different air travel would be if they weren't so greedy with their patent.
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Implication of "NB" in this context: don't blame the author of the piece for the cheesy buzzword in the HN posting.

I twig now that the author and the HN poster are one and the same internet celeb. So... sorry about that :)
No.

This is an incredibly silly claim that people who enjoy engaging in and supporting ad hominem always make when ad hominem is pointed out. Grandparent absolutely intends his insult, in proximity to his argument, to undermine his disputant's credibility. He doesn't need to literally say, "because he's a curmudgeon, his argument is wrong" for it to be ad hominem.
The NeXT logo was nothing short of brilliant — the only sad thing about Jobs coming back to Apple was that it disappeared. Sadly not enough hackers know about Rand, he deserves to make the front page here...
I've also heard the exact opposite argued: that there's a pile-on effect when someone sees how the majority of the community thinks.
The women-only events exist to provide more support for women in technology.

The intention behind men-only events is to avoid having to support women in technology.
Heck, people of German Descent are the majority in most places in the US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-An...
I suppose we disagree on what the worth is. I think the worth is making a better social network (which is valuable to Google for a number of reasons), not for being able to better target advertising.

The early days of a social network are critical for setting the tone and Google knows that. They see the comment quality on YouTube and are not proud of it. Do you think YouTube comment quality would increase if it were tied to people's real names? I do.
Can we just buy a PDF version?
If there's evidence yet to come that Swartz intended to anonymously push the corpus he took from JSTOR up to BitTorrent, the crime is no longer minor.

I think I share Swartz's politics, but I'd like to believe that law enforcement would at least take a plan like that seriously.

On the other hand, it's equally possible that there is no evidence Swartz was going to publish what he took from JSTOR, and that instead the DoJ is upset about the PACER incident, which it couldn't prosecute, and jumped on this case, which it clearly can prosecute.

Swartz is lucky to have such well connected and influential friends.
I think it's a pretty strong statement to state every entrepreneur. I've been reading Feld since he started blogging but that statement assumes every entrepreneur reading TechCrunch is planning on chasing VC money.

On the other hand if you're bootstrapping I'd recommend Start small, stay small: an entrepreneurs guide to launching a startup by Rob Walling. That is until patio11 writes the definitive guide.
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What's most annoying is the combination of this issue and the one the author writes about: the ticket sits around for a year and then gets closed a year later for some silly reason (like lack of a test program).
What about Groupon?
their female attendees have been... intolerant of the culture of computer gaming

Their female attendees have been harassed and disrespected. You need to understand that there is no such thing as an objective experience; context is the trump card every time. You don't feel threatened when someone trash talks or hazes you at a conference/tournament. Most women do feel threatened. It's up to us as a culture to decide which of those views is "reasonable". I prefer to consider both of them reasonable and search for a viable compromise.
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This is tinfoil-hat stuff. Governors who frequent prostitutes can't expect to stay in office, full stop. The likelihood that Swartz does a single overnight in custody over this is practically nil. The brutality we are arguing about here is the possibility of him ending up with a felony on his record.