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You are very clear, however, I take issue with your equating being black, white or martian to having anger management issues.

It was not my intention to mislead, but it appears that I have, my apologies. You are correct in asserting that my anecdote did not equate with the known circumstances of the individuals involved. I don't know him, nor does anyone have the whole story other than him and his boss. I was looking to explain the extreme behavior that correlated.

I apologize for my second single data point: I worked with a guy who occasionally flew off the handle and liked to kick things (usually solid things at the expense of his foot, not the thing being kicked). One time it was a small garbage can with projectiles of reasonable weight in them (and it was intentional, he was very angry and wanted to launch something through the air in a place that would have been otherwise safe to do that). The problem is that while this particular storage room usually just had boxed equipment, that day it had a card for a router that was to be delivered to a customer site. The card cost over $30,000CAD, and after re-ordering its replacement, lost my company significantly more. He was let go, too, but was upset, rather than visibly angry about it (who wouldn't be?). He wasn't scary, ever. He had anger management issues (I thought everyone had those ... and it was just a matter of the degree to which they can prevent those issues from impacting those around them. I drop an occasional f-bomb under my breath when the fucking compiler thinks I'm wrong).

He wasn't black, white or martian, but the consequences of his actions were serious. It was a router card he was delivering, that he had ordered, that he had unboxed and that ultimately he had destroyed.

So, really, I don't hire people with anger management issues, because if I can see that during an interview, chances are it's a much bigger problem (I armchair quarterback as a psychologist, admittedly).

When I see anger management issues in my employees (what few employees I've had), I talk to them, explain what an outburst can cost them, and tell them to feel free to yell at me if they are angry (My employees, lately, have been remote, so I don't have to worry about being hit by a garbage can).

EDIT: replaced the word hurtle with launch, because the former made no sense at all.
2 years. But I expect they'll be out befor that, or more likely overturned on appeal - once the heat/fear has calmed down then there will be less pressure for panic over reaction.
This is one of the most overlooked cost for first-time home buyers, all the cost in condo fees and taxes are not going to contribute a cent to your equity either.
It depends on whether "a large amount of RAM" means "a quarter of a million dollars' worth of RAM" or "an amount of RAM substantially larger than the Milky Way galaxy".
But it hasn't acted as a deterrent, has it. The first tiny window of opportunity these organised shoplifters had, they went for it.

It wasn't rioting or a protest.
Surprisingly swift justice. The average wait time for the crown court is 13-15 weeks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Court].
I don't see why it is surprising. Tech employs quite a small percentage of people in the bay area.
Only the Photoshop example has fake names. Everyone else used real sounding names, it's just that they use their Google+ profile for nothing but spamming affiliate links, then using SEO to have them come up first on Google search.
I consider 3270's sexy. The real thing, not an emulator.

That 60's design is a killer.
Well the question you should be asking is why you want all of those followers. If you are trying to get followers in order to promote content then just randomly following people is going to produce very low click through rates as the people are likely not interested in what you have to say.

However if you are trying to get a lot of followers to get paid to promote services, then that is the way to go.
Hey we're "having a riot" out by the McDonalds on Orangethorpe Avenue in Anaheim tomorrow at 4pm. Hope you can make it, assuming free speech still exists in the US, unlike the british police state we fought to free ourselves from.

PS come and get me coppers.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=laugh%20riot
Is there a statute of limitations on white collar crimes like these?
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> Wolf 3D was actually 2D

And Doom was 2.5D - you could be at different heights, but could never be at the same x-y at two different z.
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I can see where you are coming from, but in the case of the two involved in this story, it's a bit deeper.

On ones own, it is unlikely the average man will head off to a mobile phone store, force the shutter open, smash the windows and head off inside to collect some iOS booty.

Collectively, a group of men are considerably more likely to do so.

Organising a group of people on Facebook to gather and go forth and cause problems in a town is therefore a very serious issue.

(In this case, nobody did gather, but what if they did? Millions of pounds worth of damage may have been caused - as it was in other towns.)
Is it just me or is the site down?
You never know, Stallman could be the greatest reverse-shill ever planted.
This is just the tip of the ice berg; the most disparate crime/punishment of many.

Don't get me wrong; I've always been in favour of effective punishment - but this is totally the wrong time for our justice system to "go spare".

Firm but fair is important in situations like this. I approve of punishing these two, who did something idiotic with the potential for great harm. A slap on the wrists, or a small fine maybe.

The problem is fear. Certain parts of our population are scared to he'll by these riots (ironically, most have probably not been within 10 miles if a riot...) fed by the media and a government trying to save their image. (I mean, they've switched from criticising the police for being heavy handed during the G20 protest to criticising them for being too standoffish! And the media are lapping it up)

I've been as disapointed in our justice system this week as I have been with the rioters.
Roughly speaking, if you save the difference between the rent and mortgage price, you should end up with the same upside that a purchase would have netted (although if rent > mortgage, then renting only makes sense for a short term stay).

Many people think home buying is a good financial strategy because most people don't have the discipline to save this extra cash. It benefits the buyer in the same way a forced retirement savings plan would.
When you hear COBOL and Assembler in the same sentence, you should (in addition to releasing the safety on your browning) presume 360/370/zOS.

Turns out my brother-in-law is well versed in all the languages, as he works on a key cross-platform IBM product. He also is a whiz with reading core dumps.
The law is certainly agile when representing the interests of the state, rather than citizens.
I don't know the details of the attack, but the article says, "AES-128 is more like AES-126", so you should therefore need 2^125 operations in average, which is 4 times faster.

On the other hand, I may be wrong... do you mind linking to the original source?
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They've said as much, but that process works a lot better for obscure indie desktop games than for mobile apps trying to capitalize on fame. A lot of potential new players are going buy it to see what all the fuss is about, not see the point of it, and move on.

If the mobile version is being developed independently of the desktop version, then it's always going to lag way behind and not share the same base of players. It's the t-shirt, not the game.
This is not a Ruby vs Node.js benchmark because Node.js is still a layer above the V8 Javascript engine. Moreover Node.js was optimize for things like concurrency and this is similar to what eventmachine is optimized for. The difference is node.js makes the event model a language construct. I think it would have been better to use eventmachine but you did not because:

> At first I tried to compare bare node.js against eventmachine_httpserver. It did quickly became obvious that this kind of micro-benchmark wasn’t going to be very helpful in deciding which one to choose.

Your first observation was the correct one. The best thing to do is just pick a language and go with the best tools available.
While S3 might be "extremely durable" from a technology standpoint, its unceremonious dumping of Wikileaks as a customer shows it to be politically fragile.

You might think of Wikileaks as "extreme," but this is an organization that was neither convicted nor even charged with breaking any laws, which Amazon dumped as a customer on very vague TOS grounds following pressure from Sen Joe Lieberman.

This could be an issue for reasons like...

-You make a Web app that Hollywood deems to somehow encourage or abet piracy

-You provide a service used by a customer deemed to be politically controversial

-You facilitate financial transactions deemed to be potential helpful to "terrorists" or the wrong sort of activists (e.g. Wikileaks).

Werner, since you submitted this entry from your personal blog, maybe you could clarify what safeguards Amazon has put in place to prevent a repeat of the Wikileaks situation. Many companies will stand behind a customer barring a court order, but for Amazon this clearly is not the case. How do you decide when to abandon a customer?
With this stuff, it isn't so much the language as the culture.

You may be right in your second to paragraphs, however. All of this mainframe stuff was designed when machines were vastly more expensive than the programmers tending to them. In any modern context, the computers that make us productive cost on the order of magnitude of a chair, not a building.
Unless you buy a foreclosure. I'm living for free now.

Otherwise, though: you're absolutely right. The only reason a foreclosure makes sense for me is that fixing houses is a hobby of mine.
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I did fork it and will be taking a look at it. Thanks for open-sourcing this. It really does look like it can be extremely useful.
Datacenter's network issue affecting a small number of customers.
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The problem is that it's not always the quality of the joke. A lot of face-to-face interaction, beyond the words spoken, is the tonal inflections, gestures, facial expressions, and such that cannot be expressed in a purely text-based medium. Just pick up any book where two characters have a conversation and look at how much of the text is what they're saying, and how much is the narrator talking about what they're doing while saying it, or adjectives about the tone of voice they're speaking in.

...he said, emphatically.
>Again. This subthread is not about turning your brain off.

I'd appreciate it if you quieted your condescension. For someone who didn't even know that the United States had a central bank, you are extremely vocal about the topic of finance. We're all here to learn and exchange.

Even if actions of The Fed are not necessarily regulations themselves, the fact that The Fed exists at all and is able to exert influence is certainly the result of law. Understanding this, I don't have a problem with conflating the actions of The Fed and the regulation that enables The Fed-- "regulation".

There is healthy debate regarding the cause of the 2008 crash. Economics is not a science proper, and the data is noisy. You cannot simply write-off the argument wholesale by latching on to the debatable causal link between "de-regulation" and the crash. Unless, of course, you turn off your brain.
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I'm not sure I understand the prevailing view that renting is always better than buying.

I bought an apartment in San Francisco in 2001 and frankly, it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Before I did so, I calculated out the cost difference of renting vs. buying. After taxes, my living expenses were only a few thousand dollars more a year to buy vs. renting.

If I want to move, I don't have to sell my place, I can simply rent it out. Given current rates, I can do so for more than my monthly mortgage payment. Not only that, but my property is worth about 40% more than what I paid for it. I can actually use my equity in my house to finance another home and flip one to a rental.

Maybe purchasing isn't for everyone, but it certainly is for some. In the end, it depends on your finance situation and location.
The goal was to allow link and italics tag, as I mentioned.
Warning: This is a huge tangent. I've been speaking out against the DMCA for the better part of a decade now (pretty hard not to if you're a reverse-engineer with a sweet tooth for DRM), but for once I'm going to speak in its defense.

There are many, many things in the DMCA that I disagree with, but it also has huge benefits and is responsible for making possible many sites you use every day, such as Youtube. The safe harbor exemptions in the DMCA make it possible for a service provider to host user content without worrying about being crushed under copyright claims; if you deal with DMCA takedowns when they come in, you're A-OK. Likewise, the DMCA made clear many elements of fair-use around reverse-engineering, but we don't ever hear about this because the same clauses also make many other things illegal.

The DMCA is really a mixed bag. I'd love to see most of it go away, as it's personally impacted me on many occasions, but it also has good -- essential, many would say -- parts.
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Additionally, I HIGHLY suggest taking a look at the Business Model Generation by Alex Osterwalder and Running Lean By Ash Maurya.

LINKS:

http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/

http://www.runningleanhq.com/
While I agree that iTunes is a very cumbersome piece of software

That's not what I said.

and it is more difficult to use on Linux

That's a sloppy way to put it. AFAIK, there is no Linux port of iTunes. It may be possible to use with virtualization, but that's beside the point.

The technology has been around, like you said, for a long time to post videos online - but what good is it if those videos are hosted on a thousand different websites? iTunes U aggregates them all into a platform that can easily be searched, as well as enforcing a minimum level of quality in order to provide a higher quality learning experience

I wasn't aware that iTunesU aggregated videos other than those from the particular university at which you are a student. That's how it was billed at my school. Still, if it does do so, it's a strage way to go about it. The same thing could be accomplished in a much more accessible way with a YouTube clone for educational videos.

Is Apple truly that magnanimous? Probably not. But it's an ad-hominem fallacy to dismiss the quality of iTunesU on the basis of it's creator.

Right, which I didn't do. In fact, quite the other way around. I have great respect and admiration for Apple and Steve Jobs. That respect went down a bit when I realized that (and here's my real point):

There is no business case for Apple to have iTunesU except to block Linux from getting a foothold on university campuses.

Now, maybe that statement is too strong. I would be delighted if someone could prove it to be wrong.

Now, just to be clear, I don't think there's anything morally or legally wrong with acting to block your competition. But still, I'd rather see Apple selling great products that people love, which is what they normally do, rather than giving away products with the sole (apparent) intention of blocking the spread of other great things (Linux).
4. simplify the damn options, there 5 options per model and like 30 different models. It's ridiculous. You just need a few options with customizability.
Do courts in the UK have any flexibility in sentencing? Do defendants generally know what evidence the prosecution has against them?

If so, then I'd expect guilty pleas to often be sensible. If you know you are guilty, and you know that the prosecution has sufficient evidence to make it virtually certain you'll be convicted, why not plead guilty and hope that sways the court to leniency?

I'd expect a court to be more lenient with a defendant who admits his guilt and shows remorse for the crime than one who insists he is not guilty when he clearly is and clearly knows that he's going to be found guilty.
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I can't speak for all houses in all cities, but when I left the Bay Area, it was shocking- you really could pay same as rent in a middling place on some of these houses.

The tricky bit then becomes not "can I afford it" but, "will I be moving again? If so, how soon?"
I tried pretty hard to find a house in the New York Metropolitan area this summer. Once you factor in the taxes, HOA fees and mortgage I would be paying roughly 2x in monthly payments to get an apartment similar to the one I rent. When I consider that my house will not return me more than 3-4% pa over a long term I decided it was not worth it to buy. Also houses have a end load of ~5% for agent fees.
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Groupon's operation in Brazil was caught copying content from another daily deal website. They didn't even change the name of the competitor
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I live in San Diego, CA - unless you're willing to live in a townhome, and a shitty one at that, nothing new or even in a nice neighborhood, you cannot get anything decent in the 250-350k range as advertised on this blog. San Diego is still overpriced and due for a real bottom soon.
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If you go to the bottom of the page at http://allthingsdistributed.com/, you'll see that the blog actually requires "Movable Type Pro".

AWS doesn't provide a way to serve from S3 without the help of a CNAME redirect, which means that you're out of luck if you want to use the Jekyll+S3 setup with a naked domain name (naked, as in no "www" or "blog" subdomain). And it also means that you're going to have to get some other server (Google Apps can do it), to redirect your *.domain.com queries to www.domain.com. And then your users' DNS is running all over the place, incurring, in my opinion, unneeded delay.
> "I really do believe that social "skills" can't be learned, at least not well."

As someone who, 5 years ago, couldn't stammer out 5 words in front of a crowd without shrinking so far back into his seat that he'd disappear... I strongly disagree.

I've gone from incredibly shy and socially clueless to being able to square off with management in meetings on important issues. I've gone from being unable to hold a conversation about anything non-tech to being a half-decent conversationalist that can hold non-techies' interests for more than 20 minutes.

I've also gone from dreading social events to looking forward to them. It's a great feeling, believe me.

It didn't come magically, it took a lot of extreme self-consciousness, a lot of deliberate self training, a whole lot of beating up oneself, and forcing myself to step well outside of my comfort zone for this to happen. But these things can very well be learned.
IIRC, they had another outage a couple days back. It would be 363 now.
There are a number of technological misrepresentations in your quotation that would seem inconsequential to the average judge or journalist, but actually make a huge difference in meaning and effect:

...used his Facebook account...to design a web page...

The word "design" implies stronger intent and effort than is actually required to post an event to Facebook. "Web page" is not typically used to refer to user-generated content on Facebook, but rather a distinct presence on the Internet that exists independently of and can be accessed without assistance from Facebook. Saying "web page" rather than "Facebook post" implies a much wider intended exposure than is actually likely.

His message was distributed to 400 Facebook contacts...

This number dropping seems like a journalistic scare tactic. Probably half or more of the users on Facebook have hundreds of Facebook "friends." Saying the message "was distributed to 400...contacts" implies deliberate, intended dissemination of the post. It is far more likely that the post simply ended up in his news feed automatically, and that many of his 400 friends didn't even see the post. It is also possible that he invited all of his Facebook friends to the event, in which case all 400 would receive the invitation, but that is far, far different from, say, distributing a crime-inciting newsletter to 400 willing subscribers, or sending instructions to an active criminal network of 400 members.
They both plead guilty - what exactly were their lawyers supposed to do?
I've said this before but this looks like a new discussion so I'll say it again: If you can switch jobs safely without moving, then yeah, buy a house. If, however, a job switch will involve a move, you're daft to do so. Too much risk in today's job market.

I'm thinking of the US marketplace, but I suspect it will hold up in similar areas as well. Houses can/will be illiquid at times.
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There are also lots of great comments on the sibling submission from a few weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2861825
Having just recently been through a drawn-out, multiple interview process recently only to be given a generic rejection email in the end, I really appreciate some of the points the author is making. Particularly that (1) hiring for personality fit is at least an important as technical "competence" (insofar as competence can be measured in an interview) and (2) respecting the developer's time as well as yours.

In my recent experience, for example, I devoted at least 15+ hours to the process and got nothing in return (no meaningful feedback or criticism). There is an obvious benefit IF you get a job offer you are happy with, but it's all too easy for companies to cast a wide net when interviewing and waste lots of hours of my time. At a minimum, I'll be more leery of inefficient interviewers in the future.
The problem with patents is fourfold:

1. Large companies, as a whole, like them. So Republicans like them;

2. Trial lawyers definitely like them (software patents are the Lawyer Full Employment Act in all but name). Many Congressmen are lawyers. The Democratic Party is basically the political wing of the American Bar Association (eg it's Democrats who oppose tort reform of any kind) so Democrats like patents too;

3. They're currently being wielded by largely American companies. If American companies were seen as being victimized by foreign companies it would be a totally different political landscape; and

4. America is such a large market that it affects both local and foreign companies anyway so there is limited benefit to setting up shop elsewhere.

Personally I think (3) and (4) are the key to getting Congress to do something but I suspect that by the time either or both happen, it'll be far too late to fix.

America, as a whole, seems beholden to "old world thinking" when it comes to intellectual property. Just look at the mess of lawsuits by the RIAA/MPAA (being tantamount to legalized extortion), copyright treaties negotiated in secret that want to put copyright infringement on the same level as terrorism, the Obama administration infested with ex-RIAA lawyers and so on.

The collective ignorance with respect to IP by the courts, the executive branch, the legislature and most people as a whole is staggering and until that changes don't expect much to change.