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Are there times when you prefer Java EE over Spring and the like? Java EE does some things well, but it seems like lots of comparable libraries/etc are offered in the open source side of things.

Not knocking, really just curious about your opinion.
Fascinating from a marketing point of view - offer steep discounts to higher-value customers, and those customers will (a) appreciate the "discount" and (b) evangelize your service telling others to get in touch for said special discount.
Yeah, my BA in geography stopped me from getting work programming research stuff in a top rated CS department. Oh wait... other than a couple of questions from interviewers who seem actually interested in how I went from geography to programming, no one thought twice. And here's the real kicker: my knowledge of $NOT_CS comes in handy all the time, when examining impact and importance of our work as well as where and how to position it to the world.
To be fair, Binghamton is cheaper than almost all state schools, and substantially cheaper than most if not all the Big10 schools.
Also, I'd be curious if PHP support is coming at any time. That seems like it would open the floodgates.
Sadly, the following Mojo Nixon link has now become obligatory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWaCOQre4A

To think that I've been reduced to such things. Say it ain't so, Don Henley!
Personal edit: "Act like you know what you're doing; most people are just winging it anyway."
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I would also add that school affords one with the ability to focus full time without the distarctions and fateague of a full time job (especially if the job is in a non related field). This is imparative to those who haven't been programming sense age 12 and are relatively new to the space. Everything is "easy" when you know how to do it. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the value in higher education extends beyond its curriculum and that value is entirely dependent on the individual.
Fair points. The timing happens to work out pretty well that we're just now in the period where SmartPhones and tablets are becoming mature consumer products so Apple can ride the formula for many years to come. It will get a lot harder when it's time to make the next big leap forward.
This has been coming for a while. When they paid $200MM, that didn't make much sense to me.

I guess they are finally admitting it now.
No, the "buffering" joke is a staple of Real Networks threads: the traditional fare on Slashdot, and its web 2.0 offshoots.
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College for me was a mix of self-learning (writing LISP interpreters and video games) and being forced to learn nifty new stuff through coursework.

I wound up dropping out after 3 years. I don't regret it because I've kept up the self-learning (being an ACM member, reading lots of papers on a continual basis, not budgeting books on CS and engineering).

I think you can afford to drop out of college, but you cannot afford to drop out of learning. I've seen too many senior engineers wind up sidelined because they concentrated on just what they were good at in their job.

I don't mean be a butterfly, or attempt to learn every month's new cool stuff. But get exposure to lots of levels of many good systems. Read the Unix source code. Read a compiler or two. Learn Prolog or Haskell. Write a network stack. Learn about database implementation, and Self, and modern graphics, and build systems. Learn everything you can from the stuff around you that is of good quality.

I'm earning more money than I would have believed possible, at a job I think I would do for free, if I could. It's a privilege to work with really good people.
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Try to do it better. It's inevitable that competitors are going to copy. I'm not sure Jobs could have stopped that either. Apple has some huge strategic advantages and big war chest which definitely helps.
Absolutely spot on for Reddit. Don't get me wrong, it's amusing as hell, and the community is open about it's Karma-mongering, but still... basically broken from the point of view of intelligent, accurate, discussion. /. was always good in moderation and what gets posted.
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Guimarin,

Thanks for the feedback. We made a slightly different mechanism for rating on the personalize page (the list of places you saw when you first came to the app allowing you to quickly rate). Either a user can skip a place manually by clicking the X, or can scroll down to the bottom and skip all the places that you don't like. You are saying you would rather just scroll past the ones you don't know?

-Jeremy
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Who says then the operator of torrents sites have to make money? Which they are making a nice profit running those sites. Name a torrent site that isn't raking in the dough?

Can you answer me why these torrent sites are raking in the dough? What is attracting their traffic and visitors?
Feature request: readable URLs. /title-of-story, /title-of-story/comment/username, etc.
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Now that's service! (and I agree with the original comment, glad to see it is fixed)
It has to do with how quickly you can iterate on your production software and what the distance is (in terms of time) between a developer committing a change and that change making it out in front of an end-user.

In traditional enterprise software (e.g. insurance) the deployment cycles are long because the organization are large, heavily layered, and extremely resistant to change. There are many reasons for this, some sensible and some not. (And then some that are legislated - they fall into both categories).

For a startup that is trying to build a service, or a mid-sized corporation, particularly in the ecommerce space, the faster you can change a deployed solution, the better off you are.

Say you're running a large ecommerce website and a bug is discovered on the user account page. It's a "P1 issue" that needs immediate attention, i.e. as long as the bug exists, revenue is impacted.

In a situation like this, you want to be able to identify a fix, commit it, and ship it to production ASAP. This becomes an issue in traditional organizations where the "developers" are different from "the network people" who themselves are subdivided into database/network/sysadmin/etc. These groups are change-averse and tend to gate releases into maintenance windows. Which makes sense, but can hinder rapid deployment.

If you don't have a traditional Ops team, there's no stakeholder who feels you're impinging on their fiefdom when you wantonly hit the deploy button. (Though I don't mean to imply that you shouldn't have discipline around releases).

The question you're asking is very relevant for teams making the transition to processes like Agile and infrastructures like Cloud. Because these things are disruptive, they lead to change and break-down of traditional org structures. A dedicated QA department always seems to be one of the first things targeted. (Though I don't necessarily think that's a good idea).
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That perspective takes into account the industries' positions, but ignores the position of consumers. The Internet may have destroyed jobs, but it hasn't destroyed productive work. The work will still be done, in a more efficient, consumer-friendly way. The people who lose jobs will have to find new ones that provide something customers want.

I don't download torrents, and I'm finding a new productive job.
Given Google's recent patent acquisition sprees (IBM and now Motorola), I think the opposite is getting more likely every day.
All of your points are well taken. The purpose of this article was to collect and explain a number of things I wish I knew when I started working with mobile HTML5. I stated in the article that the topics are basic ones, tho I think valuable, I fully agree they are not ment for a serious scale application.
I'm very happy to hear that the problem of similar tastes is one that resonates with you.

We are working very hard to quickly add all the places in the US, so you can rate the ones you love! Please request these places by clicking the mail button in the bottom right corner of the app, and we will do our best to get them into the system promptly!

We will be building out more channels soon. You mentioned coworking spaces, what else would you like to see?

- Jeremy, VP of Product and Machine Learning at Ness Computing
That has more to do with the underlying provider (Amazon) than the language hosting provider. It's a hard problem for cloud providers to solve but I'll bet you Amazon will get there sooner rather than later.
What were some of their 'interesting' ideas? Are you familiar with Slide's history as a start-up? Nothing but hype. Always jumping from one bandwagon (widgets and ad networks) to the next using every anti-consumer trick in the book to generate traffic. No authenticity to any of their pursuits, just a means to sell 'users' to advertisers. Talent acquisitions don't go for $200MM.
> I don't think there's anything about developing for the web I either couldn't handle right now or learn rapidly. I'm talking UX, backends, servers, etc.

Does that include some of the more modern browser frameworks like Cappuccino [1]?

I mention Cappuccino specifically because it is almost identical to Cocoa. Once you know Cappuccino, you know how to build native Mac apps; and are only a stone's throw away from developing iOS apps too.

From there you have a whole slew of new technologies to explore.

[1] http://cappuccino.org/
All of a sudden with all of rgrove's (YUI's) interaction, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy about using YUI again. Great customer service does make a difference.
It's not pretty, but it is the lowest level of abstraction. If they used a prettier example, they'd have to pick a framework and then people would complain "hey, why'd you pick X and not Y?"
If you feel a corporation has committed a tort or breach of contract against you, you can sue them in a court of law for damages.

So... is that it?
The death of the newspaper industry has absolutely nothing to do with kids downloading pirated music or movies, and absolutely everything to do with the fact that it costs someone precisely $0 to post an ad on Craigslist or read _more_ _timely_ news on any number of websites.

Who gives a rats ass about torrents-- they are but a small drop in the bucket of problems that "middle-man" industries actually have. Seriously, are you going to start blaming Hipmunk for the death of travel agencies? The answer is that nobody is at fault except industries that ignored the gigantic train whistle and massive shining light in the tunnel ahead. Yes, those jobs are lost. No, I really don't care about some sleazy A&R guy losing his job because all he knows is how to get wasted and take advantage of teens and early-20-year-olds who don't know any better. The gigantic level playing field is here, baby, and the only way to survive is to adapt-- which is to say, learn a new skill.
That was very respectful.
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Wish I had this when I was using JScript to extract stuff from Active Directory.

shudder I still have bad memories of GetObject("LDAP://
Maybe it's preference/bias but I found the latest Java EE6 offers a lot simpler programming model than its predecessor or Spring.

I also prefer to stick with 1 container as opposed to mix-n-match Spring modules + Hibernate + Apache CXF/Axis2 or whatnot. Most libraries out there boasted that they implement the JSR standard but they don't stop there as they also added their own extensions + configurations.

There are a few missing parts in Java EE: MVC and dealing with NoSQL which both will be addressed in Java EE7 from what I know. Spring has SpringMVC and SpringData so they're ahead right now.

What I don't like from Spring is the complexity of the setup (dependency, albeit Maven helps) and knowing various Spring modules and how they works with your preferred app-server. With Spring, at some point, you need to know a few key integration points between Spring and your app-server. For example: deploying an EAR solution that contains multiple WARs and JARs would require to understand Spring lifecycle, setup/configuration if you'd like to behave according to your requirement.

A plus point using Java EE6 is to trim down your EAR/WAR. Spring pulls many JARs.
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I wasn't just talking about the cream of the crop.

If you can't get into any of the private schools that will satisfy all of your need, and you're not willing to make up the difference on debt, there are many excellent public schools, (Berkeley, UCLA, UMCP, Urbana Champaign, the list goes on), none of which have very high tuition.
This is exactly why I run my text editors in Windows 95 still. There is far less code than current versions of windows and I find a huge performance hit when using these newer versions.
More than a little. I'm beating my favorite patent drum again, but one of Apple's alleged "inventions" (that amazingly survived first-round review at the ITC) is this:

http://www.google.com (i.e. recognizing things like URLs in free-form text and turning them into clickable actions).

Prior art for this includes such obscure pieces of software as Netscape Navigator 2 ("live" URLs in mail and newsgroup messages), released months before Apple filed for this patent.
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I hate to be 'that guy with a youtube link', but I think Trey Parker & Matt Stone nailed what Chat Roulette means to most people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gNyDZmQyeY

Probably best if Verbling doesn't associate themselves with that ;)
Comex wrote a lot of cool apps for Cydia. Maybe he can help convince apple to integrate some of the more useful ones.
In the Widgets section of the complete YUI Examples page [1], the only component that seems to support the keyboard at all is the Dial widget. The Calendar, DataTable, MenuNav, Slider and TabView don't seem to have the default keyboard-ability that their desktop equivalents do.

[1] http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/examples/
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I find a mixture of eating out (and switching up places, e.g. for fast food I tend to go with Wendy's, Arby's, and mexican food), cooking full meals, and microwaving or oven-baking frozen stuff to suit my needs, as well as fresh veggies and fruit, cereal, and sandwiches. The majority of what I eat is definitely the third group of stuff-at-home-but-not-really-cooking type of food, and I'm pretty sure it's the cheapest. I rarely eat out at a sit-down restaurant since that defeats the point of saving time and also costs too much. (More than $16 or so a meal is "a lot" from my perspective.)
I remember reading an article about the Half life 2 leak--I remember a bit about where the person responsible reached out to Gabe newell, and playing it cool Gabe offered him a job.

Newell kept corresponding with Gembe, and Gembe was led into believing that Valve wanted to employ him as an in-house security auditor. He was to be offered a flight to the USA and was to be arrested on arrival by the FBI.
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Luckily for Axel his government intervened before he could make the mistake of actually going to the USA where it's likely events would have turned out much worse for him.

The point, anyway, is this sounds very terribly similar. Comex may already be in the US, regardless I wouldn't be so quick to accept a "job" offer from a company I've been irking for a couple years. Hopefully the offer is on the up and up, for Comex's sake.
Canadian schools are expensive, and getting more expensive FAST. I've been a student at four now, and unless you get a scholarship (only really possible at the grad level), they will put any student at least $40k in debt, unless money comes from somewhere else.
seriously. i like to buy parts for things online and i am infuriated when there is a "call us" for what is ultimately a $37 part or whatever.
Join us for a YUI Open Hours sometime. We do them every few weeks and you can learn about all the latest stuff we're working on. Follow @yuilibrary on Twitter for updates.

You can also follow us all on Github and see everything we're doing on a daily basis. http://github.com/yui/

A goal of our team is to be as transparent as possible and open source everything we create. I guess the only things not public are our internal mailing list and weekly meeting, and those are pretty boring. :)
Yep, that's the one. We've tried waiting and even increased the timeout from 2 seconds to something higher and it's still not working.
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A spreadsheet doesn't waste time in the negotiation dance. I'll gladly pay for convenience and directness, which I do frequently.

Think of it this way, given the choice between paying X for a service, or having to "Call for pricing..." which will you do?

Personally I'd take the X option even if it cost more.
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I think the Squeak Etoys and MIT Scratch movement have been going mainstream, judging from the appearance of blocks-style drag-and-drop programming environments in these very democratizing game-making tools.

Meanwhile I've been building a GPLed Squeak/Scratch inspired game making app, as an extension to Common Lisp. The language extension is called Blocky, and the site is http://blocky.io

What do people think of the visual language aspect of some of these tools (such as Stencyl and Werkkzeug?) Is anyone interested in exploring the Common Lisp side of this scene?

There's also Scheme work going on with Scheme Bricks and Fluxus which I blogged about a while back. http://blocky.io/blog/2011/07/07/go-check-out-schemebricks/
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It's like a time/money offset: waste mine to justify that you get paid for yours.
Not to pry -- but did you get any offers of teaching/research posts at a university teaching social media? Did you consider taking any possible offers?
I'm an advocate for OSS in many circumstances, but you have to understand that one of the consequences of open-sourcing your software is that things like this can happen.

I can't tell if the blog's author is upset so much about the fork as he is the idea that someone other than Jigowatt is making money off of this plugin. The whole Git and GitHub ethos has certainly removed a lot of the stigma once associated with forking.
The musicians, portrait artists, and carriage drivers of 1900 would have been glad to stop all progress and prevent recorded music, photography, and cars from "killing" their jobs. I'm glad that didn't happen.
That's incorrect. All apps are sandboxed — Safari most of all, in fact — comex just found ways to break out of the sandbox, usually by exploiting something in the iOS kernel.

In addition, while it is possible to make the dock connector power only, it's only possible as of iOS 5 (with WiFi syncing). Also, that dramatically increases the cost of repair: a single corrupted file can't just be fixed in a quick bootloader-level restore, it requires reprogramming the entire device at the factory (let alone the difficulty of simply transferring a large music library from a computer without USB).

It's definitely not "simple" for Apple to make jailbreaking more difficult than they have. iOS 4.3+ include all of the security measures you'd expect in a modern OS: W^X, ASLR, codesigning, etc. And still it was possible to evade those and exploit the browser+kernel in a foolproof, web jailbreak.

(I designed the website for http://jailbreakme.com/, and while comex did put a crazy amount of work into that project, it is certainly possible that someone could repeat it.)
I hate to agree with you. Slide was never original at all. However they do have some social networking and gaming experience. This is just like Zynga snapping development companies.
Re: negative comments. You're assuming that the human capital, aka all the engineers, they acquired are going out the door too. Far from it.
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What if the person doesn't know exactly what it is that they need? I know a lot of people who know software but aren't as solid on knowing how to scale the hardware side. For those people a table isn't really helpful.

I don't think a salesman is the first person you want to talk to to help you in this regard.
> I wouldn't say security is impossible, but it isn't worth the time and effort some companies put into it.

That's why I said that perfect security is impossible. It's entirely possible to lock something down to the point where 99.9% of people who would be interested in jailbreaking a device don't have the technical knowledge or skill required to break it (or just aren't willing to risk destroying the device), but some people will still figure out how to get around the security, even if it takes them a while (of course, if a jail-break isn't available until the version it's jail-breaking is obsolete, then the manufacturer could be said to win the battle).
The thing is, most people get into SEO because it's "free traffic" and they're all pitched on how they can start making money in just a few weeks, for free, working an hour a day.

SEO is very much a long term project, so you need to have long term goals in order to truly succeed. I'm close with many affiliates who make a metric shit ton of money with SEO. But that's because they build good sites, they aggressively build links, and they don't fall for all the guru crap that floats all over the internet. And they pick niches that are evergreen and will be around 1, 2, 3+ years from now.

The bottom line is that 99.9% of SEO Experts online don't know a damn thing and simply steal/borrow/copy SEO maxims from others. It's an info circlejerk really.

Any SEO who says spam doesn't work has never spammed, because it does. Any SEO who says duplicate content doesn't work has never scraped, because dupe content works.

And so on and so on. It's a whole lot of FUD in the industry, FUD that gets newbies really excited and then leaves them wondering why they suck and everyone else is ballin'.
No improvement on the map-reduce. Cool to have a Replica set priorities though.
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I wish there was something with the flexibility of AWS (scriptable machines, disk, etc) but for whole machines and networks - no multi-tenancy.
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Similar experiences here, but I still remember /. and CmdrTaco with fondness. It was an incredibly cool idea, even if it didn't completely evolve the way I would have liked.

I'll be impressed if Hacker News can avoid the problems popularity seems to bring.