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Parent comment is FUDish, definitely, but he has a few points.

If the stated aim is popularity measurement, asking for those other things is disingenuous. Want to identify trends? That's ok, but say that's what you're doing.

Secondly, it really is a lot of effort for probably not a lot of great results. Mostly it will suffer from extreme self-selection bias. Further, the site says that "the stats on RubyGems.org...are a weak indicator of gem popularity amongst Rails apps"—that might be true, or it might not be. Regardless, it's some sort of indicator. But beyond that, most of the gems people use are open source: demonstrably good popularity indicators already exist in the form of Github watchers, forks, commits, commit activity, issue reporting, mailing list throughput, etc.
Ironically(?) this site uses the following tracking cookies according to Ghostery: Facebook Connect, Google Analytics, MixPanel, Quancast, Twitter Button.

As you might tell by the fact that I've got Ghostery installed, I am sort of in this niche, but I would consider myself wishy-washy. I don't like Facebook tracking my logins all over the web, but I use Google Analytics myself so I don't have a big problem with another site using it.
Hardly anyone can sell a tablet at the iPad's price point and turn a profit at all. Does lowering that price point make the tablet market even more attractive?
In your importance of features, "somewhat important" falls lower than "neutral", which in turn is lower than "important".

I would have thought neutral<somewhat important<important, no?
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I did this to check which version I was running. It started downloading FF7 automatically, I just had to hit 'Apply update'. Awesome.
There are two things I've not heard from Red Hat on this issue:

1) The (in)validity of the approach in terms of addressing the problem/need for secure OS boot.
2) An alternative approach for achieving the same result.

The practicality of the situation is this: in evaluating a trade-off between running Win8 securely on a PC/device vs. being able to install another OS on said device, the significant majority of users are going to forego the other-OS-install capability.
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The author gives an analogy which implies that node.js makes Rails irrelevant for a certain kind of apps, but I'm not convinced by the examples given.

In addition, if you're making a single process talk to a PostgreSQL, Redis and CouchDB database, send email and SMS, and talk to a couple of APIs then you're doing it wrong.

I'd like someone to show me the code and a real example.
Because (and this is "formerly" for me, I'm out of this work), I didn't have a rate. The price that I would quote is a mixture of what the project's scope is, how interesting it is to me personally, and how much of a pain in the ass I forecasted the client to be, or knew to be from prior experience.

For a number of my clients, I couldn't come within 50% of an actual quote until I sat down over coffee and talked over exactly what they wanted.
I am not the GP, but from the top of my head, at the moment, I would like

- a self hosted dropbox

- a phone that does not send data to google or apple without my consent, and where I can be absolutely sure it does not

- a self hosted sync server for my phone (contacts and calendar)

- a very fast internet connection to my home (I self host almost everything...)

that's it. I am sure once I have those I will need more :)
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US immigration is just like a Monty Python sketch and contains some Yes/No questions, such as;

Have you ever committed Genocide?

Are you coming to the United States to practice Polygamy?

Are you coming to the United States to use or deal in illegal Drugs?

Have you ever been a part of a Terrorist organization?

Are you planning to overthrow the US government?

US immigration policy brings everyone down except maybe those from the Ministry of Silly Walks.
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As someone currently going through my second H1B transfer in three years, I hope it works out quickly for you.

I'm in the process of drafting a letter to the Rep from my district about the nightmare that this process has been. I know its not going to change any overarching policy, but I'd at least like for the USCIS to keep the documentation I've already provided for my current visa on file so that I don't need to send them paperwork they've already seen for my first three applications.

Unfortunately, I suspect that somewhere at the heart of the USCIS system an entity relationship is enforced such that there is a one to one relationship between candidates and cases/visas and, thus, no interchange of information between one case/visa and the next. One advantage of this is that there is not likely to be much carryover of any errors between cases. This is purely speculation though.

A better model might result in a one to many relationship between candidates and cases/visas, where only one can be active at a time. This might result in an easier way for the immigration service to query each visa and tell me exactly what documentation is necessary for a transfer. However, this would also involve me trusting USCIS to actually manage and keep my data safe and secure. It would also involve me trusting them not to make any errors when inputting data to their system and for there to be an easy way to correct their data when they do make a mistake.

The one unfortunate thing that I'm sure about regarding immigration issues is that things are not going to change anytime soon. The lawyers who assemble and file visa applications at a very high cost for companies are not going to be happy if the system is made accessible for people to do by themselves. They, unfortunately, have a vested interest in keeping things as complicated as possible.

As for me, I'm going to do the same thing I've done with all my visa applications, I'm going to assemble everything associated with the application into one place (all paperwork, forms, emails, communications etc) and make a digital copy which will be encrypted and stored on a backup drive as well as a physical copy which will sit in my personal safe. Then, I'm going to start my new job and forget everything about the process and hope that I don't have to go through it again for a long time.

Good luck with everything!
You have changed my mind. I think you're right here and must agree.

Unlike a dishwasher though, it still seems like a snubbing to any enthusiasts (I can only assume that dishwasher entusiasts are few, compared to Mac/hardware enthusiasts). But Apple (like most companies) cannot simply cater to such a minority, so c'est la vie.
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Compatible type systems: lol :)

Can anyone expand on the "complementary set of features"? One of the biggest selling points for Scala is Akka, which is basically trying to implement Erlang (as I see it). I'm not very experienced with Erlang, so what's missing from Akka?
Sometimes it takes a bold move in order to convince your customers about change. See: news feed, box wine, and nearly every apple product.

In fact, I've never figured out why first class has to board first. When I rode on Cathay Pacific on business, the attendants come get you from the traveler's lounge last, once everyone else has boarded. You don't need to jockey for overhead luggage space, so why wait longer in the cramped confines of the cabin? I wish more airlines did that.
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I can't say I've experienced anything like what you've talked about. What places in the UK and the US are you talking about/comparing ? My experiences have been in London, Bournemouth and Phoenix.
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Glad this got turned into a form, I'm really hoping this works out and it's something I'd even consider helping to organize if you need assistance.

Two thoughts:

1) Have you considered getting sponsorship to help make this possible? I have raised the idea in the past with funded startups - esp those looking to hire or have developer-facing tools - that funding something like this would be beneficial. On the one hand, I would be against a startup actually pitching during the ride, but I wouldn't be against using a service that is non-in-your-face sponsored to off-set some of the costs.

2) Bauers already provides the shuttles for an number of employer services (TaaS, Transport as a Service??). You should definitely consider them: http://www.bauersit.com/

Finally, you've not stated whether this is something you intend to run for profit or as a community service. It would be useful to clarify, perhaps. I'd personally love to see it as a community service but I'm not against this being commercial.

Let me know what I can do to help.
I stay a mile away from FB due to their lack of respect for privacy. I'm selective about Google (Gmail=yes, search history and Plus=no)
The bile makes people think twice before making assertions about things they know nothing about.

Truth and how it gets publicly propagated is more important than either of our egos.

Spend some time on Wikipedia, and you'll see what happens when ego wins over truth.
Except for the 30-something-item-long "Did you mean" list that forces me to look at and physically manipulate the phone, it works amazingly well.
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I'm working on a simple static site right now, but it's the first one I've done in a long time.

I'm also doing some work for another client that's just delivering PSD files... which, again, is not something I have done in probably a couple of years.

Unless you're working as part of a larger team and you each have specific tasks, most people want at least design+front-end development.
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I think that this article puts a large amount of speculation that M$ will continue to operate the same way. While I dont think anyone wants to BET on them doing the right thing, the people upstairs do understand money, and they also understand two of their biggest competitors (Google and Apple) both put out better browsers than they have. IE9 showed that they at least understand the importance of the web browser, and I would hope they would continue along that path with 10.
Another thing is that web browsers are rapidly changing and evolving, I know Google is involved with a program now that allows C++ to run natively in the browser. In 2019, browsers could be COMPLETELY different than they are now. Backwards compatibility could become a forgotten term by that point, or browsers could operate totally different than they do now. I think a lot of what was written is true as far as the pain of past browsers, but speculating on the future is often a fool's errand.
lbrandy has it right here. If your definition of "tracking" is "web server log analysis," then nearly every web site you visit is tracking you.

It's really nothing to worry about though, unless Facebook is doing something to de-anonymize that (otherwise stateless) data. They could probably do that (by noting the IP and User-agent seen when logging out, for example), but they explicitly claim not to in a number of places, most recently by lbrandy in this thread.
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To be honest, how many web designers (let along the average user) can tell the difference between HTML4, CSS2, HTML5, CSS3, etc... without using view source?
You may want to try using the colr.org API:

http://www.colr.org/api.html

The entire colr.org dataset isn't available, but you can make ajax requests for individual hex values, typically in less than 100ms.

The dataset should also include the standard CSS and HTML color names. This was part of the initial buildout several years ago.
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My most important one, roboform is coming as 'will be disabled.'
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Tab groups would've been much better if they showed all the tabs across all windows (like Expose on Mac does for windows). Unfortunately it's just a gimmick in its current implementation.
Good points, thanks Ben!

1) Sponsorship is a great idea, but it seems like a great idea. At StartupBus, the majority of our costs are covered through sponsorship.

2) BauerIT works with us on StartupBus every year and they have already offered a very reduced rate. This is slightly off-topic, but I second that they are amazing and highly recommended for all bus needs. It does seem to be more economical over the long run to buy a bus though. If you're interested in specifics, we can take this offline. I'll shoot you an email in a bit.

3) Looks like it won't easily be possible to run it for profit at prices comparable to caltrain (which is my goal), so I'm open to making it a community service (this also helps with setting expectations). As a non-immigrant visa holder it's a hassle for me to turn a profit on anything anyway ;)
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I'm curious what you use Javascript in the URL bar for?

It's been used as a security hole: A large-ish number of Facebook/etc phishing scams have had people copy javascript into their address bar.

For technical users, it's a pretty bad interface for writing and testing javascript.

Check out the Web Console or Scratchpad under the Web Developer Tools menu instead. It's really a much nicer way to run some impromptu javascript on a page.
Wasn't there a FB engineer yesterday who said that this "problem" would take a long time to fix? Apparently it didn't take that long.
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Would it be possible to create a gem so one could just include stats gathering in their gemfile?

eg.

gem "gemstats"
Form fields courtesy of wufoo. Can't say I'm too happy with their product for this type of thing. The reporting is great, but the actual form controls are a little lacking.
Your rate speaks to the cost of your time, not to the price of a completed site.

Do you know what I ask? "How do you usually price these things?"
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Contacts and calendar should work with CalDAV, which is pretty easy to run yourself. If you want something heavier maybe Zimbra is up to the task.

For bandwidth, would you consider hosting stuff on a VPS with better upstream bandwidth, or is that not enough control for you?
I have been using latex with beamer for the last year, I don't do many presentations, but really it helps with staying on message that you have to be able to so it in latex.
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FYI the rolling cost on UNG and USO is the main reason why its unprofitable and doesn't track the price of NG or CL very well at all. Many traders frontrun the roll, causing it to lose money every month.
The headline is a little awkward, but the interesting thing here is that Anonymous is now doing analysis on the books of corporations. It's unclear how much of this is based on public information vs. leaked information, or really what the goals are.

However, the twitter tag line "Taking down corporations for the lulz" reads as though it's indiscriminate, and not just targeting organizations deceiving the public or breaking the law.
I never said that finance doesn't do anything good. But the compensation that people in finance receive is often way out of proportion to the good that they do in the world (assuming that they are doing good, which they often aren't). What makes finance dangerous is that it is capable of taking many other industries down with it when it fails. But it is not in the best interest of people in finance to be careful. They can make more money taking big risks in the short term, so that's what they do.
Thoughts on the Amazon part:

1) Amazon has 55% North American net sales and 45% international. Amazon pays taxes on all of the international sales, and the Canadian portion of the North American sales.

2) Amazon collects taxes in 5 U.S. states today: KS, KY, ND, NY and WA. That's about 11% of the population. Another 3% of the population lives in states with no sales tax anyways.

3) Amazon currently charges 40% below list price on the bestselling media. Would charging 35% below list chase people away?
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This is only our first pass. We have discussed the next version which should be passive. Either plug in some analytics directly to Gemfiles or have a post-commit hook to submit the Gemfile when it changes.

It would be great if we could look at Gemstats.org and instantly see stats without having to go through the upload process.
I'm also looking to self-host and have some questions. My too biggest concerns are:

1) In my area a static IP is extremely expensive and outside of my budget. This leaves Dynamic DNS.

2) From what I can tell, Dynamic DNS providers only map 1 domain to your account. I would like the ability point more than 1 domain to my personal server. Can I do this without paying through the nose?
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> That's pretty much the definition of "cookieless tracking", isn't it?

Yes, it is.

"We will keep aggregated and anonymized data (not associated with specific users) [...]"

Ok.
So you partially confirm my point. You DO track users. But you say you don't keep the information associated with "y0ghur7_xxx", but with user_id:389472984.
At least on the FAQ. The privacy policy is not so clear.
You kids these days don't know how good you have it. Back in the day, when applications ran on the computer instead of in the browser, we would have killed to have only 76 different configurations to support. (And I'm not joking, though I am smiling ruefully.)
Yeah, that is a perfect fit. The lives of quiet desperation led by the main characters in Mad Men match the Facebook audience.
So, anonymous is now in the business of giving - accurate - investment advice. That's an interesting development. So, did they clean up on this or did they not trust their own judgment?

If they keep making predictions like that they're going to be watched a lot more closely than they already are.
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Sure, just register a domain normally (e.g. at www.domain.com use code HAK5 for 15% off if you like). Then point its CNAME record to your dynamic domain name. That way, whoever goes to your new domain will be forwarded (at the DNS level) to your other domain name, which will then be resolved by your dynamic DNS provider to your dynamic IP.
Arhh, I didn't know you were part of the startup bus crew. Elias is a good friend of mine. I'm guessing you're Ausie too if you have a non-immigrant visa. As it happens, so do I so I have same challenges.

To your point on CalTrain, and what everyone who might use this service needs to understand, is that CalTrain is run at a loss - $12 each way from SF<>MountainView doesn't cover their true costs. In fact my client pays me $40/round-trip if I drive between SF and Mountain View because it's 80 miles round-trip ($0.5/mile driving costs, which is standard). Further more, Caltrin have scales of economy on their side too.

So if people are looking to pay the same as CalTrain then they're going to be disappointed - unless you can subsidize with sponsorship.
If Microsoft acquires they would move Dropbox to their own infrastructure, clearly.
I'm a big fan of the WhatFont bookmarklet, which seems to do the same thing in a simpler, more user-friendly way.

http://chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html
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Which meant that unless you optimized your progress, leveling was counter-productive.

Enter the difficulty slider. Both mechanics made the game silly to me in later stages, and I never finished.
Enthusiasts know that Apple product cycles are pretty predictable (especially now that they follow a bit behind the Intel roadmap), and there's plenty of tools to help you track if it's a good time to buy or not.

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
It makes the tracking a lot easier, actually. Without cookies it's downright difficult.
Interesting guy.
You can find people anywhere who have started businesses to test their ideas, the issue is scaling those businesses past a certain point.

There are many brilliant people in the UK, yet the UK has no equivalent to Google, Facebook, Oracle, Apple, etc - why? Why does the BusinessWeek Top 100 (http://www.businessweek.com/it100) have 1 UK company and 40+ US companies, if there are not intrinsic differences between US and UK attitudes towards building and growing businesses?

I am not trying to make a qualitative assessment of the two countries, or predict what will happen in the future - but the statistics bear out that if you want to build something on a world-class scale, the US still provides far greater opportunities to do so (it'll also crush you if you aren't lucky and end up on the bottom of the pile, but that's a whole other discussion).
in the light of human overpopulation

Malthus might make that argument, but others, like Julian Simon, would say quite the opposite.

The Malthusian theory is that we've only got a certain amount of arable land, and thus can only support a finite number of people. Once we hit that maximum population, mankind stagnates at that point.

The competing theory -- and the one that has proven through history to be correct -- is that the most important resource, the one that outweighs all others, is the human mind. The more people we have, the more creativity we can bring to bear on a problem.

Thus, the problem of agriculture has been largely solved. Humans have invented irrigation, terracing, crop rotation, selective breeding, and genetic manipulation. We spend our time on the edge of disaster, but before we can topple over, the lure of riches to the person who can come up with the solution is sufficient to take us to the next plateau.
I found those questions fairly amusing when filling out forms. In retrospect, though, I'm guessing that they expect people who meet those criteria to lie. They're there to give them a legally simple way to throw undesirable people out of the country (you perjured on your entry application), should it come up in retrospect.
Just moved here a week ago. Housing is the biggest pain in the butt, had a Craigslist sublet fall through on me twice. Now looking for a sublet in October.... It's a pain.

I've found there are a ton of networking events (106 miles, Hackers and Founders, etc) on meetup. Also if you find an interesting company just email the CEO. In the Mission district of SF right now and I really like it. The tech scene here is really hot, if you've got skills just email the company you're interested in, they'll talk to you.
I'm a little skeptical when their blogroll consists only of a "miracle vitamin" site.
I wonder how many iPhone users realize that the Maps app on their phone is powered by Google maps?
That's an appliance.
Sorry for the vagueness, but I do not want multiple domains to point to the same site. I would like multiple domains pointing to the same server which servers different sites. What I need is the server component that knows which site to serve (or which mail account to route to, etc.)
I've had little success with CMSs. People find them too complicated and I end up either holding their hand, fixing their mistakes or just doing the update. For free.

How much do you value your evenings at? £250 would be 1-2 evenings. One evening and it seems like reasonably easy money. Two evenings and suddenly its not quite so generous. Surely any technical person can charge $50 an hour? My day job charges me out at $1000 a day. I have also found that when it is an amount less than that I tend to resent the fact that I've had to give up an evening.

Stand up for yourself. Charge an amount that makes you happy.
I pop in every few months. I made the mistake of hearing about the password recovery feature :)