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He was wrong about that. Humans tend to be wrong from time to time and say stupid things. That’s just how it is. He certainly, however, wasn’t foaming at the mouth or being a dick.

I don’t always like what Dawkins has to say (which, I should add, is perfectly normal – I do feel that way about most people) but I don’t think you can call him arrogant in general. Most of the time he is very polite in what he says.
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Not on the attacked site, no. Sounds like it would suffice to serve custom JavaScript to any unencrypted page running in the same browser, and sniff all the traffic going between an encrypted site and that browser.
You just posted a rant about a tech related bit while splitting your piece on to 2 pages. You sir, are a douchebag.
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I don't know if these protests are going anywhere, but it's good to remember that movements can start very small.

In Egypt, half a year before Tahrir Square January-February 2011, they had the "silent stand"[1] -- which consisted of just showing up in public places en masse and saying nothing, in memory of a young man who'd been tortured to death by security services. I'm pretty sure I heard Wael Ghonim say that even he thought it was a slightly daft idea until it actually happened, and then it seemed that they'd found a catalyst for average people to join in a protest.

I too hope for some sort of movement that can bridge the artificial divide between Tea Partiers and scruffy leftist kids. Fundamentally, nobody is asking for particularly radical reforms here; so it should be possible to have widespread support.

[1] http://www.demotix.com/news/394309/khaled-said-silent-stand-...
Cool. May I know what framework / API you use for credit card payment ?
I am surprised at the amount for Windows Phone, given the age (and adoption) of the platform.
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FWIW, the "Sticker Comapany Guy" is really cool and helpful to the startup community. He donates his products to almost any tiny technical gathering, shares a lot of info on his business, and provides a great product and excellent service to customers large and small. Also, his site has anywhere from 80-150K visitors a month who pay for his products so he may know a thing or two about running a business online http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stickergiant.com/
No, I'm not looking to fork and exec a second program, and short of busybox most shells don't have basename built in.

Common idiom, works in POSIX /bin/sh, bash, dash, ash, and every other sh I've encountered. I make a point of avoiding bashisms in /bin/sh scripts, but I have no problem counting on POSIX sh. :)
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As a small startup, do you feel threatened by a multinatioal encroaching on your turf?
"Occupy Wall Street", and their buddies "We are the 99" and "Days of Rage", dislike Wall Street because they dislike wealth. The Tea Party dislikes Wall Street because the wealth comes from implied government guarantees and regulatory barriers to competition. They could agree on cutting the Washington / New York interconnections.

But that's not actually in the interests the smart money actually funding the "Occupy Wall Street" types. The last Congress gave us "finance reform" that left us Too Big Too Fail and a bunch more regulatory levers. The pols got more scope for favors and campaign donations, the bankers got more regulatory barriers to competitive entry.

The chief author of that "reform"? Progressive Barney Frank.

The Tea Party is the GOP's reckoning for failing their principles. The Democrats has yet to come.
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Tcl has had this capability for a very long time: http://wiki.tcl.tk/1055

Tkcon (http://wiki.tcl.tk/1878) makes use of the various methods Tcl provides to great effect.
I think my own thoughts on Biz's view of IT crystalized when I witnessed a conversation between a tech and a manager about dress code. The tech had been paged at 11:30pm about an hour after he went to bed. He couldn't fix the problem from home (hardware failure), so he thru on jeans and a polo shirt and drove into work. He fixed the problem and got everything ready for the incoming medical test kits by 4am. It was an amazing piece of work and let's just say certain types of samples really cannot be delayed. He hung around and watched everything from his desk. His desk is in a restricted zone behind security where no customers are ever allowed (I do believe it would be a federal law violation). It was around 9am and all the kits were processed and he was going to go home. A manger asked why he was not in proper work attire (sports coats / slacks or suit). He told the whole story adding he didn't want to wake his wife so he grabbed what he could. His boss said "well, it your career".
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Real hardware was the answer?

Really guys? :)

My recommendation: switch to SoftLayer. Save thousands a month, use real hardware.
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This is the kind of thing that would screen me out for sure. If you want a mock up for a site design I'm going to get the impression you're trying to "hire" 1000 unpaid designers. Unless you're talking about a 1 hour job, in which case you're getting something pathetic, this is just abuse by the potential employer. Further, you probably hired the 3 worst guys because they probably put in 50 hours on what should be a 1 hour design because they're so desperate for a job (further indicated by the fact that this ridiculous requirement didn't make them look elsewhere). That's also probably why it didn't match up with their resumes.
The veritable array of social buttons that appears on numerous Web sites tends to be one button per social network. The idea is not to try and ensure that people click at least one button, but rather to ensure that they almost always have one that they can click. I don't see how adding all of "Like," "Read," "Want," and "Watched" to one's site would help solve that problem.
It is not just as bad. It is not worse.

As you concede, Professor Dawkins' views are backed (and, in fact, a product of) science. This means that to the extent that anyone can be right or wrong about anything, Richard Dawkins is correct in his arguments. Maybe he isn't civil in the way he confronts people who disagree. Maybe he's ineffective in convincing them. Those are things that are important to you personally, but you're letting that distract you from the fact that what he's saying is true, which ought to be the only thing that matters.

In a way, I think this is a major way you and people who share your attitude towards Richard Dawkins miss what is perhaps the most poignant part of his message. His crassness is actually a rebellion against the passivity and political correctness that he feels constrains non-believers socially and politically. The crux of his message is a call to arms to those people, encouraging them to deny religion the automatic respect it has enjoyed for centuries. To say that he isn't meek enough in delivering this message is undercutting it's core.
tl;dr: Don't piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining.

I understand what you're getting at but I've been with the project since 4.7, and I feel like the time for happy-fun-time talk has passed. Like most community developers, I supported the overwhelming majority of the changes that went into D7 when they where being discussed among the community. Now faced with the reality of D7, I see that some (maybe most) of these additions where a mistake.

Assuming Dries' keynote wasn't based on random numbers, Drupal had reached the "1% of total websites" threshold well before D7 was released. There was no choke point. Look at the following web server statistics http://greatstatistics.com/
MSSQL support doesn't service the majority of potential consumers of a CMS, just a small minority of potentially well-heeled clients that run Microsoft-based environments.

It's counter-intuitive but I've come to realize that sucking module functionality into core is stupid. Example: your choice of forum, aggregator, or blog. All crusty, useless modules that any serious implementation will either ignore, patch heavily with additional contributed modules, or just go with a fully contrib alternative. Why do these modules all suck? They've been stuck in core and thus cannot change. When a major release is planned everyone's busy focusing on the shiny new stuff to cram into core and modules like this are typically neglected. Why should the fields API be any different, given the track record of the last five years?

Also, you may not want to lose sight of the fact that it makes Drupal shops (you know, the little guys who are busily engaged with growing and maintaining Drupal's adoption base) look bad in front of clients when they've been on the receiving end of Acquia-sponsored D7 marketing blasts, meanwhile we're waving them off from migrating because core isn't stable and critical contrib modules are either unstable (RC$n or beta) or entirely non-existent in D7.

I know several contrib module developers that have thrown their hands up in disgust and gone on to work with other communities while new developers are struggling with the unprecedented complexity in D7.

I agree, the changes are big. Some of them are awesome (new menu structure, new AJAX api). Others range from obnoxious and/or useless (overlay) to actively harmful (see also core bug queue explosion). There was a large and VERY vocal contingent among the community that was calling for smallcore years before D7 shipped and a blind eye was turned by a vanishingly small yet disproportionately powerful minority, and now it's biting everyone who isn't vying to become a Microsoft Enterprise Partner in the ass.

And that is my take on the Drupal community as it stands currently. You don't have to agree with me but it would be a mistake on your part to assume I'm an outlier.
Too bad, I was hoping to hear it was eaten by Jupiter.
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Why not post here as a start? If it's a worthwhile real business with some degree of stability, you'll probably find some interest. "Small" might mean $100/mo, $1,000/mo, or $10,000/mo to you and those have very different valuations and ways to sell.
Most successful tech company CEO's are originally techies (Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg,Eric Schmidt and I'd classify Steve Jobs as one too). This would indicate that business skills can be acquired and ultimately it is us techies that should be dismissive of those "business" types.
this isnt the programming subreddit either....nowhere has it been ruled that Hacker News discussions will strictly be programming related....I understand that this annoys you but please dont be dogmatic!
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Silicon Valley should look itself in the mirror if it wants to throw stones at Wall Street.

Tim O'Reilly is posting to the site of a corporation that funnels money to Bermuda so that it only has to pay a 2.4% tax rate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_Arrangement
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

And O'Reilly probably has Eric Schmidt and Larry Page's phone numbers.
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> Would this "bashing" be tolerated against any group other than Christians?

Yes..A lot of groups are more tolerant than Christians(on average)...but if you assume that the only 'groups' that exist are Abrahamic religions only then your hypothesis would be true.
>However, if you truly want to fix a problem like that, you have to out-strategize back. Which doesn't necessarily mean legal measures. E.g., no need to occupy Wall Street, as long as the lessons are learned and it's replaced by something better.

Not sure what you're trying to say there.
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I happen to know the details of this attack since I work on Chrome's SSL/TLS stack.

The linked article is sensationalist nonsense, but one should give the authors the benefit of the doubt because the press can be like that.

Fundamentally there's nothing that people should worry about here. Certainly it's not the case that anything is 'broken'.
It never ceases to amaze me how large organizations (in all industries) seem to hyperfocus on minutiae over getting things done.

People will throw a fit about whether or not the meeting minutes were filed in the right place, in the right format, or whether or not someone is in the precise sanctioned work attire... but huge problems will just slide.

The modern corporation is a horrifyingly inefficient waste of time in so many places.
Here's an (IMO better) article on the subject: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/07/07/the-epic-story-of-conta...

It's largely a summary and expansion of ideas from The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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You should try Sequel. It does things AR and DM don't (CPK+FK for example), is generally faster, and gives you the flexibility of working with Models or raw data-sets depending on what the situation calls for.

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i read #2, you know Only when you have exhausted all possibilities should you ask for help. and stopped reading. this is hands down one of the most asinine things i have ever read—though i don't doubt many feel this way. one of the purposes of being human is sharing ideas. in fact, it's the sharing of ideas that allow any of us to code. here's a ted talk http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.htm... this very idea. on top of that, there are some that learn best in collaboration with others. if you ask me, not asking for help is one of the dumbest things you can do. maybe being self-taught has lead me to be naïve. if that's the case, i'm better off.

edit: for some reason the link was bad, here's the youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLHh9E5ilZ4
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Please bookmark this thread and reread the post (and your response) after you've calmed down.

There is a big difference between what Tim was talking about ("constructed a set of financial products with intent to defraud") and what you're talking about ("[using the website of / knowing the founders of] a corporation that funnels money to Bermuda [after getting an okay to do so from the IRS] so that it only has to pay a 2.4% tax rate [on overseas income]").
I'm referring mostly to the use of services like paypal, not credit issuers or services further down the pipeline. Do you know why a merchant's credit history is even an issue? A merchant would be accepting payments, not making them. There are no actions here involving credit on the merchant's behalf or lending.
Thanks for the list. Nice to see some old friends on there. My all time favorite is Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I think it is his best. First time I read it I was in the sixth grade. That was 45 years ago. I've read it many times since, and will no doubt read it again.
If you're serving China, is HK that much better? When I went there and talked to people they mentioned the need to account for the North/South telecom divide. It's essentially two countries in terms of data center infrastructure.
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Look at your assumptions: That suffering is a good measurement to use to draw the line, that large animal suffering is the place to argue about it, and that large animals yes/no is the granularity to use, and repeatedly coming back to whether I can demonstrate that plants feel suffering, despite my claimed disinterest in that point.

All of the above are arguable - why not argue that humans and cattle are inedible, but question where the line between insects and small mammal suffering is? Why not question whether stupid non-suffering cows are OK to kill? Or whether non-suffering humans are OK to kill and eat?

Even if you continue with your line, there are other ways you could argue it - if suffering is bad, then that doesn't mean eating animals is bad, you could tranquillise before killing and it would be OK. Or if you want to minimise suffering then wild animals aren't OK, and all animals should have a human managed lifespan from sedated birth to anaesthetised death followed by being eaten, and not-eating-animals but leaving them to die "naturally" is worse.

And there's room to step back and say suffering is a behaviour and thought pattern that's only of interest to the creature connected to that nervous system - otherwise of no interest, so why go for 'minimise suffering' at all? You could argue about methane emissions or water/other resource use, for why it's unethical to prioritise farming animals for food, or you could look at it as a social signalling - wanting to signal that we understand suffering and choose to avoid it or as a personal suffering (guilt) reduction aside from the animal suffering, or you could believe in a deity which punishes you after death for animal suffering you caused.

But however you look at it, you come back to: humans have to eat, so plants or animals have to be ethically OK to eat, and we don't want hurt selves or relatives and friends, so cannibalism can't be OK, but within that, whether extending compassion to animals is "right" or not, it's not objective - refusing to eat farm animals because the calculation on their methane emissions leading to global warming effects and future human suffering would be, but where the ethical line in farming living creatures for food is, is not. It's just arguable back and forth.

I eagerly await your finding that vegetables feel pain.

Even if they don't feel pain, they have a natural life, lifespan, life processes and reproduction which eating them stops. There is room for an ethos where doing that is wrong, you just dismissed it as daft.
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O'Reilly is critical of tech companies that try to avoid paying taxes. In fact he posted a lengthy article about why amazon should stop trying to avoid paying taxes in California:
https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/QypNDmvJ...
Ehhh those SLC drives are still mighty pricey, if you want a decent number of them raided, you could probably eat up nearly 10k. And the nice Xeons are expensive.
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I left for a consulting gig about 2 months later. I call my time there my 3 seasons in heck. At the time, it really felt like watching a slow motion car wreck on ice. You know the kind where all the cars are doing 5mph, but no one can stop it. Dilbert wasn't funny to me before that job, I honestly didn't get the humor. After that job, I understood.
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The first bailout was supported by Bush and a majority of Democrats and voted down by a majority of Republicans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/business/30bailout.html?pa...

Although the official "Tea Party" didn't have their first protest until Jan 2009, it was the same people pushing their congresscritters to oppose the bailout.
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That was a case of misinterpreting each other and then raising the level of misinterpretation with each subsequent comment.
We've got a rudimental hook sure, but it's not what I'd call "easy"...it still needs to be attended to with custom logic anytime you need to cross shard boundaries.
Actually, it's a clean HTML template (xhtml doctype!)

For HTML5, you could include HTML5 features like microdata or use some of the HTML5 tags. The design though is great - very clean!
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Seriously though. I kind of gave up to discuss this. To be honest I kind of like things the way they are, I want those who believe in the "coders think business is only codding" to continue doing so. Why would we want to enlight them?
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This is a very interesting observation.

I know a few registered nurses who had to study the placebo effect to earn their degree and I recall that placebos are only effective if the patient has a belief that the treatment would work (and then they are only about 30% effective).

following that logic it could be possible that placebo treatments become more effective as more of the population _believes_ that they are effective.

You just have to hope that no one pops the placebo-belief bubble for a particular treatment, or people might see that the emperor has no clothes ;)
But http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/136 sure looks like a real attack to me. OpenSSL had released mitigations for it in the past but had to turn them off for compatibility reasons.

Duong and Rizzo claim to be able to work out the session cookie in a few minutes from a network level MitM and they have come through on their promises before.

How does this add up to nothing being 'broken'?
I love SoftLayer (I use them), but I wouldn't say they're the cheapest by any stretch of the imagination.
Microsoft Research is one of the few real, non-university research institutions in the United States. No matter what you think of Microsoft products, the research they do is first class. In the olden times, a few decades ago, there were many industrial research labs that did science for the sake of science and not as an adjunct to product development. Sadly, those days are mostly gone. No more Bell Labs, no more DEC SRC, and so forth. Microsoft Research is one of the exceptions.
IMO what the "sticker company guy" wrote is actually true. And while I agree most web projects are bullshit, the article as a whole reeked of arrogance, especially the part about the "sticker company guy".
Agreed. They're not easy to find, but I've found that the more side-work I do, the better clients I run into. My latest batch of clients (within the last year) have been excellently realistic and speedy payers.

Turning down clients that raise your eyebrow play a large part in finding the right ones.
I was just about to recommend that book as well. In my opinion, it's a must read for every entrepreneur. It made me realize a few very important things.

Clearly, Netflix's CEO understand its principles and Blockbuster's CEO didn't