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It's not about morals, it's about the law as it is right now. And the truth is that Facebook is breaking our laws and need to be prosecuted for such.

As for your argument, why is that a terrible law? Why is it bad that users have a right to know what companies have on them? To be honest, I think it's a pretty bloody great law.

Facebook is a victim of itself. If it didn't track users in the first place, it wouldn't be in hot water.
oh my! I love when you recommend specific career base on specific issues. You made my day! I can't stop laughing. "Bag Lady" seriously looool
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Those are valid reasons. I coded a fair amount of Perl a decade or so ago, and I wouldn't be wild about having to do more of it, never mind learn it nowadays. But it doesn't sound like you were approaching the conversation constructively.

Why is it so important to your boss that the project be done in Perl? You need to understand this so you can see if there are other avenues you can pursue that will make him equally satisfied. For example, using Ruby or Python.

And why is it so important to him that you do the project in Perl? As you said, you don't even know Perl. Why isn't the project going to someone who does know it?

If you're lucky, there will be some alternate win-win path to helping your boss accomplish the goals he wants accomplished without getting stuck doing work you really don't want to do. Or you may have to sign up to do a certain amount of scutwork, but get your boss to agree that once you're through the current crisis, you can move on to a path that you will find more rewarding. If a good boss understands your career goals, he will work to find a way to help you work toward them. And the better you are at helping your boss solve the problems he faces, the more likely you are to discover that you have a good boss.

Of course, it's also possible that the reason you're being assigned this task is something to the affect that there's a lot of other Perl in the company, and the company wants to crosstrain people in Perl. Perl is just part of the deal there.. In this scenario, not learning Perl is effectively declining to develop essential job skills, and your only realistic option may be to suck it up until you can go find a better job. Just be glad it isn't COBOL! (Sorry, gallows humor there.)
I hate to self-promote, but I sincerely think you might find our startup useful. I built it for the EXACT same reason as you mentioned above. If you're up for it, let's grab drinks sometime as well when I'm back in the bay area.

http://www.grooovy.me
Can't agree more, although I haven't personally tested the MTV plugin its looking super promising for large WordPress sites.

However in the long run it might make more sense putting time into building a revamped admin for Django instead — using WP as the model.
Honestly, the only passionate defense I've seen for Android has seemingly been nothing more than thinly-veiled rejection of Apple, from people who are staunchly anti-Apple. I've never heard anyone seriously defend Android for being consumer-friendly, or easy to use, or fast/smooth, etc.
If I ever were to get an email from anyone saying that, I guarantee I would never email them again. So incredibly annoying.
This provides a greater benefit to the recipient than the sender.

Jack wants to send Jill an email and using SmokeSignal can send it when there is the least noise in Jill's inbox. SmokeSignal is a utility for him not her. Devise a way to implement/market SmokeSignal to Jack, in which he persuades Jill to use it.
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The big email provides should already have loop detection. This is no different than a vacation email or an NDR.
Shouldn't you be able to "tell" Siri a passphrase to unlock?

Agree that require unlocking is silly, but the whole point of locking is missing.
"Clients and fellow programmers are still happy with your work two years after you've delivered it."

Disagree. The first system I wrote kept the client happy for years. It was a mess, but it was literally millions of dollars better than not having any system.

If what you mean is something like "focus on doing work of long-term value, and consider programming skill as such an input", then I'd agree with that.
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It's referred to in the materials as 229A, so yes.
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At least he's consistent. Now, what about Liberation Sans? And, more importantly, Nimbus Sans L?
The N8? Which didn't have a QWERTY keyboard in portrait mode until a year after release? That would randomly lock up when interacting with the UI?

That OS was nowhere near the level of its competitors.
Wasn't there a myth that Microsoft killed Commodore with a mole on the board?
Any idea how reliable a single IQ score is? If you repeat the test a week or a month later, too soon for changes to reflect a significant change in cognitive abilities, but far enough away to get rid of effects like a poor night's sleep, stress from school or relationships, &c., by how much is the score expected to vary?
Just watching that thing being used gave me carpal tunnel. For Christ's sake its an LCD screen and can go anywhere. Why not put it on the side/top of the camera?

This makes me so grumpy.
The first update is almost released with 3500+ improvements. The current software was ready in spring already and they have been working on the first update since. Also, I think the software on N950 is somewhat older/different release.

Meltemi is supposed to have different kernel, and it's really targeted at very low-end, in feature phone markets. Although, very low-end is 1Ghz in a couple of years.
I put all 5000 (the total amount available from the webservice at /stevejobs/messages/main.json) here: http://steve.rasterburn.org/
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Noble and geeky effort, but I'm skeptical whether I'll use it (disclaimer: I did try smarty implementations before and had similar experiences.)

Think the dissenters' consensus is that this goes against grain of what's been organic WP development (not that it's all perfect, but, there is a massive contributing base.) This thing might become obsolete nightly or I could be entirely wrong and it'll get adapted whenever WP guys wrangle major internal design changes at some point.

I'll skip over all that and just address specifics that make me feel uneasy.

As they stated in their writeup, one problem is that function exports have to be hard-coded. Not to say they won't fix this (switch it to smarty3-like model or control what gets installed), but that means they've interfered with the admin process of installing plugins that need minor template alterations or otherwise meet unspecified limits; ex: wp-paginate. That means that the core MTV team is still involved with the end user, and the template designer.

Secondly, sure, WP templating hasn't changed all that much lately - but historically it has changed drastically between major releases. This MTV implementation forces Trib. guys to spend time keeping up with updates and changes that will come out of nowhere. I'm not sure if MTV breaks WP's template hierarchy, or its template inheritance features, but those I rely heavily on.
That would be extortion unless they allow you to completely delete an account and opt-out (or better yet, require opt-in) of data collection. Because if not, then the only way to hide your data from the public would be to pay FB.
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They downvoted because it (probably) didn't add anything to the conversation.

This isn't Digg.
Try http://steve.rasterburn.org
Harmattan was supposed to ship in fall of 2010. It's a year late.

Yet, even if the MeeGo mess hadn't happened and Nokia had shipped a Harmattan phone on the original Maemo schedule, would it have made any difference? It would have been hamstrung by Nokia's confusion over Symbian's direction, and steamrolled by iOS and Android just the same.

It's not Elop's fault that Nokia's software is in shambles. The damage was done years earlier.

Put yourself in Elop's shoes when he arrived a year ago. There's Symbian, an OS that has become extremely expensive to develop. It has been open-sourced and modernized at great effort, but the resulting product (Symbian^3) has critical bugs and a lackluster UI. The people in charge tell him that the big leap forward is just around the corner... But apparently that's exactly what they were saying two years earlier.

Then there's MeeGo, a Linux variant that used to be one VP's hobby project. Recently it has been promoted to become the company's new flagship -- except that nobody is quite clear on how it should be positioned alongside Symbian. There's a powerful Symbian lobby inside the company that's determined to see the "eternal upstart" MeeGo fail. The technical state of the OS doesn't inspire much confidence either: the UI framework has been reset several times in the past few years, so although they have a sprawling Linux distribution, there isn't really a phone UI yet. "Don't worry," say the people in charge, "this latest framework is so great that we'll whip up a smartphone experience in no time!"

Faced with these options and all their internal political baggage, is it any wonder that Elop went looking for an operating system outside the company?
I think you are missing the trick here. Since HT and TH are equally likely, regardless the bias of the coin, as soon as you get one or the other, you can count it as a fair flip. All other combinations (HH and TT) are just ignored. The number of flips shown by the form is just about how patient you'll have to be to get a fair flip (HT or TH).

It doesn't matter how often you get TH and HT, only that they have the same frequency. Given then the probability of TH and HT are the same, if you only consider flips resulting in TH or HT, you automatically have a fair coin, no matter how bad (or good) the coin is.
Assisted GPS and GLONASS

That's what I'm seeing from Europe.
Haha. The problem with this is people would get used to it always being unbearable. And they they would't trust it.
Bad news then, Honeycomb devices also lag very noticeably.
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Honest question: do people actually believe something like that could be hard-coded? It just seems like a horribly depressing worldview to believe that you're stuck with whatever INT points you rolled at the start... not even to mention being trivially disprovable.
I think what irks me most about this is the laziness in relying on user data as a means to sell advertising to fund their "services".

The writer poses the question "what's the alternative?" to this business model. My answer, "Stop being lazy about it and come up with a new model. I have."

It might work it, it might not, but we all have to keep trying if we don't want what there is now - and the implications.

We are uniquely positioned to come up with another avenue of generating revenue so it doesn't have to be this way.

I'm sure if you work at Facebook or Google you see no harm in gathering and cross-polinating the data, I can see the sheer power of what you can do must be quasi-orgasmical, and it must almost have a life of it's own. Just how much can you gather, from how many different methods? It's like a college project with no limits but it won't last forever, someone somewhere with something different, will come and take that crown, and maybe, just maybe, it won't be as clandestine as it is now.
the compiler in many simple cases could have tried to repair the program, like attempting to insert(remove) missing(extra) ';' or '}' for example. While it may be not a malice, it is definitely an absence of a good will.

Note: i did work on a real product which had parser inside that had such style of repair implemented, and such approach is also quickly mentioned in the dragon book as well
I rather like the design. It reminds me of using a scope, rather than a camera. Holding it up, looking at the end, and seeing what's on the other side has a very retro-telescope kind of appeal to me. Plus, I'm not sure people will recognize it as a camera, so it might be good for grabbing candids. Kudos to them for trying something new.
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I think they went all in with this. Not only are they revolutionizing the concept of what a digital photo is and how it can be captured, they decided to introduce a new form factor for cameras.

Is it the most comfortable, ergonomic grip out there? Certainly not, but it is definitely memorable.

My hunch is that the lens assembly and light field technology requires a long barrel, and this is the best they could do. Perhaps if the next version were a tube?
New camera shoots first, focuses later
Voodoo was a brand, 3DFX was the company.
That is what I was thinking, you could ask "is he a colonial governor?" You know, the guy the Colonial power installs as the head of state insuring that the colony will endeavor to make its patron state wealthier at the expense of its own citizens.
I'm sort of shocked at the negative reaction this project has elicited. When I first saw this work, I was thrilled.

When I popped the hood on my first big WordPress project a couple years ago, I was appalled with what I found. Modern web frameworks have converged on a MTV- or MVC-style development style. Writing code in WordPress is like travelling a decade back in time.

This project is a very thoughtful effort to keep all the best of WordPress, while replacing the backwards template system.

I suspect that the ire this has drawn is the result of developers in the WordPress community not crossing over to other languages/frameworks. Anyone who's made a website in Rails or Django would feel right at home in WordPress MTV.
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No, users can send tweets about their score but a lot of businesses use our api to track and organize their incoming requests from social media.
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Suggesting that IQ is not set in stone also implies that IQ exists. That they don't claim otherwise, and in fact show structural brain changes in accordance with the measured changes, should be well noted by folks who make a habit of discounting it. It should also be noted that IQ was already thought to be malleable into the teens, so I'm not sure why the researchers were so surprised.
Maybe I'm crazy and it's the end of the day and my reading comprehension is shot, but I honestly can't even understand what the question is. Can somebody explain?
Well, good luck with the "similarity" argument when it comes to fonts. We are, after all, talking about letter forms. Within the sans-serif family, the degree of similarity has a lot to do with how much attention you pay to fonts and typography in general. Keep in mind that to some people (who probably don't care about cars) a Ford Fusion and VW Jetta look pretty similar. The same rules apply here. Similarity is in the eye of the beholder unless you're talking about some quantifiable metric.
I find it very interesting that apps are downloading images that are an order of magnitude larger (in file size) than they need to be. First we use expensive bandwidth to download the image, battery life to use the radio longer, and then more battery life to resize this image on the device. One easy thing they could do is resize and optimize images server side.
But respecting people's time isn't about knowing how much e-mail the person you're sending to has...

It's about sending only important e-mails/"not spamming". So, regardless of whether the guy I'm sending to has an empty or an overloaded inbox, I should always send the e-mail, because it's important.
Unfortunately, the issue is not so simple. The the labor market is under assault from every front. Illegal immigration and offshoring depress skilled labor wages, while at the same time robotics and software progress to automate as many skilled jobs as possible. Laborers turn to college degrees, which burden them with massive student loans, only to graduate with unimproved employment prospects due to the saturation of the market with higher ed degrees. Meanwhile, businesses have strong incentive to replace labor (human) with capital(machine), as the latter is far cheaper and does not require health insurance, benefits, or pension plans. This also helps businesses improve profit margins significantly.

Thus, we have our scenario: corporate profitability increasing in tandem with structural unemployment. Consolidation of capital to a few major winners, and debt and unemployment for the losers.

There are few ways out of this mess, and none of them can occur with "business as usual" policies.
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> There's no arguing about this subject with people who believe that people should not have the right to control their own data,

There's no inalienable human right to data about you unless you want to argue that it's somehow your property. (Or that it relates to life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness). More likely data about you is just information on a public stage.

If I see you walking around town and write it down, is that illegal? Am I steeling something from you? Is that illegal search or seizure? I'm creepy, yes, but I'm not infringing anyone's rights.

So we're all just creeped out by Facebook. As yet no one is being harmed.
The phone iPhone passcode thing is kind of a joke, unfortunately -- it's fairly easy to extract the encrypted image from a locked phone, then brute force it. Since almost everyone just uses a 4-digit simple PIN, doing an exhaustive search is faster than syncing to iTunes.

What I'd really like is TPM-type security built into the phone (and used correctly) to protect from brute forcing a short authentication code, and maybe multi-factor auth. e.g. if the phone is inside my house or office (was on my secured wifi, hasn't moved), there can be less security (longer relock interval, shorter passcode, etc.) than if I am out and about. If there were a way to definitively link my phone to my car, I'd be fine with turning off all passcodes -- maybe due to bluetooth pairing or something.

Biometrics might actually make sense in phones, too, although I'm not sure how much I like the facial recognition in ice cream sandwich.
We know that Wikis are useful. Wikipedia wasn't the first wiki.
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Yes, it does, but there's no reason this one is more likely to break than the others. The low end kindle may not last if you mistreat it, but that's true for just about anything.
Great design and bravo for actually shipping code. But I don't think I would use it because there are definitely more than 7000 emails in my inbox but I always reply emails immediately that I know are important.
What if I include some key-phrase in signature and people who send me emails with that key-phrase in subject are more likely to get a quick reply? But this is a deviation from your original idea.
I can't say I share your experience. Why is using two hands a problem? I always use two hands and it never takes longer than a couple of seconds. Putting a standard condom on a dildo that's well above the average human penis size is equally easy. Putting on a condom on a (partially) flaccid penis is indeed very hard though since you need one hand to hold it and trying to put it on will push the blood out.

Use which size suits you best, but be aware that a looser condoms will cause more slippage.
Or ARMMs race: http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/ARMM.html
In case anyone is wondering, Khan Academy did not launch today, as CrunchBase seems to think.
The statement about spinning is too weak. You have to spin rather than flip to try to reveal bias: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/dice...

As for the statistical significance, here's another view of how to do it: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/abstracts/euro.htm...
Agreed, Python has ample libraries. Can't say whether its more or less than PHP, but once you reach a certain threshold (theres a library for almost everything) it doesn't really matter. They are both very active communities with lots of contributors. I learned in PHP and switched to Python. I have never looked back. In fact I now refuse to take jobs that involve PHP. Its just too screwy and the chances that you will be dumped into a sea of terrible code are much greater.
SSL handshaking causes more traffic. It may be compressed, but small pages like the Google main search page (the heaviest hit) may show an increase in traffic, even after compression is factored in. Here's one place where HTTP vs HTTPS is discussed, and a few quotes:

"Servers that are heavy on serving a fairly small set of static pages that can easily be cached in memory suffer from a much higher overhead... SSL handshaking is the major cost of HTTPS."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149274/http-vs-https-perf...
I don't have this problem as I just leave emails I'm not immediately taking action on in the inbox. But maybe an auto-responder is a better solution for those that have this problem. It could explain that you're busy and hint that the sender can add the word "URGENT" to the subject to grab your attention in emergencies. You could then, with a few simple rules, manage your inbox without giving an external service access to your inbox.

Anyway, as far as anyone is concerned my inbox is always swamped. It's usually true, but if it's not I might get away with reading a few extra articles on HN without anyone knowing my inbox is screaming for some action.
Count me as one of those recent sign-ups. I've been doing Khan Academy religiously for the past month, and have gotten up to 800,000 points and 185/211 exercises. The practice board is addicting and fun, and reminds me in ways of role playing games (like Final Fantasy XI's "License Board"), which I've always been a fan of. After I finish, I plan on moving on to the MIT OCW math classes.

I can't imagine how much easier K-12 would have been had Khan Academy been around. I've looked at other math and learning resources, and while they're all solid in ways, there just seems to be something that Khan "gets" that others don't, even if it's just as simple as a good UI and design.

In my opinion, Khan Academy is worth every ounce of hype, and I'm usually someone who is strongly anti-hype.
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As mentioned in another thread, maybe there could be an algorithm that uses multiple data points to determine availability? So it would take into account that you haven't opened that 5,345th email from a year ago, and you're unlikely to any time soon.
The problem with "works fine"
Without severely paranoid steps being taken, if someone has your physical device they are going to be be able to gain access to the files on that device. This isn't hard math to do.
I wonder if the test is closer to one writers face: you're probably a decent writer if people value your work enough to read it. Likewise, whatever else one can say of programmers, you might be a reasonably decent one if someone else values your work enough to use it. "Reading" and "using" in this case might be similar.
I wouldn't use it, but the site (which is the thing you wanted us to focus on) is clear and original. Overall, well done.

There might be a typographical error in the Privacy section:
"We use Oauth to look at the amount (of?) email in your inbox, nothing else."

(I don't mean to nitpick, but we want your site to be the best it can be!)