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"it seems like all the job descriptions I looked at, the companies are asking for the world. They want all the languages under the sun, guru this, code ninja that."

Nothing wrong with applying to positions you'd like to have and that you think you would excel at even though you don't have the requirements. Polish your resume as much as you can, and read up as much as you can.

However, there are loads of jobs that aren't like that. Ignore requirements for C.S. degree (BS or MS), because they usually don't care, if that is not what you have. Now if they are asking for a PhD, you'd better at least have a masters, but you probably don't want those anyway.

The best option though is to just know what you want to do in-and-out and emit that. Some say to learn how to be a people person. I think it is cheesy and fake, but I know people that do it, and it works: http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/14...
I don't even think the monthly bandwidth policy is enforced that strictly. I built a new gaming computer a couple months ago, and needed to redownload my steam library and a few other things. Long story short, I grabbed 1.5 TiB over the course of a week, and comcast has yet to complain.
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There was a This American Life episode a little while back that had a counter example to this anecdote: sometimes there is something in your process that makes your product special but you don't even know it until it disappears.

Audio here[1] at 34:30. A brief summary found here[2]:

"Jim Bodman, Chairman of Vienna Sausage Co. in Chicago tells the story of how the company built a brand new, state-of-the-art facility in 1970, replacing their old factory, which was actually a warren of buildings on Chicago's south side that was built up by gradually buying up buildings over the course of 70 years, until the factory complex occupied an entire city block. Once they moved into their fancy new digs, however, they faced a problem: the hot dogs weren't coming out the same. They didn't have the same distinctive red color or desired snap. They couldn't figure out what was wrong, since the ingredients, spices, cooking time, everything was the same.

After a year and a half, they still haven't figured it out...until one night, when some guys from the plant are out at a bar, reminiscing over drinks about the old days in the former plant. They start talking about Irving, a fixture at the old plant who knew everyone, whose job was to take the uncooked sausages to the smokehouse. But, given the "Rube Goldberg" layout of the old factory, it took Irving half an hour on a circuitous route to get from A to B. And they realized: Irving & his trip was the missing secret ingredient."

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/241/2... (audio at 34:30)

[2] http://theatreeastnyc.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-sausage-er-th...
Somehow missed that, thanks :)

As a side note, it's interesting to point out that Red Hat has long held that they're not really interested in the desktop market [1], so it's good to see a Linux distro make a play in the corporate desktop space.

[1] - http://ostatic.com/blog/red-hat-still-doesnt-need-desktop-li...
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Hello, please care to share why without an iteration dependent salt it is less secure? I guess what you mean is:

x = SHA1(password|salt)
for i from 0 to N do {
x = SHA1(x|i)
}

But in our specific context how this helps?
In other words, how the attacker is able to compute N-times-nested-SHA1 faster than performing all the iterations?

Note: this is not a pre-image attack.
Thanks.
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I've tried porting two Codeplex apps for cinterpreters to WP7.

The one which depended on a .dll couldn't be done because Silverlight doesn't support them.

The other which was self contained took me about three hours because I had no idea what I was doing because I am not a professional programmer by any stretch of the imagination.

I spent another hour creating a user interface so I could test it.
I guess the difference is that you're not actually interested in slowing down the generation of a collision, just that of a dictionary attack.
thnx, will try that
Slides explaining the DeepQA software can be found at http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2019525
Who needs self development therapy when you can learn how to code?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3139798
You ignored the point I'm making. You don't have a choice but to do "static file hosting" securely.
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As far as I can tell, (my unscientific, anecdotal survey of) tech industry sentiment is that Groupon makes no money and general consumer sentiment is that they make a decent amount. It will be interesting to see which side wins out.
That's hindsight. What's going to convince me to take time out of my day to try the demo to be amazed by?
I wouldnt be surprised if Steve has a book deal coming.
Well, I didn't necessarily mean being a rock star or the next Angry Birds, but there is a general sweet spot of "cool, desirable product" that I want to hit.

You mean that with a good marketing strategy and a self-sustaining business model, we don't need to have "the next big thing" in order to support ourselves and do this full-time, right?
Why can't devs in nyc do sorting algorithms
I'm lead dev for a startup in nyc, we're growing fast and interviewing a lot of candidates. It amazes me how many devs I interview who can't do a sorting algorithm. I'm not talking n log n, just a simple n^2 algorithm. This leads me to my question, does the ability to create a sorting algorithm on the spot show how good you are as a dev. I think it does.
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The hardware acceleration opt-in is just one line in the AndroidManifest.xml file, so it should be widely adopted.
There's nothing you've expressed that doesn't apply to Clojure as well. I'm assuming you haven't done much Clojure and thus can't really illustrate what the problem is in practice.
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Perhaps I could have been clearer.

> Who adds these items to increase weight?

Private delivery companies add these items.

> Why?

Because due to the existing PMMS (Poczta Polska to be exact) monopoly on mail <50g, private companies would have to charge 2.5x the PMMS rate to deliver the same piece of mail. Adding the item allows a private company to circumvent the monopoly (by increasing weight >50g) and thus being able to deliver this piece of mail at a lower rate than PMMS. How this ends up being profitable is a bit of a mystery.

> If PMMS is adding this weight

They're not. They have the monopoly so they don't need to.

> they're wasting fuel delivering light items.

No arguing there...

This is what one of those metal plates looks like http://gfx.mmka.pl/newsph/222924/44881.3.jpg
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A hockey player who started the huge chain of coffee/donuts restaurant. Tim Horton's restaurants are everywhere in Canada.
I used Cardpool once to consolidate many baby shower gift cards into a single one from Amazon. They executed a smart idea very well: the whole process was a breeze and their commission was a small price to pay for having a gift card at a store I actually use.

Congratulations to the team!

It looks like BlackHawk Network is the company behind the gift cards stands that have flourished in grocery stores, so that seems like a great match. The good news is also that it's going to be run as an independent business according to the PR, so the service shouldn't change much for now.
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Well, not THAT much power:

'Ive wants to spend more time in the UK where he wants his sons to go to school, the Times claims, but the Apple board has refused to support his relocation. The story quotes a family friend as saying that "they have told him in no uncertain terms that if he headed back to England he would not be able to sustain his position with them".'

From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2011/feb/28/apple-j...

Sounds to me like HP-level stupidity from the Apple board.
How many competent crackers vs opportunistic snatchers do you think there are? I'd be willing to bet that most would just wipe the thing if they can't get in easily enough - the data is less valuable than the device. That is, in anything but a targeted data-stealing attempt, but you're really hosed if you're a target of skilled hackers/crackers.
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RFCs are to the crypto literature what Wikipedia is to the history of the Balkans.

This is another instance where I don't care so much about your particular choices, but where you've said something I have a hard time letting go. You can't point to chapter/verse of an RFC as evidence of the soundness of a crypto construction. Sometimes RFCs document good ideas, but other times they don't.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this Sprint's major competitive advantage from a marketing standpoint?

This specifically focuses on mobile devices besides phones (tablets, netbooks, mobile hotspots, etc) but it does appear to have a clause with respect to tethering as well.

I'm assuming it won't be very long until they apply the same restrictions to their mobile offerings.
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Of course, they would have made it a default if it didn't have some incompatibilities; and looking into it a little more deeply, it does look like there may be:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/android-30-ha...
This is exactly the kind of batshit comment I'm talking about when I say Salvatore shouldn't be calling bcrypt "dogma", even when not using bcrypt is a reasonable choice for him.

In the nineteen seventies, Unix password files had random per user salts --- not salts derived from one another, but random ones --- and those password hashes were better than this one.
Well hopefully once the issues are worked out, future versions will be opt-out instead.
...or that's his excuse for staying in the U.S.
Ah. Thanks... that explains.
Cody, Coda, and I are not a cargo cult.
"Despicable"? Are you sure that's the word you want to use? I'm not fully on Coda's side on this (it's a silly news site, and I've told more than one HN'er to just stretch SHA1 with iterations), but a great way to guarantee that I end up there is to polarize the discussion with comments like this.

It's actually people like you who create stupid flame wars like this. Do you actually have an opinion about bcrypt versus PBKDF1? Or are you just sitting on the sidelines chanting "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT"?

Incidentally: in the fully polarized discussion, Salvatore loses.
I think you meant:

(money > sense) ? iPad : Android ;

i.e. the 2nd '>' should've been a '?'
That's exactly what I was going to say. This is a good first stab at measuring something important.

One thing I was wondering was what "population" was used. I assume it's the city population. Using MSA or CSA populations could lead to very different results, most likely favoring smaller locales.
>I actually grew up near the Pacific Northwest, so I'm used to the rain, but my wife wouldn't be able to handle it, so it's basically a non-starter.

My situation exactly. Every time we go back up to WA/OR to visit, everything looks so beautiful and green. On the other hand, after living in California for the past 10 years, I find myself wondering if I'd be able to tolerate the lack of sunshine, even after growing up in Seattle.
When reports like this talk about total number of apps (which is almost always less than what the platform holder announces) I often wonder if the report is only looking at a single region.
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When's the last time you had to write a sort? Especially if you work in a scripting language like Ruby, Perl, or PHP -- I developed and now maintain three products that bring in my annual salary x8 or so ... and I couldn't write a sort from scratch.

A good developer will Just Get Things Done. Thats a much more valuable skill then having memorized how to write an insertion sort.
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I have it on good authority that converting your residential account to a business account (~25% more expensive) will 'remove' Comcast's bandwidth limits (or have them turn a blind eye, etc).

If you don't want to pay the extra, often downgrading the line to the business equivalent of the speed tier below what you are currently using on your residential package will net out a similar monthly fee.

They have better contention ratios on Business accounts and so you may even see faster speeds at that lower tier.
> Groupon uses Gross Revenue Treatment, not net revenue (as eBay does)

I've read that it was revised to net revenue. Can't remember where though.
Please no. The web has vastly more utility than version 2.0 of client/server hell, with its entombed content that's only accessible through exactly one brain-damaged app which you can't improve. If javascript devours the web, it will be the second greatest disaster of our industry (second only to walled gardens devouring open tools).
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Is not that just a story with no reliable source whatsoever?

And the true tabloid Daily Mail actually interviewed some of Ive's friends and they all said never heard of such a desire from Jony Ive himself.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1367481/Appl...
Full quote: "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong... I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this... I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want."
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Windows 8 doesn't share a codebase with WP7 (except perhaps at a very low level). The Metro stuff on W8 is built on the new WinRT API/framework. What's hard to port to WP7 may be trivial to port to W8.

Disclaimer: I work for MSFT, but don't have any internal knowledge of W8 or WP7 that isn't public.
I don't think all the "gladitorial"-style preparation is necessarily fear-driven. To a great extent it's an acknowledgement that the CEO's time and attention is a valuable, limited resource and should be treated accordingly.
I believe this is an intentional design decision in CSS, and is related to all good user agents letting you run custom user scripts on page load to manipulate pages arbitrarily. What if I prefer reading white-on-black text, and have a custom stylesheet that does that? Your widget will be a glaring, angry block of black-on-white text in an ocean of calm black. In general, I would argue you should just try to play nice with whatever inheritable styles you're given to the extent you can. Sure, your widget will be unreadable if the page chooses black-on-black text, but so will the page, so that won't actually happen.

Basically, your widget should be like a weaker version of the shadow DOM of replaced elements (buttons, textboxes etc), you supply good default styles but they have to be overridable by the page.
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You protect yourself against any future weakness in the hash where it would be possible to simplify composed calls.

You say

So it is quite natural that the schema I proposed of computing SHA1(SHA1(SHA1(..))) will just do that, adding rounds to SHA1. So for the fundamental properties of SHA1 it should be computationally unfeasible to write a function SHA1000 that is equivalent to 1000 times SHA1 nested but that can be computed easily.

This is logic, but puts too much faith in SHA-1.

Crypto is hard because you assemble black boxes which never fully satisfy the advertized properties.

Nevertheless I think the best is to make it easy to change the algorithm as you will always find someone to tell you it's not secure enough.
a known attack better than brute force

Here's your problem -- it's a wrong question. "Better than brute force" doesn't mean that the brute force attack is practically unfeasible.
Given the existing government entanglement into student debt and healthcare, I don't think calls for reform are necessarily "bigger government". And I haven't seen much call for universal minimum income, raising the already-existent minimum wage, maybe.

Point is, this isn't about something so stupidly 1-dimensional as "the size of gov't". That's just something to tell the rubes.
I know from experience that most people don't know the key combos to open in their chosen windows.

I always use Ctrl + T, but when I'm demonstrating something or somebody is watching me browse they almost always ask what I have done when I use the combo.

It's dangerous to assume that your readers are as technically proficient as yourself. But I can see in certain citations why it might be applicable, e.g. on Hacker News the majority of their readers are going to know the keyword shotcuts because that's their target market.

I do think that the blog choosing for you can be a pain, but the combos still work on the majority of links and for those who don't know them you can keep them on your site by using the target= in the link HTML, probably the best of both worlds.
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You don't think that, say, the same people who resent ads being shown and turn them off might think it was hilarious to send back bad analytics data to companies who are quietly profiting from same?

The same people, who, say, use a housemate's phone number for their Safeway card so that Safeway can't determine their shopping habits?

If there was an easy way to do it, many people would want to.

It's clear that there could be an easy way to do it if you put, like, two good hours of work into it.
It was a pretty clever idea (2005) and it certainly paid for the kids tuition...

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I think you're right--I swear I saw an ad on TV for it yesterday!
> But how many real world (especially corporate in-house) .Net apps don't also assume a windows file structure, or a keyboard, or a mouse or 8.3 names, or .......

I don't understand your arguments here. W8 is still Windows. The file system is still there. The keyboard is there if you plugged it in, and you can use the on-screen keyboard if not. Your app shouldn't be expecting 8.3 filenames unless it was written before 1995.

There might be complexities porting your app to ARM, but not because of the stuff you mentioned.
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I'm no stock market expert, bubble or not, it's companies like Groupon who are making it seem like a bubble is about to burst...
>It's really hard to build physical objects with design good enough to be featured in museums.

True, it's hard, but not that hard. These guys did it on a regular basis:
http://www.lushpad.com/articles.php?id=16&pag=1

The true reason as you point out is organizational and it is the same as that age-old killer of creativity: fear. The subordinates are afraid of doing something the boss does not want. The boss is not pushing ahead either because he/she is afraid of making decisions that may entail risk.
Which, as I said, would be at least another year away.

My response was to you bringing up the topic of security so I simply addressed that with details of Ubuntus LTS. Other than that there would be no reason to upgrade however even then you could update any software package found to have security issues on an individual basis through PPA, debs or source. That is the flexibility of opensource.

No operating system can be supported forever but funnily enough Ubuntu have just announced an extension to 5 years for 12.04 LTS.
Intercepting a shopping session gets you a credit card number. Spoofing analytics adds a pageview to a stat you don't even get to see.
Actually, rainbow tables don't really matter anymore.

With the new GPU password bruteforcing techniques, it is easier and faster to just rent more Amazon EC2 machines. They're that fast.

Yes it's more expensive than rainbow tables (which are practically free), but not prohibitively so. Especially not for a criminal org bent on cc fraud, anyway.
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You wouldn't spoof it with an open proxy. This wouldn't be organized crime trying to screw up your A/B testing. This would be individual consumer advocates and reactionaries with a GreaseMonkey script that intentionally sent back wrong numbers or dupes.

And they'd be doing it because of a principle like "these companies don't tell us that they gather and make money off this consumer data. If they won't admit it up front, let's just not give the data to them."

Go ahead, tell me that won't happen at least a few times in the next 5-10 years.
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Hi! As you are an expert in the domain, do you know if my method to generate personal password seems secure?

Typically, instead of memorizing a lot of random password, I memorize only one password and for each website I use the password:

sha1(password|domainname)

Until here nobody give me a clear answer, and therefore I assume it is secure while not any flaw is discovered.

And more precisely, I use

sha1(password|number|domainname)

because, if I fear my password was discovered, I change it by incrementing the number.

I would be very grateful if you mind answer my question. Thanks!
immoral - yes. but how would this be illegal?
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I don't think takes away from the main point of the article, but there is a bit of a logical fallacy in the opening:

18 months ago I relocated from my home town of Glasgow, to London, just 400 miles away. An important reason for the move was because I had just started working on my new startup, Teamly, and I know that location matters, even when running an internet business. Don’t kid yourself otherwise, your chance of success is seriously improved when you’re in a startup hub.

18 months later and moving to London has proved to be a smart move, for all the expected reasons, as well as the unexpected recognition by the UK Government of London’s startups with the launch a year ago of “TechCity“.

I don't think you can really say that moving to London to operate your business there versus operating in Glasgow was a "smart move", as you have no way of knowing what level of success your startup would have had in Glasgow (since you never experienced this alternate reality).

Sure you made a lot of great connections as a result of your move, but it is impossible to know what connections you never made because you weren't in Glasgow during those 18 months. There is no way of knowing whether you missed out on something (a chance meeting/encounter/coffee, etc) which, while it may have been less probable, would have been of more value to the success of your startup.
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"Most of our own thinking is below awareness."

Indeed!. Minsky once said that consciousness is the brain's debug trace.