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If you're going to do web programming, you're typically looking at using at least 3 languages. Outside of the context of web programming, many people can get by with knowing just one language. When I was in school, most of my peers only knew Java. I'm willing to be that most of them still only know Java (which I consider unfortunate).
The Square dongle is the most brilliant customer acquisition tool in the history of marketing to small businesses. But Square probably needs to also offer a swiping solution that makes more sense in a permanent location like a physical store. And it should also acknowledge that customers are going to ask for a paper receipt for some period of time. Not every retailer is Apple.

Getting rid of the flat fee that traditionally accompanies credit card transactions was also a smart move to further open up new credit card processing markets.

The Card Case? I'm not sold in its current state. This article, like pretty much every article describing the latest "wouldn't it be great" payment product story, describes a process that sounds quite a bit worse than a simple swipe of a 2mm thick plastic card.
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Even though I see what MG is trying to do here, I don't agree that the botched release somehow reveals a bigger pattern at Google. It's a big company doing a lot of things and it's going to have flops along the way.

At least they're open and honest about their failures - I can respect that.
The bug wasn't a code defect, but a certificate signing issue, which may be masked during the certification process. More details:

http://www.tipb.com/2011/11/02/notification-error-valid-apse...
Additionally, if you use the app, Square knows exactly where you are at all times.

That's absolutely not true, at least not on iOS. As mentioned in the article, Square is using the iOS geofencing APIs to wake the app when you enter a favorite area. The app isn't running in the background all the time.

Also, as mentioned in the article, you can turn this feature off and manually toggle the tab.
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I wouldn't say they "got rid of the flat fee". They are offering an alternative. The flat fee is not about to go the way of the dinosaur- it is still the more favorable option for clients processing large transactions.
Did you even look? It's publicly available:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Secur...
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I presume you're using e=mc^2 here. That's not how e=mc^2 was meant to be used[1]. And, this is using the actual mass of an electron:
9.10938188e-31 kilograms (Google)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence
Interesting that the main complaint is that Google does not know how to develop for a competitors platform very well. Have you taken a look at Apple's software on Windows machines? If I had to rely on the reputation of Apple simply by their software on Windows machines then they would be among the worst software companies ever.

Google+, Music, Voice, and Chrome have all been good releases but maybe not earth shattering. So Wave has given them a stench of failure? Really?
I respect that Canonical is trying to make Ubuntu an OS that regular Mac and Windows users will feel comfortable switching to. They must realize that this will alienate many long-time Linux users, but that doesn't hurt Linux as a whole, because those people can just use Debian or another distro. It's a difficult choice and I'm glad someone's doing it. I may not be using Ubuntu that much longer, but I'm not going to bitch about it.
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Genera... provides pretty much everything on sandboxing from a non-architectural, developer point of view.
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Of course, if you wrote down all of knowledge on paper, and discounted the mass of the paper and ink that holds the information, the actual information content--the arrangement of the ink--weighs nothing.
FYI, this has been done: http://www.herway.com/. No idea how successful it has been.
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I did, but only on the landing page of the OP's link, which was forbidden based on my dev membership.

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
Click top link, follow the "App Sandbox Page" link from Apple's page (https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/mac/app-sandbox/), get redirected to https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/unauthorized/
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It's free to register as an Apple developer and your ID will then work:

http://developer.apple.com/programs/register/

Though to your point, I'm not sure why Apple requires someone to login just to read the docs.
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It can take a resume upload or a linkedin profile and give you your own personalized resume URL like:

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The resume search is awesome for employers too. http://www.indeed.com/resumes

Disclaimer: I work at indeed, but not on the resume product.
It's time to write the eulogy for application automation and inter-application communication on the Mac.

AppleScript (beast that it is) was innovative when it was created, and still has not been replaced. Automator is built on AppleEvents, and with sandboxing will come a sharp decline in the number of applications that can receive AppleEvents and the extinction of apps that send them.
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I never tried pathogen, it is probably very useful but in the example you give I have no idea about where my plugin is plugged, so I don't know how to rm it if needed.
I'd guess that roughly 50% of asteroids passing by end up closer to the earth than the moon.
Why wouldn't it scale to Wal-mart? Even with a dozen people with the same name in the store, a cashier can quickly pick a matching face: everyone is good at that (except for prosopagnosics).

And that's without assuming Wal-mart adds any extra hardware that could narrow the position of handhelds to individual registers.
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I don't mind, nor love Unity, though I quite enjoy GNOME3 (forgiving the rash of bugs), but give this a shot: Log into Unity, Press Ctrl+T. Enjoy.
You saw the 100 foot radius bit, but ignore the sentence before. It's an opt-in solution -- If you don't want it, don't opt in.

First, you need to turn on auto-payments for each individual store where you’d like to use it—it’s impossible to tell Card Case to turn on auto-payments for every store in San Francisco.
It was a joke. I can't delete it now.
Why not? Do they have to sign some confidentiality agreement?
Or they're just busy building it and haven't had time to even spec out an informational web site yet. If you feel so strongly about this, then don't sign up for his list.

Cut the guy some slack.
There is a VAST difference between launching something simple and functional and then iterating to a solid, polished product, and launching something that sucks / is simply broken, and hoping people put up with it until you can get it right.

Apple does the former; features for v1 of their products are almost always quite limited, but what is there is polished. Increasingly, Google seems to do the latter.

It's not minimum product, it's minimum viable product. And if it doesn't even work, it's hardly viable.
haha well good luck! I'd love to help any way I can, or at least read about your progress in a future blog post, this is an interesting project to me. Feel free to contact me (info in profile).
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Every time I think about writing anything substantial in C I think about manual memory management and error handling via error codes and I quickly shelve the idea.
I respectfully disagree. This is what an investment from Visa looks like with really good design. Not everyone was trying to get both sides to adopt new hardware, either.

As long as Square uses cards for funding, it will be robbing the poor to pay the rich just like every other card company. To me, "disruptive" in the payments world means no cards, period.
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http://longnow.org/clock/ tells about the Long Now Foundation project to construct a 10,000 year clock.
Right I totally agree and it's extremely fun. I guess I was thinking that the speed and graphics aren't as visually snazzy but the fans (like me) don't care about that.
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Some good counter-examples but these are outliers. You can't seriously argue that the vast majority of big, high-performance apps aren't written in C++ and for good reason. Cubase, Photoshop, Maya, Renderman, Chrome, Java/JVM, virtually all A-list video games etc.

People have codebases that are millions of lines of code in C++ that I don't think would even be possible in pure C.
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That's a pretty long scroll box to find the person in the first place. Or an added step as you key in the first few letters of the person's name. At large retailers or QSR chains that put a premium on fast checkout, neither option will fly.

I obviously appreciate the simplicity of paying with your face.
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I think the random string is clever. My first instinct would be that you should be able to reach it at http://resume.io/dangrossman, but then if someone is familiar with the service they could circumvent the tracking URLs.

On the other hand, having a human friendly URL might be nice in the long run for easily finding people. Definitely a tradeoff.
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I think the answer is what I call 'subscribable circles' in this blog post: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/12261287667/in-defense-of-the...

Which actually works a lot like RSS. You have certain named feeds, e.g. "Unix." Then people looking at your profile can subscribe to that feed if they're interested in what you have to say about Unix.
This is certainly the case in the US, where you're most likely to have driven somewhere, so you're going to have your wallet/purse as you need your driver's license.

That said, there is still some friction when it comes to using a card... some places want you to sign, some don't, some decide on the day... people offer you a paper receipt for a $2 transaction ("No, I really don't need it.")... it's sometimes finicky trying to deal with a wallet full of cards... It's all not all that much really, but there is still room for improvement.

What I really like about this is the end-run around NFC. NFC really doesn't solve the problem, because is is just as easy to pull out a wallet as it is to pull out a phone. Here you don't need to rummage, you say what you want and go. That's 15-20 seconds of your life back per transaction.
On the other hand:

- anyone in the room knowing your name can get free cookies (or anything else)
- signal travel through air, so physical hack is not necessary anymore
- its still tied to your phone ;-)

the rest is pretty cool, but i'd like to confirm manually each transaction thank you very much. I want to keep control of MY stuff, my money, my phone. My my my.
As someone more than twice that old, I find it amusing when something twenty years old is described as "venerable." The world of computer technology has seen many fashions come and go, but some tools have been comparatively long-lasting, and have been used through several generations of the newest and greatest other technologies.
Early Stages? If MSFT Followed same standards as AAPL for software in their OS, AAPL would have been banned from writing software ever on Windows:
http://javaswamy.blogspot.com/2010/03/hey-microsoft-how-abou...
Something about most C++ code I've read makes me a little sad. It's a great language, but many features seem to be abused.
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I don't see why it is expected to "put our clocks seriously out of sync with Europe’s, costing airlines $150 million a year". Changing DST shouldn't cause sync problems. More puzzling, why would such a problem only affect Europe?
And why exactly do you imagine that Square couldn't debit directly from a checking account in the future (as the article mentioned)?
" ... why couldn't I just order on the phone?"

Like this?

http://www.beanscenemag.com.au/news/article/hub-it-launches-...
Sorry, but Vim is not beautiful nor "simple". It is, certainly, beautifully crafted, but this is another meaning of the word.

In fact, this reminds me French painter Braque being shown a fake Braque, he said: "this is not my work, it is beautiful". What I mean is that "beautiful" in the common sense, the one that applies to clothes, girls, gadgets (including Apple's), commercial movies, 3D games, etc., this superficial aesthetic quality not important.

In this sense, Vim, with it's fixed width font, black background, pure-text help, etc. is certainly not beautiful, and therefore a bit of a stranger on a Mac where, apparently, so much money and neuronal activity has been spent to beautify its OS, its casing, its font aliasing, every single icon and even its boxing.

Gosh, look at the Vim logo and tell me by which miracle it can have so much sex-appeal in a Mac environment? (Or has it? dasil003 says no in an uncle comment, maybe he is right.)
By default it uses ~/.vim/bundle/ Just drop directories into there to install and [re]move them to uninstall.

It really is a thing of beauty.
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.. 2 days later ..

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Cook: publish it!
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You don't think moving people away from physically using cards for the transactions is a big first step?

With the transaction taking place without any physical handling of any paper or plastic, using a card as a payment source is just an implementation detail. It'll be trivial in the future for Square to add alternate funding sources without any pain to the user, and in the mean time it drives adoption because people are already used to the idea of giving Square their credit card info.
Yeah, we can all agree we hate Unity, but the constant complaining about it is disproportionate to the ease with which it's replaced.
I wonder how they'll keep people from putting products on someone else's tab.
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incron* (like cron but for file events)

* Not exactly CLI but a tool that I use heavily.
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Fantastic, constructive, mostly positive response to a somewhat frightening problem. I hope Google takes him up on it.
> ubuntu completely destroyed linux Because rather then there being many great distros to choose from and play with there is now really only one.

There are lots of excellent distros. The world does not revolve around Ubuntu.
What were the non-hardware non-card payment methods attempted? I'm familiar with NFC, and somewhat intimately familiar with Square and its card-based rivals, but the only alternatives I know of are those pay-through-your-carrier attempts that are an even bigger can of worms than a card company. Were there others?

To reference your Visa point (which I suspect wasn't serious), Square was card-based long before the Visa investment.
I have exactly those 2 machines you described, but nothing beats having the MBA on your lap and backpack. When I go to the 2008 15 Pro its a huge screen size impact, but whenever I get to pick which I will use, I always go with the MBA.
I agree completely. The special treatment of student loans w.r.t. bankruptcy is bizarre and leads to all sorts of bad consequences.
I doubt any firstname+lastname (or even just firstname+last_initial) situation would require a scroll box... you could fit 20+ recognizable faces on a screen. Sort them by age and in the few cases where there are that many collisions, cashiers would know just where to look.

Keying the name is a bigger issue... so I suspect terminals in larger retailers will eventually just detect the N nearest pay-eligible handhelds.
Because they don't have any money transmitter licenses and it will take them a few years to get them.
This envelope icon looks really familiar. Was it stolen from something else?
Seconded, thanks you saved me a lot of typing. :-)
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Time to settle down, people. This is not the bad news you think it is. Please take the time to read what exactly is entailed in Sandboxing a Mac App before you presume this is a restriction on your freedom. You can start here:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Secur...

The vast majority of apps on the App store can be sandboxed without effecting their functionality in any way.

Sandboxing on OS X is not like Sandboxing on iOS. You can still access all your files. Your app just can't do it without asking. You can still send Apple events to other apps - you just can't send them to whatever apps you feel like. They must be defined, and permission granted via entitlements. True, you cannot access another applications preferences. However, an application can present an API that other applications can access.

In other words, this change forces apps to be designed much more securely. It reminds me of the Android permissions model.
A pretty obvious next step would be to pair this with facial recognition.

That'd cut down the search space dramatically.
Haha, yes! They meant "closer to the earth than the moon is", not "closer to the earth than to the moon." It will never meet that second criterion, since it will only be about 20% closer to the earth than the moon is.
> Some people still like shit work. They can spend an hour moving Twitter accounts to special Lists, and then at the end of it look back and say “Boy, I spent an hour doing this. I really accomplished a lot today!” You didn’t. You did shit work.

This made me laugh.

I half-agree with the post. There is an element of "shit work" that actually makes users feel engaged. For instance, my iGoogle homepage has feeds set up with sites I've had to hunt down an RSS for and manually enter. I've had to invest time into rearranging the layout to my priorities.

It's 'shit work' in that it's manual and somewhat trial-and-error, but it leaves me feeling more invested in the product if I'm ultimately more satisfied with the end result.

Disclaimer: I am a PC/ubuntu guy, so I understand that mine may not be the mainstream opinion.
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Starbucks (for payments) and the airlines (for boarding passes) have done pretty well with barcode scanners. It requires hardware only on the merchant side than most merchants already have in one form or another.
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As noted in the article and alluded to in my comment, the cashier visually verifies that the person requesting the charge matches the photo that appears on their screen. That's a whole lot better than the pretend 'signature verification' purporting to deter other kinds of card misuse.

Identical twins and celebrity lookalikes may still present problems.
> If a restaurant's going to go to all the trouble to install a system like this and set it up so that my phone can pay them, why couldn't I just order on the phone? Then I wouldn't have to stand in line at all, and they won't have wasted their time if it turns out that I want something else instead of what I usually get.

Because a smooth face to face interaction is much more pleasant than ordering via an online application. "Half-caff mocha, large, with extra whip cream" vs "open web site, look for mocha, select size, special request... extra whip cream, agree to pay..., submit". That's a crappy experience. The online order only makes sense if the face-to-face experience sucks worse, which shouldn't be the case.

Also because this system doesn't require you to get out your phone every time. Just once, and then it works transparently.
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Industry doesn't rely on GPA as a filter. They rely on interviews, past projects and work experience. Anything above a 3.0 (which is pretty low) and no need to worry.

The problem is with law school, medical school, and so forth. That is where GPA is seen as the ultimate-judge-of-worth rather than a mildly-interesting-but-completely-insignificant-number like it should be.
Why does everyone say this? I found it fairly easy to learn the basics and intermediates of. Then again, I'm an Emacs guy, so maybe that plays in to it.
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We've been using Fogbugz for a while at my company, but we've been playing with Trello recently. I think Trello is wonderful and I hope that some of the newer UI features get incorporated into Fogbugz (i.e. inline editing).

The problem we're having with Trello is that we can't get a good view across all projects. Trello requires me, as a manager, to constantly hop in and out of projects. I hope they can offer something to get a higher view. I'd love to use Trello more.
No, it just doesn't work out if you have a naive business model. Think a little bit and you'll find profitable ways to do it.
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The best argument for college is the social environment, which can't be replicated outside of it. Not education. The kids get that. That's why they don't go to class."

No. When it comes to non-technical degrees, it's the classroom environment. It's the academic and intellectual environment. Which the internet isn't close to replicating. Someday it might come close, but certainly not in the near future. If you think the internet is approaching a college education in value, you haven't experienced a proper college education.
I'm pretty sure everyone that reads Engadget only on Big Apple Days, let alone more invested users, have known. I haven't coded a line of obj c in my life and I've known about it for a couple of months.