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Not necessarily. All you need is browser extensions that mimic the built-in remember password functionality, and a hardware-encrypted USB key that serves as a data store for the browser extensions.

That does reduce the USB key to a single point of failure though. That risk could be mitigated with a proprietary key copier.

A standard way to generate key pairs for authentication would be a lot better though. (Really, there's no reason we couldn't use SSH private keys with some simple client and server plugins.)
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Everybody made fun of the Streak because its 5" screen made it too large for a phone and too small for a tablet. But now that many people have become accustomed and have started to like large screens on their phone, the new 'it' phones have 4.5" screens.
whenever i read comments about nyc's best developers ultimately being sucked into the vortex of finance, i want to gag.

i can only assume that these commenters haven't spent much quality time here (or in finance - which is, for the most part, not glamorous, but rather soul-sucking)...or they have spent some time here and have a very limited view of the city.

nyc is more than just wall street, "silicon alley" and midtown. i've worked in several places (boston, london, atlanta, san fran)...and i've never come across as rich a mixture of people who "make stuff" as i have in brooklyn.

on a related note: it'll be interesting if stanford ends up winning the bid to open a campus in NYC. (i think the navy yard location would be perfect!)

btw, great coffee (and serendipity-friendly) spots in brooklyn: gorilla, cafe grumpy, ...a new place called rucola (serves stumptown), and many many more.
If this actually works as a cap, somebody should build a guitar amp out of it.
> This can be really time-consuming, so one "fix" is to retrieve a document before writing it (thus guaranteeing it will be resident in RAM).

On a high traffic site does this guarantee that it will be in RAM? Couldn't it get swapped out pretty easily if you have a lot of read traffic?
Focus. Some people are able to do more than one company at a time, but I certainly can't.
Contest is a great idea, but doing a contest for a closed beta product is not exactly my piece of pie. Too many hurdles to jump to see if this is going to be what I want to use in the first place.
No word on pricing on your launch page either, except for "buying widgets"
This seems to work by having a direct connection into the database. Have companies been concerned about giving a 3rd party access to their data? How have you guys overcome that?

p.s. congrats on the work so far and the funding. The product looks great from the demo video.
Sometimes groups of very individualistic people can be especially prone to groupthink - the fact they believe they are not susceptible is what makes them more vulnerable. Example: "Randroids".
I think Winer misunderstands Kottke's feelings about Van Halen.

There's a sentence you didn't think you'd read today. But seriously.
The quote is taken from the biography. In that paragraph Jobs is not talking about whether or not he thinks people are shirking by selling. He is saying that real entrepreneurs make companies that last and have a "legacy".

I do find it surprising though that you tell people to do what they love but then in these comments you admit you didn't like doing viaweb. In your essay you wrote, "The test of whether people love what they do is whether they'd do it even if they weren't paid for it." And it seems that you only did that startup because you were going to get money, which I suspect is true for the vast majority of y-combinator start-ups.
Not to get bogged down in words, but you are saying, "I stand against Stallman," but isn't it better to just focus on the ideas? He is a man of ideas, after all.

If you disagree on the ideas, you could still be friends with the man (and he is an incredibly nice and friendly guy who treats people better than he gets treated, that's for sure.)

Just curious: by any chance, are you "standing against Stallman" while simultaneously using his work? I could not do my job without using Stallman's work in some form (in many forms in fact).
The part that bothers me is that I once went and saw an rms talk and within five minutes one thing was overwhelmingly clear to me.

The dude clearly suffers from some kind of high functioning autism. Aspergers, whatever, it's just clear he doesn't think about social interactions the same way most other people do.

Which given the kind of audience of nerds and geeks that he is front of I would expect to be a little bit more understanding or patient but – I guess in the end we're all just moneys jockeying for social status.

Frankly, once I realized the above almost all of the rms mocking comes off as being extremely mean spirited.
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Free Software is successful because Apple and Google would not have been successful without it. OSX & iOS are built on BSD, and Google's entire back end is based on open source software (Linux, Java, et cetera).
I wouldn't even say it is geared towards the CS student/CS grad, more like general nerd reading. If I knew a kid who was "interested in computers", but there was no one around to give them a helping hand I'd definitely give them a copy of CODE and The C Programming Language.
I have no objection to flagging it. I wanted to write it, but I don’t think it’s particularly important for anybody to read it.
Did Kottke even read the link about the Van Halen brown M&M thing? Because it wasn't some crazy whim; it had a perfectly reasonable justification. Saying that Stallman's parrot thing is "right up there" with the brown M&Ms doesn't make sense, if you're trying to laugh at Stallman.
You are assuming that the consideration was cash. I wouldn't be surprised if consideration was equity.
Really I only see rms as your typucal celebrity here whos in his case entirely earned fame has risen to his head because he lives in a bubble were people read his rider and say: ok i go look for someone with a parrot.
If I did it everyone would assume it is a joke.
tl;dr stallman is softwares axel rose no more no less
I can't say I agree with this "stand up for weak people against bullies" defense of Richard Stallman. It doesn't do rms any favors, because it makes him look like a weakling.

I don't agree with rms right now, but he deserves a lot of respect for the work he has done throughout his life. I'm just going by the wikipedia page, but he wrote gcc and gdb - that alone should give someone a fair amount of respect. If you add the concept of copyleft and the GPL on top of that, you've got a substantial legacy that we owe a debt of gratitude towards.

He is an extremist, though. He has always been an extremist. His opinions were often unappealing even when he was writing in opposition to The Borg. His opinions have only become more unpalatable as closed platforms from Apple and Google have become more appealing on their technical merits.

In my own experience, though, it seems like some newer folks don't really understand that those extreme ideas came from an important place. They don't understand the hacker ethic or have much of an idea of the culture that rms comes from, exemplified, and fights for. I imagine most readers here are familiar with it, but it's a fading ideal, for sure.

Anyway - I've made fun of rms as much as the next guy, but he doesn't need me to defend him. And I doubt he cares what people say about his rider.
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Who is writing these "rules"? They sound more like opinions, which is fine if they're coming from a reputed source like Tufte or Nielsen. But who is "anthony"?
Deleting a ton of emails is one sign of a hacked account, and Google has been trying to add safeguards lately. They're probably waiting for you to contact them, at which point you'll have to jump through hoops to prove you're the rightful owner.
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I'm allergic to Latin when used to impress, but you should understand (and accept) that a lot of the prior work around rhetoric and argumentation comes from Greek and Latin sources. See also: modus ponens, QED, reductio ad absurdum, a fortiori. All commonly used.
Your post made me realize something. Just like you, I'd previously been generous in my payment to "support the community". When I loaded up the page today and saw the offering, I mentally said "I don't have $20 to blow on this right now" and left the site. Until I read your post, I never even considered that I could just pay less than $20.

Even odder, once I finish writing this, I'm still not heading over there to buy the bundle, even though I could only spend $0.01.
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I hope there is enough contrast between unread and read items. It took me a while to get used to the gmail overhaul with their new design.

But integration with plus is definitely a welcome change. More often than not, I've decided against sharing simply because it's inappropriate to everyone following me.
Richard Stallman is one of my heroes in tech. He's a deeply fascinating and amazingly obstinate thinker who should be Walter Isaacson's next book project.

But does he really need anyone's help fending off bullies? A guy who described Steve Jobs as being guilty of "evil" after his death would eat bullies for breakfast. If he ate breakfast. Which he doesn't. And don't ask him why.
> Read Stallman charitably. Read Kottke charitably. Read everyone charitably

This!

Always, every day. You might make the world a little bit better in the process, but you will make your life a good bit less stressful, just by being a bit more charitable, a bit less suspicious.
I'm obviously biased as I created KEYBOX, an iPhone app for easily managing passwords, amongst a whole host of other secrets.

So take my below answer with a grain of salt...

I'm surprised by all the attempts to replace the password with non-secret keys be they facial recognition (face prints?), fingerprints, or other...

I can login to your facial recognition screen just by holding up your photo. Fingerprints are little more difficult but the technology exists.

But if I am not in possession of your password I'm going to be spending a lifetime cracking it.

Conclusion: Keys are not secrets and can be easily copied. Passwords ARE secrets.

Yes, passwords can be difficult to remember but that's a different problem.

If you want to see secret/password management done right check my website ( http://www.jayfuerstenberg.com )
Yep. The real world says a programmer only writes code, a developer does all the rest of the work around programming as well.
One sad thing about arguments is that dismissing them with ad hominems is incredibly effective. You can see this in the media all the time. "The Tea Party is just a bunch of racist, homophobic astroturf." "The OWS movement is just a bunch of anarchist hippies who aren't willing to get a job like the rest of us." Etc.

These ad hominem dismissals are, logically speaking, irrelevant, but they sway people, often more than the actual merits of the the arguments. As a result, it is often frustrating when someone who is on the same side as you, and very visible, makes themselves such a lightning rod for them. I currently feel this exact way about OWS. It's a mixture of "I'm glad people care about fixing our broken financial system" and "oh no, they're going to make moderate America associate financial industry reform lazy hippies."

Stallman is a tireless promoter of his ideology, and if you subscribe to the same then you would have to have mixed feelings about him because of this. His "weirdness" does some amount of harm to the cause because in the end it's always the moderates (who are most easily swayed by irrelevant things like parrots) who decide the issue.

This is, of course, no reason to be uncivil to him, but it at least partially explains (though in no way justifies) the sort of behavior you see even from many who are predisposed to agree with many of his ideas.
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We are currently distributing our research as emails; our client is Microsoft Outlook 2010 and we have a hosted Exchange server. There must be a better way!<p>I'm interested in reducing latency, and moving to a solution that is actually scalable (right now we cannot send a single email to more than 100 recipients, and we are capped at 1000 emails per hour).<p>What are your thoughts?
Gruber is so openly contemptuous of Stallman that I find it hard to believe that Winer is focusing on Kottke instead. In the episode of the Talk Show you linked to, Gruber's co-host Dan Benjamin keeps trying to rein Gruber in from being unfair to Stallman. He shuts down Gruber from talking about the infamous foot-eating incident on multiple occasions. And yes, the title is indeed about Stallman; Gruber repeats some anecdotes he heard about Stallman's hygeine. He makes Kottke look downright generous.

If you read what Winer is saying with Gruber in mind, it makes sense. But Kottke's entry strikes me as much more innocuous than Winer is making it out to be.
I dont think so, I already filled all the forms they have and I found lots of ppl with the exact same problem, look here http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=0a23b... and there are lots like that one. Gmail servers just cant handle massive deletion :(

Try with your account :)
"free markets tend to punish companies, over the long term, that intentionally deny themselves access to talent due to bigotry."

If this were true, we wouldn't have needed the EEOC and the Civil Rights Act in the first place. We did. Therefore.
> And, yes, we can all tell the difference between disagreeing with (or even joking about) RMS's very strong and sometimes very offbeat technical, legal, and political opinions and making fun of his socks. The first is fine – it is something he invites – but the second is just rude.

Are we talking about the same Richard M Stallman who once wrote:

> Could people please not use this list to announce information of no particular interest to the people on the list? Hundreds of thousands of babies are born every day. While the whole phenomenon is menacing, one of them by itself is not newsworthy. Nor is it a difficult achievement—even some fish can do it. (Now, if you were a seahorse, it would be more interesting, since it would be the male that gave birth.)

> These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of, which fuels natalist pressure, which leads to pollution, extinction of wildlife, poverty, and ultimately mass starvation.

in response to someone mentioning the birth of their child?

If we're going to have an intellectually honest conversation about bullying in the tech community and the separation of personal attacks from technical matters, let's not attempt to do so under the delusion that RMS only invites comments on technical and political matters and never engages in extremely insulting social attacks on others.

RMS is and always has been a controversial extremist who has been more than willing to engage in personal attacks in service to the causes that interest him.
In your best and worst case scenarios for the lock you forgot that MongoDB will also need to write a journal entry by default (1.9.2+).
Phishing is the biggest risk/threat. An average user is typing in his username and password if presented with a decently familiar login form no matter what the browser address bar or the rest of the web page says. Unfortunately the PayPal and Verisign keyfob security codes can also be phished.
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I don't know. Not to come off as mean spirited, but when someone puts themselves in the public spotlight, sends out requests to speak, then sends a list of demands in addition to...

I'm all in favor of principled people. But if nothing else, the public ribbing should actually HELP his cause - he is turning people off by virtue of what he's saying and doing. If he actually listens, he might find himself a little bit more persuasive about his principles
I guess on an extremely high traffic site running with a relatively small amount of RAM you could cycle through the whole LRU cache in the VM between operations, but I'd expect the probability to be vanishingly small.
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BSD predates the FSF by almost a decade. pcc predates GCC by about the same amount of time. I know that you know that projects like Perl have nothing to do with the FSF as well.
Where I work we have a plethora of username/passwords for everything from benefits to paystub management to expense reporting, not to mention desktop logins. I gave up long ago trying to remember/write down them all, save for my desktop. I just initiate a password reset whenever I use them. Unfortunately, a lot of these services are outsourced so I could see the complication in setting up some kind of single sign in.
Bought it.
Anil Dash, in comments section of Winer's post, makes the same mistake of having an idea withouth having enough knowledge:

> ... using that power to cow conference organizers and academics into submission to an arbitrary set of whims, the same as a rock star refusing to eat certain colors of M&Ms ...

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/31/whyIStandUpForStallm...
That's actually covered in the Snopes article Kottke linked to.
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i guess the advanced high school was so advanced they still had recess...
Sigh. I like the redesign (it's about time!) but I hate that they're turning off sharing. I use that to run my link blog, and now I'll have to figure out another workaround.
BSD has nothing to do with the FSF and Stallman.
Perhaps calling Jobs a corrupt, malign evil slaver the day after his death might also be construed as rude by some.

"Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, “I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone.” Nobody deserves to have to die – not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs’ malign influence on people’s computing."
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BSD does not use GNU software, IIRC. The BSDs use a separate re-implementation of the Unix base software under a BSD license (instead of a GPL license).

That said, I'm a little fuzzy on how much FSF may be inspired the BSDs to exist.

edit: I was overstating what I actually meant when I said that they don't use GNU software. I don't know about the current crop of BSDs, but I was referring to the original BSD system not being built on top of the GNU base.
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Scheme may be an ideal "teaching" language because it's so small, but it's not an ideal learning language because you will quickly run into problems with libraries and implementations. The RnRS is also not as good a reference as the HyperSpec+CLtL.

Common Lisp code is much more portable across implementations so there are way more libraries and bindings to things like graphics and sound around (and easily available via quicklisp).

Racket OTOH is the best environment for learning to program in that I've come across, and I recommend it to people who ask me for advice about learning to program (despite being the author of that article). If Common Lisp had a similar environment for newbies it would be sweet, but not many people (myself included) care about Lisp IDEs.

The problem with Racket is that it has a huge problem with NIH as a project, and a lot of the libraries are opinionated about the way you use things like state.
I thought that recess part was weird too. Bronx Science had recess? There were seven future Nobel Prize-winning physicists pondering the universe on those teeter totters.
keep telling women what to do because you know better, i'm sure that will end the sexism really fast
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"Anyway, much later in life, I was treated like Sam, in the blogging community. From my point of view, I expected the newcomers to like me, because I had blazed a trail for them, and wasn't asking for anything in return."

Does Winer ever pass up a chance to promote and feel sorry for himself?
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I was reading about the optional types in Dart[1] and they make a lot of sense to me particularly as they provide another way of documenting your code.

Since I haven't actually used Dart, or another language with optional types, my question is how useful are they? Also do they have any serious disadvantages?

[1] http://www.dartlang.org/articles/optional-types/
Let us be reasonable and deal with thoughts (where appropriate) rather than the personal habits of someone (unless he is trying to push personal habits).

More than a few of the ideas Stallman has pushed have come into wide acceptance, and some number of the things he's warned about have come to pass (or made a good stab at it).

So his ideas have had a demonstrated merit, which - in my mind - makes them worthy of thoughtful consideration.

Let us not parrot mindless bashings or equally mindless fanboyism.
If anything that rider clearly and loudly signals "I am eccentric and have a faulty amount of social awareness, please be advised". So, it seems to do the job it's meant for :P.
I adore indie games.

Someone should build an iTunes for indie games, or something.
Like Steam or Desura?

Or uh, iTunes Store?
I've lived in both NY and Silicon Valley. I think the best description of the difference in mentality is:

In NYC, if you can make a million dollars cool, but it's even better if you screw somebody out of a million at the same time. In Silicon Valley, if you make a million dollars cool, but it's even better if you help somebody else make a million at the same time.
Steve Jobs had a daughter named Eve (as in she who bit the fabled apple)? I did not know that. How perfect.
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Most of the current BSD projects do in fact use some GNU tools. BSD predates the FSF.
The other reason to label buttons with icons is so that they become larger and are easier to target.

Also, I'm sure I've seen that row of house icons before. Anyone know the original source?
This is fact of nature, Stallman eating from his foot was not considered good behaviour in group and signals were sent to correct it. wich may or may not be understood by recipient. (it may come too late and on wrong medium)

Nature knows also cases when minority is right in that case minority can send more powerfull signal than group.
Most of the tools I used to learn to program would not qualify as Free Software by RMS's own definition. Most of these were Open Source.
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On the other hand, I have $200 left to my name total, and I'm happily spending $1.00.

If $0.01 is all you can afford, there's no shame in it.
I'm continually disappointed to see uxmovement.com posts feature here.
One rule for clear and intuitive icons:

1. Google Image Search for name + "icon". Match most prominent design to your style.

This solves almost all of your icon needs.