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The only dependency hell I've had installing modules in my 14 years of programming with dynamic languages was trying to get 2 different Rails apps to work out of the same gems...

Ruby, my other favorite language besides Perl, is just as vulnerable to dependency problems as... every other language!

Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, they all have lots of packages and modules that depend on each other. So do many Linux distributions. Dependency hell is not language nor domain specific.

After all these years, one of the reasons I stick with Perl and CPAN is precisely because I can monitor and anticipate dependency problems with CPAN Testers. MetaCPAN has nice impact analysis tools too. I'm yet to find something comparable in any other language ecosystem. Hell, you can't even specify a minimum version of a module to import in Python, like in Perl's "use Module 2.3".
The real question is not whether google, dropbox or anyone else has explicit "policies" about reading content from users. They're just going to say whatever makes them look good from a marketing and legal perspective. Companies lie all the time, systematically and comprehensively. They act in their own self-interest period. From their point of view it is merely a question of how much they can get away with.

The more interesting question to explore is how much we actually trust these companies with our personal information and how do we decide when we reach a limit to our trust.

Do I believe that google can read my gmail? Yes. Do I think this capability will cause harm to come to me as a result? Hell no. There's nothing "in it" for them to do so for me or millions of others. I "trust" them for this reason.
I was so delightfully surprised when I went to type it in, expecting something to happen, and it rolled halfway through my query. Awesome!
Facebook Co-Founder's Asana Project Is Officially Launched
PageRank for every single thing in the world curated by your friends. Sounds like a pretty big problem to me.
The question is wrong. Any email provider will read your email, at least for spam detection.

The question should be - does Google keep a profile on you based on the content of your emails?

I'm pretty sure they are able to serve ads without keeping a profile, making the decision solely on the content of the email being read. However, that may not be the case.
Every time I think of VPC I ponder the missing features and wish that Amazon had made/will make a better job of building an ecosystem around AWS.

In particular, I would love to be able to create & sell managed loadbalancers, accelerators, component applications etc as DevPay billable AMIs. But that's not possible with VPC (and because I'm in Australia), so everyone using VPC has to reinvent a whole bunch of wheels to use it. It's a reduction of value all round.

So ingenious though the general concept of VPC is; two years on, it's still a half-baked product with a high opportunity cost.
There have been 3 or 4 links about this, each with its own set of comments.

It would be nice if various submitted links on the same topic could be grouped together, with a shared comment space. Otherwise, each time a new link of relevance to a preexisting topic comes up, there's a separate page for it, with a separate set of comments.
Their launch announcement is available at http://blog.asana.com/2011/11/introducing-asana-the-modern-w... .

I've written about the launch at http://www.dailywebapps.com/2011/11/03/asana-task-management... .
I read that some things were dropped from the online version. Specifically, reinforcement learning. Is that still part of your syllabus?

Edit: Here's the link. Not sure if you can see it without being logged in. http://www.ml-class.org/course/qna/view?id=58
Yep. I'm familiar with the pain...
YC has hired and/or made partners of founders of companies it invested in. That seems more in line with its goals than buying companies.
Nor is the GP post accurate about what Google's options are, since it's obviously an option to bring in the lawyers, resist, and get a court order to block FBI's actions for a while, if Google were inclined to do so.

I tend to scoff at the notion that FBI would start "dismantling data centers" in the manner described.
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...especially if it's for a new computer with a 6502 CPU running at 1MHz :-P
You can have any state you want in bolts. What Storm does not provide is a persistence mechanism for that state. For that, you can just use an external database that knows how to handle distributed state and the associated tradeoffs (such as Riak or Cassandra).

The "state spout" abstraction, a future feature for Storm, will alleviate the performance problems with using an external database. Although in the time being, smart use of batching/checkpointing is sufficient for most applications.

Also, Storm topologies can be written in any language. Storm has great multi-language support.

I do agree though that higher level abstractions are important. That will come later, once we're confident that we've mastered the primitives for doing fault-tolerant realtime computation.
It's worse with OS X, but iOS has its share, too. iBooks is just one, and it's not just the page stacks. I'd argue that the whole skeuomorphic interface is misplaced. I find the page-turning animation to be a useless, nostalgic novelty. But not just that, I've seen someone get confused by the fact that in landscape mode, each page is printed on both sides, while in portrait mode, only one side of each page is available/printed on. How do you get to the other half? Of course, there are more glaring problems with iBooks. Like scrolling in parts of a page of a book? Pieces of pages that are buttons? A bookmark that's a button?

More examples: Calendar for iPad. (Leatherette buttons? Really?) Notes app. (Marker Felt makes me want to throw up.) Contacts.
After actually reading the short article, NO it did not pass in the house. I'm not a legislative expert but it sounds like it passed through the rules committee and will be debated today and tomorrow. Crossing my fingers...
This is going to be a spectacular bust. It is about as sure a thing as a Chinese reverse IPO.
He got Nathan Marz' name wrong, too.
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Again, the standardization was required to keep up with the Google+ design - a direct Facebook competitor. Larry Page even went out to declare that all of Google will now revolve around 'social' - and we are beginning to see that already. The social features in Google reader are broken and crappy. While the same social features are absent from Gmail for now, the design persists, only because Google+ demands it.
Isn't the purpose of a Rolodex to "find my friends" ? I believe that's what they were going for. It's weak, sure...
“More examples: Calendar for iPad. (Leatherette buttons? Really?) Notes app. (Marker Felt makes me want to throw up.) Contacts.”

That’s aesthetics, not UI design.
The real question to answer is whether "are you willing to go into a business with your sister", and "is the relationship strong enough to withstand problems in business."

Remember, if the business runs into trouble and the two of you argue, then you will have lost a business and a sister.

Also, if you work very hard and your business becomes successful, are you still willing to share the rewards with her.

Here are some general thoughts:

1. Is your sister an "ideal investor"? Does she have
sufficient knowledge in the are of business you want to
enter. Does she have contacts, potential customer lists?

2. What will happen if your idea fails? Is she able
to sustain the losses? Most angel investors lose money
on 80% of their investments.

3. Does she have any experience herself? Do you see her as a
wise person? Can she act without emotion.
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For me it took too long to load and the page appeared after the rotation was complete.
Yeah, for bind and live I was under the impression that only an object would work from the docs.
I am excited to see all the new feed readers. I think newsblur, or hivemined are in the best positon right now to absorb the google reader audience.
To drive away the core audience, before they shut down the service. Less noise that way.
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Sorry, they're the last thing to be done and there was a lot to document because of its API surface. Addy Osmani did a writeup a few weeks ago:

http://addyosmani.com/blog/jquery-1-7s-callbacks-feature-dem...
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reCaptcha instantly makes my blood pressure rise, it's too cryptic.
Wow.

Not to detract from it, but is the 1,357 hours combined man-hours, or start-to-finish hours?
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No single crew has been in the ISS, without other non-radio human contact, for 520 days. In fact, no single person has been in space for that long, period. The record at the ISS is 198 days; at MIR, 437[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_records#Ten...
Those are both really interesting, thanks.

I'm really embarrassed to admit I have very little understanding of what happens below Objective-C. Looks like it's time for me to start reading…
The following CSS should disable preview and put the Cached and Similar links back into the correct spot. I use UserCSS in Opera, not sure what to use in other browsers but I know there are solutions for custom CSS available:

.vspib { display: none !important; } /* This is the preview specific line */

.vshid {
display: inline !IMPORTANT;
padding-left: .7em !important;
}
.vshid > a {
color: #1122cc !important;
text-decoration: none !important;
}
.vshid > a:hover { text-decoration: underline !important; }
.vshid > a:visited { color: #6611cc; }

This next bit of CSS should puts the URL back below the snippet text. It works for most result types but there are a few where it's buggy, for example any results that show how many people "+1'd" a URL:

li.g .s,
li.g.videobox .s > table.ts > tbody > tr > td > div
{ padding-bottom: 1.4em !important; } /* Make room for the moved URL */
li.g.videobox .s { padding-bottom: .5em !important; }
li.g.videobox .s > table td > div { position: relative !important; }
li.g .s > .f.kv, li.g.videobox .s > table .kvm {
position: absolute !important;
bottom: 0 !important;
}

I have Instant disabled so the above CSS may or may not play well with Instant enabled.
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I'd like to keep my career moving more towards working with bigger applications that are highly scalable. I'm considering a move back to the SF Bay Area (aka Silicon Valley), where I'm originally from but have not really worked as a developer professionally other than freelance type of projects when I was just starting out and from what I have discerned, they are big on knowing data structures really well, Big O, good algorithm knowledge, etc. So far, I've honed my skills with smaller companies that probably aren't scaling to the degree that companies I may want to work for there are and therefore the bar has been lower for me so far.

For example, at my current company, its not uncommon to find code where method calls are made within a loop to where the data its retrieving never changes (so its being called n number of times when it only needs to be called 1 time), so obviously the bar's pretty low and I have a feeling that doing something like that in a larger application would be pretty damaging (just kind of going off on a tangent here but basically the bar is pretty low where I am not so I'm not really being pushed to learn a lot about optimization). Anyways, am wondering if anyone has any recommendations for good resources (books would be good) on learning some of the things I may have missed / glossed over so far in my career to better prepare myself to be the type of developer that a company in Silicon Valley would want working on their server-side code.

From what I understand topics like optimizing algorithms and Big O notation are big interview topics (and topics beyond the interview obviously, when doing the actual work). I'd like to find a book, for example, that is thorough enough to where I learn all the basics but not too hard to dive into and keep things interesting. Any advice is appreciated
Of course if she did visibly age or gain weight it would be a cool effect.
Haha, well it has always been documented to be an Object but turns out that there are a lot of people who don't read the documentation and pass strings or numbers. So rather than break their code in 1.7 we decided to document the fact that plain types can be used if you're careful.
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For some reason, I find that one mildly creepy.
But Google already knows the +1's received by the page, regardless of the visitor's login status.

Granted, it doesn't know if the visitor has friends that shared it. It still doesn't excuse them for sending all url's.

Facebook received a lot of flack for doing this and I don't see why Google should be excused for this intentional "gaffe".
They keep some sort of record on your emails though - a while ago they mentioned that they were "Bringing better ads to gmail" - what they think are relevant ads based on other emails you've received when they can't find relevant content for the one you're currently viewing.

Not sure what kind of profile this ends up being, but it can be quite entertaining when I get ads about sumo wrestling (because of previous emails from appsumo)...
See this post is a testament to Hacker News's decline.Not because I think that post doesnt have something interesting or intellectually arousing to say.It absolutely does.I create things too and I understand the importance of creation especially when it takes two years to make something.

The reason is because of how this post got on the front page of Hacker News.In normal circumstances I can bet that this post maybe would get like three votes in five hours.But in this case the poster is "swombat" who has a huge following on twitter and a lot of them are hnusers.I noticed an instant upsurge in votes after he posted this on his twitter page.

Another reason is because "swombat" himself is also one of the top Hacker News users and when people see his name there chances of upvoting increases significantly.This I think is actually fair and he probably deserves a little more attention than the average hnuser.But what I vehemently object to is the use of twitter to gain traction.

Here are some possible solutions that I can think of.

1) If a post gets a lot of traffic from twitter and other such social media websites ,it should work against it in the rank calculation algorithm.

2) Users be advised to not use their twitter or facebook following to gain traction on HackerNews.
Also putting randomly placed, "randomly" named hidden field with "random" data works well. For instance, you could put encrypted salted timestamp in there, and then, when you get the POST back, make sure the timestamp is not older than X minutes.

In fact, all your fields could be named that way, as long as you're willing to decrypt the names on POST.
As far as I know, yes, that is the case. I'm not an app store reviewer, though.
nice design!
nope- doesn't work.
One thing I don't like about jQuery's evolution is the size. This version weights at 92K minified / 33K gzipped, which for mobile phones is a PITA.
I love Moon. I guess it's kind of the inverse of that situation :)
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Are you serious? You're really suggesting that they put resources into redesiging a product to integrate with a new product in a cynical maneuver to drive away the current userbase so that when they shut it down later, there will be less complaining about it?
How many individuals at google have the ability to read a particular person's personal data? If I'm a moderately important person[1], how many individuals, in or outside of google, will have access to any of that data over the life of it? And, how does google internally police against misuse? And, who watches the watchman?

[1] say, 1 in a thousand, of which google has 260,000 such gmail users
That sandbox violation is not coming from your application. WebProcess is the process used for rendering web content in Safari only.
The quickest way to drop it in vendor/assets. Anything there will override any gems. so `//= require jquery` will just find your local copy instead. Shouldn't have to change any requires.

curl http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.js > vendor/assets/javascripts/jquery.js
As a cautionary tale about the waxing and waining relevance of various online properties, remember that Kina Grannis was more or less launched on Digg:

http://indigitalmarketing.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/digg-help...
I'll give you the second, but I'd argue that the leatherette buttons confuse the metaphors.
This web site is a total mess when accessed with an iPad. It is not readable. They automatically switch to mobile media. When trying to read page 2 it switch from one media type to the other back and forth. It's very frustrating, because this article seems really interesting.
Wasting time?
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Well really they said it "only" took 1,357 hours.

Which is roughly 62 hours a month.

Even if the people were being paid $50/hour, which is unlikely considering I assume most of them will be volunteers, that comes out to about $50,000.

They said they used 288,000 jelly beans.
There is roughly 400 jelly beans per pound.
You can buy bulk jelly beans for $85 for 10lbs.

Which comes out to $61,200 for the jelly beans. I'm sure they could get a non-name brand or bulk discount so it could be much less.

So definitely less $100,000 for the music video.

They can make that money back pretty quickly if they become a YouTube partner and the video goes viral. They would only need about 50million views to pay back the costs of making the video.

Plus, how can you put a price on art?
If you haven't seen it already, this is relevant. And hilarious: http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5633958/star-fox-in-iraq
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You could also say, conversely, that Jobs placed himself next to Markkula instead of Woz, finding it more important to sit next to the VP of marketing than the chief engineer.

I'm not making any judgements on the way they organized the physical space in the office. It clearly worked, after all, Apple in 1978 was on the precipice of an unprecedented success.

I'm just interested in the way that the physical location of people in an office affects the work that is done there. I wonder, would the early history of Apple had been any different if Jobs and Woz had sat right next to each other every day?

How many startups today seat the technical and business co-founders next to one another, versus those that sit far apart, and how does that change the personalities of those companies?
Not that this couldn't have worked in IE9 (and Opera?) anyway if Google had used a few more CSS prefixes.
that was centrifugal, not gravitational force
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You're missing the point - Google knows how many +1s the page received. But the user's browser doesn't, so it can't display the +1 count without contacting the server (and sending the page URL) to find out.

I have to wonder if this is an unintended side effect of the recent push to have site move to HTTPS - it used to be that HTTPS requests were mostly unique to a user, but now lots of "regular" pages are being requested using HTTP and if you want to make any kind of extension that return data about pages (+1, anti-phishing, etc) you're probably going to to want to send HTTPS URLS as well.
Hello there, I'm the one who made The Convergence!
Thanks for viewing my game, I hope everyone enjoyed it!

I didn't have a lot of time to finish it, but I wanted to add the sounds a friend of mine did, as well as a logo for the awesome CONSTRUCT the devs mentioned here.

Me & my girl are amazed by the amount of people that played and shared the game - it's nice to see such positive feelings spreading all around!

I want to polish the game a bit more, I fell like the mechanics deserve it! :D

Thanks for making our day even more special!
From the article:

"The building had four quadrants: Marketing/Admin, Engineering, Manufacturing, and a large empty space that we did not know what to do with when we moved in. That’s why it’s labeled 'Tennis courts?'"
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Honestly, i'm fairly sure he just plain doesn't know that "dependency hell" means "can't install stuff because of conflicting or circular dependencies"; but thinks that the term means "well them sure are a lof of deps, yup".
For an IT department the expectation is that people will read your email. I honestly don't think what you describe is rare at all, based on stories I've heard.

And if you work for the gov't your email can often be requested by citizens via FOIA.
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Few days on, but I see it similar to how Google felt the need to make Chrome rather than to simply rely on Firefox. If you're selling a property (in this case web services and advertising), wouldn't you want to control every aspect of how that property is viewed? Google wanted to have full control over how users saw their product, so they can make a browser and fully support that browser with all the bells and whistles their product can conceivably offer through that platform. Amazon is the same way. Their device is secondary to the content they are offering, so why not be able to tailor that device fully to the content. The only way you can ever truly make that a reality is if you have your own platform.

Of course, even if this is all wrong, it’s not like WebOS will cost that much money. It’s like Amazon picking up a book at the bookstore, it looks interesting, you probably won’t ever read it, but it looks pretty and doesn’t take up space and you can send it off to the thrift store in a couple of years.
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The main problem is that it comes with a obvious loss of functionality which I doubt that can be leveraged with security gain -- the other thing is that it gives a faux sense of security to the user (i.e. yes, I have agreed for full file system access, but it was sandboxed, right?). Finally, the system is as weak as the weakest elements, and those seemingly lay in their own code (and can be fixed without hurting the functionality).
On it's face, it sounds like the bill would also remove the accredited investor requirement in <$1m angel rounds.

Anyone who understands this thing have a read on whether that is actually so?
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