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Well the thing is how easy it is to customize your evil keybindings. And, don't forget it's Lisp.. so it'd take a second to write a macro behaving like:

(map J jjjj)
There's a similar problem in psychology. Tell someone about the bystander effect or scope neglect, and they'll agree that it's neat but not that it could possibly apply to them.

Advertising works. At some point, engineers will practice what they preach and look at the data.
You are correct - the board's estimate is merely the best approximation they can come up with based on incomplete information and a subjective set of priors (yes, "subjective prior" is redundant). So what?

I really don't get the point you are making. Are you telling me that a struggling company shouldn't try to get what they believe is the best possible CEO, provided his pay package is vastly smaller than the variance in possible outcomes for the company?
He's certainly not the only researcher looking at the app store, then again, he needs to play the victim a little bit right now if he wants to get public support. Public support and media attention may very well be his only ticket back into the developer program.
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Or you can give him a variable payout - $6M if he fails, $20M if he succeeds. This is a far more common situation.
> 4.5B out of 17.4B is 25.8% of total revenue

And 25.8% is "less than 26%", as I said.

> What business are you in that 25% of revenue is not essential?

Lots of biz have 30% variations in revenue. In fact, it wasn't so long ago that MS' revenue was 30% less that it is today. It was even less long ago that Google's revenue was 50% less than it is today.

If that revenue was essential, neither company would be alive today.

Yes, both are happier with that revenue, but it wouldn't kill them to lose it.
Normally I immediately bridle when someone offers criticism without including proposals for improvement[1] but in this case it really is that bad. It really, really is.

And while I would be willing to agree provisionally that most data (by volume of unique URLS) on the web does fit the document metaphor, if page views is your metric I'm not at all convinced.

For example, is it logical to even attempt to reason about a Facebook wall containing recent updates from $n individuals in terms of authorship? Is this even relevant information given the entire contents of the page will have changed in 12 hours?

The document metaphor made perfect sense 15 years ago but it breaks down quickly in the face anything dynamic, as is evidenced by the need for any credible web developer to have a minimum of 7 largely unrelated technologies[2] committed to memory to do their job effectively.

Markup 15 layers deep? 2000+ lines of code to tell the browser how to render a website? Vendor-specific dynamic rendering engines to sidestep the limitations of native web languages? Surely this is not what success looks like?

[1] Unfortunately I have no idea how to fix this mess.

[2] HTML, CSS, JavaScript, a JS Framework (typically jQuery), at least one back-end language, SQL or similar and API stuff (SOAP, JSON, etc).
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I agree that's a proper description of why Microsoft, etc, didn't do touch first, but what exactly is that relevant to?

Your contention earlier was that stylus -> touch was a "tweak." My point is that it's not just a tweak, it's throwing out the existing model and starting from scratch. You implicitly acknowledge that by referencing the investment to make the change, an investment that is incurred by having to throw out the existing design and start over.

Touch was not a tweak. It was throwing out the steering wheel and asking "so now how do you drive the car?"
Just to be clear, Difference Engine no. 2 was completed in 2 parts: in 1991 and 2000. However work on the _Analytical Engine_ has just begun in the planning phase, and excitingly it will be a crowdsourced endeavor.
Although I agree with this:

"Why should anyone in the US be guaranteed comfort when there are children begging in the street in Mexico or India?"

I also think the course of the argument goes the wrong direction when talking about the changing economy. I think technological progress is usually over-emphasized as a driving force and class warfare underestimated (Belloc's discussion of the factors involved in the creation of the industrial revolution in England is very good and explains various puzzles such as the relationship to Protestantism that had previously baffled me).

I also agree with this:

'As long as society's notion of a "normal" life includes working 9 to 5, watching sports and drinking beer on weekends, etc., then few will ever have the time to improve their lot in life.'

The problem here is in part how poorly integrated these activities are, and how this is used to control and keep down the masses.

'Every successful person I know works like a dog and has earned what they have, at great sacrifice (skipping parties and fun activities, working weekends, late nights, etc.). The fact to be remembered is that motivation is not evenly distributed in society and that many of the people struggling are simply not all that motivated. In fact, many teach their kids to disdain learning and education, etc.'

Agreed here too. However, the most successful people I know are ones who have this integrated with family time and so family, personal, and work time are not separate buckets but rather extremes, and most of life is spent doing all three to some extent. The doctor who reads stories to his kids while being on call in case of emergency is one example. So is "I am going to work on fixing bugs in this software while you do your homework, and if you have questions, I am right here, and can answer them" is another.

I don't know any small business owner who works less than 60 hrs per week. However, I don't know many small business owners who work more than 40 hrs a week away from family.

To live is to work. And we all work better when we are in charge of our work and work as free agents, not serfs of corporations.

BTW, there's a very dark side to welfare that is rarely discussed, and that is the use of welfare as a method of class warfare against the lower and middle classes. If Walmart can pay workers less and have them get Medicaid and Section 8 housing that means we are taxing mom-and-pop businesses to essentially subsidize a large corporation's operations. This thus acts to transfer wealth not from more fortunate families to less, but from middle income families to the very wealthy.

The answer is, in my view, to:

1) Tax lease income, encouraging sale over rent
2) Encourage self-employement as a means out of poverty. This means ensuring that what welfare benefits we offer don't go away just because someone starts a business, but rather get gradually phased out.
3) Corporate income tax should have a high marginal rate, and increases in corporate equity due to off-shore holdings should be taxed at full income tax rates.
I don't mean open-source in it's most literal form. I'm referring to just changing my project to a more open project, rather than completely private. In other words, letting anybody with the relevant qualifications to work on it for their own pleasure, experience, etc.

Because the project is my idea and I have a vision for it, I wouldn't want to somehow give up control over its direction. I'm just not against letting more people work on it who have the skills and are willing, rather than an extremely controlled tight circle of developers. In other words, it would be open-source, but with somewhat of a hierarchy and direction.
Then shouldn't part of their job also be researching and coming up with a larger pool of candidates for a position of that importance? Not saying Nokia didn't necessarily do that, but I suspect in a lot of cases, there tends to be a short list that people choose from initially. Expanding out from that short list and spending more time gathering more info might take more time, but would ultimately be in the shareholders' interest.
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Maybe Greenwald has a similar version in his repository and is willing to share it.
Not to nitpick, but since we're on the topic of corporate governance... Hopefully this will make it a bit more clear on why the governance issues are so murky: At least in Canada, and I'm fairly sure the United States as well it's actually not investors' job to oversee the allocation. The board of directors manages the company. Investors merely get to vote for who gets to be on the board of directors.

Sooo, it's the job of the board of directors to select who the CEO (an officer in Corporate Law-speak) is.
There's always this flip-side to reporting security findings. I don't know the details of Charlie Millers exploit, however had he gone through the process of informing the vendor (in this case Apple) and then allowing sufficient time to address the issue, perhaps a showdown could have been avoided (I'm assuming that he hadn't).

People however, also forget that, there are other pressures facing info-sec researchers - such as pressure from management at the company where they work to 'publish' and/or present their findings under the company banner. Often, this irks vendors, because vulnerabilities are used to promote the researcher's (or who they work for) interests.

That said, Microsoft, Google and Facebook have very transparent processes & expectations for submitting vulnerabilities.
Thanks for the enlightenment. I have to agree that once you have access to the db, salt or not doesn't really matter security wise. But at the end, it really boils down to: Do you have a strong password? If yes, even md5 is "somewhat" safe. But to be fair, I don't know how big the rainbow tables are.. and could become.

For instance, I've got lots of password with over 20 characters mixed with upper/lower cases with a few symbols in it. (i.e. Seems hard but: phzb0xis@mynickname.on.hackernews.com is already pretty long and hard to crack but still easy for me to type/remember), btw that is not my password ;) I wonder if I encrypt that with MD5.. Could it be contained in a rainbow table somewhere?

Your search - 822d6c6e12b26dd30161967354aa4302 - did not match any documents.
But he did more than just test it and remove the app from the store. He left it up there and people presumably were downloading it. Another Forbes article[1] says:

> But the researcher for the security consultancy Accuvant argues that he was only trying to demonstrate a serious security issue with a harmless demo, and that revoking his developer rights is “heavy-handed” and counterproductive.

But as he demonstrated in his YouTube video it wasn't just a harmless demo, he had a shell that he could run on anyone's phone who downloaded his app.

Further, he didn't even have to put it up for sale at all except to perform his publicity stunt. The code signing aspect doesn't change when you are developing on your device locally. He could have submitted the app and not even put it up for sale at all. If the exploit worked in dev it would work on the store, and if they approved it he really didn't have to test it at all. Of course he's a curious guy - I think we can all relate to and appreciate that - so he could have chosen not to release it to the store on approval, then if approved put it up for sale only long enough to try it out, and then removed it from sale again.

I don't agree that they should have terminated his account, but neither are they really that out of line in doing so. I also don't think he would have opened a shell to anyone else's phone but the fact remains that he still had the ability to do so.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/11/07/apple-e...
Amazing. However: Isn't this more like a reprogrammable simple component or building block? I would think that "transistor" or at least "FPGA" might be a better analogy than "operating system".
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No one really "creates" anything if one isn't allowed to build off of what already exists. We would literally be re-inventing the wheel right now if we weren't allowed to look at past inventions. Gladwell is one of those authors who appeal to the masses with his oversimplified pseudo-intellectual mumbo jumbo. I'd like to know what Gladwell has actually innovated in his life or how he changed the world.
Apparently the pictures are also not allowed to be used within a non-commercial context.

Taking into consideration that most of them cover public figures I don't see any use of them except for a journalistic context. And unless someone needs them in poster format it should be covered by the same rights that allow Google to show preview images in their image search.

So I'd say overall pretty much useless and just a PR story for Wired Mag.
And how many of those are bots?
And that's why there's so many variant of English, including the broken ones. Manglish (Malaysian English), Singlish (Singaporean English) and much more.

Though not biology, I think this is how language evolves. For example in China, you have so many dialects (Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese etc). And if you drill down to a dialect itself there are slight differences. You can roughly identify which part of province that person is from.
Both gondor and ep.io are totally lockin free, you write normal Python WSGI code and then write a config file for them to deploy it.
It's all theory. The problem is vast majority of students don't get excited about theory, they like to hearing the answers to "what's in it for me" or "what can I do with that?"
OK, so I lied. Badges are surprisingly addicting. I've spent the past hour and a half unlocking them on Treehouse.
> For example a kid from a loving and conscientious poor and illiterate parent may receive better parenting than a more perfunctory well-off parent - and yet the latter will undoubtedly be ahead by the time they reach kindergarten.

Undoubtedly?

> The issue is not so much, I believe, in the "goodness" of the parenting, rather, it is in the richness of the environment.

In the US at least, there are free yet rich environments. If you're poor, you do have to get out of the house and seek them out.

So, what definition of "better parenting" are you using?
Well, we are allowed to evolve.
Daniel, what he's criticizing is not Agile as a movement, rather a group of people who bastardized Agile, giving lip service to its values. For example the people who made lucrative business with Scrum certifications leaving professionalism behind.
All kinds of nasty things have slipped through to the users. There have been multiple remote root exploits for iOS in the wild for weeks at a time and nobody really cared. There would be no fallout.

I agree that it's easy to see why they don't take kindly to this sort of thing, but it should also be easy to see why they should take kindly to it.
I'd like to hear more about your setup. Why do you consider these essential?
Almost every developer I speak with has developed a passionate hatred of Google for a variety of reasons. And I don't know a single person who would trust Google enough to run their whole app infrastructure.

Google has gone to extreme lengths to make every company on the internet their enemy, and they've succeeded.
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He did not put users at risk. This vulnerability allows apps to download and execute new code, but that new code is still subject to the app's sandbox. This vulnerability is interesting from a research standpoint, but has zero actual consequences to the security of iOS.
I hadn't thought of that, but I think you have a valid point. I remember being asked to help save a dehydrated kitten. From that point, being asked, forward, I was committed to concern for the kitten's welfare.

It is human nature that once you ask for help you are asking others to be concerned. It is not reasonable then to not expect others to continue to be emotionally invested and concerned.
Do you have any plans for better iTunes library 'sync' support (i.e. delta updates from a changed iTunes library after initial import, and maybe even writing your changes back to iTunes)? I understand the long-term technical challenges involved, especially since Apple can (and will) change the file format just to mess with you. But for me, at least (although I suspect this would be true for many), this would be a critical feature to really switch. Mostly because iTunes is always going to be the bottleneck for syncing to my iPhone, which I use extensively for music.

That said, I think this is a really awesome effort. iTunes has definitely become way too bloated, so it's great to see a serious alternative being attempted.
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> At $19/month for unlimited, they're probably operating at a loss unless they can build up a significant customer base.

that's a pretty bold statement. Care to elaborate?

Seems pretty expensive when i pay exactly that to AT&T to have 6mbps at my home. we're talking about 1mbps maximum here right?
I think you got that backwards. You are allowed to use the images in a non commercial or editorial context. You can't use them in a commercial context. I thought they made that pretty clear.
This hardly qualifies as an exploit. While it allows the app to do something it's not supposed to do, the ability to download and execute additional executable code doesn't actually violate security. The new code is still restricted to the app's sandbox and can't do anything that the original app couldn't potentially have done directly.
I agree. To demonstrate an exploits effectiveness - it has to be exploited in a realistic situation (in this case the app store).
Do you believe that everyone who becomes wealthy by definition must have created value? And that everyone who creates value by definition becomes wealthy?

If so, then yes, we hopelessly disagree.

If not, then you're agreeing that wealth can accumulate to some people who don't create value and/or can fail to accumulate to some people who do. I'd hope you would also agree that that's a problem, and that we'd be better off if we figured out how to fix it?
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"Unless they're downright critical or enable jailbreaking", you mean.
You believe in a world governed by profit and financial transactions.

The real world is not like that.

Once invited to join a tribe by requesting assistance for someone, others who have joined that tribe by becoming concerned and investing time into worry and concern are not expecting to be paid, they are merely wanting to know what happened to the person they have been ASKED to care about.

It is exceptionally cynical and economically oriented to cast requested concern for a fellow human into something it is not.
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"But I think that rather misses the point: shouldn't the educational meritocracy, which really is very different from the combination of WASP elites and up-from-nowhere untutored operators, have done better?"

It's unclear what definition of "meritocracy" Mz. McArdle is using.

"Don't tell me that regulators were stupid or bankers got greedy until you first explain to me why tens of thousands of very well educated people, most of them graduates of colleges and professional schools that had aggressively winnowed them based on intelligence, barely outperformed a bunch of upstart micks, third-generation coupon-clipping WASP dimwits, and central bankers who still worshipped the barbarous relic of the gold standard?"

As I suspected, she's confusing credentialed with educated and thinks that schools winnow only on intelligence.
Snarky answer: Because the market for WP7 doesn’t justify prioritizing a limited resource—developer attention—on a WP7 product for the Bing team.

I feel for Microsoft. If their VPs order the Bing team to support another product, they get criticized for political tampering. If they leave the teams to act independently, they get criticized for not supporting their own products.

Perhaps instead of asking why the Bing team isn’t targeting WP7, we should be asking the WP7 team (both technologists and marketing staff) why their platform isn’t attractive enough (in features and market share) to win the Bing team over.
I like the product, but I wish it was a bit more involved.

Right now, all you do is 1 simple exercise...and it's really simple stuff. i.e. they give you an example of how to use jQuery to change the color to yellow...and the "practical" experience, is changing the color to red.

I think something a bit complicated where you have 10 different examples for each step(progressively complicated), so that people would really learn this stuff.
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Well, it's indirect, but they're still ultimately responsible for it. If there weren't any control, why would anyone invest?
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the monthly deal sounds great, but I'd like to know what phones we are allowed to use on the service. Is it going to be a low end barely useable phone or a nice smart phone?
I got started with programming back in the 1970s doing "creative coding", although we didn't call it that. It is a very different environment with very different set of standards. I did all sorts of multi-media work and even got into motion picture effects in the late '80s, early '90s.

One thing about these types of projects, mistakes, errors, and even plain old bad practices, things that are anathema in most coding domains, often can produce not only useful, but spectacular results. Especially in things like particle systems; but I've seen really cool moves generated by errors in easing functions in 'tweening code as well.

Sometimes when I'm bored by the results of a carefully planned piece, I've been known to purposefully try and break things a bit.

Edit: These days I play around with Processing quite a bit. I took a look at Cinder a year or so ago, and while it looked cool, it's a _lot_ more work to mess around with. I'd have to get a lot more serious to play around with it. But if I came up with something really cool with Processing, I might very well want to port or rework it with Cinder for the obvious speed and interactivity performance.
We're basically on the same page, but I'm curious what you think of concentration of wealth and its effect on political processes? Say you've got a person who truly earned his wealth, who is worth billions, and who is using that wealth to corrupt politicians in his favor. You can say 'we need stronger institutions' but it might be the money that's weakening them in the first place. I don't have a good answer for how to reconcile this.
My point is that it's ridiculous to try to justify golden parachutes for bad CEOs using fake math, and the fact that the market bears these kinds of contracts isn't evidence on its own that they are good.