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> if only it meant domestic production would be more viable but that is unlikely.

What would probably happen first is other countries will be targeted for low wage labor, I am thinking Vietnam.
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Go isn't included in the following shootout, but I imagine it would score very well on the program-speed vs. code-size X-Y chart.

http://blog.gmarceau.qc.ca/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependabil...
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It's not bad at all for keyboard wielding persons to be reminded every now and then that in 'the real world' people have to work very hard for their money.

And that's not just limited to chefs either, try being a car mechanic for a couple of years (your back will be shot), a bricklayer or a person cleaning stuff.

We get comparatively large sums of money for relatively easy (in a physical sense) work.
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I'm not advocating anything. I'm saying that I won't be surprised if at some point people are going to start realizing that "being the better person" means they lose and the other party wins and that the establishment sides with the richest party.
(http://www.w3.org/html/logo/)

under 3d and effects:

> Between SVG, Canvas, WebGL, and CSS3 3D features, you're sure to amaze your users with stunning visuals natively rendered in the browser.
Agreed, but we should note that the fundamental problem is not transistor density or quantum physics, but heat dissipation. Going 3D makes smaller process nodes less important, but efficiently removing heat from a die stack is a real challenge. Sandwich a 130W TDP processor die between two other similar die and the heat dissipated per cm^2 is tremendous.
Apple's credit page for people who have reported potential security vulnerabilities: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1318
Yeah, exactly what we need to remain competitive is a bunch of people with anti-corporate sentiment who can't be laid off or fired. That will turn out great.

You contradict yourself in your statement:
"IMO unionizing is the only sensible strategy for any employee, that is easy to replace."

So what about that person who wants to replace that other worker? He doesn't get to have a job, I guess, because there are no openings. Unless you create more by decree. Eventually you're Greece.

As an entrepreneur (and I thought this site was full of them), these kind of laws and regulations hinder what products and services you can bring to market. Costs are too high. So what do I do? I'll either shelf the idea, or figure out how to build a machine that's cheaper than labour. Both result in more unemployment.
"Up to" language can be every bit as sleazy as this move to take stuff back. It usually means, "nowhere near."
I'm not a lawyer, but reading on this, http://www.shouselaw.com/extortion.html#1, it's definitely not far fetched to consider what is being done by Zynga as extortion.

They're demanding an act from the employees under threat of personal/property injury (being fired). They would have been much better off simply firing them if they were underperforming. Sometimes voicing out the thought process is all that's required to make something extorsion.

Like if I say "I'm going to sue you if you don't X, Y or Z" can be considered extorsion. Whereas simply suing them isn't.
Well done Blooie - Great Post. Will RT.
Except that's not what it says. The relevant line is:

Neither party may make any public statement regarding the relationship contemplated by this Agreement

The rest of the section is just clarifications on this.

What this section is prohibiting you from doing is using the relationship governed by the ToS as a marketing tool, in effect. It's preventing you from saying that your application is developed in a partnership with Google, endorsed by Google, supported by Google, or really anything beyond the fact that it's running on the GAE platform.

The next few sentences past the one above say that you're allowed to state that you're a customer/user of GAE, and Google is allowed to include you on a list of customers of GAE - but neither side is allowed to imply or suggest any greater relationship than that, barring some other agreement.
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A normal probationary period is 3 months, yes. But in England at least an employee can be fired for gross misconduct within the first year of employment and will not be legally allowed to challenge it (certain exceptions involving discrimination and health & safety notwithstanding).

So an employer can pretty much get rid of anyone in their first year of employment - they just take it through gross misconduct and the employee can't fight it.

I think it's different in Scotland, though.
I'm on the fence on this one. Other startups that went this route simply fired these employees to get back unvested shares or options. To Pincus' credit, he at least gives them the opportunity to renegociate. On the other hand, I agree the fact he may want to keep them instead of firing them sounds fishy.
God, yes. So much of what's repeated about the benefits of semantic markup are pie-in-the-sky.

The link to the IRC logs in that piece was fascinating. To see Mark Pilgrim - who was always at the pragmatic end of things when it came to the accessibility debate - recanting many of the positions he takes in 'Dive into Accessibility' tells you how little of the things that we've been promised for years have actually amounted to anything.

Don't believe anyone who tells you anything about markup best practice until they can point you to a shipping user-agent that will make use of it and introduce you to a living human being who will experience some tangible benefit.
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When we talk about Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 we tend to be talking more about paradigms than any concrete technology. Web 2.0 is really about social web apps. The "HTML5" technologies are really about facilitating that paradigm, so I don't think talking about Web 3.0 really makes sense. Web 3.0 would be appropriate if we started to see the main activity on the Internet change to something new.
But as an ISP you don't get around legislation that forces ISPs to filter the net.
Both of those attacks fail if the page protects itself against CSRF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery#Prev...
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Every american chain "grill" would disagree with you.
"2bon2btitq" is not a strong password
If the page accepts URL parameters or POST data, CSRF makes perfect sense.
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Barcodes can be copied visually, whereas chips can be made difficult to clone.
That is a good point. Perhaps the way we've worded it is giving an incorrect impression.

It's tough, most policies look something like this

In the event that XXXXXXX is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction

From what I gather, the example above implies that the company considers your data an asset and it "may be sold" as part of the transaction or bankruptcy.

Help me come up with a better way to describe this situation succinctly! =)
I wish you'd broken your comment into two parts; one about his sociopathy, and one about politics, so I could downvote only the political one.
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You can initiate an XSS attack without making any cross site requests. Being able to launch a CSRF attack, is not a prerequisite for being able to launch an XSS attack. It does help though.
Are there any other studies on this?
This is an odd request. Microsoft is asserting their legal right to enforce patents which give them the ability to license technology for which they have a government granted monopoly.

If the patents are trivial and outmoded then get them overturned. If not, be thankful that Microsoft is willing to license them to you. They have no obligation to license these with reasonable terms (which they seem to be), much less at all.
Show HN: Sharysa - improving Dropbox file sharing
Is there a way we can get a mailing list or some other kind of group set up to manage this rather than posting repeatedly on this thread? I don't typically do group meetups so I'm not sure what is appropriate.
The thing that most bugs me about this is that the Google chef somehow needs to have his rights defended. He was made a promise when he was hired and Google cheerfully fulfilled its obligation to follow through with that. Ditto on whoever is being screwed at Zynga. "Unvested" does not mean "maybe you will get this at a later date, who can say."
Here some screenshots: https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/83078/1/sharysa.com?h=7565f2...
Sony racing to beat Apple to next generation of connected TV sets
One nice thing about the Steam client software (and store website) is that it uses two factor authentication. The first time you log in on an unfamiliar machine, you have to input a code which is emailed to you.

Even if your Steam client and forum passwords were the same, your client account still secure as long as your email password is different.
Former VP of Apple Japan remembers Steve Jobs (Translation)
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Glad we got it right. The site should be much faster now thanks to some tips folks have given here.. and turning off excessive debugging info.
I think you're assuming a meaning that's not here. There's nothing about 'saying that your application is developed in a partnership with Google, endorsed by Google, supported by Google'.

App Engine pricing, technical support, licenses, privacy, acceptable use, etc. are all part of the 'relationship contemplated by this Agreement'.

It may not be Google's intent, but the language says I can't talk about any of this without their prior written consent.

I'm violating the ToS by writing this comment.
Not necessarily. Typical CSRF implementations prevent the server from accepting inputs coming from an "unauthorized" page. This might or might not prevent XSS from being triggered on the client side.

XSS can propagate to other users via database rather than HTTP requests.

In general, you should prevent attacks in one-by-one manner. Hoping that one security mechanism will accidentally fix other issues will result in design that is insecure, convoluted and hard to reason about. Remember: you have to prevent all attacks. Attackers only need to find one vulnerability to attack. Therefore, any kind of complexity in design works to their advantage.
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That discussion is about Wired's own selection.This is the selection made by their readers.
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If the employee us no longer pulling their weight, I would consider that reasonable justification for firing them.

(Edited to correct bad autocompletion.)
On a somewhat unrelated note... Web developers need to lay off messing with the scrolling of their mobile sites. I generally scroll a little bit at a time on my phone and the mobile version of this site tries to get fancy with simulated pages. This makes the page move back to the top of the page when you scroll a little bit.

I had my wife try the same page to see what she would do and I noted a similar fighting the interface problem because when she scrolled the page would move more than expected and she would lose her place while reading.

TL;DR - mobile sites on phones have many issues but scrolling is not one of them, don't 'fix' it.
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Content Security Policy: defining policies for an extension
It is indeed a lot faster now.
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"Exists, what can it be but information?

Your ghost performs the world’s computation."

Beautiful!
> If the page accepts URL parameters … CSRF makes perfect sense.

No, it doesn't.

CSRF makes perfect sense when there is data on the server that is being modified by a request. A simple "search.php?query=…" doesn't need CSRF protection.

If you're passing parameters that modify the server in the URL (instead of a part of the post data) you're using HTTP wrong and adding CSRF protection in the query string is the wrong solution.
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I have had RDF market on some of my sites for about 10 years, but was not happy with available notations until RDFa which I like.

I used to promote the idea of having parallel .rdf files, for example, index.rdf with the same base URL as index.html, etc. but with RDFa life is good enough. I still like my old idea however, but without this being a standard or at least a common practice it is not of much value.
True enough at the moment but you'd be surprised how quickly (using "quickly" on a historical scale, we're still talking years or decades) that can change when economic forces start pushing.

If you had told most Americans just 30 years ago that China would be a land of millionaires and gleaming cities and high-skill factories, they'd be flabbergasted, not least because the country was run by an incompetent Communist dictatorship that had starved millions of its own people for no good reason.
Actually the dialogs are JavaScript provided by Apple, e.g. that prompt() on first screenshot.
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Moodpanda.com is a mood and Sentiment tracking site so when the user posts "I Love #coke" or "#coke is sick" it is attached to there chosen mood number (1-10) so they can get a exact rating of how the person feels about the product or brand etc. It is direct Sentiment analysis and does not fall foul of the normal issues with Sentiment analysis e.g. is the word "sick" good or bad? Different ways of phrasing etc. are not an issue for moodpanda.com
It is perfectly reasonable to have shares that vest conditionally based on future performance. Obviously this needs to be clear up front though (and the definition of "future performance" also needs to be clear).
Exactly. Don't defend from XSS by implementing CSRF defences. Defend from XSS by making sure you properly encode every piece of data that enters your web page. Then add CSRF on top, to prevent third party sites from initiating "clicks" on your page. Then implement Content-Security-Policy to help defend against programmer mistakes which leave CSRF/XSS holes open.
Hey now, not all MBAs think this way;-)
The problem is that most other countries are a lot smaller, meaning the same situation will happen again, only a lot faster.
"I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience."

Sorry, but this is more than an inconvenience. It's a violation of user privacy that Valve didn't prevent.

I thought that the response from Newell was right on until that point. Left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't know. Half the point of owning a Rolex is its fully mechanical nature without any microelectronics.

But could work fine for other goods.
Great. Tried some Tamil characters. It was able to recognize most of them.
I can't, for the life of me, draw and get it to recognize "ñ"
You must not be aware of Pincus' history. Then again, people working for him must not have been either.
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Great advice. Other examples include extra standing (desk?), biking to work, and taking the stairs.
It doesn't matter how well-educated you are - if you can't be bothered to write a coherent sentence and take a couple of seconds to make sure you're using capitalization and punctuation correctly, why should we believe you're going to be careful in other areas of your work? You're allowed to make mistakes, but not caring about how you write would make me worried that you're more likely to be lax in other areas that are even more important.
The word is way more versatile than that... That's hardly substantiating evidence for your claim.

But lets start simple. What about: "I've got to go take a piss." (Urinate), "He looks rather pissed" (angry), and "Let's get pissed" (drunk).
You might be able to adapt one of the versioned-backup tools like rdiff-backup to your needs; they tend to focus on both being able to get a "clean" restore (no .svn/etc. scattered around the filesystem), and on storing metadata as well as data. They tend not to have as much in the way of history-navigation, though (commit messages, etc.), but to be more about keeping incremental snapshots and being able to restore from any point.
The syntax of Visual Basic is that of Basic that is even older (1964) than that of C (1972) that inspired Go. Simpler syntax has been used since. Python is an example.
I clicked the link with my spine pre-cringed, ready for cheesy hacker poetry. Instead I found a lovingly crafted epitaph in stylish, uninterrupted verse. I immediately looked to see the other poetry. I was shocked that there were only two others posted --- I refuse to believe that someone who wrote this and The Little Bank of San Pietro dei Fiumi (also beautiful) has only written three poems. Post more, Mister Jorgensen!
In general, in startups, aren't people compensated based on the value their skills provide?

I'm not taking anything away from chefs, but Google is an engineering, product, and advertising company, so chef isn't a core skillset and should probably be compensated thusly.
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Great. So now if I choose to buy a Rolex, there's a good chance that anyone with a halfway decent antenna will be able to find out that I'm wearing a watch worth stealing.
Have you A/B tested the retention rate of those users? I'd be interested in seeing if you kept more users with the prettier layout.
Thanks for the response. We are a online travel company targeting students/young professionals. General ideas we already have are online/social media marketing as well as partnerships (whether on campus or that already reach this group). We would like to think of some creative ideas to reach this market. Something outside of the box that could potentially go viral.
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Strange. Worked first time for me: http://i.imgur.com/JD2qb.png
The thing is, being successful in most things doesn't require being "elite". Instead it requires a ton of traditional work.

Certainly, being focused can be a good thing, and can definitely mean you get more done in the same amount of time. Most of the truly successful people I know, though, are both focused and busy. If you work twice as fast as the average person, but also spend only half the time, them you aren't more productive.
This is just PR rubbish. The trademark application was refused after being opposed by two other alcohol brands. The record is here http://esearch.oami.europa.eu/copla/trademark/data/008431702
Initially mindshare is most important. Share of mind = share of market :) Sales will come once we have a big enough audience/knowledge of our brand.
Awesome. I was about to write the same thing!
There is a third possibility, namely that the richer countries will continue having about 2% long term growth a year while the countries with lower development have higher growth until they have caught up. So far, this is how it has looked for the last ~150 years.
Deliciously ironic given the title of the article though.
I think there is a bug if you only enter 1 link (it gives the "Something went wrong" popup).
A simple example: you can pass a link to someone and have some javascript that submits form for them without them knowing.
That isn't the best article on the topic. John Markoff who actually interviewed me did two pieces. The first is a detailed article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/science/computer-experts-b...

The second a wonderful annotated plan:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/11/07/science/before...

For people interested there's the official web site: http://plan28.org/ and I did a reddit IAmA on the project last year: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dr6yk/im_the_guy_behin...

And if that's not enough. Listen to today's "World Update" from the BBC World Service: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lf05y I'm talking at about 38 minutes in.
It's worth noting that as far as I know Steam Guard is active for any user who didn't disable it. Meaning, if someone tries to log in to your Steam account on a device that isn't yours (both via the client and on the website) he'll get a prompt to enter a 4 char long code which is sent to your authorized email address.

So your Steam account is save. Your email address probably isn't a secret anyway. The password is changed in a second.

Which leaves your payment (encrypted) and billing info. Personally I use Click&Buy which requires a separate authorization from me and I'm actually not sure if I have any billing address associated with Steam. So for me this whole thing is just a minor annoyance in changing my password.

Obviously I might treat the obtained user data different from other people.
No, it is not - as proved by Krugman when he was an economist and not a (poor) politician.
Scenario A: “I want to buy VisiCalc/Aldus PageMaker/Microsoft Exchange/Photoshop. What’s the best computer to buy for that?”

Scenario B: “I want to buy a Mac/PC. What’s the best spreadsheet/word processor/email program to use on that?”

Prior to the rise of monetizable web applications, only Scenario A reflected a developer in control of their destiny. Scenario B represented a situation where the platform vendor was gradually "commoditizing their complements,” to borrow a phrase from Joel Spolsky.

The Web has created Scenario C, “I want to browse the web and use web applications.” The web business developer may be in control of their destiny. Then again, we may be looking at Scenario D: “I want to type ___ into Google on my cheap mobile device with its free operating system.”
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A nice summary of key points and well written given your self-deprication. This highlights an interesting point. Modesty will get you nowhere but neither will brash arrogance. Stand out from the crowd through knowing yourself, knowing your strengths and mitigating weaknesses. Do not ignore them as they will be exposed. Well done Bloo.ie!
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Somewhat sad aside, I once saw a guy in a park wearing a T-shirt that had the equations "F / A", "sqrt(-1)", and "PV / NR" written on it (spelling MIT with some relatively trivial manipulation).

I asked him where he got it, because I thought it was clever, and he said he got it from MIT where he went to school, but he didn't know any of the equations (and, by extension, what the shirt actually said) because he majored in architecture.