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It's no different. If it's still an MBR-based attack then it's completely irrelevant to UEFI-based Windows installs.
How much of your time does $30k buy? It's not enough to buy a single full-time developer for a year in the US.

Is that level of funding sustainable?
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When ever I drop in to write sysadmin scripts, I choose ruby, python or powershell depending on the platform. I never choose bash/dos batch/perl anymore.
Granted I'm a developer who does sysadmin on the side.

Edit: (Python on ubuntu, Powershell on windows, ruby on everything else. Python on ubuntu since it's there out of the box)
I can understand spending that over the life of a game - but $20k every day? If they played 100 times a year - playing just twice a week - that would be over $2M per year. That is probably more than Charlie Sheen spends on hookers - I am sorry but I just can't believe it. What could they possibly be spending it on?
"In other words, the Chinese military probably uses radar instruments to send signals down at the target from above, and determine how much radar bounces back to the instruments from the fighter jets..."

I'm curious, what type of radar is used in spy satellites? Is there any health risk for people on the ground?
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Sorry, I was thinking of the complementary probability (that there has been a coincidence).

Mathematica overflowed when I tried to compute this by brute force. The next best thing I can think of is to use the exponential approximation

1 - x ≈ e^{-x},

good for very small `x`, such as ours. Ignoring the cascading errors gives

\prod_{i = 1}^n (1 - (i - 1)/52!)
≈ \prod_{i = 1}^n e^{-(i - 1)/52!}
= e^{-n(n - 1)/52!}
≈ 1 - n(n - 1)/52!.

The error should be roughly of the size

\frac1 2\sum_{i = 1}^n [(i - 1)/52!]^2
≈ n^3/(2(52!)^2),

which is relatively small. (That's stronger, here, than just saying that it is small.) That is to say: I guess I agree with jgershen after all!
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I was half-joking, but the idea would be that through these shady businesses bitcoin and other alternative currencies would flourish and we would finally be free from state-controlled currencies.
Thank you very much for the info and the great unsolicited advice too. Her and I have had many discussions about how trying the next years will be and hearing your advice about this makes me even more sure that while it may be hard to make it through, it can be done.

As for filling a niche, that seems to be the best route too at this time. It may sound easier to make a general, all-purpose app, but a niche will do better I think. I'll be thinking about that some more. Thanks again!
Really needed service. This can be extended to use video as landing page where video will say all and also include call to action.
Do realize it's not Apple not letting South Africans to buy games. It's South African bureaucracy that's preventing South Africans from buying games. The barrier for entry is too high to justify the ROI for Apple to bother. Otherwise, there's no reason for a company to choose to forego more profit per effort.
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3,000 is not hard to reach if you eat 3 times a day, especially if it's "healthy home cooking". Paradoxically, if you skip breakfast and eat 2 middle-of-the-road fast food meals a day, it's hard to hit 3,000 calories.

All sounds like such luxury to me though... 1,200 calories a day to just to remain forever 50 pounds overweight... ugh...
I expect it depends on the particular company, but I have noticed that there is a direct correlation between having a fully-staffed accounts department and paying your contractors on the last possible day you can get away with. (I'm sure someone will tell me that "it's just good business," but it shows a lack of empathy with small contractors who may be operating on a tight margin).
I agree that social media such as Twitter can be used to evaluate the general mood of locations, but it still won't allow an all seeing eye effect. Probabilities aren't absolutes.

I felt like Naquin was circle jerking with what he was doing, the article gave the distinct feeling that Naquin thinks he can predict the events of the future, just not the when.
But, for every one of him, there are many others that, given the same latitude, will instead foist their pre-conceived ideas on students and insist that their view of sexual life, however either perverted or abnormally repressive it may be, is the way to go.

Couldn't you replace "sexual life" with almost any other subject though? It's the same with all subjects that there are good and bad teachers and each one, the good and the bad, are going to influence their students.

Once we get into that discussion it's more about being able to find and retain the good teachers and being able to remove the inadequate one's which, I grant you, in the United States is definitely very hard to do.
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In this case, there are no servers.

There are only local HTML files that are checked in to revision control and shipped alongside releases.

HTML was chosen as the documentation file format because it's easy to find something to view it with.
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Definitely interesting. But it's hard to wrap my head around it. :p
neat(ish) that definitely solves the one critical issue.

Tool I use doesn't have that AFAIK. My comment was focused on universal concept "pre-commit hook" not a particular tool.
Consulted with a company 3 years ago, for warrants. They haven't appeared yet. Company getting up steam, looks like they would be worth something too. Sigh.
I saw a live demo of this stuff at a trade show two weeks ago, and it was truly amazing. It put any other coating I've ever seen to shame (such as RainX).

While they had a shirt and a shoe on display, the demo was mainly focused around commercially licensing it as a coating for stuff that you don't really want to clean, such as bedpans and toilet plungers.
Surprisingly,
since 11/1/10, windows has less downloads than all others combined.
Since 3/1/11, windows + mac + linux have less downloads than other alone.
no Russia?
I was watching the stream and my jaw dropped when I heard Oyama make the reference to Wikileaks.

I think she was making the point that strangling the finances of "rogue" parties is very effective, and how Wikileaks was handled is a textbook example of that strategy in action.

I doubt she thought it was right or ethical. She said elsewhere in the hearing that Google supports cutting off finances with direction from courts. In any case, it does prove her point that cutting off finances is an effective strategy and can already be done without SOPA (or other new legislation).
I'd much rather see these people write an HTML5 based platform that addresses the areas where Flash is still needed (mainly pay feeds) or create tools that make creating HTML5 content easier (which ironically is what Adobe is doing).

But then again I'd also much rather see Occupy Wall St. get together every night and seriously discuss policy initiatives they'd like to see implemented rather than screaming at cops so what do I know.
Ask HN: how could a big tech company successfully attract developers like you?
We spend a lot of time on HN lambasting big companies for not getting it, for being stodgy and slow compared our our agile ways in startup world, for being cube farms where good ideas go to die, etc etc.

Ok, so if a big company (1000+ people) wanted to attract more engaged, passionate and enthusiastic developers like you... how could they go about it?

If you are 100% lazer focused on startups right now, that's fine. But what about other developers in your circle, or if you needed a place to rest-up after a startup failure, etc.

I got asked this question by the CTO of such a big co and couldn't give a clear, satisfying answer - so give me some suggestions! This is not a recruiting post in disguise either, btw.
I believe they replaced the drive. My problem is that I wouldn't need the drive if I didn't have one by the time but with the CD inside it would make a lot of noise trying to do something to it...
FWIW I was being curious:

$ cd /usr/local/Library/Formula
$ ls -l | wc -l
1807
$ cat * | grep url | grep sourceforge | wc -l
396
Um, a decentralized DNS already exists, and it's called namecoin. Click on the story link again and explore.
So for cultural reasons?

Is it not perhaps because there's much less competition for .NET stack cloud platforms, therefore less quality?
Why the downvotes? It's the most insightful comment in the world, but it's hardly worthy of scorn. And it provoked a meaningful reply (thanks Ecio78)
Thanks very much for posting that link, for some reason I hadn't seen it yet. It very much demonstrates that Adobe are still committed to Flex, which is very good news to me.

"Adobe will also have a team of Flex SDK engineers contributing to those new Apache projects as their full-time responsibility." certainly doesn't read to me that they have abandoned the project.

"Falcon, the next-generation MXML and ActionScript compiler that is currently under development (this will be contributed when complete in 2012)

Falcon JS, an experimental cross-compiler from MXML and ActionScript to HTML and JavaScript."

That is actually one of the most exciting things I have read in a long time regarding software development. I wasn't aware work on this was under-way, though I had suspected it might be.

I will look back and laugh if in a couple of years all the people hating on Flex now are using these tools to build their HTML 5 applications.

I can actually see these developments improving Flex for the community in the years to come.
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I don't really see what specific stances he's taking in the article. The thing he seems to do and do well (from reading the article) is have open conversations about everything and let the kids have open dialogue in a controlled fashion.

He indicated that he may not have issues with 17 year olds having a healthy active sexual life but he wasn't preaching that they definitely should be.
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I think more having the modified AST feed back into the source code, or more accurately, the human-readable view of the actual source code. Like the comment example - imagine having the monkeypatch still in the comments module, but when you open the WallPost class, you can see the "has_many :comments" and a tag that takes you to the comments functionality.

Alternately, you can do the the reverse - someone writes the change in the more traditional manner, but you can view - and edit - the change-set as if it were a module of monkey-patches isolating the relevant concerns. Or any particular view of the program someone can think of that's useful.

I'd like to program like that.

ETA - Sorry for the accidental downvote; found a couple of your other comments to upvote.
I followed Gmail's tutorial (which I cannot find right now) but I remember it was using Gmail and not Exchange. I believe my problem is related to the two steps authentication but there were so many other cases there and from the kind of people who would not now about 2 steps authentication.
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Or, use your "Fuck!"s wisely.
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competition isn't required for quality.
I think the only one of these that's innovative enough to be of interest to nonusers of C# + VS is the DataTips. It's basically a small watch window you can pin anywhere in the code, almost like a sticky note. You can pin any number of them, anywhere in the code, and they scroll around and are visible when viewing source & debugging. They remain in place between debugging sessions (presumably stored in the VS project file). Seems extremely useful. Definitely better than setting up and tearing down watch expressions all the time.
To summarize the linked thread: Some browsers, when you load an "https" page will complain if any of the elements on that page load over "http". For example, the story above loads some Twitter-y stuff from http://platform.twitter.com.

The technically correct fix is for the site owner to modify the page to load all these resources over https when the page is accessed over https. Until they do that, as a workaround, you could install an extension like the one mentioned by fl3tch[1] to do it in your browser.

N.B. That only works if the resource is available over https, many are not. In that case there is no fix.

[1] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Can somebody post the tldr?
The tech companies lobbying uphill are copyright consumers in this context. They are users, and the copyright owners' interests are those being prioritized, and whose interests have been favored in the entire SOPA (and before) movement. That the hearings are tilted in favor of copyright owners is simply public evidence of structural bigotry.
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The military probably has radar on satellites similar to aircraft-mounted battlefield management systems like JSTARS

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-8_Joint_STARS)

Basically, they can identify tanks, buildings, and other large objects via radar. There are also millimeter band radars that can produce images.
Either you're being sarcastic, or you have no idea how third-world country food is like (and I grew up on one of those countries). People are tremendously lucky here, and I'm not kidding.
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The second they do that, they'll only be available on the other nets.
The difference is, lobbyists fight wars for short term self interest, while hackers fight for long term interest.

The short term and long term have a tendency to conflict.
These articles frustrate me because nobody asks why the engineers are 'willing' to get poached. It always boils down to a few reasons:

- The company's prospects and projects are limited. Shopping comparison was cool in 2003, but it's 2011, and you have an aging flagship product with limited growth and a bunch of half-assed initiatives that never go anywhere because there's too much red tape to actually produce code and the executives are too busy getting fired every six months have any consistency with strategy.

But if you're getting tech talent "poached" in that case, you're probably getting all your talent poached, so let's talk about the other scenario.

- The engineer's prospects are limited. So few technology companies have any sort of individual contributor advancement path. A star performing sales guy goes from junior sales associate, sales associate, senior sales associate, junior manager, senior manager, etc every 6-12 months, with commissions and bonuses for strong performance.

The star engineer goes from "software engineer" to "senior software engineer" after like, 3-5 years, and then what? Either you figure out a way to get kicked into some sort of manager role or you just kind of hang around getting a pat on the back and a 6% raise every year until some company swoops in and "poaches" you with a 20% raise, which naturally seems astronomical by perspective.

Almost every manager I've had, I've had some conversation like this: "You have to give Joe a raise, and a BIG one. I know he started here out of college, but he's been here 3 years now. Because of his talent and domain expertise, he is easily more productive than any theoretical 'senior engineer' we could hire. Even if he's relatively happy, if you don't give him a raise, it's going to be way too easy for some recruiter to throw out salary numbers that will at least pique his interest."

And instead of bumping Joe's pay by 30% (which would still probably be less than market rates), he gets "poached," and now we have to hire some "senior engineer" at 200% the salary who tries to convince us to rewrite everything in Java for six months until he gets fired.
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For me personally I have managed to get higher hourly rates from startups than larger companies. Simply because they actually value me and my work and can see it directly reflected on their bottom line.

I could probably get better rates at bigger companies, but being a small guy in a big pond of what, to them, looks like interchangable cogs I don't have a lot of bargaining power.

How do you convince someone who doesn't know about this stuff, that it's better to pay you fairly than pay peanuts to the neighboor kid? (for what they think is equal work done at equal quality since they don't care)
A very interesting comment on the page:

>>Counter measures please, just like we neutered the Helms Burton act at the time. It's simple:

Any person/company in Europe that suffers losses due to a unilateral domain seizure in the US, can sue for damage any US company (and all their holdings in Europe) for damages + costs, and maybe even plus punitive damages. Board members of such companies would be denied entry in the EU/EEA.

It worked for Helms Burton it will work for SOPA / PROTECT-IP / E-PARASITES or whatever bullshit name they give that act.
<<

Link to Helms-Burton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms–Burton_Act#Reactions
tldr: There were some recent changes in Rails in the portion of the code that handles CSRF protection, specifically around handling AJAX. Users' sessions were getting dropped and it was costing him money.
Funneh. Particularly enjoyed “We’ve got great backing" as =
"We managed to convince VCs to give us money but we haven’t convinced any actual customers to do so".
I really like this quote:

Bingo Card Creator is not terribly complicated software when compared to most applications, but it sits on top of other pieces of code (Rails, the web server the browser, the TCP/IP stack, the underlying OS, the hardware on both ends, etc) which _collectively_ are orders of magnitude more complicated than any physical artifact ever created by the human race.

You can insert any number of one-off business applications, reports, queries, etc in place of "Bingo Card Creator" but the concept remains true.
You do realize that Flex already is open source?[1]

About OpenLaszlo... I thought that it could become important one day; however, this never happened. I haven't looked into OL for quite some time now, but what can it offer that you can't get with HTML 5 nowadays?

[1] http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Legal+Stuff
Another thought: It would be huge if Firefox and Chrome both supported .bit out of the box. I don't know how possible that is without shipping namecoin clients in the browsers, but it seems like it shouldn't be impossible to have some sort of minimal client built-in that can do DNS lookups peer-to-peer.

If namecoin started to "just work" out of the box, that would change everything in regards to how likely this is to take over from the centralised DNS system.

Considering that both Google and Mozilla are so against SOPA, I don't see this as being completely impossible. Then again, I don't see why governments couldn't make it illegal to be a namecoin peer either, if they are already causing enough issues to warrant the system to begin with.
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Flash updates itself seamlessly, even in IE6; even, to my knowledge, in corporate-firewall situations, as long as Adobe's servers aren't completely blacklisted.
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It's just a fun read, the info about CSRF in Rails will, for most people, be inconsequential. Thus, the tldr is: bookmark this for when you have ten minutes of spare time. :)
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Can you elaborate? I don't follow how that might come about.
> If you're using multiple browsers in OS X all built on Webkit for instance, they share the same cookie store.

Where are you getting this? Safari and Chrome (both built on webkit) definitely do not share cookie stores on OS X.
What a silly argument. "If you just want to use someone else’s computers, it means you don’t love computers — at least not every aspect to them."

Uh, don't they use Dell? If they love them so much, why not build their own? Why stop there? I love software and programming languages, but it doesn't mean I'm going to use my own compiler or run a company on my own libc.
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I suspect that this is part of the problem with many big manufacturing companies these days. Ford was a leader for so many years was because their leadership was passionate about engineering and manufacturing. Henry Ford was an engineer for the Edison Company before he was a manager and is famous for obsessing about every detail of the manufacturing process. That sort of spirit infected the company up through the 1960's and 70's when the MBA's took over and everything was reduced to a column of numbers.

It appears that many early tech companies (TI, HP) have headed in the same direction. Maybe 30 - 40 years is the limit before the accountants take over.
Congrats on the framework. Quick tip... I don't see size being a selling point these days. It's almost meaningless. It would be interesting to find something new like how much time it saves compared to the status quo. Just an idea...
tl;dr: A Rails upgrade last January caused previously valid code to reset the session (but only once per user per session). The session reset caused a logged-in user to be suddenly logged out; but most users' use-flow (and Patrick's test-flow) made the session reset happen before login, so the bug only manifested visibly about 1% of the time. Moral: race conditions are hard! (Alternate moral: read the release notes carefully before upgrading.)
From the first sentence:

This post will not help you sell more software. If you’re not fascinated by the inner workings of complex systems, go do something more important. If you are, grab some popcorn, because this is the best bug I’ve seen in years.

There's no real point in summarizing further. It's like asking someone to summarize Hamlet for you [1] because you'd rather not sit through all that acting and dialogue. The point of this story is that it's a big complex meandering story that ultimately culminates in an anticlimactic technical issue. You know, kind of like most of my job.

---

[1] "Almost all the peers in Denmark die violently one by one."
By cutting out the red tape and bureaucracy that frequently make people think "big == bad". Company size is just a proxy for other factors that can lead to a negative work experience. What I care about is not the size of the company but how much impact that company is going to have on me trying to do my job. HR policies that prohibit being paid what I'm worth are an obvious example of this. Multiple layers of management who need to sign off on my work or second guess my judgement are another.

None of these are exclusive to large companies, and while small companies tend to be more flexible, that doesn't mean that they are categorically better places to work.

Look at Lockheed Martin's SkunkWorks, for a great example of a large company setting things up to attract and keep the best engineers in their field.
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