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Welcome to angel land. You'll need to wear a tin-foil hat for the first few years. Congrats, you've been born again and must make sense of reality like a baby. My birds have no clue how reality works, but they function. Welcome to insanity. The book 1984 has a pathetic guy who couldn't just be hip and go with the flow. Give-up trying to pin-things-down rationally and it will go better.

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belief, whatever the future may reveal. On our theory the continued
existence of lowly organisms offers no difficulty; for natural selection,
or the survival of the fittest, does not necessarily include progressive
development--it only takes advantage of such variations as arise and are
beneficial to each creature under its complex relations of life. And it
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Angel dudes tried to make my job at Ticketmaster a charity case job. I was one of 6 National Merit Finalists in the class entering ASU in 1988. ASU had 40,000 people, probably 8,000 per class. Why can't you accept I'm brilliant, you dumb fuck. I know I beat your SAT. Mine was 1440. That's basically a measure of IQ. You're a proletariate who angels take no notice of.

God says...

't get their drift; and when she was making the honest best
drive at it she could, too, and no fault of hers that she couldn't
fetch the home plate; and so I apologized. Then we meandered
pleasantly away toward the hermit holes in sociable converse
together, and better friends than ever.

I was gradually coming to have a mysterious and shuddery reverence
for this girl; nowadays whenever she pulled out from the station
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For instance, if you visit Docs or Reader every day, multiple times a day, you're going to spend a lot of time hovering and cursing.

I just have it as a pinned tab in the browser, along with Mail and Calendar and other essentials. Frankly, I'll be glad to have the extra screen real estate back; of late there have been too many toolbars, and on the Chromebook I started to feel like they were eating the top 20-25% of my screen.
Great stuff. This is like Photosynth for videos! Remember Photosynth?
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My argument is that Facebook has a history of mishandling privacy.

And further that users have been, at least on some level, aware of it.

I was on Facebook when they first implemented the news feed and got everyone upset. They've since introduced dozens of features that have gotten everyone upset (or at least a sizable enough minority to be noticeable). They make it clear that ads are targeted based on your personal information. They make privacy settings complicated. They continuously push you to supply more information, connect with more people, use Facebook for more things. They continuously make more things public by default, and add more features that make personal information discoverable (such as tagging in images).

If they weren't suspicious, they wouldn't have been investigated in the first place.

I'm not talking about a time machine. But let me observe a few things:

- I deleted my account a year ago (and knew I wanted to before that) without the FTC investigating anything. Because Facebook was clearly suspicious.

- You still have an account today even though you know about Facebook's lies today. You don't need a time machine to make changes today.

My argument is this:

Fraud protection is extremely important. There are many cases where there is no suspicion of fraud, no source of information about possible fraud, and consumers get taken advantage of. For example, people get taken advantage of by phishing every day.

But if you fall victim to increasingly bad phishing attacks from the same company over the course of years, you aren't paying attention. You are relying on watchmen to protect you and not watching out for yourself.

I am not blaming the victim. I am trying to empower the victim. Everyone who is reading this and still has a Facebook account knows that Facebook will outright lie about privacy in order to make more money from advertisers. They are still guilty of their actions if you get fooled again, but you don't have to get fooled again.

My argument is "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
A long time ago, I hired a PhD from a highly prestigious Brazilian university. She passed the interview with flying colors, way beyond my expectations, and I was a bit ashamed to tell her the maximum budget I had - it was much less than someone with her experience was worth. She seemed more than happy to take my offer (which was as far as I could possibly go). Later I learned I was paying her more than 4 times what she earned as a researcher at the university. I don't know whether her male colleagues earned much more, but I was shocked by how little she made as a scientist.

To this day I am bittersweet about this. I am embarrassed I never paid her what she deserved - and I should have, for she is an outstanding professional - but I am also happy I helped her transition from an dead-end job at an academic institution to a fast-paced tech company and that this transition had a very positive impact on her career (last time I heard, she had a team of kick-ass programmers solving some devilishly hard computer-vision-related problem). I left a couple months after hiring her, but it's still a great story.

Well... There are better stories around here, sure, but this is still a good one.
I don't think it's any more of a poor choice than spending time trying to be awesome at sports or music, or any other hobby. The real question is: does it make you happy?

Not everything in life needs to fulfill one of the questions you ask of a hobby - there are lots of things that people devote time and money to that won't make them money, get them laid, etc., and I don't think they're any more a waste of time than being a competitive gamer.
I always knew there were more worthwhile pursuits and that's why, in hindsight, I struggle to accept the time I spent playing. But I never felt like it was downtime.

I knew I was building skills that I would use again someday. It wasn't about trying to be the best at shooting a gun in a virtual world. It was about outthinking and outmaneuvering my opponent. Analyzing details and figuring out the best strategy.

It was never about my score, it was about how well my team did. CS taught me a lot about working with other people. Managing and recruiting talent, motivating people, and keeping everybody happy.
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I thought that these small numbers everyone is quoting from Spotify are not so accurate. I thought there is more data related to artist compensation which isn't public knowledge, so this shouldn't be taken at face value?
I started writing a response to this but it got bloggy so I did that instead: http://bit.ly/u1Y6Lc
There's a great article in the October 17th, 2011, issue of Fortune entitled "Collins on Chaos" that is an excerpt of the book "Great by Choice". It seems quite relevant to this discussion.

The authors compare the leadership at companies that consistently outperformed their competitors during good times and bad, with the leadership at the nominally-performing companies.

The outperforming leaders set a benchmark defining "consistent progress", e.g. profitable every year (Southwest Airlines), 20% growth per year (Stryker), etc. They then fought to achieve that benchmark even during the toughest years (perhaps obvious), but they also restrained themselves so as to not exceed (by much) their benchmark during the "boom" years. Even though it might seem counter-intuitive, these "restrained" companies performed better over the long run than those companies which grew quickly during the good times.

The point is perhaps that you might achieve more by both committing to, and limiting yourself to, some more reasonable number of hours per week.
I quit using Gmail, Google Reader and GCal this year. I didn't like how Google bullies me into using G+.
Mind blowing. I don't know that I'd ever really use it, but this is super cool and really well done!
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There's probably some correlation/causation in there - I imagine that you would tend to become "addicted" to things that you're naturally good at.
Voluntarily delisting something is unthinkable. It would violate the most basic principle for a search engine - to present the information without distortion.

Voluntary censorship is a step too far.
Many, which are very closely related. Computer science and mathematics are essentially one and the same, or maybe a subset of another (as an example)
Maybe it's just me, but the site rick-rolled me on each concert I tried to check out.
Most people are always 'jealous' whether it be of people who are great at singing, playing an instrument, videogames, or something, yet they really don't seem to care or desire that and often they feel negative towards those people. It seems everything in their lives revolves around watching others do things (Reality TV shows, magazines, news stories, etc) and little to do with their actual selves.

They don't want to be in a good conversation, they want to have an average conversation where everyone agrees on some average opinion or every now and then someone will be 'edgy' to give it a bit of flair.

They don't want to understand good art they simply want to say that one of their kids once went to an art gallery and that they saw know that Picasso has weird/funny looking paintings.

This sounds elitist yet it's not. From school age and possibly even before the majority latches onto the dumb notion that if a kid studies well he's a teacher's pet and weird or some other term and they never let go of this idea. Ever. At university one of the subjects was systems analysis and design which came with a huge textbook. I read some of it each week that aligned with that week's lecture/tutorial content and people said that's weird.

.. but all this is like endlessly driving on a roundabout because what it means to be weird and normal differs though does have a common understanding. A common understanding is that 'normal' is not being the best or putting in the best effort. They should just start saying average instead of normal. For me, all those people they call weird are the normals ones as they're doing it right.

The ones who exercise are normal and the ones who sit around are weird. The ones who do the homework are normal and the ones who don't are ridiculously weird. It's like they want to ignore cause and effect and modify the universe to suit their quick whims for instant desires. What a bunch of weirdos.
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Wow. Nicely said. I help out with Ninja Girl's party in D2 which is a Counter Strike Source server and I never hear anything about Counter Strike outside of the server anymore. I am curious to see what Counter Strike Global Offensive will be like. Our server is the most popular in the US and I am pretty sure we can keep that status in CS:GO. I am kinda hoping it brings the spotlight back to CS.
Functional programming more easily fosters the parallelism that will be required to keep making performance gains as individual core speeds top out and CPUs only get faster by adding cores.
Perhaps this is too obvious, but this would be killer if it could get integration with Square.
I noticed they added the yellow highlight to the currently opened item, and it makes it really hard for me to concentrate on the article I have open. I liked the design revamp, but that little highlight they added a few days ago throws me.
You realize this thing doesn't use ink?

Thermal printers use heat to print and don't require any ink.
It's good to see honest evaluations of technologies. It helps people better decide when something is mature enough to adopt for their organization, and helps in avoiding the landmines when they do. It also lets the the "owners" know what is impeding adoption so they have better focus. Scala is several years old now and really is gaining adoption in larger (ie conservative) firms.

Scala is far from perfect and has some warts, but that's the type of technology that always seems to win. C++ vs Eiffel, Intel vs Motorola.
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I think you're stalking the way I use Chrome.
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I realized after re-reading the original comment that he only has to valid date his CC on first opening.

What I was wondering is if he had to re-validate at some point in the future, would the expired card trip him up or would his encrypted copy still work?

I'd guess it would still work if he is doing this all without a network connection. If that works though, I hope their using the credit card info as a hash instead of directly storing it in their encrypted files... because that would be scary.
How presumptuous. Have you tried the new interface on a touch screen device?
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Relevant: https://twitter.com/#!/Jon_Hopkins_/status/13714775382964633...
Looks like a nice device if it has some kind of API. However I'm wondering if they can make this at any decent cost.

The cheapest thermal printers, even off eBay cost around $65. Most thermal printers start at $150 and go to around $300.

At ~$50-60 with an API, this would be an instant buy for me. However, I doubt they can hit that price point.
How far off is that from the deep net? It's all based on tor (and as such is slow as molasses), but it's navigated by passing links to community members - not searching Google.

That's pretty darn underground.
What the heck! Can't they just make up their minds already?
On the topic of roving backscatter vans:

“From a privacy standpoint, I’m hard-pressed to see what the concern or objection could be,”…says [Joe Reiss, Vice President of Marketing at backscatter developer American Science and Engineering, Rensselaer '85, Northeastern MBA '91].

In that case, Joe, it sounds as if you're a bit too ignorant and/or selfish to be making that call.
What I'd like to see is a tcpdump consisting of ciq phoning home.

It's accused that they're recording everything and sending it home, they admit to recording some things and sending it home. They also make a claim about encryption that I interpret to mean it's encrypted in transit. I'd like to see exactly what's going on, too bad I don't have a phone with ciq.
With this said, why should the likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter and other other for-profit entities bear the costs of a protracted legal battle through the higher courts? Additionally, why should they bear the costs of compliance with the court orders?

They don't. That task falls upon the new administrators (ICE), just as it would fall upon you if you bought a competitor and wanted to power down their brand. Chanel's obligation to post a $20k bond is to cover the risk of an accidental infringement upon legitimate operations, a possible reversal if any defendants come forward and make a credible case (unlikely, but possible), or expenses incurred by the government in course of administering the shutdown of those internet entities that are infringing upon Chanel's brand.
But the TSA (and Homeland Security) is now a full-fledged government bureaucracy, complete with a power structure, employeees with statutory rights, and inter-agency links, and no doubt pocket congress members with 'TSA creates jobs' talking points.

The job of the people at the TSA will always to be to ensure the TSA not only continues to exist, that it continues to grow and become more important. Any actual security outcomes will be a side effect, not the primary goal. At no point will the management say 'know what? We're actually wasting money here, let's recommend to congress that we be disbanded'.

It's madness when creating these institutions not to put a self-destruct clause in them. Ie, In when created in 2001, it would be decreed that in 2011, a review will be organised to see if the TSA has actually materially affected terrorism activities.

Of course, the review would be a whitewash, but at least it would keep people remembering that this was a temporary solution to a temporary problem.
He's not. And so I laughed when I opened this thread and the highest rated comment was a java vs scala post. Rather than a reply to his thesis.
No, it doesn't work like that. What evidence can you present to indicate that as the government has increased general surveillance (such as wiretapping, rather than, say, ground surveillance), they have decreased how often they interfere with citizens' lives? What evidence is there for increased efficiency? What has actually happened is that the government has taken additional liberties away on all fronts. Losing privacy did not gain us more freedom of travel, nor did it gain us any other liberties. We simply have less privacy, and less freedom to travel, and less freedom to assemble, etc.

Lack of intell was not the cause of the 9/11 attacks. There was no lack of intell. There was a lack of coordination and communication among the various agencies, and more surveillance doesn't change that. There's little to no evidence that our eroding freedoms have increased safety (not that that would justify the lost freedoms anyway).
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I think the case is that when you start playing a video game you don't start with the intention of playing it for 10000 hours, you just keep playing an realize you have invested so much time that you may as well keep playing and become the best.
Besides, learning about the importance of commitment to excellence is something that can be learned in a lot of places, as you demonstrate. It's a lesson that's lost on most people. Don't struggle to accept the time spent on CS; embrace it, become one with it. Enough other people will denigrate you for it, so there's no need for you to do it as well.

And, when the zombie apocalypse comes, at least you know how to clear a room better than the next guy, I'll wager!
It depends what the person's using the language for. I'd say "no" for C.

C is still the leading language for a lot of purposes: operating systems, runtimes for higher-level languages, device drivers, and applications where tight control of memory use is important. In these domains, C hasn't been supplanted yet-- not even close.

I don't know that C++ and Java have substantial domains in which they're superior to other choices. C++ is a badly-conceived cross between C and high-level languages and Java is the worst of the JVM languages.
The article ends with "U.S. employers are prohibited under law from hiring foreign workers unless they show there are not sufficient U.S. workers willing and able to take the jobs."

I am fairly sure that is not what the law says though, although I am aware it is often claimed (I suspect falsely) there is such a law.

Actual requirements are here. They don't have to show anything, they just have to attest that in their belief the hiring won't "adversely affect" the "working conditions" of american workers "similarly employed", that there is not currently a strike going on when they bring in the new people, and that they have posted conspicuously a notice of intent at their place of business.

http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/faqsanswers.cfm#lcare...
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I do fully support the local design community. In fact our site and product design comes mainly from local resources. However... most of them simply don't like or want to take on small projects like this.

Sure, if I have to spend $500+ dollars they can tackle larger things that I would never farm out. But the GOOD local designers are generally too busy for the small stuff. And the ones that have time simply aren't as good.

Also - for smaller projects like this - the small entrepreneur (me) has a limited amount of time. Why should we spend it calling around to see if someone has a couple of hours to do this. I've tried. The people I trust are busy... so contest away.
But what. the fuck. do we do with these dinosaurs who know nothing of technology policy but have decided to go and make it anyway?

The same thing as all the folks who know nothing of legal procedure but have decided to go ahead and condemn it anyway? Sorry to be blunt, but I'm with zeteo in thinking that both Ars and the blogger they cite have misinterpreted this ruling, and in being disappointed at the lack of contextual information on how the law works in this area. This is no more an attack on the internet than impounding a criminal's car is an attack on the motor industry.
I occasionally grind my teeth at night, enough to give me migraines the next day. A doctor suggested gum as a remedy, and it seems to work. I guess his theory was that it worked the muscles enough to 'wear them out' by the time I went to bed.

Whatever the reason, it suggests that we do get some benefit from exercising our jaw beyond eating. Maybe we evolved to eat tougher stuff than the typical modern diet.
Same goes for the nouveau databases. It's going to be hard to get traction in an enterprise that can already afford and/or has purchased Oracle.
("if another app registers the same COM component" <- why was this happening?)
I use VMs myself - invaluable for the stuff I've done with RoR.

One problem with VMs is they would not work very well with the dev environments I support: JDE and ancillary applications.
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Thanks Adam. There was another interesting windows project called command line ide for creating visual studio solutions. http://remi.org/2011/04/17/clide
Although I'm not much of an entrepreneur (yep, here more for the hacking than the startup'ing), I spend a lot of my time working on "ideas" — I am a musician, a programmer, a tinkerer, a writer, a designer, etc., and find myself daily in need of ideas.

But recently I've been feeling an information overload. I spend too much time reading online, consuming information, taking in everything I can get. I read books all day long, I am constantly pushing myself to learn new things (languages, computer & human, and ancient history has been a recent focus). And I love it, I really do enjoy learning this way.

But some things, like good ideas, have to come slowly. Some of my best programming-related ideas have come while immersed in nature, like on a camping trip or while hiking a glacier, removed from the internet for days.

My advice is to leave town, disconnect. Go camping for a week. You'll learn a lot more there than you ever could online.

Alternatively, dramatically change your daily routine. Become nocturnal. Live with a friend in a different city for the weekend. These don't have to be permanent changes, but they do have to be dramatic.

My theory — backed by zero empirical evidence — is that when we our brains are forced to react to new situations, they have to improvise. This makes us instantly more creative.
Where are you posting from? I don't support this, but I still find the US preferable to living in London and being recorded by 100 CCTV cameras a day. Motes, beams, etc.
For example, with Lua scripting, you could add custom commands for working with Bloom filters, to do fast approximate set membership testing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter

I'm pretty excited about this.