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Farming today is completely different than it was 60+ years ago (especially before WWII) for 90% of farmers. I'd wager a large sum that most farmer's do not actually enjoy their job these days. Small independent sustainable farmers sure, too bad they represent such a small percentage of farming compared to the industrial food complex.

Anyways, comparing farming today to what it was 60 years ago is apples to oranges. Many farmers at the time didn't have a choice in the matter. Many had limited options and were simply lucky enough to inherit farmland. Maybe they loved it, maybe they didn't. For most, loving it wasn't as pressing a need as supporting their family.
That's awesome.

So could I get a little more detail here about why git is important? Are you making a init script to pull the file directly into /etc/hosts at boot (or at an interval)?
If Ubuntu can get unity very responsive and polished I'll give it another go. Ever since unity came out i've overheard a disturbing number of people complaining about stability and just the user experience in general.
Write some JS to delay loading the adverts until after all of the other content on your page(s) has been loaded and displayed. JQuery (especially) makes it easy to delay this kind of stuff and do the <div> injections well after your page is visible in the client browser.

I coded one two (three?) years ago for a contract, and it worked like a charm. Used it for tracking pixels, Google tracking, and a bunch of other stuff.

Surprised this kind of snippet isn't readily available on the intertubes.
The hardware thermal protections kick in before a fire is started. The possibility of stealing information or flat-out bricking the printer are more likely than fire.

HP claims all new models since 2009 enforce digital signatures. Firmware updates for older printers should be able to add this feature, but I don't see any evidence to suggest they do (or don't).

Further, most laser printers are on relatively safe networks, and even if there are infected machines on the network, there are generally a number of other ways to wreak havoc and steal information.
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Thanks! Yes, it can be done with JAVA, but we weren't happy with the required UI compromises of a non-native app.

I was sure we would be able to do this with Flash or Silverlight, but A) of course I had reservations about both platforms and B) it turned out that it wasn't so easy to do.

RE: time spent. Payments by Spreedly, which was a snap. Membership / access control came easily given our experience with previous products.

The real time killer was the installation process and testing the app across WinXP, Vista, Win 7, 32 bit, 64 bit, etc. Sometimes I wonder if we're the only folks around doing Windows desktop apps!

We used Microsoft's ClickOnce for the installation. The app silently auto-updates itself. You can click "About" to see what version you're running. It'll install the latest version if one exists. Getting this all to work right was a ton of work, but we wanted a really clean and simple install experience, and I think we achieved it. We had to deal with registration-free COM, created a bootstrapper that downloaded .NET Framework 3.5 if you're running Windows XP and happen not to have it, etc.
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Fascinating writeup, honestly. I've only dabbled with Scala around the edges and have been focusing on Clojure recently, so I don't have enough experience to agree or disagree with that, but Scala always felt too ... something, for me. I'm having fun with Clojure, and the community is wonderful. For quicky java-esque one-offs, Groovy is suiting me.

But to each their own.
The best part is when you get to the footer and see:
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I've been using GNU/Linux of various flavours at home since around 2006 (and whatever locked down Windows PC they give me at work, I'm not a programmer).

I use Unity 2d as the graphics card in this three year old desktop is blacklisted so I can't use compiz. In Unity2d, alt-tab shows a row of windows in the current virtual desktop.

I open half a dozen Firefox windows and a few LibreOffice windows (middle click on launcher icon for new instance/window) and when I alt-tab I can see each window represented on a small horizontal panel in Unity2d by the application icon. As you alt-tab through the icons, the title of the window appears in type below the row of icons.
Or to buzz every 30 seconds (or however long you're going) for HITT workouts. I've tried using MP3s with beeps put in every 30 seconds, but the headphones fall out/off/get knocked around when I'm sprinting full-bore. MP3s also have the disadvantage of forcing you to start right on a beep, so if you get interrupted for a second or two it throws off your workout. A HRM could start whenever you started.
If you want to work at Matasano, you should just mail me; we can give you pointers. :)

I get busy sometimes, and I'm not always as great at responding to mail as I want to be. You can feel free to nag me for as long as your patience holds out. I WILL eventually respond.

The short answer here is "maybe". Specifically: if you take this class and fall in love with the subject matter --- particularly things like memory hardening and finding vulnerabilities --- we'll be happy to hear that. The certification itself doesn't mean anything to us at all. It's the enthusiasm and engagement that we're looking for.
Ironic that Ghostery pops up to warn me about 16 trackers on the article's page.
I always found it interesting that SAS was one of the few big companies, ever, built primarily on a programming language.

Early on (25-30 years ago) a family member worked there, and I was a summer intern there. I picked up a few things which seem relevant here.

There was reportedly some guy by the name of Mr. Bass who (as in this case) began publishing a workalike product called "The Bass System".

Originally the name "SAS" was an acronym for "Statistical Analysis System". I heard it was changed, at least in part, due to ambiguities pertaining to trademarking acronyms. I don't know if this was related to Mr. Bass in particular.
this is what I think it was supposed to implement for you based on a related blog post

http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/03/30/google-envelopes-beta-...
Keep in mind the language dates from the mid-70s.
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My experience is entirely different from yours, which means you are wrong. /s
Try node.js if you havent yet - logging udp-messages with node.js
I dimly recall reading something along those lines that came from Amazon, but I think it was a side remark, not a published study.

My suggestion was about plotting for content/advertiser networks the lag for their Javascript against the income the site derives from the network. This is quite likely to be somewhat sensitive information, at least to a degree, so sharing it would be generous.
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I think there's a much better case – practical and even legal – for 'WordAds'.

'Django' caused a pure collision with another community project: rude, confusing, time-wasting for keyword searchers.

'WordAds' fits naturally with 'WordPress', is non-identical, and far less likely to generate confusion or search collisions. And, Google's money gusher can defend itself if it there is a legitimate trademark complaint; similar for-profit competitors should push every possible avenue for attention. (It's not nice to step on the toes of a free community project, but it's often heroic to step on the toes of a near-monopoly.)
Politicians will always do whatever is in the interests of the people or companies giving them votes or donations, so unfortunately without voting for the enemy of your enemy (and maybe convincing others to do so), you don't have any other tool to punish these politicians.

And they need to be punished, just like a good spanking at the right time does wonders for spoiled brats.
I'm sure he means installing a native client on the OS. Using a tool like this internally is fine, but really, something like this shines in the hands of the end-user.

A developer can more than adequately explain what the bug is and where it is in a few sentences. A user, on the other hand, will simply say "this doesn't work" which is unbelievably unhelpful. Having the user submit a video of the problem would solve that problem splendidly.

However, I don't want to make my users install a program on their system and frankly, they're not going to want to either. A non-intrusive solution would be great.
I remember very well when the first one happened. It pissed me off because someone got to see some information I thought was private after I went to the trouble of going through Facebook's previous 50 privacy settings.
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Are you confusing honest with humble? I had an intern who had a little trouble finding a gig after he graduated college because he kept downplaying his experience. Once he put his cards on the table, he got picked up quickly.

And I wouldn't measure your experience against others. You don't always know what they know. Maybe they do have more direct experience than you. Or maybe they get, but don't keep, those jobs.

You could always ask others you know to give you feedback on your CV. Especially people who've worked with you. Ask coworkers maybe. Or former supervisors.
Huh weird. I don't have the Messenger in the Messaging settings on my WP7.5
I think the service you want is http://bo.lt/

Lets you "remix" websites and share them.
Google+ pages API released to “partners” first. Why?
Great introductory video to cassandra.
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So, I have a buddy who wants to try Linux on a netbook that he has found no use for. Mint or Ubuntu?
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The peaceful independence movement in India was only able to achieve victory because it was an alternative to violent revolution advocated by other factions. The British recognized that continuing to resist the peaceful revolution would result in a violent revolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hx-G1uhRqA#t=54m
Ahh, yes, I agree, WRT end users submitting bugs. Requiring a download + install (even though we do it as cleanly and simply as possible, I think) is probably a non-starter. Our initial focus is professional testers and developers.
While your Congressman has probably already made up his mind on this issue, you're not going to help him change it if your communication comes from a 'liberal' organization like the EFF.

Why don't you try writing him while incorporating some more conservative commentary? Here's a couple of links from the National Review, one of my morning reads:

http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/281962/larry-downes-sop...

http://www.nationalreview.com/media-blog/283537/sopa-battle-...

I'm sure you can find more with a little Google-fu.

One of the more interesting things about SOPA is that both its supporters and opponents are pretty bipartisan. You can't oppose (or support) it by indiscriminately supporting one party or the other.
This sentence: "including giving consumers clear and prominent notice and obtaining consumers' express consent before their information is shared beyond the privacy settings they have established" was the killer to me. It forces FB to much more transparent about what it does with data and could have a significant shift in its revenue model.
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The latest humble bundle package, The Humble Introversion Bundle (http://www.humblebundle.com/), includes source code access for the included Introversion games: Darwinia, Multiwinia, DEFCON, and Uplink.

Looks like I'm going to have some fun nights of code spelunking in the coming days :).
I saw one result for memory performance in right-handed people ( http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#saccading ) - was that what you saw? Doesn't seem connected to emotional processing.
Python requires all args following a keyword arg to be keyword args:

>>> def foo(a=0, b=1, c=2): return [a, b, c];
...
>>> foo(34)
[34, 1, 2]
>>> foo(b=34)
[0, 34, 2]
>>> foo(b=34, 35)
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: non-keyword arg after keyword arg

I chose instead to simply bind args by position after keyword args have been taken:

wart> (foo :b 34 35)
(35 34 2)
Well, it's a little bit of work.

The point is that several people can maintain their own branches of /etc/hosts and use git to keep them up to date and propagate their additions.

I'd just clobber /etc/hosts from the repo file with cp -f, whenever the repo is changed, no need for any cron/init automation.
somewhat misleading is fair. But after I got past my initial confusion I found that I like the headline, as it reminds me of what a programming language is. Node.js, for instance, isn't a programming language but people often call it one.
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Any non-acidic liquid will help reduce acid-related upset stomach. Water works, but I'd assume the constant increase in gum probably has a longer effect than the temporary effect you get from a sip of water.

I've never heard of saliva doing anything more than diluting your stomach acid, but I've never really tried to find if it does or doesn't. So I'll leave that for another commenter.
I only vaguely knew the details of how iTether worked, but with the app pulled, does this impact users who've already installed it and the computer client software? That is, was there any need to touch base with iTether's servers?
I think readers on this forum might recognise the need Canonical has to turn a profit, and therefore to focus resources on the tasks/developments that will lead to an income stream.

A figure of $30million turnover was mentioned as a break even point by Shuttleworth in an interview in 2009, and a three to five year plan to reach that in 2008 (wikipedia article about Canonical Ltd).

I personally think I see a shift in strategy towards a tablet/mobile style desktop and a 'brittleness' about community involvement perhaps caused by the need to focus resources on the interface and user experience.

Hope they get it right before they burn through Shuttleworth's money. If it is the case they have hardware partners lined up to launch Ubuntu loaded devices (like the Chinese deal some weeks ago) then the 'long time user' community may just have to bend a little to keep the income coming. If they don't it isn't clear to me where these millions of new users are coming from...
My family had a major falling out with my father, to the point where myself and my sister had a restraining order against him when I was 7 and she was 9. I haven't seen him or talked to him in 16 years. After Facebook deleted my privacy settings, I had a message from him sitting in my inbox the next day. My sister called me, crying, because she had gotten the same message. Both of our accounts were previously unsearchable on the site, with all of our data being private. As soon as they rescinded that privacy, our father could tell what cities we live in (in one of our cases, a _very_ small town) and that she had gotten married, we both had changed our first and last names, and one of us had a child. He found me through my mom's friends list, he found my sister through my friends list. All of which were previously hidden.

Nothing came of it besides an unwanted "please call me" message from him, but it's not a far reach from there to actually being located physically and confronted. We sent this man to jail and changed our names to keep away from him, and Facebook, in spite of their "privacy" settings, let him get a glimpse back into our lives.
Don't the credit rating agencies work the same way? The companies being rated pay the agencies, not the companies that want to know the rating.
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I added a few things to my hosts file for ad-blocking (doubleclick, etc), and Chrome has since started behaving oddly... The back button reloading the same page and adding another history element, etc.

Maybe due to javascript trying to call things that don't exist? Not sure. Just be aware that hosts blocking can cause odd page results on occasion, because of content fetch failures (as apposed to noscript/adblock which often stop the request from even happening).
AppEngine is great, until you get HN scale traffic. The user should have been prepared.
That's true, but there is a 'hack' to get around that. Generally new questions arriving at the office will not have prepared responses. New text can not usually be written by the staffers without being reviewed.

So, the trick is to raise 2 (unrelated or related) issues in your letter. Issue one is the real issue you are concerned about, and the other needs to be something low profile that will not already have a canned response.

That way a reply will need to be drafted by staffers and reviewed by someone (hopefully the actual politician).
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The article mentions that Google will rank you page lower if your site is "slow," which the article says can happen if you install these slow widgets and trackers. Don't forget that Google is not running any javascript, flash or loading images when it requests your page, so they're not affected by these trackers. What Google means by "slow" is how fast your server can return an HTML response.
And without a fair use exception to copyright, search engines like Google could not show matching web site excerpts in their results.

Imagine search engine results that consisted only of URL's.
As I said, no easy fix :) These are deep and complex issues, the fact they are worth discussing almost always indicates as much.
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Copyright offers the most important protection software can have. If you want the result, you have to do the work again. Unlike patents that close off entire avenues of advancement just for being the first to add "with a computer" or "on the interwebs" to the end of some obvious activity, copyright acknowledges that you can do just about anything with a general purpose computer but if you want to do it, you've got to put in the effort yourself or pay someone who has.

Copyrights make you write your own code. Patents prevent you from writing your own code.
I'm aware, but I'm trying to take it one step at a time for those just starting out. I've trained a few people (mostly friends and family). A common thread among people who don't negotiate is a belief in fairness. That haggling is about asking for more than what the other person thinks is 'fair' (hurting someone). I've never once had success teaching people that words like 'deserve' and 'fair' have nothing to do with pricing a transaction.

So I divide it into two sides: negotiating to get more that what you 'deserve' (which they can categorize as unfair/wrong/evil etc..) and negotiating to get exactly what you deserve. They start out believing that all negotiation is the first type. Introducing the second type makes it easier to rationalize negotiating for what they deserve, and that it's not 'that other unfair type of negotiating'.
I've been looking for alternatives to Java for Android development. Since Python and Clojure aren't options (right now anyway), I looked at Scala among others.

I found the syntax pretty terrible, worse than Java in several ways. In particular, too complex. I also found the object system overly complicated (and I find Haskell's ok).
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> "Not complaining, just pointing out the futility of the exercise."

So you're saying we should go with $solstice_holiday_of_choice ?

Just because they didn't abstract sufficiently doesn't mean that abstraction is necessarily futile.
I am not shocked by this. At all
They do. Their value is unclear.

Accountants supposedly are employed by shareholders, but in practice are employed by executives. This makes auditing problematic, but it does have some value. The bigger problem there is the big four's oligopoly: they are too big to fail.
I have a site using modx.com's latest version that is continually hit with these "display:none" links. I've changed all passwords about a dozen times with no luck. Anyone have any thoughts on how to prevent this hack from continually happening?
These are the same idiots who will act outraged as the Internet crumbles around them is this passes
Who's to say that the user posted the link on their own?
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"Those who work hard make good" is a profoundly American theme that dates back to Horatio Alger and before - it can hardly be said to originate from a cabal of VCs trying to "put one over" on hapless founders and startup employees in Silicon Valley. No doubt Mr. Arrington adds his peculiarly abrasive touch to the debate (toughen up, don't whine, and let's applaud Zynga for what it did to its employees), but he did something very similar not too long ago in chiding investors who were whining about being in the "middle of a terrible blubble" (http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/24/were-in-the-middle-of-a-ter...). Like it or not, this is his philosophy and outlook about what it takes to play the startup game. It is his expression of ideas and social commentary. One can disagree with it as much as one likes but it is unfair to say that this is nothing more than a con job. It is also unfair to take him to task for quoting from a publicly available source to support his idea of what the experiences of startup employees have been like in Silicon Valley - if the goal is to illustrate such experiences, then what better source to use than a diary whose purpose was precisely to document them. If the author of that diary wants to say, "no, that's not what I meant" in response, that is fine but that doesn't justify an ad hominem attack on the person using it to illustrate ideas he wants to espouse.

My point here is strictly about fair argumentation, not about the merits of the debate. Whether right or wrong on the merits, I think the author takes an unfair shot in the way he makes his points here. We all have ideas and core beliefs, even those who are VCs. We all should be free to express them without being accused of nefarious motives.
This article:

http://tidbits.com/article/12651

Claims that existing users will be fine.
One explanation:
"Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms"
http://al3x.net/2011/01/15/user-hostile-platforms.html
On unity when I move the mouse to the left side to unhide the dock, an orange border takes up half the screen and stays there until I maximize any of the windows.

This is extremely confusing, does anyone know if it's supposed to be a feature? Or if there's a way to turn it off? I asked in #ubuntu and nobody replied.
The emotional result I was thinking of is the use of 'Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing' (EMDR) for PTSD treatment.

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

Here's an example of eye-movements improving certain kinds of recall:

http://www.livescience.com/1473-moving-eyes-improves-memory-...

By one view of memory – recall makes memories stronger – the EMDR result might seem paradoxical. Making traumatic memories stronger helps? But there's also the theory that recall is really recall-and-re-store, perhaps modified, so maybe EMDR helps recast the same memories to be less loaded. Per Wikipedia there's still some controversy over EMDR.
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Specifically, under the proposed settlement, Facebook is:

"barred from making misrepresentations about the privacy or security of consumers' personal information;"

Is this implying companies are allowed to lie? Seems redundant.