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It may help to know that while journeyman and journey come from the same French word, journée (meaning, essentially, day), that journeyman simply means someone who is entitled to charge a day rate for his work. (Masters were the "contractors" of their day; they were paid for the project, and apprentices got to eat -- they usually paid for the privilege.)

Yes, the guild system and town laws often made the journeyman itinerant, but it wasn't travel that put the "journey" in "journeyman".
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Mitt Romney says corporations are people. Ok, time for a "three strikes" law for Wall St.
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Facebook's market just happens to be the "wasting time" market and SAP's market is the "running the world" market.
Sure, but that feature seems trivial to me, I can simply create a view in my database to shake the data however I would like.

https://gist.github.com/1438654

I could just select * from viewGroupErrors where error=12345

The cost of this app should be less than cost of my time to make it, right now the yearly cost is probably $50 to me.
I copied and pasted from the original comment. The word "just" was added later.
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For unknown reasons, someone asked me if had a copy of this file today...
Same here. The only drawback is that you have to remember your Dropbox password by heart!
Funny that SEC asking for a law to avoid having to follow the US Constitution
Developers and everybody else...
I found this oddly depressing.
Can someone please explain what makes this particular canvas experiment so interesting, especially because there are more interesting, complex and beautiful demos available showing the power of canvas with JS?
I know there's an up arrow for this, but I feel like your contribution to this thread has been excellent and wanted to thank you. I'll be throwing a couple bucks Cydia's way for sure.
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I need to defend SAP on this subject. While I agree that they are pretty poor about reaching out beyond their own ecosystem they acknowledge this is a weakness of theirs and they are trying to fix it. They've done a lot over the last year or two to try to make it easier to dabble and they are continuing to push for a more open environment for 3rd party developers.
Oh, it all looked so enticing until I read:

* Using machine learning to implement intent-based search ads

No. I think not. I'd rather use machine learning to block ads, thank you.
A missing doctype shouldn't have anything to do with the system, though, assuming that's what the problem is. Clearly other browsers are more forgiving.
I would like to show you guys the beta of sitesupport. We launched a preview in march this year which was well received and got some great feedback.

You can read how to use the service on the website, but let me explain here how it works underneath. When a new session is started, a person requesting support is redirected to our page which proxies all of the original website. The person joining the browser session will then be served the exact same resources without hitting the target server again. In addition, the first user's browser streams all the events happening on a page via a WebSocket? connection, to be replayed on the viewing browser(s). The use of a proxy has two major benefits:

the viewers are guaranteed to get the same resources
we can modify the resources to have the properties we need
Still, there's ton of things that can (and will) go wrong. Basically, we need the state of the javascript application to be identical on both sides, which is a hard problem as there are a lot of different variables at play.

Currently the service works with simple websites. The less advanced features you have, the better chance there is to have it working on a particular website. Eventually though, we plan to offer full HTML5 support.

The backend is built with Python/Gevent/Redis/Postgres?. We also use C for processing html at "real-time" speed. Since we need to parse/modify/serialize almost every text resource, most of the Python parsers introduce unacceptable latency in browsing. Even crazy fast lxml is not good enough (performance-wise). We thus built our own single-pass parser based on a state machine.
It makes sense from the investor's perspective. They weren't going to get a better, more lucrative exit. Gowalla would probably just whither and die eventually. Instead, now the investors get to talk about how they had a "successful" exit, which might help them get future deals (most startups would prefer to raise money from someone with several exits). It seems like it was the best deal for all involved.
Seems to break the back button.
Yes, my response is that Gary Taubes is dishonest, and his criticisms of Calories in/Calories out are misleading and sometimes false.

For example, one of his criticisms of the calories in/calories out theory is that it fails to explain bodyweight stability. Simple calculus shows this to be false.

http://crazybear.posterous.com/the-calories-incalories-out-m...

Another one of his tricks is to focus on calories above maintenance, while completely ignoring differences in maintenance needs, in an attempt at reducto-ad-absurdum. People unfamiliar with the model don't realize he can write 3000 words and never mention the actual caloric gap between fat and thin people.

http://crazybear.posterous.com/how-1-graph-reveals-what-3000...

Gary Taubes is willing to mislead people to sell books.

Also, the calories in/calories out model has been empirically verified on a number of occasions. This is the first of many studies on the topic:

http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6617921M/A_biometric_study_of...

Any textbook on sports medicine will give you a whole lot more references, including specific details on various corrections and second order terms. I'd love to quote a few more, but unfortunately my textbook is in a storage compartment 50 blocks away.
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I continue to enjoy keeping an eye on these single-page style web apps for very basic content applications. I have a feeling this was pretty quick and easy for the developers to put together.

That said, a few things jump out at me that make me think this approach isn't ready for primetime (or to be more precise, takes a lot more work to make it ready for primetime)

* Individual properties are not reflected in the URL, meaning I couldn't copy and paste a link to someone

* This is using a plain hash instead of a hash bang, which, correct me if I'm wrong, means sub pages are not hit by search engines

* If javascript is disabled and I load this, I get a blank screen.

It's this kind of thing that makes me fearful of pursuing this approach for more serious projects...
For what? Glueing crummy old legacy systems together? Managing a workforce? GL? Performance metrics?

Part of the problem is monolithic, kitchen-sink software. Most people are basically using SAP/Peoplesoft as a development framework anyway – playing into more vendor lock-in. It's like the Lotus Notes of the aughts.

There are tons of targeted solutions that can play nice with intelligent use of modern, open data interchange protocols.
All the warnings in the world wouldn't reduce the liability one bit. The liability is that the buyers (donors) are unhappy for any reason and charge back the payments. If it turns out the fundraiser was a scam and that's outted publicly, all those donors may well do just that.

The OP's story says they got "thousands of $2 payments". Let's say 3000. PayPal could, potentially, see $6000 in chargebacks, $900 in transaction fees, and $45000 ($15 * 3000) in chargeback fees assessed by the card-issuers.

If the fundraiser disappears or doesn't have a spare $45000 sitting around PayPal is on the hook for that.

They're not going to file 3000 court cases to recover it, no matter what warnings were on the site.
"A bakery that keeps track of its Yelp reputation and works hard to maintain a 5-star rating will attract customers.."

Never used Yelp, but do you really need a developer to do that? Would think the easiest way to get a good rating would be to hire some people to write good reviews for you and trash the competition.

(OT, but I bet sites like that will get less and less useful as more companies start gaming them)
Want a more innovative company? Get rid of these folks. Today
Just carried out some Kraken 1.1 runs on Firefox on OSX, here on my iMac 8,1 (2.6ghz c2d/4gb ram).

I've got all major versions of Firefox installed side by side using my shell script (https://github.com/omgmog/install-all-firefox), this allowed me to test Firefox 2.0.0.20, 3.0.19, 3.6.24, 4.0.1, 5.0.1, 6.0.1, 7.0.1, 8.0.1, 10.0a2.

Results:
http://omgmog.net/kraken.html

For Firefox 2.0.0.20 and 3.0.19 the browser kept crashing, so I was unable to finish these, but all of the other versions ran well.
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I'm not buying this idea that Microsoft doesn't know what's going on.

For CNet to make money on the deal, Microsoft would need a way to attribute the increased traffic to CNet. If Microsoft is paying them significant sums and yet remaining willfully ignorant of the means, then Microsoft is no better than your bottom feeding pay-per-install malware services.

The fact that we're even discussing Microsoft's reputation in this way is what led me to say "O how the mighty have fallen." It's quite sad IMHO.
I'm not sure what this is supposed to prove. Say you're the CEO of one of these companies and you are absolutely convinced that you don't want any of your employees doing any of this stuff. How do you actually accomplish that?
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I didn't see that in the article; I saw that The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was who did the seizure.
Unveiling things by having a velvet curtain or cloth on top (and then lifting it up!) has been done for decades, perhaps centuries. It's not unique to Apple or to 37signals, it's a common occurrence that they were expressing digitally.
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// is Python's floor division operator, enabled in 2.2[1].

[1]: http://docs.python.org/release/2.2.3/whatsnew/node7.html
Those complaining should look back to 2000 when a deadpooled startup left a gaping hole in the economy with lost jobs, bad investments with ordinary Americans, and a negative impact on every other startup in the space.

Given the alternative, I'll take founders selling out and moving on over what we went through 10 years ago.
This reminds me of a discussion I had with a physicist recently. He insisted that the reason for Mars' atmosphere being gone was its low gravity. While it seemed reasonable to me that this could partly be a factor, I (intuitively) think the lack of a magnetosphere might play a bigger role in atmospheric loss. Did someone here by chance do some calculations that could help settle this argument?

(Note that the argument is NOT about smaller planet sizes leading to earlier magnetosphere failures. It's strictly about what leads to a greater rate of atmospheric loss: Mars' low gravity, or it's defective magnetosphere?)
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> Zipcar isn't prevalent in the US outside of major cities.

Neither will any robotaxi or robocar system initially. I suppose some will view being run by nerds as an improvement over being run by hipsters.
I didn't mean it from the code standard perspective. In a live product, invalid html is bad regardless of a system and it should be tested in all browsers.

But for one-off interesting thing, you'll probably check it in browser(s) you have installed only, or maybe even only your favourite one... and it's unlikely that IE will be that browser. Just a reflection on the setup of an average webdev interested in canvas.
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Nice. I've got a minor obsession with alternative ways of displaying the time of day. I've made a canvas clock or two of my own, and I used http://www.let.rug.nl/kleiweg/abclock/ glued to my root window for the longest time.

I like that your clock simply displays the time of day as a visual ratio of time elapsed to time remaining. Of course, at the one-second-per-pixel scale, getting the precise time of day at a glance is a little tough.

Have you considered using color to earmark blocks of time? If it's 300 pixels wide, then a row is 5 minutes. Have you tried maybe some pinstriping on each sixth row to show hour marks? Maybe wider, like 2-hour blocks? I think it would give a lot more information in a single glance.

Do you think turning it 90 degrees and having it progress left to right would be easier or more intuitive?
And what about the size? 300x288 has its advantages, but have you played with other aspect ratios?

I'm not trying to pick apart your work, I'm trying to suggest different ways to take it because I like what you've done.
If you want to return fire, I made http://slumberheart.com/things/clock.html earlier this year and would love to hear some suggestions.
Just curious... not that I'm going to do this. Couldn't this be easily gamed by having one person in a group do the challenge first and then broadcast the question to the rest of the group to analyze at leisure prior to taking the quiz?
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It goes as far as is reasonable. The law gets interpreted in a court of law by human beings that make decisions about whether a reasonable person would expect that to be private and the intent of the person that found the images anyway.
That was a fascinating read, although I must play devil's advocate and ask what prevents a ground crew from taking over a commercial airliner remotely in case of distress? None of what this flight crew did necessitated their physical presence onboard, only their decision-making and operation of the existing aircraft controls.
I refuse to do this unless some chick gives me a bj under the table and John Travolta holds a gun to my head.
"SAP is indefensible as a company."

What does that even mean?
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I tried to download this trial - it 404s
I clicked the 'Download' link for my application and I received an exe for something else with my application name in the file name. So if a user asks to download my application they receive a confusingly-similar one instead and have no choice but to run it to find out what it does.

This is indistinguishable from malware.
The definition of hipster has inverted if grey haired guys with MBAs are now hipsters.
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China will clearly become a hot place for web development and IT support. But it must be said that web usages, concepts and-on a broader view- culture are quite different in China. Every occidental company has broken its back trying to breach into the chinese market.
Local players and copycats still rule China, like Weibo against twitter.
While this is true it also applies to cardio workouts as well. They also build muscle and increase your metabolism. It's a myth that this is an advantage of weight lifting over cardio.

It really comes down to personal preference. Do the workout you're going to be able to keep doing.
Then don't use PayPal. Pay to process credit cards. As stated elsewhere, PayPal's business model is to provide point-to-point transactions between people, betting that they can prevent enough fraud to remain profitable. If what you're doing is unusual enough that you trigger their warning bells, then you're not worth the risk to them.
Thanks for the link! It's cool to see real discussion happening. I'm actually coming more from Robert Lustig's attack on fructose, which I know is much more specific than carb intake in general. I was aware there was controversy about it-- obviously I shouldn't be so quick to name Taubes.

Really, as someone who very easily went from overweight to fit purely by replacing carbs with fats, I'm just very reluctant to accept the thermodynamic hypothesis.
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Anecdotal, but anyway...

Earlier this year, Paypal notified me that they required more information about my personal account - namely confirmation that it wasn't a business in disguise. Due to my mistranslating from American English to British English, I accidentally declared that I was a charity (non-profit of course has a specific meaning), and Paypal promptly froze my personal account.

It took one phone call to the UK helpdesk, and about 20 minutes to get this fixed, and my experience with their customer support was fine. I screwed up, they were polite and helpful, no problems.

What WOULD help is if their UI translated their terms for the benefit of non-US customers (if they'd said "charity" instead of "non-profit" I'd never have chosen that option) and gave you an obvious way to say "I am not a business" (if they'd had that I wouldn't have been on that page in the first place), but I can't fault their customer support.
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I can not easily recall an article this wrong getting to the front page of Hacker News. This in particular is refuted by several studies:

"You’re doing that to your brain. But with mental tasks productivity doesn’t increase linearly with time worked. Every hour spent working hard is a tax on the next hour you want to spend working hard. And so on until you can spend hours, even days, working without achieving."

For a different view, please look here:

Core Learning Principle #10: Everything Else Being Equal, More Time-on-Task Equals More Learning

http://innovateonline.info/pdf/vol3_issue3/Ten_Core_Principl...

and also here:

http://www.mcrel.org/toolkit/res/time.asp

which says:

"Allocated time is that time in the school day specifically set aside for instruction, as opposed to non-instructional time like recess and lunch. Instructional time is the in-class time teachers spend on task, as opposed to management-oriented activities, like taking roll. Engaged time is that portion of time during which student are actually paying attention to the content being presented - often referred to as "time on task." Academic learning time is the proportion of engaged time during which students are successfully learning or successful at the task they are engaged in."

Search Google for "time on task innovation insight" and it is easy to find dozens of these studies. There has been a lot of research in this field, and it all agrees that innovation tends to come from those folks who go deep into a subject -- exactly those folks who are willing to put in 60 hour weeks where all they do is think about some particular kind of problem. And then they have an insight that changes the world.
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EMI is the world's 4th largest record label. Interestingly they are selling it to Universal, so now UMG has both a licensing deal and a lawsuit with GrooveShark...
I wonder if the FTC will follow through on the settlement and fine Facebook $10,000 for each violation? There's a dozen or so photos of Zuck, so that's $120K already ...
OP here. My plan is to next render a 270x365x320 brick in a similar manner.

I'll leave it up to you to figure out what that will represent.
Just a Point of Information...

There's no actual confirmation that Facebook is acquiring Gowalla as a company. In fact, Facebook's statement (as quoted on various news sites) seems to suggest the opposite:

”While Facebook isn’t acquiring the Gowalla service or technology, we’re sure that the inspiration behind Gowalla will make its way into Facebook over time."

It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out that what's actually happening is that the core Gowalla team is quitting Gowalla to work for Facebook, and Gowalla will be shut down, with the remaining funds being returned to the investors (i.e. the "twenty or thirty cents ... for every dollar invested" that Arrington refers to).

No doubt we'll find out in time.
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Hiring people to "write good reviews for you and trash the competition" is a quick way to establish a very short-lived repuation boost.

However, it's inevitable (or at least hugely likely) that you will be found out and your repution ruined. Competitors will likely sue.

It's probably cheaper and easier to hire a developer who can write tools to monitor reviews posted online, manage a website, run your facebook group/app, write an app to make it easy for customers to order bread from their mobiles, and so on.

All of those things are legitimate activities and add genuine value to your business. They are also things that are impossible to achieve if you don't have technical knowledge.
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There's a whole science to whether you were born first, second, third etc. And I think Malcolm Gladwell picked up on the time of year you are born, having a huge effect on your experience in school, at the top or bottom end of the class. I'm absolutely positive you're right about the food thing. As for the issue of how much can we change these things, well I agree with Seth's answer to that, I'm sure it's better to believe we can, than to believe we can't. People like Martin Seligman can help us break down what optimism is and make it into a habit with his books like "Learned Optimism". I think there are two important factors for changing these things. 1) Understand how deeply they are implanted in us from a young age. These attitudes have deep deep roots. To change them you have to dig deep. 2) That digging deep can actually happen quickly IF enough pressure is applied. The strength of the emotion you attach to the job makes a huge difference. I talk about anger in the interview because the negative emotions are as powerful, if not more for starting the process of change that the positive ones. People change in an instant when something happens that makes them highly emotional (child or adult). Whether its extreme humiliation, fear, loss. I think the so called "negative" emotions are more linked to immediate survival than everyday "positive" emotions. So when confronted with them they give us more power to make deeper decisions and change how we think and operate. On a practical level, if you're trying to change something, always make sure that you start that process clearly identifying WHY you want to change. From both the negative perspective and the positive perspective. What makes you so angry or embarrassed that you want to move away from it forever. And what would you be happy to move towards.
PS. we've also done a lot of interviews (many not published yet) with some of the world's top personal trainers and fitness experts. I've also done a course on changing and sticking with healthy habits, due out in the new year. I don't want to turn this into a pitch, but if the food issue is of interest to you, there's lots of great stuff to come on that topic. All the best. Paul.
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I love puzzles like this and gave it a try.

Learned something. A ticking counter is really, really unsettling. :)

Good luck with the site, I'm pretty sure that I cannot do even the simplest of things (having written not a single line of Python doesn't help, but the challenges are clear enough. I cannot blame the toolset here, it's myself/my mind going nuts).