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His "answer" is a total wimp-out, I think. Among the many points you can raise (e.g. the fact that we already fund our national standard bodies with out taxes) it doesn't explain the outrageous price ISO is asking for the standard. I'm not against paying some amount, e.g. $20-$50 but $360 for a PDF sounds Microsoftian in its greed.
If everything is a 0-based index (e.g. first day being 0), why aren't the years?
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I came here to find good work music, and people are apparently into everything that ruins productivity, I've found.

I just fire up console.fm while working
One of the points of the calendar though is to keep the months and days of the week the same.
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Not to defend the practice of claiming sabotage or subterfuge when accused, but it's a time-honored tradition held by all "sides," including the likes of the RIAA/MPAA, governments, etc.
People who try this should realize that--even though they themselves may not believe it-- if 98% of society thinks you're an asshole, then you're the asshole in society.

Some people are OK with this and feel it's worth the tradeoffs for the benefits of RH.

Regardless, I think that people should be more honest in general.
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The gov adapted to Y2K, so they know exactly what they need to fix.

The difference between adapting to Y2K and adapting to the HH calendar is minor. If the gov survived Y2K they would survive the HH-adoption.
I keep thinking these are a gimmick, and then I go through the recent photos I've taken and find lots of sets of shots where I'm trying to capture a close and far subject at different focus settings -- one in focus, the other out, then switch...hoping I find the one I like better later...so there's definite appeal here.

I'm not totally sold on this as 1st gen tech, but it's definitely something to watch as the technology matures.

Downside: I'm not as interested in the print aspects of the photos I take, I haven't looked at a physical photo in about 5 years, but I am interested in the longevity of the shots. Having to rely on a special format and viewer makes me want to stay away till it becomes at least a defacto standard if not a proper open standard available as a default in every OS I'd reasonably want to use -- just like jpg, gif, png, bmp are today.
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I'm in the process of migrating from Openfire to prosody because of issues with Openfire's stability and lack of forward motion (there are features that have been in the works for literally years that still aren't going anywhere -- such as vhosts -- that are standard in many other xmppds.
In my opinion, just like politicians are worthy of public scrutiny, the people in power should be too. If a person's actions and views affect population, they should be known to the people who it effects.

Having said that, it becomes difficult to draw the line. Stuff like this does have potential to create anarchy, which doesn't benefit anyone.
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Not sure why this is downmodded so far, so I'll give a citation that says exactly what I do:

http://www.amazon.com/Zinns-Cycling-Primer-Maintenance-Build...

Some exercise is going to be better than no exercise, but training for a marathon and "getting exercise" are vastly different activities.
I don't know how popular this is at other companies, but Intel (or at least my group) does use a week-based system for all dates. Today (December 28) would be "WW53.3". WW53 is the work week and .3 means Wednesday. Weeks start on Monday as ".1", whereas Sunday is ".0" and Saturday is ".6".

While this system should in theory make it easy to calculate the days need to complete a task, I still find myself converting to Month-Day every time. On the other hand, I don't have a clue what day of the week March 2nd is going to be, but if it's called WW9.5, then I immediately know that it's on a Friday 9 weeks from now.
OAuth 2 + JSONP might be a good solution to the cross-origin issue.

The primary client for an API I'm currently working on is an iOS app, so for the web version of the client, it just made sense to build on top of the same OAuth-authenticated API. Instead of traditional sessions, we store the access token in a cookie and sign each authenticated request just as you would any third-party API.
Just drives home the point that you have to do your research before joining a new company, I'm not criticizing you at all, by the way, its just the more I have thought about software businesses the more I have realized how people can be used in this sort of fashion. I've gotten myself into an untenable situation before with a startup where I felt misled, for me, however I was able to quickly move on and I didn't have any IP that was exploited, so it wasn't that big a deal.
Compared to a Java app, it's nothing, and a surprising number of Rubyists came from or at least via the Java world so don't really notice.

Coming to Ruby from scratch though, wow, I can imagine it being pretty intimidating. Having good tools (i.e. your editor) helps.
The 7date doesn't say much about how we count years. It's all about how you count days and other sub-year units. You could combine it with any method of counting years that you like. I defaulted to using the year system I'm used to because it's convenient.
Reading between the lines, I gather that angersock's underlying point was just that technological solutions are superior to legislative solutions, with the twist that technical capability equals moral acceptability. Apologies to angersock if I interpreted incorrectly.
I would suggest Google App Engine. There are plenty of ways to optimize the costs and you can do it after (if) your traffic increases.
In this case they wanted a "big fish" type of engineer, they have to compete to get this type of employee because the guy has weight in the industry. I don't see how a company can not present a clear, desirable path to a prospective employee of this status and still expect to attract "high caliber" (whether perceived or real) talent.
Parse co-founder here.

We do believe the BaaS model can extend far beyond our current mobile focus. We have a full REST API upon which many people build rich web apps, desktop apps, and much more. Third party libraries like Alan's excellent ParseResource have been great enablers.

I'd encourage everyone to give Parse a try and keep an eye out. We plan to expand our selection of officially supported SDKs soon.
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>Instead of trying to do hacks to get all of these cycles to line up, why not move in the other direction and take the approach of having regular cycles at different frequencies that do not line up?

With that system, how do you refer to a particular date? YYYY-MM-DD doesn't make much sense anymore, since a month can span multiple years, and a day can span multiple months and/or years.
RunMyProcess a startup from Paris, France does this. http://www.runmyprocess.com . I teach university students how to use this. Impressive product. Sort of like an enterprise-level configurable IFTTT.
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If you're talking about home use - I wouldn't go that far. 99.9% of people won't even know how to run this, and I doubt anyone will try that hard to break into a random home network.

If you have something to hide, obviously, you should take additional precautions.
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I am still typing on a QWERTY keyboard, and that standard only a hundred years old. The modern calendar is two thousand years old. We will see the singularity before we see a new calendar.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I think it would be good to put the Fear of Screwing Constituents back into our Representatives and Senators, and picking one to slam for selling out to Hollywood could be a step in that direction.

But keep in mind there are also large groups of people who could organize and use this as a model to promote an agenda that most of us would be horrified by.

In the case of SOPA, I don't expect a huge grass-roots community making any serious headway in favor of the legislation, because most of the people who care about SOPA at all hate it.

But there are large communities who:

1. Believe that vaccines are bad.

2. Believe that the global climate isn't changing, or that it's not caused by us.

3. Believe that abortion should remain legal/be abolished (pick the side you don't like).

...and on and on. Do we really want a group to model how to destroy a politician using data mining and potentially nefarious hacking, when it's an issue that WE support that they're being targeted for?

It seems like a step in the wrong direction -- taken to an extreme, politicians would be forced to never do anything that might offend a large enough group, and frankly sometimes such decisions need to be made. It's a Pandora's box, for sure.

NOTE: Not here to discuss the merits of #1-3 above. They're just for illustration.
As far as I understand, Rack is not vulnerable unless the underlaying Ruby interpreter is vulnerable, like old 1.8, Rubinius, older JRuby.

Rack introduced a workaround in https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/5b9d09a81a9fdc9475f0ab00...

this may help in some cases when an interpreter fix is not available/installable but not fix the hashing problem in general, especially outside of POST params.
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This is beyond most people's capabilities; most people are thwarted by "right clicking is not allowed". (Do browsers let sites disable right-click anymore? I don't think so. But there was a time when they did.)

Someone should make swfextract a browser extension.
It's awesome that Stanford is offering free versions of their classes and adapting the content to the needs of those students. If Stanford is teaching the same classes with the same adaptations to their core CS students, I'd be worried too. Full time on-campus students likely want (and deserve) different adaptations. That's the really concerning thing I saw in the OP's post.

Perhaps this class happened to be taught at an easier-than-usual level. But, if professors are torn between the demands of simultaneously serving dedicated (paying or non-paying) students and casual students, the compromises won't always be to the benefit of the dedicated.
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This is what I plan on doing for the most part; I just want to make sure whatever framework / storage solution I go with can at least scale somewhat should I experience anykind of success.

I'm not looking for nor expecting to create a web application as popular as, say, reddit or anything even a quarter of that; just to make a decision as to the direction to go and then worry about further optimization later.
Stratfor was essentially labeled as a form of collateral damage. The self-described Anon spokesperson basically said they weren't one of the "offenders" but were "of interest".

I don't feel sold on the merits of going after Stratfor - it's almost as if it was merely a convenient and vulnerable target. It's not too hard to envision just about any company or organization being targeted because of some vague affiliation or "interest".
This breaks quarterly cycles.
I'd like to see an explanation of where, exactly, that money goes. The Sutter piece indicates that the people who actually work on the standard are volunteers, or nearly so.
Hmm, I'm not as skeptical. At the very foundation, a democracy is about tending for the majority. As models like this become more popular there will be campaigns that you may not agree with, but as long as there are enough people opposed to the campaign it shouldn't be a problem.

If there aren't enough people opposing the campaign, well ... that's democracy.
Typically, monopolies are granted in exchange for running service to unprofitable customers, anyone who wouldn't normally be connected. So those consumers are pretty undeniably better off. If there isn't something like that in the offing, competent town leadership would presumably use their attractive market position to make cable companies compete to provide service.
Indeed, it is a corporate-friendly calendar.

They say their calendar would make it easy to plan annual activities, from holidays to academic schedules to financial calculations.
I started out with a hackintosh but learning OSX, Objective C, Cocoa Touch, XCode, etc was more than enough without that added hassle.

I'd buy a Mac as many have suggested or just do it with Android instead. It's easier to iterate on Android anyway and you can port to iOS afterwards.
A reddit user quoted in the article: “Let’s pick ONE Senator of voted for NDAA/SOPA and destroy him like we’re doing for GoDaddy. Relentlessly investigate and find skeletons in his closet, money bomb is [sic] opponents, etc. It [sic] we could unseat someone and destroy their career it would have massive repercussions.”

What's new with that? That's gone on in politics since ancient Rome.
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As noted in the article the friction from religious groups wanting to hold the sabbath would be too great, in my estimation. I would love a logical organized calendar like the one you propose though!
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Disclosure, I work for Zipline Games on Moai Cloud.

Moai Cloud (http://getmoai.com), while focused on enabling backends for mobile games provides some of what you describe. We use mongo on the backend to provide schemaless storage and are building out a set of RESTful apis. Additionally if you need to you can write and run your own custom code on the server.
A group whose members are part of it only for a short period of their lives; and who are clearly not being discriminated by society in any meaningful way, shape or form.
> If you use CoreData (and you should)

Can you qualify why you should use CoreData?

Every project I've "rescued" for clients that had CoreData beginnings eventually got ripped out for an easier SQLite/simple entity solution.
Yours is the first post on the topic to make me think that the _agent_provocateur_ accusation might in fact be true.
The modern calendar is nearly 430 years old, but I agree with your broader point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
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The last project I did was all client side, so I hosted it on AWS. So far I really like it, its extremely simple and cheap. The only trip-up I had was that the server wasn't correctly serving .js and .css files through root directory, like you would think you do in website mode.

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I've written a small ajax wrapper for Parse.com's API.

https://github.com/srhyne/jQuery-Parse

Just $.parse.get/post/put/delete is needed; served from file:// or a Chrome extension and you have a completely client side prototype or internal business tool.

I'm really excited to see StackMob, Parse, and MongoHQ take off. Talking to one of the MongoHQ guys at MongoDB Seattle and they mentioned they were working on some kind of client side authentication system. jsOAuth is cool as well with StackMob.
Had the same experience.

You can get too carried away with abstractions in .NET. Where I work it was the norm to have multiple layers, abstractions, frameworks etc... A consequence of this was 30 minute build times etc... I think the people working on the stuff initially just wanted to play with every language feature under the sun.

I ditched it all for a few simple layers (mostly MVC with LINQ to SQL) and as a result the application takes 2 seconds to compile, is very fast at runtime, and has no magic going and is easy enough you could hand it over to a junior developer to maintain.
Right, but with Paxos, you could elect a new leader as soon as the old one is destroyed.
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If the browser can decrypt it, then anybody else can. Everything else will be security by obscurity and will be broken.
There's a detailed description of the weakness in the WPS protocol here: http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf

It looks time there are two issues here. The first is that the pin is confirmed in two stages, each of which can be individually NAKed. That brings e complexity down from 10^7 to 11,000. It seems like this could be fixed by always ACKing the first stage and then ACKing/NAKing the second stage based on the result of both stages (unless doing so would somehow lead to leaking information about the PIN).

I think the first issue comes from an attempt at doing mutual authentication. Basically the device (like a wireless printer) wants to tell an access point (AP) that it knows the PIN. But, the device wants to make sure the AP also knows the pin. Otherwise, someone could spoof the AP and say for any connection attempt "yup, that's the PIN, now here's your (fake) configuration". I think they're also trying to cover the case where the HMAC they're using has a vulnerability, allowing a fake AP to discover the secret key by using nonces that expose a weakness in the HMAC.

Instead of just trusting HMACs to do their thing, they break the mutual authentication into stages. The AP and the device each prove they know the first half of the key. If either side fails that test, then the other side refuses to move on, supposedly protecting the second half of the key even if the HMAC is found to be broken. In reality of course, it leads to the attack described above. If both sides just always ACK the first stage, everything is fine as long as the HMAC is secure (which it most likely is). If you're worried about the HMAC being broken, you could use a dummy PIN for the second stage if the first stage fails.

The second issue is that most vendors don't implement lockouts after too many failed attempts. Even if they do, the issue above means a brute-force attack is still possible in a few months' time because of the greatly reduced complexity. Fixing both issues would probably make a brute force attack impractical.

Until both issues are fixed, the best solution is to disable pin-based WPS. Unfortunately many low-cost wireless printers and similar devices require WPS to connect to a secured wireless network. Turning off WPS may make such devices unusable.

It's possible that enabling MAC address filtering will also solve the issue(actually... not).
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I'm going to agree with this. What you can't measure, you can't improve. Sure, there is some EPOC effect, but how am I going to use that to benefit me? How do I know that 30 minutes of intervals + EPOC is better than 4 hours of low-intensity cardio? (I think the answer is, "a lab can measure this for you". But is it worthwhile to pay for this when your body is in a constant state of change and you aren't a professional athlete? )
This will break unbelievable amount of software. Worse than Y2K. I vote YES.

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