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I am weary of a looser pays system for a variety of reasons, but it is clear something has to change. I think we should have a special review board in which judges or some independent 3rd party can submit a case for review. If abuse of the system is evident then a punishment should be levied. Even that can be abused but we do have to do something, the courts are literally jammed up with junk suits from people and companies that know they are junk going in.
Google, Apple, Facebook, etc., should just buy these media giants. The RIAA and MPAA would become like cockroaches ripe for stomping upon. That would be the real and permanent nuclear option.
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You see "Google has limited resources" and "cannot warn you before removal".

Made my day.

ps: most removals are actually automated, and warning are (as in would be) obviously automated.

And of course, nothing bad with a finger up (or even in a naked body in fact, but hey).
I much prefer the "adult filter" of YouTube, which uhm, is also automated (user vote based).
I lived comfortably in a two bedroom in Brooklyn (with a roommate) near a good elementary school on 42k/year. I had a 30 minute commute.
If you have a good base of the right skills, I'd bet that some of theses "learning and teaching" organizations (like ours, RoleModel) would be interested in talking to you about a Jr. position and you'd get much of the same training. You may or may not have to take a pay cut for a little while.

If you don't already have the right skills, my guess is that most of these programs will still work for you. It's up to you about the financial issues. It never ceases to amaze me how poor the practices of many environments are, so not sure what 1-3 years means.
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At some point, research was commissioned by movie industry types to find the viewers' "time of highest alertness", i.e. when to deliver the best scene. It turns out that viewers are most focused in the first 20 minutes, which is consistent with most research efforts in other fields (see the usual stuff about 15 mins presentations etc).

Trailers were already being shown in that timeframe, to allow for latecomers, so adding regular ads was a no-brainer.
I really like Dropbox. In fact, it's fair to say I love Dropbox. It's made so many use cases so much simpler. However, I am f*g sick of this perception that Dropbox is the silver bullet for every storage solution. This sort of sensationalism is just stupid.

Dropbox is a cloud-hosted, distributed system and just like any other large, distributed system, it's subject to some very real constraints in terms of latency and reliability.

In other words, it's not fair to claim that Dropbox is some magic silver bullet that will solve every scaling problem you're subject to, act like a rock solid filesystem which behaves identically to the one you have locally, or solve your love life problems.

Maintaining this perception is just going to create frustration for people who expect it to act this way, or worse, create a living hell for the developers maintaining the glue code between your system and the Dropbox API.

You try figuring out what the fuck is going on with your system when the "spooky" or "weird" version regressions start occurring. The arms will raise in a giant, collective shrug. Watch in horror as your http requests timeout because the roundtrip time between your box and Dropbox is that bad. The sodden faces of your product customers and the million "(so-and-so's conflicted copy of " files laying around your filesystem which JUST. KEEP. COMING. BACK. will be enough to make you wish you never drank the kool aid.

Now, I'm not saying that the Dropbox REST API isn't the best thing since sliced bread. All I'm saying is it has it's purposes and there are use cases and times when it simply isn't an appropriate choice.

In short, please respect the fact that distributed storage is a hard problem with hard constraints, stop proselytizing Dropbox as the 2nd coming, and relax and enjoy your backed up media and documents on your iPad already. Seesh.
No offense intended, but I wouldn't have liked that answer either, especially as it isn't an answer to the question posed.

It might well have been a hypothetical problem they've had in the past or that they've heard of, or it might have even been that their application requirements evolved into the use case above.

Not answering the question doesn't indicate that you can solve the problem. Right or wrong, businesses arrive at scenarios like this often due to circumstances outside their control.

Either way, I like it as an interview question, as it would effectively filter out people who are either not clever enough to solve it or not motivated enough.

When I hire, one of the best things I can hope to find in an potential employee is a 'can-do' attitude. While that might sound cliche, you can hire pretty much any smart person to point out the problems you have. It's much more difficult to hire somebody who can both identify those problems and come up with potential solutions and is capable of fixing them.
It's pretty common for me to pay 7.50 in Lansing MI (almost 500,000 in the metro area). That's mostly because I always get a student discount (hooray college town where they assume everyone under 30 is a student).
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Yes, Flash is already installed. It also opens instantly and is never slow. It doesn't open up weird framed windows that don't match the chrome of the rest of the OS. It doesn't try to trick me into installing iTunes to download it, and it doesn't try to trick me into installing iTunes and Safari every couple of days when its separately installed software updater pops itself up. Quicktime (and iTunes) are just terrible software on Windows -- they perform poorly, make no attempt to act like Windows applications, and are almost on the level of malware when it comes to the updater.
An alternative outcome is that they would start realizing who they had to suck up to in order to get power, and that it's not JUST media companies any more.
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they raised the timeframe from 20 to 30/40, and probably factored some randomness in, just to defy that sort of strategy.
The "accept or move on" rule applies less when such sites are used by the majority of the population.

When it's used by the majority it becomes something you, in many cases, have to be part, that you like it, or not.

That even include "to be accepted at school", mind you. (just like you didn't have to smoke back in the days, but also you were gay if you did not, no matter how wrong that reasoning is).

Based on that new perspective, you may understand that restricting free speech on such services is actually "big" deal (yeah, the quotes are important here. i'd go for medium deal in the current state of affairs.)
Thanks for the link. I also recommend Hardcore History[1], by Dan Carlin. He recently did a series on the fall of the Roman republic, which I liked a lot. Dan Carlin also has a political podcast titled Common Sense[2], which is also very interesting even if a bit US centered.

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[2] http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/csarchive
>GoDaddy has served media-companies and politicians, and not their customers.

I don't understand this claim. Since the beginning of this whole fiasco, I've wondered exactly how SOPA would in any way benefit GoDaddy. But do you seriously believe their support of SOPA is from some special relationship with the recording industry? I don't see why that would be the case.
I suspected that there will be a sentiment for this game here ... one of many reasons for me to become a hacker. Through games, their small imperfections, I've started programming computers and get passionate about it. Nowadays with game consoles, many kids will miss the joy of hex-editing binary files.
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If we really wanted to hurt SOPA we would continue transferring domains to make an example of the company. I will check my domains by Monday and transfer any I have with go daddy.

I'd reconsider if they used their Superbowl ad to oppose sopa based on its ridiculousness and explain why it is so bad for America and the world.
Parent addressed that: that's what a WebHook is.
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> It's common to pay around $1,500 per month in condo/coop fees on top of your mortgage, and that's for a 1-bedroom.

Maybe in Manhattan, I suppose. That's a pretty broad brush for the rest of NYC. I pay less than $700 in co-op maintenance for my 2-bedroom in Brooklyn.

For the uninitiated, those fees go towards property taxes (which co-op owners don't otherwise pay), some utilities, things like elevator maintenance, groundskeeping, doorman, building superintendent, etc. If the building has an outstanding mortgage that has to be paid down, that comes out of there as well.
No. Learn C#. There is much wider adoption of C#, and in the early days of .NET C# skills actually commanded a higher salary (it has the letter C, it must be good).

C# gets a lot more love from MS than VB does.
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3 downvotes? really? How are TurboTax and TaxSlayer doing? I would guess they make a bit of profit.
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That's what this means:

"If developers could define WebHooks to receive events, that'd be a great start. I'd happily pay for that."
Some cinemas in the UK do this. It's hell to police, especially at "low" times, and because of that, most high-payers end up resenting it.
When I was a kid, I could sit and watch movies or TV for hours. Even crappy ones. Now, of course, it has to actually be good.

Kids have always had shorter attention spans than adults, though. That's why children's movies are usually just over an hour while adult movies can be 2-3 hours.
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Living in NYC with children and we have a very comfortable lifestyle. We live in Astoria, Queens, which is just a short (25mins) subway ride to where I work in midtown. I don't believe anyone in their right mind, in our profession, will be living in Manhattan with children. (certainly no technologist that I know of, and I have met dozens throughout the years). But the big advantage is that, as others mentioned, you can live nearby in Queens or Brooklyn, (or NJ/Long Island) and be within a very short commute to work. Rents will be a lot cheaper - we pay 1,600$/mth for a large two bedroom which is actually an entire floor of a house. I have to admit we were lucky there - but there are enough options if you do a proper search.

There are a lot of tech events in the city, and a lot of other kinds of events and conferences. But the biggest draw factor for me when moving to NYC was the sheer number of companies that are packed together in a relatively small space. This is truly heaven for a technologist who is consulting, because you will have business constantly - especially if you are on top of your game; I can attest that you can make and save a lot of money like that. There are a lot of full-time jobs as well, some which pay well and are 9-5, others that require more hours and pay a lot, particularly in the finance sector. Be careful with startups that require a lot of hours and don't pay particularly well though - you won't get a good deal by working for one in NYC, due to how they compare to all other options I mentioned.

Finally, the other cool thing here if you are looking to start your own company, is that you can meet people to partner with - again due to the large number of people within the area.
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>Ruboto allows you to run Ruby scripts on Android devices. Using Ruby code, you have access to the complete Android API. Currently, we have 2 offerings: ruboto and ruboto-irb. Ruboto is based on JRuby.

The sl4a Ruby interpreter is based on Ruboto. So accesing the Android API with Ruby is posible. JRuby is Java after all, check their site.

P.S. I wish I had the skill to help out in this project.
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The answer, as best I can tell, is to use Linode and their 'StackScripts' deployment process.[1]

I just checked, and there's a stack for Apache, MySQL and Ruby [2], or this one[3], which is an Nginx config with Passenger.

It won't write the code for you, but you can have a StackScript deployed in almost no time at all, and Linode is a great host that is reasonably priced. It doesn't automatically scale like some other cloud solutions, but with StackScripts, git, and a load balancer StackScripted box in front of them, you can scale out pretty easily.

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[2] - http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/view/?StackScriptID=207
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not to mention EVERY TECHCRUNCH WRITER's long history of self-promotion.

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Speaking purely about his brain, and nothing else, I'd wager money on him producing something useful over many other brains.
Very valid point and I've seen this occurrence in other projects as well.

I'd also recommend looking into using role based authorization (ACL) by using cancan, acl9, or other gems.
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Something that occurred to me when reading this that had not occurred to me before.

This could open up a new channel for attacks against web sites. Forget about those that are just posting content with the intent of sharing. What about those that simply post/upload copyrighted content with the sole intent of bringing your site down.

Another thing that occurred, was that there is so much of this going on today, that unless people drastically change their habits, or courts are very selective with who they prosecute, every owner of every site on the web will end up in court.
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Please keep in mind that it's not solely IP law that is the problem. It is how the law is being used. And who is (and is not) using it.

By and large, those who hold the lion's share of the world's enforceble IPR and are doing the lion's share of enforcement of that IP are not indviduals of average income.

If we talk about "civil liberties" maybe we should talk about every individual's rights to register IP and to enforce their IPR. Under the current systems, ownership and enforement of IP is concentrated in the hands of the few, not the many.

As you might guess, most of the world's IP is under corporate control by large corporations.

Why can't the average individual own and enforce IP with the same effectiveness? Examine the systems for registering and enforcing IP and see why.
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For comparison sake, I just purchased the following 8GB of memory from Amazon (Crucial) for $34.99: http://amzn.com/B001MX5YWI. The equivalent memory is available via Apple.com for $400.00: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC016G/A.

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Looks like your TOS grants you a perpetual all rights license to all content in the user's dropbox without any of the usual qualifications about only as far as it's needed to provide the service?

views.fm:
By providing any content to this web site: (a) you agree to grant the site editor a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license (including any moral rights or other necessary rights.) to use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, perform, promote, archive, translate, and to create derivative works and compilations, in whole or in part. Such license will apply with respect to any form, media, technology already known at the time of provision or developed subsequently;

Dropbox:
By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, “your stuff”). You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don’t claim any ownership to any of it. These Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below.

We may need your permission to do things you ask us to do with your stuff, for example, hosting your files, or sharing them at your direction. This includes product features visible to you, for example, image thumbnails or document previews. It also includes design choices we make to technically administer our Services, for example, how we redundantly backup data to keep it safe. You give us the permissions we need to do those things solely to provide the Services. This permission also extends to trusted third parties we work with to provide the Services, for example Amazon, which provides our storage space (again, only to provide the Services).

I assume that's a cut and paste job gone horribly wrong, but that is pretty gross.
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s/Android/Dalvik

Google had a choice of which virtual machine to use on Android. They went with a modified Dalvik.

Could they have chosen Inferno?

If they looked at it and decided against it, what were the reasons?
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Yeah, and I'm announcing plans to explore Angelina Jolie's pants. Same likelihood of accomplishment.

Until we take NASA's mission seriously and fund them accordingly, it's all just empty talk, seemingly repeated every couple of weeks.
Dropbox is merely providing the blueprint for how a cloud a file system should work. I hope they're using their funding to develop something completely above and beyond what they're currently offering, because the network storage space is going to become awfully crowded in a few years.
> I live in a very rural area in germany, the nearest cinemas are about 50 Kilometers

It's worse in America, which you would expect, given relative sizes and population densities: My nearest cinema is only about 8 km (5 miles), but that's a small four-screen place with very few interesting films. After that, it's 160 km (100 miles) to the next larger cinema, which still isn't that much larger. It's almost 600 km (350+ miles) to the nearest cinema that might be showing a film that isn't one of the week's designated 'blockbusters'.

> I enjoy movie that are a little off the radar and those cinemas don't just have little to offer in those departments, there is simply nothing for people interested in documentaries, indie films or other movies that just don't fit into the whole blockbuster concept.

Same here unless you're in a fairly major urban center. Out here we don't even get all the 'blockbuster' mainstream films.

I am very happy to have the Internet, a good video rental place, and Turner Classic Movies on satellite TV.
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> All of those fonts are freely downloadable

In exactly one format. And in order for them to be properly served to different browsers, they need to come in at least 3 other formats. Doing offline conversion yields fonts that look noticeably different from those served by Google, so for all practical intents and purposes having these fonts available for download is useless.

> Now they're dangerous because you didn't read the TOS?

They are dangerous because the other guy didn't read the TOS. I read them and declined.
Well I think you'd be hard pressed to find a hunter in the US that hunts only for the food gained. Maybe spending 70,000 dollars is sick, but I would hardly call those who hunt for "sport" sick. I myself have never hunted, but I imagine it satisfies some urge in those who do it.
There've been unhexeditable game consoles since the 70s. Doesn't seem to have impacted people's desire to hack thus far.
I'll never understand this. It costs them less to process my charge online in terms of manpower, and is at least as cheap if not cheaper on charges incurred for them upstream.

This is the truest definition of 'convenience charge' though, as they are, in fact, charging you for convenience. As a Verizon customer who has been considering dropping their cable service for some time (due to Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, etc.), I'm now giving thought to dropping them as an internet provider as well since we have a lot of good options in Maryland. I do love their internet service, but I hate bullshit charges that don't at least make sense.
> Although I've heard several times that they're interested in the cellphone jamming

Doctors go to the movies, too.

Think about this: A doctor is on-call, meaning that at any moment they might be called in to come to the hospital to save your life.

They have a cell phone which is the only way they can be reached when they settle in to watch a film in the local multiplex. The same multiplex that jammed cell phones without telling anyone (because multiplexes hire idiots).

You come in to the hospital and need the doctor immediately. So they are called.

And the doctor's cell is dead.

And so are you.

(The ensuing lawsuit will totally bring you back to life.)