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No real need for me to bring in China and socks. The same would be true photos, business cards, and books.
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I don't particularly care about the delay between theaters and DVDs/streaming; it doesn't matter to me if I see something on the day of theater release or wait for it later. I go to the theater for movies that benefit from a massive screen and sound, and I don't mind paying extra for that experience. If I don't care about that for a particular film, then I certainly wouldn't pay extra to see it at home the day it comes out; I'll just add it to the Netflix queue or wait for it to show up on TV so MythTV can record it.
There is a big difference between musician and non-musician members of the audience. At this point in our history, there is no reason why a denizen of the first world can't be a maker or a creative of some sort.

Being a maker or a creative of some substance requires one to study a particular subject in depth. A part of the challenge the Internet creates, is that it's very easy to get a hugely broad sweep of rather shallow information. It's just not possible to study the whole range of information in depth, but we can send deep probes at one, two, or a few points and thus get a good idea of how deep the ocean of knowledge really is.
I will add anecdotal evidence.... Movies this year suck. We have Grandma the babysitter around and my wife and I only took advantage once. After seeing Sherlock Holmes none of the movies beat Netflix.

It isn't just the context, it's the content too.
I previously supported GoDaddy because they were based out of the US and had local US support.

Same reason I recently switched to NameCheap during the whole 'GoDaddy supports SOPA' affair.

Gandi.net headquarters is based out of Paris, France (although they do have a US office).

One thing to bear in mind.
Thanks very much, so around $60,000 a year gets one a three bedroom. Salaries around $100,000-$120,000 before taxes, after all taxes taken into account (federal, FICA, state, county, local, sales) about $50k-$60k take home, so it sounds like a 3 bedroom is basically not possible.
I followed that link before I posted. I was unable to determine what 10^4 and 10^3 represented and the link did not explain it in a way for me to understand. Obtu was able to explain it to me.
From what I understand, the peculiar deal with UMG is related to the VEVO channel on YouTube. The ability to 'pull' videos is really the ability to transfer them from the wilds into this marketing-friendly subdomain.

In essence, it allows content owners a third option when dealing with unauthorized posts. Instead of yanking them and breaking inbound links, or ignoring them and losing any value from the traffic, these arrangements allow them to keep the post intact, while transferring it to their control - no DMCA notices required.

The situation with Megaupload represented an abuse of this system. Because it's (apparently) possible to start the redirect process but not complete it (i.e. by having the Megaupload song appear on VEVO), UMG realized that they could 'disappear' the song from YouTube without having to file a formal DMCA notice asserting ownership.

Obviously, this is a hack, and not at all what YouTube imagined when setting up the transfer system in the first place. So I imagine lawyers are busy rehashing contracts right now.
What is a Microsoft?
nah. the victim was keen like a gamer (not over-keen).
Perhaps this is in response to Ghandi's similar offer?

Who cares though, I'm happy to see them compete for such a great cause.
I used to work for a company that manufactured touch devices. One line of our devices did support hover (it's probably 5 years old now) but we disabled it in software because it was too confusing of an end-user experience.
This was a camera based solution but I'm sure it's the same for capacitive screens.

From my actual experience, I don't think 'normal' users would 'get' hover.
Well, two things:

"Everyone you speak to" is probably a group of people very similar to you. That's how most peoples' social groups work, and it's hard to notice because your experience of them tends to factor out the similarities and focus on the differences.

The value of a potential moviegoer is almost a binary function of movie quality: the looks good enough to be worth the price of a ticket, or it doesn't. The marginal value of added quality past that point is slight, at least from a box office perspective. So to maximize revenue, you want your movie to exceed that threshold for as many people as possible. This is why the highest-grossing movies in any given year tend to be family-friendly comedies.
That wasn't the bad thing about Windows.
I transferred to DNSimple instead, based on the general impression that namecheap is just GoDaddy in another guise, and the reports from users of namecheap that their interface is just as bad as GoDaddy's.

Gotta say I'm happy so far. DNSimple is the best DNS management interface I've found yet - well worth $3/month.
Google didn't wake up on June 28th 2007 and say, "Shit, we'd better make a phone OS", and then release it 15 months later.

Both were under development for years before they were released. The idiots who think Android is just an iOS clone, forget this point.
Which I find insane when it comes to crops. If the person had willfully taken some seeds and used them sure, but patent law really should have some sort of exemption for cases where the patented product is overtly trespassing. It's ridiculous that because some company patented a gene a farmer who never wanted the plant in the first place is limited in what he can do to his own property. (Can't use roundup, can't harvest his seeds, etc.)

It's a small step from this situation to creating a virus, patenting it and releasing it in the wild and calling all people that get the cold your property.

Patent ownership in this kind of case (the plants, not the people) needs to be dialed back.
Gandi.net has revocation polices similar to GoDaddy where they can impose their own morality at revoking your domain.
Is there some sweet spot for a developer with ~1-3 years of industry experience? Most of these programs note that all you need is basic programming knowledge - but is there anything out there for 'junior developers on the rise' that are already learning and advancing but want to turbocharge or learn under the leaders in the industry?

It's probably a lame excuse, but it's hard to trade in a steady paycheck for six months of either paying tuition or going back to living on a student stipend.

I really like the apprenticeship model but I feel like the logistics don't work out for anyone that isn't looking to get into programming for the first time or just graduated college.
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Quite a lot of people, actually. Thanks for the insightful post.
I always use http://www.blindtextgenerator.com/lorem-ipsum

It has more options for breaking text into paragraphs than c&p lorem ipsum and doing it manually. The only issue I have with it is pasting into a cms window keeps the styles from their site so if I do that, it'll go through notepad first.

I'm having the same issue with Mamet Ipsum, it pastes as Arial with the flesh-colored background. I'd love to have a plain text option for this reason.

One other thing that would make me use this generator over others would be if there were a way on Mamet Ipsum to generate different-sized paragraphs, such as 20 words, 60 words, 30 words, 100 words, etc. on random with a refresh button to re-generate random paragraph sizes.

(edited with more feedback since I am no longer on a phone)
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Yep, the first phototypes of Android devices were very blackberry like.
I've used both and much prefer Namecheap. From all my dealings with them so far, they also seem much more above-board than GoDaddy.
Well, it can vary. I can only speak to my own experience. I live just outside the city in Jersey. It's a bus to Port Authority Bus Terminal (located on 42nd and 8th), then a subway ride to work. Total time: 30min. In rush hour: 45min. That's why flex time is nice. Other places in New Jersey you can take the PATH train. That's 15 minutes, and if you work in the Financial District, it drops you off right at the World Trade Center. Usually you wouldn't even need to drive in New Jersey if you're in Jersey City or Hoboken or even as far north as Bergen, if you position yourself near a bus stop.
You will have to forgive my ignorance on the matter as I have not been paying close attention to the popularity of NoSQL databases but has MongoDB taken the crown. Cassandra seemed to be widely popular for a while but this article seems to imply that MongoDB is the skill to have, which would lead me to believe that more people are adopting it than the other offerings in this space. Can someone enlighten me to the state of the NoSQL industry, has it picked the winner and losers yet? Or is MongoDB just enjoying it's moment in the sun?
I think he's saying that the MMX versions of these functions actually perform worse than what the compiler could produce from the plain C code, because the compiler would be able to use SSE2 for all floating-point math. Hence, these elaborately hand-optimized code paths are actually "pessimizations".
I think that's fair. I don't think it was intentional either. But my question is what the implications are for other companies looking for publicity. Is there a strategy there to emulate? (e.g., find some fool willing to be the fall-guy like Paul from Ocean)

For the record, I'm not condoning such behavior - if anything, I'm interested in exposing such intentional strategies as dishonest. But awareness must come before defense.
This is a great response. Thanks for the info and link.
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I cannot imagine why a one-time credit card payment would be more costly than processing a payment mailed in an envelope.
I'm a fellow Austinite and will vouch for the Drafthouse as well.

The prices --while still obviously above raw cost-- are fair in comparison to the traditional competition. Four dollars for bottomless coke; six dollars for popcorn. They have a gigantic selection of brews and wines. There are various entrees available at the same price of a typical restaurant.

The pre-show entertainment isn't just a thinly veiled sequence of advertising. It can be hit or miss --apparently they're _all_ edited by two fellas in an office somewhere-- but it's nothing like the "LOOK AT THIS AWESOME PRODUCT!" strategy. Regal FirstLook, I'm looking at you and don't particularly care if the tablet survived a thousand foot drop from the sky or not.

Finally, they are able to cater to various crowds and match the atmosphere and the expected behaviour. Traditional movie-going? STFU and watch. "Quote-alongs" for the hits of the recent past? Feel free to revel in your shared heritage of Big Lebowski references, (polite and relevant) chatter welcome. Movie Marathons? Be prepared for Harry Potter supersaturation for the next 24 hours as you go from Sorcerer's Stone to Deathly Hallows. Don't have cable television but still want to enjoy The Walking Dead? There's a screening for that.

Oh, and regarding their no talking and texting rules. Think they don't take it seriously? Think again :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs
"stranded somewhere and not having anything to read". I can associate with this. Although there has been much written about the function and role of boredom in modern society. In particular, that while boredom may not be pleasant, or well understood, it is a different state of mind as opposed to active engagement and entertainment. And perhaps in the state of mind, certain thoughts may rise that need such an environment to percolate to the surface.
What are the specific features from dynamically typed languages that you would want to see in a statically typed program. The standard argument is "ease of use", but programs in modern static languages tend to be as easy/terse/short. You can express the same ideas in both languages, except static languages provide more information. So, what feature of dynamic languages, that is incredibly helpful to you every day, will you miss when you switch to a modern static language?
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I disagree.

If the purpose of the application is met, but the app is otherwise ugly, hard to use or what have you, then you have an MVP.

The point of an MVP, generally, is to determine whether or not there's a market for your application, and whether it actually fills a need.

If you can put out an ugly, half-working application that saves me real, tangible money, then I'm probably going to use it. If there's better-looking or more highly regarded software in the same space, you're out of luck, and shouldn't be launching an MVP... the market's been proven by the competitor. But if it's a new space, in an unproven market, that solves a real problem, then yes, I will accept an app that hasn't "had time to polish the features", so long as the one core feature that I'm using it for works.
Awesome. Great job! It's simple and useful.
I have skimmed the contract, and that does not appear to be the case. Of course I am not a lawyer, and I could have missed something.
I agree with an earlier comment. Big Data, Hadoop etc. are keywords that are supposed to get big in 2012, however, as a regular web dev, it's hard for me to grasp what it can do unless you have gigantic data stores
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There's a lot of .net within Wall Street. I hear that work pays better than the positions listed in original post.
From tokenadult' comment:

Raising teacher pay systematically has been tried in the United States (notably in the state of Connecticut) and has not been shown to markedly raise pupil performance. </quote>

See the video from my comment above to understand why the following obvious suggestion might not work in practice:

An economist who closely studies education policy has suggested that pay and other incentives be used to encourage the least effective teachers to seek other occupations while rewarding the most effective teachers with increased compensation and more professional support. </quote>
If you are in the UK, I would recommend to check out ovh.co.uk 's voip package. Should work out a lot better than localphone.com

I'm a localphone customer here as I am not in the UK. :/
Interesting idea, but the results would be worse than horrendous. It would drive up costs running a theatre massively, and it smacks of classism. Can you imagine how pissed people would be that they had to sit in the shit seats while the rich people seats were empty? Or you let people move when the movie starts, and the people that paid for premium tickets feel ripped off.
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A little off topic, but: I just started to use Stripe this week - a very well implemented and well documented system. Recommended!

I put a link to Stripe.com just below the entry form with an explanation that the credit card information never touches my servers, just Stripe.
When you do a distro comparison, I suggest that all screenshots use the same light blue or dark blue background with no image, so that the desktop and any possibly unique features are highlighted.

This review uses typically cool screenshots, and their only result is possible conclusions like "ooh, that distro has unicorns!"
Everyone in the US has the opportunity (or close to everyone) to attend a near-standard public school in the US. Not all countries subscribe to this model, I believe. Although the US average is low, I strongly suspect that the top 10% of US students perform at or above the levels of all other countries.

As for paying more, this increases competition as stated, but you'd need all other factors to remain equal. The class size in US public schools is now ridiculous, 30+ kids per teacher at the local elementary here. Education funding should basically be doubled imho, and the number of teachers per student dropped to 17 or 18 maximum.
I really liked to use Apture for this use case.
2. Ticket prices are too high. People have always made that complaint, but historically the movies have been cheap compared to concerts, major league sports and restaurants.

I had to check this claim, because inflation and purchasing power can fog people's memories. Using average U.S. ticket prices[1] adjusted to 2010 dollars[2], I get the following:

Year | Price | 2010 price adj. w/CPI

---------------------------------

2010 | 7.89 | 7.89

2005 | 6.41 | 7.15

2000 | 5.39 | 6.83

1995 | 4.35 | 6.22

1990 | 4.22 | 7.04

1985 | 3.55 | 7.19

1980 | 2.69 | 7.12

1975 | 2.03 | 8.23

1971 | 1.65 | 8.88

1967 | 1.22 | 7.96

1963 | 0.86 | 6.13

1958 | 0.68 | 5.13

1954 | 0.49 | 3.97

1948 | 0.36 | 3.26

Assuming my calculations are fair and correct, it appears that movie ticket prices quickly outpaced inflation until the late 60s, saw a peak in the 70s and then began a steady decline until the mid 90s. Since then they've been on a march upwards again.

So prices aren't historically high - that honor goes to the 1970s. And compared to sports events and concerts...?! I don't have the data, but I'd bet tickets for those have risen even faster, both of which, incidentally, suffer from the same competition movies do: high quality home theater setups and internet streaming. Which of course is the real problem - ticket prices need to drop against inflation, because entertain distribution options are not the same in 2011 as they were in 1971. The movie theater or concert venue does not have a monopoly on high definition entertainment any more.

Sources:

[1] http://www.natoonline.org/statisticstickets.htm

[2] http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
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Not in the US they weren't, at least not _nearly_ as much as they are now.

But I don't think texting is nearly as much as a problem as the outsized ticket price increases for 3d films
The point about encapsulating arbituary data formats is a good one. Especially if you invent some protocol that may have to receive programming language code or worse images/mp3s etc etc especially compressed/encrypted ones.

Unless your protocol will have very limited use cases it's almost impossible to know what data will be sent over it , so you can't really guarentee any single delimited character. Even if you do make the use case limited someone will want to use it in a way you didn't intend (look at HTTP for example).

I don't think they were talking about validating everything at TCP/IP level, especially since it's unlikely you or I could affect meaningful change to the TCP/IP spec anyway. I think it's meaning application layer protocols that get invented for specific programs where what you are doing infact is creating another type of packet at a higher abstraction level.

I think the length field example was probably a bad one but I think the tl;dr is to KISS when defining a protocol. If somebody else re-implements your protocol and you can't easily run their implementation through a series of tests to know if it is correct or not then you run the risk of creating a so called "weird machine".
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Or taking jobs working on rocket programs for other countries and other militaries, and for private-sector entities in other countries, which I suspect is part of the core of the development program.

It's not just private entities in the US that are interested in rockets and satellite deployments. (We're well on our way to four parallel GPS systems, after all. The US GPS, the European Galileo, Russian GLONASS and the Chinese Beidou system that are all coming online.)

And beyond GPS satellites and as Herr von Braun and others showed many years ago, rockets are dual-use technologies.
Hmm, yeah, you're right:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/05/googlesharing_cert_r...

Revoked SSL based on trademark and Whois information.

Although the article does provide an update which says:

The reason for the certificate being revoked was because of the inaccurate whois data. Certificates really are a seal of trust, but that cannot be based on falsified whois data. It was right to revoke the certificate for this reason, but not without being in contact with the customer. We have reviewed and changed our processes to rectify this.
Dupe from 7 Months ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2557461

And we use .Net for our startup :)
Inconclusive result is a kind of result. You can test comparable designs all you want and get an inconclusive result for a long time. This means there's no big difference and that's that.

If you get significant result at 0.0005, then it's up to you - might as well stop. There's even a table in the article saying what significance is appropriate after "correction".
I was unfortunate enough to own one of the first Android devices, the HTC Magic (aka MyTouch3G). This was prior to, and also one of the first victims of, Android fragmentation. The process of discovering who was responsible for updates was the least open and opaque process I could have imagined. I had to resort to seeking out the information from other users on the Vodafone forum to discover that basically, no one actually cared. I had already bought the device so HTC had their money and didn't care, I was signed up to a 2 year contract so Vodafone had their money and didn't care, and Google got to license the phone as a Google Experience one, selling their app suite as well as me using their services. Google maybe cared a little, but they do not provide support or after care really unless talking to a perl script counts as support.

The underlying OS might be revolutionary in some ways, but the update process (at least the one sanctioned by Google) is so far away from revolutionary I find it hard to fathom the Android Reality Distortion Field I sometimes hear about this. It sucks. It gives the user next to no after care, it is all about the upfront purchase to the handset maker, the vampire like carrier fees, and the services provided by Google including all the advertising on the devices. I think people are evangelising this beyond what is rational.
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So many good ideas! I'm totally hooked!
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You have to keep in mind that the location of the registar doesn't matter since SOPA lets the US government go directly to Verisign.
I've written code in a lot of languages and on a lot of platforms.

I ultimately switched to Python not because I wanted to be part of the cabal of Pythonistas (which I frankly believe is much less 'cool' than Ruby), but because it has exceptional platform coverage, is highly readable - solving a problem I've had working with teams or with old code, and is easy to get up to speed in. Mainly though, it allows me to run my code in the cheapest way possible, and scale for pennies on the dollar compared to .Net.

I love Visual Studio, and I'm more than happy to write .Net code (though I haven't done it in awhile,) but I won't for my personal projects because the resulting product is prohibitively more expensive to run and operate than one built in a variety of other languages.
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Need to get a screen shot of a web page at the same time every day to track some stats for my company. Unfortunately I'm asleep at that point every day. Any way to automate this? Looking for a solution for Mac OS.
"[convince them] your company is doing something important and impactful"

I would also add "not be a clone of the hot new thing run by some naive fast-talking 'business person'". There are unfortunately a lot of these being funded and working at one is usually an uninspired rat race to nowhere. Just my personal experience.