skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>no-one else did either?

The GP wrote: "wide use", not that agile work methods was totally unknown.

The GP claims are similar to my memories but sure, I might have been in the wrong places and read the wrong sources.

Do you have references for your position?
The difference I see between CodeSchool and Codecademy is that Codecademy's front page is targeted to people with zero prior experience. CodeSchool on the other hand is pushing classes for learning CoffeeScript, jQuery, and Rails. People with no prior experience aren't going to know what the heck those are or why they should care. Codecademy's proposition on the other hand is straight forward, "Learn to code". Note there is no mention on their main page of what language. It's like they are doing for coding what Apple did for the PC marketing in the sense that Apple doesn't really focus on the processor memory details etc...
I actually work in exactly this type of swat team. We were all hired at well above standard payrates at my large company to build the next generation product. The response from the existing teams was immediate - they saw us as a threat, and started doing everything they could to make our project fail. In the end they succeeded in gimping the product by simply giving us interfaces that just couldn't do what a good product needed. The swat team was dragged into mediocrity. Now many of those rather expensive hires are actively looking to move elsewhere.

Moral of the story - building a star team in an existing company is a good way of building resentment about that team and is unlikely to breed success.
Google's daily revenue is more money than all congress members combined receive per year in donations.
XBOX 360 growing as entertainment destination
> Rodney Zak's "Programming the Z80"

The first and still the best programming book I ever read. It taught me architecture, instruction fetching and decoding, how the clock comes into it, as well as the usual assembly programming. I loved that book. I still regret throwing it out, 20 years later.

Good news: you can download a PDF. http://www.freetechbooks.com/programming-the-z80-t784.html
All the more reason I'd think they'd want to protect it, going forward.
It'd be easy to generate a signed bootloader that runs unsigned kernels. It'd also be easy to then use that bootloader to boot malware to attack Windows. For secure boot to be in any way useful it would then be necessary to blacklist that signed bootloader. Signed kernels that load unsigned drivers have the same problem.
Poll: Where do you stand with regards to SOPA/PIPA?
It might seem like a silly question, but after talking to a few people in the tech industry, I have spoken to a few supporters of SOPA/PIPA. I am curious if there are supporters who may not be speaking out due to it not being the popular consensus.

So where do you stand?
I am against SOPA/PIPA
I am pro SOPA/PIPA
I am indifferent
Wow, that's really weird. I think you're projecting, Dodd.

On the other hand, sometimes I wish I had the presence of mind to falsely accuse others by saying they are doing what I'm actually doing. Of course this requires a lot of gall to carry off. Don't know that I've got that, either.
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"Signing the kernel isn't enough. Signed Linux kernels must refuse to load any unsigned kernel modules. Virtualbox on Linux? Dead. Nvidia binary driver on Linux? Dead. All out of tree kernel modules? Utterly, utterly dead. Building an updated driver locally? Not going to happen. That's going to make some people fairly unhappy."

Making secure boot meaningful on Linux would be a big project - you'd also have to sign most of the stuff in userland. But if it were done, it would be done by the distro, which could easily enough sign the kernel module in its VirtualBox package and whatever else users might want to load into the kernel. Since this would presumably be optional (there would be an alternate signed bootloader that loaded an unsigned kernel for developers and power users), the GPL3 would be satisfied; and the end result is a system that's significantly harder to attack. I don't know if that's worth the effort, considering the lack of actual malware for Linux, but as long as the key is installed along with the OS, it's hardly an impossibility.
A computer that boots code that loads un-signed modules isn't secure at all. I suspect that will be the outcome of UEFI: no effective increase in security, and hassles installing new operating systems.

Frankly, I have no interest in my computer being secure in this way (running only code signed by companies). UEFI might have a place in kiosks or shared computers in public libraries, but not for a computer I own and physically control.
This is big news for the Triangle! People in the RTP startup community saw how important Launchbox Digital was. I have high hopes for TSF and know Chris Heivly will do a great job.
I don't believe that agile is really going away, but it is definitely not really the hot thing anymore, at this point, many years since it first became a trend.

And probably a growing number of people are going to be put off by their experiences with "agile", if they are anything like mine have been.

Managers love the idea of releasing more often and understand that. And that part can be an improvement.

However, quite a few people seem to think that means you can fit that many more features in, which is false.

This is the big challenge for agile in my opinion: automated testing or even testing at all, is hard for many development teams for a number of reasons. Not to say that the actual skills or knowledge are particularly difficult to acquire. But practically speaking, putting into place a good testing and release system are challenging for many teams.

And doing "agile" (read: code and release more features faster) without solid automated testing or at least one real QA analyst who is busy, will guarantee that you have a ton of regressions and broken deployments. Now, since you are releasing much more often, you will still gain from getting much more feedback from customers, but there will be loud drone of bug fixing conflicting with the "agile" manager's push to release more features.

If your implementation of "agile" actually includes frequent refactoring and you don't have unit or at least integration tests, you are definitely going to be sorry.

Test-driven development requires a little bit more discipline, sometimes more up-front design, and sometimes investment in developer training. If TDD or the like is off the table or only partially implemented but you are still going ahead with "agile", then you still might survive, if you have a real QA analyst and solid process. My perception and experience is that most managers will decide that hiring an additional person "just for testing" is "not in the budget" and if they do bring someone onto the project for QA they will think they can use just any person rather than hiring a single QA professional.

That has been my experience with agile. Several years in, I am still working on trying to discipline myself and with my latest project I am having a bit of success with vows-bdd integration tests. But TDD/BDD etc. is a skillset that takes time to develop and a discipline that I believe young developers will greatly benefit from if it is part of their early training and experience.
Larry Smith TEDxUW - Why you will fail to have a great career
Throughout his three-decade career here at the University of Waterloo, Larry Smith has inspired legions of students to take up the mantle of economics with his passionate and homespun tales of economic wizardry. A renowned story-teller, teacher and youth leadership champion, Larry has also coached and mentored countless numbers of students on start-up business management and career development strategies.

Having taught introductory microeconomics, macroeconomics and entrepreneurship classes, he recently celebrated assigning his 29,000th grade earlier this year.

Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award, Larry has also coached several of his former students to help them position and develop their businesses, the most famous of which is Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the revolutionary BlackBerry wireless mobile smartphone. Larry also sits on the advisory panels of start-ups to provide his guidance on financing and negotiation with investors and venture capitalists.

http://www.tedxuw.com/speakers/larry-smith/

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Congratulations to a well deserving team :)
How is a company exercising its freedom to deliver whatever product it wants to deliver an abuse of power? Any power that Google or Reddit has is the outcome of providing value to their customers, and in return their customers providing dollars or time. Any such "power" is not the result of legislation and enforcement at the point of a gun. No legislation forces you to use Google.

On the other hand, the MPAA/RIAA paying millions of dollars to buy off politicians and write legislation is very obviously an abuse of power, power that was never voluntarily granted to them in the first place. If this law passes, you will absolutely be forced at gunpoint to conform to the will of the MPAA.
Oh, yeah no big sites. Wikipedia is one of the top ten or so sites and probably bigger than Twitter. And Google, the biggest site period is also pitching in, if not so dramatically. Reddit is smaller but still very big. Really, the headline should be the opposite...
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Wikipedia blackout page
Much of the cost of airfare can be diffused with airline miles. If you've got good credit you can pretty easily rack up a few hundred thousand miles without leaving the ground. Sites like FlyerTalk.com are a great resource for this sort of thing. I haven't paid for the airfare of any of my recent trips to Japan and Europe---it's all been done with miles, in premium cabins.
Google's Anti-SOPA & PIPA Page
Looks like they forgot to un-blackout their info page. Whoops!

Edit: And... fixed.
Google censors its logo for SOPA/PIPA
Take a look over at http://www.google.com/.
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2012 is going to be a big year for Raleigh/Durham!
Basically, you want good people and a team culture that actually works.

Bingo. Which is of course, the hard part to do and maintain. The rest of it is really mostly hand waving. I do believe in a lot of the lean philosophy, and I believe that finding a process that works is crucial to success, but I also believe only a team capable of defining, developing and refining a process will ever have one that "works".
Oops... clicking the "Learn more" link also results in a blacked-out page.
check out gethuman.com for a service that offers menu-avoidance for other public numbers (though not necessarily the government).
Yep, this is great news for the Triangle. Sounds like the new TSF is going to be even bigger and better than the old one as well. Mad props to Chris and Dave for pulling this together!
Google goes black.
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Wikipedia now serves a tasteful dark page. The page has a link thats reads "Learn more" [1], but since it links to a page on Wikipedia, it's blacked out as well. I'm not so sure whether that is intentional.

Edit: they fixed it, so apparently it wasn't intentional.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn...
Google logo blacked out on all search results (in US)
If you provide binary Virtualbox drivers, sure. I'm not aware of any distributions that do that - they provide source instead. And signing external drivers requires auditing them to make sure that there's no way they can be exploited to execute arbitrary code, because if they can then you've just signed a malware loader and Microsoft (if they're serious about secure boot being about security) blacklist your key.
The authority exists, the manufactures. The whole purpose of secure boot is to stop untrusted code running. If something the manufactures sign can run third party code, then it can be used to run untrusted code. This means they will either never make such a key, or revoke it when they do sign it. This simply means, with its current design, linux is incompatible with secure boot.
Craigslist SOPA Protest is up
Why didn't they give you the power to demand things from other teams, lest they be fired?
Chris Dodd was my senator, and I can tell you this: he ain't in a position to be talking about abuses of power.
As of right now I'm seeing a Google logo which has been entirely blacked out and links to their take action page. I think the Google logo changing for major events is pretty well-established even outside the "tech elite" community, so while they didn't black out the whole site, I'd definitely say Google is "enlisted".
"SOPA protest swells as Google, Scribd, and Wordpress join"
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/google-scrib...

Same set of facts and two polar opposite opinions. The conglomerate spin machine (which Reuters is part of) is already in motion
Wikipedia is blacked out
For the curious, the demo of this service (grassroutes.us) at PennApps this past weekend, where tessr, kandalf and drewinglis built this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF_NT6f-8bc&context=C39f6...
Wikipedia Is Black
That's alright. No one wants to hear the whole speech anyway - too boring and dated.

The great part ("I have a dream...") of the speech is available everywhere without paying. It's the truly memorable part of the speech. In fact, I'd bet that 99% who have heard of the speech have heard only that part of the speech.
That's alright. No one wants to hear the whole speech anyway - too boring and dated.

The great part ("I have a dream...") of the speech is available everywhere without paying. It's the truly memorable part of the speech. In fact, I'd bet that 99% who have heard the speech know of only that part of the speech.
For posterity: http://imgur.com/sU5CO
Google Protests SOPA With Google Doodle
Anyone know of a similar tool based on Ruby?
I doubt Washington would be able to properly function today if Google had followed Wikipedia's lead and blocked service.
Must be geotargeted as the google.com logo for searches in Canada aren't black.

It does say "Tell Congress: Please don't censor the web!"
Removed. Parent is dead.
I remember reading that Google said the protest wouldn't involve its logo from somewhere, whoever reported that certainly didn't see this coming. Thumbs up Google!
Content is still viewable -- just disable JavaScript.
Well, that's interesting. All the content is still there, but then an overlay is placed on the page using JS once the page loads. How long until someone puts up a greasemonkey script to unblackout WP?
Getting a 500 error on the petition...
The Google logo is also blacked out prominently on all search pages. Even users who simply use the omnibar (or other toolbars) will be able to see it.

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...
Is anyone else getting a 'Sorry, we are unable to retrieve the document for viewing or you don't have permission to view the document. ' when you click on the image?
I doubt Washington would be able to properly function today if Google had followed Wikipedia's lead and completely blocked service.
A Google representative said "So tomorrow we will be joining many other tech companies to highlight this issue on our U.S. home page." (from the article)

So only the US google home page will be affected.
It's not blacked out in mobile Safari.
The mobile site is also still available, by design.

"Is it still possible to access Wikipedia in any way?

The Wikipedia community, as part of their request to the Wikimedia Foundation to carry out this protest, asked us to ensure that we make English Wikipedia accessible in some way during an emergency. The English Wikipedia will be accessible on mobile devices and smart phones. Because the protest message is powered by JavaScript, it's also possible to view Wikipedia by completely disabling JavaScript in your browser."
Viewing source on any blacked out Wikipedia page also lets you read the article text.
Yes. They messed up permissions on the viewer. Click the "Download Original" button above the error to get the raw PDF in the meantime.
DIE SOPA DIE - Stop Internet Censorship
The Apache example is incomplete. For me, I used Chrome to "download the strike page" from http://sopastrike.com/strike/ and saved it on my server as /strike.html. Then, I added the following to my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !strike.html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/strike_files/
RewriteRule (.*) /strike.html [R=503,L]
ErrorDocument 503 /strike.html

This will trigger 503 for every page request but /strike.html and its subdirectory, also Apache will serve the strike page content for browsers in place of any status codes 200 or 302 on the original request url.
Mojangs Anti SOPA & PIPA Message
Could someone please post a screenshot for those of us outside the US?
Yes - when we go to Google.com, it redirects us automatically to google.ca. That being said, we can click "go to google.com" and it usually shows the US version.
Very nice work Google. Such a bold logo will generate valuable public discussion. Although it's disappointing that we weren't able individually to generate as much buzz as is certain to come of this, I appreciate that some of the bigger companies are stepping up. (I say that based on the scientific metric that every person I spoke to not in the tech field had no idea of either bill).
Or choose to render the page without css.
Firefox: ALT-V, Y, N
It looks like they've still got some kinks to iron out. On the Take Action page, I'm getting a server error on the right and when I try to open the PDF it goes to a Google Docs page that tells me I don't have permission.
From the wikipedia blackout page:

> They [the bills] put the onus on website owners to police user-contributed
> material and call for the blocking of entire sites, even if the links are
> not to infringing material. Small sites will not have the sufficient
> resources to mount a legal challenge.

This is beautiful. It succinctly puts forth the problem that SOPA/PIPA and similar legislation will create: chilling innovation.
I'm not arguing that Secure Boot is useful or good in any way, I'm simply saying that from a technical perspective, signed bootloader does not mean signed kernel.
Disable Javascript to browse Wikipedia.
Alternatively use the mobile version of a page: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article
The call to action here seems rather weak to those who've been following it for a while, but this is the best we can hope for when reaching out to the broader base.

The more you try to educate, the more joe public will push back.
Here's a screenshot. Sorry for forgetting you foreign folks.

http://i.imgur.com/JBf8B.jpg
The author of this blog also gave a talk about his work implementing UEFI in linux, and the issues discussed in this post, at a conference in Australia. I strongly suggest watching this talk when the videos are released. http://linux.conf.au/schedule/63/view_talk?day=tuesday
this overlay will drive people crazy
Adblocked: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerCont...

and it works fine for me... Kinda defeats the purpose though.
Amusingly, at first the "Learn More" was a link to a wikipedia page .. which was blacked out. Fixed now :)
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Using AdBlockPlus I've just added the rule to block everything from meta.wikimedia.org which is the domain that loads the script to blackout the site.

||meta.wikimedia.org

Seems to be working so far.
It's pretty smart, actually. They don't want to ruin their SEO.
Blocking http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerCont...

is a better match
For all intents and purposes it's blacked out.

You can count on one hand the number of people who are both unaware of SOPA and PIPA and know how to disable javascript.
Well, they are human after all.

Overall, I feel that C# team has definitely achieved their goal of being a 'Pit of Success'. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/08/falling-into-the-pi...

E.g. Order of evaluation is strictly defined as left to right in C#.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2008/05/23/prece...

Disallowing use of uninitialized local variable.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7797424/why-arent-unassig...

C# warns you if you do

if (i = 1) //notice the '=' instead of '=='
{

}

warning CS0665: Assignment in conditional expression is always constant; did you mean to use == instead of = ?

Obviously, they failed in the case of 'foreach' but I feel great knowing that they will be fixing it in the next release.