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I hope you found some comfort in what I said. And yes, Hackers & Painters is a truly amazing read.

Anyway, take care and have fun. :)
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so as RVM maintainer(I know what's inside):

What RVM does:
- RVM by default provides patches that will make your old ruby compile on your new system.
- RVM does not provide patches for anything else, so there will be no magically enabling/disabling code.
- in RVM you can specify ruby patchlevel and you will get exactly that ruby patchlevel
- when you specify or not patchlevlel for ruby RVM will respect it compiling/using respectively given patchlevel or latest one.

What your system does(will do at least one of those):
- bump ruby patchlevel because of security issues, but also possibly can include behavior changes
- backport fixes from newer patchlevel / version to the installed version
- will include code changes/patches they fill like are necessary for you - but are you ?

So the main difference:
RVM - will try to keep your ruby-patchlevel compiling for you, no other changes
System - will bump patchlevel or backport fixes to the build one.

Additionally in your system you can find maybe two - three provided ruby version, build by system maintainers, no possibility to define patches you would like to be include, RVM allows you to have as many rubies as you want (I have right now 37 different combinations of ruby/version/patchlevel/patches installed)

And last RVM will alllow you to use the same ruby-version-patchlevel-patches in development and in production, making sure you run the same exact behavior on across all your systems used for development and hosting.
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Thank you! It will be fun.
Definitely. I first learned about theanine in the context of green tea. I'm a coffee drinker, though, and wanted the benefits without changing my drink. :)
I'm not sure many US-based registrars would be willing go against a law enforcement agency. Or would be able to do it twice.

It all depends on what was on the letter they got and who sent it.

Should they have ditched GoDaddy? Most probably yes. Would that save them now? I wouldn't bet my company.
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Didn't downvote you... not sure how to do that on here tbh.

Thanks for the explanation and the references.
I'm a big fan of Apple's products. Have been since the Apple II. But when I look dispassionately at the core capabilities, I do not see uniform excellence.

Apple clearly excels at: marketing/brand, hardware, and partner/supply chain management. But Apple's software quality is all over the map. Further, Apple does not "get" the internet (and never has).

Since "hardware vs software" was the focus of JG's post, I'll briefly state my case around those two elements.

Apple gets hardware. I doubt that anyone would argue otherwise. Fabulous objects-of-desire emerge from amazing industrial designs. I can't even think of a laptop I'd consider in the same league as the Air. Ditto the iPad, iPod, and Airport. (The iPhone is in a much closer race with the Samsung gear.)

Apple also sports price-performance advantages In certain key areas. iPods have held more memory per dollar since the earliest days of MP3 players, for example. HP was unable to match the iPad. And now the Air and other "computer products" have closed the gap. This is an under-appreciated aspect of Apple's game.

Apple sometimes gets software too. I personally loath the one-button-ultra-modal aspect of IOS. But the myriad of brilliant features (e.g., pinch, scroll, etc.) blow me away, in both a design and execution sense. Apple is great at UX-in-the-small. But at application-level, things aren't so balmy.

iTunes and its syncing model are frustrating at best. Mail, iCal, and Address Book are only now getting better than (elegant) toys. These three have had serious bugs for years. iWork - forget it. App uninstall is incomplete, leaving many remnants. OSX's underlying file system is a joke, as is MacPorts. Lion's desire to mimic IOS is frustrating at best.

Apple is the greatest show on earth based mainly on their brand development and their ability to produce must-have objects.

Oh, and I'd (reluctantly) take Win7/Air and IOS/Samsung -based on the strengths of the hardware in each case. A split decision.

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the thing about https and your employer.... be very aware that on managed workstations, its trivial to intercept https traffic by pushing out a new trusted ca across the company....

assume your employer can see everything you are doing.

what are you doing job hunting on his dime anyway? uncool.
I think I did not make my point clear enough. It is trivial to make it inaccessible to programs who assume that it is easily accessible. I did not mean to include solely malicious programs.

If you stick your addressbook into a truecrypt container 100% of programs (i know there is no 100% security, but there is not enough space to spell out all 99.999999s) will not be able to access it anymore without you unlocking/mounting it first. Thus, requiring your permission.
My website does this too - example: http://textbookcentral.com.au/26/university-of-new-south-wal...

It sends you a confirmation email which you must click on before your post is broadcast to other buyers and sellers.

I figured this beats user accounts because students buying / selling users would come here at most once per semester, they are never going to remember their account credentials anyway.

No spammers, yet. (the spammers post without confirming)
What books need is more aggressive editing. Skimming wouldn't be necessary if the goal were maximizing signal versus noise. I'd pay a premium for the same book more aggressively edited. There's a cost associated with the benefit of reading. Time is now at a premium and part of the cost of a book along with the monetary cost.

Most books are around 250 pages, but I find that most of those 250 page books really only have about 120 pages worth of content.

A while back I asked about it on Quora and discovered that most book publishers aim for 50,000+ words. With the World reaching peak attention, especially for those that read a lot, it's ridiculous to keep insisting on books at 250 pages, especially in the case of technical books and non-fiction

http://www.quora.com/Do-book-publishers-push-for-books-to-be...
I don't think so, they just saw the opportunity to intercept easily. If they wanted to do something good, they'd be a role model and open-source their protocol first and would try to get it standardised.
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Signs a startup is in trouble:

1) It pivots and then immediately releases a professional Apple-style promo video demoing its new offering.

2) The creators produce the majority of the content on the site.
The criticism is that writing an authoritative book or peer reviewed article is demonstrably insufficient in the face of a large body of incorrect secondary material and active editorial control.

I think it uncontroversial to claim Wikipedia is a knowledge base with a bias toward stability of mature articles over correctness. It's a tradeoff.

I believe your argument is that it is the right tradeoff. That may be true, but that opinion fails to be properly cited, and does not have a large body of secondary sources backing it up. :-)
To some degree it's irrelevant "what an encyclopedia is or is not" - what's important is what wikipedia is. Gutting wikipedia to slavishly adhere to a dictionary definition wouldn't help anyone.
Today's sysadmin todo list:

0. Get corporate membership with EFF.

1. Identify all applications with user-generated content.

2. Move all associated domains to a non-US based registrar.

3. Migrate DNS, web serving and other critical services to non-US based servers.

4. Migrate yourself to a non-US controlled country.

I'm sorry for US sites and users. Your government is hell-bent on turning the internet into a read-only device like TV, easily regulated and controlled. The population will be required to sit quietly and keep their eyes glued on the screen so they don't miss the ads, with any infringers deemed terrorists and pedophiles and thus deserving of summary punishment by DHS squads.

Hopefully the internet will route around the damaged segment, and the rest of us can continue to enjoy the amazing interactivity it has brought our society.
My concern has always been, ruby (or any other complex application) is going to compile differently on like but different systems.

Over long periods of time I'd be concerned that I could never recreate the 'same' Ruby 1.9.2 installation using RVM.

How can you address the concern of small changes being introduced when compiling against slightly different versions of development and runtime libraries?
How doesn't it? The argument could be made that GoDaddy would have done that deed anyway, even if (2) hadn't been rectified.

GoDaddy might not have, if those provisions had been in place. Do these sorts of stories with GoDaddy happen often?
I would recommend the JS Jabber from this week over this blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3587689

Jeremy & Yehuda touch on most of the issues in this post and you can hear the points directly from their POV rather than filtered through someone else.

Additionally it's interesting to hear that Jeremy & Yehuda are at odds (philosophically) on several other issues which I think help to round out the ideas behind Backbone, Ember, and other projects both of them are involved in.
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Don't spread blatantly false statements. Here's a list of encyclopedias written by experts. (In cases where it wasn't obvious, like "Encyclopedia of Horses & Ponies", I checked that the book text described that the encyclopedia was written by an expert.)

Encyclopedia of Physics (3043 pages)

Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (912 pages)

Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance (6490 pages)

Encyclopedia Of Philosophy (6200 pages)

The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health (6200 pages)

The Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals (2564 pages)

Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry (3000 pages)

Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications (139 titles in that series, at about 500 pages per title = 70,000 pages).

The Film Encyclopedia (1520 pages)

Encyclopedia of Horses & Ponies (384 pages)

The Kentucky Encyclopedia (1080 pages)

The Encyclopedia of the Swedish Flora and Fauna (100 volumes planned, and about 5,000 pages published so far)

Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs (812 pages)

Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism (718 pages)

Encyclopedia of Geomorphology (1200 pages)

The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism (1349 pages)

Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (17,616 pages)

Encyclopedia of German Literature (1136 pages)

The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature (1772 pages)

The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization (2790 pages)

Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering (5810 pages)

Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance (2194 pages)

Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry (16,504 pages)

That's enough. Go to http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-WILEYEUROPE2_SEARCH_... and see the list of 436 encyclopedias written by experts as published by a single company. Now add the CRC press (another 200+ titles), Oxford University Press (95 titles), and so on.

How did you ever come to the conclusion that "experts shouldn't want to write encyclopedias"? If you still believe that, then what are all the above experts doing wrong?
GoDaddy's actions don't cancel it out because ignoring or not adequately preparing for phishing was wrong every single day and a foreseeable problem for about a decade now. They had a responsibility to prevent this for their paying users.

Maybe it wouldn't have saved them, but there are a lot of free-x-hosting companies out there that haven't been shut down in spite of abuse.
The whole Address Book framework on iOS seems to have gotten the shit end of the doody stick when they were handing out skilled programmer-hours at Apple.

For example it's inexplicably implemented as a bunch of low-level Core Foundation calls even though it's not remotely a performance bottleneck in any conceivable use case and 90% of the apps using it immediately wrap every query result in some kind of half-baked Objective-C container. And although 99.9% of the code using it wants to use it a simple contacts database, the APIs are designed to be as general as possible and thus are even more needlessly hard to use.

My guess is there has been a "Do something about Address Book on iOS" item on Apple's to-do list for the last couple of years and this permission business always got pigeonholed under that item, until this latest shitstorm demanded a short-term fix.

It's going to be interesting how they implement this for existing apps, since there is no "The user said 'No'" return value for any of the APIs. I guess they're just going to have to return an empty address book or a "record deleted" result code when the user declines access for an app.
Talk about cutting off the branch you are sitting on...
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Worth noting that this is a top 5,000 global site, roughly speaking. The fascist machine is definitely continuing to raise the bar on the commoners they're willing to take down (they were always willing to go after a site like MegaUpload, but this is a different category of assault).

Cycle it a few years forward and it wouldn't be surprising if 1% to 2% of the biggest 10,000 .coms have been seized (100 to 200 sites).
this is really interesting.
what's the basic rule behind it?

i thought this only happens in china.
It's very possible but initially a bit time consuming to get a relationship to the point where you can just give work to someone and get results. What I've done to get there:

Post a smallish job with a key element or two you will need (as a test). Require that you only want to hear from folks who have delivered very similar work and can provide links to it, and ask a pertinent question they should be able to answer in their response.

Ignore the folks that are not responsive to your request as dozens of individuals and outsource groups will respond yes to everything and reply only with a generic reply of work done.

Award the simple project to multiple folks who look like they've tackled things similar to what you want, done in a style you like. Set very specific milestones and structured release of payments for work against that and pay promptly. After completion, pick from them who to work with going forward on your project

BTW, I disagree with 'run-off' method. I think results of test are biased if they feel know are trying to win bigger job. Much better I think to assess completed small project, then offer a larger job only to those that you feel you would want to continue to work with on a larger or more extended basis.
"hell-bent on turning the internet into a read-only device"

well put
It's not "who you know", but "whom you know".
Really timely article for for us. Don't raise means bootstrapping and maybe taking on some consulting work for 3-6 mths before reevaluating. Raising means hiring 2 more people and stepping on the gas. We are definitely at a point where we've validated the concept but the beta isn't available yet. If raising is easy, it would be a great accelerant. If raising is not easy, trying to raise may delay or even prevent us from reaching our goals.
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I had been putting away the idea of doing for several weekends now.

Great implementation.
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A large (10m uniques/mo) web site I used to work for had a complete DMCA takedown process in place. Links on every page, web forms, contact emails, physical addresses, etc. Then our site went dark one evening. I spent an hour frantically trying to figure out where our main web servers had gone, only to discover that a "online anti-terrorism team" had taken issue with some user-submitted content that didn't seem very friendly towards Americans. They contacted Softlayer, our hosting provider, and said that anti-American content was in violation of some commerce law--don't recall the exact details. It wasn't what I would describe as a "credible legal threat"--they left no name, no physical address, their web site looked like a vigilante operation. Softlayer, in turn, sent us a "generic you have a support ticket" email and b.) 72 hours later, unplugged the web server NICs. We suffered hours of downtime without any idea what was happening.

We juggled dozens of Softlayer tickets at the time, so another anonymous tracking number just got lost in the shuffe. Never underestimate the power of unaccredited strangers to fuck you through your hosting provider.
I think its quite hard for individuals to keep updating their /etc/hosts file regularly. But, if we could all share it in github, this would be a great idea!
More and more folks are realizing the power of Open Source - why limit it to functional code when we all need design just as much? This is a fantastic trend, and (I hope) just the beginning.
I have to agree but due to circumstances (expensive, capped Internet in South Africa) I'm even more put out by the fact that there is no indication of how many megs each clip is or at least how many minutes so I can do the mental arithmetic necessary to decide wether to click through or not...
It's a bit extreme, but I'm loving RequestPolicy. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy... It lets you see every domain that text, graphics, code etc have been loaded from on the current page. The default is to block everything, but it's easy (two clicks) to allow or whitelist a domain.
If you know that a string minus a number results in NaN, you don't need to run the code to get the joke ;)
I'm particularly interested – if anyone has experience using Ember – about the concerns raised about Ember's performance with large amounts of data and "hairy custom view situations," as borismus puts it. Is Ember actually going to be slow when dealing with large data sets?
I've been using this website on my phone then setting my alarm based on the output and it has been great. I can't say if it's a placebo effect or if the science is correct but I feel less sluggish when I wake up and get going more easily so I'll keep using it!
You do make a good point, we as a collective hold different standards for different companies sometimes. Facebook catches a lot more shit for their mistakes than some other companies. Google catches a lot of shit even when they specifically outline and allow you to opt-in to their policies. When Microsoft does something it's monopolistic, when Apple does the same thing it's "value-added".

The big thing is, I don't know Path as a company. They haven't been around a long time, they don't have a huge, trusting userbase. You assume that they have the information you've given them. You assume they use it for ads or other pseudo-anonymous stuff. What you don't expect is that they will be grabbing things off your phone that you didn't explicitly allow them access to. Programs on your desktop don't hijack the information from other installed programs.

Maybe the line of thinking is faulty for mobile OSes. Maybe it's a chance to start fresh and allow full access across all apps. But the main cry in this controversy is that the users want to at least feel they are in control, even if it's just "install and accept the terms, or don't install period".

Heath Ledger said it best, I think, in The Dark Knight. "Nobody panics when things go 'according to plan.' Even if the plan is horrifying!" Request from the users all the information on their phone and permissions to everything, then present them with an intriguing product. I'll bet a great majority of those who would have installed it would still install it because, like you said, it really does enhance the awesomeness of the app. A little truth goes a long way.

At any rate, this will likely be forgotten in short notice when the next outrage begins.
"you need to look in the mirror."

I need to look in the mirror because you lied about what I have said?

I take yours and others insistence on insulting me as concession to all my points.
Do you plan for every illegal thing that could happen on your website?

It's easy to not imagine what sort of evil your site could be used for when you're thinking of just the awesome problem you're trying to solve.
You're fixated on an argument I'm not really making. So, you disagree with me; you think experts should want to write encyclopedias. Great. What does that have to do with the article we're commenting on? Wikipedia does not have a policy that experts shouldn't work on the encyclopedia.
I can do both at the same time. A win win scenario.
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The time has come to publicly shame any YC or startup that has a godaddy domain. Switching registrars is not hard, and using godaddy is like having an @aol.com email address.

I spent a few minutes checking the registrar for YC companies with press in techcrunch:

crowdtilt.com

doublerecall.com

drchrono.com

memsql.com

verbling.com

readyforzero.com
No, maybe not exactly. But keep in mind, we here in the tech world, I think, (or this is just coming from my experiences) pretty much concede that Apple wins the design award. I have several non-tech friends whom still love windows, and are all about windows 7. I know people who are thinking about switching to a mac, and but are afraid of not knowing what the hell is going on. (I was honestly concerned at first)

I guess what I'm trying to say is, that other Software out there has a huge huge presence, with non-techie people, who are tempted by Apple only because of the "ooo shiny" effect of their slim devices, backlit keyboards, and the fanboism surrounding them. That's decidedly the hardware that is converting people. Windows users are more than happy to just use windows forever. Until their devices don't look as pretty as the guys next to them in the coffee shop.

(results may be different for mobile, but only because I think Android hasn't got it's act together with it's vendors yet. Some aspects of the biz take longer to sort out than technical development, unfortunately)