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I don't really buy the argument "TSA has never [...] foiled a terrorist plot or stopped an attack on an airliner.": it could be argued that the TSA measures act as an effective deterrent.

A stronger argument could be to show that in none of the countries that do not adopt TSA-like measures there have been any terrorist attempts, let alone successful.

How easy would it be to board in, say, Mexico or Canada, and hijack the flight to the US?

EDIT: looking at the comments (and the downvotes) I have the feeling that I wasn't clear. I agree with the article pretty much on everything, I'm just trying to say that where there are no body scanners deployed, for example in Europe, there have been no terrorist attacks, and I think that this is a stronger argument than "the TSA hasn't prevented any attack".
I can definitely understand that.

I'd recommend you give Rackspace a try. You can sign up for their CDN for free; they hit you for the storage and bandwidth used, but not per transaction. It's worth just experimenting with in a very simple manner to get familiar with (small text files, css files, and so on). Rackspace has a very convenient web based control panel for moving a smaller number of files into their CDN (and of course APIs).

Amazon's Cloudfront is excellent from the standpoint that you don't need to programatically upload any files into it, Amazon can absorb them to their CDN and then serve the files up thereafter (you just create a dns entry for Cloudfront, like cdn.mysite.com and use the same url structure you would on mysite.com). With Rackspace you have to get the files into their cloud, which can be inconvenient if you're talking huge numbers of individual files.

For less than $5 you can absolutely learn everything a developer would need to know about both of those offerings through experimenting with them.
The material and energy intensity of consumption, per capita, has increased exponentially over the past centuries. There is no reason to not expect it to continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Thus, you don't need an army of low-wage consumers to buy things from the wealthy.

You need people not being rich to have riches

Echoing another point made in this thread, but wealth differentials doesn't mean you need to have poor people. The least well off person in a society may not have everything they want - most people don't and probably should not, if we want aspiration and ambition to have a place in the future - but they'll have their basic human rights fulfilled (a roster that gains mass with economic development).
I've been harassed for 15 minutes straight by CBP as a clean, white, male US citizen. I can't imagine what it's like for people who don't fit that description.
Who really needs the precision of mice and the power of a general purpose OS? There are millions of people who don't understand computers at all, and yet use one as part of their job. What if their PCs were replaced with a tablet and a handful of single-purpose apps?
Your 5 trades per year, just curious, how many of them are in any way related to tech?
So, instead they can keep the 600 people, piss off shareholders and reduce profit?
Very well put.

If you live long enough or are brought up so, you realise that happiness is entirely a state of mind.
nice!

would be nice to jump to location (auto-geo-ip @ start / enter zip code?) & close popup details (they start covering each other up)
The tooltips need to close when you click another one.
I'm not surprised by the numbers. Google and TV are not a good fit.

Primarily because the media companies hate Google at a really high level and very viscerally. Now I realize that is a strong statement to hold out as the primary reason but having seen and heard these guys (and generally they are always male) talk about Google at NAB I really find it hard to believe they would do anything to make it easier for Google and go out of their way to be, if not obstructionist, difficult to work with.

I do think that the 'TV on demand' model will win out over nominal 'live' TV streaming, but it will succeed because of the Hulus, Rokus, and Amazons of the world, not Google.
This is something I built whilst out of work. Ironically, it helped to land me a small contracting gig so I haven't had a chance to promote it recently. It's getting a small amount of traction in the London area - would love to get some feedback, especially from UK readers
I think it's only a problem if management doesn't have enough expertise to delegate authority properly.

If someone without technical expertise is making technical decisions, that's a problem. A good CEO knows what he doesn't know, and needs to know enough about his business to give those decisions to the right people.
With current experience building trading applications and coming to SF in a week, I'd be interested to talk to you.
Since it's so cheap it will be very easy to build a cluster of this little things and start computing in prarallel. Since I'm also attending Udacity CS 101, where you learn to build your own search engine, I'm dreaming about a data center full of raspberry pi's crawling the web :)
I look forward to the companies that will be spawned by ex-Blizzard folks
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"I am stunned, quite frankly, that the same people who fought against the Patriot Act because it was invasive and violated privacy rights have not howled about this invasion of personal privacy rights."

Say what? I see the same people railing against both, all the time.
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The fields you mentioned have guilds that forbid their certified members from working under anyone other than another member of the guild.
If it's like the old VS betas it will last for 180 days.
Zed,

Please don't feel bad or sorry here. Your critic to the code is VALID. Besides, you are not the only one who have understood the problem in K&R. I had a boss who was aware of this since 90's and talked about it when I was quite ignorant of his points then until I got bitten. But I am glad you rediscovered the problem and made an effort to write it on web.

K&R has its value in historical context. I hope you are not discouraged by the general reaction and I really think we should put more effort in creating new material to teach people in modern context. Please keep on working on it!
In my experience, hyperbole serves me well in my goals. "Produce more than you consume" is more defendable in terms of online critique, and you ARE right. But I have enough forces bombarding me with reminders to consume (advertising, internet, TV, procrastination...) In this tug-of-war, these rules are the only thing pulling in the opposite direction. I want my rules to be strongly worded enough to pull me back to the right mindset/goal.
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I dunno, have you had much luck w/ cold calling vs email? I think e-mail is a lot more effective as it's faster and can be automated where cold calling simply can't be automated and no one likes getting called on the phone when they're doing something else. Everyone works off of e-mail these days.

And I've done both, I've had way better results with cold e-mails, 1 meeting out of 50 emails is probably about right for the first time, if he e-mails everyone two more times that number will go up a bit. Particularly if he's not selling anything. If I'm running a business, why would I want to meet with a guy who just wants to talk about my business? I'd rather meet with someone that at least claims to know my business and is working on a vague new product and wants to get my feedback on it.
Yep, hopefully now we won't have to wait a decade for a better version of Diablo.
Think he's talking about the employee/customer relation and its logistics. Those sites mentioned are mere platforms or markets, it's up the both parties to find each other – they just make it easier by being the middelmen.

Exec is actually representing the seller side, the service provider. Execs don't match sellers and buyers, they match buyers with Exec employees which, already mentioned, can open a new set of challenges than sites like Airbnb and 99designs.

You definitely get more quality dealing with Exec's handpicked employees, but from what I see, there's alot of managing effort required from Exec unless they can (or have already) come up a way to answer it via algorithms.
Thanks so much for the note, Tony!

We built this first version to make it easier for pet owners to go directly to their existing friends/ connections for help (boarding, for instance) when they are away. Like you said, pet owners find it difficult to locate trustworthy sources for this sort of thing, and many we talked with would prefer to go direct to friends, family, etc., but asking for help in those cases sucks. Non-pet-owners we talked with said they really want to help/ hangout with cool pets, but they simply don't get asked. We want to fix that issue first, so we make those connections easier to make by having coordination in one place, and helping to remove the "awkward" in asking for help. We want asking for help from friends to be as easy or easier than picking up the phone to call a kennel.

I mentioned in another comment here, but we're definitely thinking about ways we can grow each user's graph beyond direct friends, including some elements similar to LinkedIn (e.g. your direct friends giving an endorsement to their friends, so when you see a friend of friend come up as an option for help, you see 5 other direct friends have vouched for that person and their love/ ability to watch dogs). We envision something similar for professionals as well.

We're really excited about the possibilities here! Don't hesitate to drop a note with any other feedback or comments as you dive in.
Universities will shrink to coffeshops? That's a very CS/math-centric viewpoint. How are you going to do MITx with with Chemsitry? Physics? Biology? Med School? Anything that requires specialized equipment? How will you do team projects that require people to be in physical proximity to one another (building complicated things, for instance).

Universities aren't going away. At most, some programs may become "virtualized" but even then there's a lot of value add with college. They have specialized libraries and librarians to help you find information that may not be on the internet. They can afford expensive equipment and the people to take care of them. It's often useful just to be around people in your same program to talk about projects and learn from each other. It may not be $100k value add, but that just means college will get less expensive and possibly shrink, not that it will go away all together.
I'm not sure how I feel about this...

I think that programming languages may be too focused to create real poetry. Good poetry is beautiful because it encapsulates a moment in a language. Isn't programming just encapsulating a set of instructions?
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The only venture into code poetry I was aware of (as opposed to code that generates poems) was the famous perl poetry example in Programming Perl (http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl/prog3/ch27_02.htm). So, inspired by this call for code poets, I googled around for other languages and there were examples in other languages, too. But I wasn't expecting an example in PHP (http://simianuprising.com/2011/11/07/a-love-poem-in-php/)!

Any good code poems you've come across lately?
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This article is rather light on how these proposals make life better for those pushing SOPA and ACTA. As it is, it's not a "today" solution since you'll have to go to war with those folks.
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Wow, really impressive! Thanks for clarifying.
2-3 years is too short if you're part of the 90% whose project is the "long tail", it only provides for big, heavily front-loaded blockbusters.

But the current limits are indeed completely out of whack.

> Imagine how much different things would be if copyright expired that quickly.

It would be significantly more difficult for independents to live from their art.
The multitasking founder is an interesting emerging trend - Jack Dorsey being the most prominent example, and Steve Jobs before him. If an effective founder is the rarest commodity, and their role at mid-to-large startups can be reduced to its most essential elements, it makes a lot of economic sense.
I've never flown before, except my grandfather has his own plane, but that's way different i'm sure. I feel bad as an American to know that they are being ridiculously rude and invading privacy like that. (Also I get what you mean about the finger printing.)
Those 10% are related to game development, but that doesn't mean they're developers. I would guess that it's more likely to be slightly more "disposable" roles like testers.

It still sucks though. It seemed like Blizzard was just printing money.
Since Ruby copies Perl's regex shortcuts (blah =~ /matchme/), what's the problem?
I do not understand whether I am using tablet or a laptop, it's too complicated. And, I install K-Lite Codec Pack -> bom that lovely metro ui is screwed.
That's what I thought, till I played Hellgate. Man that was a disappointment…
That's probably roughly it

"I'm a software developer

I'm looking for ideas to create useful software for (whatever industry target is in)

I would love to buy you coffee and pick you brain about what software could be developed that would solve problems you have"
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Really? You don't believe facial recognition technology could ever get good enough?
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Indeed, this could be potentially awesome for southern California tech.
I've read it takes 13 years to take a new agricultural threshing design from concept to production. If the patent expired after 10 years, there would be no ability to recoup those massive R&D expenses. For other patents, 10 years is practically an eternity.

It seems the problem is that there is no such thing as a one size fits all solution to intellectual property rights, despite our best efforts to try and fine one.
I see it a little differently, I wouldn't feel good about keeping people around doing nothing of worth for the company. I guess they could have thought of other projects for them but that could put stress on other parts of the company. At least some of these people can now work for companies that do need them.

It might be because I never want to work for a company that thinks of me as dead weight. It wouldn't be a good environment to work in.
Maybe they have been successful year after year and there are a some people that should have been let go or became redundant over the years and this partially being used to clean house? Seen it plenty of times before and wouldn't be surprised.
Accountants are not allowed to work for someone that is not an accountant? What about a CFO with accountants under him?
It seems that doing HFT without being in a datacenter close to the exchanges is a loosing strategy, since at these frequencies, a delay of milliseconds can make a huge difference. Do you agree with this assessment?
You know, i totally agree...i just ask myself "would it hurt if they were friendly" and i don't see why not. They are citizen facing, treat others as you would like to be treated. It just feels like common sense to me.
Yes, it could be argued. But I've never seen it argued with convincing data, and for something so expensive and invasive, convincing data is the least I expect.
Just speculating -- but perhaps Blizzard prefers to get rid of their lower performers all at once in a 'layoff' instead of sacking them one-by-one.

Many larger companies do this; I suspect it minimizes dismissal-related lawsuits.
I don't know how much difference 60 developers (probably not the best and brightest, as I'd expect Blizzard to hold on to those) would make.

I'd be happy to be wrong, though.
I wouldn't be so sure. First off, they list 10.2M as the current subscriber base, taken times a conservative estimate of $13/mo (the every 3 months plan, IIRC) and that's over one and a half billion dollars a year. Second, they are rumored have a new MMO in the pipeline - suppose everyone that ever tried WoW returns to dip into that bucket. I think that, on the contrary, the era of Blizzard printing money is still going strong.
The legal argument to this is that they were doing business with people in a jurisdiction where it was illegal (i.e. certain forms of betting in the US). Because they had business transactions in this jurisdiction, they have broken the laws there and can be tried in those courts.
Ah yes -- this would be very against the open/dynamic spirit of CS and JS -- and for that reason, we'd never add it. Many valid uses of subtypes don't need to implement every method defined by a parent type (or interface) in order to be used correctly.

For example, a rich "collection" interface that has some helper functions for key:value hash-like collections, but that a more array- or set-like subtype doesn't have to implement.

If you forget to implement a method that you later try to use, you'll find out when you try to use it. Such is the nature of the beast.
I was under the impression that this sort of churn happened at all game dev companies when projects were nearing completion. Typically they are roles like QA, writers, and designers that may move to other projects or not.
Agreed. I was surprised that was the Google Maps JS default behavior. I'll add that.
To be fair, nearly all ground-based observatories in the US are privately owned and operated. (Actually, they're almost all owned and operated by those evil corporations!) Most of the money that funds these observatories ultimately comes from the federal government, of course, but the fact that they're privately run gives them a great deal more flexibility than NASA-run observatories get. Although space-based observatories are generally more expensive than ground-based observatories, there are privately owned ground-based observatories being built of comparable size to Kepler.
The company's massively popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game has struggled in the past year, slipping to 10.2 million subscribers through the end of December.

I'm not sure "struggled" is the word they were looking for there.
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Seriously? Alarmist flamebait headlines about Google and Apple stuff gets posted near daily.
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They were, and are likely still are, however, I have a feeling this hinges on something from the Activision HQ.
pretty awesome in such a short time. great job! I would like to have two controls at the top though: location and calendar. I would rather have a calendar control than a text input, but I do like having the next and previous buttons. It would also be nice to filter based on event type too. Again, nice job!
Yeah, good call, I need to add that. I'm not a big fan of HTML5 geolocation b/c it's so easy to miss, so I'll either do it via IP or add a zip code box.
See, that's the point: the large degree of constraint created by the medium, i.e. code that will compile, will lead to hitherto unexplored creativity. Hofstadter elaborates on this topic in his great book Le Ton Beau De Marot, e.g. whiel looking for a word that would rhyme with "orange". Another good example is the Georges Perec's lipogram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogram) novel Da Disparition in which the letter -e (the most frequent letter in French as in English) doesn't appear.
They could easily go after Americans, but then they'd having things like due process and trials by jury to worry about.

Instead, DHS would rather set precedent that a judge's signature in Maryland (a suburb of Washington DC) is all that is necessary to seize .com/org/net domains anywhere in the world. It's a fait accomplit against a foreign company, they're less likely to fight back, and the precedent extends their authority.
This thing doesnt seem to like mouseclicks via Parallels on OS X Lion
They're presumably winding down some parts of Diablo 3 development and maybe even Heart of the Swarm, so it could just be that they don't expect to be doing as much in the near future rather than simple cost-cutting.
Doesn't work like that in layoffs. If an entire business line is cut, individual performance is irrelevant.
I think it's going to be longer than 2-3 weeks to get one.

Regardless, I don't see what the urgency is. If there's something you need to develop on an embedded ARM SoC, there are plenty of other more available (and less publicized) options.
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Hm, I'm still not sure how to be happy anywhere. At least, not in the sense that I would understand how to install a doorknob after reading a corresponding article.
Without Googling for statistics wasn't WoW peaking around 13mill subscribers?

A ~20% decline is seemingly quite a massive hit if you ask me and would definitely warrant a few layoffs.
And? Nobody expects that gcc, or intel's reference compilers, or Microsoft's compilers produce provably correct output.

How could they? The C standard contains ambiguity in several areas.
So who was laid off if not Game Masters in WoW? Can someone from the inside comment on this?
High time to relieve verisign of their .com registry freeride and move it to an international body.
Sure, subscriptions may have declined quite a bit, but I think it's a bit silly to call the game "struggling" considering it's position in the market.
.eu is managed by multinational organization, so any single government has limited power
Estimate demand, send X% of your initial production run (probably more than half) to Amazon, send the rest to international suppliers.
ITU would be happy to take it over, but they'd double prices and allow every country to censor domains instead of just the US.
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I get the sentiment, but this is entirely wrong-headed. The author is aiming for a land-grab of libraries?

It sounds like the author wants to displace a good (but admittedly underutilized) public service because the coffee shops in the East Village are too busy!

Maybe your library in the East Village is empty, but not every neighborhood shares the same demographics. 200th street off Dykman has a library that remains busy throughout the day.

There is another in Brooklyn (Cortelyou Rd) with a large Russian section, also frequented through the day.

Secondly, allowing people to bring in food and drink is a recipe for disaster. You create a problem with pests, rodents, and the smell. Oh, the SMELL!

Do yourself a favor -- if you are actually making money from your remote lap-topping then go find a co-working space. $300 a month (or so) is a good deal, and it is great for networking.
Just to balance things, I just returned (literally an hour ago) from SF, having flown in to SF for a week, then to Seattle and back to SF before flying back to the UK, and the TSA were all very welcoming, greeted me and made conversations, jokes and all engaged in a very pleasant manner. I was very impressed!