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To take things to the extreme, if you chose to write Basecamp Next in pure x86 assembly (for speed, of course), I think we'd all agree that the code would be much more prone to maintainability problems. Similarly, it is plausible that choosing to write Basecamp Next entirely with pjax+backend MVC+granular key-based caching could be more prone to maintainability problems. Not that I have any particular reason to believe it will, but we're wondering if there are any particular reasons you believe it won't?
I can't tell if you're kidding or not, but John Nash definitely did not invent TeX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX.
Has there been any talk about which company received the subordinated cert? The excuse for it being used in an internal network only doesn't really hold any weight due to the ability to install custom certs on all web browsers.
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I enjoyed both Mass Effects, and think that they're both well-polished, and conducted in an interesting world. I don't think it's the most awesomest evar as this article does, but a lot of the naysaying so far in the comments are overfocusing on the negatives. But if we're talking about inclusiveness...

I don’t need to explain why the option to have a non-white, non-male, non-straight person as the main character of a blockbuster action science fiction story is important

This highlights an interesting current even in mainstream culture - safe depictions of homosexuality. Pretty much it's fine... as long as the homosexuals in question are lesbians... and they have smoking hot bodies. There are 12 romance options combined in both games. Four of them are for either gender protagonist. One is a human woman. Three are of a race with only one gender, that happens to look like human women. If you play with a male main character, you won't be exposed to the slightest homosexual visual, even if you really want it.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Romance

It brings in another interesting effect - wildly different races are wildly different, crazy body types and so forth... as long as you're male. If you're female... well... you get to look like a human female. Every turtle-man alien we see is just that, a man. They have females, but we never get to see one. Same thing happens in World of Warcraft - the male character models are really different, but females all have similar body shapes.
well, what do you want to be? a narrow-minded, ignorant human or civilized man?

seriously.

the world, life, is much more than work, work, work. understanding broader contexts, understanding where we are going and why is important. even as a founder, to come back to this extremely narrow narrative within these halls.

how do you understand you market, your consumers, your customers? a contracting economy bears different potential than an expanding one. how will you know where we are if you do not inform yourself?

how about reading a book or two, not the daily babble? you mention you've read the news but didn't understand anything. if you do not inform yourself, you will repeat the mistakes of others.

you sound like one of those pretentious fucks that don't watch tv, don't listen to current music and are proud of it. it bears of ignorance, of disregard of the output of other human beings.
"If they would charge me $5/month for an account BUT give me fair, solid and reasonable TOS that I own my data and they DONT make money off of my eyeballs and clicks under some sort of a penalty. And throw an Independent Board of Facebook Policy-makers so its not that one hacker own majority of the vote."

I would not use Facebook if they did all that and paid me $5 per month to use it. Or even $50 per month.

The site is spyware incarnate, and it'll take a lot more than a TOS (not even a piece of paper) and an "Independent Board of Facebook Policy-makers" to make me trust the site enough to use it.

It would have to be totally revamped technologically to be fully anonymous -- and peer to peer, so that the only people who get my data in the first place are my friends. Not some corporation (no matter what promises it gives), but just my friends, and only my friends.
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I don't understand why Planescape: Torment gets so much love. I tried it out because of the hype, and found it has an interesting world, but the story itself was pretty vanilla, and the engine was just another form of isometric D&D game. I was bored and gave up halfway though.

Sure, the story might have improved towards the end, but a good story should have you throughout, and not make you drudge through the early stages.
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Well, they might have used the idea, but it's not really something easily tractable even for them.

I have to admit, I'm reading Rivest's source code and I don't completely grok the encryption scheme yet, but it seems to me that it works like this. Here's the problem: you've got this very pretty conjecture which says "give me just 26 cards, there are about 2^88 permutations of them, and choosing one at random produces a much larger set of possibilities than we could guess in the forseeable future with brute-force techniques." He then provide a cipher which takes a shuffled deck and 26 spots in memory, and uses the red half and the black half to provide a random pathway for the bits through this network, since at each step there is an incoming bit which tells which way you shuffle. (And I gather that also some of the cards may basically be flipped upside down when storing the key, which means "flip the bit as you transmit it.")

It's perfectly valid as an observation, and a nice conjecture, although I'm a little bit concerned in many ways about the design, since it still seems like it only has 2^26 state leaked pretty straightforwardly one bit at a time from two different locations. But maybe he's correct.

Still there's something technologically missing. This is a very simple algorithm for modern computers with their array lookups, and I suppose the military had all the budget they needed to build large machines which can actually push around these bits, but that sort of mixing network would have been really difficult to implement mechanically. In a world where computers were too expensive to distribute to every ship's captain, I could see the NSA being much less interested in this sort of physically pushing bits around a complicated network via pathways that won't be known until run-time.
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Yeah, and then the head of Cerberus got indoctrinated and turned all their resources against humanity... Damn, I'm going to have to replay ME2 just to destroy the Collector base and generally try to fk with TIM :-D...
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As an infosec professional myself, I applaud you for the stance you take. Offering a public bug bounty is an excellent way to allow researchers to conduct their experiments in an ethical fashion while protecting all parties involved.

At first glance at the article, it seemed that Facebook may have reneged on its offer of protection, but based on your explanation, it now seems that the hacker was indeed malicious, and only used the "white hat defense" as a shield.

I'm a huge advocate of ethical and responsible disclosure, so kudos to you for encouraging it where appropriate.
What platform were you playing it on? I have the PC version and enjoyed every moment in the Mako - it goes up, down and side to side like a boss, and you don't even have to maneuver around obstacles :-)
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Lots of people just like to build things and it is often easier to build a tool than it is to find a pre-existing tool that you can get, you can learn and you can use to solve your problem in less time than building something. All too often when you choose the reuse path, you end up going around in circles with stuff that may be good, but it doesn't fit your problem very well.

Also, humans are builders. It's what we do.

If you look at this problem closely, like I have over the past 15 years or so, you can already see evolution and natural selection happening. So I don't really see diversity as a big problem, and I do expect that in a generation or two, there will be a lot more consensus around which tools to use. However, even then, I do expect to see a fair amount of diversity.

Even today, where Google dominates search, they are dwarfed by Baidu in China. And in Russia, many people prefer Rambler. Orkut is a big social network in Brasil, Vkontakte in Russia, etc. Programming tools and libraries are the same, i.e. a lot of the choices are made for cultural reasons and that will never go away so some diversity will always be here.

Hopefully more people can gain the perspective that many years of experience bring, and can contribute to the process of natural selection (which implies improvement too) in order to get more people choosing and using better tools.
That was a sarcastic rebuttal, the author of that post is not really 16.
Some of my favourite programming music:

Artist: The Glitch Mob

Daft Punk: Tron Sound Track, Tron legacy reconfigured

Particularly with music from The Glitch Mob I find my focus is more intense and I only break my current activity when the music finishes. Need to find more music that gets my mind in the zone like that...
My playlist contains both the Daft Punk Legacy OST and the TRON: Legacy R3C0NF1GUR3D[1] album which contains various artists remixing the Tron Legacy album.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Tron-Legacy-Reconfigured/dp/B004UOE7VA...
Apparently, the male Shepard did have homosexual options in Mass Effect 2, the sounds are still on the discs, but are unused
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There's so much wrong with this that it's hard to know where to start. The BBC is pretty much the gold standard for un-biased reporting, regularly taking the government to task on issues of the day. As John Humphreys said to a minister once before interviewing him, "I'm not here to make you look like an idiot, but if you choose to, I won't stop you".

It even takes itself to task hugely, as shown recently when a BBC reporter was destroyed in an interview about how much better the Sky and iTV coverage was than the BBC during the capture of Tripoli, by another BBC journalist live on air.
If you want real intellectual stimulation, go to a university. Seriously. There are some super interesting things going on at universities, but you have to take some initiative to find them.

Sit in on some classes, check out the university library, find some clubs that seem interesting and hang out at their meetings, talk to professors and students -- maybe even get involved in some of the projects happening there. You'll get a lot out of this, I guarantee it. I can recommend this to people who've already attended universities too. Many of them could use some intellectual stimulation.
I find myself listening to a lot of ambient/drone music while programming lately. Previously it was more upbeat with Daft Punk Legacy and Reconfigured. I feel I don't want to be concentrating on the music, but am comforted by having talk/silence removed.

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Personally I think that most of these questions are horrible and as somebody being interviewed, I'd be a little bit annoyed at a company trying to make me jump through hoops. I'm sure there are tons of developers that can sort arrays like there is no tomorrow, but sometimes I would like to work with people that can create software. People that write tests, are able to set up a sane build process, keep the clutter to a minimum and make nice APIs.

What I'm looking for in coders is passion. Ask people for their personal projects and let them talk about it! Ask for a Github account upfront and look at weather they commit fixes to other projects and show initiative, look at their personal toy projects, look at weather or not they're able to work with complete strangers and improve software just because they like doing it.

Some people might not have a Github account. But honestly, most of the people I like working with have one.
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I think you are missing the point here. Mass Effect is closer to "Games as a storytelling medium" than Planscape or KOTOR. Its an evolution. Its a step and the OP is slapping the author for celebrating the fact that science fiction THIS RICH is dedicated to A GAME. Not in the form of written text (Planescape / Kotor / Monkey Island) not static responses, not static characters. This fiction is highly integrated to a competent game system with high production values. Its not perfect but its an accomplishment nonetheless. I havent seen any games that have a custom universe this fleshed out and well planned.
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I've stopped a couple interviews mid-process when it became evident that the interviewer was going to focus on this sort of crap. Their shock is its own reward.
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what i feel personally is that many companies nowadays are asking these type of questions and this site has covered many topics well and is moderated. But this can be further improved by increasing user interaction.
I totally agree with you, that the recruitment process has been broken for long. But in recent days, start-ups such as,

www.githire.com, www.hackruiter.com are trying to solve this problem.

I hope to see more such startups in time to come!
I think each company has their own recruitment process, and it depends on the kind of job openings they have. I recently had my Google interview which was totally algorithmic. Despite of a number of projects and research papers in my resume, the interviewer did not ask me any questions pertaining to those projects.

But at the same time no way did it appear to me that the interviewer was not looking for passion in me. The questions that were asked from me probed whether I had the ability to respond to tricky problems, the ability to understand the intricacy of the problem and ability to respond.

At the same time the interviewer also tried to gauge my general skills, whether I would be able to contribute in a project or not. So I feel everybody has their own method of hiring. Particularly college graduates may not have github accounts to show that they have contributed to different projects. Sometimes I feel it is the only way to judge freshers in the sense they may not have a lot of projects to show, but they do have what it takes.
For classical I like Bach symphonies.

But usually, I find myself incredibly productive when I listen to house music. My recent discovery has been Maceo Plex and the album "Life Index".

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Yeah, the 10 (100?) kb length is the huge thing here. An awful lot of sequencing bioinformatics is dealing with the implications of short read length. This problem is possibly going to go away now.
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What do you mean when you said "increasing user interaction" ?

Which features do you think are lacking in the site at the moment.. ?
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I wonder what letters / blog posts / emails are written now that will make us look back in awe in 60 years.
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It's only reduced to the initial handshake if every single CA¹ keeps their signing certs protected. We've seen more than once that this is not always true.

¹ (remember, even if you have a cert with a specific CA, nothing technically prevents a cert from being signed with another CA's certificate).
"You might consider simply finding what you love, and letting the rest take care of itself" - Man, what a great advice. Let's apply it to relationship: "You might consider simply finding Mr/Miss Right, and the rest take care of itself".

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See dektz's reply. Companies create their own CA cert (you can do that using e,g. openssl) and use domain policies to install it on every machine they control. Then they can setup a proxy that takes the CA cert and dynamically generates certs for each domain that is accessed over HTTPS (Squid can do that).
I listened to the Com Truise mix while programming the other day. It was too distracting, as the music kept changing every 2 or so minutes. Instead I prefer silence, or the next closest thing, which is the kind of music that really plays with your sense of time. E.g.

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I won't bother providing links, as the commonality with these artists is that their pieces are long (and in the case of the first one, very long), so you probably won't find any samples of this music that is indicative of the effect of the whole thing.
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