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This may or may not be true, but before you can even start to make claims like that you have to consider (by which I mean place a monetary value on):

+ Perks of the job (not benefits package), for instance I regularly turn down very well paying jobs offered to me because my underpaying job as a university researcher gives me opportunities It would cost a significant amount of money to buy, if that is even possible.

+ There are plenty of people in the world who get paid to do the things they would otherwise call a hobby. This means at least doubling the salary to get them to switch, because they would have to figure out what to give up in their lives, and be compensated for that, because a job doing the hobby gives more time for more extra hobbies. Spending 8+ hrs a day on something else means less time.

+ Similar to the perks section: a good working environment is a good motivator to apply for a job, even for the same salary and work, over a bad working environment.

+ Family considerations, e.g. closer to spouse/kids, less commute, etc. all contribute in non-monetary ways.

All that being said, I still am not sure I agree with the PP, just stating that a one-dimensional characterization of job application is perhaps too simple.
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I just remembered another related case, the "Induc" virus which was infecting a library file from the Delphi distribution, and then every compiled program was infected. There were several pretty popular programs compiled on infected computers of the developers and spreaded by the world.

http://delphi.about.com/od/humorandfun/f/w32-induc-a-delphi-...

https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001752.html
The only useful thing Github for Mac offers to me is the "Clone in Mac" button in github.com. It somehow changed my workflow of viewing repos on Github. Now I just clone it in my mac and start poking around with the code.

Previous version of Github for Mac was driving me crazy.

I had this big and long unicode text file in one repository. It tried to show it in Changes view but failed. The app then went into "Not Responding" mode using 100% of CPU!

Force quitting it didn't help, because next time you opened the application same thing happened. The app opened with the same repo and changes page and went into "Not responding" mode AGAIN!

I ended up deleting the text file from the repon temporarily!!

Now with the new version the issue is fixed! I'm now happier. Thanks to the Github team.
Imagine how the disproportionately-libertarian leaning crowd in places like HN would react to being compelled to serve in the military.

That's exactly the point. It is almost certain we would have fewer wars, and they would be shorter.
how many jobs do they create oversea?
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@kojote: excellent site! That's exactly what I was searching for, since I am new in MUC since a couple of months. Excellent events you have listed.

Is there a way to have a per-month view and/or lotus-notes invitations?

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Yes, I agree with what you said. However, Grossman also talks about the soldiers who do not experience PTSD. And he posits that those soldiers have sociopathic tendencies. And he further posits that those soldiers tend to self-select into the special forces.

W says up front that he is talking about infantry and special forces: When I say soldier, let me be clear that I am talking about the Infantryman and the Special Forces operator, as I have next to no knowledge about anything outside of this relatively small percentile of service personnel. I suspect that he is special forces, and is reporting mostly on his experiences with other special forces soldiers.
And, if I might be so bold:

Technology != Consumer-Oriented Devices

Edit (before the downvotes hammer this comment into oblivion): The subject here is "tech journalism". I don't consider puff pieces about smartphones, MP3 players, your cell carrier, or anything else related to consumer-grade products to be "tech journalism".

I've pretty much stopped listening to "tech podcasts" and subscribing to "tech magazines" because of this problem. They're not delivering anything even vaguely related to technology any more. They're telling me about the latest iPhone or iPad press release, or how some cell carrier is doing something that I really could care less about. Just like I don't care about the latest digital camera, or the latest MP3 player.
At one point I remember he said it doesn't matter that we can't see the source code running on remote computers because they're not rightfully in your control. It's just something you're connecting to with something you do control. You have the potential to check on your safety because you can see everything going in and out of your computer.
and when FOXconn switches to robotic factories in the next 3 years than what will be your complaint? What that Japan is making money selling and out-fitting those factories?

This is not on Apple..America lost the Automation race to Japan by being very strategically stupid

Apple is not to blame for that mistake
One thing to note is that having good perimeter security makes exploiting hardware backdoors much harder. I mean if you are monitoring all of your internet traffic then even if somebody with an access to a hardware backdoor tried to steal data or log your activities the traffic caused by those attempts would be caught at the perimeter.
I agree with you on Quora.. they may have shot themselves on the foot there.. By introducing a barrier to post a question, they've just eliminated a huge % of user generated content. Now you're relying on your existing users to keep posting and answering questions, and inevitably it will keep decreasing.
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Let's not get all Gandhi here. You're not liberating a people from an oppressive colonial power. You are programming.

The newness of an idea does not indicate its objective "truth."

I'm saying that HTML and CSS can and should be brought "up to scratch."

I also disagree with your assertion that HTML, CSS, and JS somehow have some predefined subset of things that were intended to be built with them.
yeeeah riiiiiiiiight

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doner_kebab

Before taking its modern form, as mentioned in Ottoman travel books of the 18th century,[6][7] the doner used to be a horizontal stack of meat rather than vertical, probably sharing common ancestors with the Cağ Kebabı of the Eastern Turkish province of Erzurum.

In his own family biography, İskender Efendi of 19th century Bursa writes that "he and his grandfather had the idea of roasting the lamb vertically rather than horizontally, and invented for that purpose a vertical mangal".[8] With time, the meat took a different marinade, got leaner, and eventually took its modern shape.[7] The Greek gyro, along with the similar Middle Eastern shawarma and Mexican tacos al pastor, are derived from this dish.[9] There are several stories regarding the origins of gyros in Greece: One says that the first "gyrádiko" was "Giorgos" who brought gyros to Thessaloniki in 1900[citation needed]; another legend from a meat production company states that döner was first introduced in the 1950s in Piraeus by a cook from Istanbul.
Ya, but this is a holographic camera. The stupid thing actually captures honest to goodness holograms -- not even just stereograms. Why they don't play this up more is beyond me. Maybe the holographic viewing angle is too narrow to be useful beyond viewing the image head-on?
In my experience, people who get paid for their hobbies still love the hobby, and accept that the job portion of it carries some extra responsibility which is pretty easy to accept when compared to "how would I ever get to ski this much or at this level without the job". Because in general the other aspect not being discussed, is full time leisure may not increase ability as much as having the accountability on it. Not everyone wants to be best, but it keeps the hobby interesting.
Did you read 'across' as 'outside' or something?
Ugh, I know. We've been trying to get @mailgun but Twitter's policies don't make it easy (not saying they're right or wrong).
The brilliance is picked an externally accredited source (pundits) for a product twice in price. Another alternative was positioning the iPad as a better (bigger iPhone) but that obviously would not have worked as well.
They will only come back if you can convince an American to be ‘integrated and nimble’, translation, to live in a dorm attached to the factory so he can be woken in the middle of the night, given a biscuit and a cup of tea, and put on a unplanned twelve-hour shift.

We needn’t debate whether this is right or wrong, good or bad, it is enough to recognize that the likelihood of negotiating such arrangements with Americans is remote.
Oh, so now he's an economist as well? Interesting.
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I lost a lot of credibility with a client by recommending that they use github for mac. The app hangs regularly, stashes changes without telling the user. I will take another look at this revision.
My open challenge to PandoDaily is to stop being utter shit. That's it. No clever attempts to trap them into defending their beliefs, just improve to the point where they in some way, shape or form resemble a credible journalism outfit.
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If the deadlines are ridiculous and your employer is constantly blowing through them, then your employer's management doesn't take deadlines seriously. What I mean is, the deadlines aren't being realistically created and measured and there's little or no consequence for missing the deadlines.

Usually this indicates that management has stepped into fantasy land and doesn't want to acknowledge something about their business (processes, limitations, staff, industry, etc.) and would like to use deadlines as a way to maintain hope at the top for the future. It's not like this at all employers, but it is staggeringly common. I find that "top heavy" companies tend to suffer more fantasy-thinking management problems, but I'm not an expert.

If you're planning on staying at your employer, you can try to help the process by more strictly defining the deadline scopes or by breaking up the deliverable scopes into more manageable chunks. If your employer has any hope of improving, your more-realistic-but-not-as-optimistic deadlines will be met with opposition at first and then acceptance when you start actually meeting them.
No. If you want to be taken seriously as a web developer, I would argue to take testing and cross-browser compatibility (HTML/CSS/JS) seriously, whatever machine/environment you decide use doesn't matter.
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"...that I just dont find all that novel, or revolutionary..."

As an exercise, try to imagine how big it could get (and what it could morph into) with funding and 5+ years of hard work. Heroku started as a Rails IDE in a browser, by example.

Also, a lot of great companies didn't start with a revolutionary product/feature. They just did what they did REALLY REALLY WELL. Facebook, Amazon, Cisco, Zappos, Dropbox... All entered pretty crowded markets without an obvious differentiator (at first).
Usually what are the ways to authenticate the user when generating a new cert?

A user moving to a new browser has to identify himself as the real user, thus requiring some sort of authentication. It's a chicken and egg thing.
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What makes the entire industry possible is that Canada only grants drug patent protection for five years, while America grants drug patent protection for twenty. Therefore, there’s a fifteen-year period during which Canadian companies can legally manufacture generic drugs that are illegal to import into the USA.

I suspect a lot of the talk about counterfeits and generics misses the third category, generics that are contraband in the USA because they are still under patent protection.
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Does Trigger handle the UI elements? Or is there another project to fill the gap? I don't want the bloat of jQuery Mobile.
I can't help but think that that swarm-building-a-cube algorithm could be vastly improved. Those robots are doing a lot of waiting around.
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Disclaimer: English is not my first language.

In my experience, I see it's very, very common to turn a noun as a verb, in informal contexts. Do you people still bother to make a distinction?
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I understand what's involved now.

This separation of an "app" from it's service component is a step backwards. It's my belief that "software" is a service. But we will play this game for now until eventually everyone comes to their sense and all apps become web apps. I am with Mozilla on this one.

In the end I just want to serve markup to a browser and then all will be good.
Yeah, bummer. At the very least, you should just update the link text (I just slapped "mailgun" into Twitter for Mac and couldn't find you).
Several openid providers do use them to identify users. For example see link on https://www.myopenid.com/signin_password

Also, I've heard mention that Monkeysphere is working on something to generate client SSL certs that are tied to your gpg key. Which would allow logging into a site with one, based on the web of trust.
Why? Give me a good reason. This is exactly what tomkin, the top-level commenter, meant (or at least my understanding of it). It's just "politically correct" to say/do that, but rarely does anyone ever ask why. So let me do just that.

Because it's "illegal" to acquire it by other means?

The law is not a moral authority by any means. At least it shouldn't be. Ideally, things are against the law because they are considered to be morally wrong. The other way 'round (something is morally wrong because it is against the law) is a similar fallacy as confusing correlation with causation. It just doesn't follow.

There's a quite nice saying in Germany, frequently attributed to Berthold Brecht, that roughly translates to "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes obligation.". That's essentially the current situation - injustice is law. Piracy is but one of many forms of resistance.

To calm our conscience?

I don't think downloading music is wrong. In fact, I don't think sharing anything can be considered wrong in any way, and I must actually commend the content industry for managing to twist and pervert the public's perception of morality to such a degree. It's the most natural action a human being can undertake. And digital data isn't scarce - there's absolutely no reason not to share it. It's the refusal to share (and the active battle against it) that should be considered highly unethical.

To support the artist?

There're better ways that don't involve dead and obsolete business models (distribution of information, which is virtually cost-free today), such as going to see a show, or maybe buying their merchandise. I know some people who frown on donations because they argue that would make artists beggars, but I prefer to liken donations to tip money. Crowd-funding is slowly becoming more accepted and might face wide-spread adoption in a few years. I like this approach because it's essentially a service based model - the artist gets paid once to create something, and it can be freely used by everyone when it's complete - there's no monopoly rent on something that's not inherently scarce.

And finally, accept the fact that not everyone is able to live off their art, and that's fine too. No one is entitled to succeed in a given job, and no one is entitled to protection of their business model if something comes along that makes it obsolete.
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Hmm, tough question but if you don't have a Mac how do you test? With a Mac you can test easily on Windows and Linux. But if you just use Windows, then you need an alternate machine to test for Mac compatibility, you can dual boot into LInux.
"What surprised me was how long it took to write the course material. I had planned to spend two days doing this, but it took me closer to five."

Yes, good resources take a long time to produce (I'm a teacher by profession). The article does not state the format of the workshop but I'm guessing one working day, so a five to one ratio isn't so bad.

Anyone any feelings about swapping workshop materials? In the UK there are some grassroots teacher websites where people upload materials and then share in what else is there.
You can't really be sure about that, after all, his employees could promptly retire now that they're rich. (Though, this seems very unlikely)
Those jobs are going to the robots sooner than anyone can bring them back to the US.
Apple is TRYING to justify it. If they didn't care about the negative publicity they would not have put that site up. I'm not disputing the fact that it's cheaper to do this stuff overseas, just that Apple is not being honest and just saying that, instead they're trying to steer (SPIN) the conversation so they look good instead of greedy.
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$125,000 is a decent bit of cash, but it's not enough to retire on, especially after taxes.
The SOPA/PIPA debacle revealed a few interesting things.

1. The public can be roused to fight bills like this... at least once. What about the next ten times these bills, or parts of them, are reintroduced under different names or tacked onto other bills? Sherman is probably right when he says that lobbyists will win in the long term.

2. Hollywood's economic importance is literally dwarfed by that of internet companies like Google. Even ignoring the rights of citizens, the mere cost of implementing SOPA/PIPA would cause far more harm to the U.S. economy than it could possibly prevent. SOPA/PIPA was like shooting your horse in the head in order to thwart horse-thiefs you only think you saw.

3. Why does Hollywood get preferential treatment? A long history of lobbying. When Hollywood was threatened with federal content regulation laws in the 20's they responded by adopting a self-imposed production code (half-heartedly at first) and also by lobbying. Although the code is long dead, Hollywood has never slackened their lobbying efforts.

4. Hollywood has been getting a free ride. While Hollywood was once happy just to avoid falling under federal regulation, now they seek (and have gained) regulatory capture. Copyright life seems to be forever tied to the age of Mickey Mouse. Laws like DMCA have forced taxpayers to pay for protection of Hollywood content. Tax laws are written so that wildly successful movies that earn far more than they cost can be losses on paper, while the profits are siphoned off through tax loopholes without a penny going to the government except as campaign donations. If Apple was run by Hollywood, they'd be reporting a loss every quarter and laughing all the way to the Cayman islands.

The big conclusion:

Net companies are bigger than Hollywood and have a lot more capital to spend lobbying. SOPA/PIPA was a declaration of war by Hollywood on internet companies. The MPAA tried to have legislature passed that would shore up their own interests at the expense of Google, Yahoo, etc. while doing more harm to the U.S. economy than good. Even if the grass roots movement that stopped PIPA/SOPA was a one time thing, it likely will not be necessary the next time. Big Net money is rolling into Washington as we speak.
My wife's computer LCD monitor is a Samsung that uses this resolution natively (I think), so maybe it isn't that rare.
Oh, yeah. Thanks for the catch. Will do.
Unless Ars have started serving HTTP via UDP, establishing a TCP/IP connection over the Internet with a fake IP address will be be near impossible.
How hard would it be for Apple to plant a dozen people around the room to start cheering at the right moment?
I think you are probably right. Especially after reading that Wired article that used Git, version control could be useful for less technical people, and G4M might be great for them, as long as it works. And it certainly looks great.
It's not about blame, it's about being honest about why you're doing something. Apple is not being honest, they never have. Secrecy and spin rule the world at Apple. I don't care if you hire child robots to work in your factories, just don't try and blow sunshine up my ass about why you're doing it. They're a big greedy corporation that likes money. That's the story.
Cevapcici is the southern Slav word for Kebab:

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To answer the question posed in your title: Absolutely not.

If anything (like another poster here have mentioned), Linux seems to have the most advantage out of "The Big 3", but it really doesn't matter in the long term. You should try to be fluent in at least one environment (OS) , and capable in the others.

Thanks to virtualization, you can run Linux or MacOS on Windows, or any vice-versa-ed combination you might choose. Pick the platform that has the best tools for the language you want, and go with it.

One caveat: If you work in an office with all macs, don't be the guy with the windows machine making the rest of the teams life more difficult. Same goes for an all Linux or all Windows shop. For your professional development needs, you should strive to work in unison with your team.

Personal needs? Go with your heart.
Also related is that you should aim for 3 tiers of product at 3 tiers of pricing. What will generally happen is people realise the bottom one tells the world they are cheap and skimping on product, and the top one tells the world they spend too much money and are getting too much product, so the middle one seems the right fit.

An apocryphal story about this is Wendys having 3 burgers with 1, 2 and 3 patties respectively. Not many people were buying the 3 patty version so they decided to get rid of it. The sales of the 2 patty version then declined because consumers had been using the existence of the 3 patty burger to justify purchasing the 2 patty one.

You'll notice that the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone all come in 3 different different memory capacities. I can't find any sales figures by model, but I'll bet the middle ones are what sells the most.

This "3" approach also means you can still sell to the lower and higher end customers so you don't have to get your pricing perfect.

Edit: two additional links about this

http://www.asymco.com/2010/10/07/the-cognitive-illusion-that... (perception of alternatives)

http://www.wiglafjournal.com/pricing/2004/07/framing-the-pri... ("price framing")