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driverdan -- by your logic, it would be OK to give perfect strangers remote-shell access to one's computer, so long as one takes all the precautions necessary to protect sensitive files and prevent them from gaining root access.

Leave aside the various vulnerabilities (including cross-site-scripting ones!) that get discovered with disturbing frequency, and please consider the subject of this thread: it's possible to make someone click a "Like" button without their realizing it! How many other similar tricks can JavaScript be used for by people with nefarious intentions?

No matter how "safe" any runtime environment is, allowing strangers to execute arbitrary code on your computer is never a great idea.

This is why I allow JavaScript code to run on my browser only when it comes from sources I trust.
Do we even know all primes?
Yes: that's exactly my point (b).
That would require the user to be quite vigilante when they are entering a password on a website. Getting up to go to the bathroom could mean someone steals their password.
Its name escapes me, there's a website which you enter a url, it goes and fetches the css, changes the colours such that I can't differentiate it from the original but a normal person would. By my wife'a account there are really huge differences between the two. I'll probably not be able to distinguish some colours where the green component makes the difference.
I for one want to be rewarded for the time I play, while still not being completely left out of the social part of the game because I simply cannot put in the longer and longer grind hours they keep recquiring of players.

I want to feel like I'm discovering things, achieving things e participate in the game story. Why is that so incompatible with an mmo without having me staring at a screen for hours on end and alienating my family from my presence?

I want to put in an hour or half a day or everyother day without doing repetitive tasks. I want to earn stuff yes, but not work for it. By work I mean doing something boring and repetitive that has nothing to do with the game itself (how many tons of ore it takes to make a sword again?). We already have to work hard in life, why they want us to do work more in exchange for entertainment (if you can call it that).

In the end, all they want is addicted players (hence the lottery reward model) to keep the money coming.

I got stung by them before, now I choose to live.
Technically, you are just a person who converts money and coffee to code. So shut up all the whining and grow up.
Why would you use a GPU-accelerated storage when latency is the main goal?
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The latter, from what I understand.
Android will continue to dominate? You mean, it will continue to win most activations so long as it lets any budget device count?

Because what other metric is Android winning? Apple captures the lionshare of the entire industry's profits. HTC and Moto are barely breaking even on Android devices.

Google can't even get users past 2.3, no one is using 4.0, and they're already on track to have 5.0 out in what, three months?

Some "domination". I wish I understand what metrics people used to determine these things.

I guess it comes down to "activations". Which, when you get down to it, is a rather poor indicator of platform strength.
I'm not thrilled about the name, I think it does a disservice to all the useful apps out there that are not meant for play, but utility.
Warner Bros. Embarrasses Self, Everyone, With New “Disc-to-Digital” Program
It sounds like complaining about "cache" in a browser. Storing scrollback in memory can also store it on disk when swapped.
$400 each for iOS Basic and Android Basic.
Well, start with collecting statistics and see if there's a recurring theme in your bugs. You can't find a cure, if you don't know what the disease is.
Because it assumes there would be a real informed choice.

The staggering amount of money that do get paid to quacks selling stuff that is proven not to work show us very clearly that informed choice is largely a fantasy when dealing with the general public.
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But that's not $380 that has anything to do with Apple or Android.

That's like saying your new LG TV is $400 dollars cheaper than your last Samsung TV, because you -also- switched your Comcast plan to pay less monthly.

That's not a fair comparison.
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I have seen quite a few pictures trying to depict the "mightiness" of humans over small beings and their "tinyness" compared to celestial bodies ... but this interactive presentation takes the cake. Do check it out.
Depends who you ask. Ask most people at my school and they will give you an answer of "Java". Is Java their favorite language? No. Its their only language.

Also if one cannot understand the philosophy behind the language that they are using and express why they like that philosophy and what benefits it brings, they probably aren't using the language right.

However, ask anyone who is great at what they do and you got yourself an hour long discussion.
Yeah, basically one should always remember that interview with a company always works both ways. It's OK to ask questions or just listen to your internal BS-o-meter while talking with company reps.
I disagree with some parts of the post. I think good engineers have to be able to work effectively at a high "system" level of abstraction as well as at a low "compilation" level of abstraction. If you can't look at a chunk of code and know enough about the language to know that it could throw a ClassCastException, then it is quite likely that you will fall prey to other language gotchas which can bubble up and destroy the entire design of the system you're trying to build.

I don't think the current state of the art in software development has yet advanced to the point where we can just black-box away all of the entire "compilation" stuff such that it never affects the "system" stuff. I really would like that to be the case, because it would eliminate a lot of unnecessary complexity in software development.

I think asking a limited number of compiler-level questions (less than 5) in an interview doesn't take up a lot of time, and can allow you to get an idea of how much actual experience the candidate has with the language as well as dealing with nitty-gritty problems that come up while you're coding. The value and time spent are both small, so the value/time ratio is probably in the same ballpark as any other question you might ask.
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Ron Paul is still ok. I can tolerate lolcats even. It's the deterioration of comments to youtube level that puts me off.Or just downvotes without explanation. I neither want to read nor write on reddit these days... and I signed up on reddit when Paul Graham mentioned it, 6 years ago.
Getting to the review order page, I get:

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Think about this. If you have too many doctors, they run out of sick people and their prices go down. They don't go out and start injuring people to make business for themselves.

Lawyers do just that. If they don't have work, they can attack innocent citizens to create work for themselves. Frivolous law suits create new market pressure for more attorneys. Whenever you see slip-n-fall attorney commercials, that's just an window into the parasitically-based ecosystem that lawyers operate in.

Failing that, lawyers are the most likely profession to go into politics and create more laws that need what to sort them out? Oh yeah, more lawyers.

It's a troubling profession that needs to be considered carefully when you're making decisions about the economic impact of laws upon society.
It worries me that so many people are jumping into the app business. There are "Moms With Apps" - stay-at-home moms outsourcing development of their ideas. There are the "make money" schemers selling their info products. It feels a bit like the real estate flipping business circa 2006.
The source[1] is in asciidoc format, use a2x [2] to convert it to epub.

[1] git clone git://repo.or.cz/gitmagic.git
[2] http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/a2x.1.html
I for one would be grateful if an interviewer asked me this kind of question. It gives me an instant and unambiguous indication that this is not a place I want to work, saving me a lot of wasted time - and God forbid if I'd otherwise actually ended up accepting a job there.
Judging by the tweat (https://twitter.com/#!/unity3d/status/176767532936605697) it seems like permanently free!
Most sensitive web browser data would not be cached.
The endless parade of fragmentation discussions regarding Android all prove one thing: a lot of people don't understand what wins a market. Customers lacking in technological savvy make up the radical majority of Android owners, they are never going to care about this issue so long as their smart phone functions at 85% good enough.

And people don't understand that wining a market means nothing and it can even be a race to the bottom, it's wining the profitable part of the market that matters.

But, you say, that's just so horrible! Welcome to reality, where markets are never dominated by perfection and fairy tales. You don't have to like it, you can rail against it the rest of your life, and fight the good fight; and Android will continue to dominate, and it will have absolutely nothing to do with issues related to fragmentation.

Was this written in 2001 or something? It's like the PC continues to dominate but the industry is dying for profit margin, the cool kids have all moved to OS X and/or Linux (go to any university campus or programming conference), and all the majority of the money and mindshare go to the ecosystem that's not PC based...
> Do you know this, or do you just believe / hope this?

Good question, the answer is obviously I can't say its' true for 100% of the cases but do this thought experiment.

You are going to court against someone else, you get a public defender, your opponent brings in a team of 10 lawyers costing $100,000 a week.

If the evidence makes the case look like its 50:50. What is your chance of success? I think almost everyone would agree that its much lower than 50:50 after you factor in the lawyers.
Its something that we're thinking a lot about at Verelo.com

I've personally been very big on trend graphs myself, how are we doing today v's yesterday, this week v's last week. I find you learn a lot more from these than you do any other type of monitoring (unless the issue is dead simple, like something is down)

We've been focused right now on making great monitoring systems, however we're just starting to get the chance to step into prevention. Prevention is a fun area because it starts to include trending.

My hope is that within the next month or two we have a few things. Firstly a means of providing a great downtime prevention tool, but also an end point where data can be sent (or we can pull it on your schedule) and then provide a graph and notifications based on changes in the trending data. Think of it like stock alerts...

So yep...i agree with you, we need graphing and more of it.
Congratulations :)! The 'address a need' part is spot-on. I think the greatest feeling of all is knowing that somewhere out there, someone's life has just been made easier because of what you did.
No, we're still missing three of them. Has anyone checked behind the couch?

Euclid's theorem demonstrates that there is an infinite number of primes, so it's impossible to know all of them.
Ask HN: Hacker's Perspective - Leadership Trends in Software Development
Good Morning HN Family,

For starters, HN is one of the most vibrant, thoughtful, and supportive communities on the Web today and I am proud to be a part of this community. I'm a full-time developer by day (4 years in the game now :)) however, I'm currently enrolled in a Professional MBA program at the local University. I'm now taking a Leadership course and one of our projects involves "New Media Engagement" (essentially in a sense "crowd sourcing" a dialogue/discussion on Leadership). Because of how awesome the HN community is I thought I'd bring my research to this forum.

This discussion will help me greatly in my report out for my Leadership course. But enough about me this question is truly about you all.

As I look out over the landscape of our community (which I believe broadly encompasses: Software Development, Technology, Web Design, Entrepreneurship, etc.) I tend to notice a trend in our leadership. For the most part those we consider leaders in our community aren't the gentlemen/women doing the most hand-waving and evangelizing about what they support, instead they are often some of the more thoughtful, brilliant minds, and thought leaders in our community whom we respect for their talent. Although we have our various camps and flame wars I think largely my previous assertion rings true.

What I'm curious to understand, and hopefully the HN community can help me further develop this thought, is why doesn't this same trend tend to transfer well into other industries (i.e. Politics, Civic Organizations, etc.)? I realize this is a very broad stroke I'm painting here but I believe this holds generally. As a corollary, do you all think that this trend is truly reflective off our community? Do you think it (i.e. our typically higher levels of rationality) gives us a potential sustainable competitive advantage with respect to other industries moving forward? Other thoughts?

Thanks in Advance for your time and support!
Doesn't seem to work for me. I see an 500 error in the Chrome console.

http://api.ihackernews.com/page?format=jsonp&callback=hm...
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Congrats guys! Atlassian really seems like a good place for you :)
>> World of Warcraft was designed from the beginning with casual in mind.

How are 5h-8h raids designed with casual in mind?

Specially considering that any item you just happen to pick-up casually (as in not in raids) is plain garbage next to those and it matters a whole lot in a pvp-oriented game?

I disagree completely. WoW is designed from the ground up for addiction.
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Thats a great question to find newbies. It shows that the candidate has deep experience with the language or programming. As an ancodote: I was on RailsConf Berlin 2007, as a Ruby programmer with 3-4 years of Ruby experience. It was like being the grumpy old man (with 23 years :) ) in a group of young, happy and fundamentally unexperienced people. Most of them had about 6 month or less of ruby experience, they just hadn't seen the bad parts yet.

I think any experienced programmer can rant for a least 5 minutes about his favorite language. Also, I think that experienced programmers can quickly find valid criticism even in languages that they don't use all day.

And I think thats global. Most people aren't critics and will hop onto any prepared argument they can find. Thats why I hate most discussions about software.
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Am I the only person that uses pure and simple symlinks?
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⌘K in the Terminal.app will clear the scrollback of the current window.
Why not just have one symbol (flag?) that is displayed when the passwords match? What is the added value of displaying three colours?
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I had a company that was ready to give me a job make me take a PHP test on http://www.123assess.com

After the 10th question asking me to debug 30 lines of obfuscated code in my head while a 3 minute countdown ticked away, I called it a day and decided these were people I didn't want to work for.
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This sounds like a serious issue if you're using programs such as apg to generate and print random passwords/passphrases to the terminal. Especially if you use them as encryption keys. The keys might well linger around in plaintext on your disk.
or upgrading to the latest Windows version, making the Windows ecosystem fragmented

No, this did not made the Window ecosystem "fragmented" in the sense that Android is. Windows always had excellent backwards and forward compatibility, which meant you could develop for XP and still run on Vista and vice versa. You just couldn't take advantage of the latest and greatest APIs, but most apps used the classic APIs anyway --you still had access to the whole of the OS and hardware across all Windows versions, even with a custom built C API or MFC.

On Android devices you are cutoff from using tons of features if you can't deploy to the latest versions. And you have to walk a very fine line to make it compatible with all versions/form factors, and mostly cut corners.

For the same reason, Android fragmentation is a non-issue.

A, the classic "lalalala, fingers in the ears" argument.
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Support unicode doesn't necessarily mean the client has a compatible font. I couldn't see the "look of disapproval" emoticon (ಠ_ಠ) without having installed an appropriate font, for example.
I guess that's true in (some?) cities, but most places aren't cities. In most places, the crossing signal probably won't turn at all unless you press the button.
this is a straight copy-paste of http://blog.canonical.com/2011/12/22/vmware-view-tech-previe... with no attribution.
It was the difference between working at Foxconn and working for a Japanese megacorp: sure, there's a casual option among the two, but neither is exactly stress-free. (Bona fides: participated in 3 of the above 4 soulsucking activities.)
With more spark line:

http://lab.arc90.com/2009/07/09/hashmask-another-more-secure...
Other people not doing it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it (as you yourself have pointed out twice) so... what makes it bad?

Google lets consumers use products that it labels as "beta"? Is this bad? Why?

Google only let people with invites into Gmail at first. Is this bad? Why

Google tests changes by pushing them to random subsets of web visitors. Is this bad? Why?

Google pushed the last version of the market to 2.3 devices before it pushed it to 2.2 devices. Is this bad? Why?

Android updates seem to roll out by country over a period of weeks. Is this bad? Why?

A lot of Android functionality is in Apps rather than the OS and the trend is to increase this (e.g. Chrome on a 6 week update schedule). Is this bad? Why?

You could have interesting, enlightening debates about any of these decisions and reasonable people could argue either side of each of them. But it seems we skipped that step for Android updates and decided that if it wasn't the same as Apple it must be bad. I'm just looking for an actual reason why an average consumer (or indeed any particular subset of consumers) would prefer everyone to adopt Apple's model to justify these strongly and loudly held opinions.

Note that "not having the latest version of the OS" is not a reason why not having the latest version of the OS is bad, it's just restating the question.
My thought process goes more along these lines: "I really need this feature, but they won't implement it for me. Okay, dang it! I'll do it myself and show 'em!"

Releasing it back to them is just as "egoistic": I don't want them to implement the feature themselves differently, and then I'm stuck with an unofficial version that I wasted time on.
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Memory isn't an issue. It's processing the data and turning the storage into a format the client can read. A big blob isn't easy to send to the client unless it's an image or something and then it becomes an issue when you want to manipulate the data or process it.
I used to make some money selling pixels as well, mainly from UO ('real estate' mainly since land in that game was very limited), City of Heroes, SWG and WoW. If you got in at the start (when selling on eBay was still 'legal') you made a pretty penny.

But it was unsustainable due to new MMOs, new tech and the rise of professional farmers. You had to constantly adapt, see where the game is going, and jump ship before the game collapses. I remember getting calls in the middle of the night from the west coast, asking about my auctions and how it all works and if there was more. And getting interrogated by my mum since I'm getting all these calls from strangers.

Farming by hand, or playing the auction house no longer is the optimal way to go. Now people offer full blown services to play your toon for you, using VM, to mask/hide your IP incase you/they get caught (so you can claim you got hacked), with really good players charging up to thousands of dollars to play your character.

Good times.

EDIT: Now that I thought about it some more, I noticed my pattern at the beginning was doing everything myself, whether is scouring for bargains, farming gold, flipping properties – then I moved on to hiring people within the game and paying them in-game gold for them to farm for me (in SWG, I would provide locations of mineral fields to my 'employee's and set a price ahead of time how much I'd pay per unit, and I'd buy all they have) – then I moved on to automatic botting/scripting in WoW. Interestingly, this aligns somewhat closely to real life industries and how they improve output.

Then I also realized first there was the emergence of sellers (the farmers), then came the companies that has its own farming team in addition to buying pixels from farmers and flipping them for profit. And finally, the arrival of platforms – connecting direct buyers with direct sellers while taking a cut (similar to eBay) – and it's these guys are making the real money – taking zero risks (not worrying about getting caught), providing minimal support and very scalable.

And now the gaming companies wants to keep everything to themselves and take a cut. Blizzard's D3 will be paid close attention to how its Auction House system works out – it will be very, very interesting to see where it all leads.
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elinks has a very basic JS interpreter. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manual.html#ecmascript
Another product about to be ruined...

(I'm not an Atlassian fan)
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Gave it a go. Everything connected fine, but in my test it can't resolve to a local hostname. So the stuff I'm developing locally doesn't display, which kind of defeats the purpose.
This would do it. But I suppose that some people still keep their myspace accounts, or worse yearbook accounts. And those things can be searched via Google.

Also, deleting these accounts does not assure complete invisibility on the net. If you've used your account to comment on a public facebook account or page, there is no assurance that deleting your account would delete that post too.