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I like how Heroku does it, it's very smart, they basically inject the database settings to your settings.py that code just grabs the connection settings from the environment so you don't need to worry about it.

More info: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django
Pre-ordering will be a lottery. I've been trying to get to the online Store for more than half an hour and I get either server error, "we'll be back soon" or incredibly slow connection (which then fails). I managed to get once to iPad page but clicking on any link brought me back to server error.
Or they realize that psychology is just as important to security (and customer confidence) as logs, analysis, and good code.

Every person that got this email now feels more secure about Github. They audited their own private keys. They were reminded that they can remove keys at will. And they know Github has improved its code and given users more power (email alerts, etc) to be in control of content.
Also, I do know why, but Linux user over here :P
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You don't have to be a Velikovsky to appreciate that the solar system is a giant game of billiards, humanity is in a fragile aquarium perched on the eight-ball.

To put it another way: I have fire insurance, but I've never had a fire. I have a gun (or four) but I've never had to shoot anyone.

Prudent folk recognize that life is risk and prepare accordingly.
Time to bring back Hypercard? : P

Web standards are probably your best bet as a smart paper API.
It was easier for me to just delete all of the keys. I had some I didn't need anymore. I also didn't pick great names for the keys I had. It's easy to add a key so instead of checking the fingerprints I can just create a new key.
Not only that, but the user is automatically getting a copy of his mail (Sent). This is not a given with some custom form.
> it's so easy to make your Bootstrap site look a little different

I think the problem is that it's not very easy. And that's why you see so little variation (combined with a certain amount of laziness, of course). Editing the CSS directly is pretty much impossible for mere mortals. And of you're not familiar with LESS and compiling styles, you're going to have trouble.
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Does anyone know if OpenGL's 1024x1024 image size restriction is being raised as well? Seems pretty limiting to not even be able to make an image that's as big as the screen without tiling four of them together.
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Absolutely. To extend that answer: a programmer who can't work without an IDE probably:

- Can't work without an integrated debugger (i.e. can't diagnose a core, doesn't know how to attach a gdb to a running process, etc...)

- Can't diagnose problems outside of the development sandbox.

- Will demand access to expensive debugging tools instead of throwing some logging in.

- Doesn't code experimentally. Won't try things. Will ship the first version that works.

- Can't generate a simple test case for a bug, instead hammering away on a giant 200-file project someone else wrote.

- Often can't write a single-file, simple program from scratch AT ALL.

The analogy to a crutch is very apt. Yes, you can do great work with IDEs, and I'm sure people do. But 90% of the time an IDE user is using it only because it's all they know, and they're too lazy or unskilled to learn something different.
Might want to double check your math there.

42 Mbps is 5.25 MB per second. At that rate, it'll take about 950 seconds to download that. That's about 15 minutes.

The more common 2 GB plan would be up in about 6 minutes.
The is a rumor that big telcos are going to offer companies to pay for their users bandwidth. I hope this never happens. That is not how you fix this issue.
The iPad does not have overage charges.

If you use up your data, you have to manually sign up for more data. If you sign up for more, it's like starting the month over from the time you sign up. You're also given the opportunity to switch to a plan with a different data size.
I'm not so sure it's all marketing. Apple is the most inflexible, arcane company imaginable when it comes to web software. They're still using a legacy technology (WebObjects w/ Java) that died many years ago, and everything I've heard about their web team make it sound like their're stuck in technological legacy handcuffs.
Problem is if it gets five star reviews then suddenly more people will go there before they have time to adapt , hence the queuing.

Could also explain the lower food quality too since they may either have overworked staff who will make more mistakes or they have had to hire new staff quickly who they did not have time to select or train properly.
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Then how do your tests find their config?

If they also rely on the symlink, then you have to flip it back and forth when you run the tests, which is error-prone.

If the tests ignore the symlink and "know" that they should instead load the test config, then you have to make sure that subprocesses started by the tests (e.g., by running "./script/whatever.py" from test code) don't follow the default behavior of using whatever settings the symlink currently points to or your tests may end up hitting your production database.

With environment variables, it is automatic that subprocesses with inherit the parent's environment and use the same settings.
They don't say 'MacBook Air 4', just 'MacBook Air'. I think this is to unify that naming scheme.
As people have pointed out, this is essentially how things like MacBooks work. I happen to know I have a “mid-2010” MacBook, but that isn’t printed on it anywhere and the average user would never know. It’s not a MacBook 7S or whatever.
I think a distributed .alt where people can have a "backup" of their domain would be nice. gun.io with gun.io.alt running concurrently on the distributed system. It would be a nice reference to the alt.* Usenet split in response to attempts to control it. The underlying technology and how to arrange it is another question though. Edit: Mcantelon's reference elsewhere in the thread to namecoin looks like a good start http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
Amazing read. Perhaps best writing on subject.
I'm missing a whole bunch of keys – I previously had about 4 keys registered, now it's just one.
Ok. But thebackplane.com is not a "3rd party recruiter" .. they're not even a recruiter. :)
A lot of this comes down to how badly the Feds want you. Another domain might buy you a thin buffer of protection, but if you're doing anything that really irks the US Government they'll go to great lengths to get you. They got the Swiss to burn a lot of their treasured banking privacy customs just to flush out off shore accounts. If you can get the Swiss to do that, you can get most any country to seize a local domain with a fraction of the pressure.
Does anyone know if OpenGL's 1024x1024 image size restriction is being raised as well?

Referring to the maximum texture size, I assume? Don't current iOS / PowerVR implementations have a max texture size of 2048x2048? It isn't intrinsic to OpenGL but is implementation specific -- for instance the Mali-400 (GS II) and Tegra 2/3 is 4096x4096.
> So the fact that they're sending out this E-Mail tells us that they either don't keep logs on requests + POST contents, or that they haven't had the time or inclination to analyze this data if they have it.

No.

Github is primarily a B2B company. They're not making their big bucks off of individuals.

Businesses understand that problems arise. What they want to see is immediate action taken to rectify the problems.

Business 101. Even if the problem can be easily fixed by flipping a switch on your end that the customer never has to know about, always show the client "you did something to fix the problem". This is an in-your-face-we-are-taking-charge action. Even though it is completely unnecessary from a security standpoint, it is necessary from a business one.

They get it.
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Sounds like this person has put himself up on some/many job sites and is wondering why every recruiter on the planet is sending him referrals. Besides, if a particular company sends you a bunch spam, it's usually a 1-3 click process to add them to your spam filter.

As for the list he provided, I don't agree with the top entry. I got a great referral from WorkBridgeAssociates, and our company has found several good people through them as well. (Note: I do not work for or get any kind of recompense from them.)
Trip Advisor seems to successfully do what Yelp does, minus the extortion and general suckage.
I believe he meant that despite their intentions their size and precarious economic state leaves them open to pressure relative to countries of similar cultural values.
Apple doesn't release how much memory their iOS devices have as a tech spec. The best we can do is find out by debug messages (like you just linked) or physically examining the device (ifixit).

Apple would say it has "enough" RAM. I thought that one of the game demos mentioned that it had more resources than an Xbox 360 or PS3, but I don't think they were talking about RAM.
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This looks less like a reading list and more like a lead-up to the author propping up his own book.

He completely fails to mention any of the more advanced Python books like Expert Python Programming or Pro Python and especially Lutz's Python Programming which seems to have exactly the same type of content as he's book (general knowledge about various python libraries).
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I don't see any way to remove key after you dropped it to target.
I did a test a 1024x768 PNG vs the Same PNG at 2048x1536. 299k vs 664k. So for raster images it more than doubles the footprint, however if you use vector assets there should be little impact.
That's a bit pessimistic. If you can do 10^10 years, you can go out to a red dwarf and stick around 10^13-10^14 more. And with a few small mods you can go further. For example, should you want a "small, slow" world, consider what what would if you "turned off" a star (e.g. tore it apart until it could no longer sustain fusion) and burned its fuel more slowly, in engineered fusion reactors. The sun has a natural lifespan of a few billion years; but consumed at a relative trickle of 10^17 W (the part that strikes the earth), there's enough fuel for about 10^21 years. (Conversely, you could grow your world until it matches the power output of a star, like a Dyson sphere. Urban planning decision.) The part that humans actually metabolize is barely 10^12 W (10^26 years in bubble chambers), and non-organic human simulations could do better. And there's a lot more hydrogen where that came from... and human knowledge of this universe's physics is clearly incomplete (what the hell is dark energy?)
IIRC the PS3 has 256mb of ram.
The lack of a numbering scheme is a royal pain in the ass when googling bugs or trying to find pretty much any information about a specific model.

Although admittedly we already have that with most of their other devices ("do i have an early 2011 MB or was it the mid-2010?") and it's not like other vendors are much better in this regard.
I'm glad they didn't call it "iPad HD". Call me pedantic, but HD should be limited to ITU 'HDTV' broadcast spec, and the iPad 3's resolution doesn't fit. Instead it just confuses things with imprecise language.
Yeah I can't event watch them in Chrome on a Macbook Pro, I have to use Safari.
There's another list here:

http://www.rogerbinns.com/blocked_recruiters.txt
When I was at Eyeo Casey Reas stated that print is like using a static version of a dynamic display from the future (or something to that effect) ... This talk about retina perception of pixels is indeed compelling and true, but 1200dpi is still "nicer" in many ways that I wouldn't want to try and prove on HN :P
Until someone changes the payment model for 3rd party recruiters especially, I'll always cheer lists like this on. No matter what a recruiter may tell you, they'll never have your interest at heart if there's a commission to be made. The incentives are wrong for you, wrong for companies too.
The new model has almost twice the battery capacity, and the battery probably accounts for almost all the weight, so it looks like there is a decent amount of yearly improvement.
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As an Irish citizen I must admit I'm a little envious of how Iceland has faced down the rest of the world, even if I don't agree 100% with what they did. I think the authors criticism is primarily an economic one. Like Ireland, Iceland is economically weak and can't afford to annoy major trade partners. Would the government concede certain things if subtly threatened with sanctions, even unofficial ones, over IP etc? Maybe, maybe not. Ireland certainly would fold immediately.
I think his worry for the investors is misplaced - the BBB has been running a similar racket for years and seems to be doing just fine.
That's what I think every time I see a 4G ad, "awesome! I can reach my data cap that much faster!"
Looks like no Siri. No mention of it in the iPad pages on the main web site.
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Apple is following the pattern that begun with the failure of the Apple III computer, which is to not name any more products "3". There was no Mac 3, iPod 3, or iPhone 3.
Hey! I am the owner/creator/customer support/janitor/one-man-wrecking-crew of Savng.com.

I am pleasantly surprised to see it mentioned as a good example of Bootstrap based sites. On a unrelated note, I am not sure how you found it since I have really advertised it yet :o

To echo the same sentiment as avolcano, Bootstrap can be easily modified both via Less or CSS. And this is coming from someone who has rudimentary knowledge in both. A little change here and there can go a long way in differentiating your site from all the other bootstrap clone.

Here are a few low hanging fruits:

1) Colors -- Change the color of the top nav bar, links, text, and etc, as color has a tremendous affect on the look and feel of your site.

2) Font - Changing fonts is easy with Google Web Fonts and font hosting services like Typekit. Like color, it also affects the look and your feel of your site.

3) Laytout - Experiment and try different layouts, 1 column, 2 column, 3 columns and etc. Look at various sites within the same niche (and outside of your niche) for inspirations.

Here are some great resources that I've used in making my site:

1. Google Web Fonts

2. Typekit

3. Site Inspire

4. Siiimple

5. Grid Based

6. Minimal Exhibit

7. Design seeds enclosed (this is a godsend if you don't have a back ground in color theory like me)

8. Little Big Details
I think that's reading a bit too much into it. The product has been announced, having the store down now does nothing to promote it (as having it down during the announcement might), it only prevents people from buying it.
"It'd surprise me if most users pay enough attention to even see that a Bootstrap button looks different from a 37signals button or a Facebook button."

There's a big difference between what a user can articulate about their experience and what they are affected by.
The world of LCD panels baffles me. For some reason Apple can sell an iPad with a 2048x1536 IPS screen for $500 but your average $1,000 laptop comes with a crappy 1366x768 TFT screen or maybe 1920x1080 if you're lucky.
256 MB of XDR (for the Cell BE) and 256 MB of some kind of DDR (for the RSX).
I have four Android smartphones and two tablets, but this is the first Apple product that has really opened my wallet. Literally, my wallet is sitting open.

But their store keeps crashing and going back to the offline state. Called their phone sales and they couldn't help me because they use the online system to enter orders. :-)

Ah well, I'll get one soon enough.
Yeah, but it's unclear what constitutes "success" in the case of a lawyer.

If you're a litigator, much of that will depend on the facts in a particular case. If you're drafting a contract or financing doc, it may never end up in litigation, so you'll never find out if it was a "good" contract or a "bad" one.
I think Apple is doing a great thing by pushing up display resolutions. I can't believe that PC manufacturers still REFUSE to produce laptops (at least consumer grade) with any resolutions higher than 1366x768.

I've been watching consumer laptop sales for a year and the only one I've seen with a higher resolutions is a 17" beast. Luckily I got a 15" Macbook Pro from work with a 1680x1050.

Everyone's known since the iPhone 4 that Apple would do a hi-res Tablet display, but PC manufacturers still refuse to innovate and put in hi-res displays in their laptops.

I refuse to try to write code with only 768 vertical lines.
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More humans doesn't equal less resources, it equals more resources. The Earth isn't "running out" of anything, the idea of a carrying capacity for a technological species is ridiculous.
Heh, yes, by 5%. :)

I think a nice weight would be about 400g. The Kindles are 200-300g, except the DX-2 which is 540g.
This is a wonderful example of how Bootstrap should work. Everything is familiar but it does not look cookie-cutter. The right amount of same and different go a long way.
I guess it helps that the iPad is on a yearly release schedule, as opposed to their Mac products.
But you don't store compressed PNGs in RAM for display by the GPU. Does the GPU even support lossless texture compression? I would imagine it supports lossy texture compression.

Edit: It is also interesting to see that the ~ 2x increase in the size of the PNG can be explained by PNG's run length encoding. When you double the pixels in each direction, RLE should readily compress the horizontal pixel replication but not the vertical pixel replication.
This is specifically a flaw in the libVTE terminal library, which OS X's Terminal.app is not, to the best of my knowledge, based on.
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"...it looks like people will be using their tablet devices for more than just content consumption now."

They have been for a while...
One of the problems with Yelp in my city is the "Yelp elite". To bootstrap in my city, Yelp hired a community manager (part of their job is also writing reviews), and enlisted a bunch of people to become "Yelp Elite", earning access to parties in exchange for posting (it seems) daily reviews.

The result has been a high quantity of lengthy, some-times entertaining, low-information reviews posted by people whose advice I wouldn't likely take if I met them in person.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43344769/ns/business-local_busin...
Someone needs to do exactly this, then sue the balls off these carriers for such draconian plans and rates.
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Consumer Reports was way ahead of their time.

Any site that accepts advertising is automatically tainted. (CR never takes advertising.) Yelp wants its reviews to be believed and for establishments to pay for advertising.

Maybe they're good at balancing the two, but when it comes time to close the quarterly report, you know which one is going to win out.
Hey, what else are you going to use a 6-core CPU and 16GB of RAM for if not to throw VMs around willy-nilly?
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Pushing 4x as many pixels doesn't come cheap. You have to add bigger batteries.

I'm really curious to see what the battery is like when playing games. Quadrupling the effective required fill rate is gonna have that GPU working overtime.
While it's nice that someone is raising this genuine security issue, for most people the bigger issue is going to be unencrypted swap.

Unencrypted swap means ANY sensitive data in memory may well end up on disk (including a term buffer that has been carefully kept away from /tmp by the emulator author!).

Surprisingly, many Linux distros, including Ubuntu, do NOT encrypt swap by default. That's probably something that should be higher priority than this specific (Linux platform specific) bug, IMHO.

OS X, for what it's worth, DOES use secure swap by default starting with Snow Leopard (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mh1...). In prior releases, turning it on is a single checkbox. (There is at least one Google hit saying it was off by default in 10.6, but that's not the case, it was off in 10.5.)
funny thing is that complaining about it is doing nothing. People use it, and don't care for how schemy it is.
Yelp really is the cool-startup version of the Better Business Bureau.
I can't help feeling that he is consciously trying to emulate Jobs' manner of speaking.
This is exactly what happened to me after I bought a MyTouch 4G which allowed wifi hotspotting for my laptop.

While I was not charged overage fees, my data rate was crippled to 57Kbps.

The thing sits in the drawer and I NEVER use it because its useless.

I am paying $100 a month for it. They want $400!!! to cancel it.

Fuck these carriers.
For publications you will use locally on the iPad, maybe.

If you're intending to publish via Apple, I'd say wait. After two weeks of waiting for Apple to approve a book I yanked it and am having the manuscript converted for Kindle sale as we speak. The conversion from the .ibooks file to anything usable in the real world was a giant pain. All of which was predictable and I knew that going in.

But as a book-writing tool it is great. I wrote an entire book on a direct flight from Los Angeles to Dubai. Edited it on the way back. Way, way better than Word.

Now I'm using Scrivener.
It's easy to do that thought experiment at the extremes, but that's not what the article is about. It's talking primarily about corporate law, and a public company isn't going to hire a public defender.

More realistically, you're a company and you choose a $400/hr law firm instead of a $600/hr law firm. Are you necessarily going to get worse advice? I'd argue that would often just depend on how much experience each firm has in the particular subject you're hiring them for - and neither firm is adjusting their rates based on that.

Just yesterday I came across a situation where a major law firm was working as investor counsel on a type of deal they almost never advise on (because they're the clients usual firm for other types of deals) - I'm sure they didn't offer the client a discount because they have less experience than a lot of cheaper, less prominent law firms.
I ignored xterm because the defaults were ugly. Then I figured out how to use a nice font at a reasonable size and added tmux, and I haven't looked back.
Hm I bed to differ. Have you ever used C#?
I bet they were pissed after people were disappointed that they only got an iPhone 4S and no iPhone 5. Plus at some point you have to stop numbering. iPhone 23 doesn’t sound very appealing.
I wonder if the next step for Apple is to use their cash reserves to buy a carrier then of course all of their devices will be restricted to it.
I wonder if this will reduce complaints about "planned obsolescence".
After decompression into memory, that 2048x1536 image will take exactly four times the memory as a 1024x768 image.
Suing the balls off of someone requires that you have "cause".
My year-old Dell XPS-15 has a 1920x1080 display (15") and is fairly "consumer grade". Granted it was an option, but still. Actually I have a problem with this screen - the font is too small (windows doesn't rescale automatically).