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I always see these kind of hiring practices put into place and enforced AFTER I'm already hired and working. (no, I don't conjure up hiring practices like these.) Simply put - I wouldn't have gotten my own job if I had to conform to these standards.
The important question is: have the fixed their awful documentation and clunky demo apps?
The reaction from some heavy users of it reminds me of Spolsky's Things You Should Never Do, Part I essay, as well: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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Amazon would only cost you an extra $350/month if you actually use that 3TB.
... And to top it, i really hope they put the front facing camera somewhere in the middle of the display -- a patent they've held for a while without being used in a product. That'll change all the awkwardness with video conferencing on the device where it is incredibly hard to make eye contact with the one you're talking to.
For a company that goes on about transparency and clear speaking etc., the answer to the second question you've quoted is appalling. It doesn't answer the question at all. It should be:

Will you continue to improve Classic? No. We will fix any bugs or other problems that stop our customers using Basecamp Classic but we will not be developing new features. Our focus now is on improving Basecamp Next so that Classic customers are happy to transition.

Their response is completely disingenuous.
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Weren't some of the people mentioned in the article already arrested (Jake Davis and Ryan Ackroyd)?
In the article title it says for the FBI, but in the article itself it says with the FBI. In this case, I think its just semantics because it was a sting operation so while he was working with them, he was also working for them as well.

To add a point to the article, I think they went too far in their operations saying to "open up on any government operation". Civil Disobedience, and taking down websites is one thing, leaking sensitive information is an entirely different story. This is also Fox news, so I don't know how bias or if this story is even the truth, so I'm taking it with a grain of salt.
Yes, the propaganda angle is clear, and exactly what makes me doubt the story (especially as this is fox news we're talking about).
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Any idea why they don't mention the nationality of Hector Xavier Monsegur? His name sounds like Spanish or French but it could be otherwise. In the end, it's confusing and I can't really get a geographical idea of the Lulzsec thing.
The 21st century equivalent of setting a poop-filled bag on fire on someone's porch, or something along those lines. But without actually requiring anything so taxing as getting up from the computer, going outside, and running.
I think your in luck. Looks like your existing reserved instances will see the savings as well.

"This customer was in the process of switching to 3-year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances (seeing most of their instances are running steady state) for a whopping savings of 55%. Now, with the new EC2 price drop we're announcing today, this customer will save another 37% on these Reserved Instances."
I'm sure that they are currently testing the design, but I'm not really sure how they could have been testing it previously.
In short as usual we don't know anything ...
The article does have a quote using 'for.'
'”They caught him and he was secretly arrested and now works for the FBI,” a unnamed source said to be close to Sabu told FoxNews.com.'

Certainly not a very credible citation, but it shows that the poster didn't generate the sensationalist title from thin air.
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Nice to see them using camel case in their js, unlike some other ruby shops.
I see a distributed hosting model with encrypted peer-routed traffic in our future. It would include peer to peer DNS and country neutral hosting. By that I mean redundant servers in multiple jurisdictions.

Without the ability to take servers offline and to firewall traffic based on source/destination, what is an overreaching government to do?

This reminds me of the Laffer curve of taxation vs tax revenue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

As government interference with the free Internet reaches a critical level, their enforcement and intelligence gathering ability will begin to decrease.
US national - NY.
According to Wired, he lives in New York.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/lulzsec-snitch/
It’s a slightly different situation but that’s essentially what they are doing with Macs, saying this-and-that is compatible with the MacBook Pro (early 2009) and such.
What problems does it not solve that the unframework concept is supposed to solve? I'm a but curious on what I'm missing out on, as I continuously feel like it meets or exceeds all of my needs.
The quote was from a law enforcement official that they'd arrested the various people, here's the BBC if you'd rather: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17270822
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I can't read this kind of thing without wondering who these ML experts are that feel personally fulfilled putting their skills to work for 4000% APR payday loans. ML skills are in demand in a lot of industries that aren't directly or openly fucking the desperate.
Friend of friend of friend told that somebody he knows was arrested in Europe and extradited to USA with fraud charges. Initial sentence prosecutor was asking was something like 30-40 years. Recently I find out that this guy's sentence was reduced to 8 months for cooperation with FBI (and on top of it he have to reimburse some pretty significant amount of money to US government or something like that)...

So... Not that bad if you start cooperate with FBI. I would expect most of LulzSec gang to be disclosed pretty soon (except ones, who had enough wise to not disclose their private info to this guy from article)
Inside LulzSec, a mastermind turns on his minions
To be clear, the limit for the main application APK is still 50K. This change allows developers to also host on the Google Market servers up to 2 supplemental files that are up to 2Gigs in size.

Basically, this provides a better supported, more reliable, more standardized way to accommodate the already common idiom where many Android games will, immediately on first run, begin downloading the game assets (graphics, sounds, music, etc).
or having the Swedes cave into US demands.

While we have this issue with the US declaring it can seize .com domains I prefer the setup rather than turning it over to the UN where it make it near impossible to not have a domain subject to anyone's whim.
LulzSec Leader Sabu Identified, Reportedly Worked As Government Informant
I've developed an alpha version of something like Brett Victor's interactive canvas prototyping tool, see http://vimeo.com/36579366. Feedback and discussions more than welcome!
By the way, the bodog.com domain performs quite well.

A quick performance scan show it can comfortably handle 50 concurrent requests with a 5.5MB throughput.

I'm very curious what kind of numbers longer tests on higher bandwidth connections would generate.

http://pastebin.com/FPfjTiJS
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Costs in hacking cases are mostly measured by time spent investigating & repairing * fully loaded employee costs. If you have to dump a bunch of servers and reload everything and audit your backups the costs rise very quickly.
Overbroad and arbitrary web takedowns by #usgov or by #anonymous -- no way to run a world

- Tim Berners-Lee

https://twitter.com/#!/timberners_lee/status/160414269173800...
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I agree with both of you. And I don't think anyone likes to have to wait to pay. But as far as not liking being served, we are not the norm. I hate it, but I guarantee it is the psychological aspect of servitude that is most appealing to a wide swath of humanity that "treats" themselves at restaurants. I admit that it may be a matter of context. Going out from work to grab a quick bite might be different than an "evening of fine dining" even for normal people.

In my life, I've found that those most interested in being waited on are those whose normal lives put them in positions of feeling put upon by others most of the day.
Lulzsec FBI Complaint [pdf]
I think that was carefully worded - note the "in the process of switching". The email sent to existing owners this morning says the new pricing will only apply to reserved instances purchased since March 6.
Please refer to my comment above[0]. Yes, it was a blind test. The person helping me might've looked up bit rates, so it was not a double-blind experiment, but I could not (nor did I want to) see what's being played, and relied only on hearing.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3669893
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I find that writing with a pen feels more natural and is easier on my hands than using a tablet keyboard (or after spending all day programming, a keyboard, period).

It'd also be nice if I could search my handwritten notes without having to rip them out of a notebook and scan them in and run OCR software.
.com is only valuable because it is a default that is perceived to be valuable, so it could loose value really quickly if it becomes perceived as a risky place to do business, much in the same way as a currency can fall like a stone if it loses trust.

Also, when people access a site, they either type in a domain from a physical source, or more often they search or follow links. Which TLD is used in the domain doesn't really affect this process very much, except in situations of 'passing off'. So perhaps it is a good idea to register the .com, but just not do anything with it.
Re: building your own:

I'm sure you know that building your own desktop would let you get a vastly superior machine (in terms of raw performance) than buying an Apple. What you may not know, being out of the game for so long, is how much EASIER it is now. I don't build machines that often (maybe 4 in the last 5 years?), but when I do, I do some research, buy the parts, and then put them together. Then it works! In the 90's and early 2000 years, this process was a real hassle.

Sometimes you run into weird issues (especially with weird on-board video configurations), but I've never had them bad enough to make the process longer than a weekend day. (In the 90's it could take a week or more).

Is it easier than buying a Mac off the internet? No. You may easily make up your cost in time with your newfound productivity, though.

(Or you can just install Linux on your Mac directly, instead of a VM).
"Everything will be software" - storytelling and technology merge.
I definitely agree that Composer/Packagist are the way forward for PHP, and they are gaining momentum and support. What always helps is solid documentation, which seems to be coming along. There's now a site up at getcomposer.org with info about the Composer file schema and usage, which will really help frameworks looking to adopt it.

It appears frameworks can implement their own package type handlers, and specify alternate target directories, which goes a long way towards making it possible to integrate it with their own package formats.

I can see in a year or two's time the standard across PHP apps and frameworks becoming "add this add-on to your composer.json and install via `composer.phar install`"
This one was legitimately in the spam filter, however if it had not been, one of us probably would have taken it down for being off topic.

EDIT: Right now that submission has 5 points, from people who must have clicked through on the blog post, and one comment complaining about how it's not about programming, also from someone who must have clicked through from the post.
This isn't true. Sample a bandlimited impulse. The exact timing is encoded into the gibbs oscillations of the signal. So long as you have a high enough SNR you can have timing as precise as you want. (and because the ear doesn't work with ultrasonics— it is itself bandlimited— it uses the same phenomena for timing)
Your link should probably be to:

https://twitter.com/#!/timberners_lee/status/160414269173800...

The mobile link brings up a signup page for some reason.
Same here. The doc provided contains very few working examples. Support on forums is nearly non-existent. They have good tutorials videos but once you start adding functionality it hits the fan. I originally wanted to save dev time but unless you're making a static app, or a RSS feed you better go with java or objective-c.
Sounds like a nice saying but I don't really see the need for ingenuity to setup an external data server so that the app on first use has to start downloading 2GB of data that it needs. It is not pleasant from a developer's point of view and from the user point of view. That to me seems like jumping through hoops, wasting time, money and frustrating the user
So then you love projects like Pearfarm.com (mine), pearhub.org, etc? These are simply "open" PEAR repos a la RubyGems.

We use Pearfarm internally for all of our shared code, and it's super-easy to build and share packages.

Frankly I don't understand why something like Pearfarm hasn't been widely adopted, since it is essentially the same as RubyGems which is a completely workable solution for the ruby community.

I think people just don't understand that PEAR has 2 parts, the "installer" and the "official repo" and basically they write off anything related to PEAR.

In any case I'd love to hear your thoughts on why the community doesn't rally around Pearfarm, Pearhub, etc since they are basically the solution you're looking for.
Right, array elements separated by new lines works, but CS requires commas between elements in 1-line arrays. I would like to see CS remove commas between array elements but most folks like commas there, it seems. And yes, I guess there's a syntax ambiguity with function arguments that is not easily resolved. I love omitting parens for calling a single function, but doing it more than once per line should be avoided I think.
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LastPass, works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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CoffeeScriptLineMatcher lets you see CoffeeScript/JavaScript code side by side. It's mostly geared toward debugging, but it also helps you examine the transformations made by the CS transcompiler.
You shouldn't have to use incognito, unless you've got the "don't show stories that I've liked" preference checked.
Why are local variables definitely assigned in unreachable statements?
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Re: dilemma

Have you tried keepass (http://keepass.info/)? Certainly not as pretty as 1Password, but seems to be just as usable.
Correct. We have been using sandboxed PEAR repos as part of our deployment for a long time.

One of our devs even wrote a PEAR app called "comice" that allows you to easily create a sandbox and use it from the CLI.

https://github.com/ardell/comice
This is going to sound like I'm trolling, but: why not just use Ruby?

Like many Ruby developers, I left PHP because I saw the kind of stagnation the author describes at the beginning of this article. I saw lots of good ideas originating and flourishing in the Ruby world, and sometimes trickling back to PHP. I saw a more well-thought-out language that seemed worthy of all that attention. So I hopped.

The libraries and library management tools and frameworks available to me now are awesome. Ruby itself is getting faster all the time. Is there really any reason left to stick with PHP other than inertia? (I don't mean that dismissively; if you have a massive existing code base, that's real inertia and changing would be a tall order.)

You can substitute Python or Node or whatever for Ruby here, but my point is: why fight the uphill battle to bring good tools to a language when other languages already have them?
Content seemed extremely sparse but then realized it wasn't rendering in chrome correctly (17.0.963.56). Don't know if its just me... anyhow, jumped over to firefox and it worked fine.
> ie India can demand that any .in domain has to follow Indian law and take down any posts that disparage its leaders, etc..

Why is it unreasonable for a .in domain to follow Indian law? Isn't that the whole point of country-specific domains?
http://www.quora.com/37signals/Why-doesnt-37signals-own-base...

They didn't own basecamp.com then, now they have.

"Project name is bigger than domains" is a part of lie part of true: Product and it's name important but if you can't get the domain just be arrogant and say to people it doesn't matter. But because you know the importance of the domain name , when you have money and chance get the domain and rule the world.
Yes I'd like to go native too. It would make plenty of things much easier.
But given our limited (human) resources it's just not an option for now. We just can't afford developing for both iOS and Android.
Even though barely no-one's going to use the Android version (it's a tablet app), it's much better from a marketing point of view to say that we're supporting both.
Does this count as a breach of some sort of constitutional duty on behalf of the President? Or would it just be a valid argument that the "treaty" is null and void?

Sorry - not intimatey familiar with the US government.
An ex-colleague once told me that it is actually quite possible for people from the 'business world' to get positions in universities as long as they can compete on the merits of their work.

So before you rule it out because you won't be able to take the 'traditional path,' I'd suggest visiting your university of choice to explore the other options first.
It's really nice how the 37s pages use type for design. Other sites would use images much more to get the same level of design across. It's really neat.
Keepass could be a decent replacement for 1Password, though I've never used the latter.
Well, that's the Op's opinion and here is yours. Your point of view differ, deal with it.. why the intelligence thing? That's certainly nowhere close to being intelligent.
How do you properly price out your database stuff? I have a little app with 2 gigs of data in Mongo that I'm running for $10/mo. on Rackspace.

I'm looking at migrating the whole thing to Heroku but the Mongo cloud providers seem to cost 2-5x more.
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Is this just a result of Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, etc. being American companies? Are there no non-American credit card conglomerates out there?
I have a native app that has an sqlite database with half a dozen tables, most of which are small. One, however, has a few thousand records. I've been taking a look into Sencha Touch. It looks great. Now I'm trying to figure out the best way to migrate my data into something that's usable, without hosting it as a JSON service. Anyone have a good solution?
Thanks for explaining. Ubuntu's approach makes sense then. Wonder how much more expense v7 would have been.

I see the problem with Raspberry Pi being the software and the SDK. It is a very elegant and appealing piece of hardware but that only gets them there half way. The other is the manuals, the sdk, some kind of recipe exchange or cookbook for basic things.

Also, it looks like Arch Linux has stepped up to replace Ubuntu.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/ (March 4th, post)
Oh dear... I'm looking forward to build a prototype soon then.
Indeed when searching through their forums for a spreadsheet style grid component I found plenty of unanswered topics.
It's never ethical. Even if the ends morally justify the means it's still entrapment.
I agree @ arguing online.

For what it's worth, the book isn't really filled with opinions, more than it's filled with facts from the time.

eg "We were spending X on British Steel, and the Unions wanted us to spend Y, wanted pay raises of Z, despite falling productivity" etc.

It was a mistake for me to include the book I was currently reading as it instantly isolates half the political spectrum unfortunately.
Vapid speculation based on TV plots doesn't really help the level of discourse at HN. Given the list of hacks and the outrageous hacking laws in the US, the default penalty could easily be life in prison. I wouldn't think the Feds would need to push much harder than that.
Well, looks like Verisign should move to another country for the sake of their client's clients... Sweden perhaps?
Has anyone had a look at their hi-fi amp recently? If probably probably doesn't handle much more than 80 kHz and your speakers probably dont respond to anything over 20 kHz. So yes, 192 kHz is pointless UNLESS you intend using it for studio quality editing/mixing - and I'm sure Steve Jobs would not have encouraged this!
I love reading stuff like this. But then again, I also enjoy viewing screenshots and reading about people's uptime.
Disappointingly not. In fact recent government commissioned studies recommended not regulating this further for fear of driving customers to more unscrupulous lenders (presumably ones without flashy offices and good marketing - not actually more expensive ones, which are hard to find).

It's pretty disgraceful. Thankfully it is beginning to be flagged up as more of a problem as some of the better newspapers are beginning to do some proper investigative reporting.
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I grew up on Apple 1 and 2, BBC Micro, and Sinclair ZX80/81 and Spectrum. Computing was new, exciting, available, and there was nothing like it or better at the time. These machines and what they represented were the future. They were even trendy. They were a 4 day week even!!!

That is not the case now.

While I admire the great priced hardware and look forward to playing with a Pi applying them to various "problems", I cannot see this kids lark at all. I showed my kids these things, and they have no interest in them what so ever. They have PC's, laptops, tablets, smart phones, Xboxs, PS3's, etc, etc. What do these things do? Not a lot. What can they be made to do? Less than everything we all ready own. They are impressed with it's size and price, but that is all. All they see is a very small computer that can do these same things their current machines can do, just.

Education? Think about schools (UK schools in my case). Budgets are squeezed, curricula locked down and time tight. Not to mention the lack of low level computing skills in the staff. Well, high level isnt much better, one of my kids acts as a class assistant because the teacher is pretty much clueless. Who is going to champion this and when? How are kids going to be motivated to do this low level stuff when they have alternatives that are much more exciting and "hip"?

Im sorry, I don't believe the Pi is going to solve the education aim at all. The idea is commendable, and I recognise the problem and support any attempt. But I honestly don't see kids getting excited and I don't see any structure that will either capture or motivate them.

Sure, they are selling. Rightly too. But who too? 8 year olds, or geek experimenters like me? I mean, I can see loads of geeky uses. Im loving it. But any kids? Any primary schools? I was in primary school when I first encountered a computer. Secondary school it too late.

I dont want to be down on it in any way, it is a brilliant bit of kit, incredible price too, loads of uses, I must have one, but cant see it starting an educational revolution like BBC Micro (and many others) did.

I mean, its just too darn complicated. The old ZX81, 4 chips. The circuit is so simple. The software was simple.

You know, its just so darn complicated now. There is too much of a gap.

Ooooooo. That was long, and a bit garbled. Sorry.... :)
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