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I think this is going to be the Photoshop where people seriously start considering a web-based alternative. Not because CS6 will be poor software, but because I think the division among users who use Photoshop for photo editing/professional photography/restoration/stationary/brochure design and those who use it for designing web sites and applications is getting greater. The latter needing less of the options available in Photoshop today, let alone CS6.

Photoshop is used by creative professionals first and foremost. It's a $600+ software package.

(The people using Photoshop that don't need much of it's power are mostly those that use a pirated copy for some basic home use).

That said, there is Photoshop Elements already, a cut down version.

And there is a web version made by Adobe too.

That said, web editors: sucked, and still suck. For some very basic stuff ok. But try even uploading your last 100 12mo pictures you took with your compact camera. Even uploading and editing one by one, it will take ages, usually taking down the browser at some point.
I don't think it was a good read because I already thoroughly agree with you.

In fact, as with a lot of things about programming, even when programmers are widely accustomed to that line of thought, the real problem will be to convince management.

In my mind, testing (or lack of it) is part of the technical debt concept (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt).
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No, I very much doubt it is at all common, most employers wouldn't have the balls to do this.
However it does show this sort of thing is attractive from an employers point of view.

You would only really need this to become procedure at one large company (say wallmart) to set a precedent that others will follow.
Yes, it uses xmlrpc (node-xmlrpc) for communication between RobotFramework and Node, and websockets (socket.io) for communication between Node and PhantomJS (which didn't bundle http-server when I started).

I'm sorry to not have a separate websockets-example, but there's really nothing special in using websockets with phantom.
BrowserID is only supposed to replace the email/password combo, so I see no reason why it wouldn't catch on (people do give their email/password combinations to sites every day, a much less secure process). Given that BrowserID.com is hosted by a non-profit, it shouldn't raise many privacy concerns either. Anyway, it's true that almost nobody has yet given browserid a try (you can try it at http://textchannels.com)
An alternative answer is that PG, et al have said time and time again that they invest in people not technology. The partners are probably expecting one (or both) of the start-ups to change dramatically down the road
It seems that if you were not hired after the company viewed this private information, it would be very hard for the employer to avoid claims of discrimination based on what they could have seen.
Aren't these the same company, with two different branded services? Didn't Picplum acquire Picwing some ways back?

Also, Picwing didn't start as an online photo sharing service. It was, if I'm remembering right, a hardware product. The service there now was a fallback for them.
As previous comments state, you don't need a display, which is a bit of a half truth. Some instances, like running headless Selenium testing with Firefox, would still require
a virtual screen to draw to. We do some our browser testing this way, on servers that don't have a screen.
What would have been the appropriate response to the picture? Can someone give me a pattern to work with here?

edit: I haven't run into sexism yet (still a student, but a female in a male-dominated field) and I don't want to be the deer in the headlights when it happens for the first time. And it seems that it will happen, the way everyone talks about it.
I think the same team runs both now. However maybe they are both abandoned now as I can't get any response to support emails.
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That was my problem understanding it - because the original blog entry said:

> One of the technical things we always optimize is where to put our front machines. They are the ones that re-direct your traffic to a secret location. We have now decided to try to build something extraordinary. http://thepiratebay.se/blog/210
Perl modules must return a true value (>0). 1; at the end is the easiest way, but if the last statement in the module always evaluates to true, you're similarly okay.

Yeah, it's weird. :/
Thanks! I do have a fear that the paychecks might be coming late and I have several dependents as well as student loans to repay which I think would be too risky for me at this stage of my life.

I do appreciate your comments though. How can you tell apart a start-up from the pre-IPO phase to a start-up in the pre-we-have-checks-with-our-names-on-them phase?

Are there any tips on evaluating founders in general? I've only ever worked with established companies and have limited experience in evaluating founders.
Two things here:

1) Yes, established hackers who already have plenty of clients and opportunities may not need the matchmaking. But it's also a way to extend the potential market, and get more choice & security - after all, you're never obliged to accept an offer, so there is nothing to lose to apply.

2) Some devs are good at delivering, but don't like/want the networking/business development aspect of finding clients. It's a way to minimize the amount of time spent on it, and focus on code instead.
as far as I know most of the groups that it is illegal to discriminate against would not require facebook access to confirm membership of.
try this - https://www.distinctbypass.info/browse.php?u=Oi8vd3d3LnlvdXR...
It's very easy and simple to pay $100 to use some bit of software. It's way harder to actually contribute to it meaningfully.

Software markets solve a coordination problem. Not perfectly, but reasonably well. Same thing goes for many other kinds of information goods. No way would I pay an author to sit around writing a book, but I'm happy to give them $5 for a copy.
I've been using it for almost two years, so yes, it is maintained :)
Congrats on discovering testing! Getting "test-infected" yielded easily the biggest productivity gain in my career.

However, you've got another big win waiting for you if you'll try something subtly different: write the tests first. Moving to TDD was another large improvement in my overall productivity because it drastically improved the quality of the code I write.

It seemed silly when I first heard of it, but now I won't write code any other way (except for short, exploratory programs). Give it a try!
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I don't think you need agent models. You can probably study this directly with the nonlinear transport equation (Lighthill-Witham, I think), or one of the more detailed versions (the Rascall model?).

All you need to do is impose a police-created boundary condition at x=cop_location(t) instead of solving the pde on free space:

velocity(density)|x=cop_location(t) = cop_velocity(t).
I disagree. I have around a thousand skydives. The only time I feel a sense of falling is when acceleration is involved. When acceleration is involved, weightlessness is not.

When jumping out of an aircraft you are already going around 100mph, close to terminal velocity. There is not a pronounced sensation of falling. It feels more like laying on your stomach in water, it a bit windier.

When jumping out of a stationary object, the feeling of falling is quite pronounced until you stop accelerating. A hot air balloon or helicopter produces this effect (and is pretty damn fun). While I've never done it, BASE jumping provides a similar sensation.
The perl here will give me nightmares.

%matrix = (
key => val,
k2 => v2
);

is your friend :(

yes, i scare easily.
Not to highjack the topic but I also read the IRS uses social media profiles to see if you are living above your means.

Something slightly similar to your "temporary access" theory happens if you owe the IRS even a small amount of money. They enter your bank account to seize cash and the bank charges you $100 for the inspection/invasion.

As for the topic at hand, I don't see why one cannot simply say they have no Facebook account. Since FB began, there have been more years of myself having no account than there have been of having one (meaning I'm a serial "account-deleter").
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I appreciate the answers. Now I need to figure out a way to nudge the QA team toward learning to code.
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I know several male "homekeepers" who would be very offended by that extremely sexist remark.
Firefox has a little middle ground where you can use specific versions outside of the fast release cycle and still get security updates. At least that's the plan. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:... You don't get the 10 years of support that MSFT might provide for (some) versions of IE, but it's not like you have to upgrade every 6 weeks either. Also, because Firefox is open source, they're hoping that someone else will pick up the slack and continue to support older versions.

I haven't heard of any similar program from Chrome.
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Why does everything have to be re-framed to everyone reacting to or being inspired by Apple? Was everyone really blind to the idea that screen technology was improving?

It seriously destroys the credibility of a piece when a technology like this has to be framed as a "response" or "inspired by" Apple.

Microsoft, and every other competitor, have been talking about resolution independence and high density displays for a long time, the technology and manufacturing is just finally making it widely accessible. The notion that they suddenly decided to build all of this technology and infrastructure to respond to the iPad 3rd gen is simply incredible.
This is awesome! I had never thought of commissioning artwork previously, but checking out some of the already commissioned postapocalyptic artwork made me realize I'd love to recreate custom-made versions of scenes from my favorite science fiction or graphic novels for not much more than some random painting I could buy at Target. I'll definitely be using EveryArt in the near future!

Is there a way a user could suggest / recommend an artist for EveryArt to source? I personally follow several digital artists on DeviantArt and similar, and would love to have artists in those available to work with me through EveryArt.
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The job market is still pretty weak, and many sectors have not recovered at all. So, unfortunately, employers still hold all the bargaining chips. For a lot of job seekers, it may be pretty hard to tell a potential employer to go fuck itself if it makes this sort of request. A lot of people aren't in the position to be picky about employment right now. Especially young people, who are just starting out in the job market.

To me, that's what's most troubling about this: employers have the ability to strike now, while the iron is hot. If enough big employers can establish this as a standard practice, then pretty soon it becomes procedural. (Like the background check, the drug test, and other procedures that BigCo routinely uses in hiring practices).

In a perfect world, sure, you'd love to be able to walk away from a job offer and say "Well, I wouldn't want to work for any company that subjects me to this...so sayonara, suckers!" But a) vanishingly few people are in a position to do that, and b) there's a real danger that this practice becomes so widespread as to be unavoidable.

While I do think the current situation is being blown out of proportion, I think the potential danger is very real.
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The new revolution is that the compiler is for free but you need the right patent licenses to use it. It's called LLVM. But they, it's modular, so we can ignore that. For now.
If you can build a full-featured Heroku Management app for $10 worth of your time, then please email me because I want to hire you.
Speaking of monopoly abuse... google.com tells me to download Chrome to make the Internet faster.
> It showed that over the weekend Chrome is the most used browser, while on a weekday, people go back to work and use IE. This has two implications: 1) Companies are still locked into some solutions like OWA and sharepoint because of which users still use IE at work. 2) Users have started distinguishing between browsers and at home they prefer using Chrome.

I think you're overlooking a third possibility: a large percentage of those using IE during the weekdays are people that just use the "default" Windows browser while at work. While at home, they just don't use computers or get online, or at least not near as much as they do while at work.

I wonder if this may be the more likely cause.
I for one don't like the new name. BrowserID was a perfect name - just an ID that you can use with browsers. It doesn't require any personal data, so it has nothing to do with social sites or real identity. The interface by default allows you to have multiple browser-ids which by itself contradicts the idea of "personhood". This name may raise concerns about "persona-l" data
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That's funny you should say that, I initially started out using Fireworks when I started as an intern as a web developers. This was back in 2000, and designs were all table based, so Fireworks was great for splicing into the required segments.

I'd have to agree that Fireworks is probably better suited for most web design needs... It used to be real simple to switch between the 2 packages, guessing it is still the same...
I don't see how your marriage status, parental status or sexual preferences could otherwise be disclosed during a regular job screen process.

However, the employer doesn't have to "confirm membership" of any status in order to open themselves up to credible legal action. All they need to do is give the impression that they were given some information about protected status, and their "no hire" decision becomes easily suspect.

It would be hard in a litigation setting for the employer, after viewing someone's Facebook data, to be able to cite and document exactly which pieces of information influenced their decision, and which pieces of (discriminatory) information did not influence their decision.

This isn't something that a smart employer would want to open themselves up to. It seems like the actual cases cited have all been rather limited in scope (checking prison guards for gang affiliation).
No, the new revolution is "compiler? here, I too wrote one!" ;-)
What are your favorite career hacks?

A dude at a previous place of work took the following initiative: he emailed everyone at the company asking for their ideas for improvement, promising a daily prize in the form of movie tickets (which were presumably funded by upper management).

He did this for several weeks, collecting a ton of great, actionable ideas from the people in the trenches. It was all kinds of stuff, from IT to customer service to employee morale, etc.

Then, he went to upper management with a bunch of curated, highly relevant, enterprise-spanning improvement ideas. Win-win-win situation: employees get movie tickets and fixes, upper management gets a better-running business, idea-rally dude gets to take credit for all of it.

Brilliant move.
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Thanks! At this stage of the game, I've heard great things from the founders and they have had a successful exit before. I was planning on meeting up with them anyway even I've decided not to be employee #1 for now. Is it fair to ask about their exit strategy and their plans for growth?

Also, is it fair to make the assumption that employee #1 would be required to put in long hours (soul-crushing or otherwise)?
I do have at least one acquaintance that watched it multiple times to understand it. In fact this acquaintance convinced me to go watch it, as I was actually curios about what's so hard to understand about it. And while watching it, I kept asking myself what's the big deal with it, as the plot unfolded itself pretty linearly.

So there is something about it that makes it hard to understand for some people, although my non-technical wife also had no problems with it.
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Thanks for the story. This is why, though my approach has been gently and justly accused of being "passive" downthread, the passivity is the key in this case.

Don't overtly "defend" Amy. (Or Chuck, or any teamaker of any gender, for that matter.) Don't use the word "sexism", don't start doing math on how often each team member has been asked to make tea in the last two years, and don't otherwise call attention to your noble sacrifice (which, as you've seen, in an otherwise-mostly-male crowd serves to throw an uncomfortable spotlight on Amy). Say as little as possible. Just make tea. Try to win the initiative: If you start the job first, it can pre-empt argument over who is going to do it. Or if you lose the initiative, but Amy has interrupted her typing to start making the tea, say something like "hey, if you'd like to keep writing I'll make the tea today". (If she says no, don't press.)

If you inadvertently attract too much attention, you can make a joke about how much you enjoy tea. Quote some Hitchhiker's Guide or something. It's amazing how useful random whimsy can be.

Now, of course if you're always missing from the start of every key meeting because you're making tea the folks in the meeting may be liable to demote you in their minds. This is a sad but true fact of politics: Act like the doormat, and you'll become the doormat. There is a reason why badly-gelled teams tend to try and assign lousy jobs to the person with the weakest political position. So this might not be your final move in this game. But you may be in a better strategic position than Amy to negotiate the necessary change (which could be: rotating the tea-making role through the team, getting catered tea, moving an electric kettle into the corner of the conference room, or just "forgetting" to make the tea and seeing what happens: Maybe the team will settle on one of the above alternatives, or maybe it'll turn out that tea just isn't important enough after all to be worth the risk of introducing hierarchy into an otherwise egalitarian team.)
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"From now on, any person who habitually consults websites that advocate terrorism or that call for hate and violence will be punished"

Who defines "habitually", "advocates Terrorism" "call for hate and Violence"?

These terms and phrases are so overtly broad that a person visiting Reddit could easily qualify.

If the French govt. really moves a law along these lines, they would have taken a giant step away from Freedom towards Govt. Censorship of the worst kind.

I suspect this is just some pre-election bluster from Sarko to bump up his bad numbers. If and when this gets to the Law making stage, France needs a SOPA-style movement to kill this dead.
Is there anything in facebook's terms of service that would permit their users to share login info with third parties?
I wonder whether people without an account will start having to create one, just to enable the HR drone to tick the checkbox.
Should it be illegal though, if the applicants have to agree to do it in the first place? That's the piece of this that seems to get lost - the applicants are, for whatever hard-to-fathom reason, consenting.

It's shady, and seems short-sighted, but no one is disclosing information against their will here.
I completely agree. This thread is full of guys like me hypothesizing about what it's like to be a woman in the workplace. I'd love to hear more examples. I could be completely wrong.
If you're allowed to say what you want, but no one is allowed to listen to it, then you don't have free speech. The logical reason for free speech is communication.
I saw something like this the other day at a stop sign. Normally there is a lot of traffic going through this stop sign at rush hour, but it doesn't get backed up. The other day there was a police car sitting near the stop sign. It caused a huge backup that stretched for several blocks. Turns out people were being extra careful to come to a complete stop for a few seconds because of the police car, and that caused the line to move more slowly than normal.
Ah, I see. That makes sense, and that's good to know.
Don't rule out ADD or Dyslexia (even at a low level) as limiting factors when you're trying to learn something from a book or read other people's code. In the last couple of years I've learned a lot about programming by just making up some ridiculously large project, and _just doing it_.
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Unless they just changed it, they seem to have snappy taglines that explain it well already:

Liveloop is really real-time collaboration within Powerpoint

Collaborate in real-time, keystroke by keystroke, without ever leaving Office.

These aren't bad. I wonder if they have tested them with the target market.

I have sympathy. It's a hard concept to get across.

That said, it takes until 2:30 in the video before we see people collaborating on the same slide at the same time. And there might be a bit of meta-confusion because they're working on a presentation for "LiveLoop Zoo". I know that seems like a harmless self-reference, but I've seen people get tripped up on much easier ideas.

That seems a bit wrong. I wonder if, instead of a video where I have to press "play", we could have a silent animation that starts immediately on the home page. Show two cartoon figures typing into PowerPoint screens, with their changes reflected immediately. (And it's never bad to show human faces with emotions.)

Anyway, that sort of thing is hard, and they're to be commended for getting this far, my armchair criticism aside.
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As floatingatoll said [1], BrowserID is the protocol, Persona is Mozilla's implementation of the protocol [2].

[1] http://www.hackerne.ws/item?id=3739315

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mozilla.d...
I'm probably the same as you. I think Photoshop 6 has enough of the features I require (bar the new content aware stuff).

I would be great to be able to switch off a whole bunch of the features and filters and god-knows-what-else-it-loads-at-startup stuff and only load them if I actually need them, or be able to switch them off completely with some sort of custom profile. If i need some hardcore editing then I'll go into advanced mode or something.
If I had a boss who ever asked me for my facebook password, I would first change my password to a string of about 100 random numbers and letters. Here is an example:

sd0w34hd8yjddghaJHj323HDa6GassGa79AsSFlk889FfSDFGd8AS78

Then, I would print this password out on a sheet of paper and give it my boss.
"PicPlum acquired the assets of a previous Y-Combinator company PicWing, and took over its printer relationship and initial user base."

(via http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/12/yc-funded-picplum-beautiful...)
The hight would be an advantage, and you'd get free power - the best of both worlds. You could put a transmitter (complete with inductive pickups) in place, then fly the drone back for reuse. It would also be quite hard to take down, even if they knew it was there.

I wouldn't worry too much about cloaking. The police are not going to risk their necks climbing up a power line to take out a ~$30 transmitter, unless it's to get prints or the society in question is very Orwellian (in which case, you can't make the drones anyway, because Big Brother is watching). I'd just go for transmitter which are too cheap to bother fighting against.
I vote for dropping Persona and keeping BrowserID.