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I'm not sure it was necessary to refer to the "I'm not good enough" thing. It really has little to nothing to do with your point. Because you've just undermined your own example (Guido Van Rossum / Python / Google) above, it weakens your position.

If I get it correctly, your point is that one requires copyright for open source software to be viable, by opening up a revenue stream to support the (free) open source part. This is true.

You can make money form open source on either:

1) Selling alternate, source closed licenses. (MySQL for example)
2) Selling support, consulting. (Red Hat, many others)

(1) requires copyright. (2) maybe less so, but without the open source licenses, which require copyright law to work, the software wouldn't exist to begin with either. Red Hat uses trademarks (which really are similar to copyright) to reinforce their position. So does Mozilla.
I went to the ember.js home page, which looks a lot nicer than parent article. Looks pretty cool. Anyone have any input how this compares to backbone or knockout?
> I've been testing obsessively for the past 18 months but just realised that I've got a stack of perfectly tested code that's perfectly wrong for what I need it for.

I couldn't agree more. TDD has its place, but it so greatly reduces your ability to react to change that it's a non-starter for me.
It is entirely possible that the blog post itself was appropriate given the sudden media focus on the topic, however I'm speaking more to -

"as system vendors are finally starting to increase pixel densities (no doubt inspired by the launch of a rather successful new tablet)"

Pixel densities have been edging ever upwards across all sectors for years. The HTC Diamond (286 PPI way back in 2008), Galaxy Note (284 PPI), etc -- packing more information in a smaller display is of obvious value. My laptop from 2008 has 192 PPI.

Or they're just suddenly enlightened because Apple released a new product.
I don't know if this is going to be an unpopular post, but I don't think this is such a clearcut case of sexism as the API Jam/"Lighten Up" stuff we've seen recently. I think we can all agree that using scantily-clad women as advertising objects is a bad thing- we were hating GoDaddy for it long before SOPA. But I think that everyone in this story went about things the wrong way.

Shanley Kane had a legitimate complaint. But tweeting "please take it down, it's fucking gross." isn't really a great way to approach the situation. Don't get me wrong- the response was bad, too- Katz cc-ing Kane's employer later down the thread was a particularly bone-headed move.

The actual root sexism isn't the story here. It's a story about PR, or about making- and dealing with- complaints. Sanz's first reply actually admitted that the video needed to be replaced- if he'd rephrased it to something like "we've taken your views on board and we're going to talk about this in the office tomorrow" that might have been the end of it. But his response was vague and he took Kane's anger personally. Then it all spiraled out of control. I don't think the Geeklist guys are bad guys in the slightest, and I expect we'll see a reply from them soon.

EDIT: I meant "a bad thing [in the tech industry]" rather than an overall bad thing. Apologies for the misunderstanding that ensued.
Same statement applies: if you say that sort of thing only to women, yes, it is sexist. If you treat both men and women that way equally, you aren't sexist, just an asshole.

Sorry about the downvotes, it's a legitimate question to me.
You can split the JPEGs at bit mapped images on the device before rendering. At that pointed you wouldn't be limited tithe block boundaries anymore.

edit for clarity: don't manipulate images in the JPEG domain.
Yeah, that'S what I was looking for. But after all it seems in getting it wrong I got it right in some way, didn't I? ;-)
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The lone gunman is now dead, etc.

Judging how Sarkozy seems to have dealt with former political rival Dominique Strauss-Kahn, setting him up with a "rape", it's entirely possibly. French intelligence likely had the ability to pull strings in the terrorist community and Sarkozy likely has the ability to pull strings with French intellience.
Good hackers don't need your services as badly as bad hackers do. If you focus on quality hackers, I think you'll need to drop your price.

Ten percent is reasonable if you provide a steady stream of work for hackers who don't have a clientbase. However, I have the impression that you're specifically trying to cater to gifted hackers, who presumably already have an existing clientbase or a robust network.
I think it depends a lot on the nature of the problem that you're tackling. If you know in advance that your task is to turn input 'A' into output 'B', then I think it makes sense to write some of your tests before writing any of your actual code.

Most of the projects I'm involved with, however, are highly experimental, both in terms of the inputs and outputs that we're dealing with, as well as the ways we interact with the user. Writing tests or even specifications (except in the most generic sense) upfront makes no sense in this case: what we need to do is quickly make some crude stuff, play around with it, and then make slightly less crude stuff. Wash, rinse, and repeat.

After several cycles of this, we know what we actually want to do, and can start buckling down and writing production code. Some of it may or may not be borrowed from the prototyping cycles. In any case, testing becomes CRITICAL at this point.
The fact that Chrome added incognito window is a good sign, the fact that there is still no flash block is a bad one IMO. Honestly, I think gmail and search are probably more dangerous when it comes to privacy. People can track the information Chrome sends back to Google, but you have no idea what happens once your data is on their servers.
"But there's no reason a good developer can't be a good manager"

This is very wrong. They required very different skills and personality. Promoting a good developer to management role may hurt the developer himself and eventually destroyed the project/team. My personal experience though.
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I have a feeling that 'types of clients who aren't scared of the word "hacker"' will be most of your clients.
I just bought it but was disappointed that there isn't an iPad optimized version. Are there plans to add that? EDIT: oh, yes there are. Please don't charge a second time ;)

EDIT: Also, "releases" page isn't sorted properly -- http://d.pr/hA5K

And the console keeps giving me a disconnection message: http://d.pr/1vVq but I think that might be because it's a Cedar stack app...?
I think most of you are missing the point of the title (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal). His suggestions are not meant to be taken seriously, and as others have pointed out, it is quite likely that TPB's suggestion may not be entirely serious either.

It might be worth considering that the whole reason they put forth the idea of drones or LOSS or however you want to define them was to a) inspire technologists to consider creative ways of dealing with draconian policy/enforcement, b) draw parallels between the projection of power manifested by drones operating in US interests overseas under questionable/controversial legal circumstances and their own situation.
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As a mostly self taught programmer who has been ignoring tests for too long, can anyone provide links to any books/primers/resources that can introduce me to writing tests and doing so effectively?
By having all these images for the code sample makes it almost useless for me to tag and read later in one of my instapaper-esque tools.
Probably because many people don't believe that anymore.. Last time i flew (in Europe) most people did turn off their cell phones etc.

Well, at least it seemed like they did.
I really hope that everyone is as equally offended and quick to point out sexism for every advertisement, television show, and movie featuring a very fit, shirtless man doing a stereotypical "masculine" activity (construction work, heavy lifting, playing a sport, or fighting each other).
I think we can all agree that using scantily-clad women as advertising objects is a bad thing...

Why is it a bad thing? Have you taken the time to talk to some of the women who appear in these ads? They may have a bigger problem with your labeling them as "advertising objects" than them appearing scantily-clad.
People should really stop trying to have serious conversations on twitter. Something about that website cranks people's IQs and maturity levels down to power-save mode, and nobody ever comes out looking good.
Mine certainly wouldn't, because we would likely go out of business if people stopped paying us for the software that we create.
The standard `./configure && make && make install` shouldn't be un-easy
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Agree. It might be a crime to comply with this request. Given that it can be a crime ("hacking") to break TOS. Catch-22

Update: 2 of the comments on the ACLU article say this also. I'm surprised this line of reasoning isn't more prominent on the issue.
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We're still ironing out the details on that one, so take my answer with a grain of salt - it still needs to get confirmed by the accountant & the lawyer.

But, basically, it would likely be very similar to what you get on vworker for example - the client transfers the money into escrow, and get an invoice for it. The % cut of the platform is deducted from the amount put in escrow and transferred to the freelance. The % is taken into account for the quote, so that it's shared between the coder and the client.

And, yes, we've had to deal with European taxes too, so we're familiar with the tax mess. : ) I don't have all the details on that yet, but I'll post an update when we do.

In any case, if you're selected, we'll figure out the specifics of your situation, to make sure everything is by the book.
Colorado is possibly the best, protecting "any lawful activity".
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If you're talking about writing tests after you've completed the implementation, then I wouldn't pay for those either. :)

Test-first development is a practice that helps you design software, and ultimately (arguably) reduces the number of defects. It's tied to development, so I wouldn't quote that separately.

If they don't want to pay for documentation, maybe they end up paying for a lot of support calls....
Is there a list somewhere of the companies that do this? If i knew a company required it's applicants to do this, i would be much less likely to shop there.
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> For some reason clients tend to get upset when things that were working suddenly break (they don't even care if it as legacy code base!).

Another sad truth to consider is that just the process of refactoring your code to add tests can just as easily break functionality. I've learned this the hard way.
>I think we can all agree that using scantily-clad women as advertising objects is a bad thing

Nope. They're paid for it, there is nothing illegal about it and I fail to see anything wrong with targeting perceived likes of a segment of the population to move product. In fact, I believe that's what advertising is. I see no difference between a woman in a bikini or a celebrity in an ad.
I forgot where I first read it, but I loved the

A boy turns up to school half an hour late, out of breath as he was running into the schoolyard pushing his bike, "Sorry miss, it took me 45 minutes to run here" he explained to the schoolteacher, "Why are you pushing your bike, why didnt you cycle?" the schoolteacher asks, "I was already late when I left the house, I didnt have time to get on my bike"

As mentioned elsewhere, turning testing and code coverage into a dogmatic religion is obviously a bad idea, but when I talk to people about testing it seems that we error hugely on the side of not testing, when you dont think something is testable, it is usually because you didnt design it to be testable from the outset. There is definitely no easier programming guide I have found than a little light that goes green when I have done the right thing, If I have tested code properly it is an order of magnitude less likely to take on technical debt, huge sweeping refactorings are no longer big scary tasks
I think it's pretty hard to dispute that advertising modeling is objectification. The thing is, objectifying an individual who agrees to be objectified is not a bad thing. What is bad is generalized objectification.

In other words,

OK: that model is being used as an object for marketing clothing

Not OK: women are objects that are fun to look at

I can't really agree to the position that sexualized advertising is inherently sexist. But in the case of geek culture, there is a big heap of social context that has to be taken into account that makes it very touchy territory.
Probably the fact that it strongly discourages polysyllabic words... and you know, thoughts.
Maybe I don't understand electrical engineering well enough, but wouldn't an ornithopter then also have to carry some sort of heavy duty (several hundred or thousand-pound) transformer as well?
I like to think in these scenarios, you write your tests for your code as:

given input foo, my code calls library bar and expects a return of baz

You don't need to test the APIs or the libraries. You can mock the return and stub the original method call (if you need to test in isolation -- think APIs over the network).
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Some of his list of rules sound useful, some less so. I'd like to hear more analysis of each rule, though, rather than simply assuming it must be a good idea.

For example, decentralization can be useful in some cases. But differing laws in different can be a trade barrier, as companies have to lawyer up for each and every jurisdiction. There can also be arbitrage problems, eg: getting your free education in a generous-public-welfare state, then going to work afterwards in a low-tax state.

Another example is term limits. It has been suggested that in the presence of term limits, lobbyists end up with more political experience than elected representatives, which allows them to capture the political process. There's also the issue that without concern for re-election, an incumbent might feel no restraint in dishing out favors.

So my addition to the list of rules would be: "For each rule, consider how it could go wrong." It might make it harder to rile up the base even when that's appropriate, and it might make discussion take longer than it should, but I think it's worth it.
I worked at a social media marketing agency for a few months, when I went out of town I gave my manager my login information because my clients would sometimes direct message me instead of email (annoying). A few weeks after returning, some of my new messages would already appear open, and Facebook asked me if I logged into my account from a PC ( NEVER!!) at a different location than normal ( near my managers house). I was upset and went to her boss, they said she was just doing her job and that she had every right to check up on company communication.
You're asking for integration tests, and yes those are hard to do, esp when the integration is against a large deployment of third-party or existing API code like you describe.

What you want to do in that case is isolate the "glue code" if you can and test its assumptions in isolation. Wrap the API dependencies in an interface and inject mock objects to play the role of that API. This is really what mocks do well.

If your code is also bootstrapped by some special plug-in hook that is hard to emulate in a test environment, like a MS SharePoint or Dynamics thing, then you should isolate the code in question from the Class that implements that hook, so that a test can boot up that code just like the plugin would. Interfaces are probably a good option on this end as well.

So, you often can't test your production code in an integration environment exhaustively, but that's OK in most cases because A) a truly exhaustive integration test is probably a combinatorial problem and not realistic anyway and 2) you'll just be proving that your third-party API works as guaranteed, which is probably not your highest risk and not worth the trouble.

Your real concern is to test the assumptions of new code and also create the TDD discipline around that code which tends to make for better code.
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I agree with this. I cannot explain why I want to. It has something that I've craved to do my entire life, I cannot put into words or explain why, the hunger I feel to code. I feel very drawn to it and it is extremely appealing. That is all I know!
Wouldn't they be stealing power, then?

Going from the murky world of copyright infringement, to straight-up stealing a service seems like a pretty terrible idea.
I would say that it's a bad thing because it offends women in the tech industry and makes them feel alienated- the root of this entire story.

It's quite likely that the models in the ads have no objection to what's going on- clearly, they chose to get into the industry. But that's not really the point- there is such a thing as being aware of your environment, and the tech industry has started making real efforts to be more inclusive. If you don't pay attention to this kind of stuff you're going to get a backlash.
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The most offensive part of this all is the idea that this is a good use of anyone's time. This has gone beyond any sort of discussion, it's now just a petty and childish argument you could expect to see on some low budget reality tv show, does this really need to be here?

I guess this is a good advertisement for Storify though.
You have to consider the power imbalance due to gender norms. In our culture, men typically pursue women romantically. This is not always the case, but it is the norm. Hence, in a social setting where it is acceptable to pursue someone romantically, a woman complimenting a man's appearance has the implied meaning "I would be receptive to your romantic advances." [1]

However, in the same social setting, when a man compliments a woman's appearance, the implied meaning is "I am pursuing you romantically." And this is fine in social settings, otherwise our species would die off.

But it's not fine in the work place. You feel that a woman at work giving you such a compliment is "harmless fun" because if it was a normal social situation, you would have the power: it's up to you to pursue. But for many women it is not "harmless fun" because it's similar to the social situation, and they feel romantically pursued, which is not okay at work.

[1] Please note I do not consider this a promise, so let's not confuse this with "asking for it." Human communication is subtle, and such implications are how consensual "courtship" happen. Of course, once there is a rejection, whatever implications one thought were there don't matter.
If you automate that process - maybe spit the screenshots into weekly emails or a dashboard - and people start working specifically to improve those numbers then you just might have a greater aggregate impact on revenues than the 1/size_of_your_team you presumably have now [1].

[1] http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-tools-a...
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Instead I would advice them to buy me a beer or two I bet they will get to know more of me than by watching all of those imgurl links I cross post from reddit.
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It's a story about sexism. The "PR" in this case is basically a "How to be Sexist" guide. They hit all the high points -- "looking for attention", "double standard", "I bought you drinks!", and, of course, threatening the woman's economic welfare.

It's absolutely, unmistakably clear that this is a company whose culture is inherently and proudly sexist.
If you read Pragmatic Unit Testing[1], it talks about how writing tests actually takes less time than building a project without tests, in the long run.

First of all, it's possible to actually ship a product that was built with tests quicker than one that was not built with tests. This may not always be the case, but adding tests doesn't necessarily mean that it will add time, overall. It may feel like it's quicker to build an app without tests, but often the testing and bug fixing that happens at the end often exceeds the time it would have taken to build tests and eliminate most of the testing/bug fixing at the end.

Second, bypassing testing rarely saves time in the long run, especially for apps that continually require maintenance to existing code. Regression almost always occurs, and sometimes this isn't caught until production.

Unfortunately, it's a hard sell to clients, and depending on how well you are at covering this up, it often goes unrealized.

[1] http://pragprog.com/book/utj/pragmatic-unit-testing-in-java-...
I know you can make money from open source. It's difficult though.

The title was something of an attempt at linkbait (albeit not a very good one), but also a way to point out that effectively, it is harder to get paid to work on open source software.
I am not a lawyer, but having worked in a corporate setting for years this is something that's drilled into us constantly.

Edit: A bit of searching leads me to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964). I'm not sure if the wording specifically prohibits asking about protected statuses, but any legal decisions about that would probably have their roots in that Act.
I still have a problem with this notion that simply because women may be fun to look at, that they are objects. Perhaps you should define "object".
A lot of good hackers may have a good network and existing client base, but in our experience it's not always the case. You have good hackers who work in a cubicle because they don't want to tackle that part; hacker freelancers who don't want/like to do the necessary legwork to maintain a steady stream of clients...

Also, as mentioned below - even if you already have a good client base, applying allows you to extend your market - you can always evaluate the offers on a case per case basis, and see if the % cut is worth it. You get more options.

But you may have a point - it's quite possible that some client/hackers profiles will require less work from us than others.
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Yes; his points are exactly why the Constitution was written the way it was - and make clear that moving away from it, as we are, is a very bad idea. Next question is how to push that trend back to our founding documents, when those driving us away are willing to go to great lengths to drag us where they're going.
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