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Yeah - another good way to go for this is to find awesome and completed photoshop files and then try to reverse engineer how they were created. Theme and template gardens usually provide the photoshop file, you'd be amazed how much you can learn from digging around in one file (how'd they do that?).

One caveat - knowing how to photoshop is different than knowing how to design. UI/UX is a completely different subject.
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What he is really saying:

Yahoo employees, we are hiring right NOW. NOW is the time to send us your resume. Did I mention we are hiring?
I'm confused since it looks like the course has already started. Can we still submit old assignments for credit?
But then how can you claim they have "(a lot of) real revenue" without being about to backup the assertion?
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Hi guys, I was looking to get some feedback from "those in the know" on our online pitch deck we just put up today. More specifically, feedback on the deck slides, not necessarily the site itself.

I found that creating these slides were surprisingly challenging. There's a constant battle between trying to reduce the clutter/text on a slide and attempting to accurately convey meaning or purpose.

This is our first pitch deck, and I'd appreciate any professional and/or constructive feedback.

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Thank you,

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Random people aren't pawns for political initiatives, even when the politics are good. And you can't walk it back to "well, there's already a taint for working at Yahoo" without being the guy who just called everyone at Yahoo incompetent. There were many ways this guy could have expressed a similar sentiment without casting aspersions on hundreds or maybe even thousands of totally reasonable, perfectly competent people. Instead, he picked the most classless possible way to do it.

I blame this on the choice of Twitter as his venue. Everything he said after it, to Venturebeat, is now subject to the distortions of the news cycle. I know of at least one really smart person who works at and thinks highly of Yammer; I have a hard time believing it's really run the way this article makes it sound.
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I think that the main advantage of unit testing is that you have to write testable, modular code. It ensures a sound design, which is the cheapest phase to catch bugs. The regression proofing is not a particularly big advantage of unit testing since functional and integration tests catch more bugs anyway.
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I'm unsure how an organisation which does not add any value and is based on dead labor can possibly have anything other than a toxic culture.

When your primary goal is to repackage existing value and make money from usury, it's a little bit steep to expect your employees to care about anything else - your primary incentive is how much money you can extract from dead labor, and not 'the success of clients' or anything else.
That could be a little off-base. It seems that this anti-Yahoo-employee rant was triggered in part because he recently got tangled in a patent lawsuit (affecting him directly). Where was he before he got sued? Remaining silent as it happens to others only to act when it happens to you is a form of hypocrisy.

But, I could be wrong.

Frankly, his attack on perfectly innocent folk really ticked me off.
That's not how large boats work though, they are running the engines constantly, even when they are sitting in port loading/unloading cargo.
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Digg launched like 6 months before Reddit did.

I don't know the Reddit history that well, but as I read recently in a PG essay, it was originally slated to be a food ordering application on your phone.

I do not know when they pivoted, or when their idea to pivot came, but I _suspect_ that their pivot was at least partly inspired by Digg's early release.
Yeah, he has an empty div positioned over the first part of the post that eats clicks.
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Ankur,

You will have to add your email to your profile as it's not visible by default.

A lot of people will want to get in touch from what I have read.

Good luck!
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SOPA/Internet Regulation is a pretty obscure issue. I doubt most people know anything about it, let alone where their rep stands.
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Sure. But now what?

The problem here is that a huge number of talented people almost certainly do work for Yahoo without ever paying attention to the news cycle. Lots of talented people don't have startup ambitions; they bust their ass from 9-5 and come home to their families and their woodworking and charcuterie hobbies. Sure, they probably all have a sense that Yahoo isn't on a great trajectory, but they have no urgent need to leave. Yahoo might even be a better deal for them; pick the wrong startup and you could be hunting for a job again in 6 months.

It isn't reasonable to start penalizing people like that for the actions of Yahoo management; or, at least, if it is, it's not reasonable to do it over patent lawsuits. Patent lawsuits aren't a big enough issue to justify collective punishment.

I'm a little surprised at the tacit support I read out of this comment.

(For what it's worth: I have just as much to fear from patent suits as anyone else; my field is riddled with them).
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In my experience, Udacity isn't concentrating on short, easy classes. They've simply chosen to start with courses that have larger appeal.

Sebastian Thrun, the professor for CS373, has routinely stated that the caliber of the coursework and lecture material is equal to or beyond what he'd expect from his Stanford classes at the same level.

The teaching model they use is phenomenal though. If you haven't tried it, you should. They do brief 2 to 5 minute videos, followed by questions and coding exercises testing what you just learned. You learn things in very gradual increments, and are immediately forced to apply that knowledge. By the end of the lecture you're left thinking "Of course it works that way."
The article states that he is an Executive Director, one step higher than the VP that your quote claims him to be.
This is the right answer.

If you are trying to really quickly get code in front of users, and are working through a lot of ideas that don't end up going anywhere (code that is eventually thrown away), then heavily tested code is probably not the best use of your time.

Once you get a product with some traction, and are going to be working with a codebase for some time (especially a code base that will be growing), heavily tested code is invaluable.

Example: Upgrading a large Rails app (~250k lines) from rails 2.3 to 3.0 in eight weeks. Having roughly a 1:1 code:test ratio allows us to be extremely nimble. It also allows developers to work in almost any area of the codebase with confidence.

For apps that will be around for awhile and will be growing, a large test suite is indispensable.
I hope we don't lose high school teachers to tech companies. The world needs them much more as teachers.
Google has a lot of people I really like. I never intended that post to be anti-Google. I just think the company made some really serious mistakes in terms of whom to give audience on major decisions and, as long as it has the wrong people making important decisions, it's going to lurch toward mediocrity even though a lot of the individual engineers are really great.

A lot of Googlers are reacting as if I attacked them. I didn't. Not in the least (unless they personally made some of the moronic decisions I listed). And Google is, despite the attempts of many influential and powerful people to destroy it, still a great company. I found most individual Googlers are really great people, but I think the danger of having the wrong people make decisions that affect thousands of people cannot be understated.
I think they're just using Node as a JavaScript runtime. It offers a bunch of libraries, an interpreter (V8), a package manager and so on. Additionally, it's more and more likely to be in your package manager, so it's easy to install.

Basically, it's like having an NLP library for Python--it's not just for the language but for the whole ecosystem. The difference is that JavaScript as a language does not provide stuff like modules, so you have to get that from somewhere else, in this case Node.
So many new awesome courses this year. I enrolled in so many of them. No way I'm gonna be able to follow half of them. But it's still worth to try. Since these are easy to follow videos, you can just watch them during your lunch or just before going to sleep anyway. Way much better than watching TV at least. :)
It's really really hard to avoid Godwin when discussing the responsibility of the rank and file of an organization for the actions of the whole. It's the model case.
In the 80s/90s where software companies able to develop, test and distribute updates as efficiently as the warez community?
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Everyone is mad at Yahoo because they have let everyone down. Once a respectable company, they got left behind by other players because their lack of innovation. No web related (especially this big) company should afford to stay behind.

And now that their time to "go away" has come, they are taking all possible (legal) actions to make some more money, which, in my opinion, would just prolong their misery.

The fact is that Yahoo is a sinking ship and and they are trying to pull others with them as well - not that they are going to succeed. That's why everyone is mad at them: They are unable to go down with their heads up.
The biggest advantage of Tau over Pi probably lies in learning trigonometry for the first time. That's not something you can judge for yourself, as you can't learn something for the first time twice.

If you can live long enough, you could literally forget your trigonometry. After all, humans are not exactly the pantheon of long term memory or even...reliable memory.
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I see the same thing in open source software. People who are really involved with their project assume that everyone who lands on their site is also really involved with their project and so don't see any need to explain what their project actually does. I've left sites after digging around and never discovering what the project is about. People do this in all areas.
Seconded. I'm new to both NLP and Python, but going through the (free) book Natural Language Processing with Python has been remarkably easy and productive!
Well, I live in Ontario, Canada, and I don't know who Lamar Smith is exactly, but I do know if I saw that billboard that I'd get the idea. Or I'd go online and look up what it was all about. So now I am more informed than I'd be otherwise.

There is a tendency among some to conclude that a big billboard must have a lot of information. But people are driving by at high speeds and can barely finish 5 words. I think in this case, simplicity works for the cause.

Then there are the apathetic people...
It is hard to see what your comment has to do with Arch Linux since it is neither a compile.everything nor an rpm-based system.

But yeah, for users willing to adapt themselves to a system, as opposed to adapting the system to their desires, the debian-based distros are probably the best Linux distros.
The lawsuit itself was a douche move. Now, this guy piles on with more douche-ness.

Incredibly classless move on this guy's part. As if anyone that he would be interested in hiring had anything to do with the lawsuit filing. And trying to apply leverage by calling them out as some sort of accomplice to the suit if they don't leave in 60 days? Talk about not being able to stand in someone else's shoes.

I can think of about a dozen different ways I could have used this as a recruiting opportunity where I didn't sound like a complete dick. This guy obviously doesn't have that capability.
I started in the CS373, and having a not so good experience in programming, I found the course very difficult. I mean, the style of teaching is very good. When you program step by step, you learn more and feel more confident.

I think the difference between Coursera and Udacity, is the first one is more focused in lectures and homeworks, and the latter is more focused in practice all the time.
First thought: what the heck is Oink?
Breaking DRM is not the only relevant aspect of the video game industry. Punkbuster and other anticheat daemons need to work for the lifetime of the game.

I do not know a lot about reversing but I was always under the impression that nothing was impenetrable and most schemes were easily defeated. In light of this I am always puzzled by the relative efficacy of punkbuster and related daemons.
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I hope Yammer fails in business for displaying this type of attitude and from the CEO no less.
Building an iPad with the same pixel density of the iPhone results in a screen just under 8 inches diagonally. For the most part tap targets on the iPad are the same number of pixels as on the iPhone, so it sounds plausible.
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Natural is great for example for analyse a tweet stream... Is very useful for me.
have yet to see any of the loud-mouths spouting off about patents offer to do something like put together a fund to be used in pursuing changes to the laws. An, of course, none of them will write a check for a few million to fund it.

Jeff Bezos was talking a good game there for a while, but nothing ever came of it.
Patents are evil? Is that what you're saying or did I misunderstand?
being a serial entrepreneur is easy, making a huge success of every endeavor is hard. 9 out of 10 startups die, so even if you are Kevin Rose this means you will probably have more failures than successes. Kill it and move on. Just make sure you can say you gave it your utmost best.
Crackme's are written expressly for the purpose of cracking. They are not copyright protected in any way. There is no question legally.

They are a great way to learn techniques, and to help develop more advanced techniques by choosing progressively more difficult crackmes to tackle.

Also a lot of crackmes will contain solutions from other reversers, so even if you fail you can read the walkthrough and learn from others solutions.

Many antivirus companies will rely on your actual knowledge of RE, they will give you some tests and dont soly rely on your resume/experience in the field. They are all well aware how hard it is to find (and keep) good reversers.
I did something like this with my Google Latitude history: http://imgur.com/a/gfzIH

but this visualization is far nicer!
hehe ah ok good catch. Well no I meant Microsoft, what I was saying was that I'm not a huge fan of Google but I am somewhat of a fan.
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For good sfx you really need raw source material to get the physical properties sounding realistic. This can mean recording your own or starting from a sound library. Perhaps part of the problem with making sfx from scratch is that you need a lot of plug-ins to really get the most out of your material, which means spending a huge amount of time (for a pro sound artist this is a life-long career and many thousands of dollars) getting to know sound properties and how they are affected by signal processing. The big game companies go to pro sfx houses who have massive libraries to work with and dedicated recording equipment and foley rooms. The big studios, for example, have foley specialists whose techniques are top-secret to her and her team, and their audio is then passed on to another team of specialists for treatment.

For a really good read on soundfx see the Star Wars book:

http://www.amazon.com/Sounds-Star-Wars-J-Rinzler/dp/08118754...

I can't recommend this book highly enough for an engaging history and deeper look into sfx, it comes with a bank of sounds for you to listen to from the film, as you read.

For an unexhaustive selection of raw material see http://freesound.org (don't forget to attribute!).
Wow, what a compelling unit of measurement. Now I'm interested in these measurements in micromorts:

* sitting at a desk for eight hours
(calculated in months of this activity level)
* driving while exhausted
* skipping a meal
* skipping sleep
Also if return on investment is Milk's primary goal then killing a product that's not working to push 100% of their resources to their next thing is the best thing they could do for investors.

If the signs are there (which they obviously are internally) then better kill it now and start on the next thing earlier than draw it out longer. I think people are getting Oink and Milk confused. Milk received the capital which makes killing Oink more of an internal decision.

I think it's a wise. Also it's a little interesting people are commenting about the effort behind the product. Sure the timeline is short, but I feel it's the effort that really makes Oink stand out and fall harder.
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I'm surprised that Bloomberg would publish what amounts to a minor hatchet job. I know the financial sector is highly connected and this includes the 'impartial' financial news sector, and that they're protecting one of their own but this reads like a petty personal attack, not a civilized and well reasoned deconstruction of Smith's arguments. Consequently it's an implicit admission that they believe most of Smith's accusations are true. Why didn't they just save themselves some typing and print "Yeah! So? You smell bad."
Just a nitpick... but is there a particular link in these results that you want us to view?

There's probably ample evidence to support your claim, but linking to search results doesn't seem all that helpful. (If Google is still personalizing web searches or if someone has blocked a domain from their results we could be looking at different lists.)
As a programming noob, I feel like I learned as much in a day on Udacity as I learned in a month left to my own devices using Khan Academy, The New Boston, and other online materials.

The fact that they show the immediate application of what you've learned goes miles into helping you remember it. To answer the question, they cover a lot in a short span of time and don't waste time teaching concepts that don't have immediate application.
I think you're confusing his argument with Godwin's law because of the similarity with a nazi analogy. But above all, the Godwin's law is an Ad Hominem, which is not what guimarin is doing. He's just fighting an analogy with another analogy.

I do agree that both of them have bad analogies :) But that's a different problem, it's not an Ad Hominem.
NASA has actually put together a beautiful product, that I think is even more beautiful than Google Earth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_World_Wind

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/
I want to like Minix. I had a copy of Design and Implementation and was going to download Minix when I heard of this new Linux thing, filled a bunch of floppies with an early Linux distro and never looked back. One of AST's arguments against monolithic was that it would be too hard to port to other systems. Just checked Minix 3 requirements - x86 only, not even x86-64. No ARM. Hard to see how it has progressed from being an academic thing.
I have some projects with extremely thorough test suites, and some projects with no automated testing at all.

I find my desire to work on those projects directly proportional to test suite coverage. Once you start writing against automated tests, there's no going back...
You forgot to put the option: "I know tests are great, I know I'll regret it, but I'm too lazy to write them".
I just can't publicly back it up ;)
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This is a real online class. It's now in week one.
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If you have a backup of the site - you can install a caching plugin. That will help with the load until you can move to Cloudflare or move the hosting to WPEngine.
Now I'd like to see you join in data about the locations you spent time in to characterize your personal geography. Have you done this?
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That's the point I was trying to make. The main benefit comes from eliminating the "run/debug" part of the "code/run/debug" loop. It then just becomes "code/test" where "test" takes all of a couple seconds each time.
Correction: *If the site comes back up..
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No worries, I assumed that was what you meant, and I completely agree with your main point. I got a droid after my iPhone 3, and I don't think I'll be getting another android phone because of this problem.
Incredible 2, runs it pretty smooth. Its good if you have a unlimited plan. Just FYI, Crackle has a nice stream to it.
It his the same thing as the super PAC that was started for this same purpose? Or is this an unrelated group of people doing a second billboard?
Even with the lock, how can they prove that? If they're able to get information off of it, they're able to modify it....
And the mistakes he made will just be papered over while what worked is left to be studied.

Actually, what didn't work is very valuable. That's the whole point of things like customer development/lean startup. You learn why something didn't work so that you don't repeat your mistakes, and chart a course for something that you think will work the next time.
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I didn't know about this (on and off, but current and likely more consistent in the future arch user). From me, and anyone in my position, thank you.
I have talked about this with a friend of mine a few times. We have attempted to formulate a 'theory of reverse engineering' a few times but so far nothing concrete has come of it.

My personal experience is that RE is as much a mindset as it is a deep well of technical knowledge. Without the crucial knowledge of the axioms of the framework you are reversing, you can often do nothing but guess. Without a strong understanding of the "RE methodology", even with the technical knowledge you stand a good chance of getting sidetracked or bogged in minutia. My personal belief is that although the subjects are different, the methodology is the same. I have no proof to back this up, it is just my belief based on experience.

To answer your first question, the 'best' reverser's are often the silent, faceless crackers/hackers: they hunger for knowledge and are scattered all around the world, in basements, bedrooms and studios.

Many move to anti-virus firms, or DRM/software protection companies. Others are hired by government agencies. Some move into hacking, bug and exploit discovery. A rare few move into academic research, like my friend Mr. Rolles.