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It is funny that Netflix doesn't seem to be serving up relevant content to me. Discovery is just not that good yet. Everytime I visit the site, I have to go digging. Maybe (and I'm hoping) its just this selection problem. I hope they add more (good) titles to streaming, and fix this discovery issue.

I wonder how much licensing fees factor into them hiding good content vs. playing it up to show that they are still relevant.
My country is not a US "ally", so what I say may not apply to every one.

One thing we get used to is the "step aside" treatment. When a border agent sees my Lebanese passport with "arabic gibberish" they usually react the same way. There's a little hesitation, (one time the agent even called her supervisor), then I'm asked to "step aside", go to a special lane, get a full body search from an extremely cold person following protocole to the letter. They will go through all my stuff, literally everything and after making sure I'm "clean" they let me go.

I don't complain much though, it's just a funny ritual. And more often than none, the "step aside" lane is far less crowded than the regular one, which means that despite the intensive search, it's still takes me less time.

On the other hand, one of my closest friends studying at Purdue University had a mandatory two hour stop in an interrogation room, every time he passezd by the airport of Chicago, because he has the mention "born in Beirut" on his French passport. "Randomly selected" they said...
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uhm...? All I see is a black screen and a texture that moves slightly when I move the mouse.

Edit: You can downvote me all you like. See if you can count how many fucks I give.

Edit 2: Ya, I can see how this is so impressive it should be on the front page: http://i.imgur.com/i6q3H.png
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Imho, it's not xenophobia as much as "foreigners don't vote, who cares about making things better for them".
My bro has a problem with a mole digging all the backyard, any idea for that problem? maybe a flying drone that drops bombs on its head ? :)
Just unpacked mine. Gosh... the screen has an issue... As if there was a white-led behind the screen. It appears only on bright colors.
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It refers to a number of technologies including DES, SSL and GSM. I suspect also <128bit AES.

The NSA stores everything anyway, because if it can't be decrypted today, it can probably be decrypted tomorrow.

On the positive side, even if the NSA could break AES 256 (or even DES) it is still a relevant and useful algorithm. It's relevant because if I, say, issue an order to storm Wimbledon Common, that order is tactically valid and useful and hence secret for maybe a day or two, after which Wimbledon Common has been taken, and the order no longer has value.

Assuming the symmetric keys are solid, even weaker algorithms will do. On that basis, if AES 256 is only relevant for another 10 years then that's ok to encrypt my documents with, because when something better comes along those documents are probably no longer relevant.

Of course they may still be relevant as evidence if someone wants to come after you.

In closing, a lot of the Wired article is drawn from the book The Shadow Factory, which ends with the start of the construction of the Utah facility. It's interesting reading that also goes into the political side of it.
Every once in a while I daydream about a government full of rationalists who one day say to themselves, "Hey, um, you know what would be a better thing to spend our money on preventing than terrorism? Cancer."
It really all starts with you. You need to build up a little snowball effect.

Pick something you feel that is impressive & enjoyable & work on it for a while (set a deadline of a few weeks for a MVP)

Get your cool projects working on the web & gather links together, create a portfolio of your most interesting work, perhaps start a blog.

Go to some meetups, travel if you have to. Stay longer than the 'event' to chat with other folks - ask what they are working on.

If you can afford, pick a couple of new startups that you think are cool & offer your time/help to them.

Within a matter of months you have projects created & curated, they're visible to those you connect with.

Putting yourself in these situations leads to serendipitous moments that would be impossible to engineer.

You have the main thing - the ability. People are interested in what you do with that & where you take it!
Errr, no. He actually said that 'satan' has taken over academics, and other such nonsense.
Interesting how YCs very first web-statement in 2005 remaines true and current.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050324062234/http://ycombinator...
Tourists bring lots of money which they spend in the shops, hotels, restaurants, taxis, etc of voters.

Voters should be voting to encourage this.
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IIRC (IANAL), if you earn below a certain threshold in South Africa, and you're not in a "management" position, the law guarantees you overtime pay and pay on public holidays at a fixed rate (e.g. double in the case of public holidays).

It's a big enough deal that in the past when two public holidays fell on the same day in a given year the national worker unions have successfully requested the government declare a new public holiday since the workers they represent end up losing out on a day of double wages. For instance, 25 and 26 December 2011 fell on Sunday and Monday respectively, and by law public holidays that fall on a Sunday automatically move to the following Monday. That meant workers who would ordinarily work 25 and 26 December earning double wages two days in a row would only earn double wages for one day. In a country where per capita income is barely enough to survive on for the bulk of the population, that's a big deal.

If you earn above the threshold, or you're in a "management" position, the idea is that you don't need this protection and have freely negotiated your contractual terms. I think it's a good balance between:

1. legislating mandatory overtime/work hours (a bad thing, IMO; e.g. there are many entrepreneurs happy to work for peanuts for long hours out of choice, and plenty of managers who won't work for peanuts but accept long hours as part of the job and the rewards that implies)

2. ensuring that cheap (unskilled) labour is not abused (important in a country like South Africa where there is 30-40% unemployment).
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This is where the pivot methods fall short: in the long run, it erodes good will to rely on new services. We should expect that at least funded start-up will provide reasonable "exit" service for customers, and VCs will take that responsibility as part of their bet on the industry at large.
I'm not sure. I've thought about building this kind of system from time to time, but I've never gotten around to it. I'd pay up to $75 for a simple version that keeps pigeons from my balcony. Nothing fancy required: it could fire at anything that moved. I would switch if off if I wanted to use the balcony myself. I wonder whether $75 would be enough to make this a viable product.
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The govt. view is rather simple: Someone has a lot to gain by eliminating overtime pay, and that someone (corporations are people too, in the US) is likely to be or become a donor to said bill sponsors.
And he did. He banned federal funding for stem-cell research for biblical reasons. It might not have made the USA a theocracy, but he actually came pretty close with many of his decisions.
I don't think ESTA is that bad, it's low cost and each application lasts for two years (at least my current one does). At least you can do this online - some countries (I think Turkey still does this) demand that you pay cash for a visa each time you arrive.
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I dread crossing through American border control at the airport every single time. I use O'Hare, and they literally look and talk to you like dirt. I'm doing nothing wrong, I'm visiting America for legitimate reasons, yet I'm barked at like an army recruit.

Last time, I couldn't tell what the guy behind the glass screen was actually asking me to do, which irritated him immensely. "Lef'and." "Lef'and." "LEF'AND." It took a few tries for me to realise that what he was trying to say was "Can you put your left hand on the scanner, please?"

Maybe it's because I'm British, but I find the British border and security people far more pleasant, which is strange because on the whole, I find British people colder than Americans. Even when something goes wrong, they're apologetic (I was randomly picked for a full pat-down last time I flew out of Manchester, and it was all done with friendliness, good humour, and apologies for delaying me slightly.)

"Please" and "thank you" cost nothing, and would likely be quicker than these repeated barked orders. I like the American people--on the whole, I find them pleasant, polite, good-humoured, decent people. I mean, I am marrying one! So where do they find these people who work on the borders? Every single time I go through, I'm incredibly nervous of doing something slightly wrong, which makes me more nervous because I look nervous and worry they'll think I'm up to something. It's terrifying.
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While the card-filling and pointless questioning is a pain the worst aspect of arriving in the US is the state of the US airports, specifically the facilities in arrivals.

On my first visit I was unable to find a working ATM, was insulted by a surly woman running an info desk who was more interested in talking to her boyfriend and was accosted by numerous taxi drivers none of which seemed to be properly licensed.

The experience was no different to arriving in a 3rd world country.
I don't think that's a European thing, per se. Have you ever been to Holland? ;)
Even the information that your installs cost $1-25k is useful and shold be on your website. We can all understand ranges of options. That tells me it doesnt cost $1m, lets me know who I will need to get approval from, and most people will know roughly where in the range thy are.
This is very accurate. As a Swede going to visit the US, a country which I love dearly, the last summer my main fear was filling out forms incorrectly or the airports security procedure. And Sweden is more or less a total ally to America, if unofficial, and a major trading partner. It's hard to find someone less threatening than a Swedish citizen.

Which really is a shame, because in general Americans are a friendly bunch of people.
I know next to nothing about this kind of thing, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in here, but you might look into registering as a Nevada corporation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_corporation

There are a handful of benefits to incorporating in Nevada, not least of which is that the entire process has become its own sort of industry, with other businesses set up just to inexpensively help you work out the paperwork and maintain the necessary legal presence in Nevada for you. One such service (http://www.incparadise.net/) specifically says that you don't need to be a U.S. citizen or have a U.S. address to register as a Nevada corporation. That plus a mail forwarding service (also offered by the same company) plus a few other magic tricks should let you get set up with Stripe -- I've never tried that though, so don't know for sure.

Might be something to look into, anyway. Certainly a lot cheaper than finding a co-founder.
Well, yes. The problem is that a president with crazy and completely wrong ideas is also more likely to have a whole bunch of just-slightly-wrong ideas because of his (or her) complete lack of rationality.
I guess that the fundamental problem is thinking of months and years as numbers (and representing them as such).

If they were purely symbolic constants, then the expression "January + 1" is meaningless and would throw an error.

So, with hindsight, I'd say that any Datetime api which represents days, months and years as numeric quantities (which is, probably, all of them) encourages these kinds of bugs. (Or at least doesn't discourage them).

Can anyone come up with a use case where you need numeric values for these things? (Which doesn't suffer from the same kind of bugs as this?)
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The secret phrase that makes the troll let you cross the bridge is "Am I free to go?" You're an American citizen, they can't deny you entry.
Your calculation is wrong. Even taking all of your assumptions, 530MWh per * $.10 per kWh is $53000 (not $53), no meagre sum.

Would be very nice if you would admit it is not so 'clearly' that I am wrong now.
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CDG airport in France has awesome security. One time through there after having put my passport through a washing machine by accident, when I asked if this would be a problem they just laughed and said no, no, not at all, it's very clean.

Meanwhile, under no circumstances would I even consider visiting or transiting the US.
> In Europe everything is so much simpler. If you are inside UE all you need to show is your ID card and your are set.

If you are inside the Schengen area, you only need to show your id card. Go to/from the UK, and you still need your passport.

Traveling between Schengen countries is more comparable to traveling between US states than from Europe to US or reverse, because the whole point of Schengen is a common system for protecting the "outer" borders.
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Actually it feels like lottery "how easy it will be this time?". Once my colleague had to answer bunch of stupid questions about company's laptop. Once I had very unpleasant experience: I'm tired after 20 hours without sleep and I put my hand wrongly for fingerprint scanning - guy was very unhappy about that and assumed I did that on purpose most probably. After that followed interrogation like questions.

Sometimes it is really easy and dealing with bureaucratic burden is really minor issue for me.
It might be a step up from the visas, but it's a step down from the previous state with the visa waiver program and no requirement to fill in anything at all online.
You can never actually guarantee anything even if you have tests.
The tests will only increase the likelihood of catching regressions.
I carry a US passport from being a US citizen, and I get similar treatment every time I enter the country, due to refusing to answer their voluntary questions about what I do for a living, where I'm going inside the USA, what I do in the country in which I live (Germany), etc.

They have to let me in and they know it, so they exercise their power by detaining me for 2-8 hours and going through all of my stuff. It's always a real half-assed search, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
It's a "mistake" from the perspective of users who wish it were on a platform they used, but it's not a mistake from the perspective of Marco, who is busy enough working on the iOS and server components of the service; an Android version wouldn't provide enough revenue to warrant an employee or contractor.

Is it a mistake for the developer of TextMate to not spread to Windows?
Loved the article.

I would like to say only one thing: once you know _why's way of thinking and artsy way of hacking, calling him a sloppy programmer is unfair and frankly a little bit dumb.

He was a great programmer, he just didn't follow common wisdom, probably because the reasons behind his work were very different from ours.
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So the quickest way to cure cancer would be to come up with a new encryption scheme, where the byproduct of brute force cracking it would be simulating the effects of genomics mutations?
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Didn't you have to fill in two forms on the flight (a green one and a white one) rather than one now?
This much is true. Anyone can put themselves forth as a graphic designer or software engineer too however, and you don't see them conflating the two...
He didn't specify.

Essentially he was talking about what an iOS developer "might" earn. If memory serves he pitched that the equivalent of a six figure salary was possible / reasonable if you were successful and I think agreed that that was the sort of thing he was getting.

Obviously that puts it at between $100,000 and $999,999 a year, so fairly wide error bars on that.
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Berlin makes a lot of noise about its startup culture, but it's vanishingly small. The winters are absolutely horrible. Also, the city is full of Germans.

(I've lived here for four years.)
Given your experience, what would you say are the top 5 techs that are being used in this area in London? I was looking at the job market a while back but it's not very transparent. How do you best go about finding a job of this kind?
Exactly. The computer will just repeat what you tell it to do. There is the chance that you will tell it wrong (a bug in your test code), and the chance that what you told it is not true anymore. An automated test basically saves you the work of doing the same thing over an over again as you develop.

But we must keep in mind that maintaining test code has a cost. Automated testing is not a holy grail and it isn't useful 100% of the time. You should carefully decide what code is worth testing via automation.

Unit tests in general don't catch any regressions, they only help you develop.

Functional tests might be useful, but only if you are testing something that is not likely to change much. E.g.: It is not worth to automate testing the UI if you are going to completely redesign it next month.

Manual testing can actually be cheaper than maintaining test code.
I see your point. But on my visit to Sweden (one of the otherwise most beautiful and pleasant countries I've been to), I did find some "threatening Swedish citizens", first hand.

I just wanted to point out that painting all your fellow-citizens with the same brush as yourself is perhaps too idealistic. The US may have their reasons for not absolving all Swedes from their customs procedures (silly as the procedures are).

EDIT: made my experience more PC to stop the downvotes
I'm wondering on which planet cable is going to beat the internet. Presumably it's a planet where the people prefer inconvenience, cost and poor usability.
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this is great for keeping track of which whitelists/blacklists your ip is on.
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I've avoided all conferences and work trips to the U.S. since 2003. Next year my wife's cousin is getting married in NY and I really don't want to go -- purely because of the hostile airport security

It's generally not about the practical implications (there aren't any, most tourists pass through fine) but about the theoretical possibilities and the implication that I'm only visiting so I can blow something up, or that I've strapped C4 to my 4yo daughter who must be xray'd or patted-down.
People talk about this as if it's an action you can take. The title even uses it as a verb: "open source" it. Is "open sourcing" even the decision of the developer, in reality?

Sure, the developer can decide to release the code as open source. That's fine. But to make an open source project requires a lot more commitment than that[1].

An open source project is kinda like a startup. You need your product (the code) you need your marketing (letting people know the code exists) you need your customer development (is the code useful for a lot of developers?) you need sales (dude, you really want to help with this code!) you need passionate early adopters (dude! you actually wrote unit tests for us? Tubular!) etc.

Compared to all that, putting the code up on github is the easiest part.

Really, starting an open source project is about building a community of people. Not people who use the code, but people who care enough about the code to maintain it and contribute to it.

If you don't do that, you've still got abandonware, its just that the code was open sourced before disappearing, never to be seen again.

Spending this effort to build a community may not be viable for projects being shut down- especially if they are failures. The people behind them may be burned out or soon to be unemployed or soon to be handcuffed by NDAs.

Maybe the open source community could use its own equivalent of the ASPCA-- the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Abandoned Projects.

They could take them in, like pets, give them a home for a few months or maybe a year. IF the original developers are willing they can provide as much or as little support as they are emotionally or physically capable of. After a year, if the project has attracted enough interest it is spun out as its own open source project, and if not, it is "euthanized" by being marked as shut down and put in cold storage.

This, at the very least, would serve to bring light to these projects that could use some love. And since the organization would only handle a limited number of projects at a time, they could provide life support during that transitionary year, without burning themselves out trying to save every abandoned project, lost and starving on the side of the road.

[1] I speak theoretically, I'm in the process of making my first open source project and have been thinking about this a lot lately. My previous open source experience has been as a contributor.

Edit to add: this isn't meant as a commentary on Copycopter, just general thoughts on the topic of "don't shut it down, open source it."
Funny there's no comparison with one of Apple's main competitor phones: Samsung Galaxy SII/Note. How about adding that?
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Good post. I'm similarly happy with how Backbone adds a lightweight structure to my project and guides you into doing REST correctly.

I'm using it in a project which uses appcache and localstorage which means return visitors can load the entire app without a single round trip to the server and can even use it offline.