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Awesome - I've just used it with a few buddies and love the simplicity! My only concern is that I'll have to send an additional msg to new friends to get them to click on the link as the msg sent via the app may seem a bit spammy. I wonder if you can somehow solve that.
In a way that's too bad. Unexplained physics is always exciting.
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Recently passed through Thailand and had to have fingerprints taken (at a land border).
Isn't rich people investing in bubble businesses effectively wealth redistribution?
That depends entirely on the license.
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http://ofb.net/~pcullen/ophone/ophone.html
so excited
Yay, site's dead. Anybody have a mirror?
This is a relatively well known technique already. In college, lecturers/professors often deploy it - we students would do the reading & research, then present the topic to the class with interactive questions where possible. (We didn't ever worry about not quite getting it right, perhaps because the prof was there to correct us.) It works fairly well for the actual sub-area you're assigned to work on, but you don't learn so much about your teammates' sub-areas (expectedly). And you learn even less from other teams' presentations, unless you're an excellent learner anyway.

Still, it's a good reminder to take the teaching approach wherever practical.
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I would not worry about a repost when the first one only had 2 posts.
I worked with the engineer he mentions. Really low-key guy, a grizzled veteran of the internet.
That was exactly how I interpreted it when I read it originally.

I love the minimalist page by the way.
Are you sure 'between my friends and me' is actually incorrect? It is a prepositional phrase, unless I'm mistaken. I admit to having little familiarity with the relevant grammar.

(Boy is this off topic!)
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I'm not seeing where Android has caused fragmentation - which you keep mentioning.

Java is by definition fragmented. Java on phones has been fragmented for ages (pre-Android). Look at all the competing OS/APIs available for jme phones (BREW, Symbian, BlackBerry etc).

Java on phones has always been fragmented at the API level - wilfully ignoring this fact is basically saying that Java EE and Java SE and JavaCard are exactly the same and programs written for a giant cluster of enterprise machines that need to screen scrape terminals and connect to esoteric datasources, should run without modification on a Java capable phone circa 2007 - this is simply not the case and has never been the case. Face it Oracle are saying WORA is good and Android is killing WORA via 'fragmentation' - the reality is that WORA is basically a myth and marketing hype.

Oracle are a troll in so much as they fully supported an ASL licensed version of Java (APIs and vm) when they didn't own Java and then decided that having a truly open source implementation was a bad idea after they owned the IP.

Google cleanroom'd (and used libraries which had an appropriate license) - this was expensive and not necessarily the best thing to do - who knows apart from Andy Rubin I guess, but I cannot see how this was illegal, or even morally wrong as you are suggesting.

Google could reasonably point to the fact that Apache had been working for 6 years on a fully open source version of Java without any legal problems - why should they suddenly find themselves in trouble for using that software and adding their own vm?

Personally I think you're mistaken about the history of this case, who is acting in good faith and who isn't and the realities of developing Java programs for phones and in general. I'm honestly exasperated by people who seem to ignore the evidence that is in the open about what transpired when and then go on about how 'evil' Google has been over this whole thing. Google acted in their best interests as a company and what they did hasn't negatively impacted any Java developers that I know about. The only people that claim that Google has stolen Java or have destroyed Java or any other hyperbolic negative affect they claim seem to have a personal axe to grind and/or work for Oracle.
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I'm not generally a fan of overblown border security, but there is another angle here: it's now harder for foreign governments to conduct unilateral spy operations in your country. I'm not sure to what extent that actually affects me, but it seems like a plus.
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"...though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does make the reassuring claim that where it is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate." Douglas Adams, _H2G2_

I've embraced this. Yes, by gum, I will stand in front of a room full of people who have paid thousands of dollars each to be there, I will plow thru the material with gusto and enthusiasm, I will create content on the fly if I have to based on my experience and skill, and if I make a mistake or slam into an embarrassing dead end then I will accept it and use it as a teaching moment to explain that even the best make mistakes or get stuck and that I'll get them a correct answer ASAP and in the meantime we will either start the topic over or move on to the next one. This is reality, this is me, this is what real developers have to deal with, and I'm not going to apologize (per se) for it.

No fear. No apologies. Do the best you can in front of an audience because you love the material. If you're going to be inaccurate, then be _definitively_ inaccurate.
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Looks like its starting to come back in a few parts of the US.
I don't think it'll be as bad. There is much more adoption of technology in every business today than back then. I know plenty of profitable small businesses looking for developers and having no luck. I can't imagine all these jobs in unrelated industries not being there just because the SoLoMo bubble pops.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&#...

Should work.
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It's not too hard, it was just a combination of laziness plus not being able to decide on a multiline comment syntax that looks nice. Anyway I just added it, using {- and -} separators (as in Haskell)
What would you do?
I have been tinkering with the API of a pretty popular web service and I discovered that the email address of every user is easily mined from the site. The issue I have is that they say that they do not disclose any personally identifying information but by combining different API calls you can trigger a disclosure of user email addresses. It looks intentional as well.<p>I am in the process of writing code that will allow anyone to harvest the email addresses but I do not want to make it public. Is the public disclosure of email addresses a problem or just something that I am worrying about for no reason? I feel like businesses should be more careful about how they treat customers and how they treat customer data.
I totally agree that teaching a topic forces you to learn it much better than static consumption.

But... Probably the absolute best way to learn something is have a deadline where you have something to lose.

That's why I have moved to volunteering to teaching training courses whenever I can.. It forces me to learn it better than anyone, and the pressure of losing reputation if you get up and make a fool out of yourself is a great motivator to get it right. When you are done, you find you learned it faster than anyone, and are now the expert.
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Evidence for this explanation has been around for a number of years though this appears to be the final nail in the coffin for nay sayers. Some very precise modelling of the pioneer spacecraft and its thermal properties was done a couple of years ago and this bore out the thermal radiation theory.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/12/15/...
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I highly recommend you take the time to read Lou's bio. A lot of what is possible on the Web today came from his contributions:

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What did that acutally do? JWZ teased about it[1] as part of the things he posted for Mozilla's 10th anniversary.

[1] http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brows...
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Argh. There is a a masquerade party that same night, what should I do?
Yes but the C level executives will be retired or working somewhere else by then
I've never had freezing/crashing/apocalyptic issues with iTunes on Win or OSX, but for a company that prides itself on user experience, iTunes leaves a lot to be desired. I pine for the day when a real Winamp gets on OSX, and not in that half assed form they came out with a few months ago. But maybe thats just cuz I'm old and set in my ways. Or maybe I just like a simple way to queue up some songs, or the ability to see 50 songs in my playlist, while only taking up a narrow side of my screen. But that's just the retro grouch in me...

Your right as far as I know on your last point, not that I've done much searching, but I can hope there's something out there someday.
For what it's worth, FB has indicated to my company in the past that in situations like this one can refer to http://connect.beta.facebook.net/en_US/all.js
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Not to mention there would still be the legal argument that you helped the spread of illegal content.
While it might be the case that they have a vulnerability somewhere, in that [the email address of every user is easily mined from the site], there are few reasons to [write code that will allow anyone to harvest the email addresses].

Yes, [businesses should be more careful about how they treat customers and how they treat customer data], and I agree you should submit some sort of proof-of-concept to the web service, privately, to improve [how they treat customers and how they treat customer data].
+1 million for using winamp. By far the thing I miss most from windows. (I'm OSX and Linux all the way these days, but there are things I miss.)
This is irritating: I still haven't figured out how to buy one and I "registered my interest" with both of the initial suppliers, neither of whom have contacted me with purchasing info, within hours of the release annoucment.
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Walmart's P/S is low because their operating margins are so low, and Walmart's P/E is actually almost the same as Google's, because valuation is a function of cash flow, not sales.

What kind of addressable market do you see for Evernote, and what sort of margins do you see them making over the long term? I just don't see an online note taking app being so difficult to reproduce, so I don't know if they have pricing power to generate the cash necessary to support a $1B valuation. Particular after you consider execution risk, and then leaving room for this round of investors to make an attractive return.
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The less impressive teachers start their talk with a "I am not an expert" statement which in my opinion is lame. Get up, speak with authority and present what you know in your way. If an error is made, or someone identifies a Better way, acknowledge it and move on. If you make a big deal about it, it just gets awkward and painful. So move on! It gets easier with experience. Start with smaller groups, your friends, or your favorite employees so there is no pressure.

In the last training section I ran I hijacked 7 of my employees to sit through the talk. For me this is a no pressure scenario and nothing to lose. It went well, and when I moved to a larger possibly hostile audience I knew what to expect... As my employees were already brutally honest and I survived.

Also, if you are wrong, better to learn it now (that's why you learn so much faster as the teacher) than complete life and never know! When I'm wrong I take that as a positive thing, the case where I probably learned more than the student did.
Why on earth do I need to log in to read what seems to be a bug report?
If the purpose of texting "where are you?" is null:
This is an excellent way to find out the location of your friend(s) without them giving much effort.

If the purpose of texting "where are you?" is to meet up:
Sure, bearing in mind that your friends will eventually need to call/text each other to confirm that they are going to meet in front of some building.
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What was the point of all of this? Why not just contribute sandboxing functionality to JavaScript itself? With a 200x slowdown, js.js is a total waste of time.
I agree with your statement on valuations, however I think there's also another factor at play here

>The valuations are getting to the point where they only make sense if Earth had many, many more people on it.

The fact is, it is still very hard to gauge how much a company will succeed by.

Take the example of Friendster etc and Facebook; when Facebook started, Friendster etc were the dominant players; however, now, we all know who's the dominant player in social. At one point, they may even have had the same valuation.

My point being, if two companies in the same market are getting $1 billion valuations right now, it doesn't necessarily mean that people think the market is worth $2 billion down the track; some people are hoping one will win over the other.

Indeed, if Evernote develops some killer features and dominates it's space, it'll be a steal for $1 billion
My native language is Russian and I have never met a foreigner who mastered it even after years and years of practice. It is almost unheard of to find a foreigner who can speak and pronounce correctly. Usually it's one or the other. The majority of native Russians spend 12 years learning Russian grammar and still cannot spell right. I find it hard to believe that a non-native speaker could. On the other hand it took me 3 months to become fluent in English at 14 while attending a high school in the US. Another 6 months to lose my accent and by the end of the year i was thinking in English. Being immersed in the culture of native speakers is probably the best way to learn any language. However, overcoming the complexity of a language is sometimes very difficult/impossible.
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Heh, I was just removing the Facebook share widget from our codebase and had left the reference to their JavaScript in. Just noticed it 404'ing and was happy as I would have accidentally left Facebook's javascript on our page unnecessarily otherwise.
Nice paper; probably cooler than the FTL neutrino result from last year.

If you're a physicist then you might like to review, rate, or discuss it on publons:
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Narcissus only runs on spidermonkey because it uses nonstandard spidermonkey extensions to work. Unless I'm misunderstanding the implications of the first paragraph in the link you provided.

The very awesome twitter demo on the js.js site is one example of something you could no way do with narcissus except as a proof of concept in FF.
didn't the soviets gain much of their information from american citizens? so i'm sure that many such agencies will simply recruit citizens from the country they wish to spy on. such changes in security practices as this will only change the number of people recruited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_agents_in_the_U...
That's just a static js file correct? When you get Facebook big, doesn't make financial sense to host static content on Amazon CloudFront, but it would avoid any downtime. I wonder what their CloudFront monthly bill would be, just to serve this one js file?
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It's awesome!! But why is it free? Seems like this is a pretty slick product that you could be making money off.

Are you hoping to be bought? Are you just trying to help people out? Are you already rich?

As I said, it's awesome, and I'm going to use it. But I just want to understand the motivation!
Which doesn't seem to be loading for me.

Edit: nevermind, retried a few times and it's ok now
Some people's waste of time is other people's joy!

If they just do it for the hack value, that's totally fine for me.
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Jesus Christ. OK check this out. Apparently there's a weird voodoo glitch between Firefox and amazon s3 bucket policies (which are a nightmare for beginners) that was preventing the audio from streaming only on Firefox browsers...

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Also isn't https://... which gives a cert error in Chrome.
I guess they send all the talented one to the operating system division
Why do you believe hosting it on CloudFront would avoid any downtime? Everything fails eventually.
Yes, I would definitely keep it private. How could I say I cared about the disclosure of personal data and then disclose it? Thanks Solo3.
The Pi has kicked off some interest in hardware hacking for myself too. My question is how hard would it be to embed an 802.11 radio into the same board for a discreet sensor project
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With Amazon's footprint and the number of datacenters around the world, it would be super unlikely that CloudFont would ever completely fail to serve content.
JS is very fast these days on all the modern browsers including ie9. There is plenty you could do.

However if you really want speed I wonder if you could bridge access to certain useful functions by delegating access to, for example, sandboxedAnimate = function (sel, attr, duration, easing) {} in a closure. If you want to allow plugins on your site for example, 200X for basic stuff and full speed for jquery animations, etc would be more than enough 99.9% of the time.

Also if you use CSS animations where there would be zero slowdown. So make that plenty fast 99.99% of the time.
lsc owns buyvm, too? I don't think that's true.
It would be nice if they have a status you could call before you use the login service, e.g. is_facebook_running: dologin; else sorry_facebook_down. I use several APIs that offer this.
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You think that Facebook's hosting is somehow inferior to Amazon CloudFront? You do realize that Facebook is much bigger and probably has more datacenters than Amazon right?
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Facebook does exactly this. connect.facebook.net is a CNAME record to 'connect.facebook.net.edgekey.net' which is, of course, Akamai.

Akamai is essentially doing what you describe CloudFront handling, except at a much larger scale and with an existing wide deployment into Facebook's infrastructure (all of their photos/videos are served by Akamai CDN, for example).
you mean https://www.facebook.com/feeds/api_status.php ?
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Is he saying that to justify his job? His organization has lost the case, after substantial legal cost. His saying sounds like a spin to cover their ass from their paying supporters.