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iOS' UI tries to emulate things we already know (through metaphors & skeumorphism). What I meant by iOS being "more natural" is exactly this - while Apple emphasizes on reminding users of things they already know, Microsoft has chosen to kill many such analogies by purpose. The Zune/Phone 7 interface tries to get the max out of the fact that it's a digital environment, where you do not need beveled buttons or stitched leather ribbons. While I think I understand why MS is doing this - increased focus on presented data, less distractions for the eye, less energy usage on AMOLED displays - I don't think I particularly like its plainness, emotionally. And I believe that many people feel the same, mabye unconsciously.

The other thing is that, on iOS, there is a context (app) for everything, with a dedicated meaning to every screen. I agree that Microsoft's approach to navigation is not bad, and it surely fares better in some aspects. But dedicated context is often lost when apps act as a "hub". I think that this kind of information presentation leads to information overburden, the kind of which prevents people from opening an app more often than once a week.
> To be a god which can do everything--Assembly
A god that uses more time than necessary doing some tasks, but when they run, it's so fast.
That's mostly irrelevant. A lot of people are not using Github just because it supports git - the network effect is one of the key drivers in choosing Github.
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And one of the authors commented the issue was patched... apparently discretely without notifying any user that they're at risk.
They would never do this because only a manager would hire someone like an "Agile coach". A fully flat organization has no managers, hence, the hired consultant would be forced to advocate for the dismissal of his own client.
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I come from New Zealand, and I'd like to chip in that if anyone thinks the behaviour of the NZ Govt is confusing then they probably aren't aware that NZ Govt is eagerly gunning for a Free Trade Agreement with the USA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZ-US_relations#Proposed_Free_T...

This is my personal speculation but it's also the spirit of what was behind the new "three strikes" copyright law (which almost no citizen wanted) introduced to NZ in September 2011 which makes NZ ISPs do the police work of the MPAA/RIAA

http://3strikes.net.nz/information/law-basics

The next thing that is going to be attacked is the New Zealand abolition of software patents - http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/opinion-us-heavies-nz-software-...

Please don't downvote this if it comes across as "anti-US" - it's not meant to be and I'm only posting a collection of facts which I think everyone here would find interesting about US-NZ tech relations
> and in the case of an unfinished [...] never.

That is incorrect. The money is transferred once funding period has ended if funding goals have been reached.

From that point on, the project authorship has the money (minus Amazon's and Kickstarter's shares) and may never get it done still.

Source: funded half a dozen of KS so far, I know when money leaves me. It would also completely unmake the point of kickstarter: it's about providing funds for the project to be done, not guaranteeing sales so people can go get institutional investors showing they have 3 million sales in already (especially since most KS are a few thousand, the current million+ craze is not the median project)
California rips companies off and begs for this kind of behavior.

Ask anyone who has started a small business in California. For example, your business can make zero dollars (or even lose money), and you will still owe California $800. EVERY YEAR.

Fuck you, California.
On several occasions I've used the Tomcat Security Manager and it have not given me any problems. I find it fine-grained enough for my purposes, although not as fine-grained as you wish. I've used it to limit JVM's access to a specific set of hosts and TCP ports, restrict (RW and RO) access to files with and without wildcards, restrict access to specific methods, properties, classes and what-not. One can't use it to restrict the access to specific databases, or topics in the message queues as you suggest, but I don't think it's necessary. I think it's out of scope for the VM to restrict access to a specific DB and this should be the responsibility of the specific DBMS. Otherwise I'd imagine the overhead would be quite serious. I haven't heard of any VM manager that would provide such a thorough and deep access control, do you know of any?

If you still need this functionality in a Java security manager I believe you could build it using the existing hooks, they look quite powerful and flexible.

Now, the real pain I've had with the Security Manager in Tomcat 5.5 was writing the rules for a pre-canned application, not written with SM in mind. It was quite a tedious process, but all MAC systems are tedious to set-up initially. That's life.
COMAL 80 is missing. Too bad I don't remember anything of it :-)
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I'm also using a Galaxy Nexus beside some iOS devices, and I can't see what you are seeing - Windows Phone is plain anti-polish to me. Smooth animations, a good typeface, and exaggerated visual hierarchy are all there is to it. UI widgets developers can choose from are also very sparse - they are good for CRUD apps with low information density, but that's about it. I currently develop & design for iOS and Android, and I don't think I would want to do that for WP7. I hope WP8 has more polish, widgets-wise.
I'm not sure the situation with java.sun.com, but those provided by w3c do have a 90 days expiration (according to one of the links I've posted).

In all cases, since the DTDs are more or less versioned through their filenames, with quite a minimal rate of changes, caching them (even if not outright saving them forever) should be the default action.
Cool idea! but not cool that it has completely filled my web browsing history, thanks.
Had an individual person done this, the law would have been on him quicker than lightning[1]. But when a company does it, it gets off with a trivial fine.

[1]: http://www.sptimes.com/2005/07/04/State/Wi_Fi_cloaks_a_new_b...
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Does it? I am doing a location.replace() which doesn't log the URL to history.
Great Article. out of frustration i specified for Rails 3 how do u install from scratch

http://anurag-maher.blogspot.in/2012/04/install-ruby-on-rail...
thanks :)

the "| wc -l" was tacked in for the submission :)
Certainly but that wasn't on OPs list of reasons to use it :)
Actually there's a shorter way of installing Rails with RVM.

curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby --rails

From the RVM readme https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm
Accessing a wi-fi network without permission is definitely against the law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking#United...
BeOS was (and arguably still is) the only platform with a UI toolkit and system API that strongly encourages pervasive multithreading. Everywhere else, you have the option of writing asyncronous code, but the libraries are all designed primarily for single-threaded use cases.
Is it? For changing the window location I am doing a location.replace which doesn't log to the browser history. What browser are you on?
The people that should be getting jobs are the ones developing software for four years before they graduate. The degree does not matter, the ability to do the job does. don't skimp on coding ability, as most interviewers can tell if you have been coding for four year or just in a few classes from a short code sample.
> "The funny thing about all this is that (perhaps this case aside) Google is getting a lot of bad PR because they actually tell people what they do."

Not quite, Google isn't being as honest as you're suggesting. They tried to spin the blame off onto a rogue engineer. From the article: "Google has portrayed it as the mistakes of an unauthorized engineer operating on his own and stressed that the data was never used in any Google product."

Although you're right that privacy invasions occur across the entire industry, I think that's even more reason to send the message that privacy is a real concern.
I noticed it as well - I am using Chrome 20 (dev build) on Windows
You can download the latest version of WooFramework here: http://cl.ly/2a3j1m351C3u2i0t122j (it is 5.3.10)

Are you seriously suggesting downloading the fix for vulnerability from some random website?
Ah, touche: I forgot that that one was just an issue with the tool and not a fundamental limitation. (Sadly, the same kind of "that isn't a real problem: just a 'you don't know enough'" that I'm complaining about from the article ;P.)
Congrats on executing a cool service. I wouldn't say we are a direct competitor (mergepay.com), since we are focusing on tracking for businesses and eventually income/expense tracking. Seems like there is definitely a need for this kind of thing.
It filled up my history as well. I'm on Chrome on a macbook. I love the idea!
A propose dishwasher sends water around, and its not very strong to avoid breaking stuff.
Hand washing is a lot more efficient.

Anyhow on point, takes 10s (or maybe 30) to wash ur dish and leave it in the sink xD
Takes 5-10min if you leave it and wash it the next day.
I invite you to choose one government program and state what it does, what it costs, how well it works, and the specific individuals accountable for its success or failure.

Just one.

But don't forget to include the pension liabilities and regulatory impacts. Or to mention any other social or economic forces affecting the mission targets.
> develop a piece of land in the country

Careful about picking a low-populated area like this. I used to live in a town with population of about 2,000 and the post office clerks knew most everyone by name. One time I signed up for a site and just used "123 Blah St." as a placeholder address. Months later, some letter was mailed to that address, but the mail clerk, recognizing my name, just helpfully put it in my PO Box anyway!
All the glory of closed source development back in action!
If this is the (only/main) problem of the open-source OS's, I'd think they're doing pretty good.
Both links are shortened and resolve to a generic api.cld.me domain. You'd expect a fix to be hosted on the woothemes controlled domain, not a largely anonymous domain name. You'd also expect that there'd be at least a homepage mention on woothemes.com to this same URL.

Seriously, if you are a representative of woothemes.com, this approach is a major fail. you have a known website, that's where your authority and trust resides. Use it.

This just looks like someone attempting to get people to add a new backdoor to their existing wootheme powered site.
From your description, it sounds like you want SELinux.
Filled mine, too. Firefox 11.
Given that middle managers usually don't really produce or do anything, it certainly makes Valve's way sound interesting.
That was an incredibly inspiring read. Now I want to work there more than anything, but I don't feel worthy. Off to make myself more T-shaped.

Edit: I would still love to hear how it actually is to work there in practice though.
Pipe to shell is not "awesome". Pipe to shell is dangerous and it's irresponsible to encourage it.

It's been discussed to death here before. For example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430380
It doesn't seem to work in Safari with click2flash, either. Possibly because click2flash doesn't actually disable flash, it just requires a click -- but there's nothing to click on.
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Weird! I am unable to reproduce the issue. I am wondering if the problem is with some specific version of browser.
This is more informative description.
http://nickfurneaux.blogspot.com/2012/04/skype-ip-addresses-...
I personally think that Google is aiming for non-geographical statelike entity status. And as such can self justify a hell of a lot to achieve this.
The most important horn of the effect is dependent upon hiring incompetent people. What makes you think they hire incompetent people?

Moreover, this question could also be reduced to a question about their hiring in general.
This looks quite interesting. I am not much informed of it. Can anyone share an overview of the technology underneath? Also what kind of things it can print, what and how much the raw material would cost?

Also the page show the image of a sandal in free creations section. Would it be possible use it as an actual footwear?
If it helps you in debugging, I am running chrome 18 on Fedora Linux 64bit
As for current architectures, humans are really bad at writing assembly. Advanced compilers like gcc are much better at it.
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What kind of script would that be?

It won't be able to make good comments (I hope), so it would have to monitor pages that have been cited often and submit new things as soon as they pop up. Any other options?
I'm using Chrome 20.0.1116.0 (canary) with the plugins blocked by default (play on click) and I'm getting the same error. Also the usual 'run all plugins on this page' option is not there.
To be fair, a company wouldn't stalk and kill me, whereas an individual person 'just might'.

Don't read too much into this comment...just saying I'm not surprised if the law comes down quick as lightning on an individual person who is doing such creepy stuff, whereas companies can...
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Google updated it’s search engine algo on April 25th and named the update “Penguin update” 24 hours later. Initially, it didn’t had a name and was called the “webspam update”.
What makes you think that people aren't listening to random, unencrypted wireless transmissions and not getting caught?
Thanks. It appears that location.replace doesn't work in a similar fashion on every browser. I am looking into other methods of implementing, but they look uglier.
You are correct, but nevertheless, they did not get the $5000. The funding goal was $80 000 and they got nowhere near that. So that was a scam that did not work.
If you want to make changes to the upstream, I suggest adding an extra mirror in between the upstream and the repo you want to add the submodule in. That way, you can maintain your version without worrying about how your other code is affected. Only after it is tested do you then merge it into your other repo.
What I noticed is how many references there were to wanting mathematicians to learn to code. It's weird because it's a good idea and I don't see that in job ads any more.
A person from that company could stalk and kill you?
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That's covered in the book as well. You get to pick the thing you're best at.

From my own experience, Hertz has decided to concentrate on the metric "Getting regular customers into a car as quickly as possible." I recently went to Enterprise and I was appalled by the difference in customer service. They were nice, and the car was fine, but nobody _wants_ to spend 15 minutes waiting in line for a car.

As far as car makers, there are many metrics as well. You could go with "per car profitability," or you could go with "lowest cost per car," or you could go with "best customer retention."

The thing is, once you decide _which_ best car maker you're going to be. Once you decide, you become ruthless in pursuing it.
Is this just the original Japanese form of http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Japan/English/english-Con... in a Git repo?
openbox+tint2?
my only 'complain' with that setup, which I also use, is that gnome-do or the deskbar applet don't play nice with it.
gmrun is a possibility, but it's too stripped down,
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Whenever I did anything not programming related at the place where I worked I had a feeling that I'm getting money for free.

I was selling work of and inexperienced tea maker or dishwasher or cleaner or delivery man to my employer at hourly rate of a skilled programmer. One of the best deals I've ever done albeit short one.
The email is from 2003. The article is from 2008.
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Whether first mover advantage exists at all is extremely debatable. Those who coined the phrase originally have backed away from it:

http://steveblank.com/2010/10/04/why-pioneers-are-the-ones-w...
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Those fonts definitely have sub-pixel hinting - easy to spot if you zoom in on any of the pics - the font is just not a very good UI font.
I was actually thinking deflection. Assuming they're going to bring it near Earth anyway, why not, say, slowly circle the ISS? Sure, it wouldn't do MUCH good... But it's the biggest space squeegee we're going to have access to for the near future...

Why not?
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After writing a small ebook on UX Journey Mapping @ www.madintelligence.com, I am looking to write another E-book on Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Accounting and Simple Management Accounting. I'd love to hear what topics innovators want to find out about and dominate - this is more of my topic of concentration, having worked as an accountant, so I'd love to target it specially to the innovators here!
And ultimately Altavista and Dogpile are irrelevant, because neither existed just a few years before Google. Web search is revolutionary; search engines before Google were just halting steps on the way. That is, the contention isn't that Google revolutionized web search, but that web search revolutionized the world.
Have you read Valve's article on cabals? It's fairly old, but should give you some insight into how they approach meetings.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3408/the_cabal_valves_...
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You wouldn't actually need to pay the money. You'd just need to make sure it got pre-authorized. Then once you got another legitimate pledges you could withdraw your fake ones (or leave them up but without any money in the accounts, I believe it's fairly common for KS not to be able to collect al the pledges at the end)
I haven't seen their patch yet. I'd be surprised to see a nonce, my guess is they just call the standard Wordpress function to require auth.

There's surely a better way to do it without accepting code via the query string. Keep the code on the server and have that function only refer to an index or something perhaps?
I think that the issue is that <subpath/into/the/project> always has to be relative to the root directory. You can't do something like:

% cd subpath
% git submodule add <remote> <into/the/project>
Not every time, just the first time.
Everything I've ever heard about MUMPS says that it's awful. Is this true?
Since it took a minute to figure out how to clean that up, maybe this helps other Firefox users:

For me (vertical tabs) at least it was impossible to select multiple entries in the history (ctrl + h) with the mouse.
The workaround to remove the entries was to search for beatbar, tab into the list of entries, ctrl + a and right-click -> delete.

History clean again.
> a major step down from Subversion, where the subtree
> repository support

You could always checkout git-subtree. The functionality is there under the hood in git (git-subtree is literally a shell script, though not a minor one).
To anyone who doesn't know what his referring to when talking about selective education(UK). In the uk there used to be 11+ (you did it at 11) test, you passed the test you want to grammar school. You failed the test, you went to secondary modern, you learned metal work, plumbing, or typing for girls. Roughly 20% were selected for grammar education. Secondary moderns were badly funded to compared to grammar schools. This caused various problems, sometimes secondary moderns kids ended up doing better(Academically) than grammar school kids. So no one knew if it was actually any good for choosing schools or just socially divisive. It was a good indicator of future social class, pass and your middle class, don't and your working class.

Turned out the whole thing was based on the slightly dodgy research of cyrill burt(http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/burtaffair.shtml and http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/tripartite_education.ht...) on his work on the inhertbillity of iq. Basically he thought it was unlikely for working class kids to become middle class. So why bother?

As someone who goes still lives in a council who keeps grammar schools, but not secondary moderns. It is true that grammar kids are highly tutored for the 11+, that's what my parents did for me. That's how I got in. A lot of friends did too. As result it almost entirely composed of middle class kids who can afford to be tutored for the 11+.

Naturally there is a lot of lobbying by the middle class to bring back grammar schools across the country, because it is effectively free private school as long as you tutor your kids for the 11+.

When I refer to the middle class, I refer the UK definition of it, not the American. In the UK "middle class" roughly refers to upper middle class.

In my opinion it is basically a way for the middle class to divert funds to their own kids, from working class kids in a zero sum game for the education budget.

And trade work isn't financially rewarding, that's a myth. The average wage of a plumber or electrician is 27k, bang on average wage. The only places they get 50K+ is in areas of shortage. I.e Rural Areas.

For more information see

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/tripartite_education.ht...

and google it.
For some background, the topics that I was thinking about:
1. Introduction to accounting
2. Differences between accounting systems (cash vs. accrual)
3. How to effectively use information in an accounting system
4. How to account for expenses/income/assets/liabilities
5. What is a financial statement?
6. How to use accounting for managing your company
7. How to analyse a financial statement
8. What is finance? How does it affect financial accounting?
9. How to account for intangible assets?
10. How to account in different geographies (America, Australia, England)
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The web is amazing at the moment. Creating a polished application could not be easier. This toolkit is a summary of what you need to get started.

What is in your tool belt?

The most exciting part for me is I know it will be completely different in 6 months time. What are the next emerging technologies that has you excited?
Long ago, my previous company ditched paper cups in favor of ceramic cups for coffee. You should have seen the disruption in everyone's workflow.

Since you have to actually wash the cup after you drink from it, there were long queues before the kitchen sinks.

People started reducing the number of cups of coffee they drink :) and instead started dozing off (not joking)

People started congregating around the pantry or kitchen because if you wander off with your cup around the office, you still have to come back to kitchen to clean it up.

I used to wonder the whole 'go green' thing at the time because anyway the paper cups are going to be recycled :)