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No mention of the leaked AirPlay private key that they're using to emulate an authorized AirPlay receiver.

Very disingenuous on their part to pretend that they have no idea why Apple has pulled the app. At the very least they can acknowledge that it's in there but make a case that it is in no way a violation of the App Store Guidelines.
What the post fails to mention is that any piece of software or hardware that wants to act as an AirPlay receiver requires a key issued by Apple. The key used by most (if not all) of these unauthorized AirPlay receivers comes from an Airport Express (http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/11/apple-airplay-private-ke...).

I support the idea of using an iOS device as an AirPlay receiver (I have a copy of AirView safely backed up in hopes of using an old iPhone or iPod touch as a way to turn any speaker into an AirPlay speaker), but they had to have known that using an unauthorized private key was going to get them in trouble.

I'm not familiar with the inner workings of the protocols behind AirPlay, but assuming it transmits unencrypted data (because the client is trusted), then it would be possible to losslessly strip the DRM from protected files, something that could land Apple in hot water with the movie/TV studios.
"Years of experience" is a BS requirement from HR. You need to figure how how to convey to the hiring manager that you understand the work/problem and that you know how to do/solve it in a way that will suit them.

Read _Ask The Headhunter_. Really. Best job-hunting resource ever.
Because parents love their children, even if they aren't healthy.
Opus is optimised for low-delay, relatively-low-bandwidth audio for stuff like VOIP. It doesn't make much sense for recorded media where you can quite easily hide a few hundred milliseconds of latency.
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Git stash solves a different problem, which is "I want to save these changes, and get them back". git-cof is optimized for the use-case of "I want to get rid of these changes, and I'll probably never use them again".

The most obvious difference is that commits made with git-cof never show up in git log --oneline --graph; but also they get garbage collected automatically, you don't have to manually go through "git stash list".
Emacs. It's what I started with, and it feels very natural to use. But I went to PyCon and saw almost everyone using vim, and very few people using emacs.

As a high school teacher, I want to be comfortable in emacs and vim. I want to be able to show students both, and help them pick the one that works best for them.
>Normally a private company cannot have more than 500 stockholders.

I'm sure that you probably know this but just to be clear, the 500 shareholder limit is about whether or not a company has to report certain financial data to the SEC, not whether or not they must be publically traded.
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Not at all. You shouldn't be updating the interpreter unless you have to, and then it should be done through your distro's package management and standard upstream path.

The OP seems to think it's a good idea to upgrade his production code to the newest stable interpreter just because it was released. This is a recipe for disaster. Sometimes there are just hidden bugs you don't see until a weird use case blows up your code, and thorough stress testing should be performed after the unit testing to ensure no major surprises after upgrade.

The best rule for keeping your software stable is: don't change anything.
I would go see a psychiatrist if I were you.

Paranoid delusions are some of the first signs of a serious underlying mental problem.
Intentionally or not, Programmers is the de facto "buzz off" site for StackOverflow.
Much as I might complain about the FDA sometimes, things have changed for the better since the days when thousands of people were dying for lack of treatments that had been approved in most European states a decade ago.
If we have such a system, everybody can input his/her intentions. I would input my intentions of attending startup events, and set the expiration date of this intention to for example 10 years. Then whenever there is an event like TechCrunch Disrupt, I will receive a notice with a short list of such events. All users who have set up similar intentions will receive such notice. Meanwhile, TechCrunch Disrupt organizers will receive a list of all users who have such similar intentions. As a result, they can directly send mails, or emails, or even phone calls to these users for highly targeted marketing instead of blindly broadcast their event to the whole general public.
It sounds like "being a perl programmer" was one of the main characteristics you and your boss were looking for in the beginning... this is a red flag for me- if I am learning more about a job and they seem too concerned to get a "perl programmer", "java programmer", etc, I know to steer clear- it means the people designing the software and managing the projects think its hard to learn a new programming language which means they themselves probably arent good. At moment, there are plenty of programming jobs, and there seems to be a demand for perl programmers- probably because it has fallen out of favor with fresh grads and also a lot of the perl openings are for working on existing code base instead of a new shiny project. I dont blame the kids- they should go work at start ups. But they shouldnt for a moment buy into the anti-perl sentiment that pops up at software meetings and conferences (perl 6 jokes are just easy one-liners for people with no imagination).
I know :). See https://github.com/ConradIrwin/git-aliae#faq.
Mercedes invented the much imitated seat adjustment controls now found in many cars (control shape and layout matches seat, required motions mirror desired adjustment). Don Norman uses them as an example of excellent mapping in The Design of Everyday Things.
The Chromebox feels about $180 too expensive.
I'll bite. Facebook is not a social network like MySpace. For a long time it seemed to outside users like myself that the site had stagnated. It was a the Wild West of CSS, GIF backgrounds, and auto-play Spice Girls music embeds. For all the bad karma Facebook has accumulated, it has constantly driven the site toward a refined UX. I think the site is better than it was three years ago.

Vice wants to criticize Zuckerberg for calling FB users "dumb fucks," but you know what? Any public site will have a lot of stupid users. When your site tries to cater to almost everyone, half of your users will be below-average. It's a statistical eventuality. Allowing these users to control the experience of the site is a bad idea. MySpace gave users far too much control, and the site became a synonym for untasteful.
It's really not, once you get beneath the user-facing skin (most of which is, obviously, implemented as just a bunch of Chrome extensions). It's a Linux distro running X.org. It's much (much!) closer to Ubuntu or Fedora than it is to Android.
Short selling doesn't lower demand for stock!

To short sell a stock you need to borrow it first. That actually creates additional demand!
4/100k is still exceedingly rare. There are probably 100s or more diseases that show up in 5/100k so it's hard to know them all. Meanwhile the doctor probably sees the top 15 diseases all the time..

My girlfriend has a condition that affects 12% of the female population to a varying degree. Some doctors knew absolutely nothing about it. Some were able to solve it easily.
Is the ACT Easier Than the SAT?
Spain Admits It's Doomed.
Yes and no. Free cash paid out in dividends is free cash not invested back in the company. Presumably free cash invested in the company could help the company grow to produce even more free cash in subsequent years.

If you measure only the average growth in free cash for the trailing ten years, you're ignoring whether the company pays out dividends. You only measure how much free cash it generates. Dividends are irrelevant to the free cash growth rate.

If you measure something like a return on invested capital, you measure how much actual cash the business reinvests in itself and how effective it is at free cash growth from that reinvestment. That metric does account for dividends, because money paid out in dividends or used to buy back stock is obviously no longer available for reinvestment.

edit With that said, some investors value regular and reliable dividends more highly than the fluctuations of the market's semi-random valuation of a stock at any point in time. If you're confident that Coca-Cola will always pay, for example, 4% of what you paid for a share in dividends every year, that stability might be worth something to you.

That's psychology and harder to measure and predict than numbers from financial reports filed with the SEC. You might get some interesting data if you calculate the time value of that money--is KO more valuable because you can get $0.13 per share quarterly in dividends starting now rather than holding onto it for up to ten years to make even more money? That's the kind of decision individual investors have to make for themselves.

I treat dividends as bonuses rather than expectations, but that's my own investment philosophy.
This reminds me so much of the story of Lorenzo's Oil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzos_Oil
I don't know, but why Google and Asus don't release a Transformer that dual boots Android and Chrome OS is beyond me. Yes, Flash already has ARM ports working anyway.
I feel it's always better to disclose any potential biases or conflicts of interest up front. Cletus could have appended it to the end of his comment, but many readers might TLDR and miss it.
I'd love to know what everyday tasks you're doing for which Chrome or the iPhone are too limiting.
There are so many people and companies interested in the gamification of health, surely someone will snap this up.
Sadly disappointed that Bonzi Buddy didn't make a cameo.
Next step in the Chrome OS journey for businesses and schools
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What a nonsensical FUDish comment.
"To get that stock going up they'll have to increase their market share and the only way to do that is to start acquiring big social network"

Which social network(s) are they supposed to acquire for growth? While there are certainly other social networks out there, I sincerely doubt there are any that don't have a huge user overlap with Facebook.
Treehouse is my fourth company and I've been running a 4-day week with all my teams since 2007.

I have a pretty good sense, based on experience, whether someone is a good hire or not. You often know within 30 days.
I read this in the Seattle Times yesterday and it really made me angry. They keep cutting the police budget and crime only increases... then things like this happen.

There have been a lot of random shootings this year. Maybe we need to train these thugs to shoot better, so they kill each other instead of innocent people who are driving with their kids in the backseat. And of course, no one in the area knows anything...
What really bugged me about Clippy and wizards was that they were both condescending and tended to be a posthoc band aid for bad ui design. "I see you are trying to do X" (it's either wrong OR (worse) it correctly identifies what you were trying and struggling to do because the UI to do that thing is awful).

It's like there's a team that identifies problems with your product but they have no influence over the product engineers so their only hope is the Clippy team.
What percentage of closed questions are translated to one of the above bullet points?
There is an unofficial linux client out now - Grive:

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/grive-open-source-google-driv...
Other than the fact that this is offensive and shouldn't have been posted - did you read the article? The conclusion was that they both had a recessive trait that manifested itself in their son.
Well, it was, but now the moderation there is even more draconian.
Do you have actual numbers about female startup founders? My hunch would be they have a huge advantage.
Hackintoshes are not allowed by the license agreement:

"2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time."
> how can they even know what is possible to create using HTML, CSS, etc.?

Anything is possible. It doesn't mean a particular idea is good (see: the topic website), but anything is certainly possible.

> It has to start somewhere. Who was behind the web back in 1993? Marketing departments?

For big companies? Yes.

> Are marketers the ones who know what can be done with HTML, etc., and what cannot?

Implementation is beside the point. Even if the Camper "experience" in the original link loaded quickly and was implemented perfectly, it would be bad.

> If a marketing department asks a web developer to implement something that the developer knows will be an annoyance to end users, and then he decides to tell them it is not possible, does the marketing department not accept this answer?

This is the difference between a good marketing department and a bad one. The good ones will take the feedback and the bad ones won't. It's also the difference between a good organization and a bad one -- if the org makes it a habit not to talk to engineers until the idea has gone through revision after revision, UX, etc, then there's too much inertia to overcome (say, 3 months of designing, UX development, intended to be launched in tandem with a meatspace campaign, as an example).

For giant companies, the web site is a piece of their action, and often times not the largest piece. The web team (the ones who implement) are pinned to the timelines of other rollouts (in-store campaigns, billboards, magazine ads, tv ads, and so forth). So while a certain idea might not be best, there may not be time to change it -- or (consider this) the web experience might not be the most important to a company that does 80% of their volume in meatspace.

Thinking that the web site & web team should be the gatekeepers of customer experience in a multichannel business that isn't focused online is a myopic view. In spirit I'm right there with you dude, but in practice (can you tell I've worked at giant companies?) it doesn't work that way.
It's a fine line. As an example, ESR, often called 'libertarian', is really an anarchist.

From what I can tell, there is 'little-l' libertarian, in which someone seeks to keep government small to prevent abuse of freedoms and rights by said government, and 'big-L' Libertarian, in which someone thinks that corporations working via free market principles can solve all/most societal problems and government just gets in the way.

I don't really buy the second, though I have some respect for the first.
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Not the same. Getting hit by a car is physical and having a child is very much psychological and emotional.

Someone who's never loved can't say that love is overrated.

Edit: fixed typo
For "those of us looking in" (see parent^5, which this thread is about) it's not just pedantry but a necessary distinction. Although your game's True Name might very well be "football", to all of the rest of us "football" means Association Football (soccer). If you say "football", we'll instinctively think "soccer".

Every. Single. Time.

Sometime's we'll double-take, realise it's an American talking, and they probably actually mean "American Football". But it's not what we think of first, and if we're not sure if it's an American speaking (like you can't on the internet) then it may well not occur to us.
During the episode we discussed the timeline of events that led to the failure. John applied a substitution test: given the same conditions would someone else have expected a different outcome. We came up with some remediation items aimed at preventing, detecting, and speeding recovery from a similar failure. We talked about how to deal with repeat offenses and why just telling people to "be more careful" doesn't solve anything.
It just struck me we need "slackexchange" where we can trade expertise on avoiding work.
Hey frankc! You're right Analysis paralysis is on topic on Programmers, the question however is not constructive, in the Stack Exchange sense. The close reason was a bit misleading (now changed), but at the end of the day closed means closed.

As to why it is not constructive: We don't like discussions. Ok, that's a lie, we love discussions, especially heated flamewars, after all we are programmers. However we haven't yet found a good way of moderating and curating such questions on Stack Exchange, we have an array of excellent tools at our disposal, none of which was designed with free flowing open ended discussions in mind.

This is more of a "it's not you, it's us" problem and it's a discussion we seem to be having at least once a week but the bottom line is, open ended free flowing discussions don't work on the platform, and unfortunately we have to close them.

Feel free to bring up any issues you have with Programmers on Meta, especially when it's about closed questions. Sometimes all it takes is a small edit to make the question a bit more focused for it to be re-opened...
I suspect in the magazine it was printed properly as 125 to the 100th power.
On the working out, does anyone have any suggestions for not feeling the next day like they got their asses kicked? While not "working out", I motorcycled for around 6 hours yesterday in 90F+ weather, with a good bit of manual labor before that for two hours. Today, I feel like utter shit and have gotten little done. My arms, back and hands are killing me and I feel very unproductive. This is the main thing that keeps me away from more constant working out. I don't want to always feel tired or worn out.
"nil pointers" is a tradeoff for you?

Block scoping, too?
Hard drive prices settle in at 70 percent above the pre-flood level
Yes it is a very socialist setup. The free apps are subsidized with the non-free ones. Pretty awesome, no?
Is there any movement in RI to do something with all of 38 Studios' IP? After all, once the studio defaults, the citizens of Rhode Island will own it.
Well, if you want a highway vehicle then you can buy an electric motorcycle for half or a quarter the cost of this thing (such as the Brammo Enertia or the EMC GPR-S).

Electric motorcycles seem to have some degree of minor popularity, but are certainly a tiny niche even compared to plug-in hybrid cars. But the value-add of a self-balancing motorcycle seems highly dubious.
Sigh, this sounds neat "The new Chromebook and Chromebox, based on Intel Core processors, are nearly three times as fast as the first-generation Chromebooks."

Except when you click the 'buy now' and go to either the NewEgg or the Amazon store all you get are Atom N570 choices or the Celeron for the ChromeBox. Did somebody forget to the HW guys to use the new Ivy Bridge processors?

Is this some sort of weird "Quick lets announce something before Apple creams us with the new Macbook Pro?" (ok that is a bit cynical but still). I'd love to see the 'new' Chromebooks that can compete with the 'old' Macbook Air because I'd love to have something with the build quality of the Air and the simplicity of ChromeOS to recommend to my non programming friends. You're letting me down Google, bad dog, no biscuit.
If a tool doesn't work perfectly out of the box, I'm obviously not the target customer. So I pick a different tool.
There is an official tutorial on http://mongodb.org, just click "Try It Out" in the top banner. Karl Seguin also wrote two great tutorials (one on basics, one on geo queries) at http://tutorial.mongly.com/.
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^ this. How is keeping this profoundly sick & disabled child alive not abuse?
Real zombies, created by bath salts
And this is why other nations have gun control laws. I think the rest of us are continually scratching our heads at the proliferation of unregulated guns in the US when they fairly clearly cause so many obvious problems. The article skirts the issue just saying the city had noticed an increase in gun violence and was "galvanized" but then back away and later just talked about police budgets.

Most of the rest of the world honestly finds this aspect of the US quite baffling.
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Ask HN: What bank do you use for your startup?
I own a Marketing Agency and a SaaS company, where recurring billing is the majority of our billing. Customers are rarely, if ever, present.

I've had it with Bank of America.

Can anyone share positive experiences with competing banks? Perhaps an online outfit with great customer service/fees?

Many thanks!
@klipt they are available, as the recording was made on a Bösendorfer with CEUS technology: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293573191/open-goldberg-...
The CEUS MIDI recording will be made available in the near future. Follow @opengoldberg
For $200 you can get a Boxee Box from Dlink, which has a HDMI out, a very slick remote and will play back 1080p videos over wireless from any network share (it's basically a physical manifestation of VLC).
Right, if the governor was saying, "finances are weak, schedules are behind, they are spending money like its 1999, and they are making a risky product" I can't imagine how that wouldn't show up in DD or even a first serious investor meeting.

I'm guessing what Schilling wanted the governor to do was to tell all the investors that its a great deal, that the government has their back unconditionally, and that they should invest. By not doing this he was "scaring them away".
One fatal flaw with geeks is that we all think that the rest of the world thinks just like we do.

'tain't necessarily so. Most of the objections he raises in the article (e.g. Facebook making improper use of personal information) don't even register on the rank and file user's radar. Maybe they should, but they don't.
Unleash the smug Lisp weenies! After all, Perl's stability is minimal compared with Common Lisp's.
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Why you should prefer www over a naked domain.