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Political robocall campaigns are absolutely NOT exempt in every state.

It's kind of odd that you'd make the initial post about how people need to do robocalls right and then you make a blanket statement how political campaigns are exempt.
I was an 8spcr (default tabstop, tab-to-indent, learned C in pico). I've gone a year or two writing nothing but Ruby (where 2spc is the rule) and recently had to build a small C program, and oh my god is 8spc terrible.

But I'm also a single-return fetishist, so I tend to nest deeper than normal.
I have received many requests from iAcquire to put paid links on my tech blog. This is a violation of Gooogle's Webmaster guidelines (https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...), and I personally don't want that type of advertising on my site.
> Its market cap currently hovers around $670 million

Ah, should be a piece of cake right? Mark simply needs to bid $1 bn overnight.
Steps I used to setup a linode service to do IPv6 hosting:

(running apache, running passenger for ruby)

1) ifconfig to get my already assigned ipv6 address

2) Setup my DNS AAAA record to point to it (for both www and blank).

3) There is no step 3. I could see ipv6 from work and home with no extra work.

I used this extension to check for ipv6 status:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hfkjfjdafcickoihmm...
Software Development as Artistic Practice
Although I like the idea and there's many developers out there who would enjoy this... You'd also lose developers like me and the author as I don't like doing those puzzles. I have no problem solving problems having to do with what I'm working on, but I'm not a big fan of puzzles and I'd just pass over it and go somewhere else.
You can play with it. You can write little programs and compile them. You can poke around its everything is a file filesystem. Your question is like "what can I do with a slinkie?"
From within the article:

"Summary: Did My Study Really Burst the Facebook IPO bubble?

No. I don’t actually think I ruined the Facebook IPO (apologies for the sensational headline, guys!)."

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I don't understand why people are voting this guy down. That certainly wasn't a violation, ethically at least. You told him to call you back!
If they need a patent portfolio is beside the point. They don’t have a browser and are shopping for one, any patents they acquire would only be a bonus at that time.
In my opinion, the fact that there's no way to figure out who is calling you and hold them accountable without stringing them along makes this an ethical thing to do.
If you keep commenting like this, the metadiscussion about comments might become competitively long.

I liked the comments, not because I needed them to help understand what the program is doing (this is a bog standard C program that I think most Unix developers have written several times over) but as document of someone learning C, and as something I can show other people who want to learn C.
Premature optimization.

First there's the matter of whether or not TechDirt is "journalism." I'm not saying that to be snarky, just pointing out there's still a lot of debate surrounding this issue.
Awesome! I'm hard pressed to think of a third party tool that makes more sense for core-inclusion than virtualenv. Hoping the virtualenvwrapper stuff will also be included (or at least similar commands will be)
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Because of the market perception of Facebook. People have been speculating about how much Facebook works and how they plan on making money in the future. If majority shareholders sell their shares as soon as they can, the share price goes down and everyone's nightmare comes true.

They could've maybe waited a little, for the sake of perception.
If it is a legit call, ask to be put on their courtesy do not call list.

It is fairly non confrontational (especially to the voice on the line) and a very direct signal that you are a dead lead.
I think the same of google and chrome, but I am almost the only one. So I think most people will not care.
I'm not following...there aren't 2 parties. There's 1 party, the people sending a take down notice. The question is why aren't they sending the same take down notices to all search engines which have the material in question?
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I don't think TechDirt aims to be "on par" with the traditional newspapers when it comes to "controversial" language ;)
What sorts of policies and practices, if any, do you have in place to prevent your company or clients from engaging in the kind of behavior that you yourself found so personally objectionable that you sued for it?
I think the two senses of "design" are confusing the issue. If he's absolving the typographer for not accounting for retina displays, fine, but it sounds to me like he's absolving the typographer for making a poor decision with an after-the-fact assertion that it was intentional. I don't think intending for something to suck is an adequate excuse.
No, but you can see from that page that if you wanted to write a simple C program as a document on how C works that the format works nicely for it.

It's his first C program. Mine were similarly prolix. Another habit I got out of after a year or so was wrapping every use of every new API in a me-friendly wrapper function. Also, of writing my own linked list code over and over again.
I really wish projects like this would put together a basic, downloadable document on their language. Something that tells the reason and acts as a tour of the language.
Why do the plugins need to load first?

Does the file you're opening use them? Why can't it load faster so if I've made a mistake opening the program I can close it before it does all that plugin loading?

Splash screens are just a lazy way of saying the user's time isn't valuable.
I've gotten several of these types of notices before. Usually, it isn't Microsoft that does them directly ("Internet1@microsoft-antipiracy.com"). For instance, the ones I've received as usually signed as "on behalf of Microsoft Corporation" with some third-party legal firm blindly handing these out.

So the fact that one hand doesn't know what the other is doing is probably quite accurate in this case.
I'll be the guy who actually likes it. The new splash screens make me really pleased. Nothing is very bland, and they certainly represent clean and elegant designs you can make with the products.
I give him kudos for using atexit() at all; it's sorely underused.
Dragon was berthed to the Harmony module of the #ISS at 12:02 p.m. EDT
Though obviously impossible, I'd prefer it if Opera were to purchase Yahoo.
This is very readable C code, as C code goes. The documentation isn't there as a substitute for that.
I'm on board the second I can get Refer.ly + Ifttt.com to work together.
How these things get in the front page anyways?
Reposting a dead post (thanks Aneth) because I have basically the same question:

I'm not familiar enough with the consequences of this change, however it seems likely such a major transition of a fundamental network layer could hardly occur as smoothly as expected.
Perhaps someone knowledgeable can explain what the worst case scenario might be and whether this will be a thorn in our sides for the next 10 years.
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wow that is some interesting corporate issues... Look our search engine is better it has so many more results... Which we believe to be illegal links and won't let any other search engines help you find... Bing, the best for your warez needs.
I'd really like to make this work if I could, but I suspect it's impossible in my specific case: all the robocalls I get are scam calls, trying to sell me credit-score services which presumably don't exist. Is it likely that I can get a company name out of them, or that there is even a company to sue?

(And since they are criminals anyway, they have no incentive to settle with me, since even if I win I'd never be able to collect.)
Maybe they have and Bing just prioritizes requests differently?

This is interesting though, when I saw the headline about Microsoft making so many takedown requests to Google I assumed the items to be taken down were found by the Bing team, but it seems that isn't the case.
I will take the sensationalist title as a good sign the post isn't actually worth reading. I'd rather have an honest and informative title, which doesn't necessarily mean boring, than what is an outright lie.

Thanks for providing that quote.
make try-elixir.org or something )
You already have tons of other super-lightweight great tools enabling you to create great client applications using only javascript and html5 already so server side languages are pretty soon mostly restricted to creating rest services consumed by the same javascript applications. Also when you can just use node.js to create the rest services the need for a tool like visual studio is really fading.
Oh I misread that as "I threated to sue if I didn't hear back in a week". Oops, sorry, my bad.

As for trying it myself, I guess it's simply because whenever I get into such a situation, I lose my nerve, butterflies invade my stomach, and I can't think straight. Just calling Visa to try to report it gave me the same kind of jitters, I really hate it.

I will, however, report the information I have in my possession to my local police department. That way perhaps I'll lead them to something, if I'm lucky. Nervous or not, I can try to do my part.
I unsubscribe from email occasionally, and every once in a while it'll say something along the lines of: "You will be opt'd out of our list within 1-2 weeks."

When I receive another email I just delete it. I'd rather go on with my day and do productive things then getting all bent of of shape about it.

BUT! I agree some telephone marketing campaigns can be down right harassing. But 4 calls over 2 months? I would have just sent them to voicemail and deleted them without listening. To each his own, I suppose.
I love the name and the logo. The search result page is uncluttered & pretty enough.
I operate a site that I haven't touched in a few years. It gets decent traffic but doesn't earn me anything. When iAquire approached me I accepted - and it's been a decent extra monthly income. I think it'd be near impossible for Google to shut down each site that was paid to link something.

Curious: why is this considered bad and textlinkads and Adwords OK? This is a genuine question.
If you can't accurately quantify all the concurrent things you're hypothesizing about (like: values as practiced from values as professed) then your "experiments" just show correlation and not causation.

You can't "accurately quantify" anything significant in human affairs. This is why history is an art, not a science. So is government. (So is running a startup.)

This is pretty much the ideology of the folks over at lesswrong.com.

The folks over at lesswrong.com seem to exist in a bizarre philosophical and historical vacuum in which they're the only intelligent people who ever lived. All of them, Eliezer not at all excepted, could benefit greatly from exposure to the thought of other times and places. Especially Victorian thought, which has the great advantage that (a) it's written in English and (b) universally available for free.

Part of the problem is that the contemporary "humanities" are so empty, sterile, and meretricious that it's really tempting to behave as if no one else has ever had anything interesting to say, ever. But this is a disorder of the present, not the past.
Or for that matter even Mozilla might be open for partnership.

If they buy Opera they can do what they want. Partnering with Mozilla would probably be a more stressful affair as the goals of the Foundation and Facebook probably don't quite align everywhere. It's like the partnership with Google, but even worse.
Google IPOed into a growing market. It is not clear how FB's market or ARPU will grow from here.

They left negative money on the table at the table at the IPO. Good for them, and probably good for their long-term prospects (big buffer), but from a retail investor perspective, the business has a lot of catching up to do to meet the market.

I actually agree with the $10-15 conclusion right now, but the business has a chance to make up some of that gap before the share price goes there. Probably.

(not invested, and happily so)
IIRC, it was an accumulation of errors when converting between units, not a unit mis-match.
IPvFoo is much better (disclaimer: I wrote it).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ecanpcehffngcegjma...
UK Ignoring EU Cookie Law
This looks beautiful. Can I use it to discover a custom PyPi, preferably installed on my own server?
Why does Facebook need a browser? This is a space I would honestly never consider them "innovating" in.
did you do google-toolbar (green) pagerankbar - tracking (also called thoughtcancerbar - but that's another story) actually the only good use of the green pagerank-bar in the google toolbar is to find out if a site got a trust penalty and/or has been strapped of the possibility to set valuable links. lets say you have a thoughtcancerbar value of 6/10. you implement your paid links serverside widget (or any other kind of paid links), the value drops from one day to the other of 2 to 3 points. now you have a thoughtcancerbar of 3/10 - well, they know about the network, you have been found and hit.

the fun thing is, that the paid link network provider know exactly when this happens to their publishers, and they know exactly what it means (that their network is useless to their "advertisers" + harmful to their publishers) but well, that doesn't stop them from keep on selling links and getting new publishers on board. it's a shitty business.
31-page spec for the door;)
Is it your understanding that Dawkins and Wilson (or any other reputable scientist) disagree about the information content of genes? If so, can you provide a source for that?
"Equally spaced on the color wheel" sounds like something that a manager came up with, and everyone in the room just nodded their heads yes and made it happen.

Bummer.
Stripping characters reduces length, so you are making passwords less secure by your own criteria.

As for the scenario I described, I experienced it myself in a system that silently stripped spaces from any position in the verification process, storing a different password than the one I typed in, without any warning. My password wouldn't work in the login and I figured it out by examining the password verification code.

I don't understand why it's controversial to simply accept and store a user's password verbatim. Any other approach risks introducing new security issues, from reduced entropy to password clashes. Misguided policy decisions are famous for weakening encryption schemes, like that of the Enigma machine in WWII.
Why don't you ask "What's the least efficient way to print a string 100 times?"

Unrolling loops can be a good thing when optimizing code, but you can't get much worse than tail recursion. It's always a win to eliminate this code pattern. The order of complexity is the same, but your stack will blow up for large N.

I don't know what you're looking for when posing this problem. A simple loop is already the most efficient technique.

loop good
tail recursion bad

Of course, this is just a homework quiz, right?
People used to say exactly the same things about Compuserve and AOL. Internet castles tend to be built on sand.
I think Mercurial also misses the mark for uploading patch sets which might evolve / change over a few iterations. The workflow usually looks like one user is working on only one set of changes at a time, and in order to show them to upstream they want to publish them somewhere. If these changes get edited several time, and you use a traditional Mercurial repository you end up with lots of zombie tips which you absolutely don't care about, and unless you 'hg strip' very assiduously, they keep reinfecting repositories.

Yes, I know it's not a supported workflow. No, sometimes, this is what I want to do.
There are two sides to the IPO: The seller and the buyer. Buyers who see "liquidity events for founders and investors and employees" as a valid reason for buying the IPO will continue buying until they don't, just like other bubbles.
Title fonts can be a lot weirder than body fonts. If tweaking it to look good at smaller sizes made it look crappy at large sizes, that was an acceptable tradeoff at the time.
has the (serverside) iAquire widget any markup (ul, li, divs, spans, table - layout) that stays the same over the whole network? if yes, then its pretty easy to identify the whole network for them.
38 Studios defaulted on a $90 million loan. But don't let this dissuade you.
Things That Should Trouble Apple
When I first tried to learn Python last year, the frustration of being a first-timer dealing with the Python 2 vs. Python 3 split very nearly turned me off of the language altogether. While I loved the language itself from first sight, Virtualenv was the tool that finally made Python a joy to use, rather than just a joy to write. This is a very good move.

Here's the link to PEP 405:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0405/
Oh wow - great idea, I know just the person to chat with about that!
PayPal to Allow Purchase via Cellphone in Physical Stores of 15 Major Retailers
They don't control IE, Firefox, or Opera. This seems really like they are fighting against Google's war for total web control. Which I'll reiterate, is a good thing.
Good criticism, maybe I was unfair but resizing a browser pane to the width of a mobile device brought up scrollbars which was unexpected.
Storyboard That - Visually document ideas and processes
Or maybe this company that sent the takedowns, Marketly (not MS, just someone with whom they have a contract), never sent takedowns to Bing. (Why is of course open to speculation; maybe Bing isn't popular enough to be worth the effort)
This is not worthy to be posted here. It's one paragraph in an blog post:

"First, Facebook insiders chose to sell a ridiculous amount of their shares relative to the last major Internet-related IPO, Google. When Google went public, insiders dumped 28% of their shares. Facebook insiders, on the other hand, sold 57% of their shares on Friday."

Comparing two data points isn't exactly rigorous argument. Maybe 28% is low for Google. What is the average? An actual article on this would be interesting. A paragraph in some dude's blog? Pointless.

And really, the correct phrasing should be: "57% of the Facebook stock being offered in the IPO is coming from insiders selling shares."
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Thanks. I still need to work on this, but its on the roadmap to implement. I really want to support PyPI mirrors, like crate.io, etc.
I'm surprised Facebook has not acquired RockMelt. Like Instagram, Marc Andreessen is an investor in both companies. From Day 1, RockMelt seemed like its business plan was "Get acquired by Facebook." Presumably Facebook is more interested in Opera's mobile browsers and users.
Is it me or a release notes with a list of what changed is nowhere to be found?
Pocket (formerly Read It Later) aims to become the TiVo of the Web
Perl is a shining example of OP's complaint - it is the kitchen sink. Sure, it allows you to do a ton of things, most all of which duplicate standard UNIX™ commands (those you'd find in PWB or v7), wrapped in a syntax that makes APL programmers recoil in horror.

The argument the OP is making is that Unix has fallen into doing things The DEC Way, with gigantic monolithic programs that not only perform their obvious function, but have been turned into one of those twenty-pound Swiss Army Knives that look pretty but no-one actually uses, because they're too heavy to lug around. Does ls really need to emphasize its output with color? Better yet, in a default scheme that's often near-unreadable in an xterm that's running with its default colors? (I thank CentOS4/RHEL4 for this stunning example) No, it doesn't. Looking at ls output in a rainbow of colors is just as opaque to someone who hasn't read the man page (and grokked the system config file(!) for ls) as are the old single-character flags (with the exception of '/') that the F option gave back in '81 on BSD. Unix won over VMS, LISPMs, TOPS-20, CMS, etc., and all of those people have migrated to our platform, resulting in the world we have today.
> This idea keeps cropping up, and it terrifies me beyond all reason.

I can only hope you remain in a constant state of fear. This has nothing to do with direct democracy or democracy in general.

Please keep your pants on. The government already makes this data available. I mean, where do you think he got it?

These are laws. Laws that we, as citizens, are obligated to comply with. Failure to comply with some of these laws lead to jail or financial ruin. And we are utterly ignorant over 99.9% of them. Especially the minute changes that happen year to year.

The idea that one must hire a lawyer just to be made aware of what the law is or is going to be ... is so warped and disgusting, I just don't know what to say.

I applaud any effort that allows a citizen easy access to the laws that govern us and especially their constant flux.

> I would start, on an individual basis, by taking ownership of our part of the equation: our vote.

Who am I supposed to vote for? The guy with the nice hair?

This is exactly the kind of tool that will allow me to quickly determine where to place my vote.
Gabe,

Your commitment to feedback is what has locked in DDG as my search engine. I toyed with it for while and noticed something - made a comment - and got a response that very day that seemed very personal, accepting, and considered.

That response and the ones from the 5 or so other suggestions I have made to DDG has only increased my interest in using and contributing to "my" search engine.

I use other search engines on occasion but only when "my" search engine doesn't have what I seek - which is to say rarely.

Keep up the personal touches and voice. It works. And thanks (said with some emotion).
Aging eyes confuse airport iris scanning software
College Degrees: Just a Piece of Paper
"Electrical engineers work with Kirchhoff’s Voltage and Current Laws, not the nightmare that is Maxwell’s Equations."

I have a strong feeling you are not an electrical engineer.
Is being able to launch into orbit equivalent to being able to launch an ICBM?

I must admit I haven't thought about what the privatization of space (and SpaceX specifically) means regarding weaponization and proliferation. I suppose I always figured the main thing restricting proliferation is engineering the payload and not the delivery system. I guess that's only true for nuclear proliferation, though.
That is not the case with Yahoo alone, many other website, even youtube.com bing.com wikipedia.org and many other are also not IPv6 ready.
Also, IPv6 will start from June 6, so just wait for that day to check which website is IPv6 ready and which are not.
This is my new startup I have been working for months. Any and all feedback appreciated. I really hope it will make peoples lives significantly easier. - Thanks aaron
Warning: somewhat unrelated and probably a rant:

Can I just say that Blizzard's handling of the Diablo 3 launch was a travesty on so many levels? First of all, nothing worked. No one could login to play, despite their stress testing beta and having a large percentage of players sign up and predownload far before launch. Their response was the now internet famous "Error 37," an absolutely useless message for users. If everything was going to be completely broken, they could have at least provided a useful error message saying "We're getting more traffic than anticipated and will notify you when the servers are ready." or something.

Seriously one of the most disappointing end user experiences I have ever had, and there's no way for me to return my $60 download.
1. yes
2. this article
quote: "That’s differential group survival. But you’d never say of any part of a squirrel that it evolved to promote the welfare of the grey squirrel over the red. Wilson wouldn’t say anything so silly about squirrel"