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I disagree. I haven't worked in XAML for a few years and I wouldn't recommend it on almost any application (unless a windows specific desktop). But the only reasons I don't recommend it is because it is windows specific.

Aside from that the true power of xaml is it allows you to change anything. For example, A radio button group, checkbox list, drop down, expandable list or searchable list could all derive from the same basic component AND same set of data. In html that would be like saying this (warning, lots of fake code below)

<div class="dropDown" data="['frank','sam','larry']"/>

<div class="expanderBar" data="['frank','sam','larry']"/>

<div class="radioButton" data="['frank','sam','larry']"/>

<class id="radioButton">
<div style="border:1px solid black">
<loop value="data" var="item">
<input type="radio" name="user" checked="condition">${item}
</loop>
</div>
</class>

...and so on

That is COOOL and it has been around since XAML was created. We've tried to get to the same place with jquery templates but they have always been hackish approaches to templating/styling
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If there's one rule in gaming it is: "Do not trust Peter Molyneux".

This guy is the biggest bullshitter in the gaming industry. A guy with such claims that the book "On bullshit" perfectly applies to what he says in many cases.

Again this thing looks so pretentious that it gives me nausea just listening to his... uh project I guess. It's the same nausea I feel when I try to listen to artist justifying their performance in "modern art".

Sorry to be so harsh.
Twitter shut down my startup.
Fair points. Specially engineered bulls on open range then.
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> try to refrain from saying anything not related to the questions because it can and may be used against you

it's a job interview, not a police interview ...

show interest in the company, understand completely what they do (the number of people I interview that haven't even downloaded my company's (free) app, which the successful candidate will be WORKING ON...), have some thoughtful and insightful questions prepared about their business (ideally ones which challenge their model and shown you've thought critically)

show you're a human being who they'd like to work with, not a robot who they pay to do a job and nothing more.
But by turning it on by default, they automatically kill it. Not a good thing! (Consider this, Mozilla created it, and they are against turning it on by default. There's a signal there).
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If you have significant write load it can be a very big deal. If you're read-mostly and able to cache a lot, maybe not so much.
> My nieve understanding is that credit cards are global from a consumer perspective (i.e. a credit card will work in any country in the world).

As someone who has credit cards from 3 different countries, I can tell you that's very wrong. I'd like to think my CC works anywhere, but oftentimes when they ask for a ZIP and I don't have one, that's a deal breaker. Sometimes when the person sees the card is from another country (name of country is in the bank name) they refuse to use it, even when it matches my accent and driver's license.

Also it would have been nice if VISA had a global "credit rating" instead of a separate one for each country. Unfortunately, I now have zero credit in my new country, which is painful when I have amazing credit in my previous country. (all VISA cards)
My argument is that model is sustainable for film and television content but not for music content. It's simply impossible to consume the same quantity (in terms of unique pieces of content) of 2 hour movie content (or even 45 minute television content) as 3-4 minute music content. It takes a much larger, and much broader catalogue given the difference in rate of consumption.
I don't see a substantial difference in tone between the article and my post. Instead of downvoting me, why not explain the difference between "tweeting" and "live-tweeting"? I don't see one there either; it seems like an attempt to avoid thinking critically about internet habits and I suspect the downvotes are more reflective of my comment hitting too close to home than it being off-topic.
This is misguided. Nobody cares why your site is down, and for most sites 99% of your users will have no clue what is meant by "This site is hosted by Heroku". And a good chunk of that other 1% isn't even going to bother reading the error text accompanying the whitescreen.

In the end, you chose to host your site on a platform that went down. That is just as much your fault as a typo in the code. If you had a setup with a hosted machine at Rackspace and the power goes out, you don't expect a custom error. So why would you expect one from Heroku?
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Added the date. Thanks!
But how do you know what kind of users Heroku's customers' customers are? How do you know that none of them are technical users? How do you know that none of Heroku's customers are running a software bug tracking app?
I'm not really knowledgeable enough to rate different solutions, which is why I resorted to ranting rather than articulating a good alternative or working on one myself. Security is something that I have to do rather than something I am personally excited by, and I don't actually want to be encrypting everything for the same reason that I don't want to live in a bank vault or build a ten foot wall around my property.

I guess what I'm saying is that I will pay for a frictionless system whose operator is prepared to place a cost on failure, same way that I am willing to pay for a decent padlock or mortise lock for my physical property. It doesn't have to utterly impenetrable, but I would like the security provider to have skin in the game.

I thought openID was an excellent idea; I'm not sure why it didn't take off, maybe Google took too much of a monopolistic approach or something.
How could OPT-IN have pragmatically worked?
It happened:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070311083012/http://reddit.com/...
It is absolutely your fault if the site does down due to natural disaster. This is why companies who are large enough to do so host the site at multiple locations with the ability to failover.
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BTW, we're using heroku and ironmq for all the backend heavy lifting. Perhaps twitter got spooked by the volume of API calls. A testament to seamless cloud scalability. And of course we soon hope to get the twitter issue addressed so we can be operational and help causes spread their word.
Love these guys and the work they're doing!
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If you want to look at it that way, in most cases it's the customer's fault, because they don't want to pay what it would require to have a fully redundant system that could weather certain kinds of outages.

You get what you pay for.
>I understand your position here, but, please make contact with some Iranian refugees/dissidents near you for the full picture. Its bad. Worse than I understand Texas to be, by several ball parks.

Sure, but those are "refugees/dissidents", of course they would think that. It's not like the great Iranian masses are held there by force or hate their culture.

In general, dissidents are also overplayed for political gain by other countries. I mean, even the USSR played upon US political dissidents, the McCarthy era etc. If you are going to judge a whole country better ask the locals, not the dissidents.
I have done a bunch of embedded development in the past. Embedded.com was a good resource. There's a lot to know so it is difficult to be really concise. Get to know lower level languages if you don't already (c, bit operations). Know how to disassemble code and read it. Monkey around with an arduino, then beagleboard. There are a few good books - anything by jack ganssle (sp?) is usually a good start.
One way might be to watch for your password file name on the way out while sniffing at points of egress.
I barely noticed any difference. My personal laptop, work PC and iPad are trusted devices, so I only need to enter the code every 30 days (or when I clear my cookies). I only really need to enter a code when using a different pc such as a hotel kiosk pc when traveling or at a friends house.
The problem with Government numbers is that they are cooked. Example: The Government numbers will tell you that deflation is a threat. Can you remember a single year in the past decade when your health insurance, gas, food or other neccessities went down in price? No way! They always go up! What the Government does is cooking the CPI (inflation) number by mixing neccessities with gadgets and telling you that you're better off with 100% more expensive healthcare for the past decade because TV sets are 50% cheaper. That's not true economics. That's why start-ups like this:
http://www.shadowstats.com/

make a killing. Because no serious investor trusts Government numbers.

Another great example: Did you know that if we counted unemployment rate as we did during Reagan years it would be closer to 20% now? And what is the official number they just reported? 8.2% ? That's wishful thinking and fantasy land, not the unemployment number. They change the way they calculate data hoping people will trust it more than their own eyes.

The truth is we have been getting poorer every year for decades now.
Does it work in Opera?
I don't see how live-tweeting is significantly different (from the speaker's point of view) with someone taking notes; either way they don't look up much and either way their attention is on making a record of what is being said.
unless your customers are technical folks

But Heroku can't know if the customer of their customers are technical folks or not and neither can you. Some people do care, the OP for example seems to care and we can assume thats because his customers do in fact care (only the OP can decide if his customers care or not).
It is not an understatement to say that he is exceptionally poor at managing expectations. Reading/watching this I realize he is experimenting with ways to monetize Minecraft :-)
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Wow, totally. Really good point. In this situation your client is a hosting user and the distinction between the error messages makes loads of sense.
Wait? I thought there was a recent decision that you don't have to carry ID in the US. Has this changed?
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When you go to a restaurant to get lunch, and they are closed due to a power failure, do you blame them?
Story Not Found error on Op's link.

I found the article here: http://www.informationweek.com/thebrainyard/news/social_netw...
This is such a ridiculous statement, your friend can't go into the entire state of Arizona out of fear for being harrassed? Hyperbole much?

By the way, I carry my documentation every single day. As do 99% of all of you. It's called a drivers license. You can't operate a vehicle without one, and it's valid proof against Arizona's immigration laws that you are not an illegal alien. So if your friend is pulled over for any reason, he's going to have his proof right there.. Please stop with this baloney that your friend can't enter the state of AZ. It's just silly. If he doesn't want to go to the state as a form of protest against the law, so be it.
That question sheds light on many contemporary issues
>Again this thing looks so pretentious that it gives me nausea just listening to his... uh project I guess. It's the same nausea I feel when I try to listen to artist justifying their performance in "modern art".

You're assuming that it will work in the first place.
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Hi, author of the post here. You're right, that's just a dumb mistake I should have caught in proofreading. I've edited to make it consistent.

Thanks!
Sure that is one way to look at it, but I have a different view given the fact that Apple takes 30%, to me I view Apple as being paid to provide a service. The fact that Apple takes such a high cut, makes them at least a little beholden to the developers of that platform. As well for a good deal of developers it is not a lucrative marketplace and for many of them it is due to the blatant app cloning that is taking place. The problem is in the question what constitutes a clone. Apple has answered the question by staying out of it, but doing so has cost developers revenue. But the alternative could be worse where anything that remotely performs similar functions would be considered a clone. It is the most rampant in games and I hope if they do step in the resolution on applies to games.
Wouldn't I want to keep my last.fm password static lest they leak my new password?
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Lots of really interesting things, I like they're bring git (although personally wish it supported hg) publishing, memcached protocol support etc.
Considering I still haven't seen Psychonauts in the software center, I am prepared to be patient for these new games.
"Mandatory" is a surprisingly vague concept, even when used by people with real power.
Bullshit again. Most customers think they have paid for a fully redundant system... unless I missed a recent wave of conversion funnels that included a message about how the reason it's only 9$ a month is because it might go down, like, whenever.

But you're right about the second part. You get what you pay for... unfortunately that's often different than getting what you bought.
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> but you can't just go in and add a single line to change the color of an invalid toolbox border--the alternative to blend is to (afaik) copy the entire style resource that the element uses from MSDN, dig into it to find the appropriate 10 lines of useless markup that surround one word property.

This is spot on. The point of a declarative markup language is to make hand editing easy, but XAML fails hard on the simplest of tweaks.
We like to separate the citizens and the government, but I don't think this is the case. For most of the citizens, loyal muslims etc, that's exactly how they want to live.

Western media just overplays dissidents and people that talk to our "sentiments". Insignificant opposition parties and small protests are elevated to the level of mass popular protest.

If the situation was reversed, imagine what other countries would say of the 2000 US Bush-Gore elections, what with the electoral fraud et al, or things like the Vietnam protests, etc.
Do you carry a driver's license with you every day? Because that's all the documentation you need to prove you are not an illegal alien.
Hopefully Twitter will embrace this form of user communication in the long run. Although, if someone started using their API for this purpose out of the blue I can see them shutting it down as a first course of action. Definitely try to get in contact with someone on the inside and see what changes need to be made for them to allow it.

My political junkie side loves the idea as an attempt to improve democracy. I could see it expanding into snail mail and phone (twilio).
The cost of running your own infrastructure at this level is slower development and ongoing hassle, vs. Heroku.

Unless your application absolutely must be up with higher availability than Heroku provides, it's probably not worth the effort. The easiest thing to do is to use something like Cloudflare in front of Heroku, so at least when Heroku is down, you can serve a static page to customers informing them of the problem and estimated time to fix.
Misleading headline. 61.8% chance of winning. Expected 50.5% of popular vote.
This is a poor response: Abusive, insulting and makes only a token effort to advance the discussion. Does the fact that it sits at the top of the page mean that it's the most highly rated?

And in practical terms, it seems totally theoretical.

In my experience, more information is always valuable. It's not a matter of shifting responsibility, it's a matter of understanding what the problem is and efficiently getting it resolved.

Sending out an error that is incorrect is wrong -- both a theoretical and practical observation.
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Oh I definitely get that. I've got a friend whose french daughter is often harassed coming into the US by immigration thinking she is an undercover nanny or something. I have no love whatsoever for the TSA (and the DHS for that matter)

My BS detector was pinging though that they even knew this guy had an open source project. If they were hassling him because of that, they had pre-knowledge of it and would know the answer to that question. If on the other hand they just pulled him out of the line and started giving him the 3rd degree because he 'looked like the type' and then got this 'crypto thing' and then tried to exploit that for some other reason, well that would be more like typical TSA protocol.
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If you don't do it for the money, at least do it for the chicks. The startup culture is hot right now.
It says this wont be released for a few weeks. How hard would it be for a game dev to make this and release before them?
I've added the previous games to my Steam account, can I add these new ones which have just been added also? I'm not home to actually try this yet but it would be awesome to have these new games managed by Steam also. Since I purchased this bundle previously I'm wondering if that is possible.
Notes can be revised before they become public, which is useful if the twatter misunderstood something.
How do you not blame Heroku? You are paying them a good chunk of money to handle not only hosting, but failover strategies, multiple locations, etc. If you have to worry about any of those things they aren't doing their job.

That's like if you chose MySQL as the database, and then when an update had a huge bug that broke your site, you say "totally my fault that I don't have a version of the site that uses PostgreSQL."
Well - keep in mind the following:

o Your German bank may have your password stored in an Utimaco/Sophos Hardware-attack-resistant keysafe, not hanging out in some linux hash file.

o If they lock you out after 3 tries, and the keyspace is [a-zA-Z0-9] - that's 916,132,832 combination, and only three attempts to get it right before being locked out.

On the surface, it sounds much less secure, but, depending on their procedures and hardware, it might be significantly more secure than a 9 character password that goes into a hash file that is software accessible.

Of course - better case - is a Hardware key safe that lets me store my 30 character 1password random password.
The 'fun' of the 'game' is in chiseling away at a black cube.

So, even if you do find this kind of thing fun, the more people who play the game, the less fun you get to have!
Anyone else find the font, especially the bold, grating? I don't think it's just the rendering but also the size and actual font (feels so big and cluttered in that merge request page).
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Depends what is in the black cube.
I don't want to start a whole "actually, it's more like x analogy" thread, but really, there are gaping fundamental holes when applying yours to the situation.
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The first deluge is over. The economy isn't currently in freefall; rather, it is slowly growing. That doesn't mean the storm system has moved on and everything is sunny from here on out.

Further, an umbrella (sorry to extend a potentially leaky abstraction here) doesn't mean that you are immune to the storm. It just means that you deflect most of the rain around you.

But it's different for IT, much different. I was let go from multiple contracts, but the time I spent out of work was by choice, and I had two interviews a week the moment I put my resume out while friends in other sectors would have killed for even an interview. I was able to choose the job I wanted once I was willing to move out of my home city.

I don't have a star studded resume either, and I've seen mediocre and worse developers stay on because replacements couldn't be found.

It's different for IT, and programmers more specifically.
What a strange week for security.
You should plan for your customer to tell you that, but it's complicated when your vendor tells your customer that.
If this is part of the same attack that hit LinkedIn and Last.fm are there any theories on what the exploit was? I'm having a hard time imagining how someone could steal passwords from 3 large, completely independent web services at the same time.
How many companies, even small ones, have that kind of support?
An ex-boss accused me of hacking and embezzlement(!) when he discovered he was paying £10/month for DNS services a few years back. It was something in place from years before I even started!

He also flipped out over firewall issues on his new Macbook (the site is down and taken the internet with it!) and problems with his ISP (some weird adult filter).

Point is, some people expect a site to be a single atomic thing with no dependencies or connections between. Through anything "unusual" in there and confusion and chaos reigns. My ex-boss was somewhat extreme I admit, but I've experienced it to a lesser degree many many times.
I think you are missing the point.

If such are sales are able to get you to into the top 200 then it is indicative of low sales across the board.
Great! Do you plan an having a hosted payment page ala DPS or PayPal though? I'd much prefer never seeing my customers credit card number at all.

Also please let me know if you're planning on adding support for NZ too, the situation for accepting payments here is just as dire.
I pay my landlord in cash. He doesn't accept checks. Though I suppose AirBnB does force you to accept credit card and that's a bit harder to hide.
While I don't see any compelling objective here, it will be at least mildly interesting to see how this turns out
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Maybe it's not just the "what" but the "how"? The perception is that Apple stomped RIM into the ground fair and square, while Microsoft mortally wounded (then beloved) Netscape through anti-competitive bundling and partner manipulation?

Google is every bit as much an existential threat to most small software companies now as Microsoft was at the height of its power, but we don't have any resonant stories of Google competitors being taken out unfairly.
Exactly. There was a time when the idea of users accepting/rejecting cookies on a per-site basis seemed plausible (though it might be annoying for the user), but those days seem long gone. Cookies are on by default and my guess is few users change those settings. DNT might be viewed as another attempt, however futile it may seem, at giving users some choice.

It's true a good portion of the web still works well without Javascript. This seems like a good thing as Javascript can be a mixed blessing. Enabling it comes with both benefits and risks. Like cookies, a user could selectively choose which scripts to allow, one at a time (remember the embedded Java applet days?), but this can quickly become more trouble than it's worth.

Perhaps a difference of JS from cookies is that with Javascript the user might sometimes see what the actual benefits are and they might be more enticing than those of cookies, e.g., "To see this cool doodad, you need to enable Javascript." It is very clear what the benefit will be: the doodad.

Contrast this with "To use this site you must have cookies enabled." Terms like "provide a better user experience" might be used to describe the need to enable cookies. But the specifics are usually absent.

If all websites were reasonable, and no one abused their ability to manipulate and track end users, things like DNT would probably not be necessary. But we know that's not the case.