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Draw your own conclusions.
This is why Sergey Brin is netizen hero number one in my book. He actually cares, at a visceral level, about this and has taken actions to protect the net.
I laughed. Thanks.
Information you have access to:

External ip addresses of requestees.
Internal ip addresses of requestees.

To some, this is very useful...
I should clarify that it's Internet Explorer _on Metro_ that won't run Silverlight (as far as is known). And, in consequence, ARM tablets won't either (because there will be no desktop mode, just Metro).

On the other hand, the new XAML-based API will be a somewhat easy upgrade path from Silverlight app to native app.
Why would adding a proxy server invalidate your warranty? Adding a proxy is built in to iOS.
I am a supporter of GM strains of crops, because I think they have proven environmental benefits.

I'm not trying to argue over this and I certainly won't try to change your mind, but if you haven't already seen it, this 30 year long study[1] is an interesting read and suggests that organic farming has many benefits over conventional farming and GM crops. I totally understand that the Rodale Institute has an interest in proving this to be the case, but I'd argue that the pro-GM studies are also performed by groups and companies that have an interest in proving their results too. In any case, I'm only trying to offer information on a potential counter-view, not start an argument neither of us could win anyway. :)

[1] http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/files/FSTbookletFINAL.pdf
No. You get them if you paid any amount before they were added. I had payed well below average (buying foreign currency is currently very hard in my country) and I got the games added.

Also, from a recent interview with the guys from the bundle[1]:

RPS: Is there any temptation to have it be so you only get the extra games if you up your payment to above the average?

Richard Esguerra: No, I don’t think so. That’s not been discussed as an option, but it has been communicated internally that that would be gross. It feels like a bait and switch, you get penalised for buying earlier. That doesn’t make any sense for customers. If there’s anything that we’re super-rabid about, it’s about gamers – it’s about the gamers’ experience, about how awesome the experience of participating in a bundle is. Getting to pay what you want, getting to choose where the money goes. We want all that to be as awesome as possible, so we really try to avoid experiences where people will feel like, “Oh, why did I buy this when I did.”

[1]http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/07/humble-bundle-v-a...
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It was very interesting to see the demos on Macs during this event. Specially when they showcased a website made on Node.js deployed via command line from a Mac consuming Mongodb hosted on Linux, all running on Azure.
Or selling it in general. Given the terms surrounding the sale $250k is an insanely high asking price.
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It was MuteTab :)
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> flesh eating humans in florida

Citation?
Learning to code connected to others, XBOX style
I wear a headset when playing xbox games, talking to friends.

When I am programming, or more accurately, learning to program, with Python, I often wish I could be wearing a headset and when I get stuck on a problem, show my code to other people and discuss it.

Is there anything out there that allows programmers to voice chat while coding and collaboratively resolve problems?

I'm guessing it would be a useful tool for teams.

Maybe some enterprising startup without an idea could make it their idea?
A hundred times. You need a backup plan for if Heroku is out.
Currently it's usually easier to decode JSON than to parse a query string. Modify to taste.

You don't need to encode the strings, the browser will do that for src.
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I wouldn't consider a statutory duty to be a discretionary bailout.

Perhaps. But when you leverage 100 to 1, fail, and the feds swoop in to avert disaster (the jury, of course, is still out on this), it's hard to say that it's just a normal day at the office. They spent/created huge amounts of capital that was necessary only because of the excessive (and stupid, even at the time) leverage of the financial industry.

Now don't get me wrong. I have a strong suspicion that Paulson is the most under-appreciated man in the world right now, literally. But we are all paying for an unnecessary excess, to keep failed institutions alive (save for poor Lehman. If it were only so easy as to just let them all fail). So I think the word "bailout" is apt.
I'm curious about this. Do you know any other passionate or capable developers in your area?

If so, how about reaching out and forming a local scene?
Braid has a pretty cool narrative going for it as well, not just the time control mechanic. Have you played it the whole way through?

I really wanted to like hammerfight, but I had some mouse sensitivity problems that kept popping up. Do you know if it was made in flash? Definitely felt that way to me. They cane up with a fun mechanic for a game and built a cool world around it, which I can definitely appreciate.
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You are arguing a very weak position.
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Please take a close look at the comment you replied to and your response. I think you'll see that you're feigning outrage, in an attempt to advance your own point of view.
Know about? Program Chef to do? How about: be on call 24/7 to handle random problems in? The best, most competent ops teams can all tell you horror stories about black swan outages traceable to some of the least likely components in the stack you just outlined.

Almost all of the things you outlined are things that have in the past blown up in real world deployments, often at cloud hosting providers where you didn't know about it it because a well-paid, well-trained ops team hid the drama for you.

So yeah, definitely factor that in to the cost of hosting at a cloud provider. You're absolutely right.
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This:

"In general, try things that seem worthwhile, set goals and work hard to achieve them, and see where that leads and how you respond. It’ll be clear when something becomes compelling"

Everybody says "do what you love". Few say how to find what you love. Fewer still say how to manage to work as hard as you should to find what you love.

It's kind of a circular problem, when you love something you'll naturally work very hard on it, when you are still searching what it is you love, it's really hard to get the energy to work as hard as you should to find the elusive loved mission.
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Since LinkedIn didn't lock my account yesterday, I assumed my password was not leaked. However, LeakedIn has my password marked as 'leaked' but not yet cracked.

Is LinkedIn really on top of this as they say they are?
Agreed. One thing I found on eBay was to always start with a low price. Quite often $1. People get involved that otherwise wouldn't. It normally ends up with a much higher ending price than normal, because many people are bidding, not just 1-2
I did too; for instance, I learned how to terminate DS1s and PRIs by trial-and-error punching down every possible combination of little colored wires, and to this day remember that it's ESF/B8ZS and not AMI because that setting change, at 10:30PM on a Friday night, was when I got the Livingston box to light up properly.

Fun? Yes. Miss it? Fuck no. Recommend people relive the 2012 version of the experience? Huh? Get back to work writing code. Re-read the Wikipedia page on "comparative advantage" first if you need to motivate yourself.
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This article's discussion is a rollercoaster ride of unrelated topics.

But whether something is ethical just because the government compelled you to do it is a pretty general question. Dow's position about it seems pretty clear, especially since they only make statements about American veterans. I just wanted to point out that many people do not intuitively feel that way at all.
I know what you mean. It's kind of like when people pick out one thing you say and then spend the rest of the time formulating their response / waiting for their turn to speak and miss the rest of what you're saying. The conversation can turn out very tangential that way if they're bouncing off a very small piece of the surface of your overall point instead of the main meat of it.
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I've always been interested in the definition of 'science'. What makes one belief 'scientific' as opposed to non-scientific.

In order to approach science, we must assume that nature is lawful, deterministic and understandable. Of course, we all know that there are certain 'laws' of nature that exist and have been proven beyond doubt, but the majority of science consists of findings that result from studies that rely on an arbitrary probability of 95%+.
Skype? IRC + Ventrillo? Google Chat? Regular telephones + chat of some sort? There are literally hundreds of different options available, it's simply a matter of integrating them into your workflow and mindset.
It's a cool idea, but there are some other problems too; which I just want to list to help the developers and am not trying to rain on a parade.

As in the parent comment, a CNAME is returned for arbitrary names;

% dig foo.192.0.2.1.xip.io
foo.192.0.2.1.xip.io.	600	IN	CNAME	foo.a2eo0.xip.io.
foo.a2eo0.xip.io.	600	IN	A	192.0.2.1

but only if the request is of type A. Requests of other types return invalid NXDOMAIN responses - invalid because they contain no SOA in the authoritative section. CNAMEs are supposed to be returned for all records of any type for a given name, not doing so is dangerous as it can poison caches. Not returning the CNAME even for a query of type "CNAME" is particularly harmful.

Responding with no name would be bad on its own, but saying that no name exists is clearly wrong and can be used to poison caches (the NXDOMAIN is cacheable). Note that most browsers and clients will now perform an AAAA lookup prior to the A lookup - poisoning their own cache if they happen to have a copy of the SOA for xip.io in cache (the SOA record hints to the negative cache lifetime).

It's not clear that using an intermittent CNAME does anything useful - why not just return an A record, with a billion second TTL value. As-is, it merely adds a round-trip (the CNAME and A are not returned in one pass by ns-1.xip.io).

Additionally, ns-1.xip.io does not mark the "authoritative answer" bit in any responses - which will cause issues with some resolvers.

But, still a neat idea. Question for the developers;

It's clear that the intermediate CNAME represents an encoding of the IP address, e.g.;

foo.192.0.2.1.xip.io.	600	IN	CNAME	foo.a2eo0.xip.io.

here "a2eo0" is an encoding of 192.0.2.1 , but then;

foo.192.0.2.2.xip.io.	600	IN	CNAME	foo.k201s.xip.io.

are you using some kind of cipher?

PS. Everybody please use 192.0.2.0/24 for IP addresses in examples and documentation, and 2001:db8::/16 for IPv6. See RFC3330/5735 and RFC3849. It's good karma ;-)
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I think this is spot on: the payment system issue is huge.

My guess is they just put the listing on flippa to attract attention. I'll bet there have been bids but nobody is paying attention to the listing and accepting them.

They certainly haven't done any of the basics, such as answering questions. One commenter wrote, "For all we know, he is dead as he has not replied to ANY questions."

I, for one, am not impressed by their behavior. It just screams arrogance.
You have to realize there are people (like me, for example) who never (well almost never!) buy games at full price. I either look for used one, or wait for discounts. I have no urge to play most of the games - I do make an exception once in a while, like when a new GTA comes out. But that's it.

I mean it's the same for every product. The first computers were ridiculously expensive before becoming ridiculously cheap. It's all about the cycle of "early adopters" then reaching the mass market. If you want to reach the mass market with your games, it's much easier to do so by lowering your price. Doing TV marketing works, too, but it costs so much money it's not even for the same league of games. You can only do TV if you expect to sell several millions of it.

Anyway, back to my point: not all gamers want to spend 60$ in the first place. Some won't. So they will either buy your game at 5$ or never buy it. The rest is all about lost opportunities.
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> "Why are some scientific ideas hard to believe in?"

Because some scientific ideas are constantly derided and publicly ridiculed by moral, cultural and political leaders and institutions. If the church and half the country (still) held that heliocentricity were preposterous, it may still be as 'hard to believe in' as evolution is, decades after science considered it 'settled'.
I do not believe it. I could relate dozens (well more than one dozen) instances of absolutely unforgivably bad godaddy customer service.

Their staff are ignorant, their process is incoherent, their documentation is incorrect or misleading, the tools their customer service staff use are broken.

I will shoot myself through the hand before I give GoDaddy a nickel. In fact, I would probably shoot myself through the hand if someone told me I needed to call GoDaddy support.

For my own projects, I will happily pay the extra 30-40% to a company that is not disgustingly incompetent.
See my comment below - is there such a thing as a scientific 'idea'?
are you kidding? XCode is not a pleasure to use at all. It's a horrible cluttered environment that makes programming a CHORE.
Concur: I use 1password and lastpass. There are a couple of critical accounts that are actually wrong in each (non-overlapping) and a couple I still only have in my head, but overall it's a huge plus on a day-to-day basis. And it's an incredible relief to read these announcements, pull up my password for that site, and see it's 20 random characters that I know aren't useful on any other site.
The idea that there are laws of nature proven beyond a doubt doesn't accord with the history of physics. Newton's conception of natural law was held to be "true" until it was upended by Einstein.

Karl Popper actually proposes a nice criterion to distinguish science from non-science. He argues (whether persuasively or no) that scientific claims are falsifiable, where non-scientific claims need not be. That allows us to distinguish between things like astrology, whose claims are generally not falsifiable, and mathematical astronomy, whose claims are falsifiable.
Why not do both then?

1. bcrypt(SHA1(pass)) right now to secure all pws
2. check against that, then update to bcrypt(pass) on login
A scientific idea is typically something that can be proved incorrect. :)

(This would be opposed to a lot of religious beliefs, where you either have faith, or don't. You can't really prove God doesn't exist.)

I'm not sure where philosophy lies. Somewhere between the two, it seems.
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Preface: I'm an Atheist

The problem that I see is the way we frame these discussions. Does the question "do you believe God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years" preclude you from believing in science on any level?? In these discussions we throw everyone into one bin or another - you either believe in evolution or you believe God waves his/her magical hand for everything.

I'd bet if you asked those same people the question "Do you believe God cooked your pop tarts this morning or do you believe the toaster cooked your pop tart through principles of electricity and heat" you'd get a much more interesting set of answers. (No doubt that you'd still get many that answer the former.)

The problem with these questions is that what you are really asking people of faith is "Are you completely faithful to a religion that guides your daily life?" Most people use and come to religion to guide their day to day human interactions rather than using it as a tool to explore the principles of the universe. If we as humans want to make progress we have to stop pushing on the evolution lever - it just causes divisions. What we should be doing is approaching the topic of science for people of faith from a more artificial level meaning "if X causes Y then Z" sort of stuff. In other words we can approach and teach scientific principles without going down the rabbit hole. Some people will say this isn't possible but I just don't think thats true.
Hold on - who cares? This isn't meant for use in production right? Or am I missing something... from what I can tell the purpose here is that I can setup a domain that will resolve to an address on my LAN without having to modify, say, /etc/hosts on my android device (which I wouldn't even know how to do) or setup a DNS server on my LAN (which is of course possible but a lot more long winded than the solution proposed here).

I can't see how it matters whether or not there are problems with this from the perspective of being a "correct" DNS server so long as it works for it's intended purpose (testing things on your local network from a bunch of different devices).
On the other hand, as a platformer fan, I have absolutely loved the glut of indie platformers -- from the beauty of Braid and An Untitled Story to the hardcore stylings of Super Meat Boy, VVVVVV, and Distorted Travesty, it's been a glorious last few years for me.

Really, I think a larger issue are the iOS-to-PC ports that just don't have much gameplay depth. Swords and Soldiers and Snuggle Truck are bad in that regard.
The findings here seem fairly spurious. Intuitively true things are given more immediate access in the brain because the neural pathways are strong for them. Non-intuitive things take longer because the pathways are weaker. Equating this with instincts seems unreliable at best. Really the problem is people have a hard time grasping the unintuitive so long as it is not brought into alignment with more intuitive concepts. This is much more fundamental than "bad instincts" - it's really more that the vast majority of learning takes place outside of conscious perception and is not conceptual in nature.
Of course - what the banks did back then was plain and simple wrong. Even what they're doing now (dabbling in structured credit products like JP Morgan's ~ $3B loss) is stupid. Plus they're getting cheap cash from the Fed to finance their activities.

The trouble is - the economy needs liquidity at the consumer level and it's the banks who should provide that. If the Fed had the authority to knock on everyone's door and lend them money at 0-0.25%, it would do that. But sadly, the political class never creates regulations which force the banks to pass on the liquidity provided by the Fed - after all, that would leave the banks with less profits and lesser money still to donate to political campaigns.

As far as your comment on "let them all fail" - I disagree. For all the undeserved liquidity that the banks are currently enjoying, it is a far more benign evil than having all the banks fail - US Inc would probably still be firing 200,000 people every month instead of adding 100,000 (as it is doing now).
Full disclosure: I firmly believe in evolution and have faith that God created our souls.

How could I answer this survey with those ridiculous answers that either pigon-hole me a as scientific illiterate, or someone who thinks that the entire universe is deterministic.

There's a middle ground that I feel is wise: Trust the evidence you see, but remain hopeful that there's more to this world than a fleeting life, death, and permeant non-existance.
Daniel Kahneman gave a good informal talk about these different reasoning systems and why both are useful: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/daniel-kahneman...
The Russians have far more of an economic risk to set something like this off in the middle east. Their huge investments in oil infrastructure could go up in flames if this was traced back to them. And this is just the stuff that's somewhat above the table.
As a neutral third party who has no strong opinion about this issue and limited background, photon137 is making the much stronger (and informative) case.

Not sure if your goal is to have an impact on people like me WRT this issue, but if so, you're probably having the opposite impact you intend to.
I'm vaguely aware that my writing style is somewhat dense. I try to work on that, I really do. Still, I consider yours a sort of compliment -- an obscure achievement.
If you're creating an application where connecting on the "root domain" matters it can be problematic. For example, imagine you were creating some URL rewrites using apache's mod_rewrite and they worked for http://some.domain.com/rewrite-goes-here/ you would have to do a bunch of extra work (or an extra set of rules even) to make that work also for 10.0.1.1/my_app_without_vhost/rewrite-goes-here/

When you're testing on your LAN using a PC/mac or whatever you can do a local DNS modification on the machine (eg. /etc/hosts) but when you're testing from an iPad or some other device this is either impossible or prohibitively difficult.

The other option is to setup a DNS server on your LAN which is a headache all it's own - this is a very simple and elegant way of circumventing these issues. Awesome stuff.
You can do this with pow if you're testing locally - tenant1.mydomain.dev, tenant2.mydomain.dev etc, and the URLs are a bit cleaner.
Whoa, I had no idea. That's pretty cool.
Oh, that's cool, thanks for the docs link. I like the way the API hijacks the form submit and replaces the card with the token. I'm still a but curious as to what a nefarious user could do with your "publishable API key," but this is much better than I had initially thought.
For every Bob there is a metric ton of idiots that feel entitled to support and won't give much thought to you answering their calls in 2AM on Sunday morning.

Being extra nice to customers doesn't preclude to using some common sense.
Science is not a belief system, it is a knowledge system and the distinction is quite precise and necessary. Science is a method for developing predictive models based on material observation and nothing else.