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Hey Jlawer,

Thanks for the comment sorry for the late response... many of our customers are using IronWorker for:

1) Scheduled Emails: IronWorker allows an easy way to schedule emails to go out at different times. Think cron in the cloud.

2) Asynchronous Calls: If you're sending a lot of emails, you can pass the processing off your web server into a worker very easily. Almost like a thread in your code, but to another platform freeing your resources.

3) Batching: If speed is of the essence, you can parallelize the process with workers.

4) Other: There are lots of other things you can do like send emails with a delay, insert merge fields, process content or templates before sending, etc.

All that said it's important to find what's right for your use case. Our customers help us learn what our value is and then we try and communicate that to others.

Hopefully that helps a little.

Thanks again,
Chad
It's also only a hypothetical that implementing an "Internet killswitch" or government-mandated ISP website blocking ("for the children" of course) will impact our freedom.

The idea is that with the infrastructure in place, we're ever closer to being impacted.
This is a very general comment. Not all programmers and Analyst/PM are of same quality. Check niche area's - e.g. HFT programming, can PM/Analyst get close? No way.

A programmer who updates his skills frequently have a good chance of staying on top.
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Uh.. yes? Obviously you should have all the elements, symbols, fonts already cached in memory. Its not like you have thousands of these, anyway.

Layouting was already done by the user, so I don't see what part of rendering is incurring the heavy costs here. As it stands, you have now spent lots and lots of programmer time building a batch system from scratch.
I do not disagree with anything you've said. There's a lot about BB10 that makes it better than other platforms.

But it will boil down to marketing and execution, lest RIM become another Palm, HP, or Nokia.

I don't exactly have my blinders on, but I am optimistic for the platform. With all of the naysayers, sometimes, someone has to be a bit of a fanboi.
My uncle was a Col. in the Air Force, taught at Air Force Academy, Naval War College, wrote 3 books, got a PhD, and was the dean of a department of a University. When he was 45 and I was 15ish, he said "Always have a one page resume." If he could do it, so can you.
I own the .com for my name, and I also purchased the .com for my kids' names. I was also able to get gmail accounts for their names (had to use a middle initial for one.) Do you think these things will have relevance when they may want to utilize these things 10-15 years from now? What other services out there would be important to add?
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Sure. I was riffing on the other poster calling the malware prevented by a secure boot scheme a hypothetical.

It's certainly a hairy issue. The ability to run a verified software stack is a real benefit to users. Central control of that verification is bad for users, but a shadow of that central control is the obvious way to make it easy for users that don't know they should care.
I'm suggesting the new departure, a new form of problem is this: casually, it is her fault, but this is irrelevant to responsibility. Responsibility involves a conscious acknowledgement of the world around you, and one is at fault, personally, for a lack of consciousness of that world. However, what is the problematic is the presentation of (1) and (2). Independently, they are harmless. We should consume as much music and as much technology as we can, but whether their political, historical and mercantile threads interweave, we are face with a problematic.

I take a majority of this way of thinking from Alain Badiou: the truth procedures of music and the truth procedures of science. What is most interesting to me is that a truth procedure of polity is _seemingly_ determined by the historical presentation of file sharing software and music. I should hope that my arguments do not justify theft, though I may be led astray by my own constructions of thought. But what I am most concerned here is with White's role played as a militant, within the political theatre of piracy; by Badiou, she would be considered a "militant of truth" I believe. One who compels who to witness a "rupture" of the system which _presents_ such a militant. Her superior's condemnation, to me, presents something that might be expected: that we should be compelled by a _person_ to deal with these abstractions which have happened upon our political drama.

People do have a personal responsibility, but at the same time, "personal responsibility" is a function of an social structure. I do not mean to address any "casual" but rather "semantic" description of this "responsibility." What connections (political, historical, etc.) immediately can be drawn from our _decision_ (rather than hypothesis or principle) that White is "wrong"? One conclusion is "education"; but one problem is that a society may very well believe that stealing is "right," like ours. How _might_ one present a counter-indoctrination? From their perspective, this may be how it is presented. We have had decades to mature the ideologies, I believe we are now at a time where we must accept that fact. Some of these ideologies are inherently confrontational. Calling it theft does not entail that any particular action should follow, so it seems that in the absence of one, we might inevitably decide, produce such a _decision_, what those actions should be. I should hope that I am prompting such a discussion.

It _is_ theft. But it is theft born out of a period that allowed dogmatisim to mature.
Did you read my comment, or did your nerd brain instantly detect "comparison between $PHYSICAL_PRODUCT and $ENTITY_EXPRESSIBLE_AS_A_NUMBER" and cause you to blurt out this comment? Because I addressed the point you thought you were making against my comment.

I mean this playfully. If we were discussing DOM corruption or block cipher modes I would probably have a hard time carefully reading comments that disagreed with my worldview too.
!confused. Using Chrome, I right-click > "View Page Source", copy, paste in the first textbox, click "Convert it" and the result seems to be identical to the input... err... what did I do wrong?
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Yes for all three kids -- their proper names as well as nicknames. I bought the .com addresses.

Though I have to wonder, like shanecleveland, whether this will be all that important in a decade or two.
Several thoughts.
The first is about footnotes (I assume that you refer to \ref{}s and \cite{}s). In LaTeX you need to define references in advance, e.g. in a .bib file most likely, and then reference them. Similarly you can do in HTML5, with the difference that the references could be easily clickable and allow navigation (you can obtain the same by using certain bibliography styles in LaTeX but it doesn't come built-in). Textile (I didn't mean that HTML5 should be used natively) already does so. Also, the position of the footnotes can be handled by CSS separately from their content, e.g. you can have a CSS which overlays references at the bottom of the page while your are scrolling, or a CSS for print which pile them at the bottom of the document. It seems pretty to me. Second, imagine if academic papers were published in HTML5, how difficult would be to navigate from a paper to another by following hyperlink references? No more search through Google Scholar or publisher's websites.
(any of the other stuff mentioned) .. ensure correctness

The post says that.

Dot-completion in your IDE is not enough either, nor is it something particularly unique to static languages.
"A good PM is on the offensive" and "A good PM is offensive" are two different comments, the latter much more ambiguous and easy to misconstrue.
Content like this has reached the top from time to time for at least as long as I've been frequenting this site (about three years).

It's amusing to note that these comments generally come from people with new accounts. It's so prevalent, in fact, that the guidelines specifically state "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)".
I'm sorry to pry, I'm just curious- Why would you choose opportunities on the other side of the world over being with your family?
Maybe through 3rd party API licencing like the Belkin (and forthcoming Pebble watch)?
I don't get why this matters to me, the reader. If he writes well and I learn something, why would I care if he wrote about it before.
Well, to be fair, a project management app designer should really have significant project management experience, preferably in an enterprise setting, since that's where things go plaid most regularly and spectacularly.
If someone leaves your personal file in its original place I am sure you won't mind some copies around.
Sounds like fun! Where do I sign up?

I actually spent more than an hour on the phone with some of the call-you-up-because-you've-won-something-but-you-can't-have-it-unless-you-give-us-money scams once. I repeatedly gave them a bogus credit card number and insisted it ought to work. I got passed from person to person and was asked with varying degrees of politeness and barely suppressed aggravation to repeat the number backwards and forwards, and was I sure it hadn't expired, and did I possibly have another credit card, etc.. I was very polite and cheerful, agreeing graciously with every request to be put on hold or transferred. Hold times are great to get the giggles under control.

When the last guy they transferred to me asked if I was toying with them (I'm pretty sure I covered my giggle with a decent enough cough, but maybe not), I asked him if I could phone my bank to find out what the problem was and call him back. Out of the question, of course. I asked if I could check with my bank and if they'd please call me back in 10 minutes. He agreed, but I never called my bank and he never called back.

What I wish I had got in there somewhere was something like "it really ought to work, I used it yesterday to pay for postage on a parcel from Nigeria."
I think Isaac Lewis hit the nail on the head on the this one. http://i.saac.me/post/two-paths-to-greatness/ I guess it comes down to - are you a worker? or are you a leader?
There are at least two different kinds of encryption at work on Apple mobile products. The one that this knowledge base is discussing, is a crypto accelerator framework that allows you to quickly do high-quality encryption on a segment of data.

However there is also fundamental encryption placed on the solid-state flash assembly that drives all iOS devices. It is not user accessible, it does not rely on user visible passwords, and guarantees that when the device is off, the filesystem cannot be read.

The first generation of Windows 7 devices did not offer hardware file system encryption, ironically keeping them from connecting to most Microsoft exchange installations.
Obviously the corporation is responsible for the acts or speeches of its tools. The question is, to what extent does a corporation have a right to free speech?

Is it? Or is the programmer responsible for the speeches of the computer, and hence does the computer's right to free speech extend from the unquestionable free speech rights of its programmer rather than the more questionable free speech rights of the company?
> If hundreds of assholes and a dozen criminals support
> you, then that makes it seem more likely that you are
> an asshole or a criminal.

I'll bet there are a lot of criminals/assholes that like watching The Colbert Report. If they do illegal (or douchey) things on behalf of Stephen Colbert, does that mean that he can be personally held accountable (assuming he doesn't make a call to action on-air).
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Those startups probably haven't announced that they've taken (YC) funding yet. That sort of announcement is usually a good way to get some press.
Sorry, what schedule?
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As a columnist for my college paper, hopelessly past my deadline on a week's column, I recycled (with slight updates) some earlier work I'd first done for another campus paper.

I knew it was a sort of cop out, a disfavored option. But since it was my own work appearing under my own name in a signed opinion/satirical slot, I thought a re-run of some of my better, less-seen work was preferable to offering nothing. I didn't yet realize that 'self-plagiarism' was even a thing. I got the message from the disappointed tsk-tsk look/tone from my editor.

I think it wound up running with a disclaimer about having appeared before elsewhere. Does precise self-attribution cure self-plagiarism?
You know, I don't believe most of the urban legends about McDonalds, and there are things they do that I can even respect (for instance, their contribution to french fry science [really], or their [very, very, very, very] gradual adoption of humane farming guidelines.)

But make no mistake that McDonalds is a business that is, if not as harmful as Philip Morris, gradable on the same scale. For the most part it's a company whose core business model is "leverage unfathomably vast marketing resources to coerce large numbers of people into making the least healthful dietary choice available to them at any given moment".

Let nobody suggest that I am a foe of the french fry or the well-constructed burger, but there's a difference between an occasional indulgence --- or even between the ambient availability of that indulgence and any group of people's poor decision making [oh, hi, me!] --- and the business model that depends utterly on persuading the most persuadable people to harm themselves, for no other reason that they were persuadable.

And so it's in that light that I think cynicism towards new "honest" attempts at persuading people is fair game.

Also their burgers are pretty gross.
Having 7.8 doesn't make them look any less dead-end phones.

Would you buy a new Android phone that can't be upgraded to ICS? Would you buy a new iPhone that cannot be upgraded to iOS 6?
Somebody had a bad day (or week).
I want to break the "LaTeX is the only possible alternative" point here, so your comment is very important to me. LaTeX is BUILT for typesetting, this doesn't necessarily mean that is GOOD for that. Sure, as far as we are all accustomed to its intricacies, LaTeX is very good for typesetting on PAPER. But what I am arguing is that:

* maybe it's no more necessary to publish on paper,
* maybe a new tool is now better for publishing even if it's not meant for it (but a lot of the new tags in HTML5 suggest that it might soon target book publishing).

So, could you please elaborate on your point? Why is LaTeX better for typesetting than HTML5?
See, this is exactly what I'm looking for. They both have a similar style, but they are different enough and both well designed.
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Correct. The "rules" are just guideposts. Campbell is essentially the FTC saying what a company should do in order to avoid an enforcement action (for food ads). You don't need to follow the rules set forth in Campbell, but then you run the risk that if your ad is even the slightest bit deceptive the FTC will come calling with a fine.
I'm thinking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML
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Sometimes, I wish I could downvote stories...

Accidentially, almost everything that the author suggests, except luck and user testing, can be provided by static type systems - e.g. Haskell's type system is Turing-complete, so you can make up any kind of contracts/tests and embed them into the type system...
Premature optimization can be an expensive mistake to make... It may feel "wrong" to use 10X or even 100X CPU cycles when you "know" that you could do it in X, but if the 100X cycle solution still fits the business requirements of the overall system, and takes a lot less programmer time, which path would you choose?
> "Right now I see no difference between the good and bad"

You're building a new query string each time you create a Query object, and concatenating the string onto that. With that approach, each time you build a Query object you have a fresh opportunity to mess up. So you're right that there's no difference between your to cases.

Let's drop my off-the-cuff example and look at how a real library, postgresql-simple, handles the issue:

query :: (ToRow q, FromRow r) => Connection -> Query -> q -> IO [r]

Usage example

query conn "select x from users where name like ?" (Only username)

Do you see the difference? Instead of sticking the username into the SQL query by hand, we use a query function that takes three parameters: a database handle, a Query with a '?' character, and a thing you want to use in the query. The function takes care of properly escaping the username during interpolation. (The "Only" is just a wrapper to make sure we're handing in a datatype we can query with.)

Notice that because Query is a distinct type from String, just doing

query conn ("select x from userse where name like" ++ username)

doesn't typecheck. Bad Programmer would have a hard time screwing this up.

The full documentation for postgresql-simple is here: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/postgresql-simpl...
By the way, this article is from 2005 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom
The internet was different from the radio and television, but now it seems that governments want to prohibit its provocative nature.

The problem is though, is that the internet is two way communication oppose to one way like most radio and television, and that attempting to "limit" it, means limiting one path of that communication, us.

I feel like regulating the internet will cause more harm than allowing a few miscreants to organize through it. The miscreants will always find a way. Like DRM, this will only hurt the innocent and ignorant, not the savvy and mischievous.
Props to macdonalds for this
After the fact, we know that they were about to surrender anyways. Had we avoided the bomb, there would have been no beach-head assault.
Honestly, I doubt they do. When you set your app or service up to do X, it's really hard to convince people 2 years down the road that you should also use that service to do Y. Foursquare's recent redesign is quite excellent, but in my mind, they are still the "arbitrary check-in/brag" social media service, and my suspicion is that how they will remain in 99% of their users' minds.
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I'm suggesting it more for the overall balance, and I'm not advocating dropping any of the other lifts. I love me my deads, don't get me wrong.

I'll grant that the vertical pull isn't commonly encountered (swimmers excepted) unless you're climbing trees to escape lions/tigers/bears, and I do a fair bit of horizontal pulling exercises as well (open a door, lift something toward you, row a boat).

Focusing on pressing without balance pulling tends toward imbalance IMO/IME.
At the risk of being negative, I'm really sick of Show HN entries that go to a page where you can signup to a 'early access' mailing list but not actually get into the product and use it.

What exactly do you have to show besides the marketing?
Isn't this more an indictment of the U.S. social safety net than it is of the economics of music performance?

And, am I to conclude from your statement that, in fact, all artists who are as good as Sparklehorse are entitled to sufficiently remunerative compensation, in addition to their fame and prestige?
To be fair, I think everyone should challenge themselves and their complacencies equally.
>First prove that a computer is capable of 'free speech' and forming opinions

Alright, let's try some plausible examples with present-day technology. Let's suppose I think people who use prostitutes are filthy perverts. I can say "People who use prostitutes are filthy perverts" with no fear. On the other hand, if I accuse a particular individual of being a filthy pervert, I may be liable for slander. Suppose I set up a computer outside a brothel using face-identification technology to determine who is going in and out of the brothel, and then program my computer to automatically publish a list of pronouncements: "Phil is a filthy pervert, James is a filthy pervert", and so on. Are those my slanderous opinions, or those of the computer?

Similarly I can imagine all sorts of fun you could have with a computer programmed to automatically look through all available data for the correlation between race and IQ, identify whatever the lowest-IQ race may be, and then start sending racist letters to the editor of every major newspaper, saying "Man, [RACE P] is so stupid".

A computer may not have opinions, but potentially objectionable speech can be algorithmically generated.
Technically, GET_ACCOUNTS is required to use the AccountManager service, not to avoid knowing the user's primary email address. Applications are free to be stupid and leak information via globally-accessible storage.

I know it feels nice and vindictive to bash Google the Company for making stupid mistakes, but Google Books, like Gmail and Maps, is a wholly-separate team from the core Android team, thus it is a reasonable expectation that they can make the same mistakes as any third-party application developer.
This is as much a usability problem as it is a "getting it right" one. We could eventually "get it right" by plugging in raw machine code through switches or punchcards if that's really what it took, but what we're arguing over is the _price_ of getting it right.

Static types are implemented and available for use at the language level, which isn't true of all of those features in most environments.
LDD ftw.
Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?
+1 for AssetSync and S3 hosting when you're running an app on Heroku. I wouldn't do it any other way anymore.
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> I've spent a lot of time learning about the decision
> to dropping atomic bombs on Japan, and it is quite
> nuanced.

Might I ask what route you took? Books? Internet? I'd be interested if you could point me to what resources you found the most useful/insightful/informative/balanced.
And yet the Xbox still hasn't recouped it's losses total.

A few profitable quarters does not make up for years of losses. Here are some charts for you to make it painfully clear which divisions are profitable and keep MS running:

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-microsoft-lo...

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-microsoft-pr...