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I'm not sure if we mean the samething by "embedded systems work", however I've generally found embedded work to be far easier on OSX thanks to the unix udnerpinnings. There may be some troubles if you need a serial connector, in my case we were able to push new binaries to the HW over the network so we didn't need a serial connection much. Also, there are USB serial adapters that have become necessary even on windows machines (Less HW being made with serial adapters) (I say this as someone who just left a job working on consumer electornics device firmware for 5 years).

Now, I suspect linux is even easier for embedded work.
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I wonder is Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel is the basis for Gustavo on Breaking Bad.
In the beginning I was thinking about photos and videos, later I decided to focus on pictures then wait and see. If things go well with the pictures, definitely going to do the videos as well, if it doesn't, well I tried.
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The prefix is added as a default, but can be changed or even removed - it's up to you, the developer.
Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Wants to Occupy Your Wallet
It's quite ironic - the current government overthrew a communist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam who now resides is thought to be in Zimbabwe. Many government processes, offices and thoughts however are still stuck in the era - lots of paper pushing (believe it was 14 different counters to get your drivers license renewed every year).
In that vein, you may also enjoy Blue Jeans Cable's response to Monster:

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm
I love how simple the photo uploader is. I'm currently working on a new upload system for my site, does anyone know how compatible a drag and drop system that automatically shows the image like that would be? Does it work in all browsers? IE? It seems to work in all of my browsers but my target users are not very computer savy and usually have IE7, 8 or old computers.
It seems unlikely that VPNs will ever become completely illegal, at least not in the US. Too many very large companies use them for Congress to consider it. They may make them illegal for non-corporate uses, but that would be difficult to enforce and overall useless.
If your employer is willing to spend that much on a Veblen good for you, it marks you as kind of a big deal. I was issued one for a while just because I suspect they won't make uncrippled human-worthy tools for much longer, and I wanted to see what they had been like. It didn't change what I could accomplish, but the UI fit and finish were pleasant.
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You could setup a cloud machine to have the fixed public IP that DNS points to and then have that connect to your office through both connections and do the balancing. A cheap 15$/month low-memory VPS from Amazon or Linode would probably be enough. I wonder if tinc[1] is easy to use to do the load-balancing.

[1] http://www.tinc-vpn.org/
Which is why it's one of my favorite spots.
Yeah I barely made it through. I'm pretty sure this is a fluff marketing piece / near press release anyways.
> almost no one was using their Public folder

I almost exclusively use my public folder. I mean, I keep things in other folders as well, but my main use case is typically "I want to send this file to $friend, so I'll just save it in my public folder and send them the link."
I subscribe to the Economist and listen to it during my commute. Many of their articles are verbose, but it's still better, IMO, than many alternatives.
I said I don't lnow but I kept hacking at it. Its not like I quit.
Maybe it wasn't the right job for me. I see the whole experience as positive.
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That's a lot of net profit into their pocket, for each unit.

You should never price things based solely on how much the inputs cost. If people are willing to pay huge premiums for incremental RAM upgrades, Apple will gladly let them.
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I agree completely with that. If you're betting your future on having all your employees being an order of magnitude better than the average, well - you're gambling high.
I'd be interested in knowing how they were able to buy Boeing 747s. Those are huge transactions, you can't simply buy planes with cash.

I would assume that it would be through shell companies, but wouldn't (or shouldn't) Boeing be careful about who their customers are?
> What really genius-level things has Fog Creek done?

Made himself independently wealthy. Repeatedly (IE: Not luck).

Not that I disagree with you. But that is worthy of respect in itself. Also, there is an art to the very difficult task of making the difficult look simple and easy.
This really makes me sad. Mutation events gets you to IE9 but not 8, which means this cannot be used for enterprise apps. I'll start using it in personal projects though. Love the work.
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Although the article never used the word "super star", it's something I see around HN and the startup world quite a bit....

I sort of snicker when I see startups post jobs looking for "rock star" coders [1]. What self respecting person would call him or herself a "rock star", let alone apply for such a position? Maybe it's just a gimmick to get mediocre developers to get to work on boilerplate web work..

[1] I also saw a job posting recently where they were looking for a coder "to work on hard problems and blow a hole through the universe"... Why not have them blow bullshit of their face while they're at it? Is this just HR trying to sound too cool, or what?
This site seems kind of bizarre. The kind of people that buy apple products usually don't know or care about upgrading them or fixing them themselves.
Does anyone else spend like 20 seconds 5 times a day on Facebook or are we all really only capable of none or 3 hours a day?
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What a joke. I guess some of the old white people on Wall Street didn't like him taking away from their profits. Anyone who has worked on wall street knows that insider trading is common place. They may call it analysis, but the bottom line is that they trade on information that others (you and I) do not (yet) have. Even milliseconds matter.

PS FTR: I'm old, and white.
If I recall correctly, the "Pro" simply meant (originally) that the machine had the aluminum body and an Intel x86 processor (as opposed to the Gx series aluminum MacBook, which never carried the "Pro" designation).
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Don't forget about "Turbo Boost" - that "1.8 GHz" runs at 2.8 GHz when you're only using one of two cores.

Combined with a more efficient architecture, this helps explain the performance gains.
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I can easily see governments forcing ISPs to blacklist the IP addresses of known VPN servers. I'm only slightly surprised that this hasn't happened yet in the UK and other such places. The first step is to try to ban direct access to websites. Then they'll likely try to ban the workarounds. Yes, power users will always find a way around these things, but it will work to stop many, I suspect.

And as for corporate/government VPN users, maybe this will be an excuse to introduce a VPN "license" for those who will be allowed to use them.
And no taxpayer money used. Yea!
yes, unless you're a linux guru
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It's just a meme. Some people are into it, some aren't. There are lots of ways to motivate people, and this works for some. I try not to get to wound up over language usage.
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Well, 'cept the subs part, it doesn't really sound like much. Someone should offer them services. :)
...it’s by no means unthinkable. In Iran, where a quarter of all Internet subscribers use VPNs, the government has already announced a crackdown on privacy-enhancing tools that bypass local law.

Err, yeah. That's not a very convincing argument.
LTE can help with this since it should be more diverse than cable and DSL.
Also check out this project, it is going to be presented at ICML2012 in a couple of weeks:

http://research.google.com/archive/unsupervised_icml2012.htm...

they trained a huge neural network with millions of unlabeled frames from Youtube, and derived high-level features. The authors showed that the network learned without supervision the concepts of human face, human body... and cat.
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>The productivity thing is just the usual bollocks. Changing OSes and development tools and so on can seem like it would be the end of the world, until one day you're forced to do it (for whatever reason), at which point you always find out that it's no more than an annoyance.

Bollocks for you maybe. We don't all have the same job needs. I absolutely need Adobe Creative Suite and several multimedia tools, as well as a full UNIX.

Neither Windows (only Adobe), not Linux (only Unix) fit the bill.
One of my favorite sayings is "Trust, but verify"

I use this a lot in my daily happenings.
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You can compare things on many aspects. The Zynga/Madoff comparison was on trajectory - meteoric rise followed by sharp fall. Such a trajectory characterizes the scam or fad. My point is that Yammer is a fad, Madoff was a scam and Zynga is probably a bit of both.

When a colleague of mine heard that Yammer was bought for 1 billion he exclaimed : "Oh, so THAT is what we should be doing - create a crappy product and get bought by Microsoft!". My point is that other factors than creating the crappy product is what gets you bought by Microsoft. There is no causal relationship between the quality of the product and the money received. Another similarity to Zynga/Madoff btw.

So the conclusion is that you are better off creating a quality product, despite such evidence to the contrary. Likewise you are better off providing real value to the world, despite some people getting rich by winning the lottery.
Well,

10 people visit the website - don't buy shit
50 people visit the website - they'll buy something
You should definitely get business service if you're going to do this; it's not that much more expensive.
How about using your banks bill pay service for FREE. All I have to do is enter the account information of business, credit card or utility bills. Then just enter the amount and click pay. It is single point to pay any number of bills.
I have a three monitor setup on my desktop right now and love the extra space. I picked up a few ASUS VS247H-P's when they were on sale for a good price. I can't comment on the quality compared to other modern displays considering I upgraded from two Viewsonic VG191b's.
I suspect that the entry level Retina pro is only as "cheap" as it is because Apple is assure of capturing all the upgrade revenue.

Further, if they were offering an upgradable model in addition to the current retina option, in addition to the existing model, they'd both be more expensive than if only one was offered, because the screen supply is constrained, and with the market split, the volumes on the thin/light model would be lower.
Yeah, the likelihood of messing it up is really what kept me back all these years (that, and voiding the [now-expired] warranty). I might give it a shot this weekend. Thanks for the info!
Of course, if these people really like it, there are social media evangelist jobs.
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Maybe they won't be outright illegal, but I could see laws being passed so VPNs must keep extremely detailed logs of users and their activity, thus making them useless as a way to mask online activity.
It should definitely get better over time, but the latency issue is pretty tough to get around. Bouncing between a half dozen nodes, surely back and forth across an ocean once or twice between each request and piecing everything back together, is a pretty tough problem to solve. Especially when a disproportionate number of nodes seem to be located in Central Europe.

Its also an issue that most exit nodes restrict their outbound speed and ports they route outward. Without restricting the speed in my tor configuration my exit node holds a constant 10/MBs all day even with only common ports open. Once you stop restricting ports you'll be getting multiple cease-and-desist notices within a matter of days since all your traffic will be absorbed by torrents.

Someone will likely come up with an equally/more secure option before Tor gets all that close to your average user's connection speed.
Is Obama authorized by law to do this?
It's the perfect machine for a lot of people. Just not for me.
But the part I don't get is Why? Why should I proxy the third parties through Cloudflare to obtain multiplexing? They already are "multiplexed" by virtue of being on a separate domain. I already have great parallelism for those resources.
Yeah the funny thing is I could actually even make it work in IE6 and 7 if I used Mutation for IE9 and then - ready your pitchforks and torches folks - proprietary CSS Behavior script ducks to avoid tomato. IE8 screwed the pooch in this regard - they removed CSS Behaviors but failed to implement anything that could be used to do the same sort of thing.
So the moral of the story is: keep interviewing until you start feeling confident :)
Why isn't Mr. Stephenson writing the script? Doesn't even look like he cares,...which makes me wonder if I should.

On another note, Ender's Game is coming out and Orson Scott Card fought hard to get the right actors and write the script. Oh how I can't wait for this....
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Corona being a type of beer categorizes it as "adult" perhaps? Unfortunate.
Apparently, they're not above acquiring IT staff by kidnapping and forced labor. Like the Nextel techs described here, who are probably being forced into maintaining one cartel's private cell phone network:

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143442365/mexico-busts-drug-ca...
> They even use a fleet of submarines, mini-subs, and semisubmersibles to ferry drugs -- sometimes, ingeniously, to larger ships hauling cargoes of hazardous waste, in which the insulated bales of cocaine are stashed. "Those ships never get a close inspection, no matter what country you're in,"

That's interesting...I wonder if these ships are actually getting inspected now (since the article is from 2002) since they are a known transportation vessel.

> The mainframe was loaded with custom-written data-mining software.

> Most of the cartels' technology is American-made; many of the experts who run it are American-trained.

American-trained or Americans? I wonder if 'hackers' actually go to these countries to earn some big bucks while developing some "cutting-edge" technologies.
CISPA is an actual cyber bill. It's not a good one, but it has nothing to do with copyright infringement.
You should notice this is orchestrated by countries with consistently high scores on various internet freedom ratings. They turn blind eye on any violation if it's reasoned with IP protection, and they crack down on other countries for rumors or vague plans on blocking some sites or just "because".
Times are not great for plane airlines, I'm sure a struggling airline CEO would have no issue selling a plane to ShellCorp with a large bag of money.
I don't understand this at all.

FB (and social media in general) is the only thing I've found that enables me to organize going out for drinks with more than 2 people at once.

Also the only thing that lets me post "Hey, anyone wanna go out for ice cream tomorrow evening?" and actually having 5 people come. Three of which are completely new outside twitter/facebook.

It's really quite awesome.

Hell, I have very scatterbrained friends who are always busy with something. Without twitter, facebook and irc I'd never get to talk to them at all. Let alone be able to see them almost every other day like I do now.

And that's not even accounting for the fact that some of us tend to leave the country for months at a time, but still wanting to keep in touch.

Seriously though, how do you usefully and efficiently keep in touch with more than 1 person via telephone? I can't even imagine it working.

Oh and, word of advice from a "silly 24 year old". If looking at other people's lives makes you depressed, lead an awesomer life. Friends being better than you should be an encouragement to do better, not a depressor.
> To be honest Cryptonomicon is the only NS book which I really and wholeheartedly recommend.

We're on the same page then, I agree with you. I really enjoyed Cryptonomicon. Diamond Age was interesting but tended to read like the script for an over-the-top sci-fi movie.
Well...the drones aren't exactly huge, and they're flying really high up in the air, so it's doubtful that you'd see them.
I totally agree with your statement.
>It's really only required for iOS/Mac development.

Really? I program in HTML5/JS, PHP, Java, C and Python, but also need to do multimedia work.

That is, besides doing web or desktop programming, you also need to create and/or embed to your work bitmap and vector graphics, stuff for print, edit video and music, etc?

Now, you might never have to do anything but pure programming with no multimedia, BUT, what about also using the same computer as a home computer? I for one would want to be able to edit my personal videos, watch any kind of multimedia with first class support, etc. I also have sequencing as a hobby, which requires stuff like Logic, Cubase, Live, Reason or Pro Tools.
Numerous drug submarines have been uncovered since the article was written. It seems that they are badly made, some sink, others just break down.

I found their software engineering to be much more advanced than their submarines.
I would assume they weren't new planes: likely easier to buy them off a company in a country with lax regulation than get Boeing to build you one.
Never of course. To make them illegal would force the question of a constitutional right to privacy. So in the US at least it won't happen.

That being said, I expect various people to continue to obfuscate and make it confusing. At some point I expect a 'VaaS' type service to be announced with pretty compelling economics, and it will be impossible to tell that the service provides access to certain third parties.

Phil Zimmerman is doing his part with Silent Circle. That too is looking to force the question.
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Is Airtime.com the future of video or just a Skype clone?
Well, it feels like asymmetrical connections are still more common so it should not get better?
I'd like to add something to 'Cargo Freemium'.

Plants vs. Zombies on the iPhone is somewhat this way (pay $.99 for the app) and then you earn coins in the game that you use to purchase mini-games and other plants. You can also just buy a ton of coins and purchase all the side games at once (for about $3.99). The reason this is okay is that getting all the extra stuff isn't nigh impossible - in fact it's pretty easy.

Meanwhile, over at Tiny Tower it's a chore to get anything without paying extra unless you invest a ton of time into the game and the 'tower bucks' aren't cheap ($30 for 1000 tower bucks which is a lot but not enough for everything). And they are throwing ads at you for other games they make all the time.

So, if you are going to go this freemium route it'd be nice if the choice to stay free doesn't mean I can't finish the game without an insane commitment.
IIRC, prohibition of VPN-type "circumvention" was already part of one or more draft legislation initiatives in the U.S. -- serious initiatives. I'm not sure, but was it part of the early SOPA/PIPA drafts -- a portion that was moderated or removed as part of the "appeasement" efforts of the legislation's proponents?

In summary, it's my recollection that this is already being pushed for, in and by the U.S. government and/or its lobbyist "masters". And they don't have to outlaw all VPN connections -- just establish either legal justification or extra-judicial powers to harass and/or arrest you if you can't qualify and justify your use of a VPN to their satisfaction.

Keep in mind: They don't have to apply such powers universally. Just enough to provide the desired effect.
Good points. Just to elaborate a bit, the mediocre programmers tend to end up writing five functions that do almost the same thing because they don't have the vision to see how it all fits together and come up with a single, elegant solution. The code may very well work to accomplish the immediate task, but the lack of clarity and good planning makes it rather fragile if modification/extension is ever necessary. They tend to produce a lot of unnecessary lines of code that become a maintenance liability as the project grows.
1 - I know people will disagree, I use and love linux etc, but a macbook is like using linux except not ass for desktop usage. Audio playing, wifi, volume controls, brightness controls, sleep, hibernate, multiple monitors, multiple screens, different resolutions for projectors, bluetooth, etc all just work. It is possible to make these things work on linux laptops? Sometimes, maybe, sorta, and if you have a bunch of time.

2 - it has bash and the tools I use work the same way they will on the linux boxes I deploy to.

3 - I won't use windows and I wouldn't take a job that did. Been there, done that, never again. cygwin is a joke and you're never quite sure if the errors you're hitting are a bug or a difference between the deployment environment and cygwin.

4 - community: it's the common development environment for web software and data analysis, so it has the least sharp edges. Because many people use it for web dev / internet dev things tend to work and get fixed first.

5 - vim works just fine, as do R, matlab, python, scipy, bash, awk, sed, etc

6 - nice hardware. Robust, doesn't flex like plastic. Oh, and magnetic charger connections! I have no idea why other manufacturers are too stupid to use these, but I've killed thinkpads by kicking them off the table after getting tangled in charger cords, and the magnetic disconnects have saved my macbook several times.

7 - generally good service, easily available at apple stores.
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I know that de Grey has a rough outline to reach his "Methuselahrity", but does anyone know of a reference to other milestones needed to reach the singularity's state of radical abundance.

The notes indicate that they discussed the idea of milestones to the singularity, but I was wondering if anyone has sat down and really thought it through on how to get there.

Thanks!
At work, a 27" cinema display, calibrated to have the same color profile as the iPhone I use for day to day development. Makes comparing the final output to mock ups really nice.

At home, I don't have a desk (no good place in my apt for it), so, no monitor there.
I've heard more than one hacker say with lots of humor and hushed speaking something along the lines of:

"You know if I wanted to..."