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> Have you ever had a project fail because you didn't know how to write to a file, take data input or query a database? [...] 10 years ago I realized that ... almost without exception, I can get the tech stuff done.

The examples of "tech stuff" you mentioned are very junior programming tasks. The "programming" the article talks about is all the non-PM/BA stuff: the overall technical design of the system, not just the file writing and database queries; the testing process from individual components to integration to customer involvement; the build and deployment processes, including impacts on existing systems and addressing security/privacy concerns, etc.

> I can get the tech stuff done. Of course, I'd like to do it myself, but I can get others smarter than me [...] to do the tech stuff.

Project managers and business analysts usually try to add technical skills to their resume by dabbling in some of the "tech stuff" of the projects they're managing. Usually this is the highest level stuff like architecture design or programming language selection or programmer analysis/selection: generally the stuff with the greatest impact on the success or failure of a project. You write "Of course, I'd like to do it myself" so I guess you're one of them. But those with PM/BA experience are the least able to do this project-critical tech stuff.

Project Managers get to dabble in this work because of their power in an organisation. They also try to keep their jobs by "creating" work and problems, just like middlemen everywhere. They stop technical people gaining too much power by splitting the systems into arbitrary projects. They give programming jobs to their mates in return for loyalty.

Despite their talk about being accountable for their results, in reality they cover their behinds in case they fail. When the tech stuff goes wrong, they leave behind a huge mess for programmers to clean up, usually with extra hours and overnight standbies. The business users get to do unit testing as part of their change acceptance process. The PM's go into recruitment and back into management somewhere else. A recruiter once told me "if I had a job like that on my books, I'd apply for it myself".
I think the bigger news is that it is going to share the core with Windows 8/RT which will allow developers to target phone, tablet and PC at the same time.
You can run whatever you want. If you don't care about security, go to the firmware settings and turn off secure boot. If you do care about security, go to the firmware settings and add your own key, and then sign the boot loader for your operating system with the corresponding key.
I wondered the same thing as I've been researching controllable power sockets for a while (although more looking at digital IO/USB control).

I only discovered WeMo today via a comment on Twitter. Though they were announced back in January as available in "US summer" it seems they've been pretty much under the radar since then until now.
The NYT article this is in response to was discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4139519
You are again missing my point. I'm not asking for the site to work in the sense that I can do even 5% of the intended functionality. I just want to be able to see something to sell me on why I should enable JavaScript.

Also 15 minutes to convert 0.1% could (and most likely will) still be worth it. There is no magical number for this. A myriad of factors come into play. You can't just issue a blanket statement that I am not worth it when you have no idea what I am worth or the worth greatly changes from site to site.

Requiring JavaScript for your website is not a deal breaker for me. Requiring JavaScript to see a single pixel of the website is what I am complaining about.
Sunil Sharma shares his thoughts on venture capitalism
It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. He thinks degrees don't add value to smart people. However, those smart people are smart enough to know that nobody hires people without college degrees, and are thus in college.
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I enjoyed this post. It's actually refreshing to hear that not everyone hits it big and that's okay sometimes. I'm in a similar situation.

As much as I read about the glorious successes and the spectacular failures, its important to also hear about the guys in the middle, working hard and keeping the dream alive. Good luck with Moon Clerk.
In China too. There, McDonald's is a luxury. (A meal would cost several hours of wages.)
However, enthusiasts will have the ability to opt out of the carrier restrictions—likely with some kind of "this will void your warranty" disclaimer, as their phone will probably cease to be eligible for carrier-provided tech support—and manually install updates as they become available.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/windows-phone-8-to-pr...
I am surprised at how often neurotic artists and writers seem to think others are like them. It's perfectly fine to feel the way this writer does, but does she realize it is unusual? Or does she assume others feel the same way but are just faking it? Lives of quiet desperation, etc?
$50 for the switch isn't that expensive given (a) it's WiFi controllable; (b) there's not much in the way of alternatives; and, (c) it's consumer focussed.

Prior to the WeMo your best option for power socket control (as an amateur/DIY/Maker) was something like one of these:

* http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10747

* http://www.pwrusb.com/order/

Or hacking a radio remote-controlled power socket. All of which require additional work.

I'm waiting for a 240 Volt version with NZ connectors.
How many WP8 features will be eventually backported? Will there be a 7.9? 7.10?

It's a current phone, much like my Macbook is a fairly current (as in "non-vintage") Lion-running Mac. Like my Macbook, it won't run the next major version. The difference is that my Macbook is 6 years old.
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Meanwhile those who would be terrorists are probably not even thinking about air travel when there are so many other ways to cause mayhem
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You might be projecting the putative "crippling anxiety" into her words. I think she was trying to write something worth reading, and so naturally dramatized her story a bit. I thought it was well-written, displaying a healthy level of self-observation and satisfying developmental progress for the length of the piece.
Time Warner patents MPEG encoding of "unskippable" commercials
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It seems Good Reader isn't available for Android.
It certainly demonstrating the usefulness of a well-executed marketing manoeuvre.
If people are complaining about airport security being intrusive now, think about the complaints that would result if this were to come about. While it's a nifty idea, this "spying" would never bode well with passengers, even in comparison to current standards.

On the other hand, this type of comprehensive filming already happens at banks and other institutions, so it is possible that after all the immediate sensationalism, people would get used to it.
This is good news. There are very capable, fairly new phones that wouldn't get OS updates if it weren't for this unlock switch.
If it wasn't God who created the Universe than who did? It created itself somewhere? That's where any rational mind should stop shouldn't it?

We perceive the things in some way, which doesn't mean it is the right way or the only way.
I don't think there's any desperation in her voice at all. She sounds genuinely bored with something she has plenty of - and no trouble getting - other people.

To be honest she comes across as a rich person complaining about the shallowness of people seeking money.
"That was what led to the Windows CE disaster."

No. What led to the Windows CE disaster was what Google is (was, until ICS?) doing with Android: let OEMs customize UX the hell out of it and go bananas on cutting h/w components costs to the bone.
Could not agree more. This is the approach we've strived to take while building https://metrics.librato.com ... API access for everything, integration with popular OSS for metric collection (e.g. statsd, collectd), loosely coupled integration with complementary tools (e.g. Papertrail, Pagerduty), etc.
This post might be more useful if it offered more specific alternatives, rather than mostly criticizing the academic process. Imagine the same ideas reworded as suggestions for improving the process. Then the posts here could discuss the new ideas (useful!), rather than debating the criticism (tedious!).

Perhaps peer review should be done in public, as a page-rank style rating according to the authority of each reviewer in that domain. Would it be completely open, single blind? double blind? Good questions. But it might reduce delays and decrease the effect of politics on the process.
I think that all of the privacy issues we face today will seem ordinary in the future. It was only a matter of time before we started to monitor and manage ourselves to this level of scrutiny.
S is the dead-simple command line ssh profile manager you've always wanted.
I don't think so because the "assembly language" is actually Haskell code (an "embedded" domain specific language).
Q: "Does anyone actually enjoy more than one party in six?"
A: Yes.
I've built a few cross-platform apps that work both on WP7 and Win8 - as noted before, Portable Class Libraries is a huge help. My web services were fully reused as were all of my base libraries, just had to redo the UI - and between Silverlight and WinRT I was able to copy and paste a lot of my XAML (just a few namespace changes and a couple of minor mods).

I actually did a talk at a user group where I showed a few different apps, then translated them live between the phone, the web, and the tablet.
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I'm not a big fan of scala's _ operator. I find it a poor decision from a language design perspective for

_.method(param)

to be a function, but for

a.method(param)

to not be a function (unless of course method returns a function)

It also doesn't nest properly
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This would seem to suggest that the days of dual booting are numbered. Either if ARM becomes the key player or if the policy on x86 changes.

I'm not sure that general purpose computers will die though, geeks and developers are a big enough market to support manufacturers creating systems that are more powerful and flexible.

Assuming that Virtual Machine software is not blocked, with good enough visualization software and fast enough hardware (enough RAM especially) running a Linux VM with Windows 8 may be indistinguishable from running it directly on the chip.

If the OS becomes just a way to bootstrap a browser or VM I'm not sure how important it is anyway?
Indeed, heterodoxy is dangerous.
I said it was God. Tongues. If it can puppet you and put words in your mouth...

Watch this:

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This looks to me to be a useful way to detect leaked datasets.
We're not censoring you, we're just censoring the air in between your mouth and other people's ears. Air can't have rights, so this is not a problem.
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great story. really captures the excitement of the startup experience!
HTML was much easier in those days since people didn't really expect much from a website and tags/css was much more limited.

Want a bright pink page with flashing animated zombies? Just:

<body background=pink>
<blink><img src="zombie.gif"></blink>
@josephruscio - I was >this< close to going back and giving a quick mention to Librato Metrics. You guys definitely "get" what I'm talking about. I like that you provide well-defined interfaces for easily getting data into and out of your application. You focus on trending and let other (better?) software handle the other stuff.
Most of them were due to an outage we had on a "legacy application" due to some sort of screwups with the VMs it was running on. This caused reps to hammer me with questions about our SLAs. Of course I had no answer.

Many more emails were from offshore devs from a project I'm not normally involved with who didn't understand our specs.

There were also a smattering of issues with reps getting calls that our app was down. Ask a few questions and it turns out the person is using it on a train in a tunnel in the middle of iowa type of situation. It's a web app.
> Yes. And a program you can't modify to suit your needs is defective. This isn't enshrined in the law at the moment, but it's the same idea.

It's not defective according to the people buying it. That's what matters.

> For example, if you design a really cheap car and market it as "cheap but dangerous", you still can't sell it.

This analogy is not particularly applicable to consumer software, and applies mainly to liability. A lawyer would need to step in here, as I'm guessing neither of us are experts in consumer product liability.
Why wait for EC2, there is already a high performance compute cloud in Sydney thanks to http://orionvm.com.au

And according to trace route they are in the same DC.
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> X11, not backwards compatible with X10 or X9.

That's why it's called X11 and not X10 ES.
Informative post. Congrats Keen team!
Well, there is a link back to ifttt in the very first sentence of the blog, but something in the header or sidebar couldn't hurt I suppose.
KIT releases open-source data/benchmarks for autonomous vehicle development.
Thanks! Super exciting day for us. :)
Unfortunately I think your kidding yourself.

Native applications will not be making it to the Lumia 900 and as such your going to start seeing more and more apps (and especially games), not be able to run on the phone.
RedHat doesn't sell consumer software.
And by 'not very commonplace' do you mean 'more common than ever'?

As industry has expanded, so has slavery.

http://slaveryfootprint.org/
This is off-topic regarding the actual article, but has anyone else noticed the keyword stuffing spam in the page footer if javascript is disabled?

I sent a quick email to the site contact address describing the problem, but I'm curious if anyone has any better ways of informing people about this sort of thing?

I've tried a few times for different sites in the last few weeks, and I never hear back; I assume the words needed to describe the problem are themselves liable to get spamfiltered and so nobody even sees my mail. Or it looks like a phishing/scamming attempt itself (although I'd like to think with better spelling & grammar), and gets binned for that.
You are still working around rules and a framework.
Geocities gave you free run of HTML & JS to go nuts.

For example: Geocities accidently gave me my first experience designing backend as a service when I was a teenager.

I had built a website using some PHP but I had a budget of ~$0 for hosting and I couldn't find any free PHP webhosting that also offered mysql and didn't have extremely stringent bandwidth restrictions (I wanted to allow downloads of some fairly large .exes for VB6 games I had made) I used my home internet connection for playing online games so I didn't want people downloading files from that either.

My solution was to host all of the files and the front end of the site on geocities (which had a much better bandwidth limit but didn't support PHP) and redirect all of the POST forms to a Pentium2 linux box running off my home internet connection (with dyndns to take care of the dynamic IP issue). The form submission would sometimes (if it needed to update the site frontend) kick off a script which would FTP the new content to geocities. It could then just redirect you back to geocities once the form submission was done.
I think this question is much more interesting regarding WolframAlpha than a normal search engine. A search engine listing is just a directory of links (although Google and friends are adding new capabilities constantly) where a WolframAlpha result is a curated, rewritten summary of the content in question.

Right now, WolframAlpha is one of the nearest things we have to the "advanced Artificial Intelligence" from the article; in a certain sense, it actually does create new content. Should this have speech protections? From an ideological point of view, I think it should, but I am sure about its legal status. A question I'm not even sure about ideologically is copyright--how much copyright protection do you give to things like WolframAlpha's result pages?

Either way, the most important point is that the future where computers produce novel and useful content is not the future at all--it's now.
Great honest heart felt post...thanks for sharing...
the video is over 4 minutes..... just saying.
How much did he make on the facebook IPO?

Also, while I admire his position and do have a bit of envy for that position, I would call his actions entirely obvious.

Anyone well connected with the current pulse of not only the tech industry, but the world in general would be doing the same thing.

Frankly, I am actually surprised there are not more people like him. I am also surprised there are not more celebrities like Ashton Kutcher.... (Yes, I am aware of others, but the group is still rather small.)
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I am amazed that you looked through the source code of the page. It seemed like a pretty bland/generic site to me, not worth checking out what's going on under the hood. Good find though.
I see both sides of this argument. The OP -- at least in this blog post; I haven't read the paper -- spends most of his time talking about how he's demonstrated the insufficiency of unit testing. For the purpose of that argument, it really doesn't matter that he used Haskell as opposed to some other type checker.

It's only in the last two sentences of his "Conclusion" section that he turns the argument around, and here is where he oversteps:

While unit testing does catch many errors it is difficult to construct unit tests that will detect the kinds of defects that would be programatically detected by static typing. The application of static type checking to many programs written in dynamically typed programming languages would catch many defects that were not detected with unit testing[...]

Clearly, this is overbroad. For starters, he should have used "could" in place of "would". And it wouldn't have been a bad time to remind the reader that Haskell's type system differs from those of other statically typed languages with which the reader may be more familiar.

I don't quite agree, though, that the conclusion is "trivial". Maybe I'm just out of touch, but I wasn't aware of a good test of how true the dynamic argument was in practice, as opposed to theory -- particularly claim #2.
kudos fellas. startup weekend seems like just yesterday. you guys have been moving at warp speed. enjoy the ride!
It's OK, I think I could survive that.
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Why do you get to demand a third choice, besides "Pay 99 Cents" and "Don't Get The Song"?

We get to because technology provides it. It's not about reasonableness, but ability and convenience. Is business and commerce suddenly subject to morality?
It's a really cool idea.

The one downside I guess is that I can't (easily?) use this with things like rsync, scp & git.
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Any OS restrictions on that GoT/HBO facility? Netflix does.
Alexis has posted about this before, a few years ago I think. He has lots of similar things on his blog about how reddit started, eg: http://alexisohanian.com/how-reddit-became-reddit-the-smalle...

The video is worth watching though, it has more insights than just fake users.
Don't forget securitized debt!
Most microwaves let you keep pushing the start button to add 30 seconds to the timer.
You often have to seed a social site in order for it to be compelling for people to consume. Once they're hooked, then they start submitting.

As long as the quality is good, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing.
They have failed though, because someone couldn't get security right.
Nah, I found it because I generally browse with Firefox + NoScript which disables most javascript, including the little snippet that this spamblob uses to hide itself with css. So it appeared black and bold in the middle of the page footer :)
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Do you trust your retinal scan info and fingerprints to be kept secure by the government contractor who had the lowest bid? Just like the scanners that weren't supposed to be saving images? Reading through the article I just kept thinking, here it is, Minority Report style monitoring. Who is going to end up with my scan data and exploit it in the name of "targeted marketing?"
And putting these current scanners in a tunnel still doesn't make them any less intrusive or more effective.
Oh I like the "sloppy" feel of this video - showing other members of the film crew in the background, microphone in the car and careless camera movements. While those are normally errors that are easy to avoid, in this case it communicates a live, not staged feel, and by extension - honesty.
Pretty well engineered, though the excessive color grading diminishes the effect a bit.
But hey, man, I'm not advocating you use it.

I'd be crazy to give up dot completion. I like it as much as the next guy. ;-)
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The myth of health data complexity and why medical systems interoperate poorly
Obligatory: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
I suspect you both know you're not representing Thiel's views correctly. What he's said is fairly non-controversial: 1) college is over-priced and 2) some people might be better off on a different track, such as starting a company.
Big take away: Love Driven Development Rules Them All.
And to be sure, the labels and rightsholders are insisting on a morality that they themselves are not subject and do not follow. Note also that nobody is asking why the labels aren't being "reasonable" in adapting their business models. "Might makes right" indeed.
Alternatively, turn the statement into a rage comic or image and post to Reddit. Using this technique you can leverage the spare time of thousands of bored internet users to find the answers for you.
Find 10-30 hosting providers; call each one and ask a) where they colo and b) if they can offer direct connect.

Don't want to waste your time? Hire it out to TaskRabbit or IamExec. Most places are not going to advertise it as a feature, as the market isn't that large for people who want dedicated equipment with a provider not Amazon, but still want direct access to Amazon AWS services from that dedicated hardware.
Are rarely necessary except for larger payments.
New patent: will Apple clone you to save you from Big Brother?
Well, you're wrong because WP7 is now pretty much dead.

So there's literally no reason to target it, and anything written in C/C++ is only going to run on WP8.

So they've pretty much killed off their already lagging platform in preference for a new lagging platform with 0 installed base.

Microsoft are smoking some serious crack. I'm glad our company didn't spend a second developing for WP. What a clusterf*ck.
Because it's not currently illegal to download.