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I'm on Arch Linux and installing skype4 from AUR has no dependencies that the skype package from multilib didn't...

Must just be Ubuntu ^.^
I think this announcement is a bit dated. I thought it went back into debate?
Executives love calling themselves resources. Not.
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Any idea how the Voyager managed to escape the asteroid belt without being hit by a 'space stone'. Are we actually manually controlling it ?
Are revenues per app decreasing?
I think he is referring more to go's "defer" functionality and out-of-band error return values more than panic/recover.
This is absolutely fascinating, but how do we actually interact with eve? How does she actually work? Where is she running?
Having more gTLDs just makes "finding the right place" even more difficult. Is mybank.com/.bank/.money/.finance correct? SSL will be easy to get on the other domains. With arbitrary gTLDs, it just makes the domain name even less useful for identifying than it currently is.
At some point, Skype announced that it would open-source the UI part of the Linux client, allowing people to implement whatever interface they wanted.

I guess that was before they were bought by Microsoft.
Gridset, custom grid sets for your projects
I'm not sure what you mean by "serious developer", but I went to my first hackathon about 2 weeks ago, and I had a good time. I met a lot of cool people, as well as learned a lot. It was nice to set aside the time and really focus on getting something done.
Generally when a company dismisses a competitor in this way it usually finds itself on the wrong end of a disruptive collapse in 5 or so years. See Nokia, RIM, Palm.

While its difficult to bet against Intel, it will be interesting to see how quickly they can ramp up sales of their mobile processors as sales of their desktop processors decline. That will be the key to Intel's survival.
On a somewhat unrelated note, Intel's cleanroom ad [1] that is reproduced in the article really sets my teeth on edge because of the sheer level of misogyny involved (little girl with toys in a pink bedroom vs. grown men in blue high-tech room).

Could it possibly send a stronger message that women don't belong in tech?

(That the ad designers may not have intended that message does not mean that it's not there.)

[1] http://cleanroom.net/?p=966
We weren't quizzed much about our numbers (I don't think money was really brought up at all) but asked more about the product (what it does, who uses it, why they use it, etc). That may have been because we're in the enterprise market (project management) and our competitors are quite well known, so they would already have an idea of potential revenue.
The takeaway ...

"Whether revenues are decreasing or not will require some more data. The last period’s 20c is not far below the app store lifetime pricing of 24c."
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Here's the real take away from this. Copy is important and copy is hard. Don't skimp out on copy...unless you want to unknowingly offend.
With a ticket for littering.
I have been resource in various kind of endeavors, but this with the minus 0.55 dollar/hour seems like the lowest hourly rate ever heard. Obviously they don't see it that way, but when I'm labelled as a resource I expect a payment, instead of paying for the 'opportunity'.

On the other hand, when I'm part of the team, it's quite reasonable to work for the lower-probability high-amount windfall, like the prize here. Interesting how a small change in wording, could indicate a different type of thinking, and therefore lead to a big change in my actions.
"that's the great thing about internet, you can make up quotes, and attribute it to others" --abraham lincoln

so, please cite.
But places can just offer s "cash discount" and it ends up being exactly the same. All the gas stations around me charge 10 cents more for credit cards and it's infuriating.
The irony of this situation is that I've met Charles Carreon on several occasions and he's the IP and tech lawyer I recommend to friends and associates. He's an honest and intelligent lawyer who seems to have inadvertently kicked a hornets nest.

Think of the other lawyers of note out there: Godwin, Lessig, Meuller and the like. Carreon is not as well known but equally capable and ideologically similar.

I think there's still time to turn this around and make it a win - win. But not everyone is willing to capitulate, rollback and dump a client that's left you out to dry.
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Just opensource the damn thing. It would profit them far more than anyone else.
Pairing an 'entrepreneur' with a developer can work, and I know of cases where the 'idea guy' deserves 50% - they tackle the market and sell the product. But in a Hackathon environment I'm not sure it would work: you have to share the same passion. It takes someone who has the insight and ability to push forward a really great product in an industry in which they completely understand, and a development partner who is completely engaged in wanting to implement this technology (or ideally, you both come from the same place). Is a weekend enough time to spark this kind of connection?
It's no doubt that the intentions are pretty innocent (it could be a dev/designer etc.).

However the context that many developers come from is literally being allocated as a "resource" in a project plan somewhere (and being switched out for other "resources" which we all know never works). So maybe this terminology hits a little too close to home for comfort.

Consider us a bit shell-shocked and sensitive to this word (although I can't think of a better one tbh - "Enabler"?)
Ideas are cheap
Built-in class distinction: the entrepreneur is the important leading visionary who brings vast experience, immense wealth, split-second decisiveness, capital, razor-sharp econometric analysis, start-of-the-art buzzword compliance, best practices in psychological manipulation for sustainable employee peak performance, cosmopolitan worldliness and indispensable connections to the Hackathon. His time is valuable. The mere resource is a wannabe who hopes to help out in some way. Also, the entrepreneur is a gastronome, while the resource feeds on Ramen noodles.
Is this going to be your first developer?

Who is your customer audience?

Do you expect your programmer to be customer-facing in any way?

Are you paying market rate, or a reduced rate + equity, or strictly equity-based? Are you willing to consider any of these options for the right developer?
Oh man, awesome. thanks.
"portmanteau" What a brilliant word, thank you.
I've never hard that before, honestly. It made me smile.

...though I hope it doesn't catch on :)
Well, you don't have to go as fast as the Voyagers to end up out on the edges of the Solar System in a few decades. Even so, it's interesting that the New Horizons Pluto probe was launched with a higher speed relative to Earth than the Voyagers but will ultimately end up traveling slower because it won't slingshot by as many planets.
Brief Commentary on Today's Nokia Bad News Day
"Singing in the Rain" Inspired Engagement
This old Hollywood "Singing in the Rain" inspired engagement shoot of couple Brittany and Jaylen (both actors writers and performers who love musicals) simply blows my mind!
Not really... Even if the code is difficult to patch, speech/audio recognition doesn't advance much when an attacker figures out how to remove the (non-random) noise added by a machine over the sound file. Actual speech recognition relies on the ability to filter out background noise - which is a lot more complex/random - added by surroundings, not a machine.

It's very difficult to generate some sort of noise via algorithm that a) humans can filter out and b) can't be removed by some algorithm. As a result, audio captchas are a huge vulnerability and the weakest link in almost any captcha system, although you can't get rid of them by law.

Hypotheticals aside, the code was easy to patch - note the footnote:
> In the hours before our presentation/release, Google pushed a new version of reCAPTCHA which fully nerfs our attack.
I did read to the end. What you end up suggesting includes:
- rendering the view's elements as html in the parent view
- creating all of the views and binding callbacks for all of the views to 'render' on the parent view
- triggering all of the callbacks to render the views
- each of which pull their element from the first view using a jquery selector.

I guess the advantage is that re-rendering the parent will re-render the subviews instead of re-creating them? Unless you need that, it seems to me like this is a lot of mess compared to just adding @$el.attr 'id', "row_#{@model.id}" to the child view.
Unfortunately not - the programme looked interesting, but I skipped out on it to go watch the Olympic torch go by :) I don't regularly make them, but I was at the one at the Amazon offices a while back.
Call it 'Builder', 'Maker' or anything else. 'Resource' has a lot of baggage and ignoring that doesn't make any sense.
I like how message board libertarians write as if their comments were addressed to history instead of to other people on the message board; "the eternal vigilance of the stridently worded objection" is a noble thing indeed.

The reality is, 'tzs started this thread by pointing out why Senator Paul's bill was flawed as a matter of policy: it precludes obviously legitimate uses of remote-controlled aerial devices, which are obviously going to be a commonplace technology in 10-15 years and are used with little regulatory drama by private industry today.

Naturally, the Libertarian Paladins of the Comment Thread want to turn 'tzs workmanlike point --- which, unlike the glittering pronouncement of principals favored by your fellow Paladins, actually involved reading the bill --- into a discussion of drones used to shoot hellfire missiles down the chimneys of anyone who would write an unfavorable comment on a message board about Romney or Obama.

But that's not the discussion 'tzs invited. He simply said: "this is a poorly written bill, so much so that it is obviously not going to get passed, so obviously that Senator Paul had to have either known that or be incompetent, and let's stipulate that he's not incompetent".

Can you address your comment to his actual point, rather than conjuring up some authoritarian demon that shoots drones armed with Wikileaks-seeking missles out of its butt? Because 'tzs is not that demon.
No, Ubuntu 12.04 & Windows 8 Preview
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I don't know about blooming, but things are happening in Nebraska.We haven't had an Instagram, Dropbox or anything like that appear, yet. Lincoln's in-progress push to reframe the city as the next Boulder or Austin should help too.
Anecdote: My recruiter told me that the Chicago tech startup scene is the second largest in the country, behind SV. Not sure how true it is, but Groupon was pretty good for the scene.
I'm curious to see your numbers on that.
> for example "private" member variables are way less private than incomplete C types

I'd be interested in hearing why you think this is the case: pretty much any method I'd use to get past compiler-enforced barriers protecting access a private variable in C++ is still usable in C to access data hidden away by an incomplete type.

What you say is valid for code that's written freshly. When you have to work with libraries whose first lines of code were written ages ago, you pretty much have no other option than to deal with toothache-inducing styles of C code.
Your real problem isn't how to hire, your core problem is "what is the best way to communicate the scope and details of the project?" If you're asking this question it sounds like you don't have a specification or a prototype: If that's the case it's a good idea do to that step first before hiring a developer.
Epic article.....thanks!
At the large research university I work at in a lab, almost all of the computers run XP, and a few even run Windows 2000. Is it frustrating to use IE6 on the Windows 2000 computer? Yes. However, the software for the old equipment we have is designed for Windows 2000, and most likely will never be upgraded, for lack of support for newer OSs. I don't think (anecdotal evidence) that a 10-15 year refresh cycle is absurd on some machines. That being said, for the entire DoD to not at least update some of their workstations is a little incredible.
How about we assume he meant software products since that makes sense and isn't stretching?
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And I'd like to think that we can reign in career criminals like Kimble and compel them to live by certain moral standards.
The person leading a team is (maybe) contributing, why are they magically not a resource and all the other members of the team are?
This a i3 M370, but I run a 32 bits OS because I got tired of running 64 bits with applications with no support for 64 bits (read: Flash browser plugin and Skype).

After some time I've found that there's no real advantage for me on a 64 bits OS for a laptop (ie. I have only 3GB of RAM, performance looks the same, etc).
Love the article, love that tech is coming to the midwest (Clevelander, there's a bit around here too). Can't stand that every tech scene has to have silicon in the name.
Yes, this was my understanding as well.

On Youtube, if you search for words like "theatre projector changeover" there are some great videos of projectionists showing how it's done.

Apparently there are "platter" systems that let you splice all the reels together and project the entire film through one lens with no changeovers, but my story took place at least 15 years ago, and it was not a very big or modern theatre.
It's not a technical problem.

It's a user problem.

Economics and financial transactions work well with fairly evenly paired buyers and sellers, and largely undifferentiated goods (bulk items, water, food, etc.). Where market power is unbalanced, you end up with monopolistic or oligopolistic markets, where goods are highly differentiated (think: enterprise software sales) you end up with very prolonged negotiation over quality and deliverables (hence the high cost of such sales).

Information economies violate both precepts.

We've never had a market for unbundled information goods purchases. A newspaper or magazine is a bundle of articles, a book is a bundle of chapters, cable TV is a bundle of channels. Most entertainment parks sell a bundle of rides rather than tickets to spend on any given ride. Even music and video sales are a very different experience when you can sample and preview what you're getting.

If I had to make a purchase decision for every single thing I read, I'd go stark raving mad (OK, this may explain something).

Commercializing every single transaction is not feasible.
Is the reanalyzed version parsed as [[space douche] wagons] or [space [douche wagons]]?
The takeaway ...

"The worse news is the guidance about Q2 profit warning and Q3 smartphone sales problems, that was hidden in the story about layoffs. So before, in Nokia's profit warning, Nokia said it will have problems with the handset unit profitability (producing a loss) in both Q1 and Q2. The losses for handsets in Q2 were supposed to be similar to Q1 ie -3%. Now we hear that Q2 losses will be bigger than 3%. This is VERY BAD NEWS. It really means that Nokia is falling into the hole and the rate of the fall is only increasing."
Well, I suppose they can identify exactly what version (and machine/OS) the client is using and specifically block old PC apps if they wanted to.
That looks nice, thanks! I use stl's mingw collection[1] because of the bundled libraries, but this looks more intersting.

[1] http://nuwen.net/mingw.html
Ultimately he's just doing the job he was hired to do.

So is a hit man. Doing something obviously inappropriate doesn't become OK just because there is a pay cheque attached to the instruction.

There is always going to be an awkward area for some lawyers, because in an adversarial legal system you have to allow anyone accused of anything to have robust representation to defend themselves in court, which means some lawyers are always going to act for bad people some of the time. I have no problem with a lawyer defending any client in court to the best of their ability; this goes right to the heart of presumption of guilt/innocence.

But this action isn't defending someone who hasn't yet been convicted of anything against a criminal charge that must be answered in court. This appears to be actively going after someone who has done nothing wrong, by exploiting the technical flaws of the relevant legal system in a way that no ethical lawyer should ever do. If half the Internet can see that, then either the lawyer knows something that none of us do, or the lawyer is in trouble on several levels.
I was thinking the same thing as yock, but if I had the resources to fund such a project I'd want to give the probe a power source that would allow it to accelerate continuously. I think we've got both the electric generator and propulsion technologies to do that now, where weren't available in the 70's. That would let the probe reach Voyager's distance much more quickly, and we'd be flexible in choosing a launch date.

I'd also want to use some of that power to make the probe 'bright'. It could transit telemetry back to us with more power so we could keep contact with it longer, and it could also broadcast its presence in every other direction too. That way if there is anyone out there, they'll have a chance to find the probe. With the Voyager probes, even if the galaxy is teeming with intelligent space-traveling life it's unlikely that anyone will every find the tiny little things.
I thought it was an interesting sci-fi story at first. It still might be.
I found Audicity when I was playing around, but I didn't get round to actually trying it. Didn't know about the frequency so thanks!!!
From a mobile OEM's perspective (excepting Apple and Samsung, who have the capability to produce their own SoCs), besides arch there's very little difference between Intel and other SoC vendors. Snapdragon, Tegra, and OMAP all leave about as much room for customization as Medfield (the mobile Atom variant) does. Qualcomm actually goes a step further than most and packs the modem into the SoC itself. This is partially why you see so many international phones using a different SoC end up swapping for a Snapdragon in the US. Qualcomm was heavily involved in the LTE spec, ensuring they had a head start on modems vs. the rest. Thus when American carriers demand LTE (or DC-HSPA in T-Mobile's case), it's then easier for OEMs to use a Qualcomm part vs. wait on a competitor's part to be approved and be late to market.
Looking at the results, I get the impression that "Eve"'s abilities are being oversold a smigden: http://www.totopoetry.com/search.asp?word=cow
i grew up in iowa, i always enjoyed wisconsin and madison in particular. i have a fondness for the place, truly.
They're really not that close together. If you were flying through space, you'd have a fairly difficult time determining that you were in an asteroid field when you reached one. Albeit some asteroids do travel in 'families.'

Dr. Marc D. Rayman on the Dawn Project:
Dawn will travel 7.7 astronomical units (AU), or nearly 1.2 billion kilometers (almost 720 million miles), to its July 2011 rendezvous with Vesta. Yet in all that time, and across all that distance, the closest the probe will come to a catalogued asteroid is 1.0 million kilometers (greater than 600 thousand miles), or more than 2.5 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
Robot learns language through 'conversation' with people
This is getting way too many votes for what amounts to bad advice. I think you should keep subview rendering methods out of your templates (i.e. keep your templates "dumb"). You can just create placeholder elements in the template, and then pass the placeholder element to the subview constructor. Or you can just append a list of collection-based subviews to a single container element.

You should be able to write Backbone apps without resorting to stuff like $("#row_#{@model.id}")

And for an example, here's a gist https://gist.github.com/2931491
Another blog that doesn't link to their actual site.
... why would you ever use Unix tools to solve those sorts of problems?
Just a tip on the "Buy" feature:

Kids will instinctively mash the button 40 times to buy something. You need a more complex stop.

Also, most of the fun of coloring books comes from discovering the weirdness that happens from the overlaying strokes. The strokes are too flat, and they don't "coat". You should add some brush "wetness" and add thickness with successive overlying strokes.
It depends what compute tasks you are using your mobile for

If the heaviest tasks are playing HD video, using webgl or playing 3D games then the GPU matters most.

If you are using your cell phone for massively parralel computation fluid dynamic simulation of nuclear weapons - then that's still the GPU.

If you are using it for I/O bound limited multi-tasking like database access or payroll processing then a 4core CPU is best.
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>Android is no problem because of the Dalvik byte code engine

I work for a device manufacturer that went with Intel for a product - and x86 is a huge problem regardless of Dalvik.

The fact is, most popular apps out there, and essentially all games, have a portion of their code running in JNI (C libraries called by Java) for performance reasons. It pretty much wiped out half of the Android Market as incompatible and had software partners screaming at us.
Whoa there nellie. Complexity ahoy.

Why would you want to have a view that dumps out its HTML as a string? If a string of HTML is all you want, don't use a view, just use a template.

But putting that aside for a second ... for this particular example, how about this:

render: ->
this.$el.html JST["table_view_template"]()
tbody = this.$el('tbody')
for person in this.collection.models
view = new TableRowView model: person
tbody.append view.render().el

... or if you were in earnest about only needing the raw HTML from the sub-view, how about just rendering the row templates within the table template, making your render function as simple as this:

render: ->
this.$el.html this.template people: this.collection
Ooh! Ooh! Does it have the new Conversation Ads feature?

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2012/06/skype_advertising_update.h...

I, for one, cannot WAIT to see these new ads, which Microsoft describes as "content that could spark additional topics of conversation that are relevant to Skype users."

Isn't that great? Ads are now "content." And the motivation isn't to make a bundle of money on ads, it's to "spark conversations."

Add this to the craptastical user interface and built-in backdoor eavesdropping, and it's plain to see that Skype has a bright future ahead!

http://memeburn.com/2011/07/microsoft-and-skype-set-to-allow...
He's not helping by explicitly stating that he's ignoring gofmt style. Those examples would look lengthier but cleaner if he would run gofmt on them.
It had a gyroscope that would rotate it to measure magnetic effects in a 360 range, but I believe it was disabled years ago. As far as I know, it's not being controlled. If it was ever manually controlled, the fuel would likely have run out decades ago. Either it got lucky or the engineers ran the calculations to find a clear path.
The best bookmarking experience I've had was with PowerMarks (commercial product by Kaylon, long discontinued).

Anyone doing bookmarking would serve themselves by having a look at it -- even though today everything seeks to be "as a service" as opposed to a local application.