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You're welcome. I am still amazed that nobody knows about this stuff, this website exists quite a long time, and the techniques it presents are from 1964!
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Thanks, this captures most of the mentality of what I was trying to get at. However, I don't know if "so fearful" is the right mentality that I would focus on.

I would turn it around and say that the intern should have enough pride in their work to be "compelled to figure out why/how you made the mistake and figure out how to avoid making it again."
I think you're thinking of Alex St. John, who founded WildTangent. (They still exist, but they're basically a spyware company.)
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I'll take the opportunity to ask: Is there a way to make Spotlight index files in the Library folders? There are sometimes some obscure preference or cache-files that I need to find.
Depends on what kind of 'porn' star she is.

Playboy puts out an annual edition called the girls of the ACC, going to college campuses' to recruit.

In that context, I don't see anyone who was shamed by participating, and some people I know had relatives who were "okay" with it... albeit not ecstatic.

Seeing how nuanced the above can become, lets look at the USOC....

1. Do they have government oversight?

2. Are they required to pick the highest bidder?

3. Can they legally say X is not acceptable by community standards? Whose standards? Why would pornography be against community standards (nationwide) if it isn't consider obscene (legally speaking)?

Now I bet you that no porn company has actually tried to make a case, but it'd be interesting to see how far they could go with one.
Im a Brit that used to get 30 days paid plus public holidays who is now working in the US at a tech company that has no vacation policy. I love my job and work long hours and often some weekends. I have a family and love to travel, but I much prefer the environment that I work in today. I am very ambitious and want the company that I am working for to do well and I want to do well. I am prepared to put a number of years hard work in with little or no vacation as there will hopefully be a much bigger upside at the end of it. If you want 20-30 days holiday a year that you take, then consider what opportunities you are missing.
I think FullContact's 15 days paid PAID policy is excellent and strikes a good balance, but Europe has gone too far. I believe the Mediterranean countries are going to get left behind in turns of development and could end up looking like 3rd world countries in 50 years from now unless the work ethic/culture changes significantly.
Is this an indication of community support & language acceptance, or simply Google throwing mountains of money at the project?
And you forgot the most important part. If the project goes to shit, people can say, "But we hired IBM!" If the government employee in charge hires a smaller company that does just as well as IBM would have, then everybody yells at the government employee.
> $33 million is 500 programmer man-years

Where do you live where $66k/yr the total cost of employing a programmer? I don't know what IBM uses for its internal accounting, but based on what several other large tech companies use, $200k/yr is a decent guess (including salary+benefits+overhead). That'd mean 165 man-years, and only a fraction of those 165 would be programmers, since the contract also needs to pay for managers, sales, billing, legal, etc.
cpuspin: You appear to be hellbanned, though I'm not sure why.

But to reply to you--their pitch may be "working" in the sense that they're getting pledges, but the amount of the pledge totals is pretty clearly not going to generate a profit. Without the app store, they're not going to be making money. Without developers, they're not going to be selling anything in their app store, which you need to have populated with games by early 2013. Six to nine months is already not a lot of time to put together a game, so you really, really want to get developers excited for and working on your stuff right effing now.

That's where they're falling over. And it is literally-literally as important as getting the consoles to consumers.
True. You can definitely expand the message to be for everyone. I just was thinking about our interns when I wrote it.
Backgrounds are explicitly chosen by CC license. The rest of the photos are already publicly shared and I link back to the original source.

I'm glad you pointed out the width of the image stream not being responsive. This is intentional. A gripe of mine regarding the latest image display paradigms is the over-use of browser width. In my research, the strain on the eyes as a result of two dimensional scanning (up/down + left/right) became annoying very fast. The sweet spot seems to be 3 columns, allowing the eyes to gracefully pan down the page and every now and then look away at the background to prevent excess strain.
Hey, merely comparing two things does not mean anyone is implying they're equivalent in weight.
if(artist.name == "Rihanna")
error("You can't post Rihanna");

It doesn't need to be sophisticated to remove 99% cases of infringement. Sure people could upload Rihanna's music under the name "Johnny John Johnson" but then nobody would find it, so the problem would be solved. Grooveshark choose not to do this because they are driving revenue with unlicensed music.
To my knowledge it does index those files, they are just not shown in the search results. You can ask Spotlight to show the system files, see this guide: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4355
Thanks for catching - fixing now.
Some folks might consider it a boring timesink. But it also happens to be the important meta-problem that stands between us and increased government transparency and accessibility. Take almost any government data set, request / report interface, tax service, or help center you can imagine. It's very hard to believe that we'll ever have a quality online version without first fixing the procurement process.
You don't think we're having the same discussion repeatedly? Because that's basically what the first comment in the renaming thread on that post says.
Yes there is a way. Open up terminal and type this in:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool true

Then restart the Finder by typing in this into the Terminal:

killall Finder
Even if I have to rebuild part (or all) of the application in some future moment, the initial productivity boost is worth a lot. Rebuilding a program that is already running is usually far less painful than building a fast one from scratch. At least the developers will have a test suite they can use to check whether their version is correct. And how much faster.

I agree there are cases where only the leanest and meanest code will do, but my point is that those cases are very rare.
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE; killall Finder
That's what it should cost. But I have seen large companies blow similar amounts of money on even less useful systems. And heard enough stories from friends to know that such fuckups are common in the corporate world.
What proof do you have to support your claims that she's milking this?
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App Academy's founders estimate that their graduates will be able to pull 80-90k as an entry level iOS developer. I am looking to transition into software development, and the remaining classes I have left are controls, Lab 2, and senior project. I believe I have the relevant domain knowledge to do any basic intersection of both fields - for example, I plan to create a better simulator (more user friendly) for process modeling. The current program we use, "Aspen", uses the same engine from the '70s and has a horrible interface - it is impossible to debug. Also, I am very interested in modeling Thorium nuclear power plants, and I will definitely need a software background for this. I am using App Academy as a stepping stone to my future career as a software programmer with an understanding of engineering fundamentals. Sorry if that was long-winded.
Like I said in my OP, the one who gives it to me for vacation. Otherwise my savings account grows by $7500 and I take a very modest vacation, which is probably worse for me in the long run. Also, I'm not the only one who makes decisions, and I know that if I told my wife we had to spend $7500 on vacation she would be much happier than if I told her I got a $7500 raise that was going in the bank.
Congrats on unlocking the ability to downvote. I see you are using it productively, and not at all as if you are on reddit.
Did you copy node_modules directory from repo?
If you look at the discussion that followed my comment, it was about whether the motivation of the attack was:

a) misogyny of the gaming community
b) the online raiding culture that has little regard for who the target is - as long as they will react to offensive language and accessible via online channels

Which was the thesis of my original comment and, I believe, a valid question to ask before taking out our pitchforks.
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If you're interested in making actually good software for the government, an agency that looks like it's genuinely dedicated to that end is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

http://www.consumerfinance.gov/jobs/design-technology-fellow...

For their Design + Technology Fellowship, the deadline is this Friday.

You can complain about how government does things, or you can do something to fix it.
Well... ain't that a thing!

But, seriously, someone is going to write a thesis on gifs one day. It is "literally" an innovation in communications. While we currently associate gifs with memes, etc, you can see quite a few very creative ones on ffffound.com, for example. And,as you say, TheAtlantic now uses them.
No, I don't mean for companies to run it on their own servers, I mean for them to bundle the software with freeware software. The kind you find on download.com.

Often, freeware software developers bundle toolbars and other spyware/crapware with their software to make money. My suggestion would be to allow them to include the VM with their software instead of spyware/crapware toolbars. These freeware authors would earn a commission for every VM install that makes money.

Freeware developers need to earn money but their main option is to bundle their code with crapware now. This would be a nice alternative to that awful option.
Did this thing just shut down any interests with the Nexus Q? I would assume that it can do just about everything the Q does except the NFC stuff right
I agree that it is a major concern, and we're trying to break down this barrier by making the language as human readable as possible.
If you are a citizen and want to make federal government more effective and less expensive, why not?
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How did this story already get buried to the second page of HN, when there are half a dozen of stories with roughly the same age and votes in the first half of the first page? I can even see a 4h older post with the exact same number of votes, still in the first page. I don't like to be cynical but it's hard not to notice the exceptionally angry comments against this topic and the oddly low position of this thread.
I'm definitely not advocating berating or trying to diminish the intern's confidence. I'm just suggesting that making the same mistake over and over again is a major red flag and something interns (and new hires and pretty much everyone) should actively try and avoid.

I probably should have added something in the post about having the full-time employee actively teach the way to fix/correct the mistake, which is something that should always happen.
Hey Dentldir, make sure you get everything from that phantom-nodejs folder.... Try a git clone https://github.com/iron-io/iron_worker_examples

and then follow the directions from /binary/phantom-nodejs
I really admire Resig, and this post contains a few gems:

1. Knew about PPK[0], didn't know about JZ[1]

2. Feature detection came about from writing this book! Which generalizes too: writing is a great way to innovate (something pg has said, too).

3. A nice little jab at GRRM, who thoroughly deserves it.

4. An exciting glimpse into the future of computer science pedagogy by way of JavaScript in the browser. (And I can't help but wonder if this is an oblique response to the recent Alan Kay Dr. Dobbs interview, where Kay asserts, "The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs."[2])

5. Points out that even the best of us can get stuck in a procrastination loop.

6. Resig is going to finish a JavaScript book [3]

[0] http://www.quirksmode.org/

[1] http://perfectionkills.com/

[2] http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...

[3] http://jsninja.com/
I think it would be something awesome to work on. I'm in software to make a difference, and dropping a digit or two off the cost of government projects could be quite an impact.
A hacker that's also an MBA? :)

I'm sure somebody thinks this is an interesting challenge to tackle. The Uruguayan equivalent (AGESIC) did make a pretty nifty website for government procurement:

http://comprasestatales.gub.uy

explanation in Spanish:

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/Other/...

English translation (Google):

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=...

It's a good initiative, but it has the side effect of making my blood pressure rise when I see the awarded projects (all relatively transparent, but still bad contracts)
From the interview:

KAY: We didn't use an operating system at PARC. We didn't have applications either.

BINSTOCK: So it was just an object loader?

KAY: An object exchanger, really. The user interface's job was to ask objects to show themselves and to composite those views with other ones.

BINSTOCK: You really radicalized the idea of objects by making everything in the system an object.

KAY: No, I didn't. I mean, I made up the term "objects." Since we did objects first, there weren't any objects to radicalize. We started off with that view of objects, which is exactly the same as the view we had of what the Internet had to be, except in software.

I realize that objects in Smalltalk were not all graphical, but this concept of objects as graphical entities seems to be near and dear to his heart.
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You'll definitely find what you're looking for here.
http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/terminal-commands-fo...

To save you some time, add a folder as follows:

mdimport -f /Library
Only in one direction, though, into the past. Tweetbot allows you to see in both directions by selecting a tweet in the middle of a conversation.
This is an awesome guide, Bryan. Thank you for putting this out there.

One thing I noticed missing is how frequently is too frequently to post. We started queuing up 8 posts a day at one point, one every three hours, and found that our Edgerank went down, and we got some unLikes. You might add some info about how much is too much to post.

This is also a bit different, since we're not a band, but we found that we got a higher response when posting content relevant to bands than we get when we post to consumers. It could be that we have a lot more musicians than regular music listeners, or it could be that our most engaged fans are the musicians. It might be worthwhile to give bands a "test plan" that will help them narrow down who, out of all of their fans, they should target the most.
I think it's more of how far out the release date is, honestly.

If they were pitching this for, say, Q1 2014, this wouldn't be that much of a red flag. That's plenty of time to get a dev SDK out for developers to have enough time to make something.

However, with less than 9 months to launch, they absolutely need an SDK ready, unless they're serious about only getting ports of existing android games. A 6-9 month dev cycle is on the short side for most quality indie game releases, but it's very possible to get good games made in that time.
That paralleled my brief career in government. Managers are not promoted for efficient decision making—they are promoted for not having been associated with an unsuccessful initiative.
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I'm not convinced that having the discussion repeatedly is a bad thing. It's like the old 37Signals advice not to have defect backlogs, but to just work on the bugs that get reported all the time.

Clearly the community thinks this issue should be addressed, which is why the threads keep popping up organically.
Suspicious Package http://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/ is another neat QuickLook plugin that displays detailed information about Installer Packages (.pkg files).
Great save. Fixed now, thanks.
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Ah, make sense. Thanks for clearing it up!
Now that is just awesome. Thank you!
Gmail solved (mostly?) these problems for me: you can mute conversations (archive & automatically mark new messages as read) from the dropdown menu on the inbox screen.
They were thinking of ways to erode the peoples' support of the current regime, using non-violent means. That's very different from simply telling people "don't be aggressive or violent."
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Does this loyalty work both ways in Japan? Are you more likely to work your whole life at one company, or are layoffs as rife as they are in the US?
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You can also add a QuickLook directory to your own ~/Library if you are into keeping stuff separated.
I'm an EU citizen and have worked (and am working) in several EU based startups. I know I can take a job in one or any of them and not lose my holidays and health care. Big companies don't really offer perks like this here (lots of holidays or health care), so why would I want to work in a cubicle? There's an employee shortage, and mandatory holidays means that a start up is as hard work as a megacorp.
Somehow off topic but this is a very neat trick:
You can preview the selected item directly in the Spotlight menu by pressing the left arrow key.

Source: http://www.macstories.net/mac/all-you-need-to-know-about-qui...
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I don't know if it's hard as I've never tried. But as I've tried a lot of ways to print websites as PDFs, through various third-party services, I'm assuming it's not at all straightforward...

I think the "hard" part is properly paginating things? And I guess generating table of contents, inner-book-links, things that my blogging platform (Octopress) handles in a way that I've been used to as a Rails templater.
For another case of sanity reigning supreme after an English libel law suit, there's Simon Singh's victory against the British Chiropractic Association, after an article he wrote in the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/apr/15/simon-singh-li...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/10/libel-la...

See also: http://www.libelreform.org
I don't even know how to respond to those accusations.

Islamophobia? Silencing those who disagree with me. I am a misogynist?

Sure you didn't forget anything?
Now that you mention it, I can't not see it.
well... :)
Yeah, they should just have private subcontractors handle this stuff. Like IBM Federal or someone.
This type of thing went through a phase and then died out, much like dedicated messaging apps like Kik and Beluga.
Ask HN: Why don't you write functional tests?
I'm curious why some developers don't write functional* tests for their apps. My theory is that really smart & small teams just starting out probably don't feel the need. But when they get bigger, and have real revenue, users, and reputation on the line, they get serious about end-to-end testing.

But am I wrong?

Why don't you write end-to-end tests?

* I'm making a distinction between unit tests (e.g. no db/disk access, no I/O) and functional tests (e.g. full end-to-end test including the full server and web browser or mobile app)

(disclosure: I created a functional testing tool and started a testing-focused company.)
Agreed, actually. I learned I can stand up Sintra and not bork my local apache instance, and now I'm hooked. Thanks!
I don't have the ability to downvote, sorry to disappoint you. I know it can be hard to accept, but it is possible that I am not the only person who thinks your post was childish and condescending, and added nothing to the discussion.
Haven't worked with Casper yet but I'd be happy to build a similar example in our examples repo using Casper.

Additionally you could install it using the build() command in the .worker file very similar to the way PhantomJS is installed.
cool stuff !
completely agree! we're in the same boat as you (pun intended) :)
Congrats, you just banned Prof. Usher's lecture notes:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1025_3-1001095.html

You've also missed all the "Riana," "Rihana," "Rieana," etc. songs out there, making your filter both harmful to innocent people and worthless at stopping infringement.

EDIT: And this part is badly mistaken: "It doesn't need to be sophisticated to remove 99% cases of infringement." So you have 1 copy for people to download instead of 100. But 1 is enough for everyone, so you've made no dent in piracy whatsoever, because everyone will copy the one file that is available and won't even care that there aren't 99 more copies of it.
> There is also nothing wrong with people making fun of other people when they feel like it. It happens every day.

This incident went way beyond humor and ribbing, although I guess you find death threats and stalking hilarious.

> Neither does this woman.

There is a big difference for having some criticism about someone's points of view and engaging in a harassment campaign. That you equate the two is troubling.

> Plenty of women are into sports and don't have a big problem with the fact that all the players are men. They also don't have a problem with all of the misogynistic men who follow sports.

Women in sports is a huge issue and still is. There are also quite a lot of people who are troubled by the misogyny that permeates professional sports. Saying that these people don't exist just because you aren't paying attention is ridiculous.

> The problem that will never be solved is that someone will always get offended at something and I'd rather see people thicken up in order to deal with that instead of crying foul.

The best way to guarantee sexism is never addressed is to not talk about it. The Kickstarter project was about an examination of an issue, not a world-wide solution. That you make it about that is an attempt to move the goal posts.