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Getting yourname.com is always a Great move (we let you apply a custom domain to your BrandYourself profile), and you want to link all your social media profiles.

We basically walk you through a simple process

1) Make sure you have relevant content on the web (FB, LI, personal website, etc)

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On average users find after going through our "boost process" for any given link, it rises a full 1-2 pages(10-20 results) in their google results.
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If they know you have it, destroying it is not really different in the eyes of the law than refusing to provide a key.
> But there certainly is a market for a dead-simple yet modernly designed car.

It's a shame that those two things are contradictions in terms, then. Even if you were to keep only the safety features from a modern car, it would still be many times more complex than your 1975 dodge pickup.
Yea, I think I'll post on this thread at the end of the day w some numbers, or maybe even do a quick follow up post tomw. Either way, I'll let everyone know
The original UK phrasing of the law was even sillier. They had taken into account codes as well as cyphers. You could be forced to explain the meaning of any other messages such as "the geese fly south for the winter" .

But the wording was ridiculous, something about any hidden or private meaning in any otherwise innocuous text.

So if you happened to have a book of poetry around the police could compel you to explain the symbolism! Heaven help you if you had a Torah and they asked you to explain any "hidden meanings"
To all the people commenting about how you can't prove it: in America, proof means "beyond a reasonable doubt". If you really did have random radio telescope data, the prosecution would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that your random data is actually encrypted. The proof for the defense would be called an alibi, wherein you would just say where you downloaded it from and what you used it for.

You don't need to prove that it could never be decrypted, you need to provide an alibi and then the prosecution needs to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that your alibi doesn't hold true. Your alibi is your proof.
Ethics and morality changes with time. Just because people were happy with something 300 years ago doesn't mean that it's OK to do it now. People used to be happy with lots of things that we now think of as wrong (e.g. slavery, aristocracy ruling the country, women as second class citizens, burning witches, racism, etc.)
And the reply to that:

The UK law in question does not require intent (mens rea).
How does an Acquired Company fit in with all of this?

(An entire acquired company full of rogue developers? :-) )
My point wasn't that Salesforce's infrastructure is reliable (although they arguably have more pressure than most companies to be so), just that there is a separate resource they could be utilizing as a backup/in addition to AWS that they currently are not using.
But the encryption method doesn't need to be non-trivial, especially when you define key as anything that

(a)allows access to the electronic data, or
(b)facilitates the putting of the data into an intelligible form;
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We need to educate people that there was computing before the advent of Web 2.0. There are riches in the past to be mined by those who will take their blindfolds off.
File a bug report :)
It appears that way. Mens rea is a legal concept applied to some of common law (although not always effectively).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea#England

EDIT: British common law divides up laws between those requiring intent and those that don't.
Your first article, at least, comes with a strong caveat: "We ﬁnd that, unless they are experts, individuals who are unaware of the price enjoy more expensive wines slightly less." (emphasis added)
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Interesting paper: Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard
Programming against system calls doesn't suffer from this problem. In fact, if you use synchronous system calls, the OS does exactly what you're asking for: switching contexts when appropriate.
"deliver performance" is too abstract. I usually throw varnish in front of my ruby apps to get performance. I find this gives me a more productive programming environment (ruby), and insane performance.

Node only becomes useful for me when I need to keep a lot of connections open and handle them simultaneously, and a few other rare situations like that.
Your argument is valid. But Node's lightweight-ness comes exactly from the async non-blocking model. The more concurrent connections you have, the bigger is it's advantage. Node can scale without the need to increase the memory as much.

If you like to have a sync model on node, fine, add a layer like threads-a-gogo and you are ready. By doing so, you give up some of the lightweight-ness and will have increased memory consumption. It is your choice and it depends on your use case. If you expect just a few hundred connections or you have lots of memory, you don't need to think about node.
Drupal is ok, but a bit old-fashioned and quirky. It's highly callback/hook based, which is fine, but it doesn't always have hooks where you need them, in which case it gets pretty ugly.

Magento is on a whole other level of suck. I worked on a highly customized Magento site 3 years ago, and it was the worst experience of my professional career - lousy software and client-from-hades.

The Magento folder structure is just completely insane...some of the templates are like 8 or 9 subfolders deep, and it's the huge mashed up pile of Zend Framework and homegrown MVC, none of which is well documented (Since after all, they want to push you to paid support...)

Oh, and to further cement the suck, the main database tables are in EAV form. Tons of fun to be had.
That's BRILLIANT.

"I gave you the correct key, you morons, why have you fucked my hard drive?"

I live in the UK. This law, like all other dumb laws, will simply show the police up in court. Judges are smarter than you think - and they HATE crap laws.
> It implies you've got a huge cache of it hanging
> around ready to go.

In the US at least, just a single image is illegal, so there is no need for a huge cache.
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Very true but not when they waste there own time. Personly it is a silly law made out of panic and in that is flawed. My approach just highlights the sillyness of the law in itself. I love the police but there again I don't break the law.

The point being that whilst your obligated to provide the key, there is nothing saying how that key is provided and that is another flaw in a flawed law. Though some people are taking it too literaly I suspect.

Until there is a case of this law being used to actualy procecute somebody unfairly and unjustly then it is hard to argue it's flaws, but we all see those flaws and shortcommings, like many things in life. Nothing is perfect.
Yea, it should be your final step (it's 1% step that helps, but you don't need to do it). I can't recreate the bug either, but i have my eye on it. That would be annoying so thanks for the heads up
I agree with coderheed.
A few months ago, I interviewed with several companies -- startups and large companies. The interview process is the same; it's broken.

And the way I ultimately picked my next job was to speak to people within the firm, who are not part of recruiting or management, and ask questions. You'll be surprised how honest the responses can be, especially from folks that are relatively new to the company (they're more empathetic since they were in your position a few months ago).

Keep in mind, an "awesome company culture" is largely a personal opinion. People instantly associate unlimited food, scooters and free gym membership with an awesome company culture. That's false. All the perks in the world won't matter if the job you're doing is not satisfying, or if the company's values don't align with yours.

Imo, one of the few companies that get "company culture" right is Zappos. They go beyond just offering perks and really do unique things to foster strong relationships within the company. Still, it doesn't mean Zappos is a fit for you. Not a lot of people are keen on going through "culture training" the first month on the job.
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"In most [industries], the cost of invention is low; or just being first confers a durable competitive advantage because consumers associate the inventing company's brand name with the product itself; or just being first gives the first company in the market a head start in reducing its costs as it becomes more experienced at producing and marketing the product; or the product will be superseded soon anyway, so there's no point to a patent monopoly that will last 20 years; or some or all of these factors are present. Most industries could get along fine without patent protection."

Wow, this guy really gets it. This is how markets and competition work. There's no need to give a company a legal monopoly. If anything, that lack of monopoly, will force companies to keep trying to invent new things to keep staying one step ahead of the competitors.

I also love this one:

"forbidding patent trolling by requiring the patentee to produce the patented invention within a specified period, or lose the patent"

These days big tech corporations are filing patents as fast as they can print them on paper. And then 95% of them will probably never be used in products that are shipping in the market.
Essentially ...

"there have been recent reports indicating that Amazon has stopped certain parts shipments for the new Kindle and there is a possibility that orders from Amazon's electronic paper display provider, E Ink, will be stopped throughout July and August in order to tackle issues with the device's front light"
What's an RI, please? That one's hard to search for.
> The Wrangler jeans I'm wearing right now (wonderful pair of regular jeans) cost me $20

Wow, in Italy Wrangler costs around €70, some models are over €100.
I don't buy them anymore because I noticed they deteriorate faster than other slightly more expensive trousers, but for $20 they are really good!
The author, Troy Hunt, keeps extensive lists of actual passwords (millions upon millions gathered mostly from other disclosures). Many "strong looking" passwords turn up in these lists... all sorts of keyboard patterns, numbers tacked onto permuted words in various languages, etc.

Of course it's difficult to verify the genuineness of most disclosures like this, unless the victim company decides to fess up.
If you want async sinatra, try https://github.com/kyledrake/sinatra-synchrony
Every digital storage device on earth should contain a randomly sized random data file called RANDOM-DATA. The user of said device could optionally replace this file with encrypted data. Once critical mass is achieved, states that do not respect individual liberty would have no way of determining the nature of every RANDOM-DATA file that they obtain by eavesdropping, theft or force.

I know the answer to this is 'easier said that done'. Certainly hardware and OS vendors can't be trusted with this task. Maybe FOSS installers could educate users and optionally create the file? How can we make this happen? I want to wear a t-shirt that says 'random numbers save lives.'
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Author here - There are many good points here. The purpose of my article was to give a different perspective from the default "buy whatever is cheapest" method that I believe most people follow. Obviously it would be an error to buy things that that aren't better for more money, but I believe this error is often better than the opposite error, buying twice. A good example: I'm writing this on a 10 year old laptop running 1900x1200. Thanks for the comments and feedback.
Can you tell us more about your experiences with FLOW3? I work a TYPO3-shop, but hadn't had the chance to use neither ExtBase or FLOW3 much, but it looks exciting, at least after some superficial glances.
I had my doubts about the controller being real, but they've mostly been dispelled by this video!
Thanks. I edited my comment to try making it more clear. Another very important point that was mentioned here is that programming paradigms are not mutually exclusive. The author of this post seems to create a false dichotomy between procedural and OO programming.
Again Doctors are a special case

They are all self employed in the UK. They have a day job in the NHS and have private practice.
The article reminds me of what I learned in a marketing:

Value = Benefits / Cost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_%28marketing%29

Marketing comes into play. If not, items for sale would be using cost-based pricing.

A Mac and a PC would both can accomplish the same task. But one is more expensive than another. Being cheaper doesn't necessarily mean it won't last as long.

Tipping is one area that I don't understand about cultures that have them. Generally, I would expect the tip to be included in the price of the food. Why waste my time and have me figure out what amount to tip? Personally, I don't see the perceived value of tipping.

In some way, how much you pay is also determined by how you see yourself, or in some cases want others to see you.
Except the author is arguing that you should use "expensive" as a heuristic (instead of "cheap"). wccrawford is arguing that quality is orthogonal to price.
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Thanks for the kind words and for using the product.

Right now we are focused purely on individuals (it helps us keep the product simple). It stems from our mission, "a person shouldn't have to pay a lot of money to manage or improve their own search results." While small businesses are easier to monetize, we're happy to just help as many people out as possible, and as long as 2% want the premium features, we're in a good place
I don't know. I would think that attempting to frame someone with it shows some amount of malicious intent. There's got to be something else to charge them with other then the equivalent of "breaking and entering" to plant evidence.
Your point is usually true, when the system is working as intended.

But it's not all that unusual for the gov't to really "have it in" for someone, but not be able to pin the crime on them, as with Al Capone.

In his case, the government didn't think it could pin the true charges on him, so he was actually convicted on tax charges. The tax code is big, obscure, and no expert agrees on the detailed interpretation, so it's not too hard to find some technicality that will convict anyone.

This encryption thing could easily be misused the same way: they can't prove you're a bad guy, so they trump up some technicality charges just to get you locked up.
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Why does it need to be clear? That is the point - I'm challenging people to think, solve, see what's happening and digest the code - and yeah I know some people won't like it. In fact I want those people to hate it. I have a sore spot with the "entitlement crowd" who need everything wrapped up sweetly with a bow - the ones who sit on their laptops in the back of the room, geek out on Twitter, and then give your talk a low rating because it was "boring slides".

Is it hard to figure out that it's CoffeeScript? I don't think so - specifically because I said that it was CoffeeScript in the beginning. You just had to read it :).

And yes! Strings resolve to true :). Madness that people got to figure that out with some code, and not a bullet point slide!

:)
I could see this as a possibility but honestly that sounds like a lot of work for GitHub when there is already a means to crowdfund your project. I don't see what is stopping people from just starting their own Kickstarter project to support the project they are storing on GitHub.
I have been using Vim for over 3 years and I didn't know about the whole line completion.

I think the best thing about Vim is that it will always keep surprising you. If only we could find a life partner like that, there won't be any divorces.
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printf can/does have side effects. Perhaps one of the parameters to the call is obscured by a macro, which has some other effect. Or perhaps stdout was redirected and the printf was required to prevent line buffering from hanging a downstream consumer. The point is, if it seems very unlikely that such and such could cause a problem, it probably isnt the true cause. (Printf itself isn't the fix, it is just involved in the fix)
Pokemon already stands for something plural though (Pocket Monsters). According to Wikipedia, LEGO's a shortening of "leg godt", meaning "play well", so it seems acceptable to make it plural. (Granted, I don't speak Danish, so maybe not?)

The proper name would be "LEGO Bricks", anyway.
What else could you expect when the explicit goal of monetary policy is to fight natural deflation? (how does any upstart win in a competitive market? doing better things cheaper). The costs of manufacturing and services are dropping the quickest, so feedback-driven monetary inflation causes the price of raw resources to skyrocket.
I would say that deciding not to outsource anything is a mistake. We regularly turn to great people to help with some JavaScript features or systems administration. We've even had some folks help with Rails work a couple of times.

Thus far, without being able to hire full-time, outsourcing that stuff was the best decision that I've made yet. It enabled us to launch some features that might have otherwise taken me forever to get around to building.
This is an old argument, and the problem tends to be that each side reads the extreme position even when it was neither written nor intended.

I seldom use debuggers, but sometimes it's the right tool. Others I know and respect use debuggers much more. Even among people who are great at what they do, people work differently.

For those of us who prefer to use debuggers sparingly, the worst abuses stand out: coders wasting hours playing with breakpoint and stepping through code, eventually finding the point where it breaks, and then still not understanding the actual problem or how it should be fixed. This kind of situation is certainly not the case for good developers, but it's depressingly common. Good developers who use debuggers also see these abuses, but they respond with "you're doing it wrong" rather than "put away the debugger." IOW, anyone/everyone tends to correct someone by showing them how they do it.
Except that you can have the benefits of lightweight async development without the problems that JS-style inversion of control brings.

Raising an exception and dealing with it in the same lexical scope sure is nice.

The author lists some examples, another is: http://www.gevent.org/
So, if you have a meg of random data, you're thinking you could give them a one meg XOR key that decodes it to an MP3 file of "God Save the Queen"?

Okay. :)
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Technically, it's LEGO brand building blocks. Now if you'll pardon me, I have some Pythons code to write.
That reveals more about the power of expectation and prompting than it does about wine. Any respectable wine or beer taster will do it blind, without knowing the cost or the make or anything. And their results are repeatable - I can't speak for wine, but with beer, there are licenses that you get by taking repeatable tests.
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This really tripped me out the first time I did it, I thought I had too much caffeine already!

Actually, I kind of liked it.. though I have no idea why. Gimmicky.
Then, I would like to receive your feedback about a more elaborated concept that I am working on: Egont. The idea is to filter and build your own rules and control your data using a data flow language. Some thoughts on

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http://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/
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Even if you divide it, what do you get, the relativist, existentialist, anti-war and anti-corporate mainstream era contrasted with the full-on acid freak hippie Syd era? Both seem pretty culturally liberal to me.
The key part of that is the line about services and tips. Just being a generous tipper gets you better service, and specially if you are a regular at the same restaurant or bar. 20% by default with an occasional bump up to 25% in tip gets you remembered and the servers get to know you.

I've had such a good relationship at some of my regular restaurants to the point where I once had ups deliver a package to the bar for me when I was out of town. Other places, the staff starts comping your drinks. My best one was the manager at a restaurant giving me a blanket 20% discount on anything I buy (I tip at least 25% after they put in that discount).

In the long run, you get better service if you pay for it.
You are not presumed guilty. But you are found guilty of breaking the new law which comes with a 5 year prison term if you were accused of being involved with terrorism or hiding child porn. Regardless of any evidence.