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This is a good idea in theory but potentially bad in execution.

What I'd like (and I suspect many other developers would too) is a nice laptop that I can install Linux on, and have it Just Work.

What it looks like Dell is providing is a nice laptop, but with a custom build of Ubuntu installed. If Dell's Windows installs are any indication, that means it's going to be loaded with crapware or custom non-OSS drivers. This is just speculation, but the fact that you can't dual-boot Windows on it is a big hint. Who knows what crapware they're going to load up on it, and then you'll be tied to their special brand of Ubuntu if you want upgrades or support.

What Dell should do instead is work with hardware manufacturers to iron out Linux driver bugs for just one nice laptop. Then sell that laptop with a stock Ubuntu build and let developers go to town. I'd pay a lot of money for something like that. Instead, today I have to buy a cheap Dell laptop, install Ubuntu, and deal with the driver headaches that exist to this day. (And don't tell me Linux is a magical fairy land because it Works For You, because it doesn't Just Work for me. It hasn't for years and it still doesn't today.)
You are basically suggesting (I think) widespread availability of drug clinics giving people methadone or the equivalent?

I think that's not a bad idea on its own, but I'm not sure it really gets at the core of drug users who really don't want to get off drugs, or don't want to be put on a schedule.

Unless perhaps you are suggesting the clinics would just be open 24x7, giving out fixes as desired, without pushing people to get clean?
As long as you're using the tools provided, you're doing your due diligence. The framework provides a lot, and the ecosystem usually provides the rest.

The "last mile" is just making sure your code is using all those tools correctly.
It's interesting you use the word "extortion".

This is not illegal, so it's not "extortion".

(I'm just playing devil's advocate here, trying to better understand our collective reasoning)
You should've put a </sarcasm> tag in the end ;)
I'd also recommend Curlish (http://packages.python.org/curlish/). It performs nice JSON highlighting and also handles OAuth 2.0 token authentication.

It simply wraps curl(1), so all of the familiar arguments and recipes continue to work just fine, as well.
Just donated 50 euro to wikileaks and 50 lbs to Assange.
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That is what the Utah DC is for.

But if we really believe that, and we believe the nation will further slide in a fascist state then we probably shouldn't say _anything_ online or over the phone.
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The idea is to make it your browser's default search since lots of people (the majority?) search from the browser search bar or omnibar.

Edit: you could also add this to Alfred. Alfred supports custom searches ( http://blog.alfredapp.com/2011/04/14/alfred-productivity-tip...) so you can just use http://www.duckduckgoog.com?q=SEARCH as the custom URL and replace SEARCH with the token that Alfred expects
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"Good bikers wearing yellow jackets and helmets"

The yellow jacket is really only useful in low-light conditions. Bright flashing lights are a much better form of identification than this, imho, and it's one piece of safety equipment nobody in DC ever seemed to own, though their fashionable bike safety apparel was quite solid.

I find that "road conduct" is not something most bikers have until they've been hit by a couple cars. At that point they become aware of the fact that cars either don't see them or ignore them, and they become much safer cyclists.
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No, the factors that lead to my decision (and ultimately: a better daily life)

- I hate the traffic in Tel Aviv. It works, it's bearable, but coming from a German Autobahn it's just messy, slow, loud and unpredictable

- I had the fortune of choosing an apartment with an excellent connection to work (and < 100m away from the beach), by accident (I didn't explore the way to work before signing the apartment contract)

- Lots of light, warm weather 11 month of the year (locals would disagree, I've seen gas powered heaters outside of restaurants when it was 18-20 degrees aka "t-shirt and shorts" weather), rain only in 1-2 month of the year: Perfect for bikes

- There _is_ no usable public transportation, so bikes are actually quite important and well-used (taxis are ~cheap~ and there are bus lines, but those won't run on shabbat and are .. special)
I would love if every web app went through proper threat modeling periodically. But we're in a fast-moving industry, and that takes time. Sometimes people need to ship and do it now, or yesterday. I'm aiming to help by helping people cover the basics and reduce the surface area of attack.

Maybe it's worth adding that the basics are just the basics, not a substitute for real threat modeling and analysis. But there's always a real-world cost/benefit factor.
I am so with you on this. I actually bought the PGM book about a year before PGMClass but just stalled out in chapter 5. Without some kind of externally enforced schedule for learning I'm hopeless.
thanks for the link, dagrz
Ah, great idea. I'll put that at the top of the todo list. Thanks for the feedback!
Here is the press release with further information, video and images:

http://www.uni-kiel.de/aktuell/pm/2012/2012-212-aerographit-...

Interesting potential for batteries (quoted from above link):

"Due to its unique material characteristics, Aerographite could fit onto the electrodes of Li-ion batteries. In that case, only a minimal amount of battery electrolyte would be necessary, which then would lead to an important reduction in the battery's weight. This purpose was sketched by the authors in a recently published article. Areas of application for these small batteries might be electronic cars or e-bikes. Thus, the material contributes to the development of green means of transportation."
While you make a good point, your end number is wildly inaccurate.

1) I highly doubt the NSA is buying $100 dollar low grade hard drives. I bet this data is backed up at least twice per site, at multiple sites.

2) The data is not unstructured, it will be structured in some sort of database. Storing your facebook photos alone will be potentially hundreds of megabytes.

3) I doubt NSA is spending it's entire budget every year on hard drives.
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It wasn't "built". Almost all of it was already there. If was made into a route, had an orange line painted on it and (sometimes this seems like the most important part when dealing with bicycle projects in Denmark) marketed heavily.

One of the comments on the linked danish article is a woman who says she's been doing that commute for years - a long a different route that is shorter and worked very well for her, so she doesn't really see the point.
I wrote a blog post that explains my point of view, it's linked to at the beginning of this thread.
He wasn't joking. "Quill and ink" was a Microsoft prototype tablet.
You do if you do not want to be removed from the bench.

Judges who make explicit statements that indicate they cannot be impartial in a case currently before them but who do not remove themselves from such cases usually find themselves disrobed and disbarred for violating their ethical duties of impartiality. (UK standards are different from US standards, but the duty of impartiality is generally the same.)

Saying that the US is "the enemy" is pretty much as close as you can get to revealing an inability to be impartial.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4256801
That's true. Design is a process and a complicated one too. It's very hard to just buy 1 unit of design. That's precisely why many designers prefer to work on projects, rather than per hour. Once you've settled on a project and set the price, the complexity goes away.
Storing the text is easy - deciding what text is relevant enough to store is hard.
I'm curious what kind of sensitive information you're concerned about exposing. I don't mind deploying with rsync--in fact, I'll do it quite a lot when the remote host lacks git--but I'd usually prefer to use git where possible.

I typically deploy with a similar setup that you described, but instead of rsync'ing the files locally I just make a clone of the repo and serve that. Though it is another step to fetch/merge, it stops me from losing any changes that someone did to production without telling me.

I only recently used Capistrano to deploy a project and it was very satisfying, so I'm gravitating towards that as my default deployment method.
they provide an iso that will Just Work(tm) on their 13 inch ultrabook today.

They look nice, maybe you should get one.
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What if every sentence began with - "Hypothetically speaking"
How will that work as a defense?
It would interesting if Groupon gave us insights into which email clients their customers use?
This is a fair point. It does sort of depend on what you're interviewing for after all. If you are going to added to the web developer pool its not as important. But if you're going to be in an engineering leadership position, like tech lead, then you need to know not only how the web stuff works but also programming for things like the back end databases and such so that when one team says "we're going to rewrite the business logic that is fronting the back end in Erlang, it's going to be so cool!" You have some chance of knowing if that is a good idea or not :-)
I was looking for something like this a while back and found a useful firefox plugin called Poster (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/poster/). It's useful for testing a RESTful api without creating any front-end code to handle the requests. Or anything you can do with cURL just simpler.
Sounds like he's already rich from his investments and he cashed out from investments in his own companies.
Judging from appearance alone (which isn't much to go on, admittedly), it seems like the device could have been a hit in 2004. Likely the OS and other software was nowhere close to where it needed to be, but it's interesting to imagine where we'd be like right now if the tablet wars started in 2004 (or if Apple had launched then and totally failed).
The UI for curl is awful (--request to change the method??) and wget's is only slightly better, but they do have the advantage of ubiquity, and it's often useful to email/Skype complete curl or wget command lines about the place to explain how to use an API, or demonstrate problems.

(e.g. Stripe and others document their API in terms of curl commands: https://stripe.com/docs/api.)

I do wish the curl UI was better, but I can't see it being trivially replaced. (It's a similar issue with git: bad UI, but every git question and answer is described in terms of the CLI, so even if you prefer a GUI client, say, you still need to be able to formulate your problem in CLI terms for anyone on stackoverflow to understand you.)
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"Today, we are launching the world’s first social network for data visualization"

Doesn't IBM's Many Eyes deserve that title?

(http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/)
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That's not funny, that's just sad.
See the other reply I did: I didn't want to own/use a car in the Tel Aviv traffic (both because of jams, lack of parking and the general madness on the streets). Riding a bike was very common among my friends and coworkers there and while I was living there a couple of big bicycle projects were completed (for example the whole promenade from the north of Tel Aviv to Yafo is now having a nice special bike lane).

Yep, there are lots of issues still, but I think that Tel Aviv is actually a decent place to bike (try not to get killed on the roads..) and constantly improving.

Cologne is - worse (bike lanes suck, underground that actually runs overground in places, on the street -> dangerous for bikes because you can easily end up in the tracks, usually rainy and some time of the year brings ice and potentially snow, work places aren't used to offer a shower because .. no one needs one).
Once in a blue moon you may be able to get a decent design from 99, but if you browse around their site (which has been made really hard lately), most of the work is of mediocre quality. I doesn't do "design" justice.
Don't most keyloggers also log mouse clicks, along with their location?

I've seen UI's where the keyboard/number pad has the location of the characters randomized, which looked like a good way of solving that problem.
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Shit guys I do this in America. Delegate the work to the waiter by telling her you want to split the checks up front. Problem solved.
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Why can't I just get any computer with no operating system installed whatsoever. This isn't rocket science here, just format the hard drive and give me the computer. Then subtract the money you pay Microsoft for the windows license. If there is some contractual obligation Dell has with Microsoft to not do this then we need to start considering another round of antitrust proceedings.
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I can change my search target without retyping my query. I agree with most of your post but this part doesn't seem like an advantage. If I have my own list of search engines in FF, I can just pick a new one from the drop-down without even typing the name of each engine.
Yes, that's why I quite carefully said, "Every year, the NSA COULD..."

Emphasis on the COULD. It's to emphasize how cheap storage is, and how relatively few U.S. Citizens there are. In our day-to-day lives, we think 311 Million is an enormous number. But in the scale of computing, it's actually quite small.

My real point is: storing the data is no longer a challenge. If you want someone (businesses, governments, etc.) to not store data about every citizen of the U.S., you need laws, regulations, and checks and balances.
You could even streamline it a bit, by having a 'previous' branch that you automatically sync with the previous tag on deploy. So if something goes wrong you can always just `git checkout previous`.
So the guy who orders more expensive items or more items pays for the whole bill more often then that? Sorry joe, you owe me for your entree whether or not I had 2 beers
How did you get the H1-B visa?
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I'm posting from one of their old ones right now, and I hope they do a better job this time. Bug city last time, and took a lot of work and a lot of time to pass (and a switch to Debian unstable) to make it completely workable.

I don't know how you ship laptops where the headphone jacks don't work and every update borks the sound completely unless you want them to fail. Did they not have anybody actually turn one on before selling them on their website?
The horrific repercussions of loudly proclaiming the obvious are completely nullified by the near universal preference for comfortable illusions. Don't worry, be happy :)
If you had the NSA's budget, you probably wouldn't need to decide what text is relevant to store.
For example, as a direct result of Wikileaks, Iranian Majid Jamali Fashi was executed by Tehran for his role in disrupting the Iranian nuclear program. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-han....

Your link does not mention wikileaks at all. The closest I could find was a HuffPost article citing "experts" saying that Wikileaks could be responsible as someone with a "vaguely similar description" was implicated in one of the cables.
I think my ex-girlfriend studied under this Richelieu guy.
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For the record, I'd be surprised if mine is less than five years old.
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Gosh I love these guys for doing this. Seriously, there is some broken law here in the name of 'war powers' and frankly as a citizen it really annoys me. I understand the argument that in a time of war, extraordinary measures may be justified in order to insure the survival of the state, but neither the 'war on terror' nor the 'war on drugs' counts any more. In my opinion, these are criminal enforcement activities, not 'wars'. As such they should be fully constrained by the limits imposed by the constitution regarding due process.
From the paper [1]: "The concept's particular strength, however, lies in the following property: within the same processing steps, many epitaxial graphene transistors can be connected by graphene strip lines (the interface from contact graphene to gate graphene is electrically transparent) along with graphene resistors and graphene/SiC Schottky diodes (Fig. 2b), and therefore complex circuits can be built up. As a special feature of graphene in contrast to semiconductors, we anticipate that even a complete logic is feasible."

[1] http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n7/full/ncomms1955.h...
If by "for humans" you mean "for programmers who mostly use JSON". I have to say I'm not sending JSON with cURL too often, compared to any other payload. And when I do send JSON it's more complex than a flat set of keys and values.
In the video (from the article), they wafted up and down between the static-magnetic pull of a wand and the pull of gravity. But they don't stay in the air for long.
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Replace 'client that users install' with 'prebuilt targets for all major mobile+desktop platforms', and you've got Zipline's Moai: http://getmoai.com/
Using the same logic as is being used in the prosecution of Bradley Manning: supplying copies of diplomatic cables to Wikileaks is knowingly "aiding the enemy", a capital crime, thus giving money to Wikileaks is "aiding the enemy".

So if you are a US citizen, what chance do you think there will be that you will be prosecuted for treason if you donate to Wikileaks?

Note: I am not expressing an opinion here, merely following the logic of the recent court case against Bradley Manning.

And if you doubt the link between supplying mere money (as opposed to information) and aiding a terrorist organisation, note that an Icelandic bank was declared a terrorist organisation by the UK Govt:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7688560.stm

Also recall that US senators have in the past called for Wikileaks to be branded a terrorist organisation:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333879/WikiLeaks-te...
I'm totally with you on fear of lockin, but for what it's worth, this particular case is basically the opposite of lock-in.

You can, at any time, switch away to CentOS, Scientific Linux, or Red Hat (if you're willing to write the check) and not have to totally reinvent your stack from scratch, since they're all binary-compatible.
Right. This might interest you as well, then:

http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/07/17/hackberry-allwinner-a...
I wrote a similar one for chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cdjfedloinmbppobah...
I've seen randomized images bypassed by simply taking a screenshot in conjunction with logging keyboard and mouse actions.
Bias legally means having sufficient strong views of a legal interpretation or party that these views override the judge's ability to impartially apply the law to the specific facts of a given case.

The "pro-copyright" judges are not biased--they are simpy following the law, which currently holds that copyrights are legal and provides (some draconian) mechanisms for enforcing copyrights. If there are problems, it is not the judges--it is the law.

In the U.S., at least, judges are not allowed to be publicly politically active (except to the extent of their own campaigns for judicial office), or to lobby for political causes at all, though they are allowed to maintain private political views. No copyright lobbyist is a judge, though a few former judges may be copyright lobbyists.

This is not a one way street. The enemy of freedom is not the judicial system; quite often, the judiciary is the primary defender of your freedoms.
If you are doing cURL calls as a part of testing functionality, you may want to consider using a tool like Frisby.js ( http://frisbyjs.com/ ) to create a suite of automated tests that involve HTTP calls.
Did you read the article? This is about autocompletion and automatic Google Instant searches, not removing anyone from the index. As with the huge list of terms that are currently "censored" (including every adult-oriented term they could think of), you just have to type the word without autocomplete and press enter to see the results.

In any case, suing the government for anti-competitive behavior doesn't really make any sense. Governments have much wider powers of regulation than businesses do, and for good reason. You could try a free speech lawsuit, but it'd depend on your country's free speech laws. One potential snag is that in the scenario you described, it's not really YOUR speech that's being restrained, but Google's.
> ... I can revert back to CentOS or SL ...

It looks like this script is one way as well. Joel provided good advice ages ago - make sure people can switch away again: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html
This is a terrible idea - incredibly easy to bruteforce, among other things. You now have effectively a two-character password, and even though those characters rotate based on a different set of criteria, the number of valid possibilities is still limited by the length of the full password.

Yes, it also means they're storing your full password in some sort of reversible format. We can't be sure it's plaintext, but given their roll-your-own approach to security that's probably the case. I understand that they're trying to cut back on the damage a keylogger can do and I commend them for that, but they've lowered the overall security of the site in attempt to increase the security in a corner case. More to the point, if a keylogger is installed, the whole system is compromised which means they'll eventually get the entire password even if it's only a couple of letters at a time.

The only effective solution to this problem is real two-factor authentication. Not this password plus "is this your image?" or "security question" crap that a lot of banks employ: that's two-step, one-factor authentication (both are things you know), but a real second factor based on something you have (RSA token, etc.) or something you are (eg. biometrics, which is obviously impractical on the web)
For some people, a slight amount of boredom or free time will sometimes lead to new ideas that previously weren't thought of. There's a lot of problems that can be solved with the thinking "It would be really cool if..."

This of course depends on how internally motivated the person is. There are some people that always need to have a task.
I doubt Congress can even effectively subpoena for that kind of information.
It's not meant to be an insult on cURL. cURL is a great library/tool and supports way more than HTTP, but the command line interface simply isn't as convenient for common HTTP as it could be. The "for humans" slogan is borrowed from the underlying python-requests library and is meant to communicate that good UX is one of the top priorities of the project. Glad you like it!
I'm not looking for a 'kick ass' file system... ZFS does have some features I am interested in though, and I would appreciate having it made available to me somehow.

I was going to leave you alone about the 'messaging' aspects of your post, but now I'll point out that your reply exhibits a similar tone.