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"Cauliflower wins APAC-wide ban on Broccoli; Broccolini not covered"
Unfortunately Yahoo is asking for a lot of money to get their code back. So right now it's just the trademark and the domain.
I await the apologetics from the "It's an extremely narrow design patent" camp who claimed that this would never apply to a device even slightly different, physically, from an iPad. Sigh.

Obviously the action itself isn't a big deal in isolation, being against a device that isn't selling much anyway. But it's time to admit to ourselves that Apple is simply a bad actor, and it's only a matter of time before they hurt something for real.
Cool, thanks for the notes. I'll research the password field a bit more, I was going for the increased usability, but security (and perceived security) are important as well.

I'm working on improving the design of the controls, etc, based on some other feedback. It's definitely hand-made, if that's what you're referring to.

Thanks for the good wishes! Glad the video was helpful.
MonoTouch Pro ($399) plus Mono for Android Pro ($399) minus bundle discount ($199.90) = $598.10
You could just tell him you're going to choose steal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8
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Tranfer the Koprol domain and trademark back to the founders - the code they are trying to sell back to the founders...
Your understanding of semantics is a bit hazy. Conversely to the pull quote you grabbed from me any semantic element can be used in a non-semantic way.
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No, Opera and Microsoft are implementing the new syntax too (IE 10 unprefixed and Presto 2.12, which is under development, too).

Hopefully WebKit will follow soon (if somebody has the bug#, I'm interested)
I wouldn't say 'much.' The issue was about as controversial then as it is now. The controversy surrounding the 'Statute of Anne' around that time (being a little loose with 'around') is particularly informative.

Regardless, American 'intellectual property' law (which is the set being applied here) exists explicitly for the public good (that is, it's written into the constitution as such). The authors thereof debated the upsides and downsides of the whole idea quite a lot too, so we have a fair bit of insight into their thought process.
What if you're scraping with ajax? Wouldn't each individual user's IP take the hit and not the domain's IP?
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Just a heads up, I tried to test out your inline "Give it a try below!" but it's not working right now. In the browser console: "GET http://hncomments.nathancahill.com/comments/4285019/html/ 500 (Internal Server Error)"
Being any kind of founder is all about shipping - closing the gap between idea and execution. Melissa learned to code on the side, while running a business, and most importantly, she actually shipped that code.

This isn't about perfect code or Melissa becoming a software developer, it's about a kickass founder doing whatever it takes to see her vision become reality. So much respect for this lady! She is exactly the kind of non-tech founder worth working for.
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Why are you a huge fan of Talentopoly? What does it have that other sites (and there are many similar ones) don't?
However, if I dislike the IT guys, this sounds like an awesome practical joke.
Honestly this is the same argument that has been swirling around Diablo 3 recently regarding their decision to use case insensitive passwords.

The importance of case sensitivity is dramatically overblown. An appropriately long password is still just as safe regardless of case sensitivity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength#Random_passwo...

If you examine the length versus entropy chart you'll notice that you get identical results with only 2 more characters in your password for case insensitive.

http://xkcd.com/936/ also seems relevant.

This really seems like mountain out of a molehill, although I think everyone should get 2 factor authentication whenever it's an option. I don't see any correlation between someone choosing to use caps insensitive passwords and clear text password storage.
I did some work for an ecommerce consultancy a couple of years ago where we were literally looking a a customer's request for "ability for customers to upload photos of themselves wearing our clothing" and saying, "Why isn't there a white box image service?" Now there is.

To those who have not dealt with user-generated media content, it is easy to underestimate the amount of effort involved in building a secure, monitorable system. Building an image grinding pipeline is non-trivial, even though all the open source tools are of high quality. Once users start uploading photos, marketing will realize that they need to be cropped, resized, and enhanced. As soon as your users upload the first pieces of questionable content, you will have to build an image moderation app. Then, you have to build a feature where the user sees his own photos on the site privately when logged in because users hate the lack of immediacy. Then, your marketing people will ask for video. Totally separate pipeline. Then, someone will upload custom-generated 40Kx40k single-color jpgs to see if your image crunching pipeline allows denial of service attacks. Once you get your first upload of child pornography, your legal team will become much more interested and ask how you are ensuring the destruction of these images from all your servers. Now, you'll learn that a reasonable portion of your bandwidth is being used to serve up deep-linked content for sketchy sites. Oh, and other stuff will happen too. Then, you'll see the value of Chute.
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Compound with statements are nice, put this is not a 3.1 feature. This was added in 2.7: http://docs.python.org/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-wit...
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Apple owes a lot of its comeback to hackers and open source advocates. It's good to see them participating.

They certainly need to maintain goodwill with open source hackers to continue succeeding. Their current locked-down culture seems somewhat antithetical.

I would argue however that that same locked-down culture is actual the logical outcome of the security ideal hackers promote.
As a reply to my own comment, amazingly on the last Hypercritical podcast (produced on the same day I made that comment, but I had not had a chance to listen to it yet), John Siracusa discussed this very topic. I finally got to listen to it on the way in to work today. I come to the same conclusions and thoughts on stuff as Siracusa so much it's uncanny.

I was not aware at all that Sparrow was inspired by idea of Letters.app, but I was never a Sparrow user and I'm not a Gmail user.

http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/77 - the podcast itself
http://www.cultofmac.com/82172/sparrow-was-born-from-letters...
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/01/rage-against-the-mail-m...
...Go still has objects. It's not the notion of binding functions to data that's flawed; it's classical inheritance that's flawed.
Here is comparison between original (banned) 10.1 and new 10.1N model that court deemed sufficiently different from iPad - http://i.imgur.com/NhlGO.jpg (top one is 10.1N).
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There's a danger in taking Star Trek too literally; they often break their own rules in order to suit the needs of their plots. That said...

The warp drive rule was a threshold thing. Before a civilization reaches warp drive, they're not supposed to receive any help at all, even with technologies that they've discovered. Once they reach warp drive, then it's time to make first contact and start to tell them about the galactic birds and bees.

Warp drive is a beautifully natural threshold within the Star Trek universe. Unfortunately, in our world today, we don't always have nice boundaries like that. Is trap-disarming for gorillas a threshold event analogous to warp drive, or is it more like a significant but ultimately incremental step in a long journey? I don't think there are any easy answers.
And you could hack this with contextlib.nested before.
"They could work from 9am to 11pm for months."

But how long did they keep this up for? Months-long crunch times popping up for, what, 5 years? Or did they keep this up for 10, 20 years? Burnout and health effects can take years to show up.

I suspect those that do this and keep up the pace move on to more organizational work later on, which isn't the same thing.
Another viewpoint: this guy claims there are about 450 paid apps on the app store that make $30K or more a month gross revenue on the App Store (if they manage to stay at that level for 3 months or so, that is over $100K gross revenue. That easily pays a developer for a year in most of the world)

If I look at http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/title/GBA/all.html, that is about half the total number of games ever made for the Gameboy Advance over a period of 11 years. I do not know that market, but I do not think you will be able to buy over 400 of those today.

From that, I get the impression that the reason it is hard to make big bucks on the App store is that it is highly competitive, not that there is no market.
What if your potential customers demanded risk free pricing? They get to use their software for free till they start seeing value. Would you agree to that? If not, why are you expecting Xamarin to do that for you?

Frankly speaking, if 400$ for a product like MonoTouch is risk for you then you probably shouldn't be developing commercial software which you sell for money.
For the requirements - a heavy but symmetric load over narrow roads - it's a pretty good solution. At least until you have to stop!

Interestingly, trading inherent stability and rigidity for more control effort to give you a lighter more manouverable design is something we have only just "reinvented" with some fighter aircraft (and the Segway ;-)

In spite of having active/computer control systems fro 30years we still do seem to stick to the 19C railway engineering mentality of - build it big/strong/stable/rigid/heavy
"Each version adds meaningless features" This is because the new rapid-release system lets them publish each feature as soon as it is ready. Since big features generally take longer, it's not surprising that each little release has fewer big features.
No, you misunderstand (though I didn't phrase what I meant very clearly). I'm not particularly interested in additional money above my salary, I'd prefer free time. My point is that if you are going to look at things in the light of P&L (and, as a manager, your superiors definitely will be), offering a "carrot" (which is a loathsome metaphor - developers are not donkeys) of less than 3% of the gain to the company is just insulting.
I really like this, thanks for the pointer.
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Aluguer de Carros em Portugal
"No site www.aluguercarros.com.pt pode comparar preços de varias agencias tudo de uma só vez, poupando tempo e dinheiro pois em tempo de crise poupar é a palavra de ordem.
Não só poderá comparar preços do aluguer de carros em Portugal mas também no estrangeiro em mais de 17 000 destinos em mais de 130 países do mundo."
I'll say that 90% of my purchases are done with a credit card.

My financial mentors have taught me that debit cards are a scam and that they're something you don't want to use unless you like getting hit with $30 fees to do $3 transactions. You don't want to use them to check into a hotel, buy gas or buy a rental car.

If you're using a credit card, there's no reason for them to ask that stupid question. If you're using a debit card it gives them a license to screw you two different ways.

I do use debit cards to (i) access my health savings account, and (ii) access my paypal balance, which gives me a pool of "mad money" that I can refresh by selling the things I buy with it.
The course images are almost impossible to read on the blackberry.
Gotta ask - how often does it come to this for you and do you actually manage to collect these penalties?
It's not that straightforward to create your own context manager, and creating a correct generic wrapper for the use case of composing multiple context managers is even harder (as demonstrated by the woes of contextlib.nested).

And if you're going to create a custom "composed" context manager every single time, you're probably better off just nesting `with` statements.
And Thunderbolt is already dangerous, given that it's essentially just serialised PCI Express (so you've got a free view into RAM).
I saw that video. That's what made me think of my idea. But mine removes the possibility that I might be holding out on "split" and I think has a better chance of guaranteeing we both split the money.
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This is definitely a great look into all the things we are working on and trying to manage.

Thanks for sharing your insights, definitely a great help in understanding why user-generated media has been very difficult for brands and agencies to leverage so far.
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> and it causes various oddities elsewhere in math.

Could someone elaborate? First, explain the one example from the article (cos(355)) and perhaps show some other oddities?
Totally! That's why I'm not suggesting anyone do it now. There's a place for kludgy solutions, but not until you've tried everything else.
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It's one thing to set up your own straw man and then knock him down, it's quite another when your enemy is actually made of straw.
Oracle objects to paying Google's costs owing to "landmark legal issues"
You claim cross-platform apps, but then you have two development packages. Mono for iOS and Mono for Android. If I develop on Mono for iOS can I take the exact same code and plop it down on the Android version?
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interesting implementation. I really liked the idea of just building a restful interface that people could plug into however they wanted to.
I've found the same thing. On occasion, I'll waive the 50% upfront deposit (or reduce it dramatically). I also don't have any penalty terms; they're a waste of time. If a client is not going to pay on time, they're certainly not going to pay the penalty %age if and when they do pay. Weekly communication is key. And, if you do end up with a client who won't pay, or consistently pays >30days late, you're better off without them. Fire them, politely, and explain why - then move on. There's no need to punish them - there is a great need to get the hell away from them.
If I single handedly write a piece of SW that does "X" and sell it to Yahoo. Can I then make a new site / app that dose "X"?

One example that comes to mind is Miller Puckette, who wrote Max, and then a few years later wrote its main open-source competitor, Pure Data. It seems quite possible to write a clone of your own software without literally writing the same thing, especially if it's been a few years and you have some new ideas about how to do it now. My guess is that doing so would most often be sunk, if it is, by software patents or explicit clauses in the sale terms, rather than copyright.
6.00x looks more theoretical and might teach you more computer science.

CS50x looks less theoretical and more of a survey of different programming languages and patterns. It's a good "get up and running in several different ways" class.
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Re: Distribution:

There was a satirical post to lwn.net about a month ago that asked whether or not the US Navy would need to pack a CD into missiles that contained GPL software so that the target of the missile would get a copy of the source code when it was "delivered" to them(http://lwn.net/Articles/501536/ ).
I'm no juggling pro but I've held conversations with people while juggling (3 balls). I don't think it clears my mind, but it does force me to focus the conversation or thoughts more precisely.
I converted all the html from the zip file to markdown, if anyone cares. It's on github.

https://github.com/bradfa/MIL-STD-498
edX's software seems much higher quality than Coursera's at this point, so I can see why Berkeley would want to port their course to work on that platform as well.

(My opinion based on having done the MITx Circuits & Electronics, and Game Theory and Cryptography from Coursera.)
Thanks for the piece. Reading the comments made me cringe.
Better way to add Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and any other external scripts
Despite the numbering, 2.7 was released a year after 3.1. It added a bunch of features that helped compatibility with 3.x.
That's great - Thanks Rich and Stu :-)

I am using Datomic on a friend's project right now. We will certainly use the Pro version, but a free edition will help promote the platform.
Having a slow typing speed still means that one spends a lot of time typing, rather than doing other things, even if one can still accomplish the same mental processes without having to record it "live".
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It was a feature to both. Check the same document for the 3.1 release (and the What's New).
We run around 400 VMs across 44 (big scary) servers and I find that VMware only exists as a cop out for bad planning and bad architecture, albeit more cost effective than fixing it. It also shoots you periodically like 2Tb LUN size on our vSphere meaning we had to introduce mega-frigs to breach a 2Tb filesystem like NTFS links and sharding. 2Tb isn't much.

I think most enterprises are using as a big sticky plaster.
No, but your backend code is the same.

I'm using MonoTouch and Mono for Android for some game development right now. My per-platform projects are five to six classes apiece (all but one pushed into my IoC container by the last one), and everything else is shared. Obviously, for a non-game application, you'll have more, but they'll be mostly UI-based.
Not quite, but close. I get the delta as one part in 2^21.8. The mantissa of a IEEE float is 24 bits (including the leading one).
The problem is it's no better than C - the correct way is to return sum types, either values or errors. A good language would statically check that any returned values are only used when there are no errors, preventing invalid values being accessed.

This requires some flow analysis, but brings real benefit and safety.
It is perhaps more useful when a mistake is corrected with a reply/comment, than with a down-vote.

Doing so gets people to read both. Besides in the absence of the original comment (incorrect as it may be), the followups lose context.

Reserve down votes for opinions that do not deserve a reply. Such as pure trolling.
What would be the worst that could happen then if I'd just ignore it and decide to never visit the US again nor sell anything to the US again?
"I would argue however that that same locked-down culture is actual the logical outcome of the security ideal hackers promote."

Why do you say that? It sounds like you're suggesting that "security through obscurity" is the logical end goal, but that seems to be at complete odds with the normal "full disclosure" mode most security researchers promote.
Great article, but i don't really understand the last paragraph about games and social media, and the correlation between usefulness and self-fulfillment. Especially the part where games = crack = bad.
Nice work, this is pretty cool! I've been working on a similar approach but using Github (mainly because I host my blog there using Jekyll). I'll try and get it released tonight :)
If only he could have gotten a bunch of the free waffles the Young Pirates in Sweden were just giving away. He could have made a killing!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4279118

Who would have thought... two waffle stories so close together.
Also keep in mind the length of the course. CS50X is 6 months long while 6.00X is just over 3 months long.
Interesting. Can you explain how the command works? I did look at the commandlinefu API page but didn't get it. I know UNIX and also specifically what "$@" means in UNIX but didn't get the meaning of the two uses of it in the commandlinefu URL you show, nor what the openssl part does.
Berkeley's presence on both coursera and EdX is an interesting wrinkle -- they've got a quote in another article suggesting they can't control where their professors to decide to put their content:
“Ultimately, our faculty will decide where they want to put courses up online, but we find that edX has values and methodologies very closely aligned with ours at Berkeley, so our institutional preference would be to use edX,” said Robert J. Birgeneau, the chancellor of Berkeley.
Still a very reasonable price below many component vendors put there.
OS X has a useful Network Link Conditioner utility. It has built-in profiles such as lossy 3G connection, average wifi connection, good wifi connection etc.
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I am skeptical of this as it gets applied in consumerist Western societies. It's all too easy to become the same ego you were before, only now with a spiritual varnish. In my observation, there is a lot of rationalization around this. When you have no roots in a tradition, it's easy to twist it to be whatever you feel it should be. Typically it turns into an accoutrement. George Westerholm brilliantly summarized this as "Does Taoism make me look fat?"
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Why is no one calling out the blatant marketing bull shit that this is? This is not a news site, it's a place for YC to whore out their shitty founders.
The syntax seems very similar to Lisp's with-open-file macro.
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Hope your friend's project will give us a chance to meet in person. I have enjoyed you blog.
Top comments in a thread frame discussion - if the top comment in a thread is a conspiracy theory, then it's likely that the entire discussion will be derailed. For that reason, I think it's valid to downvote such comments, to prevent them from derailing the discussion.
Well I was imagining some kind of ajax thing that validated fields on the fly as the user filled them in.

Validation is non-trivial for many fields. For example almost no-one implements email validation correctly as per the RFC because it's hard to get right, and most people just use a hacky regex that ends up accepting invalid emails and rejecting valid ones.

Or with credit card validation, many places don't validate credit card numbers (i.e doing the validation checksum, checking if the card is a mastercard that it's got the mastercard prefix) before sending them to the card processor site. If the card processing services rejects the card and the user has to re-enter the card details, chance are they won't bother and you've lost yourself a sale. If you validated for obvious mistakes on-the-fly (i.e user sees error immediately) you wouldn't lose as many of those customers.

You could also do things like supplementing the user supplied data, say the user supplies an address you could automatically geocode it and put it in a hidden field for the website.
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