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I do. I split my time between firmware and desktop apps. I work for a small company of about 5 people. Before that I worked at a larger company, but was the sole developer of an Audio Recording app. I also worked on speaker modelling and configuration apps. All the apps I've worked on recently have very small user bases and tend to be part of a larger system.
I find putting the primary DNS on my router to by my ISPs, and the second to be a 8.8.4.4, etc, type one to be a nice compromise.
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I have the same problem, GIMP is not particularly intuitive.
The other issue is that it's possible to find thousands of tutorials online in how to do pretty much anything in Photoshop, but not so much with GIMP.

GIMP needs to decide between trying to be a full photoshop replacement, or deciding to worry less about features and make itself super intuitive for graphics newbies.
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...but TW does. So they don't really give a rat's ass.
I admit that Zerigo was first to spoil me with a simple interface, but I came to DNSimple from there because of all the extra labor-saving features it has. I figure I get back at least 1-2 weeks of my life every year as a result of being a 100% DNSimple shop.
I don't think that Kuhn described this process as "flawed". He was an historian wo revealed for us a pattern that often plays itself out in actuality, where for scientific progress to continue, the proponents of the current orthodoxy have to grow old and retire, in order to allow the new paradigm in. This process is completely different from what we are typically taught.

Also, what was not so apparent pre-Kuhn is that proponents of the new paradigm were often forced out of the field altogether if the time was not yet right.

To conclude that this means that science is "flawed" is a value judgement. But it certainly means that it is not an idealized puck on a frictionless plain.
Really. And do you think the CIA is auditing Blackwater's books, and tracking all of its operatives? Or are we just taking their word for it?
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Looks like the same thing but just in Chrome... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
I know there's much love for DNSimple, but this is the first time that I can remember when the top comment of an X is down post is a competitor essentially posting an advert with no insight on the OP.
And it's down, here's a cached link for everyone else: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yjYTJSo...
The thing I like the best is the live preview URLs, especially across devices. I caught one of your live demos of this recently, and was blown away.

What's the library/service you're using to do this? I recall finding a reference in the JSBin source, but please remind us. I would love to get live previewing working in my web design web application, Edit Room, which also has shareable review links. (link in profile).
I'm pretty sure it's a useless question. You can use debit cards as credit cards and vice versa.
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People who charge $150+/hour are rarely working 8 (billable) hours a day.
The charge is that he had consensual sex with these women and prosecutors decided it was "rape" because they didn't use protection. Weeks after the fact, when they wanted him for other reasons. They aren't even claiming that it wasn't consensual.

Thus the only thing I wonder about this case is how can anyone pretend like this is a legitimate warrant?

Everyone consented, there was no crime. Forget about who Assange is, or that this came up after he became very famous, or that the US might be trying to extradite him. None of that matters- there isn't even an alleged crime here[1].

[1] I'm using the word "crime" here in the moral sense. There are lots of things that are not crimes but that are against the law. Since governments are not beholden to morality, laws that cause the violation of rights are themselves crimes. So, something simply being illegal doesn't make it a crime.
Some of zipcar's policies make me feel that they are just using the word community to lower their operational costs rather than actually believing in it. Eg

a) If the person ahead of you is late, zipcar will not automatically give you an extension for the time lost because you got the car late. They will if you call them, but not by default.
b) They charge a late fee because the person next in line is being inconvenienced. How about splitting the late fee with the person being inconvenienced?
c) If you have a zipcar plan where you prepay then getting money out when you cancel the service used to be problematic as of 2 years ago.
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This article article is ridiculous. He acts as if alternative energy sources must be cheaper than our current energy sources to be worthwhile. Of course alternative energy sources cost less, if they didn't we wouldn't be having this discussion. There would not be much of a need to worry about co2 emissions.

But in fact we do live in a world where co2 emissions are an issue. The author more or less acknowledges this and then simply ignores it. What exactly is he proposing as an alternative? Nothing. If we are to avoid the worst effects of global warming we're going to have to pay a price.

Furthermore he then goes on to completely paper over the fact that costs have been dropping significantly. The numbers that he sites for solar prices come from here:
http://www.solarbuzz.com/facts-and-figures/retail-price-envi...

Solar module prices have dropped 50% over the last decade. Working backward from the numbers on solarbuzz that would mean that a residential scale system's price has dropped 25%.

And by cherry picking the prices for a residential scale installation (28.9 / 63.1 cents per kwh) he ignores the fact that industrial scale systems are much closer to parity. The price for these systems is half of that 15.15 / 33.3. And these numbers have been declining. While the age of mass scale decentralized solar generation may not be here yet, the age of solar may be here much sooner than the author would like to admit.
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>I don't have 46 minutes to spare on a strong headline, but I will say this

I can't be assed to properly asses the situation so let me give you my uneducated opinion. Fix'd
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Really nice format. I've been using backbone for over a year and knew exactly how the code was going to end up but my understanding of 'why' is better after reading it, which is a really the most import question to answer. I hope this style catches on, maybe the format could be called a Why-To :)
I tried to add some insight on another comment, but it's tough to say anything about DDoS that hasn't already been said. DDoS attacks suck, mitigating them requires a multi-prong approach and proactive monitoring and agressive banning and even then you can still be screwed if your bandwidth is saturated.

I feel for the operational folks at Zerigo - dealing with this type of outage is hard. The best thing they can do at this point is get back on Twitter and talk to their customers - the last post was 4 hours ago - that's a lifetime when your system is critical.
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Your pricing looks amazing - but it looks like you had an outage this morning too. Can you talk about that?
We're a small knit crew at [Docudesk](http://www.docudesk.com), we make PDF software, and we're doing some other things in the cloud now as the market does seem to be on the decline.
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As others have said, thanks, really great tutorial. I don't know whether i'm going to go all the way to backbone (maybe?), but wherever i stop i'll have better, more maintainable JS.

I also have a quick question; why from the 'Creating a view' section, why do we have:

var NewStatusView = function(options) {
var statuses = options.statuses;
...

new NewStatusView({ statuses: statuses });

instead of just calling `NewStatusView(statuses)` and having `var NewStatusView = function(statuses){` ??
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Great comments, thanks!
The video shows how the first woman even accompanied him to other events the next couple of days or so and tweeted about it. That doesn't exactly sound like what a woman who was "sexually assaulted", let alone raped, would do. And he slept at her place again after that, too.
> The only way I could remove the monthly modem rental fee in my order online was to view the code on Time Warner’s site and edit a hidden part of the HTML for the appropriate checkbox to be visible. I’ve never had to ‘hack’ an order form before.

I guess the "appropriate checkbox" was greyed out (no way I believe people are looking at the html in case there would be an hidden checkbox), then the author used firebug or something to make it visible and then submitted the form hoping the server on the other side is going to do something with the $post variable. Not that tricky but there is no way to confirm it's going to work as intended.
IANAL but I raise doubts about the legal validity of such tamperings with web forms.
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And there is Feynman's point that it is less embarrassing to prove yourself wrong, especially if you can do it before you publish.
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If they seek to find out who "Bill" is, my hope is that they use the opportunity to properly outfit a man who could benefit from decent tools; in the end it would reflect well on their own bottom line.
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Certainly. Its here:

http://donohoe.io/img/misc/cease-and-desist.png

I should add that in the end it was handled amicably and we came to a compromise on some of the original requests (dribbble etc.)
As requested, marked NSFW. It will be interesting to see if the mods change it back, or to something else.
Seems like if you are serious about mitigating this type of issue (as a consumer), you really should be specifying name servers from different providers. Your primary DNS server can be from dnsimple/zerigo/dnsmadeeasy and your secondary can be route53, or you could run your own.

The only problem seems to be keeping them in sync. Seems like you'd have to poll the primary (using whatever API it exposes) to update the secondary.

Mostly thinking out loud, surely someone more experienced could provide better guidance?
Oh, sorry, I am not uneducated. I have read a great deal of accounts on this issue back when the charges were first leveled. I have heard the story from both sides in interviews, saw the tweets, looked into the charges and the law itself.

I have no idea whether this program is good or not, but there is a key point about the situation, and I made it.

I find it interesting that you assume that because I didn't watch this particular program I'm "uneducated".... yet you have no problem giving me that derogatory characterization without actually showing where I was in error on anything I said.

This isn't reddit. Yet.
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A better question is "Why does Google lobby so little?". Given the payback, lobbying is a very efficient way of companies to influence the markets that they play in.
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Please don't write a (top-level) comment if you don't have time to read the article.

EDIT: The parent comment has now been edited to remove the original starting sentence: "I don't have 46 minutes to spare on a strong headline, but I will say this...".
Am I right in guessing these types of apps can only be supplied to users through the Chrome store?

If so, then: No. thank. you.

I will just never, ever, ever, EVER build software that needs to go through some sort of "approval process", unless I'm being paid a lot of money to do so. The fact that some dweeb at google has ultimate power to simply reject all my hard work, or even worse, approve it first and then remove it at a later time, barring all my users from accessing the app, all without me having ANYTHING to say about it is just fascist and wrong. I would never work under such a system (App Store, Windows Store, Chrome Store, etc...)

I need to be free to provide my application by any method I want, that includes a download link anywhere on the internet that lets users install the app when they want, if they want, however they want, without fear of some overlord stepping in and banning the app.
I've gradually started passing a hash instead when I expect the number of arguments to increase, which I do for constructors (I hate reading code and not understand the arguments in a function call). But also, it made the change over to Backbone views easier and less "magic".
I think that's far. I mostly posted because I don't want people to believe that $5k is the most you could get for this project.

There are infinite ways you could add a ton of value to this project that would be worth more than $5k. Automating the data retrieval and plugging it into mechanical turk for verification, being able to critique or comment on the deeper meaning of the change in colors. Or even online marketing to get the backlinks for a business could potentially be worth $10k.
This is all a terrible idea and it will fragment the Internet as we know it. The internet is not a budget strip-mall of different low grade outlets; it's more an orchard full of fruit you can discover and pick at will from millions of trees.

What people have invented is HTML applications, much as Microsoft promoted in the early 00's with some marketing and store ceremony around them.

Also, let's look at NaCl while we're here: it's basically a modern version of ActiveX.

Then we had silverlight, which was glorified Flash for LOB applications and could be out-of-browser. I wonder how long it'll be before Google invent that again.

All those are dead, and for a good reason.

Microsoft even sees that these approaches are just bad and has pushed away from them heavily recently apart from in the desktop and mobile space where they are 100% REQUIRED.

As far as their integration goes now, you can pin sites to the taskbar and there is no massive ceremony or framework around it - it's just a glorified bookmark.

Just because Google packages it up and throws it into the fad browser of the day, don't assume it's not the same golden turd that we've all hated in the past.

George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Personal anecdote: I literally just asked while on the phone with the recruiter for negotiating for a six-month contract last year in NYC. At the time, I was getting about $67K.

Recruiter: "Our client is offering $45/hr for the position, what do you think of the offer?"

Myself: "How close to $50/hr can we get?"

Recruiter: "He can do $50/hr."

That was all it took, and that was the discussion about it verbatim. It's hard when you're already in the position and you have to negotiate a higher raise with your boss because you need to prove you're worth it by performance(and whether or not you meet their metrics, etc etc), but in the interview process, that's how it went for me.
I'm interested in that too, but I guess it depends on the type of company probably and the type of sales? I know some commission driven sales in a services companies definitely killing people rapidly by selling insane amounts of work and then throwing it over the fence. You need a very strong account/pm to counteract this if you want to not die and keep clients happy at the same time.

For products I have seen sales guys adding features because the client asks and the doing this with the founder's permission because 'that big client we cannot miss'. Resulting in misery for the rest of the staff.
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The eventual settling on teal and orange is interesting. I'm curious what the feedback loop was that told the marketing department "this is what will make more money". It seems such a subtle thing, and I would think red (as an alarming color) or green (as the color we see best) would end up figuring more prominently.
This is why, to run an open wireless network, you should use WPA2 and provide the password in the SSID.
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...everyone is chasing the same few attributes in potential employees, one of which is already having expert skills at X thing they want to do.

I've never worked at a place that did this (unless "X thing they want to do" == "basic computer science"). I've always had difficulties hiring.

The fact of the matter is that most people you interview just aren't very good. It's hard to find the good ones. This is a complaint about search costs as much as price.
Yes, we had a short outage this morning. We're still investigating the root cause but the symptoms were essentially a simultaneous slow down across all name servers. It's quite possible this is part of the same DDoS that Zerigo is facing, we're not certain - we've been seeing lots of spikes today from various IP addresses (but we've actually been seeing similar patterns for quite some time, as have other DNS providers).

We'll post a more extensive post-mortem once we have a better understanding of what happened, but our main goal at the moment has been to ensure systems remain stable and responsive.
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FWIW the SlickDNS name servers are hosted by Linode so I'm a fan of their server hosting. For DNS management, the Linode interface is fine if you have a handful of domains with simple configurations, but beyond that it's unwieldy IMHO.

I'd say the main reason to use a DNS hosting service is to consolidate your DNS management for all of your domains regardless of registrars or server hosting providers. E.g., I personally have domains registered with 5 registrars and use two server providers. And because they specialize in DNS, DNS hosting providers should have superior interfaces, APIs and support for DNS hosting compared to generalist hosting providers.

The SlickDNS interface has two features in particular that I haven't seen in any other DNS hosting service: automatic management of "alias domains" and mapping IP addresses to named servers. See https://www.slickdns.com/features/ for details.
That works, too. But my way allows you to set your office number in the Gecos field!
Really good article, well written. Easy to read.

>> Everything i believe is important

In the spirit of completeness, you could expand the details of this paragraph:

>> What we want to do is create a unique token which can be sent in an email

There should also be a Time to Live on the token, and it should only be usable once. On the landing page for the link, the user needs to enter* their email address to avoid someone arriving at the url from a means other than the original email.

I feel like i should give an example there, let's say the attacker figured out your random id generation method, say it's a hash of a timestamp for simplicity, if they generate a few thousand links for around 6pm, they may get lucky).

* They don't actually need to enter it, UX guys would be having minor heart attacks at that suggestion, but they could choose their email address from a small table of plausible looking but made-up addresses, or something to that effect, e.g. Bank of America uses a photograph the user setup beforehand.
Any pension was lost? Yes stock market collapsed and so the savings on some funds which invested into stocks. But now they have nearly completely recovered, and 3 years which have passed is too low for a planning horizon for pensions. Last 10 years have been turbulent for stocks, with market (and overall economy) performing well below long-term average, and yet, dividends included, index funds post a modest profit over 10-year period, inflation-adjusted (in part that was because the inflation was low).
So they are overrun with customers, staff working their asses off already - and the author suggests putting work into supporting rare edge cases like customers bringing their own modem? Shouldn't they just remove that option entirely to streamline their flow, and ditch the ultra-rare customer who demands that? Sure, every customer wants a perfect experience super customized to their exact situation, but that's not how you run a business. Some of the biggest successes like Apple and McDonalds just pick some reasonable defaults, options, and cost per user levels and then that is that, no super advanced configuration, and the savings are huge. Just the lack of many different hardware configurations does wonders for Apple's software not running into problems and wonders for the hardware ordering cost savings (for the business).
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I sit there rotating my phone sometimes to point in the direction I am facing. Last thing I need to worry about while lost is "is that turn really a right turn like it shows, or left because I'm headed south?"
Of all the government created monopolies, the cable monopolies are some of the worst.

If cable companies had to compete to keep business, they'd offer better service and treat their employees better. Southwest airlines is a good example of a company that has to keep costs low, but does this in part by treating their employees very well.

Notice that they charge ever higher and higher fees, in part because the municipalities are on the take here and get a cut of the fees, but also because the demand is inelastic. If you live in Austin and you want cable, they have your business.

So, there's no reason to spend the money to have enough technicians to ensure they are able to do a good job and a timely one.

A big part of the reason this never improves is that everyone blames Time Warner. TWC is just maximally allocating resources, which is what they should do. Namely, out of areas where they have a monopoly protected by the violence the city of austin will do to any other cable company that tries to compete.... and into areas where they have to compete for customers.

But you don't hear this issue at election time. Why do people not hold their city council peeps accountable for imposing this overpriced monopoly on them?

My guess is that most don't realize it is a government created monopoly, and the ones who do, many think that there would be no cable if the city hadn't given those rights away as an incentive to install all the cable. (not the case... places where this doesn't happen, still get cable because it isn't that expensive to put in the cable.)
But which shoe should developers follow?