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QT, really? Using a framework for a must-be-power-efficient device on a much-slower-than-desktop cpu. I'm not a QT or C++ expert and wondering outcomes of using QT for webOS. There is absolutely a hit on power and speed but how much?
It's very easy for me to imagine a massive societal shift from traditional ivory tower education toward self-learning and online education and a skills-focused employment race. Of course there will always be ivory towers that provide elites with a way of distinguishing themselves for a very small, reserved portion of the population. Harvard et al's degrees will always set you apart... but for the bulk of the middle class there will need to be something else.

The way everyone today feels they need a masters reminds me of the way everyone used to say you need a credit card to get a good credit score. It's called drinking the kool-aid.
I'm making a decent amount through Bandcamp - enough that I feel like I could make a living off of it if I solely focused on music.
What about building the app using mobile web application and deploying the app using Cordova (ex PhoneGap) ?
Is open sourcing Notifo still in your plans?

I recall that you mentioned that quite some time ago.
Yes, Schmidt showed a complete lack of understanding of why anonymity is still often a necessity online. Do we really need to keep going over the examples that clearly show he is wrong?
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I am not sure I follow your logic here...

Either you are being sarcastic, or idiotic. Please tel me which one.
> (You may laugh, but it is not inherently less plausible -- or less supported -- than the idea that fat stores are used exclusively as energy stores).

Burning fat for energy isn't an idea. As for your hypothesis, hypothesis doesn't mean making up random stuff.
Absolutely. Their policy to force your true_full_name is an absolute no-go for many users. A friend of mine from south India has a very lengthy name. Few parts of his name are direct reference to his ancestors and the villages they come from. Sort of like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._D._Deve_Gowda where H. D. parts of his name are references to ancestry, places etc.

My friend was denied permission to use Quora, rather insultingly blocked, for not revealing his ancestor name. We thought it was plain stupid on part of Quora to behave this way, so didn't bother to follow up with them either. What's amazing here is that even Government passports don't force revealing names of ancestors like they do.
Perhaps it is more attractive to advertisers then to users. Demographic tracking etc.
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"Change is hard; we naturally resist it. But, at the very least, recognize that you are the problem, not the change."
I hope the smiley is sarcastic?
It does feel like FB could rake in enormous amounts of cash quickly if it really wanted to, but then doing so would kill its long-term viability. Trouble is it's current approach seems death by a thousand pokes. I suppose the execs who've already cashed out already had their payday. Sorry the saps who bought...
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Can't see how this is true, whether or not someone at Groupon said it was. How can a business who places a deal at a large discount and is paying Groupon a significant cut be making money on the deal itself?

Is the redemption rate of these deals so low that it makes up for the price cut + fee?
You have a good point. I also think that one should not completely replace IB, because its core functionality is very good: Design UI that is callable in code without naming the elements explicitly in the designer. What's missing are two features IMO:

- style templates (CSS or a subset of it) in order to increase reusability.

- access to preprocessed variables in order to define things like fonts and colors in one place that's also usable in code. (Maybe that's already possible but I'm not aware of it).

Some lightweight style plugin could solve both issues.
TV news can be good. Try watching Channel 4 news in the uk for an example. It is an hour long.
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Quora seems nice but I cannot possibly feel comfortable with their policies, even before this. I can only participate very selectively because of this. I like the service and it has traction, too bad their invasiveness thresholds are too lax for me to accept.

I'd rather just pay a small quantity to be honest. I'm not sure if an alternative site working on subscriber money would be feasible.
Anybody knows a good way of short selling Universities?
This move by Quora pissed me off, but the only reason I'm keeping my account is because they allowed me to turn it off.

Quite an effective way to destroy some goodwill they'd built up with me over the past couple of years.
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> Just a question - would you have reacted the same if I wrote "it isn't bad for you to eat 20 eggs a day", or "eating cholesterol isn't bad for you"? because both of these "accepted wisdoms" (limit egg consumption; dietary cholesterol is bad for you) are unsubstantiated nonsense you hear from everyone (laymen, nutritions, doctors), with no study to support them. And yet they are almost never challenged.

I would have either asked you for citation, or did my own research. But even if I haven't, two wrongs don't a right make. People are biased, and selectively accept garbage. Unsubstantiated nonsense is garbage, irrespective of its acceptance by people who know nothing about it and are accepting things on what makes them feel good.
Profits? I find it hard to believe they'll do better than limit losses to something bearable.
I coulda told everybody that.
Sarcasm aside, yes.

The Aussie HECS system is more like the European style systems than american ones where universities compete in a semi-free market. Unis get paid a set amount per student. Student contributions are a fixed contribution to the total. Including the subsidized loans but not including founding & research grants to Universities, they account for about 25% of total costs, an incentive to take it seriously but not a pay-you-own-way system. Very far from a free market.

The interesting element of the Aussie system is that they have maintained competitiveness and a steep quality curve more similar to the American environment with the best Unis (eg ANU & Melbourne) ranked much high internationally than the those just a step down locally. Australia has more highly ranked Unis than most European countries with larger populations.

But.. Judging by inflation in international & (the less subsidized) "full fee place" tuition, fees are rising fast down under too.
I'm also a bit confused by their statements about Facebook v Amazon. I think it stems from people thinking Amazon is the same old ecommerce shop it used to be in 2000.

I doubt Facebook will get into the SVOD, publishing, mobile device and supply chain business that Amazon is in because Facebook decides to build a wishlist app.
Well, I'm seeing high uptake of Android in the Java community, even by programmers who don't create Android apps (or prefer OSX). I think it's a combination of the potential to create apps and an uneasiness concerning Apple's lock-in policies.
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To me, the fact that Quora feels it needs to share passive views means they're failing to get enough people to actively engage with their content.

If I don't care enough click a button, either A) I have no meaningful opinion, B) I don't want Quora to know what I think, or C) there's a "problem" with the button.

Quora, if you're going to just make assumptions about why I'm looking at an answer, you will very often be WRONG.

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This is stupid.

What's more stupid is their desperation for you to interact with their site. I went to remove my unused account, and this is what I got when I typed www.quora.com:

http://d.pr/i/WcMl

You'll notice that I couldn't do anything else - I "had" to choose 5 extremely broad subjects that I'm supposed to be interested in, in order to be able to view my profile. I selected 5 subjects randomly, and...

http://d.pr/i/P7ex

Only after that they kindly allowed me to view the main page and my profile. I deactivated my account, and won't ever click on a quota link again (and would add them to my spam list so they won't show up in my Google results).
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You'd be arrested for batter-y instead :)
When I saw the title (not living in the U.S.) I thought 'darn fast' would be the next advert break after it happened.

Surely this type of ad could be pre-approved, since they only bit that will change is the sports footage, which has already been on TV by that point anyway.
apparently you have to e-mail privacy@quora.com to get your account deleted completely. That in itself is reason to delete your account btw. It speaks volumes of their regard for users and their privacy.
I really have the feeling we're all merely getting sold to advertisers. Where are the real innovations from tech people? It is not about "social interaction", in many ways it's only about getting as much data from the user as possible, to sell it.

I can't say how much i hate the "social trend" in this era of the internet boom.

"Yeah, our Product is a ripoff of Product X (proof concept, existing since 2000) BUT WE ADDED SOCIAL TO IT, ZOMG!!11"

What's bugging me even more is the fact, that there're so many stupid VCs who think they'll invest in the next big thing and support stupid ideas, too blind to see real innovations.
Hi Chuyeow, glad you like it. The open source version of Phusion Passenger 4 is already available, and has been for a while now. It hasn't reached beta status yet, but you can find the code in the 'experimental' branch on Github. Phusion Passenger 4 contains many rewritten subsystems, allowing it to perform better. It also supports multiple Ruby versions.

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Every time I see the expression "olympic spirit" I don't think anymore in selfless athletes doing their best to compete in the name of their country.

What I see is a draconian institution doing its best to protect a $US45 billion brand by treating proud citizens as consumers.

What a shame!
Yeah, that's something I considered pretty carefully. The backup server is completely isolated from the rest of the network, it pulls the backups via ssh/rsync using a special user account that only has sudo permissions for the rsync command (and can only authenticate via ssh certificate). The only way to break the backup server from a compromised server would be to replace OpenSSH on the compromised server and then wait for the backup server to connect -- and then try to somehow break rsync.

Thanks for thinking of that though.
Looks nice. The two biggest problems I have based off the README, in order:

1. Only 1 git remote? I need at least `master` and `heroku` for all of my projects, and often I'll need one or two extra `github` remotes for other forks/collaborators.

2. I wish it had pictures of what exactly it was doing (git graph-style stacks of commits before/after each commit).
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Several friends of mine prefer to pay for their VPNs anonymously, they get two VPNs, pay with bitcoin, don't give their name to the VPNs, and tunnel one into the other for pretty much complete anonymity online, provided they don't do something stupid like log into facebook from the VPN.
Agreed. I'm on the verge of leaving facebook, I've been for quite some time. Their stupid change in chat (people know when you read what they wrote) almost made me quit, but Chrome extensions to disable it allowed me to stay.

With such a move, I would not stay one day longer on the "service".
The Olympics were a good idea, but now they have become just ridiculous.

The last time I watched the Olympics was about 8 years ago. I rather go to a local sports event that is actually about the sports competition.
Where possible, applications should rely on tested libraries to implement the specification, like PyXDG.
They could of course have some code on the device which reports this back, or failing that something which lets them force an update to the OS to add this functionality.

But if they haven't put either of those in place already then it's too late. They'd be relying on customers updating the software themselves, which is unlikely - especially for many security conscious companies.
I'm always completely shocked when people design pixel art games and they can't grasp this concept.
Literally anywhere but my personal space. Why not have /etc/<username>/? I could even live with a single ~/.config/ but very few apps use that.
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I got the impression that by doing "it" he meant searching Google for it, not actually doing it. I think most people realise that Google works by tracking what you search for, so it makes sense that if you want something to remain unknown, you shouldn't search Google for it.
Words aren't sacred. Words become names and names become words. It's all fairly fluid.

Future generations won't know what a college facebook is, and they'll think Google is an obvious name for a website where you google things.
The 1541 Ultimate SD Card drive is worth checking out:

http://www.1541ultimate.net/content/index.php

It is emulating a complete 1541 floppy drive and should have pretty good compatibility with demos.
Really wish there would be something as good as GraphicsGale on a Mac.

Glad people are working on Pixen again, but it's got a long way to go.
According to RIM, the device key is used to encrypt all messages. The device tells the corporate server its key and the corporate server encrypts every message before it is sent. There is no common key between the telco and handset for the message content.
(This is on top of the VPN link etc.)

Of course it's hard to verify RIM's claims since the whole system is run by them.
Off topic I guess, but to me Quora seems to have passed it's peak for updates to topics which I find interesting, unfortunately. I was not an early adopter, and joined when the gated-community phase ended, selected my topics and enjoyed quite a few good answers. A week later I opened it up on a train ride, but the content had not changed at all.

And, perhaps more tellingly, in each topic the few scraps of fresh activity each time I've opened the app since have been from exactly the same users.
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Ah. Maybe universities should issue stock.
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I agree with Zenst below that it's a separate (though not less important) issue. The backups are there to get the customer back on their feet as quickly as possible, and to protect their data. A surprising number of our clients have had problems with websites related to not having any backups or local copies ... web-based CMSs have made this a remarkably easy trap to fall into.

The nature of the compromise is something we'd be interested in, and hopefully something that they'd bring to our attention. I'd like to be able to have our log monitoring software watch for attempts at common exploits and automatically block them, but it doesn't do that yet. Which is one reason why it's still not ready for launch yet. :-)
Unfortunately this bad practice is widely adopted and only spreading.

It's this kind of BS that makes me create fake facebook or twitter accounts to log on shady sites like Quora.
It's actually worse because with expert-sexchange you can scroll to the bottom to read the answers. Not so much with Quora, right?
> Quora has gone the way of expert-sexchange, showing up in Google search results for interesting questions, but then overlaying/replacing most answers with blur and "sign up to read".

This shit doesn't fly with Google. Delivering different content to Google bot and the user coming through search makes Google looks like a fool, since the user is unable to find the content he searched for. That is why expert-sexchange shows answers at the bottom when Google is your referrer.

If Quora is pulling up this shit, Google will penalize it. I think it's more likely Quora is simply hiding content behind css.
I think you should see it as an early adopter fee. I bet if more people use RubyMotion, Laurent is going to drop the price.

I bought RubyMotion short after the release and i can say it's really worth the price. If you love Ruby and you love iOS, buy a licence.
Broadly speaking, any word can be trade marked if it is distinctive/not descriptive. Apple is distinctive for computers, but not for actual apples. As a result, I couldn't get a trade mark for 'Apple' for apples, but I could (or at least Apple did) for computers etc.
Relevant excerpt:

The MySQL server now includes the widely used memcached in-memory caching system, and a plugin that allows fast NoSQL-style access to InnoDB tables through the memcached protocol. This access method avoids the overhead of SQL parsing and constructing a query optimization plan. You can store the underlying data in a single InnoDB table, or spread it across multiple tables. You can read and write data through both memcached and SQL. For example, you can do fast single-key lookups through memcached get calls, and do statistical reports across all the data through SQL.
I think this is pretty cool, waiting for some benchmarks.
> The first benefit is that it removes clutters from your $HOME.

Invisible clutter? That's a strange concept.

But the rest of your point indeed makes sense. It still is easier and probably comment to backup the whole $HOME. But those points you can see as a benefit, though not obvious.
This completely falls over for popular packages like Joomla, unfortunately, which have miserably bad caching systems and file upload mechanisms and web-based upgrade functions and module installers and the like.
Thanks,

It was non-obvious as to whom I needed to contact... Ill try that email as well.

EDIT: Done.
Awesome! I added it to Rubymotion-Tutorials.com http://rubymotion-tutorials.com/links/24
here is my "c++ with stl" version. it's in-place, with only one separate case and w/o array reversing at all.

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Don't forget /etc/hosts:

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Mongrel[1] has mostly code written by Zed Shaw, I like his style! Very consistent.

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You could try shorting APOL (owner of University of Phoenix), DV (DeVry) and similar stocks of private education companies, although a lot of them are already down substantially from ~2009 highs.

Student loan ABS are harder to short unless you're an institutional investor or hedge fund (in which case you wouldn't be asking ;), but if things get nasty again in the financial markets people tend to pile into treasuries and USD as relative safe havens.
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While I see that - its not that I dont want to be able to access them it is more that I want all data associated to me to be deleted...
That sounds like a good plan, I'll check back then. I had a facebook back in high school, but got creeped out by some of their privacy issues and deleted it, this sounds like kind of a neat idea, though.
in a Post PC world , Apple is the leading PC maker, interesting.

last years "hp pc business spin off" rumours was a major reason for this shift.
Not quite. Cocoa is really just an Objective-C API, though it's coupled with Aqua through Xcode and recent innovations like AutoLayout, whereby HIG policies are enforced by code. Metro seems to be more than that.
I kinda conceptually disagree with approaches like this, for the same reason I dislike the official Github client: it renames some basic git concepts. e.g. git sync. How is this helpful when the dev is put in front of a situation (not configured server, new colleague who is not aware of legit)? Essentially I admire the work put into this project, I just question the goal.
I do not have a Quora account, but I understand their move and it may not be all bad. There are 3 ways how a company may handle user passive privacy:

1. Not collect any information (in this case who read what article) at all. Obviously that company would be at a big disadvantage, having no access to a useful set of signals.

2. Collect the information and use it for their own goals.

3. Collect the information and make it freely available.

If I understand the article correctly, Quora went from strategy #2 to #3. From my perspective, this is a positive move. In case #3, users are aware of what is happening with their private information and may log out if they do not want to be tracked this way. It is way better than living in peaceful ignorance as in case #2. Also, the company cannot sell the private info, because it is publicly available.
Have a spam filter that directs them to only be able to talk to other threatening/harassing users and let the problem solve itself?
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ditto. I emailed privacy@quora.com to delete my account. Waiting for a response from them now.
Awesome design... last quote was in the XX.XXX range though.
It's just a shortcut. The underlying operations haven't gone away. Abstractions are good.
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If you render everything to a small canvas which gets scaled up for display, movement will be less and less smooth the larger the display is...
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So it's actually an implementation of the memcached API onto the table-space?