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You're in probably the best job, in the best industry, at the best time, in the history of ever, to not have to care about a gap diminishing your perceived value to employers. They need coders. If you can code, they'll deal.

If you absolutely have to address it, and you don't, "I took a few month to explore some projects and refresh myself, and now I'm itching to get back into big challenges like $MY_WHAT_A_LOVELY_COMPANY_YOU_HAVE_THERE."
Reading the original "Show HN" thread about Bitcoinica is still haunting. So many predictions that came true. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973301
Wow.. that's soooo much like https://canv.as/x/everything (aka the site built by 4chan moot).

Besides there is so many of such sites already, it makes me sad to think that resources are wasted there instead of on Diaspora (or other "usefull" stuff).
Did you visit the website? JS isn't chosen for explicit performance. It's chosen because it can sit in a browser.
A suspect is not a convict, and the privilege of selecting a site for interview is just as likely to be abused by the state as it is the suspect.

Assange has a perfectly justified fear that the request for interview functions as a strategy for entrapping & extraditing him. The notion that this is nothing more than a disinterested preference in procedure is implausible.
Microsoft requires that Secure Boot can be disabled by the user, but only on x86. On ARM, the exact opposite is true: Microsoft requires that Secure Boot cannot be disabled by the user.

For now, this doesn't really matter, but the situation may change if/when Windows on ARM becomes a serious platform.
In many ways Plan 9 is simpler than Unix, and Go is simpler than C.

Unix was also much simpler than Multics.

Software doesn't need to always grow in complexity, but it takes lots of determination to accomplish this.
This technology has the potential to produce very significant steps forward for FMRI studies of the brain in terms of resolution.
so bunch of youngsters abandon ideals and create yet another photo with a caption sharing site?

color me disappointed
I appreciate your thoughts. Makr actually comes out of a lot of learnings of building something really hard. At some level we realized that even the most perfect centralized system only solves part of the problem. People won't use it just because its decentralized, or built on open standards/software, except the people who already understand the intrinsic value of such things.

We feel like people need to feel like they have investment in the stuff they create. It is kinda like when Betty Crocker re-jigged instant cake mix in the 50s to add eggs, and then people felt like they were cooking with love™. We hope that Makr gets people to be creative, and thus care more about the stuff they have online.

It a different direction than the distributed bits problem (and D* continues to exist to solve this problem), but making people care about their stuff online might actually be a harder one in practice.
This is still there http://diasporaproject.org/
The US will never say that and are right to do so.

Even if based on everything they know right now they honestly believed that to be true, what if they found new evidence tomorrow that changed their view?

The best you could ever get from them is "we have no plans based on what we know now" and that simply wouldn't be enough.
It's not just MyISAM though. The fact is that these things actually make sense when you think about MySQL as being a content-management backend for the web. The problem actually has to do with SQL modes, the fact that MySQL will silently substitute table backends for you, and much more. Again in some environments this is ok, and if you have total control and tight control over a small number (preferably only 1) of applications hitting your db it isn't the end of the world.

But PostgreSQL folks look at MySQL from a different perspective. It's a db-centric rather than app-centric perspective. In this perspective your db needs to guarantee that declarative constraints will be followed. In this perspective the db is the center of the environment, not the bottom tier of the app stack. In this perspective you could potentially have dozens of apps using a single db.

It isn't a matter of MySQL having grown up a bit (and it has). It is a matter of it not having outgrown the content management and/or single app per db environment in which it arose.
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Ideas are cheap. Implementation is hard.
I think they are delegating the task to app.net
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People as high up as Sarah Palin have called for his execution.
This entire fiasco is insulting to sexual assault victims, as it trivializes their plight, unless the person in question is of some repute.

Has any international incident ever happened over a college date rape?! Do you recall an incident that a nation threatens to violate sovereignty of another nation over questioning of sexual misconduct?! Maybe the Trojan war!

An Interpol Red notice issued over sexual misconduct, while Assad is butchering the Syrian population by the thousands...

A farce.
Indeed, the Android port is actually faster than my phone.
As someone who generally pays attention to the usability of applications, I have to ask: Is this really a big deal?

I quite literally have never noticed this when using my iPhone over the past couple years. I actually had to re-read the article a few times to understand what the author was trying to convey.
When Assange is on trial in the US and in jeopardy of being executed will you say that is not a case of "human rights"?

Hint: the women in Sweden won't be the point of inquiry then. It will be his actions on the internet, for which he most definitely should not face death.
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makr actually came out of D... we started by trying some completely different features, but figured it was best for both to try them as separate things. Lots of people like D the way it is, so we spun it out into it's own thing.
What is the license like? It looked like per-user. Does this mean they do not wish it to be embedded on a web page? Can web browsers parse these OTF ligatures? Anybody have any experience here?
AirBnB (despite some serious issues with the concept). A few others.

The usual suspects gathering most or all of the headlines, and flooding my voicemail and inbox with, frankly exceptionally unappealing pitches, really leave me cold.
I think you're conflating "charged" with "accused". As I understand it, two women have accused him of nonconsensual sex acts (we call that "rape"). He has not been formally charged with rape yet (because he's on the lam).
Develop software... Write an app, make a web-site (E.g. using Amazon's AWS 12 month free tier), solve a problem, whatever.

Just have something to talk about in the interview.
There have been a lot of studies and surveys done regarding the peak age of entrepreneurship. Very few of those studies support the idea that youth is a benefit to starting a business.

I'll post a few quotes and links here:

"In 2008, I led a research team in exploring the backgrounds of 652 U.S.-born chief executive officers and heads of product development in 502 successful engineering and technology companies established from 1995 to 2005. These were companies with real revenue -- not just the start-ups founded by the college dropouts that some venture capitalists like to fund. We learned that the average and median age of successful founders was 39. Twice as many founders were older than 50 as were younger than 25. And there were twice as many over 60 as under 20."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/the-ca...

"It does not take but one minute to look around the world and prove any thesis of a peak tech founder age incorrect. There are countless entrepreneurs over the age of 30, including Reid Hoffman (age 35 in 2002), Evan Williams of Twitter (age 35 in 2007), Mark Pincus of Zynga (age 41 in 2007), Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post (age 54 in 2005), among many others."
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/28/peak-age-entrepreneurship/

"“It turns out that over the past decade or so, the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity belongs to the 55-64 age group. The 20-34 age bracket, meanwhile, which we usually identify with swashbuckling and risk-taking youth (think Facebook and Google), has the lowest rate.”
Ecopreneurist (http://s.tt/12HYH)
http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/09/21/the-average-age-of-an-en...

Aside from the quotes, I would also appeal to your own experience. If you are over the age of 25, then ask yourself, have you learned anything useful over the last 5 years? Have you learned important things about, say for instance, software, money, managing your time, communicating with people who are different from you, politics, self-discipline, the law, or perhaps a problem domain that you find exciting? If you haven't learned anything useful in the last 5 years, I would say you are doing something very wrong with your life. If you have learned something useful in the last 5 years, doesn't that suggest you have some new skills that will help you when you launch your business?
Diaspora interfaces with Facebook and wasn't designed as a "competitor" to Facebook, but rather an alternative to how we think about social networking. The only way we're gonna get a social network not controlled by a large corporation that everyone wants to use is if it's distributed, free and open-source.
I don't know enough about Swedish law to know but I would say that I think being tried in absentia is both morally wrong and likely open to legal challenge.

And what would be the point? He can't be punished as he's not there so why not just wait until you actually have him?
When I was learning the game, my dad once told me, "Son, if you cheat at golf, you cheat at life. You determine the kind of man you want to be, but when you're with me, be honest. It's the only way you'll get better."

Many years later, I've found this quote profoundly true. Folks who will cheat in a friendly game of golf do, in my experience, habitually cheat (a friendly mulligan here or there I let go, but pulling a ball out of a sand trap, or calling a 15ft putt a "gimme" is pretty egregious). And I don't think they can help it at the point I see them. They're ingrained with the mindset that the world is out to screw them, so they have to cheat and lie to screw the world back. We see this mindset time and time again, but people who cheat and lie habitually are of the idea that everybody else does, so it's not wrong. Those who don't are always appalled at the habitual cheaters and liars. Cheaters tend to see that reaction and assume that those people are faking it--and that they, too cheat and lie when it benefits them.

In short, people cheat on a free course because some people are just assholes who cheat and lie. They don't know how to do anything different.
No, they've offered several times to allow Swedish officials to conduct whatever formalities they need to in the UK. They've refused.

Sweden also has a history of dropping prisoners off at the airport where they get met by people who are DEFINITELY NOT CIA agents and disappeared.
They should better focus on cleaning up D* code, solid federation and security (such as end to end encryption and etc.). Flashy UI is really secondary.
I think they target younger devs for a few reasons.

When you've got a family you're more likely to want real cash instead of equity. Many startups are cash poor and they wish they could get some geniuses who'd live on ramen noodles for two years in hope of a future payout. A 40 year old programmer who's good can get a job with good salary and benefits and doesn't want to hear about it.

I think many IT employers like younger workers because they're easier to intimidate. If you've lived through a few "charge of the light brigade" projects, you eventually learn how to say "no".
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Please don't downvote, I just can't miss this opportunity to re-tell a joke from the time (Everton, an English football team, had a reputation for being boring to watch).

What do Everton and General Pinochet have in common?

They both force people into football stadiums and torture them.
Apparently Sweden is making no promises either:

Patiño made it clear that Ecuador had asked Sweden for a guarantee that it would not extradite him to the US, were such a request made. But Sweden had said no, he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/16/julian-assange-e...
never considered that. is this true? were banks giving mortgages using stock as collateral / proof of credit-worthiness? how widespread is this?
Just to offer a counterpoint. If you focus on Facebook's original audience from when they started getting big in ~2005 (college kids) and check out how today's college kids use Facebook, a lot of screentime is being spent sending jokes back and forth.

I remember visiting a college sophomore when I was a senior in HS and FB was still restricted to college students. He and his friends were all making joke groups[1] and inviting everyone.

Honestly, I think that if a company is aiming for the social brass ring, gunning for Facebook, the best thing they could do is become 20 year olds' favorite way to joke around with each other online. High school kids are all too happy to follow whatever college kids are doing, and these young audiences are much more likely to break out of their established surfing habits than adults are. Imgur.com is the backbone of the teenage social web.

[1] For example: http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Will-Go-Slightly-Out-of-My-W...
Indeed, I tend to agree with 4chan (in their tirade against http://9gag.com) that this type of stuff has become the "cancer" of internet culture. Even though they are responsible for spawning it.
First, WhatsApp ate the Netherlands…
Nothing on pointer pointers :( so sad.
While I don't mean to come down on Diaspora specifically, I feel like YC S12 is a decidedly weak class (at least what we've seen of it so far). When the online interior design site is one of the strongest offerings of the bunch, what can you really say?
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If the USD derives its value from the strength of the U.S. military, the BTC derives its value from its ability to purchase shady things. I would not bet against the continued existence of markets for shady things.
My point is that Mandela was fighting for what both he and the world saw as a greater good.

Assange is fighting a personal criminal charge against himself.

If you're going to pick up dubious allies, then you should do so in a cause which justifies it, where the trade offs are worth the costs.
Bitcoins are like gold, but better in a many ways. It's much faster to send bitcoins around the world than gold. It's also easier to verify payment in bitcoins as opposed to weighing and verifying the gold you received is actually gold and not fake.
Lot's of people feel that D* is unpolished and lacks advertised features like moving from pod to pod, real solid federation and so on. D* developers said they didn't abandon those, but they surely look distracted with too much UI stuff in Mark.
I segment my identities. A very few things will get my real name (or some variant of it). Most go under a generally-topical alias of some sort or another. I don't mind those aliases gathering their own reputation, but it's no major loss if I decide to toss one at a later point.
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> I didn’t need anything for gaming, just a workstation, so I picked out a cheap HP pavilion slimline (mistake 2) and a $100 Acer monitor

If you need a workstation, more specifically a linux workstation, maybe you should have bought a workstation. Like HP z-series which support (and some models even ship with) Linux.

> I did a first boot, and had an error come up that it couldn’t boot to Windows. “Well… Recovery media time!”

What error? If even first boot fails, I'd suspect hardware fault, which would make the whole post moot. Instead of trying to force Fedora on a machine that doesn't boot in the first place, more sensible solution would be to return the machine to the store.

> “Feature Byte” The system was using Secure Boot

False conclusion. Idk what "Feature Byte" stuff is, but it seems completely unrelated to UEFI and SecureBoot. Quick googling even reveals that some HP BIOS have Feature Bytes too.

> Yes, I’m aware that OEMs are supposed to give an option to turn it off, but when has this ever happened?

Is there actually any SecureBoot enabled systems out there which do not allow disabling SB?

> All this said, I refuse to support UEFI until some real standards are put into place and enforced. I’ll take something like OpenBIOS, but NOT UEFI

The UEFI standard is clearly at fault here, right? And the Windows Logo program is exactly about laying out standards and enforcing them. I'd also note that UEFI and the MS stuff are independent entities. UEFI is an industry standard, and predates all this secure boot fuss by years.

This blog post is full of plain old FUD, and it's sad that open source advocates spread such stuff. Especially in matters of such importance imho posts like this only cloud the real issues and erodes the credibility of FOSS camp.
Again, how can Sweden make a decision about an extradition request which hasn't been made?
Are you referring to Maggie Thatcher? She was quite vocal at the time but was long out of office by then
That is a false analogy. There are no other ways to represent green that works for color blind people and is still green for everyone else. Using SVG for a button and using a Font for that button are completely interchangeable, visually.
That is a good point. This font does degrade gracefully.
You cannot copyright a name. I assume you mean trademark; and even then unless the ad network has rules against it there is nothing in law that specifically forbids using a competitor's name in this way.

Trademark is mostly concerned with "pretending to be someone you're not." So if you pretend to be Nike and sell fake shoes, then it is a powerful set of laws, but if someone writes a critical review of a Nike's tennis shoes then they cannot demand it be pulled down.

As I said Google/Bing might have specific rules against this kind of thing but you really don't have the law on your side. They're allowed to be critical of you as long as they don't misrepresent themselves as being you.
I also take issue with the definition of a startup. For instance, in Missouri it costs $50 to set up an LLC. I tend to separate my ventures into separate companies. The goal of each one is to make a profit. A weekend project or automated/passive income project also counts as a startup, even if it does not have an active team or venture capital - it is still a new business.
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It's funny that all these analyst can talk about such vague suggestions when it seems clear that different investors have clear motivations here.

It's perfectly reasonable for Microsoft to hold on to their shares--even if facebook goes broke they still have billions in cash.

Thiel will probably sell part of his stake--you don't hang on to 1.5 billion by being overly concentrated in any one area.

Other investors (VC's and funds) will almost certainly sell most or all of their stakes. There's no expectation of 10x or 5x returns anymore and a fair amount of downside risk.

I expect 90% of individuals with stock options to sell as they can. If I have a choice between selling at $20 now and getting, say, $200,000 or waiting some unspecified time and possibly getting more (or nothing), I'm going for the sure money every time. Even for someone whose pay is in the low six figures, option money like this can mean paying for your kids' college education or starting your own business. The only ones who might hold on would be those who don't have many shares/options (I'm thinking less than 2,000).
> Prosecutors allege that pirated movies and other content shared through his site cost copyright holders more than $500m (£322m) in lost earnings, making it one of the biggest cases of its kind.

I doubt the point / accuracy of this statement. Those who downloaded the content would have just gotten the content somewhere else. As much as the FBI would like to, you really can't point the finger at Dotcom for this loss of revenue.
The problem is, with these perpetual upgrades (which undoubtedly will be patented from the the present time) they want to stretch it well beyond 15 years. Luckily H.264 is not a standard in any way, since W3C removed any specific codecs from the video/audio tag spec.
My mistake.

As it was Blair then obviously a decent, honest humanitarian decision... joke
Sounds bit of an odd practice to me, since a mortgage is such a straight-forward, easy-to-get loan that the Mexican landscaper can get one even though he doesn't live in the country.

But I believe it. Shares in a company are real assets, and this is the Valley. Interesting story.
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There are far bigger reasons to question Amnesty International's integrity. Search their website for the OIC's "Cairo Declaration" on Human Rights under Islam, and you'll find that Amnesty has completely ignored it. The Cairo Declaration subordinates all human rights to sharia law, and almost every islamic country in the world has signed the Cairo Declaration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Righ...

At the most extreme interpretation, slavery is legal under islamic law - see Sultanhussein Tabandeh, "A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights". And the Cairo Declaration says that there is no crime except that proscribed by sharia. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Yemen had slaves well into the 20th century (a 1951 UN report estimated that 5% of the population of those countries were slaves), and they only "outlawed" slavery under duress from the west. There is still slave-taking and trading in Mauritania and Sudan.

There are now plenty of serious works on the 1300 years of the islamic slave trade, e.g.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Islams-Black-Slaves-History-Diaspora...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Christian-Slaves-Muslim-Masters-Medi...

It beggars belief that Amnesty can simply ignore it when the islamic world rejects universal human rights. But as long as Amnesty ignores it, the OIC's Cairo Declaration can fly under the radar, and be ignored by mainstream media and governments.

My understanding of the Cairo Declaration might be wrong. But until it starts to be discussed by organisations like Amnesty, it is not going to be subjected to extensive critical examination.
EDIT: It wasn't Mrs. T but I stand by the fact that it wouldn't be a decision that most in the UK would support, whoever made it.
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This is all I need:

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var-myforecolor: red;
var-mybackcolor: blue;
}

h1{
color: $myforecolor;
background: $mybackcolor;
}

This covers 80% of all cases, leaving parent-vars and cascading-vars as edge cases. Good to have them just in case.

Bring it on!
Can we come up with a new word for this alleged crime? Saying "rape" implies they didn't consent to sex, which in this case they did.
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They say it's hard, yet nobody is gonna pay anything for this. That's the worst of both worlds. These guys still haven't learned their lesson from making Diaspora.