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The thing that immediately jumps to mind after reading this article is my grandfather's stories about the old mining towns. These were places where the local employer (the mining company) had so much political clout that they became de facto dictators and pretty much did whatever they wanted with impunity. The lack of accountability led to business practices that were devastating to the locals. Miners were doing dangerous work in ridiculously unsafe conditions. When they weren't working, the company used various tactics to manipulate them into not leaving. The most well-known being the Company Store, which sold goods at prices that were just beyond what the miners could afford (surprisingly easy when the owner of the store is the same company who signs the paychecks.) But they were very willing to give credit. Nobody complained because that would earn a visit from some thugs in the mood for breaking fingers and kneecaps.

This arrangement strikes me as the Company Town on a massive scale. Without a legal framework that exists outside of their own best interests, I don't see how this kind of thing doesn't devolve into the Company Town.
> CDs reproduce the volume in a sound recording only 44,100 times per second.

Because humans can't hear sounds higher than 22 kHz, so with a 44.1 kHz sampling rate you're guaranteed to capture everything humans can hear.

Besides, tape has wow and flutter and records invariably have scratches and dust, not to mention limits in dynamic range.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Audio_woo
I've been happily using 1Password for years now and have always been very happy with it. It syncs via Dropbox and I can access it anywhere I want. I have it on my Android phone via their Android reader. I don't see it as being horrible bloatware at all, in fact quite the opposite
I was half expecting an article about startup fever.
He said "...useless programs that amused us" I think that everyone missed the "amused us" part. If your program is useless but still does something that you think is amusing, then that is a great feeling
Well - there's a lot more to IA than wireframes :-) Lou Rosenfeld's book "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" is still a nice, small read if a little dated now and more oriented to content-based sites.

Wireframes are just one possible deliverable - a way of communicating the results of some kinds of UX work that include IA.

There's a lot of UX folk who hate 'em to - and would much rather spend their time working with the developers rather than waste a stack of time producing pointless documents.

See Jeff Gothelf's article on getting out of the deliverables business http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/07/lean-ux-gett... for example, or Google the stuff coming out of the Lean UX community.
I find the recent trend to put all kinds of tutorials, introductions, etc. into videos or similar quite off-putting. It is much harder to skim through, or adjust my reading speed to how fast I can comprehend what's being said, which depends on whether I'm looking at some code or watching him type out boilerplate. There is also a tendency to make 10-minute long videos out of things that could be typed into a couple of paragraphs.

That said, this particular instance with it's interactive features is certainly one of the better variants (if you must go with streaming).
I do the same. Portability of the password manager was as important as how it was stored. If I couldn't get it on my many machines, it wasn't any good to me. Highly recommended.
Filename is cleartext.
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Nuclear Engineer? From his Wikipedia I wouldn't really categorize him as a scientist. It also says he was really religious, which is also out of character for a scientist.

Woodrow Wilson was an intellectual (though not a scientist) and he was president.

Keep in mind the president's cabinet members probably consist of many scientists and this is probably sufficient for advising and keeping the president knowledgeable on issues.

Obama's cabinet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu - Nobel prize in physics - Secretary of Energy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Blank - PhD in Econ - Secretary of Commerce

Probably more scientists on board.
Here's another take on the problem: https://github.com/catch22/pw
The analogous concept here is the product of sampling rate and bit-depth, the number of bits per sample i.e the precision of the recording
This is my method as well. I use iKeePass on my iDevice. It's not pretty, but it works.
Not CSS3... anymore :-)

Unless I'm seriously mistaken; the webcast is using the (fairly old) linear gradient syntax which was removed in FF16.

Or am I missing something?

Spec:

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/#linear-gradient-type

In essence, you can't say linear-gradient(top, ....) but need to say linear-gradient(to bottom, ...).
Evolve your hierarchy is a really good read for everybody, not only game programmers. It shows in a very convincing way why the classic Cat : Animal inheritance model taught in every Java-school doesn't work when things scale up and proposes a better alternative.
but a sealed letter has the expectaion of privacy that only the addressee will open it

postcards and unencrypted radio transmissions (like say 2.4 ghz or 900 mhz cordless phones, and fm & am radio) do not carry such an expectation, so it is not illegal to snoop such traffic (this is one of the reasons why cable and satellite tv is encrypted (ie scrambled); were it not encrypted in some fashion, it would be legal to set up your own equipment to capture the stream and do what yoou what with it like you do with fm and am radio).

encrypting the data, like putting something in a sealed, addressed envelope, lets everyone know that the data is not intended for anyone to read and creates an expectation of privacy. the ease of decrypting data is not really relevant (eg breaking a wep protected connection carries the same legal penalties as breaking a wpa2 protected connection) because the basis for the law against reading others' mail is the violation of a privacy that the victim took steps to create (eg its almost certainly legal to read others' postcards and definitely legal to read the outside of the envelope because no steps are taken to prevent anyone other than the intended recipient from reading the message).

you could argue that there is also an expectation of privacy inherent in the relevant link (for wifi and ethernet) layers of the networking stack since the standards call for ignoring all frames not addressed to you (a host on the network), but this argument is severely weakened by the fact that frames are sent to every host connected to the network and that determining whether you should be reading a given frame requires you to read the frame (and not just part of it, because FCS is over the whole frame, not just the header) anyway. These two facts make it much more comparable to a conversation in a public space, which carries no expectation of privacy and thusly no law against eavesdropping.
> As an ex-atheist who previously believed in evolution and
> is now a young earth creationist

> loving the Mars missions

How on earth do you reconcile this? The mind boggles, although it might just be me missing a healthy dose of sarcasm here.

In any case: No, not all discussions of this type are in fact potentially interesting, enlightening, or fostering a culture of whatever. Telling yourself that is feel-good nonsense. Sometimes, debating the merits of creationism simply means lowering the level of discourse. Debating the merits of current evolutionary science is, of course, both admissible and valuable; considering creationism (esp. of the wildly implausible kind) a viable alternative is simply misguided.

Don't waste time when there are actual problems to be solved.
Not directly related to the article, but it seems pretty risky (and potentially not HIPAA compliant) to release photographs of software with protected health information on them.[1]

I do a lot of work with security in the healthcare field, and I'm pretty sure it's a big no-no to release information like that. Where it gets interesting is that I'm confident that the patient herself okayed the information... so where does that leave responsibility for the PHI?

I don't actually know the answer, but I'd certainly be interested in finding out.

[1]: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/files/2012/09...
The exact way of representing of numbers like 1/10 and 1/3 is to use a Rational type.

I'm not clear as to why this is a problem though, and where it can be magnified even despite using rounding in your application.
Looks like this is as close as you'll get for now: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stratagus/stratagus/trunk/files...

ETA: Just remembered. They open source 7 Kingdoms a few years back so you can find out what the code from a commercial RTS looks like. http://www.7kfans.com/wiki/index.php/Download
“…I will solve your problem for you and you will pay me. You don’t have to use the solution.”

Paul Rand
it wasn't illegal to listen in on other people's cordless phone calls since they were broadcasting unencrypted in the 900MHz and 2.4GHz parts of the spectrum.
Ah, I see. He's a thinker, a consultant, and a speaker. Who would have thought?

(Clicks the obvious "Let me explain" button.)

Ah, and he's currently available for consulting too? I'm shocked, shocked I say!

Something notably missing throughout his entire site is any evidence of results. Or past clients. Or having ever produced or contributed anything of value at all, really.

Which is ironic for a UX designer, because if I were looking to bring in some more help for one of my companies, the first thing I'd want to know is what benefit that person is actually going to bring.
Leica do a monochrome camera too http://en.leica-camera.com/photography/m_system/m_monochrom/ with a similar filter (only necessary to capture colour images) removed. Must be an incredibly small market for these, though...
This stuff sounds like a complete antipattern to me. Who shouldn't be thinking about users? That's not a specialty.

I agree that everybody should be doing it. However - there are elements of it that are skilled and tricky to pick up. Having experts around is handy. They can do stuff better, help facilitate and teach the rest of the team, and get things moving more quickly.

I'm about half dev and half UX in my skill set. I can train anybody to do some basic usability testing in an afternoon. But that person is going to miss some stuff that I see because I've been doing it for fifteen odd years and am bloody good at it. Ditto for user interviewing. Ditto for interaction design.

You get exactly the same thing on the dev side. Everybody should have some basics about operations, database design, system architecture, etc. But in any team more than two or three people you'll usually find some folk who are experts. They'll be the DBA gal or the devops guy.

That's doesn't mean having a DBA or a devops person requires the rest of the team suddenly forget about all their database/operations knowledge, or that the rest of the team shouldn't be involved in DBA/operations work. But having an expert around is useful. They can help you solve problems that you may not have come across before. They can help teach you new and better ways of doing things.

The great DBA and devops folk get the rest of the team up to speed with database/operations work as much as possible so they can focus on the really hard problems that are going to get in the way of the rest of the team's work.

That's what good UX folk do too (in my experience). They help get the whole team focused on thinking about users, and focus on helping solve the hard UX issues that are going to get in the team's way.

Prototypes and architectures divorced from working code are the kinds of thing that bog a project down and get in the way of people doing the real work, i.e. making the actual product.

No argument from me. No argument from most UX folk I know either :-)

I don't know what a "UX Designer" does, other than claim to do all the product thinking. In my experience, they mostly talk vaguely about how important they are.

Yup. Those people suck. As do some developers with "software architecture" type titles :-)
Sort of cool, but absolutely useless.
> postcards and unencrypted radio transmissions (like say 2.4 ghz or 900 mhz cordless phones, and fm & am radio) do not carry such an expectation, so it is not illegal to snoop such traffic

As to cell phone transmissions, yes, it is illegal to eavesdrop on them. This was true before they were digital -- when anyone with a suitable receiver could tune them in. It's just as illegal now, as well as being more difficult to eavesdrop because the entire system is now digital.
> Has that been quantified?

I honestly only meant philosophically. I don't really buy the assumption that economic measures are the most valid way to justify governmental forms. Most other measures are a lot more tenuous in terms of quantifiability.

> I could imagine that democracy provides a more steady form of mediocrity whereas for example kingdoms might have more ups and downs depending on the current rulers.

Mediocrity of what, though? See, the question of what form of government is best depends a lot on the question of how you make that determination. The story we've been told is one of governmental self-doubt. You say you can't trust what you've been taught, but that's exactly what you've been taught.

I mean, really. Think back to what you've been taught about democracy by The System. What methods did they use to indoctrinate you? What effects did those methods have? I was taught it in history as an inevitability and in civics as a mechanistic bureaucracy. I didn't take any college courses on the matter. And my conclusion, until 2.5 years ago, was that democracy was the least-worst, because that's what I had been taught. Everyone hates it, but they hate it least of all.

This is how I've been looking at it: instead of doing a "comparative politics" survey, approach it from first principles. First, let's say that pure anarchy is unviable: human beings will naturally cluster into hierarchies for the sake of efficiency, and will naturally develop some kind of administrative organizational paradigm. So there's some government. But what then? What matters, and how do you protect and encourage it? What does the shape of the result look like?
Nice to see tr getting some use, though given the sed on either side I wonder if

sed -r 's/\<./\U&/g; s/ +//g; s/[^a-zA-Z].*//'

would be better. Note, the last s/// doesn't need a g.
Kind of puts in perspective what we are all working on/aiming for. Think a web app is hard, try building a car company or going to space. The dude is Tony Stark.
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Nope. Can't even claim "acquaintance" whth Cher. Or Prince.
It's not immune, but governments tend to be formed with the mandate to prevent those exploitations. This makes them more resistant to those desires. The more people in that government, the more social pressure there is to keep those exploitations minimal so that they can remain undetected.

That's what the difference between a government and a business is. They are otherwise the same.
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Maxtor had horrible reputation (by far the worst) among most of my friends and local forums.

Things is, all drive manufacturers have batches and you might end up with 8 dead out of 10 drives for any manufacturer at any given time.

The only thing you can do is try to get drives from different batches and thus trying to minimize having all eggs in one basket (what good is raid6 if all drives die?).

Also when a lot of drives die you should look for other culprits as well, is the temperature OK? Is the power stable? (Vibrations?)

There isn't much statistics available (that I know of) but a french store published their return-rate for drives (which of course doesn't count drives returned directly to the manufacturer)

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/831-6/disques-durs.html

Or a write up in Swedish about it (probably easier to read if you don't know either language, lot of graphs): http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/13859-fransk-datorsajt-publ...

But all in all, if you have many drives failing you've hit a bad batch or are treating your drives badly, nothing you can do about it (the former at least).
So if an entrepreneur has to pick between a rails developer and a front end dev, in some cases he has to pick the backend guy.

Which is indicative of the problem - UX is not just about the front end stuff it's about helping define what product to build.

Y'know all of that "Get out of the building" stuff that Steve Blank goes on about? The whole validating that you're actually really solving somebodies problem?

The UX world has a phrase for that. We call it "generative user research". We have a whole stack of useful toys in our toy box for helping folk do that well. We've already made, and learned from, the mistakes that I see folk in the lean startup world making.

I keep encountering companies that are just throwing money away building stuff too early, when a half dozen five minute conversations with some actual users would help them figure out what the right thing to build is.

The model of having the UX person in "control" sucks. They should be a peer team member not at the top of the hierarchy. But the value they bring is a lot more than just making-the-product-work-nicer. The real value, especially in early stage startups, is helping figure-out-what-product-to-build.
In other words, a good designer turns data into knowledge.

I think I agree with you, but I'd probably phrase it rather differently. To me, data is already knowledge, but often we are limited by having too much raw, low-level knowedge and not knowing what to do with it.

A good UX can help us to understand the data and/or to make actionable decisions based on it, and so to me, a good designer (in the sense we're talking about) is someone who helps to build such a UX.
What is it and why is it so expensive?
What a ridiculous question.

As an individual, yes, horrible and unforgivable is the response.

However, I don't think giving up our rights because some "junkie" decided to murder a child is a good or necessary thing to do.

What you're asking is to give up our rights for a single possible case of a person doing something horrible. No, we have a system that punishes that person already. We don't need to restrict peoples rights to prevent a rather uncommon thing from happening in the future.

You can not stop a mentally ill person or a criminal from doing something horrible. If they are going to do it, then they will find a way to do it.

The trick is to recognize the symptoms. Sometimes it is almost impossible to recognize it, but it is possible. Education can help in this case, too.

But to track people who are innocent and basically call them potential criminals before any crime is committed, is asinine.

What a ridiculous question.
That sucks. But the problem there is exactly the same as developers who propose solutions that cannot be implemented within the budget. It's bad developers/designers - not bad development/design.
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Exactly. These don't look "old", there is no retro feel to them, especially with the landscapes. Messes with your head.
Personally I don't like the "UX designer" job title, but would put UI Design and Visual Design under the umbrella of UX (ala JJG's classic "elements of UX" diagram http://www.jjg.net/elements/pdf/elements.pdf)
Your proposed solution will slightly improve latency, not bit rate.

>You want to make some sort of logical computation based on the state of a 50GB data structure, and all you do is follow the pointers? The 'driver' for flash attached as memory is

> var = ((var type )(0xsome64bitaddress);

You don't need any changes in hardware for this, you can use memory mapped files. Main reason that today software serialise everything is interoperability. For example, old versions of Microsoft Office applications did this, modern don't.

Also read about PhantomOS.
I come from the place where majority of these photos were taken (Ural mountains). Here is comparisons of landscapes on these old photos with current view — http://ufa.livejournal.com/2259613.html http://ufa.livejournal.com/2248707.html http://ufa.livejournal.com/2248073.html
Actually, in my opinion, not much have changed
Seconded - this is a bit light on content. Hopefully the post-conference talks will be a bit meatier.
> The observer effect applies even to classical systems. You just can't measure something without affecting it in some way [1].

What I have never understood about the observer effect, is how it applies to the observation of blackbody radiation.

For example say we observe the photons emitted from the sun discreetly on earth, how does that alter the state of the sun itself?
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It is probably a strange thing to say (i.e. common knowledge for others), but it only recently occurred to me that people develop a standard pose for photos. If you look at a family album or say Facebook or Flickr, and scroll through historic photos, the most "photogenic" people look almost identical. Those people will face in a certain direction with the same shape of smile and posture, it's almost freaky how identical they are! So it's obviously a practised/fake thing, that some learn to do while others remain oblivious. Back then, this concept would not have existed.
The locations of these photos are pretty significant to the etymologies of many groups of people, spanning from modern day Turks, Koreans, Japanese, and even Native Americans.

(at least some people have proposed this). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages
In the design world these are known as "unicorn designers" - since you're about as likely to find one :-)

It's the design equivalent of asking for a developer who is an expert in front-end, back-end, databases, operations, scaling, etc. etc.
Or, if you have Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) installed:

brew install tree
Every so often I'll try to switch to two spaces, but I fail. Four spaces magically fits the length of `var `, and allows for nice variable alignment which is too good to pass:

var one = 1,
two = 2;

// or
var one = 1
, two = 2

I also feel that when you have deeply nested callbacks, two spaces are not enough to visually separate indent levels at a glance.
Very good utility. Thanks for the tip.
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> If you eat contaminated pork, you won't get NCC (or other cysticercosis)

You are wrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysticercosis
I use tabs for indentation, and I don't particularly care that I'm "out of touch with the JavaScript community." That strikes me as a fairly arrogant thing for the article to say, but regardless, two spaces doesn't work for me. It's just not enough indentation for my eyes.

In particular, I like to code in a proportional font. I find this more pleasant for reading code, just as I prefer proportional fonts for other text. Two spaces is definitely not enough in a proportional font. It's like a single space in a monospaced font.

But even when I switch to a monospaced font, I just don't enjoy reading code with two-space indentation.
var one = 1
var two = 2