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You know, life would be so much simpler if companies could just force their idea of "consistent user experience" on people. Sometimes we as engineers have to take on additional complexity and just give the fucking customer what they want.

You can give users a rich user experience in a desktop app. Yes it will be more complex. Will it ultimately end in a better overall user experience? It sounds like your stance is "yes", and mine is "no".
I did not mean to assail? The original comment was lengthy and I did not understand what the overall message was (is the author of the article a fraud? Or not?). So I asked for a TL;DR which seems to be "maybe there is a problem or maybe there isn't", which for me condenses to zero content. How is that assailing?

Perhaps my tone came across as snarky because the person providing the TL;DR actually "assailed" me for asking for a TL;DR. Sorry about that.
As a fairly untechnical user, I would like to add that as soon as I figured out how to actually get bitcoins (bitinstant) the process became quite natural and the usefulness apparent.
yeah, sorry, was in a rush to go eat. didn't really mean that your worries would all go away, only that musicbrainz might be a good place to look for more info.
"IMHO, what was said in the email is just marketing duck-speak, no matter how sincere it sounds until proven otherwise."

I agree that this looks like a PR stunt, but it also shows some potential changes underfoot at Paypal.

Here's my read of the situation: Paypal has been known for being beauracratic ever since the eBay acquisition, when all the smart people left and the bozos and middle managers remained. You know the type of place and the type of people it attracts: it's the smooth-talking-but-not-that-bright individuals who do well, and any smart employees who perceive the real problems the company is in find themselves a part of an outcast fringe.

Don't tell us we have bad customer service issues; expressing that kind of negative attitude is not going to impress senior management, what with bonus season coming up. Stripe and Square are just dipshit startups that no real business will ever use. La-la-la I can't hear you.

It seems someone at eBay finally realised PayPal was going to be "disrupted" if it didn't get a leader with their shit together. This new guy seems competent, but steering a big lumbering ship like PayPal away from its death course takes serious political/organisation-hacking skills, no matter how big the icebergs loom.
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Automatic tracing of roads from Bing provided aerial photos, with code provided by MSFT, 18 months ago:

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From the skepticism here, it's clear Mr. Marcus has his work cut out for him. Even with far fewer people ever reporting to me (directly and indirectly) than him, I sympathize with his inability to get the unvarnished truth from his own people. "We're routinely screwing people out of hard cash" is probably a scary message to relay up.

His email sounded sincere, and he's new to the job. I'd be inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. He must know that the technorati hating his company is bad for business.
You are fighting a losing battle here I think but it is a reasonable question. In political studies folks often use economic success as a proxy for evaluating the quality of governance, by that analysis the US system would score highly. and African feudalism would score poorly. However such discussions are fraught with conditions, such as what are the natural resources available? What are the hindrances? China makes an interesting case because its economic growth under strict communism (Mao's model) was quite poor, whereas its economic growth under a more capitalist system (Den Xioping's model) has done much better. But its also perfectly valid to wonder if economics is a good proxy. What about life expectancy? happiness ? hunger?

Ultimately though you are going to run into debating philosophy and that makes for wonderful rhetoric but few conclusions.
Not necessarily. Between writing that email & it being publish that CEO is now very much committed to this since its his reputation on the line now. He said he'll get it done.

Unfortunately there aren't a whole lot of details in the mail that one can call the CEO out for if it doesn't happen but its a good start and in my opinion more than a PR stunt.
Yep. It's called "drill-down teams" or "tiger teams", and it works.. use your back channels to discover what's wrong with your front channels.

I've seen it work. Hell, I've helped it work. This is a good sign.
what really, really impressed me about rebol was its runtime. it seemed to achieve an almost magical combination of small, cross-platform and capable, bypassing the usual "pick any two". but even back in 1999, when i first came across it, i couldn't bring myself to invest in a closed-source language. i've been keeping an eye on it ever since, hoping it would go fully open, but it never happened.
The idea is that Paypal will use this to event to understand how their systematic mistakes, and to fix them. That way, others won't need a direct line to the CEO.

Of course, they should have developed mechanisms to take customer feedback seriously before.

And they should have fixed this long ago.

But there's nothing wrong with learning from your mistakes so as not to repeat them.
Now they get back to me and are going to Charge me $80 more for squatting on the domain?

Here is the exact text from godaddy.

According to a whois lookup at the registry, the domain name [domainname] expired on 8/10/2012 and was held in a short grace period to allow the registrant to renew. Given that the domain was not renewed in a timely fashion, the domain has now entered a 30 day 'Redemption Period'. During this period the registered owner may renew the domain by paying a redemption fee.

The Redemption Period is the 42 day time line available to domain owners to renew a domain after the expiration date. From Day 19 and on the domain registrant can renew with a Redemption fee. When your domain is in Redemption Status it has passed the expiration date, but has been reserved for an extended time frame for the domain owner on behalf of the domain registrar. A Redemption Fee is an $80.00 fee that must be paid to renew domains that have been expired for 19 days or longer. The Redemption Fee is initially paid by the Registrar to extend the registration and prevent the domain from being backordered or going onto the market.
> If the exact same recording of a song appears on two
> albums, an ideal categorization system would allow it to
> appear as such without storing multiple (redundant) copies
> of the song.

I don't agree. The song was released twice; if you have both albums, you ought to have two copies of it.
The regulation says, "the foam inside upholstered furniture be able to withstand exposure to a small flame, like a candle or cigarette lighter, for 12 seconds without igniting." so if a fire has already started and it is bigger than a small flame then this regulation isn't meant to help with that. In fact if you look around you can find http://laurasrules.org/2012/04/15/sofa-saga-part-3-interview... people talking about studies that show that in a actual fire these chemicals only slow down the burn rate by a couple seconds.
"Prefer composition over inheritance" is an item in Bloch's Effective Java.
Red meat isn't bad for you.

Red meat in a high glycemic index and/or calorifically high diet is bad for you.

There are probably leaner sources of protein you could go for, but the fats in quality red meat are the closest thing to a nutritional panacea for humans.

Admittedly, these boons mean little when all of your health problems are from eating too much or eating junk food (candy, soda, etc).
I sit on the floor and put a laptop on a coffee table that has open space for my legs underneath. The ergonomics for my arms aren't very nice but everything else seems to be fine.

I do move around every hour. I use a wireless mouse but I don't end up using a mouse that much. Sometimes I will hook up a keyboard and use the keyboard on my lap under the coffee table but not that often.
> I think that a question has been developing world-wide that remains without a solid answer: How do we, the people of this planet, evolve into a species that is free from the chains imposed onto us by governments?

What is your government stopping you from doing? Why is that a problem?

> Property taxes.

Property taxes are a compromise. They rob the rich (especially the rich who are sitting on assets but not working them), which makes it easier for the poor to build a bit of wealth.

It's like putting a time limit on patents. Sure, it sucks to have your wealth stolen, but it may create a wealthier society.
The behavior of list.h essentially boils to downcasting from a list node to its container. Allowing multiple list nodes in the same container, and re-use of the same node for different lists. How do templates make this type-safe?
I hope they open source the entire codebase. That's the best way to handle projects you no longer want to spend money maintaining.
Some of these problems (like creators with the same name) have been solved by librarians years ago.
Have you tried Quodlibet? https://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/

It comes with a Musicbrainz plugin which allows you to select an album in your library and search for it on musicbrainz (e.g. by artist name and year or number of tracks-- so you really dont need to have much info) and then you can select a match (there are usually many releases of a given album and it will actually differentiate between them) and then tag your album with the musicbrainz tags.

In fact you don't even need to use quodlibet to get this feature. It has a separate tagging component called "ex falso" which you can run standalone and then use the player of your choice.

But I would strongly recommend Quodlibet for its organizational capabilities as well. For example it uses special internal tags (not id3 but stored in a separate db) that allow you to associate "people" and "performers" to a track so that the track will appear when you search for any of those people.

Also there are sort tags that allow you to customize where stuff shows up, e.g. I can have a track with Artist tag "London Symphony Orchestra", composer tag "Ludwig von Beethoven" (the proper ID3 tags) BUT I give it the artistsort tag "Beethoven" so it shows up under B. Perfect!

See https://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/AudioTags or more info.

Lastly it has regex search! And you can make "saved searhes" e.g. playlists. And it's lightweight and has an uncluttered (but highly customizable) interface. And it's very easy to write plugins for it.
"Separation of church and state" is absolutely not a Constitutional matter. That phrase comes from a letter written by, IIRC, Thomas Jefferson.

The constitution says "Congress shall make no law concerning an establishment of religion..." and that's all. It has, or should have, no bearing at all on the actions of state legislatures; if I recall correctly, at least one state still had an official church at the time the Constitution was ratified.

Furthermore, it has essentially nothing to do with the Fourteenth amendment, except maybe a few idiots who tried to use religion to justify racism.
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I say "one is compelled by the force of law to provide testimony or evidence" and you reply by suggesting I don't know what a subpoena is, and tell me that it is "a document compelling production of documents or of testimony." Thanks.

It's true that ultimately a federal court will be enforcing the subpoena, if the recipient decides not to comply. Let's set aside the structural problems that arise from these subpoenas being so easy to issue, and costing so much to defend against, which makes that an unattractive option regardless of subpoena's legitimacy. Instead let's just look at the linked "U.S. Department of Justice Report to Congress on the Use of Administrative Subpoena Authorities by Executive Branch Agencies and Entities":

> The courts are generally deferential to the agency’s determination that the information sought is “reasonably relevant,” noting that a court must “defer to the agency’s appraisal of relevancy in connection with an investigative subpoena as long as it is not ‘obviously wrong.’”

> The burden of proof imposed on a challenger to an administrative subpoena is steep, however. A challenge based on an agency’s failure to satisfy one of the four factors establishing “good faith” under Powell,” for instance, will only be successful upon a showing of “institutionalized bad faith,” not mere bad faith on the part of a particular individual issuing the subpoena.

> While a subpoena recipient may be entitled to some opportunity for discovery and an evidentiary hearing prior to judicial enforcement of an administrative subpoena, this entitlement is not absolute and is dependent upon the recipient’s presentation of a certain “threshold showing” of facts supporting the need for such hearing. The level of this threshold showing varies among the federal courts. Should a hearing be provided, the subpoena recipient may present a successful challenge by showing by a preponderance of the evidence that the administrative agency did not act in “good faith” in issuing the subpoena, was otherwise unreasonable in its subpoena request, or “abused the processes of the court” in seeking enforcement.

> As federal agencies are not currently authorized under statute to enforce administrative subpoena compliance directly, certain agencies have recognized that they are capable of taking action separate and apart from a U.S. district court’s enforcement action in an indirect effort to encourage compliance. The Federal Maritime Commission, for instance, states that, in addition to requesting the Attorney General’s assistance in seeking judicial enforcement, the Commission may: (1) suspend a common carrier’s tariff or use of a tariff for failure to supply information, 46 App. U.S.C. §1712(b)(2), (2) impose a penalty of up to $50,000 per shipment for carriers subsequently operating under a suspended tariff, 46 App. U.S.C. §1712(b)(3), and (3) request that the Secretary of the Treasury refuse clearance to carriers in noncompliance with a subpoena request,

If you don't see this as a situation that's ripe for abuse, we just have very different perspectives on human nature and there's not much arguing that's going to bridge the gap.
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It looks like the author has come to an understanding with his/her disorganized music collection, but beets makes it pretty easy to bring sanity back to a messy music library: http://beets.radbox.org
Seriously, fuck them. They're starting to act like they care because there are new competitors who've shown how it's supposed to be done. Sorry but not for me, Stripe is my new paypal.
I like the posts that are just a stack trace of an NPE in a homework assignment.
Last.fm and Spotify generally give me terrible recommendations and no discovery at all. I think this is because they use machine learning on the person <-> track graph to determine which tracks are related, so they're very good at finding you DragonForce or IOSYS, but very bad at finding you Hammers of Misfortune, Gallowbraid, Umbrella, or ｍ’ｓ. Of course, if you listen to music that Last.fm thinks is adjacent to IOSYS or DragonForce, you've probably already heard of IOSYS or DragonForce.

Pandora doesn't have this issue because they use human analysts to determine the properties of the tracks and give you similar tracks rather than tracks that are listened to by similar people. Unfortunately their music library is pretty limited. Google Music's automatic playlist feature does something similar without the human analysts, but this only works if you already have all the music you want and it fits onto your Google Music account. They don't seem to provide an option to pay for extra space.
Matthew talks about a lot of the same concerns I have with SSL/TLS here, far more eloquently than I ever have.
Try asking your regular bank how their fraud detection works, or your insurance company, or the secret service.

Basically if you work in fraud detection (or broadly any kind of crime detection) you keep your techniques secret because otherwise you're helping the criminals avoid you.

Look at the source code for Reddit or Hacker News, notice how in the publicly released codebases they've both chosen specifically not to publish the code to do with vote-rigging detection.

There's a strong argument for secrecy.
"You now have my mobile number"

How much more direct communication do you want?
I built the mobile HTML5 version of Words With Friends that launched as part of Facebook's failed mobile HTML app platform, aka "Project Spartan". (standard disclaimers: I don't work for Zynga any more, these are my own personal opinions, etc).

I much prefer web development to native iOS development for many many reasons, and am 100% for building desktop games in HTML5, but the thing about mobile web apps is that you'll spend every waking minute focusing on performance; you'd better be comfortable with not using jQuery, and you'd better be ready to get intimately familiar with the intricacies of how WebKit renders the DOM so you can fine-tune by hand the way it applies hardware acceleration. If you're lucky, with tons of optimization you might get performance to a barely-acceptable level, and that's assuming your game's running in MobileSafari instead of a Nitro-less UIWebView. Things are only going to get better from here, but they've got a long way to go before I'll voluntarily write another web-based mobile game.

Also, if you're building a pure web app (as opposed to a native wrapper around a UIWebView), you functionally won't be able to have sound. I've heard that iOS6 is finally introducing a real web audio API, but the current version of iOS doesn't have a sane way to play audio in a way that's robust and full-featured enough for most games.

(And if you care about cross-platform support, don't get me started on the clusterfuck that is the Android browser. I'd honestly rather have to support IE 6/7/8 than the Android build of WebKit.)
You're making the problem a lot harder than it needs, or ought, to be. The most telling example, IMO, is the Aphex Twin one...

> Oh, and his real name is Richard David James. What are you
> supposed to use for the file system directories and files
> name? His name? The most common nickname? Both? One file
> system solution is to have symbolic links (do you link
> Richard David James to Aphex Twin, or vice versa?). For
> tags, if you don't want to lose information, this is
> another story...

You should—obviously—not attempt to "link" AFX to Aphex Twin to GAK to Blue Calx to etc. etc. The artist behind all of the monikers has made a deliberate decision to release work under different names. Organize accordingly.

Many of your nightmare scenarios appear to be a result of the same kind of over-thinking, or invention of nonsensical requirements. How are you supposed to deal with Japanese artist names? It literally doesn't matter—pick a scheme you can understand, and be consistent. How are you supposed to deal with multiple artists? List them, separated by commas, in the artist field. If they appear on an album released by a different group or person, use the "album artist" ID3 field. And since (if?) you use the ID3 fields to store your metadata, and presumably navigate your collection through an interface over that metadata, all of your questions regarding how to store files physically on disk are totally irrelevant, as long as you pick some scheme which doesn't generate conflicts. The default iTunes structure (Artist/Album/01 - Song Title.mp3) seems to work fine, for example.
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Thanks for the quick response and you are right I did not provide project specific details because I do not have at this moment.But yeah I was hoping to get some place so that if I start something I could use that.
Ok, so how do you fix many people's problems without first starting with one?
I don't have his mobile number. What does that do for me and for thousands of others who have been screwed over?
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Hi Guys,

I finally took the plunge and moved to San Fran (from Australia) to work on my startup. I've only been here a week and don't know anybody (gets kinda boring).

If you have some spare time, would love to meet new people. I'm staying in the bay area (specifically, SoMa). Happy to shout you a coffee, beer or food. You can leave a comment here or text me on 415-316-6144.

Andy.
They abandoned mobile but not desktop, the last Mac update was about a month ago and looking at their jobs page they're actively hiring new people to work on it.

It would be inline with wanting to have one official client per platform.
Adding a "var" keyword, similar to that of Javascript, was discussed on the Python mailing list a while ago. See here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-October/00...
I'm using TweetDeck extensively as I now manage multiple accounts for my personal and business accounts. I really like that the Twitter for iPad version has this already built in.

This is the biggest lacking feature on the web version. I do hope they fix this.
Each album is going to be mastered separately, and thus include slightly different tweaks (to volume, compression, whatever). You'll almost never see the exact same audio file stored twice.
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I took a biblical archaeology class as an undergrad and both our teacher and every text we read were very cautious about making this link. There simply isn't very much evidence for who the 'PRW (apiru or whatever) were; we don't even know if it's a particular tribe/identity or just a catch-all for brigands and outlaws. Similarly, we don't have any historical evidence for what Israelite society was like before ~1000BC and definitely nothing about 2000BC (when the word apiru starts appearing).

I agree that the ancient documents about marauding apiru might be referring to Hebrews, but we really should keep our Bayesian hats on when evaluating archaeological evidence.

As for "Yakubu" and "Israel", any citations? Are those in one of the Amarna letters?
Aren't all those other factors pretty strongly correlated with economic success? "Happiness" is obviously slippery and hard to measure, but to the extent it's not dependent on the individual's choices, it depends a lot on physical/emotional/economic comfort. And money works pretty well for getting medicine and food.
>it helps fraudsters avoid that particular wall or trap, letting them probe the defenses elsewhere.

Couldn't you say make the same argument of proprietary vs open source software?
Nobody's saying that "learning from your mistakes" is wrong. How do any of us know what "the idea" of this is, whether we'll hear anything more at all after this one person is taken care of? The funniest thing is that for all of the years that PP "should have fixed this long ago," this one event is what is to be used to understand their problems? What happened to all the other years? What happened to paypalsucks.com? There's are extensive lists, continually updated, of incidents like the one in this story.

The only leeway I give them is openness to the future, but from the past to the present, they are a seriously bad company for entrepreneurs. A business owner literally cannot know whether they'll be caught up in PayPal's various harmful practices, and this message from an executive is the smallest Dixie cup of water given to a one of a hospital full of burn victims.
What the ever-loving hell is Twitter on about these past few months? It seems almost as if they're trying to piss people off.
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