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Skeuomorphism is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original [1].

So the problem is exactly it: the designer attempted a skeumorphic design of something that has no original in the first place. The consequences then are that it doesn't improve usability, wastes bandwidth, etc. - just as in any other bad design.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
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Plugx RAT targeting government organizations in Japan using spear phishing
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If anything, it was more popular; in 2001, Java was the "modern" mainstream choice for backend in financials and enterprise L.O.B. applications, where today it's simply the incumbent choice. People forget that Rails was a primarily a reaction to J2EE's hegemony over "professional" (to use the closest word I can think of to describe the concept) web backend development.

A significant fraction of our enterprise clients today are entertaining a new "modern" platform to supplant Java, like Clojure (in finance) or Scala (in startups). Maybe it's not occurring to people that Clojure, Scala, and even Groovy weren't options in 2001. It was Java, C#, or PHP, or Perl, or C/C++.
It probably worked great until someone blogged about it.
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The nice thing is that because of the MIT license, those coding up their own engines can borrow missing pieces (such as navmesh generation, pathfinding, animation, etc.) from Torque. I really like this move.

Guess it's time to start wearing my old GarageGames t-shirt again. Unfortunately, college was a few years and a few pounds ago...
Congratulations - you've (re)invented another low carb diet. You're in good company - Tim Ferris did much the same, a few years ago, in the Four Hour Body. Doubtless others will follow.
Honestly, I think this is a situation where Apple hardware is fragile instead of simply "not ruggedized". Traditionally laptops had hinge locks, for example, but the industry moved away from that because the unlocked hinges were perceived as nicer. Apple has always driven this process more than any other manufacturer. It's probably that they simply got burned here and chose a set of sensor/key/hinge designs that were a little too aggressively "thin".
I am not disputing the fact that the idea of virtual machines was popularized for a new generation of developers by Java. However it goes back commercially a lot farther than I think you, or most software developers, realize.

IBM started shipping mainframes where everything ran inside of a virtual machine 40 years ago this year with VM/370. Its purpose was to emulate previous IBM hardware running a previous IBM operating system. People today are able to run applications written in the 60s mainframes without change in part because the radical changes in underlying hardware have been hidden from them by layers of virtual machines.

Of course there are many predecessors. After all Lisp has been running in a virtual machine ever since the first one, in 1957. But IBM is the first instance that I know about where a company shipped machines to paying commercial customers that wanted to run software inside of a virtual machine.
Your biggest problem is probably that Objective C developers are in extremely high demand. They can make a lot of money, or if they have an interest in start-ups the barrier for entry is so low to get in the app store that they probably don't see a need to partner. Everyone has a dozen ideas for cool apps.

It sounds like you have a pretty compelling pitch, but you are pitching to a very small market with tons of competition.

Good luck!
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Agree. I can remember vividly that same state of flux in my own life.

When my parents dropped our dialup internet (too expensive) I looked for alternative ways to get online. My 'solution' was successful and was really exciting at the time but it was also illegal. After (poorly) emulating what I had done, a friend ended up with an angry sysadmin and some cops at his door.

Obviously what I did was wrong, it was stealing. But at the time it didn't feel wrong. It was exciting, fun and interesting - unlike anything in school or sports. Not only that, but the kid who got busted was our valedictorian a few years later, arguably one of the smartest kids in school.

All of the elation associated with the hack added to the fact that I knew most people couldn't do, or even understand, what I had done, masked any feelings of guilt or culpability in my still-developing conscience.

Now I have a son on the way and I'm wondering what he will have to experience before learning these lessons and what I can do to help with that. The prospect of being a father is the happiest, most exciting thing in my life to date - and also the most terrifying.
Well it will be interesting if they go the other way, and try to 'spoof' it which is to say get someone banned by posting a screen shot of some bad behavior that points back to them.

My understanding (and it may be incorrect) that the character name and realm is embedded not the battlenet account id. so something Blizzard could turn into an identity but 'regular' users could not.
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I have to wonder how many extra customers the various third-party DNS services have gained as a direct result of this.

I've just switched to DNSMadeEasy - for anyone concerned about the time involved, they have some cool timesavers like templates you can apply to all of your domains at once. Really makes a difference not having to manually set up individually the entries for Google Apps on 20+ domains.
I love it but isn't it freaking expensive?
It was actually possible to use per-seat pricing with Stripe before this without creating numerous plans. You'd just have to do most of the work in the application layer, adding/removing individual charges to an invoice when seats are added/removed, and calculating the pro-rating charges on your own. I did this for TaskforceApp.com over a year ago.
Not only has Dev Bootcamp's cost risen, they're getting super selective about who they let in the program. The other huge issue would be for people who don't live in SF. On their website they say they work with the best recruiters in SF who are "waiting for you to graduate.". Yeah, so if I'm not from SF, then what are my odds of getting in? Probably slim to none.
Yeah, what does "partner recruiting companies" mean? Has anyone from App Academy received offers from any of them?
None of that is necessarily incorrect... but per their news release 'corrupted router data tables' (their words) were the issue. I can't read too much into that, but that still doesn't change the fact that DNS wasn't resolving for a while after they made their Verisign change (for clients), yet their website was resolved with this change.

You are correct that I don't know the details of their internal network and I never said otherwise, just that the chain of events and their claims don't necessarily match up!
Great idea. I'm surprised nobody has done this before (but they probably have, I'm no longer a skateboarder).

But I'm wondering about the prices. $10 stickers and $40 t-shirts are still advertising, so people are paying to advertise for your company? That doesn't seem right.

In reality, they are really trying to push people to spend $1200 for a board. Even the $1099 pledge is a complete rip-off since you spend $100 less than the pledge that gets you a board, and they only give you a $100 coupon when you buy your first board for full price. That doesn't make sense.

A suggestion: create a small batch (5) of $500 or $700 pledges that provide a board. That kicks everyone into gear to get that pledge as soon as possible and fight over the $500 pledge spot.
> I guess you have to have some technical understanding of what's happening behind the scenes to pull this off though.

I think this is the major problem. If you have enough technical understanding to explain the problem in that much detail, you likely have enough technical understanding to do it yourself. Most of those steps you can do yourself faster than you can write out the detailed requirements for it.
The above may all be true, but I'm sure you'd say the same about any of the "enterprise" suites of web controls. Speaking from experience with Infragistics, I'd say the exact same things. Perhaps it's the price to pay for trying to make the "be all and end all" of control suites.
It's just unorthodox, is all. It also sets up a strange dynamic if a student can't or won't pay.

It would be even lower risk for the student if the hiring company paid, which is a standard practice -- referral fees as a percentage of the referral's first-year salary.

15%-20% is the standard.
My pet theory is that most diets aren't really that effective, but what _is_ effective is thinking about what you eat. It's not about how many carbs you consume or whether this food item would have a face or not. What's important is that you're consciously thinking about what you're eating. "Do I really need to eat this snack, or can I wait another hour til meal time? Is this junk food or is it healthy?"

I've found that simply tracking my calories (not with any specific goals in mind) has helped me drop weight like nothing else. I don't think "Oh, I have to get under 2000 calories today", but I think "Man... this little 2.5oz bag of cheezits is 200 calories! Maybe I'll eat an apple instead." And you know what? It works.

Bottom line is that what you eat matters less than what you think about what you're eating. That's my two cents.
But that's my point really. Why does the site's owner need to be verified at all?

I believe we should have a SSL cert that only enforces the encryption but makes no claims about the server's owner or that any transaction is guaranteed up to a specific dollar amount.

I know you can self sign, but when the browser shows the user the site is self signed, they get nervous. Conversely, I could get a minimal identification req SSL cert from Godaddy that doesn't alert the user, but I have to pay at least $15 for that right.

My main issue or question is why SSL is paired with COMPANY/PERSON identification? Why do I rely on the CA to verify a company is real? Why aren't there 2 elements. One is encryption, one is identification. Encryption is free to implement with no warnings in the browser. ID can cost money to pay for the verification process.

Thoughts?
No news, which saddens me as I just do not want to do any business with PayPal...
Is this new? I have had no problem getting onto Boinge with my iOS device.
I'm a little unclear why they're plotting this on a map of the world. Isn't virtually all of the spread over the internet? What is the relevance of physical location? It'd be more interesting to see what online communities were involved (referrer data).
The other big (First world ) "problem" is that once you get used to the retina display, looking at the older display is almost as jarring as looking at a SD transmission after you've gotten used to HD. Both of those were perfectly fine before you got used to the new stuff. What takes me aback is the difference in iTerm/Terminal ( that's where i spend most of time ) between the old and the new.

Of course the non retina apps like firefox, thunderbird, opera show up exceedingly fuzzy. I'd like to continue to use them but they're just hideous and i have to revert to Safari/Chrome
I have been developing Java since 1996. I have a written a lot of Java so I'm probably a pretty strong example of a Java developer. I'm an above average developer (and that might be generous) but not much of a hacker.

So let's get to it.

Is Java clean and beautiful? Sure, it's easy to read and just about anyone who has read any other language can figure out what's going on.

Is Java powerful? You can do just about whatever you want with it. Early on it was pretty tough to get to the native level but that has become less of an issue over the years. It still doesn't do graphics all that well so it's never been a great option for game development.

Do people love programming it? Programming is tedious work and good languages help reduce the tedium. I'm not sure Java reduces the tedium enough, it may even increase it. But this is what makes it cleaner than other other languages. Sometimes the tedium that it doesn't reduce is how others can come in and know what I was thinking then I developed it. However, POJOs with getters and setters are tedium no one explicitly needs.

I'm currently working on a new project (in Java) that I found I was building more classes than I felt I needed. A lot of getters and setters, object managers for each object, DAOs for each object, and each object itself. All that before anything even makes it into or out of a database. I thought if it would be easier in any other language and the answer was yes, but only temporarily. Once this boilerplate stuff is done I would have a very robust application that is easy to refactor if necessary and just about anyone can add to it will little trouble.

That said, I've been meaning to try out scala and python. I tried ruby but found it a little too young (but that was a couple years ago). I also said I'm not much of a hacker so I tend to spend my free time doing things other than development. I'll probably get around to learning those languages right after I learn to play the piano and can speak fluent German.
It's easier to maintain a dense public transportation system when the system's goals are (for instance) to move 80MM people around in an area the size of Colorado. Colorado, by comparison, has a population of 5MM.

But yes, I was making the latter point.

Does life expectancy tell us something about the differences between life in the United States and Finland? Yes... but what if all it's telling us is "the United States is simultaneously less dense and comparably urban to Europe"?
This is something I've been thinking about a bit recently.
When I look at a lot of profitable businesses like tech startups , investment firms etc they can have very high turnovers without actually employing many people.

Apple is one of the biggest companies by market cap. They claim to create around 512,000 jobs (http://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/).

However many of those jobs are in their retail stores which their business could at least in theory do without. Also many are in manufacturing where there will increasingly be automation.

I hear a lot from politicians that we need to get people spending so that they can create jobs. However a fair amount of the economic activity that I do is via either clicking on google ads or buying games from Steam. A lot of these games are written by very small teams. So I could quite easily spend a lot of money without really creating any jobs at all.
Sort of like how "off the record" is a fluid definition for journalists. If no one agrees on what it means, they can't hold you to it!
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Nothing, since 99.9% allows them nearly 9 hours of downtime a year.
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This is a great overview for people looking to run their own servers, with one of the clearest explanations of DKIM and SPF I've seen. Awesome. As a counterpoint, I'd like to add that from the point of view of an email sender (our company PostageApp is a transactional email service), individual Postfix (Exim, qmail, Exchange...) setups receiving email for small organizations are one of the largest headaches we face.

Large ISPs - Gmail, Hotmail, even Yahoo and AOL to an extent, are predictable. If you play nicely, tick the technical boxes and listen to feedback (SMTP return codes, FBLs, bounces etc) you get great deliverability. Even mid-size ISPs and larger companies usually have some reasonable visibility - responding to postmaster@, internal blacklist checkers, etc.

There are, though, still a nontrivial percentage of organizations and individuals who run their own setups using anything from 1998 'standards' through to modern configurations, combined with other filters like custom SpamAssassin rules, an out-of-date Barracuda appliance, or quirky ASSP installs. They often exhibit some unpredictable behaviours - sending permanent hard-bounce codes for simple inbox-full errors; marking completely innocuous email as spam; requiring three attempts for every email to block spambots (delaying delivery by hours); publishing broken MX records...

Dealing with these can be tricky - even finding the correct admin to contact is often an exercise in futility, all the while, the users are not receiving their critical emails. I guess my message is, when running your own email setup, Caveat Hack0r; if you're not in it for the long-haul, including updates, testing and responding to inquiries, you should really consider going with third-party providers.
Isn't this the same thing? Was launched on kickstarter months ago: http://www.zboardshop.com/
> [...] but in no way was missing a July deadline a missed deadline

Thanks for clearing that up, Ms. Doublespeak.
the new program is meant to educate account holders and younger users about the perils of downloading unauthorized content

What perils? Later in the article, lawsuits are mentioned, but the whole thing is pretty vague.

Putting aside both the legality and morality, doesn't this policy seem odd? If there's nothing wrong with what people are doing, then there's no need for this at all. If people are doing something wrong, shouldn't there be legal censure, or something? Not just a warning about some mysterious "perils of downloading unauthorized content"?

What premises could you possibly have that would make the correct conclusion "warn people 5 times and then take some vague and indeterminate action"?
Employees of ARMA dev arrested on spying charges in Greece
Is there US governmental oversight of this program? Or is it just a business arrangement between numerous copyright holding companies and ISPs? It looks like the latter.

After an end user has received all 6 strikes, they could be sued or the ISP could cut them off. Nothing prevents someone from being sued before completing all 6 strikes, and a user could possibly complete 6 strikes and receive no penalty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_alert_system
I've been trying to get into shape myself and I've found that any kind of novelty diet like this may get rid of some pounds but doesn't ultimately stick. Because you can lose 19 pounds in 3 weeks and then gain it all right back in the same amount of time.

You have to make a change that you can live with for the rest of your life, as depressing as that sounds. But what has been working for me is:

1) not eating late night (this is the hardest for me but also the thing that makes the biggest difference)

2) eating smaller portions. once you get into the habit this actually becomes rather easy. just eat 1/2 or 2/3 of the portion size you'd normally eat. eating until I was totally stuffed was just a habit I didn't even realize I was doing

one easy way to eat a little less is to skip the sides. like if i'm eating a hamburger - skip the fries. Or skip the bag of chips to go with the sandwich.

3) kinda watch the snacks and desserts. i don't cut them out but just keep in mind if i ate a bowl of ice cream yesterday, then skip dessert today.

Aside from that I pretty much eat exactly what I have always ate. I have lost about 22 pounds. I'm currently stuck at that weight because I keep cheating on my own system! But I think it's important not to be too hard on yourself otherwise you tend to just give up.
Dynamix was closed 4 days after Torque(then called V12) v1.0 was released. GarageGames itself was more of an ex-employee spin-off (created several months before the closure) to sell a game engine using the Tribes 2 tech.
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Also why there are 10 new JavaScript data binding frameworks released per day.
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Ex-GoDaddy employee here:

Everyone there is on pins and needles at this point. Since Silverlake's investment in the company, many hatchets have dropped on jobs, and it's really the only decent tech firm in Phoenix to work at.

My guess is that there is some hiney covering going on with this explanation, and the interim CEO has little cause to care too much about responsibility, since he'll likely be out before year's end anyway.

I really feel for the folks who work there. Many, many talented people who don't have an inch to make a mistake. When I was last there, they had just released an internal communication about the new company motto: "It won't fail because of me." Horrible, horrible, backward-ass culture.
I actually like Java very much and am tremendously productive with it. It's a simple language and simplicity helps in many areas. It got many things right. It has a comprehensive standard library. Threading is excellent. Performance is excellent. Typing is helpful.

Its support for functional programming is lacking, which is why a lot of people from fp background have a dim view of it.
I built and iOS library for this last night (i'll open-source it soon). I love this idea and for iOS apps that don't have a web backend, this is a great and easy way to implement CRM with your app user info.

We use TestFlight a lot in our iOS apps. TestFlight is great for tracking what your users are doing inside your app, and logging errors. LessNeglect goes a step further and lets you tie users and actions together with an open communication channel.

I'm going to use this specifically to allow users of my iOS apps to send me support requests, and to also track in-app purchases.
I'll certainly take it over Haskell any day. And Perl, or Lisp. And I love static typing. The ugliness comes from the myriad frameworks that have sprung up for it(metaprogramming in XML, good god).
That's not how SLAs work.

Basically they're guaranteeing 99.999% uptime across some interval and you get some kind of compensation if/when they fail to meet it.
It's news to me! It probably just took a backseat to SOPA/etc. and was likely tabled at that time, only to resurface now that those efforts have been unsuccessful.
UIUC is not exactly lower ranking: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/...
Obligatory:

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/
this is a cool idea but eventually it would just be lots of minutes of photos of people sitting in front of their computer screen.
To answer your first question - I'd posit that (especially for North American readers) the big driver is a lack of credibility in the FDA, and the 'health industry' in general. Look at the evolution of the Food Pyramid (as probably the most well known example) over the years, but also the lack of controls on where HFCS ends up (ie. just about everywhere), alternating between demonising and lionising various food stuffs from one decade to the next.

Any kind of scepticism on this front is probably (pardon the pun) a healthy thing.