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I would like to continue working in the space even if I break from work to go to university. I would intend on working in the same area coming out.

I would be satisfied if it didn't hold me back. What I don't want to happen is to come to a point where the lack of paper stops me from achieving what I want, whether that be a promotion to management or a different job.

At the moment I don't have any "change the world" ideas that would stop me going into university. I can see the benefit of both sides though, getting actual industry experience or taking the time to spend it on learning the fundamentals, personal development etc. The social aspect of university and the fact that I'm missing out on it at 20 has also crossed my mind.
Apple is using the cartographic data provided by TomTom (who bought TeleAtlas a few years ago), notoriously less accurate in Canada that Navteq's (Garmin's provider). This may be the reason (or Apple's own mapping algorithms - couldn't tell, as I'm not using iOS).
SkyDrive is definitely Microsoft's bread and butter. Microsoft Office created $15 billion in profit for Microsoft last year, and collaboration is now an essential feature of productivity software.
Mmm, you might be right on the corporate price point. I was only considering the personal one, didn't notice the 2K price tag on the other.
That's what apple sells, a brand. Once they become commodity, it's all gone.
I like the approaches of both webOS and Firefox Mobile OS. For sure Javascript might not be the language one would choose to start with if one was re envisioning the web today with all the last decades learnings. And perhaps a fresh start could see lots of the incidental and accidental complexity dropped from CSS and HTML. But they are what we have today, and perhaps in time Javascript can align itself more closely to Scheme and a WebCPU element can come along to allow near native code where needed.

I have difficulty seeing a strategy underlying Google's effort with Java/Android - I dont see where it fits for a web company. The App / App Store centric distribution model is a step away from open exchange of information, and the whole App updating model seems very pre- web. Building up yet another Java ecosystem for UI seems another miss step like the original MIDP/J2ME disaster - what is it with Java encouraging non domain experts to implement libraries and frameworks?. Particularly as the web seems to move farther each day from Java in the browser.

Also iOS is quite uninteresting to me from an application development perspective. It has a very 80's feel to it with hard coded apps encouraging fragile pixel precise layouts. It seems primarily about building a money pump around a closed eco system. Some elements of the system are beautiful executed - the whole CoreAnimation / CALayer giving fluid graphics composition for example. But for the vast majority of throwaway apps the level of effort needed to implement native Apps - which for the most part are a gluing together of OS APIs seems like overkill.
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One more thing: Skydrive is not blocked by GFW. On the other hand, both Google and Dropbox are blocked.
Seems like a wise decision. First I've heard of Chilling Effects and it sounds interesting. Seems like an opportunity there for someone to make it international as it is very US-specific. Calling all IP lawyers!

Stripe is now in Canada, so maybe OpenMedia.ca?
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More like: Turn off snooze, set alarm to exact time you need. Then eventually set it earlier.

But yes, thats just about it. Plus a bunch of personal anecdotes.
This is great news.

> we’re adding a clause that commits us (when possible) to first notify the user if we’re legally compelled by a litigant or government to disclose a user’s private information

The only additional thing I would like to see is an additional commitment to use all legal means to fight gag orders when they're present.
Thank you! I knew it was an inputrc setting, but I couldn't find the right one.
When did Hacker News turn into an MLM platform?

This page looks like a late night TV Amway infomercial, complete with third rate camera acting. Or rather looked before their webserver bit the dust.
True. But TSA turnover must be huge, and screening for honest people is no easier today that it has ever been.

I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
That blog makes the same mistake that many blogs makes and has no links to the product, nor to whatever the hell it is their talking about.

(https://www.youtube.com/user/pe?feature=watch)

I'm guessing that's the channel.

Their website (http://www.pe.com/)

The subscription link on the website, which takes you to this page: (http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=pe)

There are 5 videos with viewership over 5,000. The rest? Most have less than 500 views.

The innovationmedian blog links to a few sites that make my neck itchy, in that "I'm sure these people are doing something unsavoury with online ads or reviews but I have no idea what it is". I know I'm over critical of advertising stuff.
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Don't worry, I assumed the same thing you did about his actions, and I think it's important to make what he did clear.
that sums it up well to me, the switch is not so immediate for most companies
I like the way they implemented the custom connection timeout for queries. Great example of using exceptions intelligently.
I was referring to the `they had to switch now rather than in 6 months due to a version number dance they are mystically locked into for no explained reason`.

Gruber is using a weird empiricism to defend everything Apple does. `They were locked into it because that is the pattern!` For instance, why couldn't they have released the new maps with the upcoming iPad mini release, buying a little more time?

Historically doing something one way doesn't mean you have to rush out a turd just to keep up a meaningless pattern. You also don't have to step over every crack in the sidewalk to avoid bad joo joo.

Gruber uses these little patterns in version numbers, release dates, etc. to make predictions about Apple releases and drive traffic to his blog. He has gotten so obsessed with them that he has flipped the entire utility of them and now uses them quasi-prescriptively in proclamations of what Apple has to do or had to do.
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Totally. You're basically hiring people for a job that no one who is actually qualified for wants. It's the security equivalent of an IT help desk.
Admittedly, it may have been a bit trollish. But I also think it may well have been a serious perspective on Apple's part. "Because we can" seems to be a significant factor in their actions that has been increasingly publicly noted. To some extent (and I've been around Apple products since the '80's), it always has been an apparent aspect of Apple's approach and perspective.

I don't know what happened internally (and Apple is well-known for lack of communication on such things), but they definitely shipped their Maps product with some significant shortcomings. And they apparently (I'm not too familiar with this) didn't list and engage in some recent pertinent hiring until they shipped. I wonder whether the delay in recruitment was in part to avoid spilling the beans on what was coming.

And I wonder whether they planned for their user base being forced to "beta" the thing as a source to rapidly identify and triage failure points.

As I recall now, aren't they also basing it partly off of open, public mapping data? And if that is the case, what better way to force data refinement than to force usage of same upon the public (or a significant chunk representing their iOS 6 user base)?

Of course, they may not have suspected -- or communicated sufficiently, internally -- how bad things might/would be.

But, someone had to know about these problems, to a significant degree. How else were they going to approach the attendant problems? On the face of it, it smells like a beta -- certainly from a data perspective.

Image-wise, this is about 1 year after Jobs' passing. And for this very image-conscious company, I wonder how things got to this point. Certainly the pundits have been looking for signs of, erm, 'negative changes' including citing Jobs', erm, 'manic perfection'.

As for myself, you may be right. I've been getting pretty "quippy" and at least somewhat sarcastic, lately. It is probably time for me to give commenting a break, for a while. And for that feedback, I thank you (seriously).

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So we should be second guessing his own quotes (assuming they're accurate)? "I do this historically. I take off for a little while and I vacation. It’s nothing new or exciting,"

From my point of view, a guy who's not been in the office for two months, who takes a phone call from a journalist while boarding a plane to Maui, doesn't sound like he's being 'forced' to do anything.
This seems like a typical "gotcha" story. TSA has approximately 60,000 employees and to show that one stole something, or even one hundred have stolen things, doesn't raise any real red flags to me. I wish it didn't happen but I don't think this can really be used as an overarching critique of TSA. If we want to argue against TSA, let's keep arguments framed around invasive procedures, general incompetence, or the cost/benefit ratio that they seem to provide.
It is a minimum viable product. If Apple maps shipped on the first version of the iphone no one would be complaining about it. As it is it now it takes away features that people are were used to using.
I was in a 'lock-down' at Newark a while back and was told that I could use my video camera, so long as I didn't point it at the 'secure area' (basically at the checkpoint).
If you are familiar with combinatory logic, perhaps an explanation featuring enchanted forests full of songbirds would seem unnecessarily complicated. Nevertheless, "To Mock a Mockingbird" is one of the most delightful books I've ever read.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0192801422/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

Perhaps, in the end, it's just a form of recreation. One thing that interests me about such fantastic metaphors is to what extent they trigger or inhibit the "math reflex" of recognizing a problem one has already solved.

If there isn't a spoiler title, how many people familiar with Lambda Calculus have an "Aha! This is the Lambda Calculus" moment before it is revealed?
Ah, the wonders of web development portability across browser versions.

It sure beats the pains out of native development.
I am also using skydrive for few years now. All I can say that I am very happy. I keep my active codebase folder synced with skydrive and I am worry free from any loss. All my new code changes gets saved into cloud as soon as I hit "Save".

Recently, MS released a skydrive explorer and drop-off folder which makes it more good. It crashes one in a while but not a big deal. It is stuck with one of my login.aspx.vb and never sync it. I don't know why.

It created multiple versions of my few .docx files with my machine name appended but I think MS will fix it over time.

Does the success of skydrive means slow death for dropbox and box.net? I seriously think dropbox should start some other business may be integration with FB was the step in that direction but the feature is not outrageously great.
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Have you ever listened to this guy? He's completely full of it; one line of BS after another. It's not even worth hearing what he has to say.
The point of a metaphor is that it helps you make guesses about the behavior of something you don't yet understand by extrapolating from something you do understand. If there's no extrapolation possible, then it's lost its power. At that point it's just a theme.
I'm confused on the benefits? How does it connect me with people? Is it just a giant chat room?
I didn't used to know people used snooze at all - it always seems so futile - you have two options (at least in my mind);

alarm @ 8:00 --> get up at 8:00

alarm @ 7:45 + snooze --> painfully lose 15 minutes of good quality sleep and hate every second of it.

Why is that even a thing?
Harsh? Taking a CEO paycheck and disappearing for two months while your company crumbles, while maintianing an attitude of "So what? The rest of the team needs to show up for work but I'm special and need a two month sabbatical"... borders on embezzlement.
I enjoy the theory behind software development and often read research papers for fun. It's not uncommon for me to sit and read RFCs or wikipedia on certain subjects when I'm not working.

I know that there are many areas in which my knowledge is incomplete and I would worry that these gaps will not be filled purely through my working experience. That said if they're not required in my daily work I don't see them being absolutely crucial to learn.

I've met people on both sides of the fence in relation to the value of their degrees. Many of my friends still carry their student debt and would wager that the degree has not made a huge difference. Others really enjoyed their 3rd level education and saw it of being huge benefit to them.
You've just described almost every modern Internet-enabled convenience built on decades-old protocols. I suppose if people followed your line of thinking we'd still be doing command-line everything. I'm not very excited by that prospect and glad that not everyone shares your viewpoint on what's valuable and what's not.
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"The whole point of the Doomsday Device is lost if you keep it a secret. Why didn't you tell the world?"

I can't be the only one to hear Dr. Strangelove's voice every time documentation is missing, can I?
It's most likely that "invalid clicks" have occurred. If you clicked a few times on your own ads, this is why. It could also be a competitor intentionally trying to take you down. They just simulate automated clicks from the same IP on your ads. In this case you would have no control, and Google would yet be justified in destroying your account because of the activity that your participation in their network is generating - even if it is through no fault of your own.

This is one of many reasons why Adsense is not recommended. Another reason is that fact that they take so long to pay. No one pays on Net-60 anymore, except Google, because they can get away with it.

You are lucky though. In many cases, they wait until you've sent them a ton of traffic for 60 days - just before payday. They then tell you that you aren't being paid, close your account, and refuse to provide a reason for it. There is no indication about how much (if any) of the traffic you aren't being paid for is being refunded to the advertisers. I'd suspect it's not anywhere near 100%.

I'd suggest you join a CPA network that pays weekly and then choose advertisers from their inventory.
I think a lot of developers ignore enterprise, and what I would call "the real world", often to their detriment. There really is a lot of room for talented developers in that area.

I think real-time collaboration within office documents would be very valuable - but it has to be really reliable.

Word and Excel are probably the key apps in my mind, rather than Powerpoint - I assume you plan these for later.

How hard to you think it will be to get this working well enough for a Big 4 to trust it?
you could provide random videos of children playing randomly with their swings. At numerous points kids do get that trick to swing easily. I don't think it's hard at all.
Don't forget it also apparently broke his server.
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While my server deals with the traffic, here are the important bits:

- Floats don’t push block content down (http://jsfiddle.net/cvalleskey/WD9pB/)

- Z-index breaking when element is a child of a fixed parent (http://jsfiddle.net/cvalleskey/9S3S8/)
I (and I think this is a pretty popular perception) consider a "full stack" developer as someone who has thoroughly mastered at least 1, and is familiar with at least 1 or two other approaches from each layer in the following list:

Web Layer: Javascript (and/or one of its many frameworks like jQuery, Backbone, etc), Ruby, etc.
Server Layer: Django, Rails, Cake, Node, etc.
Data Layer: Postgres, SQL Server, etc.

All of that stuff you can learn for free on-line. Come up with an idea for a website that involves storing and manipulating data and can handle large numbers of people using it simultaeously. If you can make the whole thing by yourself, you are a full-stack developer. If you can't, figure out what the missing piece is and learn it.
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They worked in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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How does one save comments on HN? Do you access via some sort of overlay app with better functionality than the vanilla site or do you just bookmark stuff to your browser (or pinboard or whatever)
The account you link to was created 21 days ago and has 3 karma. Granted, anyone can read without needing an account but it doesn't really lend weight to what (I think) you're trying to point out.

Also, the post you've taken issue with is simply a parody (or satire). There very little in there that seems like a personal attack (at least to me).
Find out how many hours you sleep before you wake up naturally. Go to bed at an hour where you wake up at the right time without an alarm clock.
And OneNote is great too!
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People learn in a variety of different ways, and I'm also a developer who always prefers a reference manual over learn-by-example techniques. You may not be one of those developers, but that doesn't mean we don't exist. I imagine there are plenty of people who don't learn by the reference manual but would prefer to have it available - if it was available - as well.
That's the huge advantage of distros without discrete upgrade paths. I have the same Gentoo install on my desktop since I built it in 2008. Meanwhile I tried Ubuntu on my laptop for a couple of years and every time a new version came out, I tried to upgrade only to find my system borked, hours wasted, and ultimately my giving up and doing a fresh reinstall.

And yes, so many more things work "out of the box" today than ever before (as long as it isn't ATI/AMD :P). The Linux ecosystem has grown and improved incredibly over the last few years. I wouldn't dare argue whether it's better than OSX or Windows, but I can comfortably say that it has advanced a much further distance in the last few years.
Can we fully switch to solar with 2 years of fuel?
No, I live in a world where Java and .NET are kings of the hill. The consulting world of Fortune 500 corporate development.

But I do Android development on the side for friends, mostly NDK based games.

So I am well aware how the NDK works.

Again, the way these things get announced in the press trick the normal joe six-pack to think he will have access to all apps, when it will depend on how the app was developed.
The same IE that had a major bug recently and Governments everywhere were recommending to move away from it?
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I have gotten to the point where the alarm going off and me hitting snooze actually integrates itself into my dreams such that I don't even realize I'm doing it until after I wake up.
I have had the same experience. This year in college I had 8 am class M-F and its really nice to be able to set my alarm for 7 and get up every single time. I've only overslept and skipped my morning shower once. Compared to past years, this is a complete change and I actually like it.
So, Is this according to the spec or a bug?
A few weeks ago, I noticed the difficulties my wife was having as a freelance writer managing all of her projects and organizing the research for each of them.

I created Alexical as a gift to her to help reduce her stress. Unfortunately, we found products like Evernote to require too much self-organization and products like Trello to be too complex for the average joe. Alexical hopes to sit somewhere in between.

I'm showing it to you all to gather whether there's broader public interest for it.

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What does the spec say? is there a bug opened already? or are all the browsers wrong and Chrome is right?
I've noticed this as well, for blue links. It's really bugging me. Are you aware of a workaround?

Edit: I'm on a Mac, 10.7.5, FWIW
Why we use FaceBook?
I am not really sure why we use facebook. But I am sure that this funny picture will tell give you an answer to this question. Do you agree with it?
Something else I personally noticed with Chrome 22 is that Doxygen's menu bar now appears to be totally wonky.

http://i.imgur.com/zHSYQ.png

It happens with every 'last' menu item. No idea where that came from, but it's the first time I've noticed a Chrome upgrade in a long while.
So all it takes to declare the "Most Profitable Company in the World" deteriorating and coming to an end is some hiccups with a fairly new product?

I agree, this is fast, but not in the way you mean.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/20/technology/apple-most-valuab...
Rust (another "systems language of the future") has a lightweight syntax for spawned "tasks", I think. But I'm far from a Rust expert.
Perhaps you're not like this, but I am: It's the best feeling in the world to go back to sleep. When I'm asleep I'm just sleeping; when I hit snooze, though, I get 30 seconds of "awwww yeeahhhhhhhhhhhh..."

I don't use an alarm anymore because my sleep is so consistent and I don't have a morning role call, but when I did, it was awesome to be able to settle back in.
Here is the problem:

"We migrated all of our videos from the expensive Brightcove platform in August and went live on YouTube in August and on our site with YouTube on August 22, using the embedded player."

That is all. Google is free and nice but it is not really smart to run business based on company which essentially has no support.
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Based on the fact that your "premium" product offering comes out to about $2/month I can see why you think this is overpriced. For those of us charging real amounts of dollars for our products, spending $250 to get on the fast track to improving paid conversion rates is more than worth it.
Long form sales letters are proven, statistically, in many contexts, to convert more. It's really that simple. He could do a short and snappy page, but then he'd probably lose thousands of dollars a day. Or he can make people like you feel like it's a bit spammy, and make thousands of extra bucks a day. I know which one I'd choose.
I'll be needlessly pedantic and point out that actually Canada's largest province, geographically speaking, is Quebec and not Ontario
I clicked the link a few hours ago, got an error, figured you'd fix it, waited, but still get it now. There's a little box that says "We're sorry, but something went wrong. We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly." Apparently I'm the only one, but I can't get to the site.
You're jesting, but it's been done.
How much content does this break? Was this discussed on one of the public mailing lists? If so, does anyone have a link to some relevant discussion? (I would love to hear the various positions regarding breaking existing content to bring an optimization used by browsers people generally consider to render things weirdly to all browsers.)
When it probably covers mostly all computers that will run your script, I don't see why it isn't a good compromise.
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