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In Objective-C, I can easily say "if anyone calls a method on me that I don't implement, sent it to this object instead". I can also say "if anyone calls a method on me that I don't implement, do (foo) instead".

C++, for example, has no equivalent language facility for these scenarios; in fact they're nonsensical since they would both fail to compile.

You could build a similar system for C++ by making every object inherit from some base class that has a method performMethod( method, params) and replace all C++ method calls with your modified calls; but you're building a facility from scratch that comes out-of-the-box on Objective-C.
We need the photos they had of him during their "lobby."
Definitely hear you on this last point. I am currently planning work with a buddy who is the expert in a niche area. We will spin off and work in this area to tailor it for his (and hopefully others) needs.
the reason your comment about Americans is not racist is because you are not talking about Chinese People and American People at all. you are talking about Chinese People and People of Low Income who Live In America. you used a qualifier for the latter, but not the former. when you don't include a qualifier, the implicit one becomes "all".

yes, i realize changing your wording does not change your argument. but no one seems to be saying that you are a racist person or have a racist argument. they simply seem to be saying you said a racist thing.

and this is why delicacy is important when dealing with race. not just for sensitive audiences, but literal ones as well. ironically, if you take this perspective, "it's racist" actually seems less emotionally provoked than "it's not racist".
// Return the calendarObject
return calendarObject

It's like this all the way through the code!
Okay, I'm looking at the indictment.

I see lots of IRC conversations about things the defendants, Auernheimer and Spitler, could do with the email addresses they were getting... but no concrete plans to actually do those things. Yes, the downloading of the addresses itself was an overt act, but I see no overt act alleged that specifically reveals fraudulent intent or acts in furtherance of a plan to commit fraud. The only overt acts alleged, other than the downloading itself, were (1) they sent some email messages to some of the victims, and (2) they gave all the email addresses to Gawker. I see nothing in here alleging concrete steps toward extorting the victims, or stealing their bank accounts, or deceiving them in any way, or indeed anything by which they would actually profit. Again, they discussed various possibilities, but I see no evidence here that they actually undertook any of them.

I'm sure it didn't help their case that they figured that what they were doing was illegal or at least tortious, and that they attempted to destroy evidence.

But the crux of your response to Rob is that they had the intent to commit fraud, and frankly, reading this indictment, I still don't see any evidence of that beyond some IRC banter.

There's also, seems to me, an odd circularity to the government's argument. They're alleging conspiracy, and among the overt acts that demonstrate this alleged conspiracy, they include the scraping of the email addresses. But the crime that that overt act is supposedly in furtherance of is... conspiracy. Seems to me this recursion is missing a base case :-)

Count 2 of the indictment has a slightly different thrust. Even though it's titled "Fraud in connection with personal information", it references USC 18 § 1028 (a) (7), which says: "Whoever ... knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, or in connection with, any unlawful activity that constitutes a violation of Federal law, or that constitutes a felony under any applicable State or local law [shall be punished, etc.]." What they seem to be saying here is that the ICC-IDs themselves count as a "means of identification" and that the fraud consisted simply of using said IDs to access the AT&T accounts. But this is also circular. The "unlawful activity" is the violation of the CFAA itself. The demonstration that the CFAA was violated rests on the assertion that it was violated.

If this indictment reflects the strongest arguments the prosecution has, I must respectfully disagree with this jury.
There is an interview with a neighbor at the bottom of this latest installment on the story from Wired that has a pretty reasonable explanation as to why McAfee's neighbor was killed: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/mcafee-unhinged/all...

“Almost certainly what happened there was he suggested it to somebody, and then one of his many Belizean hangers on probably took it upon himself to do John a favor,” Allnatt says. “Because John surrounded himself with gang members. These are not nice people.”
This thread has turned me off HN for st least six months.
Hey everyone, in a nutshell, my co-founder and I launched a startup we’ve been working on for about a year. It is a cloud-based exception monitoring service for ASP.NET and/or JavaScript. We plan on adding support for Ruby and Python very soon.

We have a few features that other competing services do not have. We are also proud of our UI (and the overall usability) to which we gave a lot of love.

We think that our service is useful and we have been using it to find and fix bugs in our other projects.

What are your thoughts? Advice? Criticism?

Edit: Appfail was in beta for a while and I've asked for advice before. We are now out of beta and with a host of new features. Looking forward to any feedback!
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Haha, no. I did not pay someone to do that. I paid someone to find out how much of these economies are copied. We had numbers for everything including cost of unit per level, earn rate per minute per level, etc.

Everything followed the same pattern, not just level and XP.
I get where you're coming from, but I firmly, although respectively, disagree.

>The thing that made these 'thoughts' different is that they felt real. I experienced hearing something in another language,

- So do schizophrenics. That doesn't make their experiences any more concrete.

>What if we just needed a little bit of faith to see something that most people can't see? What does a kid see when they play in a box?

- Faith in things is important - probably intrinsic to our existence. It gives us things to aim for, to believe in. Systems of rationalisation. But believing something that is not possible will not make it so.

Kids are playing. Daydreaming. creating possibilities. You can do that when you're grown up too. I daydream all the time. But that reality doesn't exist outside of the story, the fantasy in the head of the creator. It could be argued that the greatest inventors and innovators (not to mention story tellers and artists) are able to mobilise their vision and dream into reality through faith. But there are still lots of things that can't, won't, exist.

>For a while, I had a spurt of thinking about some new tech idea and seeing it within a week of thinking about it

- This is a relatively well known phenomenon. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery - It has happened throughout history. I have personally felt this a number of times - that I have come up with an idea independently - and then you see the idea out in the wild. On closer reflection I realise that I was more likely influenced by my extensive readings and my day-dreaming to make links between existing technologies, discoveries and inventions; formulate and write up an idea - but these ideas are in the 'potential space' of possible ideas and concepts; and someone was more on the cutting edge than me; and did it better and faster.

>What if you could control the world, and you were the center of the 'relative universe'?

- interesting, and i've had similar thoughts. Forever unprovable however; and the idea of us each controlling a 'relative universe' I think on some level is true - i.e. we can do amazing things if we just set our minds to them and rise above apathy and entropy; but on another; we still exist as part of the universe, which has universal rules.

we are the universe experiencing itself; there is so much we don't know; keeping an open mind is important; so is dismissing things that are not the truth; the hard part is filtering the wheat from the chaff.
> But it is the right perspective.

How can a perspective, or a feeling for that matter, be 'right' or 'wrong'?
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See my other reply, it wasn't just XP and Level. Earn Rates per minute, cost of items per level, etc was also similar.
I would like to point out that I never suggested that one should ignore their seniors and especially not their peers. I merely suggested that seniority only buys a person so much respect. It's important not to exceed that quota.
The quotes Martin provides on his blog seem to support his criticisms adequately, IMHO. And the decision to stay with qt3 does not bode well for the future of the Trinity project.
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For sure, we learned a ton :)
Not really. Rockets are rockets. You'd be an imbecile to think you could fire nearly a thousand into the country across the border without experiencing military repercussions. If you live in one of the densest places on earth, you're not just a moron, you're also endangering hundreds of innocent bystanders by doing it. If you've seen the results of this antagonism in the past and you do it anyway, you're maliciously insane. If you launch your rockets from your apartment building, your kid's school, you must know what's going to happen as a result. Israel hasn't summarily executed six people in the street for being "Palestinian conspirators" during this mess, but Hamas has. Ten percent of rockets fired by Gazans land in Gaza, destroying their own buildings, infrastructure and killing their own people.

Who's holding the gate closed to this giant prison camp? Nobody, as it turns out, except Gaza itself. Look at questions 14 and 15 on this poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion:

http://www.pcpo.ps/polls/poll171.htm

80% of Palestinians won't give up on right of return, and they won't accept a cash buyout either. The former is as likely as America peacably returning the land to the Native Americans. The latter is an actual possibility, but what's the point if they don't want it. The Palestinian Authority doesn't want a large migration rate out, because it hurts their appeal for statehood and the argument for right of return. Hamas is responsible for turning Gaza into a prison camp, not Israel. Compare to the situation in the West Bank, where you could legitimately say there is too much Israeli interference, yet there is peace. If Gaza wants peace, they should show Hamas the door and elect Fatah. It worked for one half.

Israel has a fundamental responsibility to its citizens to guarantee their safety, and that responsibility has precedence over protecting the lives of innocent bystanders living in an enemy territory surrounded by agents who are actively attacking them. As far as this particular Gaza expedition goes, their hands are clean. This one's on Gaza.
Can you split those up with punctuation or something?
sources please.
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Execution is out of place here since you have very high control over if you will be executed or not. If you aren't murdering anyone or participate in activities that can end up this way (such as violent crime), odds of your being executed is much lower - it's not zero, since you can still be falsely accused, but much lower than just execution statistics.

Also, odds of dying from bees, etc. probably depend a lot on if specific person is allergic to the particular toxin or not, which is not random for this person.
Annoyingly, this report doesn't say anything about which patents 3D Systems believes Formlabs is infringing. Thus, it's really difficult to figure out whether there's a legitimate claim here or just BS.

It's virtually impossible to judge the legitimacy of this case without looking at the claims of the patents they believe were infringed. I definitely don't think it's appropriate to assume that those patents are illegitimate. There's a role for patents and this is a field where R&D costs may warrant careful protection of the underlying technology.
I wrote up my failed YC startup here: http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/why-we-shut-newstilt-down...

It was definitely a good move. More people read that blog post than heard about my startup in the first place, it got covered in loads of tech press, and people still ask me about it 2 years later. I get an email every few months thanking me for writing it, and I'm asked to do the occasional interview about it too.

It also allowed me to introspect a lot of what went wrong, and what I could have done better. One of the major reasons my current startup (https://circleci.com) is doing well is what I learned from the deconstruction.
...Federal Reserve Bank (three things it actually isn't)...

awesome description.
I know nothing about CRM tools, but I have some superficial feedback about your landing page.

In "Take control of your leads, customers, products, projects, tasks using a modern interface [...]", you probably want an "and" before "tasks".

Underneath your "Customers" screenshot, it looks like you pasted in the same description as for the "Goals" screenshot.

Typographically, your double spacing between sentences makes the left edge of the text look horrible, both in the opening blurb at the top and in some of the screenshot descriptions. The text does not line up vertically on the left-hand side.

Finally, this is less objective but "DangerousApps" seems like it might not be the best name for your enterprise software company. That name might fly for a funky indy game company, but to most businesses, the word "dangerous" is just about the last thing they want to be associated with their software.
First of all, props for making a desktop app.

Don't mind what others say about the UI, I know how hard is it do something that doesn't look like butt on Windows. Yours has a good balance of customization, the native look and feel and a reference to the Office. I wouldn't worry about the UI, it's solid. Everyone picks on it, because it's the easiest thing to critique.

There are few things that I don't like, in the order they stuck out."Fly! CRM! Fly!" in the page title - this is buddy-buddy and cute, but you aren't selling a social app or a game. You have to get your first impression right, or you won't get a download. To that end, you must have an About section with at least some details on where you are and the contact information. Similarly, there must be the Support section, ideally with some sort of public Forums sections, because not everyone is comfortable emailing the support.

Secondly, you must absolutely have a free/trial version. As low as your current price point is, Windows users are not used to paying for trials. I'm sure you know that.

Third, the name in combination with the logo - again, too playful. And this leads to the most important part - this playful, less serious feel combined with $5 price point says "here's a toy program I made for the lulz." It's a complete miss in terms of branding.

Overall, the program doesn't come across as a professional product. It looks like one, it is certainly aimed at a professional crowd, but it doesn't have all expected supporting attributes that would confirm it is one. The good news is that all this is very easy to fix compared to what you already accomplished.

Once again - good stuff, just needs a bit of a positioning polish.
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I am trying to create a list of the top resources for app marketing. Does anybody have any good ideas?
Does a website have your authorisation to use Javascript to determine what you're running on to tailor the experience for you?
And this my friends, is the fake world of democracy we live in. We are being illusioned to posses freedom that we don't really have. This is a game played by very powerful people at the top, who have the right amount of money at the right time and these people will continue to game this system. We need a change, desperately!
Use the money to prepare yourself for a large amount of funding. One of the first things they'll tell you at YCombinator is that vc and angel investors are very particularly about a company's legal structure. pg has open sourced the docs here: http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html Pay whatever you need to pay in order to get that done properly.

$5,000 is a small enough amount of money that the best way to use it is to set yourself up for the next level.
In America, I would strongly discourage payday loans. A credit card from a credit union will be much less abusive.
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Right, so the Brazilian SIM card was issued by a carrier that has a carrier profile included with iOS that is set to block access to that menu, while the European SIM cards you have either were issued by carriers with carrier profiles in iOS that don't block access to that menu, or those European SIM cards were issued by a carrier or carriers that the iPhone knows absolutely nothing about (no built-in carrier profile(s)).

In my case (and in the case of some other customers of other MVNOs), my carrier, Straight Talk, is really just a company that buys wholesale access to AT&T's network and then resells it as a prepaid service to customers. Thus a Straight Talk SIM card looks identical to an AT&T SIM card to the iPhone. And AT&T's iOS carrier profile blocks access to the APN editing submenu. So my situation is different from yours because in your case, your Brazilian service provider and your European service providers had no corporate connections with each other, nor did they share a singular common network, as is the case with AT&T and Straight Talk.

There is next-to-nothing Straight Talk can do about this, at least without both AT&T's and Apple's co-operation.
When talking about murder statistics, you can't be speaking from experience, can you?

The truth is that there are some very nice places in America, and some not very nice places. In the nice places, statistics is good or better than a developed country, in the not nice places, statistics is worth - because these places are nothing like developed country. While they are inside the borders of the USA, their life is very different from the life of the nice places. Smaller countries frequently do not have such diversity, and averages can be deceptive (when Bill Gates walks into a bar, average wealth of the bar patron raises significantly, even though nobody really got any richer).
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The Formlabs project is unlike the other projects you have mentioned.

Most hobbyist level 3D printers rely on extrusion (also known as fused deposition modeling) - heating up a spool of soft plastic (such as PLA) and extruding it out of a print head similar to how a desktop printer works. The Formlabs project is using a technique called stereolithography (1) where each layer is created by printing a layer of material (again, similar to a desktop printer) that is then cured by a laser (usually ultraviolet). It's a technique that allows for higher resolution objects to be created

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_deposition_modeling
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereolithography
If you don't believe your product is worth more than $5 then it'll be hard to convince others of it.
What I'm saying is pick another equally arbitrary price point and then see if you can sell copies. I think $5 will be an active deterrent to sales.
No they dont, this looks exactly like MS CRM 4.0 not like Salesforce.com or CRM using Google's apps or even the latest version of MS CRM. Also MS CRM has all the same features as this.

Is this hosted or clients have to host it themselves? Do you have support or tell people what they need to get this running? Im guessing a server, windows server license, a MSSQL license and Outlook licenses at the least right? Or does each person have to have his own copy of the data? And the pay with paypal link even feels wonky.

Im sorry to have to say this but this feels like a scam and if it isn't then I think you really need to focus on the design of your website and customer education.
Or it may be that when they hear us debating with each other about their ability to have 'rights', they think it's as comical as we would listening to dogs debate among themselves.
Too bad not even Microsoft can manage the feat. The DirectX brand has been pretty stable, but the APIs are constantly being re-invented. DirectDraw: dead, replaced by Direct2D. DirectMusic: deprecated. DirectSound3D: broken by Vista. DirectPlay: deprecated and partly broken by Vista. DirectShow: deprecated. DirectInput: deprecated, partly replaced by XInput.

Even if you restrict your focus to Direct3D, which has a narrower scope than KMS/DRI/X11/OpenGL stack being ridiculed, there's still significant churn and a few complete rewrites in it's history, and basically no attempts to support more than one generation of hardware at a time.

Of course, a lot of the DirectX API churn is due to the original goal of DirectX (direct hardware access, albeit through agnostic interfaces) being obsolete. Giving applications direct access is bad, as can be seen by trying to alt-tab out of most games. Even given the above, Microsoft deserves little credit for trying to provide a stable unified API.

For all its limitations and stagnation, it seems like SDL has been the closest to providing that holy grail of a stable unified API.
> A developer doesn't need to have skills if the developer has the resources to obtain others with the needed skills.

A person who does not have any development skills is not a developer. The ability to hire developers does not make one a developer. If I hire someone to play some Rachmaninoff for me, am I a pianist?

> For example, if you want to create an e-commerce site then there are lots of hosted services which will set one up for little to no cost.

If you rent a hosted service with an off the shelf e-commerce site that is automatically installed by your hosting provider, you are not a developer, you are someone who has instructed a hosting company to set up an e-commerce site.

Now, you don't need to have any development skills to run a successful online business, that much is true. But you do need development skills to be an actual developer.
maybe have a think about what a perspective is.

By its nature each person will have a different perspective because from where they are, it occurs differently.

It is the right perspective for you, but may not be for others. That is a moral side of the debate which is a different story
Japan has plenty of racism. They just don't have a lot of who to apply it to - not in the scales that it happened in the US.
Code repurposing

You've probably worked on some interesting projects that are similar to some of the call-for-bids on oDesk or Elance.

Just look for the intersection between what code you already have and ongoing call-for-bids.

While bidding, send a screenshot and say that you already got the solution working.

Clients love avoiding the risk of paying someone to try and reinvent the wheel.
Love the comments. Thanks tons for the feedback. Just curious... What is your thought on the fly icon? Keep it or dump it?
If you make any sort of money, someone will always be at the other end paying that exact sum of money.

If you are a sympathetic person, the higher that sum is, the more you will be focused on ensuring that the money paid is paid by people able to do so responsibly and people knowing what commitments they are getting into.

This sounds like quite the opposite.