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Here's a terrible analogy, to explain to you why I think your reasoning is wrong:

When you play Russian Roulette, death for you is the MAXIMUM PENALTY.

So, your two options are to play Russian Roulette, or I'll bargain with you - you can give me $10,000.

"At no time did I ever seek - or even tell you that I intended to seek - death for you."

But your two choices were, to play Russian Roulette, or give me $10,000. I might even have accepted a counter-offer from you, say, $8,000.

Keep in mind, if you play Russian Roulette, it's up to the gun what really happens. You might just hear a loud CLICK. But limiting the maximum penalty to death, rather than for instance killing everyone you know and love, is there to prevent abuses.

I know it's a terrible analogy. I just want to point out that the statement, "At no time did this office ever seek – or ever tell Mr. Swartz’s attorneys that it intended to seek – maximum penalties under the law," that's a way of saying, "He had two choices, one, risk the maximum penalties, or two, bargain with us." That's a strong-arm bargaining tactic. Most people accept the plea bargain, but that doesn't mean the threat of maximum penalties wasn't made.

EDIT: As a prosecutor, her job is to put the gun on the table, load it with as many bullets as she can, and then get you to accept a plea. If Aaron had not accepted the plea, she would have done everything in her power to convict him of everything she could. Back to my analogy, there was more than one bullet in the gun - maybe 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. A reasonable person would probably accept the plea - and that's up for debate, too. But for her to assert that "At no time did this office ever seek... maximum penalties under the law" is really deceptive / a lie.
Savings accounts are not abstractions for loading up on cans of pork and beans. If everyone simultaneously did that, then stopped working, everyone could still eat. If everyone put money into a savings account, then stopped working, they'd all starve. I think this is a deeply meaningful distinction. "Saving for retirement" in the modern financial sense is really more akin to having your kids take care of you when you can't work, except the transaction is severed from the familial unit and carried out in the market.
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Uh oh, I'm on exactly the same card … wonder what that's about :/
"Plus the text throughout the UI constantly misuses idioms (or sounds like it was written by an eight-year-old)."

Imagine the frustration developers of other control panels feel when users expect, and occasionally demand, those misused idioms be used by everyone, because "cPanel is the standard".
I'll strongly disagree. Mob rule should not be encouraged.
Despite what some commenters are incorrectly assuming, this book is DRM-free on the Kindle. It is a checkbox when publishing. The author, Marvin Ammori, is also working on getting the document onto Techdirt or other platforms as well.

Amazon has a very well-watched download list. So it would behoove promotion to focus on this first and increase downloads.
The point of this post is to talk about Bill's hustling when selling Lala, which is a very interesting story.

The author should have left the last word out to make a much more powerful story about Lala rather than changing the focus of the article to Apple's "genius," especially since there was no genius involved on Apple's part. Just good luck for Apple, and horrible luck for the Color team.
I can't disagree with your points, but if someone is motivated and wants to learn, getting started can be overwhelming, especially if you don't have any programming experience. This post is intended to help guide people at the very beginning of their learning, though it's totally valid to point out that it's a journey, not a quick fix.

At Treehouse our mission is to make software development approachable to all, and our courses are designed to teach people from the ground up. Of course it will be harder for people who have never written a line of code, but with desire, determination, and the help of the supportive community we're building then hopefully they can accomplish their goals more efficiently and cost-effectively than before.

For further reading about teaching a beginner to code, check out this article: http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/156836-teaching-programm...
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> Yours is a very pessimistic view.

That dude is not a pessimist, he just looks that way to you because you're ridiculously optimistic.
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Great view point. I have two thoughts here to add:

One, bullying is not a new occurrence. Most of us grew up to be fine and arguably stronger (and there was one year I probably got punched or my head slammed in a locker 4 out of the 5 days in the week). So what’s changed today that this generation of children can’t seem to grow past it? It’s become a devastating ordeal with kids committing suicide and whatnot; thoughts that NEVER went through my head growing up. Shit sucked, but I knew it wasn’t permanent.

Two, are we coddling our children so much in the new era of child rearing technics that we’ve stripped them of the notion to grow and learn from the hurtful things in life? Are we teaching them to drop responsibility for the outcome of our environment in a pity me plea? I only ask because when things would happen to me, the first thing my mother would ask is “Well, did you do anything to provoke him?” and even if I hadn’t it forced the notion through my head that I ultimately control my environment by my behavior. Shit happens and I get that, but my mother didn’t go to the principal’s office, talk to the other kid’s parents or call the police. I simply learned to cope and, well, manipulate. Bluff toughness when necessary; kill with kindness when that was necessary. You learn to change your environment by changing your own behavior and in effect provoking others to change theirs. Probably the most valuable lesson I’ve ever learned.

One could highlight that the internet has changed the face of bullying. Whereas my generation (y) and the ones preceding me had to grow through physical bullying abuse, and today bullying has changed to public humiliation happening in front of thousands of people thanks to the internet. I could see that being a major factor in the change of effect.

I don’t believe simply removing bullying from adolescent life is the answer. I think it’s an easy one to exploit, but I really don’t think it’s the only answer we’re looking for. Bullies are a part of life and stripping our kids of the experience is only going to leave them helpless as adults. I agree fully that things need to change, but I also have a point of view that most of the time these terrible things that happen to us make us stronger.

It’s a thought provoking subject really and I curious to see some responses.
Before everyone just on my throat saying I'm a naysayer I'll state that I love the idea.

However why oh why on earth is the YubiKey challenge/response optional?

Why can that thing work in a mode where it simply "dumps text"?

It's terrible that it's optional because it means that I cannot be sure in which mode that thing is operating right!?

But I love the idea: we need more physical tokens doing challenge/response and less "let me store this in my phone's 'master app of all the passwords'" snake oils.
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Do you think releasing a press release of 35 years possible imprisonment for such a petty crime (if you consider this a crime at all) is a correct act?

Please do not give standard practice bullshit.

If its standard practice, someone has to change it, who else will identify and change it if it not for people like in her position.
First off, insurance companies do not invest annuity value in the stock market, for the same reasons you should not. i.e. - it is risky and a significant loss of capital without further contributions will result in you running out of money.

The reason that you get crap all for your money, is that the insurance company is estimating your life expectancy, low risk asset returns, and then using both the investment returns and capital to pay your annuity. Most of the risk to them comes from longevity - NOT THE STOCK MARKET. They hedge inflation, invest largely in gilts and bonds. And they draw down on the capital.

This is mostly fine, because in practice some people live longer, some die young. The annuity provider can net these off and work to the average. As a single person the entire longevity risk goes on you. To try and live off the interest only is to require you to chase returns, and hence expose yourself to risk in the markets.

The article is offering awful advice about retirement based on massive simplifications. Insurance companies have to reserve heavily to ensure that in the 1 in 20 events they continue to function. In solvency II they start to bring in the 1 in 200 risk (99.5 tail basically).

I want to restate something for effect:
No one in good sense should assume that for their entire retirement they can produce inflation beating returns without risking significant capital loss and subsequent penury.
Couldn't you have it boot into something like Squeak running on the framebuffer? http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3484 discusses this for the x86, but with no Raspberry Pi in my possession (I haven't been able to order one yet - busy with other projects).
Sometimes your "killer" idea might be selfish or for a really small niche, too. It may not be a successful business venture, but it could be the killer app for you, friends and family, or specific types of users. For example, in another blog post of mind somebody older commented on his desire to have an app that simply uses the camera to automatically enlarge what he's looking at to help him read. And if you're interested in learning or building things then perhaps working on your own personal project will be super rewarding.
Sure it is, the same way a password is revocable: pull e "hash" out of the database you compare against.
I do the same, but it's still an undignified procedure that ultimately does not seem to make us any safer.
I'm not quite sure why there are so many negative responses to this, the tone is rather direct and harsh (the author admits this was intentional below), but the general sentiment seems spot on.

The target audience for the OP is people who have leverage in a Job interview situation, people who have experience and who have a number of options to pick from (ie. Any decent developer with a project or 2 of successful practical experience under their belt).

The parent is simply saying, that before you blindly follow the OP's advice, make sure that you are definitely in the category of people who have the luxury of doing so.
That's what I was thinking... About a year ago, I started making $40k/year. It's just barely enough to get by. Most of my take-home goes to rent, student loans, and other expenses that I can't lower. And I'm fairly frugal as it is -- I try to keep my food expenses down, I don't visit restaurants very often, I don't have cable tv, I don't really even have much furniture. I do my best to take super frugal vacations. I don't have any credit card debt or vehicle debt.

Saving 50% of my income is not possible for me without living in an untenable situation.
Why would I bother sneaking a bit of airport glass when I can just go to a Applechili's, order a steak, and keep the silverware?
Thats a great summary. It doesn't matter what was said in public if it was overruled in private. It sounds very clear that Aaron knew the maximum they were seeking was 7 years.
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have you tried pressing the "spam" button?

I find that most of these "newsletters" stop arriving in my inbox after I do that (with my gmail account).
They made a deal that allowed Jobs to inspect a PARC for one day, but didn't include anything like patent licensing.
In 1998 Bill Gates (American Banker article, and elsewhere) said that the future of ecommerce was based on replacing passwords with smart cards....hmmm how did that work out :)

Remember AMEX Blue? they stopped sending out card readers almost immediately, but continued sending the smart cards out and running TV ads with all sorts of Terminator like special effects to promote how secure its smart cards were.

It was a huge marketing success, but the smart card part was never used.

Security is an illusion.

Actual conversation....
Naive dev: Hey Big Bank, we invented this revolutionary perfect authentication technology! no more hacks!
Big bank: why would we want to redirect the hackers to a new attack that we don't understand, cannot model, cannot assign a stable cost to, and would almost certainly expose even worse flaws in other parts of our systems? as long as fraud is between X and Y %, we WANT the attacks to use the current vector.
Naive dev: ooooooooooooooohhhhh (world view changes)
It is a fact that for short texts (eg titles) Sans-Serif is actually much easier to read. Studies have been conducted

Please cite them. Good quality research on typography is unfortunately rather hard to find, and I've never encountered any study of that type.
How does IT issue you a new fingerprint?
Wifi's range is too short to make a large mesh network genuinely feasible. Even in densely populated cities you're going to have gaps where you need to cross a street. That'd require directional antennae and a huge amount of deliberate effort and maintenance to hook up a large area.

Must have longer omnidirectional range and some degree of wall penetration. I'm not sure if that's possible within reasonable FCC limits of frequency and power.
you forgot the most important step: be realistic! programming that app is gonna take months away from your spare time (if you really are starting from scratch) and your chances of actually producing a killer app are marginal. you gotta be aware that there are countless hours of unpaid work ahead of you, for which the revenue of your app is not going to account for.

I don't wanna sound like a disgruntled developer (I really am not), but it's important to know that most likely your expectations on this app are heavily biased - especially when you lack developer skills. when you decide to enter the app business, you have to be aware that you are competing in what is probably one of the most competitive markets in the world, with very smart people from all over the world trying to monetize their apps. if this doesn't curb your enthusiasm then have a go at it - godspeed!
I'm really looking forward to seeing more gaming in the browser and hope it catches on. Imagine writing a game and it works on all platforms, PC, Mac, Tablet Android, iOS, etc. Also, TV manufacturers keep putting more powerful chips in their TV's for HD decoding. Couple with this a good browser, could we eventually see an end to console gaming because everyone's TV can play 3D games? Not to mention a lot of the TV's already have network capability. There's plenty of progress to make no doubt but it seems like a serious possibility to me.
"Security need to be transparent, or it fails."

I don't disagree with what you wrote about going back the "SYH" being not that smart but...

It's not transparent when my 65-years old mom uses a physical device not connected to the computer, in which she enters her identity (Java SmartCard) card and perform a manual challenge/response to login and do her online banking.

It's a pain for her: it's SYK+SYH but it beats going to the bank all the time... So it's not transparent but it still works because she doesn't really have the choice.
And why would someone have a 10+ years old OS? Oh right, because with Windows you have to pay for every f*cking new version!
All three co-founders work day jobs, so time is a huge issue. There's just SO much work to do, and we're all limited to nights and weekends right now. But we don't really want to raise outside money right now either. So it's a tough balancing act, trying to get the product built, do customer development, develop marketing materials, define product strategy, do PR, etc. while working by day.

Still, we're making progress, albeit more slowly than I'd like. And if we can land a first customer or two, then we'd probably start thinking about trying to raise funding, and go full-time on the startup.
It's interesting the hypothesis that the dingoes came in the same migration. Is there any study of the genome of dogs/lingoes classified by geographical origin?
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That does not really answer the question. Consider, for example, this question: how efficient is append i.e. for two lists of N elements, how much work will append do? It is easy to assume this will be linear work in N since append will make a copy; but does CLTL2 actually say that append cannot do work in quadratic time, or cubic time, or even exponential time?

It's a valid complaint, in my opinion, and I say this as the person who promotes Lisp as an alternative to C++. I would put it in the category of "things missing from the Common Lisp standard," lumping it together with undefined behavior. In practice, this issue rarely comes up; it is generally safe to assume that no Lisp implementation will have an asymptotically worse version of a standard function than the simplest version of that function. So, for example, although the standard is silent on the matter you can safely assume that no Lisp implementation would have an nconc that is asymptotically worse than the simple linear time implementation, and you should not rely on an implementation giving you something better than that.

In the C++ standard, there are definitions of running times. So, for example, the stable_sort function is guaranteed to be no worse than O(N log(n) log(n)), and no better than O(n log(n)). That is one thing that is nice about C++, so I can concede that point, though with the note that the C++ standard has its own glaring omissions that are much more disturbing than the running times of algorithms.
I agree that there are non-technological factors for why they didn't invent semaphore, but I seriously doubt that a lack of capital had anything to do with it. Have you seen the sort of things the Romans _did_ try? Stupendously grandiose and expensive things. Rome was awash in capital. A half-decent semaphore network would've been a rounding error in their budget.
According to the author, it's a Kindle exclusive for 90 days: http://ammori.org/2013/01/18/one-internet-freedom-my-new-ebo...

However, the Kindle Cloud Reader works on Linux: https://read.amazon.com/
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I don't expect Ortiz to apologize for anything. You don't get to the position she got to without being good at politics.
I had been saving money in cash for years went the financial meltdown happened (the stars aligned such that I graduated from college about 4 years before this). I happened to invest around the market low and got great deals. I decided to just hoard all of my money again and wait. With the insane leverage of banks, it shouldn't be too long now. I'm just hoping this time I have a few hundred grand to invest and can retire overnight:
http://etfdailynews.com/2013/01/15/derivatives-and-extreme-u...
He may well have done so, but it comes across as disingenuous to mention one very pertinent detail (a /highly/ aggressive prosecution), and leave out another (chronic depression going on for many years).

No-one is saying anyone is absolved of 'blame' or being a factor in Aaron's decision.
Can it handle rendering the star ship enterprise all at once?
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It could just hit close to home. These anthropological 'origin stories' sometimes contradict racial identity. For example, if you were to suggest that the Japanese were descended from Korean farmers that emigrated from mainland Korean, many Japanese would find that offensive because there is deep racial hatred of Korea (though maybe only truly present in the older generations) and a racial identity of being natives to Japan.
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i don't think you're seeing the key distinction.... that AIDS treatments are LARGELY GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED, which means guaranteed payments. this is no conspiracy... this is how it fucking is. in reality. in plain view.
Both have partial ports to Linux.

I don't know why UT3 stopped (and if you ask icculus, he will get mad at you).

idTech5 stopped because crap driver support, but now with Valve pushing ahead to fix that, I think id can resume work on Linux idTech5 if they wish to.

EDIT: Actually UT3 engine DO work on Linux (and icculus that did it!) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1O...
Even better, buy someone else a latte, sit down and talk with them and learn something new. Then with that, go earn more.
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He was relieved of day to day activities by the board about a month or more before the Apple acquisition...was that acquisition really his doing?
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"You'll never get anywhere by skipping coffee and bringing lunch to work, focus on the big gains like increasing your salary by 30% instead".

Most likely, your spending will just increase by 30% along with it. Instead of the latte, maybe it's a new computer, car, or vacation now.

Ever read about athletes and celebrities and entertainers who make 10s of millions and end up broke? Without some form of discipline, our capacity to squander wealth is astounding.
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Bear in mind that payments against the principle of a mortgage count as savings. My wife and I have been saving abut half our earnings for some time now, despite having kids.

It helps that I have a reasonably well paid Tech job and she's on a starting Nurse's salary (She's Chinese so had to re-educate/qualify from scratch which set her back a bit), but we were saving 1/3 while she was studying Nursing.
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But if you get a prestigious mathematician, such as Gowers, to back your new journal, you may get some traction.
This all works only if everything is steady in life and it isn't. Today you work and save tomorrow you got a kid and your spendings take off and fly. Sometimes you want to celebrate something so you go to a bar and drink with friends which will kill your "latte-savings" for 2 weeks. Then you wake up and your tooth is killing you. you have to do a root canal and even with insurance it will dig into savings. Graph is too simplified. It will have spikes and drops - depends on each persons life and experiences...
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If everyone simultaneously did that

But, they won't. Not everyone is of the same age, for one. So, it's an abstraction that usually works.

Instead of accumulating pork bellies, you can accumulate pork belly futures. This is another abstraction. Not everyone can do this at once, either, but the price of pork belly futures will rise in response, telling people to stop accumulating so much of that good.

It feels like you are saying -- based on my experience talking with other people who think economics is just a sham, so perhaps I'm too sensitive to that and applying their thinking to you, unfairly -- that any savings are just a confidence game. This is what I'm arguing against.
I usually run eight desktops on my machine. Most of the time, half of them sit empty until I need to switch tasks. In my previous day job, I'd keep email up on one, a development set for my local machine (editor, logs, browser, etc.), windows for references on another. I leave a full set of window up, positioned exactly the way I want them, and move to a clean desktop to deal with incidental, "could you take a look at X" tasks.

Being able to spread out what I'm working on without minimizing or overlapping windows really helps segregate what's going on.
Thanks, however even after changing my manifest to match the tag number etc, I'm still not getting my plugins on the site?