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Well, maybe the way Danny Ocean (George Cloony) manages his team in Ocean's Twelve (the movie) - tight team, clear plan, known desirable end-result, exact subtasks and timing, confidence in the experts' abilities (proven before).. A sense of common purpose, unity, and perhaps friendship helps also.
This is a non-starter. You can get much more powerful machines for cheaper.
> I'm not aware of anyone who really thinks that "mobile" is the be and and end all of their channel strategy

> So while no-one should have a "mobile-only" strategy (which pretty much no-one does anyway)

Path, Snapchat, Color, Flipboard, Pair, Yardsale, Rumgr, etc. There are lots more, those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
"Wouldn't that mean people without assets could do whatever they liked with copyrighted materials?"

Would that be a bad thing? I can see it now: poor people would be allowed to sing "Happy Birthday to You" without becoming criminals!

Really though, why should we be afraid that poor people will violate copyrights with impunity? Copyright is far too complex and has far too many subtleties for anyone lacking a team of lawyers to work with. Would a judge consider this rendition of "Happy Birthday" to be fair use? If there are 6 people watching the Super Bowl, is that a public performance? Is it OK to let my neighbor listen to music I downloaded onto my computer if they are accessing my wireless network with my permission?

Large companies have the resources needed to reason about copyrights. For the rest of us, it is either "just play along like everyone else" or "you're a criminal and you'll need a team of lawyers to prove otherwise!"
From the post:

To register and publish your plugin, you’ll need to push your code to a public repository on GitHub, and add our post-recieve webhook URL (http://plugins.jquery.com/postreceive-hook) to your repository. The next time you push a semver tag, we’ll take care of registering the plugin name and updating its page on the site. When you’re ready to release the next version of your plugin, just tag and push again!

I'm curious how exactly they're doing this.

I created a similar site (but for all javascript plugins, not just jQuery), called http://jspkg.com. I built Github-import integration to add new projects from Github, and I wanted to do the same "automatically update when you push a new version tag" functionality, but Github doesn't fire the post-receive hook when you push tags, only when you push commits. It used to say that in the "When hooks are fired" section of the help page [1], but they've since updated that page to say almost nothing at all. I had also talked with a couple Github folks at the time, who confirmed this was the case, and that it'd cause problems for this exact use-case.

I started thinking of a few workarounds, but never settled on any of them, as none of them seemed like they'd work just right...

One workaround I thought of was to post to jspkg when the post-receive hook is fired, and allow jspkg to poll the git repo for the next couple minutes to see if it finds any new tags within that window. This seems like an ugly hack to me (not to mention, it would add a lot of unnecessary work on the server's end), and would still not be totally effective, if you waited longer than the window to push your new tags to github. I'm guessing it'd work fine the majority of the time, but as a developer, it wouldn't make my life that much easier if I still had to check jspkg.com every time just to make sure it worked.

So, then I started thinking of another option. Perhaps, instead of importing tags directly, maybe I have a post-receive hook that just looks to see if the package.json was modified, and if so, see if the version was bumped. And if it was, import that snapshot of the master branch. The issue with this is that you can't use the post-receive if you don't have a package.json (though maybe that's not entirely a bad thing). It also means that it might create snapshots when you don't expect. For example, if I change my package.json and then do a couple more commits and then tag the release, the distribution on jspkg will be from when the package.json was updated, not when the tag was created.

Another option I was considering is just writing a really simple git hook (not a github hook) that uses jspkg's restful api to upload a zip file from the users machine when they create a new version tag. Then it wouldn't rely on github even, but it would require the user to install the commit hook locally.

At any rate, I guess I'll have to check out the source code for the plugin registry to see what they settled on.

[1] http://help.github.com/test-webhooks/
"Ruby does not allow one programmer to handcuff another..."

That's not a valid argument.

"Q: Why does your OS allow any program to write anywhere in memory?"

"A: Because we believe in freedom. Our profound belief is that the OS should not allow to handcuff programmers. They must be free to do anything. They should be able to write anywhere in memory and anywhere to disk"

How do you want people to be able to be able to reproduce state and to reason about a program if f*cking CONSTANTS can be modified!?
Yes, obviously. I never said it was.
Is there an official, recognized standard that this is based on? My understanding is that anything you deem as you signature, i.e., any type of symbol, is, by effect, your signature.

I appreciate HelloSign's efforts, but it seems this is simply a market generating effort akin to things like home security systems. Even the process of motorization is a hold-over from a dying age. All the metadata of documents already create a signature that can be used for authentication. I am quite sure that HelloSign probably even uses some of those signatures for their validation process.

It just kind of seems skeuomorphist. Do they support other images than squiggly lines of a varying unique manner to represent ourselves? I would like to design a logo or other image to use instead of a stone age process. Take East Asian signature seals....far cooler than squiggly lines in my opinion.
I'm sure I just read that this had actually improved recently (graph in the article stops at 2006) since the Obama administration wasn't locking up so many low level drug users. But no-one knows about it because no-one is interested in taking credit for letting people out of jail in case 1 in a million of them goes on a killing spree and they get the blame.
There's an alternative to this that's been out there for a while called LayerVault. I've tried so hard to like LayerValut, but ultimately decided it was unusable. It's unreliable when it comes to file management (i.e. saving versions of your work) which is the most mission-critical thing it does.

So very excited to discover Pixelapse and to begin trying it out.
That is, an unusable mess of a project.

Do you want to just create, or create something actually usable?
Ender relies on the npm registry, it’s just another client.
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awesome, the if-by-whiskey tactic in play.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey

good job on not getting caught immediately. :)
Exactly. There are good points about the problem with kickstarter's hardware section, but when they keep pushing their own bytelight or whatever it sounds more like complaining cause they didn't get accepted. Comes off as, 'we didn't get accepted and we have a plan, so there must be a problem, and thus kickstarter should remove hardware projects entirely', as opposed to, 'based on the failure rates, kickstarter should reconsider if it needs to include hardware projects at all'.
Does that really matter? The NSA faced scrutiny for writing its own software when commercial solutions were on the market. The US government contracts out almost all its software needs below the state secrets level anyway.
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There is some additional food for thought in it when you realize that all life forms* are basically self-replicating DNA compilers. That is, compilers compiling compilers, which in turn compile more compilers. Thus, there's a chance some crucial information is actually stored "nowhere", i.e. is bolted in by complier which builds another compiler.

For more abstract take on this topic, I direct to Gödel, Escher, Bach; Hofstadter elaborates there on the fact that the distinction between what is data storage (e.g. music CD) and reading device (e.g. music player) is somewhat arbitrary, and in fact the information itself is "stored" in the combination of "data storage" and "data reader".

* - or at least most, IANAB.
Kerr, who has both prosecuted these kinds of cases and defended them, ignores none of what you're saying. He comes about as close as someone who might in the future need to deal with these specific prosecutors can come to saying that the prosecutors were exceptionally aggressive.

Further, while it is possible that circumstances could arise in which a 4 month plea from Swartz could be ignored by the judge, those circumstances are extremely unlikely. Not only do judges rubber stamp plea deals, but in a case involving 13 felonies, Swartz would very likely have arranged a Rule 11(c)(1)(C) plea in which the judge's refusal to accept the plea simply would have resulted in a trial.
And by God are they ugly monstrosities no sane person would want to live in.

I should know. I live in India and half the buildings here don't have architects. The result is something straight out of Sauron's nightmares.

Engineers are fine and all that, but please, stop putting down other professions. I know the new century has been good to your nerddom, but do remember the people who call the real shots are rarely the people who actually, you know, code.
I did not feel like some of the examples were single-page sites, but the examples are really good.

As a coder, these definitely help in thinking critically about what can/should be done, and inspire ideas for design.

I am curious to see other interesting examples.
No need to go on the space station or in suborbital flights: you can see them from regular commercial planes and the first time you experience it it's a bit frightening, because supposedly most people do not know what's going on.

You can see the same while flying over Russia for example.

If there are clouds you see lights at night illuminating the clouds from below and it is really impressive.
"Our Healthcare designers are passionate about creating well-designed, efficient and people-focused products and solutions across the whole continuum of care. Our approach to healthcare design is based on a deep understanding of the user-experiences of patients, care-givers and medical staff in order to enhance and save lives."

http://www.design.philips.com/philips/sites/philipsdesign/ab...
Would 1 week of java training turn a novice into a expert programmer? I took a quick peak at the course page and it does look very interesting. However, I dont think you can call yourself a data scientist after taking this course. If you want some free resources, check out coursera's machine learning course. You can also find some free map reduce training from google. In my opinion, becoming a data scientist takes years - not days.
Oil wells don't have to be plumb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_drilling
I don't think they're targeting people who want or need powerful CPUs
If it is that much of a concern, perhaps we should focus more on games that remain difficult for computers. Go, Arimaa, and Texas Hold'em (but perhaps not for much longer) all come to mind.
Fracking is a topic fraught with controversy, and the issues are indeed complicated.

If by fracking you're talking about that wonderful process that extracts that bountiful nectar of progress deep from within our mother earth, creating jobs, building commerce and bringing warmth into our family homes, I'm all in favour of it.

If by fracking you mean the systematic destruction of our ecosystem, and the wanton waste of our precious resources, while causing earthquakes and the toxification of the water table, then I oppose it.

Ladies and gentlemen, we must be strong, and hold our opinions close to our hearts, for the future is in our hands.
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Heat half a million homes for how long? It doesn't really say so this statement is meaningless.
And having a scriptwriter who can ensure a great outcome for you, that's a definite plus.
I don't think it is the job market as much as personality types. I saw this consistently in bad markets, too.
Replace "geek" with "highly sought after, intelligent and talented employees" and you'll be closer to the truth.

The reason developers are "hard" to manage is that they're in demand, so they don't have to put up with bad or abusive management.

That said.. I'd recommend reading Team Geek (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018025.do) if you have any ambition to move into a management or leadership role.
One of our company offices is in Detroit Lakes, MN, very close to the ND border. The fact of the matter is that this oil boom has made many, many ND farmers instant millionaires. If oils is found on their land they are receiving huge royalty checks ($500k+ per month).

It is true that mineral rights are often not included in the sale of real estate in this part of the country...but the royalty checks they receive for allowing the oil companies to drill create generational wealth.
Every day. As it says.
Why would someone buy them from you at half price, when they can illegally download them for free?
You know these filters are optional, right? Comparing these to the filters for images of child sexual abuse is bizarre - they're operated in very different ways.
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To be fair, this was one side of that argument. A lot of people adopted the boolean convention, not the truthy one. And the few examples like "defined?" and "nonzero?" really seem more like quirks than conventions. In five years of doing Ruby, those examples built into the language and the Rails shitstorm are the only places I've seen this truthy convention adopted.

Original intent aside, if your language is prided on convention, then it has to be open to the convention changing.
Build a prototype/mvp/alpha/demo product. Something. Anything. Then depending on the type of startup, there are so many ways to get started. If you live in a big city, go to tech meetups and start gathering contacts who will help you get to angel investors. Or apply to incubator programs like YCombinator (there way more of these than you think). Regardless of the avenue, i repeat, work on your product and your pitch. Neither come easy.
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I'd like to attend but holding it on a Thursday makes it tricky (not being from London). Maybe consider doing Fridays/weekends in future? I suppose that might make venues more expensive?
Have you looked into angel.co?
In most places mineral rights and land rights are separate. I may own land but if diamonds are found under it by somebody else, I have no particular right to extract them. It appears the US may be different though.
Sounds like a nice place for a data center. cold with plenty of cheap natural gas to power it.
Practically impossible to get a loan for a startup in the US :( Anyone have experience with this? Would be very curious to hear about it.
I agree with your last point.

But just putting a temporary cap on Ortiz' career doesn't seem like a big win to me, in the grand scheme of things. I know nothing about Massachusetts politics. Who knows she's not the "good cop", compared to the person whose career, as a result, will advance faster?
Yes I think the safe assumption is "How much gas does it take to heat half a million homes for 1 day = how much gas the oillfields burn off in one day"
> I find it odd that there are so many desktop-ish things based on Android instead of U﻿buntu.

That may be a reasonable thing to ponder until you try to run Ubuntu on a device which formerly ran Android. I thought the same as you and installed Ubuntu on my Asus Transformer TF101.

While the original Transformer sports reasonably dated specifications, it's provides a very neat, fast and responsive Android-experience.

I expected Ubuntu to offer the same, but with a wider-selection of (non touch-optimized) software. I was thoroughly disappointed. Just opening the Terminal Emulator took 5-10 seconds. Trying to open Firefox or any web-browser was a joke.

What most people fails to realize (I guess because Android has adopted the Java-is-slow-meme, either it wants to or not) is that Android is heavily optimized because it has to be responsive on ultra-light hardware. Given its feature-set, it's a very fast OS compared to most other out there.

Ubuntu on the other hand, is heavy enough to sometimes make my Core i7 wish it had more CPU-cycles. Putting Ubuntu on underpowered machines is something I wouldn't recommend to anyone.
Not very mysterious.
Thank you, this was bothering me as well but I guess I never thought to right click. :)
My cable modem is somewhat similar - it makes one DHCP offer, at boot. If you connect it directly to a switch, you don't get connectivity. That's why the ISP recommends you make the one device a router.
It's sad that an article targeted at people playing a smart game forces you to use a Java applet to replay moves : (

Hint: smart people disable Java applets nowadays ; )
There are examples of great design produced exclusively by engineers or scientists. The reason is because good design fulfills a need, and in industry these needs are often technical.

When you throw in the needs of human beings is that things start to get weird. Some needs are subtle (how to you design an MRI machine for people that have claustrophobia?), others might seem ridiculous (say, redesigning the shell because the internals were redesigned, just to signify an upgrade).

Even then, I think engineers make great designers and even artists. Gustave Eiffel had only built bridges until he designed the Eiffel tower , Joseph Paxton build the Crystal Palace because he had designed greenhouses all his life. And so on, there are many examples of great engineers making the jump to design without much effort and great success.
If you're a professional in the field of partical physics, there's probably not excuse...
Who is the 'we' in that sentence? Having spent the majority of my teenage years studying and playing tournament level chess, I can attest that your statement is likely to draw ire among the devotees.

You may as well suggest Baseball players start playing football because of Bill James and Nate Silver.
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Indeed it is, but at least that liability is much more obvious and publicised.
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Your access would be affected just as badly if I were to pay for access. It's hard to say that any other people on the plane are negatively affected by this particular act when they would have been affected just as much if someone were paying.

No, the real issue here is that GoGo wants to have it all -- they want to have Wifi and they also want to charge individual users. A better plan would be to rent either wired access or to rent a "mifi"-style device that would require payment for N devices to access the Internet. It would be a bit more infrastructure to deploy, but if GoGo were really concerned about this sort of theft then this would be obvious.

I think the reality is that GoGo does not really care about the service provided to their customers, and that as long as most fliers remain ignorant about ways to evade the payment system GoGo will continue to provide their service.
As other people have said: Chromium is not Chrome...
It is indeed very different than the rest of the world. In US, not only careers in politics and judicial system often mix, but often career in the judicial system IS career in politics directly. Many of the high level positions, district attorneys, judges (not federal) are elected positions, hence by definition political.
Seems a bit silly to write a python script for this when most people have it in a bash function. I find running a python command through the interpreter like that to be cumbersome, but a good script nonetheless.

On another note: GO BEARS! Down with the tree!
I think this release is worded disingenuously. My understanding of this case is that the 6 month offer was only part of the plea deal the prosecutors held out if Aaron didn't go to trial. If he exercised his right to due process and went to trial, he did indeed risk the full 35 year penalty and no such sentence recommendation was on offer.

This is typical of many prosecutors in the US, unfortunately, who attempt to terrorize defendants into accepting their plea deals. It's not much different than the way torture was used in the Middle Ages to extract confessions and secure convictions.

It's pretty sad to see a press release that attempts to obfuscate the truth like this.
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I have to say I'm not normally one to post here, and I dislike posting negatively, but this isn't a submission I've enjoyed.

We're all a bunch of human beings. People are complex and have varied fears, motivations, and delusions - and they act accordingly. Whatever role they play in a company.

Someone who has the role called 'manager' in an organisation who interacts with other people who have a role called 'developer' has the task of interacting with a bunch of human beings, and that is often difficult. It is made more difficult when they all decide it is in their interests to devote their time to creating something complex. That's a fine area about which we can talk about ways to improve.

However this 'geek' moniker, while all lighthearted, puts distance between people. It makes the article, to me, seem partly about the author (telegraphing the distance he puts between him and others in a relationship he possibly sees as being based around 'power') and partly about his message. I'll be happy if I've gone overboard in my interpretation though!
Of the court - yes, absolutely. Every court case starts with the basic idea that the defendant did nothing wrong. That would be the judge that follows that principle. Is the prosecutor supposed to presume innocence ? No.

It's almost the opposite : the U.S. attorney is not an employee of the justice system, she's an employee of the executive (she represents Obama's interest as head of state - nothing else). She is a lawyer that is in the service of the white house and should therefore defend whatever opinion the executive has on the matter.

In simple terms : if the white house thinks you're guilty the attorney's job is to prove that beyond reasonable doubt. Assuming it goes to trial (which this case did not do) it seems extremely likely that the prosecutor thinks you're guilty, otherwise, why would she start a court case that's likely to publicly humiliate the executive ?

Please keep in mind that the opinion of Carmen Ortiz did not really come into the picture. Once the complaint was filed, and the complainant (MIT and JSTOR) demanded damages, her opinion did not matter in the least - her job is to find a settlement acceptable to all parties involved or bring the case to court (because it's a criminal case). She proposed a number of settlements, which were refused by either Aaron Swartz or MIT, and informed them she would bring the case to court, at which point she informed the defendant of the charges (and included the maximum penalty for them - maximum penalty seems unlikely to have been applied in this case, but that's of course my personal opinion, and I'm not the judge). After that the guy killed himself.

Of course, speaking in general, any attorney would probably like to have good relations with MIT, a place that trains more than a few people who later become judges.
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