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Queen – A Framework To Run Scripts On Many Remote Browsers Using Node.js
> I've been a Dropbox user for years [...] but never visit the site.

I created a Dropbox account (which I do use) a couple years ago, and last week I visited the site for the first time in almost as long as I've had the account.

A word of warning to you, since you don't access the site often: your password expires, and you'll need access to your email account when it does.

My laptop semi-died last week (it's not actually dead, but I couldn't get it to boot at the time), so I used my girlfriend's to order a new one.

I keep my KeePass database in my DropBox for just such occasions, so I tried to log into Dropbox's web interface to retrieve it and access my account on the computer retailer's website. Dropbox accepted my password, but told me I couldn't continue until I changed my password, which required clicking a link they had sent to my email account.

Unfortunately, the password to my gmail account is also in KeePass, and is an incomprehensible mess of generated gibberish that I don't know, so I couldn't get in. I had to reset my Google password using an email account that is apparently on file with Google, in order to reset my password with DropBox, in order to access my retail account with the laptop vendor.

I don't know if this would have been easier had I known about DropBox's two-factor authentication before this, or if maybe I could have installed DropBox on my girlfriend's laptop and got in that way without needing to reset anything, but I ended up burning half an hour on this because I didn't know I had to keep my password constantly up to date on their website.

It seems like an obvious thing to do, but for something like Dropbox which is just "always there" on your local machine, it's an easy thing to forget.
If the difference is real (I've not seen it) then perhaps it's a result of more users becoming aware of the option to disable "Pair my social actions with adverts" via settings: http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&section=social&...

In my own case I've come to see "likes" as a liability and removed all existing "likes" for commercial organizations or any uncommercial org for which I see these paid-for posts. Hardly the desirable outcome for Facebook or the organizations! I hope my reaction becomes more prevalent.
Most people have a misconception of a CS degree as if it teaches you how to code. Computer Science is neither about computers or about science. It's a math and a logic degree. With a CS degree you should be able to code, conjure algorithms and all that jazz out of anything. It teaches you how to be more efficient, write better algorithms, use your hardware to its full potential and etc.

Look at the opportunity cost then make a decision. If I were in your shoes... if I'm making more than $90k AND =<25, then I wouldn't go for a degree. However, education never hurts right?

tl;dr: CS teaches you how to be a better problem solver. You probably know more about "programming" and "languages" than most CS majors.
Looks great and I was wishing for exactly this tool last week. It seems to be having trouble saving with Evernote, though. Is it just me?
I don't. I had an EyeTV card but the licensing for the software is despicable and after losing the serial number I couldn't get it reactivated after rebuilding the same Mac. I used to use BBC iPlayer instead but I don't these days, as I use a VPN and Hulu or similar sites for 80% of what I want to watch.

There's no such thing as an impartial news source[1][2][3][4][5][6]. Your best bet is to get a range and understand the biases involved. I'm not saying that bias is a bad thing with the BBC, but understanding it's existence is as important as understanding biases in the Guardian and Telegraph's reporting when it comes to consuming news.

[1] - http://biasedbbc.org/

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC

[3] - http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1953/exclusive_bbc_lef...

[4] - http://bbcinstitutionalbias.blogspot.co.uk/

[5] - http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/media-culture/the-problem-of-b...

[6] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/11/bbc-libe...
I became a much better developer after I tried to port my Django apps to dotCloud and Heroku, using these PaaS forced me to really learn how to use git, virtualenv and pip.

Chef and vagrant are going a long way towards giving me most of the things I love about Heroku and dotCloud but with more control.
The question is if you watch BBC1 streaming but 5 min behind, and hence watching a recording, are you required to have a TV license?

We had a debate about this at work while the Olympics were on. Interestingly you can watch live tv at work on a laptop that is not plugged in and on wifi if they don't have a tv license but you do at home. You break the law the minute you plug the laptop in.
Since you're an individual do you only pay $5/mo as 1 user? Also, do you have multiple accounts as one user or how exactly are you setting that up?
Keeping the Internet Safe From Governments
They left out freedom. I would rather choose my own path than be forced to follow an incompetent boss/manager.

Making money is also important. You may want to change the world, but if you don't have some form of capital coming into the company, you won't ever change the world.
Django has a massive ecosystem where most of the hard work has been done for you. Some people argue it's too much and you should use something like Flask or Web.py but you're going to end up reinventing stuff that's already been solved.
I bet the FCC (or RCA in the UK) will love that :)

The amount of noise and harmonics that come off that sort of transmitter will be horrible. At least chuck a bandpass on the end of it.
I did my PhD in Comp.Sci. at the University of Liverpool. It lasted 3.8 months (as I took more time to write my thesis in English). At the end of each year my progress was reviewed in several way (a 1 on 1 interview with a thesis advisor, a departmental presentation, etc).

I had the best supervisors I could ask for (yeah I got two of them). Every week (first year) or every two weeks (second year) I met with them to discuss about my progress. Shit, they even helped me on the "culture shock" of a Mexican living in the UK (and coping with the heavy NW accent).

Moreover, one of my supervisors invited me to join a EPSRC project which led me to work (in my own chosen subject) with great scholars from different parts of the UK ( and form people from the industry.

Although I have a great experience during my PhD and in the 3 years postdoc I did in Germany, I decided academia was not for me. I got tired of the "publish or perish" part , and I decided to pursue my real passion: programming software.
I suppose they take into account both those kind of direct visits to their website and the synchronization to their servers when you update some file in your local dropbox folder. I am not sure but it would make more sense.
This whole article only makes sense when one restricts one's scope of the web to "social web". The notion that Facebook and Twitter contain the web's most valuable information seems ridiculous otherwise.

Except for information on trending current events, I personally almost find the opposite to be true: Facebook and Twitter add lots of noise and little information compared to what can be found outside of them. Posts on Google Plus are more likely to be interesting to me than on Facebook, and blog posts tend to be still more interesting than Google Plus posts. My impression is that the further away I move from the walled garden "core" of the social web (Facebook/Twitter), where everyone feels obligated to add his chatter to the general noise, the more valuable the content becomes.

As long as Google is able to decently index the complement of these walled gardens I see little reason for despair.
The suspicion - and I think it's a reasonable one - is that the confusion is completely intentional. In which case it really is as bad as it seems.

Why they don't just make the search facilities work better and attach adverts to those instead of these sorts of shenanigans is beyond me.
I don’t think saying PhD is good or bad in general makes sense. It depends on what alternatives you have on your hands. If you are from a third world country and PhD is the only chance to take you a batter place, it makes sense. For the ones who already live in a decent country, it only makes sense if you are very very passionate about being an academician and you should carefully question the arguments making you passionate about that. I think doing PhD is much tougher now than 1983. There is a huge literature you gotta scan and there will be so many other people from both academia and industry working on similar topics so it is very difficult to make an original contribution that is satisfactory enough for the most. Especially in engineering, hot topics having an application area are already studied by the high tech firms. One can work in one of those companies and still can do research, which can be more satisfactory since you can see it applied to the real life. Plus, you will have strict deadlines, much better salary and the time you spend there will be considered as a work experience when you make a new job application. So, in the end of the PhD, there is a risk of finding yourself where you started and asking yourself where you did wrong, especially if you didn’t consider the after-PhD phase during the PhD (wrong topic and wrong supervisor choice, not building connections, not doing an intern in a related company etc.) However, having a supportive supervisor with good connections can hack the game and put you some levels up.
Beware: Limbo Dancers
I have tried a bunch of these time tracking apps, but I always just go back to tracking my time in a simple sheet in Excel saved to my Dropbox. It Just Works.

Everyone I know just "guesstimates" their time to the nearest hour or half hour. Except for lawyers, who bill in 6 minute increments.
What about tortoises? Jellyfish?
There are those who really believe that because something is funded by taxes, that it will be impartial. By this thinking, the old Radio Moscow was perfectly legit. After all, it was free of corporate influence, and the need to cater to advertisers. I wouldn't doubt that some of the same people would like Pravda-style, government-funded newspapers.
I guess I'm trying to say - as a user why would I care if someone else packages the app?

All I'm going to get is more security risks (multiple versions of libraries from all sorts of sources) and less compatibility (third party packagers will screw it up as they're not focussed on my distro).
I blogged about the "moral" of this story a few months ago - http://rtigger.com/blog/2012/07/06/architecture-last/

TL;DR - Frameworks should emerge from use cases, not the other way around.
I would do the same. We may as a country complain allot about some of our institutions like the BBC and the NHS but relay they do an amazing job and should be supported.
Don't expect to be spammed, but rather expect to get an occasional e-mail from me (with UX-oriented stuff only). It won't be regular. It won't even be once a month. Obviously it's a form of gratitude for the effort of writing a free ebook.

I don't take it too serious though. In the comments below you'll find links to the ebook :).
The system they use for metrics is biased. They track the visits of the users who have installed the Alexa toolbar in their browsers. It's really hard to get a decent sample of Internet users using that data collecting method.
To clarify (dane here):

Everybody with an internet connection of any sort with a bandwith of at least 256kbps must pay the fee. The argument is that they can access dr.dk (danish public service television channel), and the content they provide for no additional fee.
Obviously owning a TV will cause the fee as well.

It is a fact that almost all danish households must pay the fee, which especially hurts low-income households, such as those of students; the fee is the same no matter the household composition.

There is no good practical reason for not financing danish public service by increasing income tax ever so slightly.
Usability Testing meets Speed Dating for better product feedback
That was what I was originally thinking, in full disclosure, I currently make around $35,000, which for a 19 year old is a fantastic wage, at least, compared to what I have made in the past.

I have been talking to a close friend of mine who attended UCLAN and with the exception of some of the more complicated algebra and (quite a lot of) the compiler unit, I have the majority of the first and second years covered already, but the problem really is the piece of people to prove this, will the Googles and the Microsofts of this world even consider my application with the absence of a degree on there?
O’Reilly Open Government book now a free download, in honor of Aaron Swartz
Mark Zuckerberg, brutal and dangerous? I don't think so.
I wonder, would it be possible to do the same thing in reverse, i.e. use it as some kind of radio receiver that dumps .wav to disk?
Cloudifying Couchbase
Since they are not the government, they cannot legally gain entrance to your property (actually, neither can the government without a warrant, but they cannot get a warrant either). They send you a letter, asking you to sign up to pay the media licence or sign a declaration that you own no such devices.

The declaration - however - is legally binding and there are huge fines for breaking such a declaration. However, they must be able to prove that you do actually have such devices, by entering your property. In most cases, they don't really bother, though.
Hi Holger,

OK, so Add is a replacement for your contacts syncing and storage (of Gmail/iCloud etc.) for people who care about their privacy and believe that paying for a product means you are the customer, not the user or worse, the product being sold.

Does that make it clearer?
I don't suppose it's any more than a few mW - Ofcom don't seem to be interested in / able to remove the many high-power pirate radio stations, often with awful dirty signals, dotted around the UK (particularly London) so this would be a long way down their list of priorities! Even in rural Yorkshire, I get the "delights" of Phatt 100 and others every weekend.

Agreed though - anything throwing unwanted noise onto the RF spectrum is a Bad Thing, however low-power it is (see powerline networking).
7 Failures of Corporate Executives as Entrepreneurs
The title is pure linkbait, which is surprising for NPR. I guess that's the only way to get more clicks when the entire article boils down to "Large plants/animals live longer, on average (except humans)". Thanks, we hadn't already noticed.

A formula that "tells us when it's time to die" would imply some sort of prediction about individuals, which they admit is not the case at all. That would actually be interesting.
I'm a programmer and I have no degree and make more than most of my friends with degrees. If your goal is to make more money I suggest figuring out how much you'd like to make and which companies you'd like to work for. Then study the jobs they offer and the skills required. Then study on your own and find ways to apply what you learn to your current work. That's worked for me.

I started as a web designer, eventually became a an actuarial systems developer, and then a data analyst/developer for one of the larget web sites in the world. A degree hasn't limited me at all.

Having said that, I've struggled with this question my whole life and now at age 30 I'm in school and pursuing a degree. I finally realized I don't need one, but I really want one. Just because its always been something I want. Why? I can't deny that I apply a certain amount of credibility to a degree and I want that.

Edit: typos
Bitcoin And The $1 Trillion Coin
> If the answer involves advertising, think again, chances are it’s a poor business model. Now you might say that [insert your favourite startup here] did it and succeeded, but let me warn you, those are the exception to the rule.

Perhaps. But the startup that succeeds is the exception to the rule, REGARDLESS of their model for making money. And I have seen quite a few that worried first about getting customers and only later about how to make a profit off them.

It's not that making a profit is unimportant (it is incredibly important, and also very hard). It is that making something that is successful is ALSO incredibly important, and is even harder. If you can solve the harder problem (being successful), perhaps later you can solve the problem of being profitable also. If you can solve both from the start that's even better, but not everyone can do that.
Probably not a bad idea, since a lot of people are (self-entitedly) misunderstanding the scope of the project.
Just found PiHAT - Rasberry Pi Home Automation Transmitter: http://www.skagmo.com/page.php?p=projects/22_pihat
"radio and television that is free from political influence". Sorry, I believe your opinion is incorrect. Any form of non-trivial media has some sort bias.
I'd certainly rather have Dropbox's projected revenue streams than Mega's Alexa ranking during a wave of publicity.
Manual testing is Obsolete, Let the Machines Take Over
I agree, except for this: imagine Company X will pay twice as much for engineers who currently work for a competitor, specifically because they want to get the competitor's knowledge.

The competitor can try non-complete clauses, but those may not hold up legally. They can threaten to sue former employees who betray secrets, but it's pretty hard not to use or at least be inspired by what you've learned in a past job.

I don't see a good solution to this, but I can see why one would be upset by such "poaching."

That said, "do what we want or we'll sue you for patent infringement" is an inexcusable tactic.
You don't need a piece of paper to prove this, you need to apply what you know to projects either personal or professional. Preferably professional. Get involved in open source, join a programming community, look for mentors, etc.
There is no limit to executive level BS.

Talk to any senior manager and you will see their attitude manifest. The problem really is we are still largely ingrained in the feudal mindset. Employment is treated as a favor done by the company to the employee, and by that virtue employee is bound to life long slavery to the company. Hike, promotions are all treated as gracious favors from the company to the employee.
Just a sidenote.
The fact that it's a fee instead of tax means that the government cannot change how much money SVT should receive.
This means that journalists are not controlled by neither politicians or companies.
This means that we have real journalism and free media.
And I find that awesome =)
On the other hand: TV programs break off every 15 minutes (or more) for various corporations to assault your eyes and ears with messages crafted to make you want to buy their rubbish. And many people consider this a norm.

Of course, an entity that is dependent on these commercial interests won't want to upset them too much, in case they take their advertising elsewhere.

Brit here: having a publicly funded broadcaster (that's required to act impartially) in addition to commercial media is very much a good thing.
The Valley’s No Hire Years Come To Light In Damning New Documents
Pageonce Does $1M In Mobile Bill Payments Daily; Run-rate To Hit $1B By Mid-2013
Ubuntu has had something like this for a while now: https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/
Time for Apple to get off its high horse
FACEBOOK CAPSLOCK PASSWORD
Today i loged in Facebook as usually after lunch. Imediately i reasised the CAPSLOCK was on. I loged out and tried again with CAPSLOCK on and again i was able to log in. I open notepad and wrote the password with the CAPSLOCK on and then copy pasted it to Facebook and again i was able to login. Maybe Facebook is not case sensitive any more?
I signed up before the change to being a paid service, so am not paying unless I go over the 10 account limit.

Now its $5 per account. An account being in Googles own words:

"We consider a user to be the same as the number of distinct email inboxes you need. One user can have multiple email addresses, and a domain can have multiple aliases – these are included in the price for each user."

Check out all the info you need at: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html
At work we use an awful time sheet package called BigTime...

I am a little bad a filling it in and recently came up with a tool to help. I work as a product designer and all of our documents have a project document number 'xxx-0000' for project code and document number. I have a little tool that runs in the background and checks what file handles the font most window has open. It checks the file name for a project code and records a log file showing what time I'm working on what project. I then have a little tool that draws a calendar like view showing what projects I have been working on. It makes it allot easer to retrospectively fill in 'real' time sheets.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in a Digital Age
There is no better battery (2008)
This should be Exhibit A in the case for patent reform. Patents are no longer a protectant for The Little Inventor; they are weapons that big companies can stockpile and use them to bully competitors.

With the smartphone market as hot as it is, wouldn't you expect to see thousands of companies making them? This is why you don't.
A degree can be a good confirmation that you can do what you say you can and you can be relatively sure that someone holding a degree will have a more thorough understanding of things and is capable of functioning independently (usually).

However, there's plenty of people with a CS degree I'd never consider working with and if a company was to hire me based solely on my CS degree I wouldn't consider working for them. There's more to any single developer than a degree they hold, or don't.
Well, Your title suggestion inspires me to write another article around management and productivity but I need some more research for it :)
Actually I have a post planned for the market fit as well - but yes, I mostly agree with you. But the problem arises when you try to fundraise (and many startups do) - then you'll have to have a very clear idea about making money. Based on my experience, it's pretty much the only thing investors care about.