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> While Mozilla are pumping out stellar designs like this, Google are pushing crap like Native Client and their proprietary, binary-only Foxit Reader solution instead, complete with the hundreds of thousands of LOC of insecure C this entails.

Given how well PDF.js runs using Mozilla's JS engine, I have to wonder how well it would perform with V8.
Malcolm Gladwell talks about proof
I don't doubt that this is the case, but can you mention some of the language / frameworks which have done this?

(I'm not being critical; I'm really just curious and would like to learn about different frameworks).
They definitely need to label it better then. I know the wording, 'also available for Windows and Mac' should have explained it to me, but my brain was being dumb and all I saw was Window/Mac and I just left the site.
You can use a 529 to study abroad as long as the foreign educational institution has what is called a federal school code.

https://retirementplans.vanguard.com/VGApp/pe/pubnews/TenThi...

http://www.savingforcollege.com/eligible_institutions/?cbdFo...

There are 354 foreign schools/colleges listed, 7 of them in Rome. I did not check other cities in Italy.

It's not too late! Take whatever help the government gives you!
I suspect a hack was involved -- the animation leading up to the construction of a Zerg Extractor involves the drone hovering over the geyser temporarily. This requires the unit to be put into a "floating" state which wasn't properly cancelled if the build failed -- queueing up additional move commands would then allow it to clip through barriers.

A number of similar bugs with queued commands existed. I get the sense that this feature wasn't adequately tested. :)
I think the nice thing about Rails is that the core committee tries to make the core framework slimmer by removing features and stuffing them into gems. It's nice that Rails keeps features out that might be considered "core" by others, like authentication. It allows new "core-like features" to be adapted by the community.
The Four Most Important Qualities Of An Entrepreneur
Looks much better than I imagined. Also painfully slow.
No, its only a normal employee contract.
If you read the comments you'll see that someone was able to hunt down the price...
I do have to note that Estonia with its 165 chargers is curiously only as wide as the distance between the 'superchargers' in the recent Tesla debacle...
That's not a half-bad idea at all, actually.
Just an FYI: If you transfer more than $13k in a year to the account it will trigger gift taxes.
Your dogma is already obsolete
This could eventually be in a PTZ earring, like the size of a pearl earring.
Yet, it's possible to obfuscate and confuse with only simple words, even unintentionally.

We're waiting on a Supreme Court ruling that could have significant impact on first-sale that hinges on two plausible interpretations of the phrase "made lawfully under this title."[1]

"First sale" itself is made up of two simple understandable words, but could mean be any one of the sales that occur in the creation of a work. The words themselves contain nothing that indicate whether it refers to the first sale of a book to a publisher, a publisher to a store, a store to a person or a person to another person.

"Assault" is a common word in every day usage, but in law it means something very specific, it doesn't even require physical contact.

Even if someone succeeds in writing a law that makes perfect sense to laypeople, it's possible that the apparent meaning will change or be lost in the future. For an example of this, wade just ankle-deep into discussions of the meaning of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.

Phrases like "sine qua non"[2] are pretty inaccessible, in that you might need to look them up. However, being from a dead language, they may be less likely to morph in meaning over time.

[1] http://www.volokh.com/2012/05/08/some-baffling-copyright-law...

[2] Found in a Supreme Court opinion on copyright - Feist Pubs., Inc. v. Rural Tel. Svc. Co., Inc. - 499 U.S. 340 (1991) http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/499/340/case.html
Yes, we are employees of Barracuda Networks.
Wikipedia is a great first stop for almost every subject under the sun--except for medical issues and mathematics. In both those cases, it seems like procrastinating medical students or math grad students try to out-do each other with more and more esoteric details and jargon.
Dumb question: What's to stop Chrome from eventually adopting PDF.js?

Personally, I see that as the future. Its open source, its
"good enough", and Google doesn't have to license the pdf viewer anymore.

Also it's a big coup against Adobe, when everyone with firefox and chrome can pretty much uninstall your Adobe Reader software. I haven't even mentioned shrinking the market on 3rd party PDF viewers.
I suspect most that complain about Java and have written JEE code in the past have never seen Spring 3.
I'm looking for people that did the same: convert their service business into a product business. Anyone?
We have been doing this for years and have bootstrapped all of our B2B startups (SaaS products). We have had VC's contact us and turn them away because it is not a good fit. We haven't fallen within the "ramen sense" profitability in a very long time and are comfortably profitable with employees. We simply keep re-investing profits from successful products into new products and over the years have been able to acquire hundreds of thousands of users. We are at a point where we are able to leverage our current user database for new product launches, feedback and ideas. Bootstrapping forces us to think about profits and launch products that our existing customers and new users will pay for. It gives us no choice. I would like to see more tech startups consider bootstrapping. I think too many read Techcrunch and hear about the very few that make or have been acquired for millions and have VC backing but don't look at the thousands that die off. I have always looked at it as wanting to build and grow a successful business that is around for a long time.
Why have the white British left London?
You sound like a good person -- at least you put some effort in. The only other comment I'd have here is that sometimes it's better to simply listen than to expect someone to change. Believe me, I get that it's emotionally draining to hear someone vent and rehash the same personal issues over and over and over again; but, sometimes, they just want someone to talk to, not someone to tell them what they need to do. It's up to your judgement whether or not you (or anyone else) has time or room in your life for that, and whether or not it'll do any good if you do.
Even Jack Dorsey Can’t Convince You to Give Up Grimy Dollar Bills
How many miles is your commute?
$14,000 for 2013.

Also note that lifetime tax-free limit is $5.12 million. So if you 'accidentally' gift more than $14k, you just fill form 709 and pay no taxes till $5.12M
I am declaring in no uncertain terms that this author is a survivor of childhood abuse, and that fact has led to ingrained behaviors causing undesirable outcomes in his life.

And now I will presumptuously bully my way into forcing my opinion on him with abusive HATECAPS under the self-serving, egotistical guise of trying to help:

AUTHOR. YOU ARE THE SURVIVOR OF CHILDHOOD ABUSE. THIS FACT HAS LED TO INGRAINED BEHAVIORS THAT ARE CAUSING UNDESIRABLE OUTCOMES IN YOUR LIFE. YOU, LIKE VIRTUALLY ALL PEOPLE, REQUIRE A GREATER SOCIAL CONTEXT IN WHICH TO EXPLORE THESE EVENTS, UNDERSTAND HOW THEY TAUGHT YOU MALADAPTIVE EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL BEHAVIORS, AND PERHAPS MODIFY THEM FOR A GREATER RESULT.
The idea is that it's not always obstructing your view. You have to glance up to see it.
>Not even close. First of all, mining and burning coal is far worse for the environment than oil. Mining is destructive, impacts water tables, ...

Sure, but that's a different metric than the OP was asking about and talks about one particular method of mining. On the specific question of system efficiency -- mechanical output divided by heat content input ("well to wheels") -- it is indeed generally right that coal electricity + transmission/battery losses still has a higher efficiency than everyone burning gas in their own poorly-maintained vehicle.

>There's no environmental case for EV-only cars, unless you are powering the grid with solar, wind, or hydro.

If you make the question black-and-white, perhaps. But hopefully we can recognize that e.g. oil-derived electricity powering cars is a step up from millions of aging ICEs using that oil in refined form;

- and that natural gas-generated electricity is a step up from that

- and that it's easier to change the (ultimate) power source on an electric car than a gas-powered one, which has a very "picky" engine.
To be fair, at the time it was introduced, Rails was, in fact, the 2nd coming of Jesus. I've met DHH in person I can attest to the fact that when he walks, the faint sound of angels fills the air. It's true.
https://www.copy.com/about/tos/ says Barracuda Networks, but that was all I could find.
Copy is a Barracuda Networks project. The about page is being worked on and should be up later today.
Yahoo.com Feb 2013 looks pretty sharp compared to how it looked a few months ago. It's muuuch cleaner and doesn't look like a barely maintained derelict. I could pick a few beefs with it, but, whatever.

It looked good on the iPhone and on the desktop.
So, I looked at it 3 hours ago and didn't see anything new. I just looked again and it's definitely different. You might try refreshing and stuff.
There are two separate issues here: the scope of regulatory institutions (in the broad sense of the word "regulatory") and how much guidance is provided via law for the exercise of regulatory power within that scope. The volume of law is a function of these two variables.

I think the size of our regulatory institutions are, within an order of magnitude, consistent with the needs of our enormous and complex society. Within that scope, I would favor codifying less and leaving more to the discretion of regulatory bodies. That would lead to a reduction in the volume of law in trade for an accretion of power in regulatory bodies. I think dramatic reductions in the scope of regulation would lead to diminished prosperity. I don't think there is a practical way to reduce the volume of law while holding both variables constant.

So in short, I don't think we have an "excess" of law, at least not within an order of magnitude. It's hard to argue with success--America and England are the two most legalistic societies in the history of the world, and are also the two most successful. I think the scope of their regulatory institutions should get some credit for that success, a basic enabler of highly complex, integrated, organized, specialized industrial society.

As an aside, consider something like the internet. The internet has a lot of "law": Ethernet, LTE, TCP/IP, HTML, CSS, JS, DOC, PDF, SMTP, POP, etc. And that's just for the relatively simple task of exchanging two dimensional mostly textual documents! Nobody implements all these correctly, but would the internet be as successful without them?

Fundamentally, we need some people telling everyone what to do and how to do it. At some level. You can't build the world we live in without that. There are various ways to do it, but law is how you do it in a mostly democratic manner.
As i see it, it is self funding. And the "no" is actually a "not yet". As the author puts it, is a problem to seed investors, because now the founders themselves have the money to their own seed. And nothing has changed to VC capital.

I don't see it as a "2013 trend", it is something that only depends if the founder have a cash reserve or not.
I don't think there were many founders seeking seed capital in the past out of absolute need. Not in the past, not now. Maybe these days we have more people saving money with the clear purpose of self-fund for a year or two. Maybe is anedoctal.
If median revenue per month is only $133, they suck at gaming it.
fascinating. Are there studies done on this, or is this a well known developmental phenomenon?
I'll take a shot at this, but I only did a cursory reading of the article.

To begin with, I don't believe you are vulnerable through this exploit any more. Facebook has fixed this by changing the response in OAuth so that it would no longer trigger the block redirect. In particular:
"Facebook had '1; mode=block' header. Now it's 0; because of us"

Every site using Facebook's OAuth was vulnerable. I don't believe the basic FB like button actually uses OAuth, but using FB as a way to login to your site would.

The vulnerability takes advantage of Chrome's handling of the above response from the server. When it sees that response, it loads a separate page to prevent the request from going through. The problem is this particular page has details about the request, like OAuth credentials in the response, and allows a third party script to have access to details about the request. Once an attacker has access to OAuth credentials, they basically have access to the login credentials for that user (ie as if the user's username and password were compromised)

Any user that is logged in to FB can have their OAuth app credentials compromised if they visited a site running this malicious code.
Bingo.

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and
Registrars.
Registrant:
Barracuda Networks Inc
3175 Winchester Blvd
Campbell, CA 95008
US

Domain name: COPY.COM

Administrative Contact:
Hostmaster, Barracuda hostmaster@barracuda.com
3175 Winchester Blvd
Campbell, CA 95008
US
+1.4083425400 Fax: +1.4083421061

Technical Contact:
Hostmaster, Barracuda hostmaster@barracuda.com
3175 Winchester Blvd
Campbell, CA 95008
US
+1.4083425400 Fax: +1.4083421061
I think this would definitely be helpful. Definitely something I will think about starting. You can really only get a handle on your emotions when you've someone that understands you and to do that you need to be able to express yourself without fear of rejection; a group of us would definitely help with that.

All the resources for the socially isolated tend to be directed at;

1. Those that are depressed or insane. As I mentioned (albeit in a very hyperbolic manner) people tend to assume you're depressed and the only help I have ever been offered was to help cure my non-existent depression. I think it's because most people cant imagine cutting themselves off from the world. They'd only do it if they had a serious mental breakdown, so they assume we must have had one.

or

2. Autistic people that are severely socially disabled.

I'm neither depressed nor severely social disabled. I imagine most shut-ins aren't.

The judgment and inaccurate labeling that comes with seeking help severely deters people like us from seeking it. The very reason I withdrew from society is because I couldn't take the labeling and social judgment.

I'd encourage you to read up on Hikikomori. Japan has a culture that causes a great deal more shut-ins than we do and there is a significant body of work on the phenomenon. Shutting Out the Sun http://www.amazon.com/Shutting-Out-Sun-Generation-Departures... is a pretty good book. There is a good introductory article here http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/magazine/15japanese.html?p...

Simply reading about others like me was enough to give me the courage to share with a few online friends and from there I got the courage to publish my story. There are lots of people like us, you're not alone. Feel free to email me anytime "k@20252.me". We can chat about whatever.
But, Devise is one of the better frameworks out there. Along with Omniauth it saved a huge amount of work. I'd reconsider Devise and look at Omniauth, it is a huge time saver.

New Relic is awesome, but expensive and they do have an aggressive marketing automation thing going on with the emails and such. But, you can't blame them for that, they have to pay the bills and more power to them for that.
Except that it is much easier to replace macro-level power plants with cleaner tech than it is to replace piecemeal an entire citizenry of personal vehicles.

Moving to electric makes you reliant on current means of energy production, but to move to cleaner tech you replace 100 power plants instead of 10,000,000 cars.
ASP.NET MVC + Entity Framework + NuGet could be a candidate. At least it's going in this direction.
Blog post "Social by design in examples"
"What is that 'social' thing?
'Social' means to encourage sharing, to enable participation, to involve. It can have different layers. You can encourage your visitors to contact with you, give them the posibility to contact with other visitors, or to spread your word by sharing. And thanks to that you can get new information and feedback, gain more trust and exposure and I am sure a lot more."
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If you're serious about the world forgetting you then why did you write this post?
Who said anything about Dynamic typing?

I agree with you that Rails still excels at allowing you to slap together a quick prototype, but I think that the world has caught up with Rails (and possibly bested it at this point).
That's not Bundler's fault. It's the fault of the person who made the versionless Gemfile.

There's really no comparison between using Bundler and mucking around with JAR files or Ant scripts in Java. I've even seen Python codebases with a Java-esque rats nest of dependencies that are just as painful to get setup correctly.

Bundler is way easier. I've never been on a Rails project where it took more than 30 minutes to get the env setup and it's in large part, thanks to Bundler. Admittedly, I haven't touched Java in a few years, but last I checked, Java had nothing like Bundler (which is a shame, because it could really use it).
Lessig on "Aaron's Laws - Law and Justice in a Digital Age" [video]
Google Glass project sets a new level of privacy infringement, I can't think of any necessity of it that deserves such a sacrifice.
The problem is the use of the word Christian. There are many different types each with vastly different views. When making a statement like that people need to be more specific.
Its because the new thing is always a special case. Its natural for some people to think that the old way of doing things is the only good way and that anything new that could displace or alter that way of doing things would just ruin it.
I approach influential works of philosophy as being analogous to mathematical proofs. It requires precision of language and verbosity for rigor. But just like math you don't need to read the proof to get the idea. I understand the idea of an integral and derivative despite the fact I cannot fully understand the proofs deriving these ideas. I can talk your ear off on Hegel despite never fully reading his work. That just wouldn't be a good use of my time.

On the other hand thinkers like Derrida are obscure and practically require an understanding of Ancient Greek to say anything "authoritative". I think it leads to all sorts of hand-wavy interpretations.
Most of the ones I found in Rome were along the lines of

"PONTIFICAL NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGE"

Which sounds like some sort of religious institution. Also, none of the major Italian universities in Rome are listed, to say nothing of the University of Padova here in Padova/Padua, which is one of the oldest universities in the world, and where Galileo spent "the happiest years of his life". Granted, these days it's not ranked that well worldwide, but hey, who knows where they'll end up, and getting 10% grabbed sounds like a bad deal.
Thanks. I have just one little quibble: if you want help, a good counselor, therapist, or psychologist can be invaluable. They can see you in ways very different from how you see yourself, and they can communicate with you in ways that nobody else close to you can. So, if you're still at the stage where you want some help, then do go and talk to a few professionals. You might be pleasantly surprised.

On the other hand, finding a good professional takes money and energy and time, and many people lack one of the three. Commanding them to spend money, energy, or time isn't likely to make them do something they can't do.

If you've reached the stage where you no longer want help, then having random people on the internet tell you to go to a professional doesn't do you any good.
Even better, it all goes to charity. I guess that could be bad if you wanted to support the devs, at least with money. :)
Good article, but it's a bit of a straw man argument. Supreme Court opinions have a distinctive style that tends towards plain English. You can pick almost any opinion (majority or dissenting) at random and a layman will be able to follow along.

However, the Supreme Court is sui generis; basically almost all other legal opinions are written quickly and opaquely. There's little incentive for judges to write beautifully if only a handful of people are going to care about the decision--especially when those people have lawyers available to interpret the opinion for them.
Where's the API? Dropbox has a tremendous ecosystem going for it. I'm not sure how prevalent it is on Android, but pretty much all iOS text and PDF editors have Dropbox integration and their new sync SDK is only going to push integration even higher.

I can't say I'm a very heavy Dropbox user, so I don't have many complaints (if any) about their offering, but if you want to get into the space you have to address those complaints. A shiny UI and better pricing can only get you so far and there's no way they're enough to beat out a competitor as entrenched as Dropbox.
Thought provoking for me, as I've been involved in hiring folks in the past.

I think the current trend is to use traditional methods of looking at a candidate (resume, cover letter, interview) and augment the background check with a combination of GitHub profile + Stackoverflow profile + side projects.
I presume he orders online. I'm not sure what it's like where you are but here I order online from the largest supermarkets (Tesco, Asda etc.) and have it delivered to my door the next day for a £3-5 delivery charge. It's pretty commonplace.
This needs to be repeated over and over. We see so many pundits pushing the "right" way to build Rails applications now. Rails was a reaction against large applications. The major use case is to build CRUDs in front of a db. If your application out grows Rails, it's not a condemnation about Rails, or your team, or an earlier choice.

If you're Twitter or Facebook, don’t use Rails out of the box. For the rest of us who want to work on small applications, Rails is still beautiful. And when I say small, I mean applications around the complexity of a Basecamp or Github.
Dear god, so many haters in here. It's a brand new prototype product, and people are complaining about minor features etc. What is wrong with you people? I thought this was a board full of hackers. If you can't see the massive potential in this, you may be in the wrong place.
As someone who is just now learning Rails, I'm loving it. Is this an actual issue that should push me away from the technology? What other technologies are there that streamline the development process as much as rails?
Are you implying that they should have priced it higher? I mean, if we're going to go by "what we paid to produce it" rather than "what people previously paid for it", it should probably start at $10k.
It's more of a science-in-general thing: The near-universal [1] convention used in drawing graphs is to put the independent variable on the x axis.

If the independent variable is price, then your thought process will be: "If the price is $100, then there will be 1000 buyers. If the price is $150, then there will be 700 customers." It's easy to think about things that way.

If the independent variable is demand, then your thought process will be: "If there are 1000 people buying the product, it must cost $100. If there are 700 buyers, then it must cost $150." It seems counterintuitive to think in this way.

[1] Except in economics, of course!