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"The key to being a good developer is to be able to find your answer as quickly as possible without learning anything else."

I 100% agree. That's why I often spend some extra time to sharpen my 'good solution for my problem' detection skills.

Even reputable sites such as Stack Overflow have plenty of bad answers, and that is even ignoring the fact that an answer may be good in general, but not for my situation.

Site quality also decays because software is changing/improving all the time. That answer to your question may have 700 upvotes, but if its solution has made meanwhile it into the standard library, it really helps if you know that.
Major difference: Social auth outsources your user table. Persona outsources your password column. You still have your own users, and you still have a portable identifier for them.

What's more, Persona is built as a fully-decentralized architecture with a temporary centralized fallback. That means that one button can support all users, via their email provider's native authentication mechanisms (in the future) or via Mozilla's centralized fallback (for now).
Github: noplay

Thanks, that sound interesting
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It took me exactly 20 seconds to get the email address behind this ... and I'm not a professional rebus solver. I just happen to know how a base64 and hex encoded string looks like.
Re: your second point:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/navigator.id.re...

> returnTo: Absolute path to send new users to after they've completed email verification for the first time. The path must begin with '/'. This parameter only affects users who are certified by Mozilla's fallback Identity Provider.
Yes, primarily. You can see a small preview right now on the Library ("+" icon), but we chose to disable it for now so we can focus the demo on CSS.
I want to hear more about your go version of Docker. Link?

You have a lot of projects in your github repository and I was not able to identify it from scanning the list.
Been around here awhile, but mostly on the fringes, so I'm not sure what you mean by that...?
I agree. I think OP is navelgazing.

"You just baked an apple pie from scratch. What just happened?"

"Laws" of physics... Big bang... cooling... particles... hydrogen... stars... fusion... heavier elements...

Oh, no cosmology? Okay, the entire history of evolution, then civilization, then industry leading to humans with electricity and ovens and supermarkets.
In answer to your question, Yes.

A lot of people got wiped out in the dot.com debacle, too highly invested in technology, not enough diversity, the need to eat while the portfolio was at its lowest value. Some people have pursued dreams into new ventures, poured their accumulated net worth into those endeavors and had them not succeed. Some folks have developed medical conditions associated with working long hours in a repetitive environment, or working with components that internally were quite toxic and sometimes externally, and spent their accumulated savings on ever increasing health care. Some folks have spent their excess cash on maintaining an image or a lifestyle which they perceive to be the model of success. Some folks have spent all their income on a combination of their own needs and those of their former spouses and children.

Being an engineer/programmer doesn't make you immune to life's ups and downs. And there is no magic 'pension' that kicks in (under funded or not) after you've put in 15, 20, or even 40 years at your job.

That said, I know a number of people who are both financially independent and working 30 to 60 hrs a week for someone else. They just like the work.
I have doubts, given that machines are getting locked down both in terms of hardware and software, preventing users from exploring the guts of their gadgets as their curiosity is piqued by using these devices.

The advances in technology, while making "creation" more accessible than ever, also seems to be enabling fewer people to serve more people than ever before.
>strawpeople.

Are even logical fallacies supposed to be politically correct now? That's hilarious. Googling strawpeople gets me a New Zealand band.
And here's my How-To for adding Persona authentication to your site: http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1056
It's annoying to configure, and the community is infinitesimal compared, but it has a stellar security record, and it's feels much more extensible.

The main thing to consider is that the community isn't like Wordpress's, which is often a pretty big deal when tussling with it.
> This is not a "lighten up honey situation". Adria has every right to be offended and absolutely every right to call out their bad behavior.

Ah, so the only two choices are 1) condescending, sexist down-talk to a woman, or 2) a woman being rightfully offended.

What about 3)a woman being non-rightfully offended?
We'll then just have to agree too disagree. Until you can show me some good and extensive research to demonstrate otherwise, I'll go with the extensive soft data there is out there to support the consensual position.
How big is your Angular project? I mean I like the idea behind Angular, but my concern how Angular holds up in a huge app, let's say if Angular was written as the client of WordPress (or some blog) admin. I don't have enough experience with it to be able to judge how well it is to handle that.

Or would it be a hybrid of Backbone + Angular?

Would love to hear the opinion of someone more experienced.
I would be very interested in hearing why you chose that framework. Look forward to the blog post.
We're very close to having Firefox and IE10 support, so this will not be true for long.
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This isn't entirely correct. Per the DMCA (or, really, the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act - OCILLA), the hosting provider must comply with a takedown notice should they receive it, regardless of how idiotic it appears, so long as the content that is claimed to be infringing is hosted by the provider and the notice is completed. It's up to the website owner to file a counter-notice in instances like this; once they do so, the hosting provider will re-enable the content within 14 days provided the original notice filer doesn't initiate legal action.

ChillingEffects has a long (but very informative) FAQ on the DMCA that dispels a lot of common misunderstandings.

Some bits that are of note in my opinion is the overview of the takedown process:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi#QID130

And the fact that the provider /must/ respond to the takedown notice:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi#QID129

And some information on the counter-notice procedure:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi#QID922
...or, they just didn't register.

Charities with an income less than £5000/yr do not have to register, but still maintain their charitable status.
The company she works for is SendGrid, if random redditors discussing this are to be trusted.
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> Sexual jokes made by strangers...

Is a joke about a 'big dongle' a sexual joke, or an anatomical joke?

Is a joke about someone having fat fingers a sexual joke, since fingers can be used in sexual acts?

> ...create a hostile environment for women

And not men?
Ask HN: I want to learn Bootstrap but I dont truly know JS; bad idea?
I know C, C++, C#, Java and some assembly but I've never learned a web language. Despite my lack of knowledge, I've been interested in using bootstrap but could I just dive in and learn on the go or should I truly learn Javascript beforehand? Thanks HN!
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If you want 45 minutes of pure nonsense don't worry about his TED talk. Go straight for his videos on YouTube.

eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNHvyTIRVjY
You don't have to use anyone else's themes. You can create your own; and its almost as easy as making a regular static site.

There is never a need to 'crowbar' anything when you can create the entire look and feel from scratch.
Regarding the case-sensitivity issues, this pull request should have fixed all of the outstanding ones: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/pull/3078

Of course, if you find anything we've missed, please file a bug :)
> 2- Signup flow could be better.

Upgrade to the Observer API (`.watch` and `.request`) and your users will automatically get a super smooth post-verification experience, just like you described.
I actually do not login to website that asks me login either using Google a/c, Facebook or so. Twitter being an exception because everything at Twitter I've anyway made public, but I hesitate still.
You're right! We put it up there when it was an internal project, it's probably time to take care of that. Taking it down until we found a correct way to do it.

I'm a copyright noob: would simply acknowledging the copyright owner be enough and fall under fair use, or should we not use it unless we get written permission?
I think there's probably a pretty high correlation between people who can solve them, and people who can get the job done (or quickly learn...).

I wonder if the results of that study would show whether it makes any difference. :)
You have absolutely zero to apologize for. It's quite the opposite. I hope you get an even better job, at a place that deserves you - and soon.
Children, medical problems, divorce, expensive hobbies, stock crashes. Stuff happens. If you expect to live to 85, which is pretty reasonable, and keep paying to live in the Bay Area, do a little traveling, you'd want to pull down $100k or so per year and thus need about $2M in the bank.
This is the kind of lady I'll be happy to find and bond with i just such a way! Congratuations!
"idiomatic, widely supported and immediately available"

So is McDonalds, but that doesn't necessarily make it good for you. What Doug is getting at in his post is that there are cleaner and more interesting (and often more useful) ways to deal with exceptions, apart from writing out incessant try-catch-finally blocks.

disclaimer: I work with Doug
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That might work at some universities, but there are a (not insignificant) number of students who simply refuse to buy used textbooks. After all, they aren't paying $20k per semester to learn old calculus!

The sad reality of the situation is that a professor's student evaluations (which do matter for things like tenure) will be negatively affected by the decision to use an old edition. Yes, sometimes it makes sense to tell an unprofitable/annoying customer to go away, but professors don't have that luxury in the university environment.

Edit: Curious why this is being down-voted. The truth hurts?
Could it be built on top of node.js so it's all Javascript?
Sure, Apple popularized many disrupting technologies like GUI (curtesy XEROX PARC), Laser-printer+Postscript (curtesy Adobe/XEROX). They also pioneered desktop computing, smartphones etc. building on technology made by Intel, IBM, etc.

But where are the "countless new technologies that exist because of the products that Apple invented"? I don't follow that argument. I think it's rather the other way around: the great products that Apple invented exist, because of the countless new technologies that already existed.

Apple and Jobs stood on the soulders of giants. And one of these giants was Dennis Ritchie. Stating that fact does not diminish Apple.
That's pretty much what I was trying to convey.
My bank password is 'sort-of' hashed
The coupling between views and controllers - at least based on the examples on the front page - looks horrible to me, and makes it a non-starter right out of the gate. To me that feels like a return to the bad old days when we embedded PHP right in the HTML....
Totally agree! Because I am not the biggest fan of PayPal, one of the best things I did to speed up ecommerce for myself was to memorize my CC details.
Well damn, that's what you get for choosing something new and Bleeding Edge.

People expect a lot of documentations, tutorials, good community and comercial support for something that was released a couple months ago...
There's an "evil" incentive to have social logins such as Twitter + FB. It gives you a free access token, which can be extremely useful, especially if you're building a social media analytics service, or some sort of tool that requires making API calls.
Totally agreed. That should go for tweeting sexist and lewd/inappropriate jokes during the conference, which is why we should find out who made this tweet and let them know that it is not okay: http://instagram.com/p/W3htw7gaR5/
Start with HTML. Once when you master it, go to JS. A good place to start: http://www.w3schools.com/

If you know C/C++, HTML/JS will be pretty easy for you.
Thanks! At first we thought it would be a good idea to record the whole tutorial in one pass, without edits. That didn't work out - it was too hard to keep it concise and focused. I ended up recording different sections of the script (5 total) and piecing them together. I recorded it all in the storage area of my apartment because it would have been too loud at the Hacker Dojo (where we have been working). After recording the audio and putting that together, I exported the audio and listened to it while recording my screen. The screen recording took 1 shot. I threw it over the audio and exported it. It's not perfect but it works!

Moral of the story: if you don't have a good sound room - find a storage room. :)
was this a private event? she had no right to take your picture without permission. if it was a park or the sidewalk yes, that's a public area, but you could have a case against her.
Did you miss the part where we don't all agree on what it is that actually sucks?

When I say "most people think most things suck, but they don't agree on what sucks" - that applies to industry people too. And nothing about their being industry people means they magically all agree on what, in particular, sucks nor in what the non-sucky alternative would be.
It would contain the bleeding but it wouldn't stop it.
My guess, is that Voyager being declared "outside" the solar system will happen only after quite of bit of time has passed since it actually left. Like the Higgs Boson, there is data, there is analysis, and there are confidence intervals. One result may be that the instruments send back cosmic ray information that no theory can explain how that would be consistent with being inside the heliosphere. Or it may simply be that the environment stops changing. And after a while that non-changing result is accepted as being "outside" and then you can walk backwards in the data to figure out the first time you got that result (and consequently the last change you saw) and declare the exit that way.
Thanks! I can't tell you how many times we changed the UI for the different panels to make it super awesome.
The Onion does a really good series called "Onion Talks" that satirizes the vapidness of TED talks. They also capture the audiences' "inspired" reactions pretty well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tom6_ceTu9s
Except that most reputable universities don't let you do that. You can use your own textbook for the course, if you want, you just can't accept any royalties for it.
Are you saying that both approaches have the same level of security or probable insecurities? or that you can't currently estimate the difference?

Even being aware that this is a Linux solution I mentioned the Windows technologies that I know technically.
I'm half in this book and it's pretty good. On my top 5 now.
Look up, for example, why top Napa vineyards go for low yields. It's also basic chemistry. There is a finite number of nutrients in the soil, and the plant can make a finite amount of such things out of these nutrients (like phenols in the grape skins and... er.. this is not my subject, but I can look it up again myself should I have to).
I'm not on the side of Adria in this fight, but I don't agree with your points. First of all, they were not having a private conversation. Presumably Adria wasn't utilizing some telescopic microphone to record their whispers. She was just sitting near them, and heard them speaking. That is not eavesdropping.
It frustrates me too. We have the technology to automate SO MANY of our processes, but it's almost like people enjoy doing them by hand.

I'm teaching myself to build a self-driving trash can, among other things.
Many of the complaints here are common to all major web CMSs, which is what drove me to write about "Decoupling Content Management" two years ago: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/decoupling_content_management/

Since then, there have been common infrastructure components like Create.js, PHPCR, and Symfony2 that have been widely accepted by many of the projects. Through that, the state of Content Management is now steadily improving.

Sadly, WordPress has so far stayed outside of this development.
They called in the big guns. Here's the correcting press release:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-107

Ed Stone, the project scientist and the nominal author of this press release, is 77 now. He was 41 when Voyager 1 launched (and he was project scientist then, too). You still see him around JPL and Caltech.
I thought it's a new way of securing email addresses. I didn't even understood this is a puzzle!
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No. Massive files are crap.
You gave it away :P
> The fact that he was reading his entire presentation verbatim should have tipped everybody off in the first minute or so

His presentation is utter nonsense, but whether he reads verbatim has nothing to do with it. Someone presenting valid results could just be a poor public speaker and/or nervous.
You could've read this thread to find the answers to most of your questions. Yes, the two gentlemen in question did make these jokes; one of them admits as much in this thread, and said so to the PyCon organizers when they investigated the incident. Yes, they had an opportunity to defend themselves.

You might not be familiar with defamation law in the United States, but understand that truth is an absolute defense against defamation. Nobody is disputing the facts of the incident (the actual content of what was said), and Adria's interpretation of the jokes (whether you agree with it or not) is clearly in the realm of opinion.

I could take pictures of any two guys at an event and put it on Twitter and say they were gay bashing or using racial slurs, and they have no opportunity to defend themselves.

Yet ask yourself: does this happen in the real world? Is there an epidemic of false, Twitter-aided public shamings? We've already established that this isn't an example, since no facts are in dispute. Maybe the implications of this incident aren't as far-reaching and scary as you think.
Thanks for that post! Do you have any suggestions for how the official documentation (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Quick_Setup) could be improved?
I agree to a point but don't think 1% is too accepting. In many ways I think the top 1% of TEDx talks exceed the quality of some traditional TED conference talks, because they typically are doing it solely because of the idea as oppose to conference speakers who have other commercial interests, often promoting themselves and/or their new book.
I'd love to have access, thanks. My github username is dwahler.
Not at all. If the original statement was something like, "Top Secret Agent Spongebob Squarepants determined that rot13 is not a good encryption scheme," then redacting the name of the top secret agent while releasing the rest of the statement makes perfect sense.
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spamhaus.org is down for me, giving a cloudflare error page.
HN policy used to be that you could give items customized/more appropriate titles if the page you were linking to had a bad title.

In the last year, this guideline was removed from the guidelines page and mods have been renaming items "back" to the actual title of pages being linked to. So this item should be "fun.js" and now the useful title it is now. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet because there have been a ton of examples in the past several months.

(If you couldn't guess, I think the change in policy is ridiculous.)
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Those might be the 228 best ones - they're still often horrible presentations. TED presentations used to be a big deal, and they were extremely well rehearsed.

That's not the case any more. While the material covered is occasionally great, the pain of listening to a bad speakers makes it not worth my time.

Add to that the fact that _nothing_ is a must watch when it covers hundreds of hours, and the days of "It's a TED talk, it'll be worth watching" are gone.
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>Wow. I'm ashamed to have put 'curated TEDx participant' on my resume. Removed.

Depending on what kind of organization you're applying to, that can still be useful.
Love the edit :)

We're actually big fans of the MailChimp pricing model (both pay-as-you go and monthly options), so it's a possibility.

About Bootstrap, the current demo already uses it for the non-visual elements (grid, etc), but we're still not sure about a whole-scale import yet. There are a lot of changes afoot with Bootstrap and Foundation (mobile-first being a big trend), so we're noodling on a ton of options.
As pointed out, you need to start with HTML. First learn the basics(class, ids, tags, data-* attributes) etc. If you haven't done HTML at all it will be slightly tricky for a couple of days. JS won't be a huge challenge.
Alright thanks.
I haven't noticed an issue myself, though I would be interested in hearing the average quality of each item over time (ie if the fewer items you are getting are the cream of the crop of the formerly larger amount).
Code review is a part of the theme repository, if you're talking about themes hosted on WordPress.org. Themes hosted elsewhere (ThemeForest, GitHub, etc) have no such oversight.

Themes hosted on WordPress.org (the official repository) have to pass through the Theme Review Team, which does enforce certain guidelines and standards: http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/

There's also a large group of people moving to add similar oversight for the official plugin repository; but when you have a repository with 24,000+ separate projects, managing a code review for each one - and for changes to each one - is a huge undertaking.
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Dude, you have nothing to apologize for. I understand why you feel like you do, I would to, but you don't. She took the liberty to be offended over something not directed at her, at your expense. By doing so she caused great damage, not only screwing you over greatly but also doing a huge disservice to the struggle for equality within the tech industry. I realize women have to put up with a lot of crap. I'm often flabbergasted by the kind of harassing childish behaviour women witness to at workplaces, conferences and user groups. The kind of stuff you can't believe adults can resort to. This is something different completely.

I hope you find a new job soon. Don't let this unexpected bump keep you down.
fogus,

This may be too political (as well as OT) a question for you to respond, but I see that this is an O'Reilly book. Does this mean that O'Reilly... um, "has some life left in them"?

I guess I'm hoping so, and looking for some encouraging words from your own experience doing this book with them. Or criticism, if it's justified and you are free to say. (There used to be some O'Reilly people on here, I've noticed, so keep that in mind...)

I like Tim and like the older books. Some more recent issues have given me pause.

P.S. Oh, I see the book isn't out, yet. Maybe I should ask this later.

Also, I didn't initially consider that this could start another "O'Reilly" conversation, in depth. Rather, I'm interested in first-hand experience.