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MinoMonsters (YC W11) is looking for engineers
We’re looking for skilled and passionate engineers to join us at Minomonsters.
Minomonsters is a highly profitable iPhone game hell-bent on becoming the next huge family brand. You’ll get to be part of our journey as we expand from the screen to the offline world with a range of new products, from books, to toys and even TV.

We're a tiny, well-funded team backed by some of the best investors including Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel and others.

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Technical requirements:

* Experience with iOS (Objective-C + Cocos2D)

* Experience architecting game clients

* Experience creating high performance products on iOS

* Passion for design patterns and high quality, maintainable code

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Other requirements:

* Ability to thrive in a fast paced startup environment

* A love for the social & mobile games industry

* Meticulous attention to detail in code and user experience

* Able to connect and empathize with our players

* Undying passion for games

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Responsibilities:

* Frontend game client development on exciting new features

* Contribute to the design and direction of the product

* Bring features to life by paying close attention to user experience

* Work closely with artists and designers

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Bonus points:

* Multiplayer/networking

* Experience with Ruby/EventMachine

* A history of building games

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We offer generous equity and a highly competitive compensation package with great perks.

Interested? jobs@minomonsters.com

Make sure you include something you’ve built that you’re proud of.
I am not aware of any major Bitcoin lending, nor would I expect to see any major Bitcoin lending at any point. The reason is simple: Bitcoin is not a legal tender anywhere, nor does it enjoy any legal status as a currency anywhere. Courts deal in fiat currencies, and both lenders and borrowers need to deal with the court system in case of default; until courts start dealing in Bitcoin, issuing a Bitcoin loan will only add complication to such proceedings.

In my view, Bitcoin will ultimately be little more than another way to make electronic payments. Merchants will accept Bitcoin only to immediately trade the Bitcoin units for some fiat currency on a Bitcoin exchange. Bitcoin exchanges will basically be payment processors. This, of course, assumes that technical problems do not destabilize everyone's trust in Bitcoin as a secure payment system (and given that it fails to meet the formal definition of security used by cryptographers, I suspect that this is bound to happen).
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What is the point of the popup that appears when I click a link? How is this ever better than taking me to the link?
Meet Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia Anyone Can Code
"I'm sorry to hear your employer deciding to not to work with you on this and I hope they reconsider, bring you back on and dealing with it constructively."

if you're serious about that, promote this petition as hard as you did the damaging photo:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/374/323/889/give-alex-reid-hi...
Google Drive allows developers to make third party apps
SourceTree support for Windows is coming. We're implementing Mercurial support now and will release ASAP. We decided to put the product in the hands of everyone soon as we had a usable product.
I'm pretty sure they already know the minimum time they want to keep a certain service afloat. Would they really lose much if they publicly announced a date, after which they would reevaluate a service? I think I'm giving Google free PR advice here... damn you Google!
Is there any service like this that would let me not just link to the material I want but actually save the content? or does Kippt do this?

I ask because a while back I started a private blog just for my own eyes where I started saving entire articles I enjoyed reading (in case the links go bad).
This is true - RADIUS and TACACS are the most secure way to access routers. I've found that nearly all routers in nearly all environments still have a local authentication. If you were to remove all network connections (or just the right one) you no longer have access to the authentication server and you would be totally locked out of the box since it doesn't cache any of the authentication. The running configuration of the router IS what you have to secure, and it needs to be stored under lock and key (SFTP, authenticated file share, etc). If you're sending it to non-shared parties you should remove the authentication from the configuration either manually or with 'show run brief'.
"guarantee that two users won't share the same password"

routers with hard coded passwords in the config don't have users. Device passwords. Often the console/telnet and enable password are the same so there is "a" password.

Of course you could implement as a network admin a psuedosalted standard like our router password shall be prefixed with hostname, "hostnamereallylongcomplicatedpasswordthatsthesameforallhostnames" then rainbow tables will barf because each individual device password begins with a different hostname, even if all of them end with the same "l33tpass0rd" or whatever.

This is assuming you have a sensible hostname strategy, or even assign "real" hostnames to your routers. I suppose people like that who haven't caught up to that newfangled "DNS thing" could use a unique router ip addrs, although now we're assuming a sensible ip allocation scheme and network design. This is kind of reading like Dante, isn't it.
Is this an elaborate form of self-inflicted sour grapes?
It sounds to me like you are imputing motives unsupported by this particular example.

First, Marco pretty explicitly said he wasn't in favor of regulation:

Much of our rapid progress wouldn’t have happened if we had to play by the rest of the world’s rules, and I think we’re better off overall the way it is.

In general, it's pretty even-handed on this particular issue:

The best thing we can do isn’t necessarily to try to pay for everything, which is unrealistic and often not an option. Our best option is to avoid supporting and using proprietary monocultures.

Second, it sounds complex because it _is_ complex. He's pretty explicitly addressing the "you're not the customer" canard, as if that's a panacea. In reality it is a trade-off, and paid vs. free is possibly even orthogonal, given the last paragraph.
Yes, that happened to the company I work for now... twice!

In both cases we've maintained good relations with those developers and the tools they've built are still useful to us.

I'm of the opinion that it's better to hire entrepreneurial types like that if you have the option, and then it's your job to make sure they get some kind of an outlet for that enthusiasm at your company while they work there.

Our existing code is built on a large open source project as well, which helps attract developers who are interested in working on open source...

If you're just shoving lines of code around for pay, it probably doesn't matter as much, but I'd rather spend 2-3 years working with people who could create their own company from scratch and just happened to be working at the same place. Those are the ones you learn a lot from and keep running into years later...
Agreed, and I didn't say that they should have kept focusing on one thing. Rather, I said that they suddenly found themselves having to defend that one thing, for the first time in their history. And they thought that diversifying into social was the best way to do so. So much so that they doubled down on it and tried to make a concerted, unified strategy around it.

Totally agree that a company should never be in that situation to begin with (hence, my comments about the vulnerability of depending for 97+% of revenues on a single product). But they made a bet on social to be their "next thing" and, in retrospect, many smart people probably would have made the same bet. The bet didn't pay off, per se, but that may have been a function of lateness to market more than a function of strategic unsoundness. (And let's give them at least some credit: Google+ had a unique thesis about social w/r/t groups, and it came to market with a differentiating factor from Facebook. It was not simply the me-too product everyone retrospectively labels it as).

I'm not writing an apology for Google's strategy; I'm just saying that hindsight is 20/20 in this case, and we shouldn't lose sight of that.
I give employers/customers a copy of all my pre-existing open-source or private work on a DVD and have them sign a document stating "This code/IP existed before our work agreement and have no claim to any of it, now or in the future, including derivative works." They sign it before I sign any contract of theirs.

This can be hard to demand from larger droid-run companies. The more entrepreneurial businesses understand: they want solutions to immediate problems, and don't care about collecting vague legal hammers that are only useful in the future.
At the university where I studied, the one course I took where the professor literally wrote the book had the book on sale at cost at the university bookstore.
Yes. Ripple[1] has allowed for the use of bitcoins to denominate loan-like credit extended between people for quite some time[2]. You just have to be careful.

By the way I back my ripple credit entirely with bitcoin -- if you can make a payment go through the network to me, you are entitled to it.

[1] http://www.ripple.com

[2] http://ripplepay.com
Facebook raised a total of $16B. In each round, you get your share diluted. You'll need the history of the funds raising and the dilution your share is taking, but I guess, you'll hardly reach $1m or even $100K after all dilutions take place.
>The sexual context was applied by Adria, and not us.

>She gave me no warning, she smiled while she snapped the pic and sealed my fate.

> As a result of the picture she took I was let go from my job today. Which sucks because I have 3 kids and I really liked that job.

So she took the joke way too seriously and in turn caused you to lose your job. Great way to 'teach' someone to make a joke about dongles, right?
Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal
The tipping point for me was Twitter's increasingly hostile approach to third party devs.

I've been racking my brain trying to think of the first service that I used regularly that was shut down. Pownce maybe? (anyone else remember that?).

I'm currently hunting for a replacement for Gmail that is self-hosted, or at least a solution where the cost of switching providers is low (i.e. I could shift my email to a new host without changing my email address or losing my message history). I'll probably end up using some sort of IMAP provider. There are a lot of features I'd stand to lose though. Conversation view is hugely useful, and Gmail's spam filter is just unbeatable.
As a student applying for internships, this is the scariest part about all these great places to work.
Interesting. It's only a problem on Opera, so I suppose it has to do with the Presto rendering engine.

So this should fix itself, when Opera switch to WebKit.

EDIT: Having said that, there needs to be a print.css for the charts. Things like #000 for labels, axes and such.
These guys have some big names on this interview thing apparently. I cant wait for it to drop, should be really cool.
Doing your own thing is really addicting if you can make it work. I'd take running my own company over working at 37signals or Google any day. I don't know if I could have someone dictating my pay ever again.

It would still be awesome to work for them though, and the thought of not having to worry about anything but making awesome software is really tempting when you're having one of those days doing everything but.
Why developers should use Code Climate and what you should know about trends
Yeah they definitely need to stabilize its value somehow.

I'm actually not totally sure if NGDP-LT is optimal in a free-banking scenario though. But certainly some sort of value stabilization is.
Furthermore, the first edition of most[1] textbooks suck- draft books much more so. I think that this would be a recipe for disaster.

[1] Note to the pedantic: I am taking license with the fact that I've only read a few first edition textbooks- and they sucked. "Most" in this case should be read as a rhetorical vehicle.
I am a transwoman who totally passes. My ID says F but my birth certificate says M.

Now I want to stick said birth certificate into my purse and go to Arizona, and start pissing in the men's room everywhere I go. Ideally I should find a transman who nobody would ever read as a lady to hang out with and do the same.

Also apparently Arizona has such a problem with transpeople casually using the proper bathroom that this amendment is an EMERGENCY.
North Korean Propaganda Video Showing Congress Building Destruction
I miss Graffiti. Graffiti 1, not 2.
That is in reference to the changing from internal sharing to Google+ sharing in October 2011, not shutting down Google Reader. I understand that Google prefers their users to use Google+ over Reader, but I still don't see how shutting down Reader = more Google+ users, even from Google's perspective. If anything, they are removing a service that could have driven Google+ sharing.
Well, seems I donated just in time :)

Mad props to the staff, I enjoy using freenode a lot!
That was sleazy The Staples extended service plan scam.
I haven't thought about this as much as you, but I see the recent increase in Bitcoin's value related to the recent rise of gold value - people are starting to lose faith in the USD and wanting to put their money somewhere else. Gold has been sharply increasing in value since 2001: http://i.imgur.com/PTyNacP.png

I do remember that there was a Bitcoin crash around November 2011, though, so maybe you are right that it will happen again.
The Money It Takes to Start a New Business
Seems odd to describe this as a polynomial-time attack, and I would argue incorrect to describe the result as "broken crypto", as this has little to do with the cryptographic components of Bitcoin, and is more a fundamental design limitation.

As a workaround, merchants will just demand more confirmations for higher-valued transactions, like waiting for a check to clear. Checks and physical cash also wouldn't meet your definition of formal security, but seem to work in practice.
>At ~$60 (Raspberry Pi, USB WiFi, enclosure), it’s 90% cheaper than using a $600 Mac mini.

Laptops and especially netbooks with broken screens also work great for this if you need a little more computing power and can double as HTPCs and Wi-Fi hotspots [1]. You can often get one for less than the price of a RasPi or free. Remove the upper lid completely to get a ZX Spectrum/C64 style keyboard computer [2] for easy on-the-spot administration. The built-in battery acts as a UPS, which is also nice.

The downside is that, unlike the Pi, they can make noise. Still, that can be remedied.

[1] If you can find wireless drivers that support host mode. No small feat under FreeBSD.

[2] Here's mine: http://imgur.com/u9i9fUx. It's an Asus Eee PC 1001PX. Currently out of commission because it got replaced by a self-built AMD E-350 Mini-ITX system with a PicoPSU.
An entrepreneur is sent to jail for selling widgets. Upon arrival he meets two other businessmen who are locked-up. He asks them, "Why are you here?"

The first guy responds, "I sold widgets for more than anyone else, and they jailed me for excessive profits."

The second guy responds, "I sold widgets at the same price as everyone else, and they jailed me for price collusion."

They ask him, "What'd you do?"

The entrepeneur responds, "I sold widgets for lower than anyone else, so they jailed me for predatory pricing!"
This is really a great API for developers and I can see a lot of different applications. Let's not let google reader's closing negate all the tools google provides for free.
In my experience more advanced courses in the US are typically taught this way. It's the lower level courses that have a standardized textbook/problem set/etc.
What's the scary part?

If you would like to work over there then you should apply and the worse thing that might happen is not hearing back from them.

At least, if you do that, you would have a chance and more importantly, a good experience from which you could learn a lot.
Bitcoin is no better than gold as a store of wealth, and it's widely understood in economics that "cash under a mattress" or "bank deposits not loaned out" are unproductive. It's reasonable for a very conservative individual to hold a lot of unproductive assets like that, but if everyone did for all of their assets, the economy would collapse, or at least be far smaller.
Bitcoin is still pretty new and volatile, but it is slowly but surely becoming more stable over time, in my opinion.
I'd be more interested in Posthaven if there were a way to pay something like $250 once. (maybe following the pinboard model of escalating price)
That's your issue, You have regret.

Here is some sage advise from Sam Elliot in the movie Roadhouse.
Cut it the fuck loose!

The world is full of whiners and loosers. Which are you?

look where nobody else is and go there. Then when the world wakes up you have already been there done that and have years of experience. What makes you tick? What interests you? You have stated you want to write parsers, compilers and other great software. Is that what's really bothering you? You haven't made a great piece of software and you feel that you are a failure?
I think you need to write parsers, compilers and other great software.

See you are your own best psychiatrist.
The worldwide glut in solar panels has reached China, which created the surplus.
Ruby's pretty pathetic of a language for you guys to keep projecting as a language to be proud of.

C++ on the other hand, I will respect.
Is Xero Apple-biased?
Corporations have not always been persons under the law.
Okay... sorry to jump in here.. but low-level means closer to the machine. Assembly, C, etc... "high-level" are further away.. JS is high-level.
> My point is simply that there existed no universe in which a responsible Google would continue supporting it

What about the universe where someone decides that keeping the goodwill of the (yes small, but as we've seen in the past week very vocal) Reader userbase is worth the miniscule cost of keeping it alive in maintenance mode?
Can Micro-Donations For Content Creators And Nonprofits Create A New Economy?
This video is quite long. When does it show the destruction?
So your answer: women, know your place.

Can you cite research from reputable journals to support this? And are the measures of whatever the hell it is you're measuring that says women are extraordinary aren't biased in terms of the way society sees the sexes (that is measuring what has been deemed historically useful based on a male perspective) and are judging genuine ability in things that matter, not just one easily measurable thing.

I only ask because rankable measures of ability of the sort you're talking about are generally consider bullshit these days.
Really cool behind the scenes story that you for the most part don't get to hear. Everyone's interested in your funding strategy, value prop, etc.. that they forget founders are humans just like us.
(I work at Sift Science.)

For what it's worth, you can score up to 5000 users per month completely free with Sift Science. So if you run a small site, there's no fee. If you run a large site, you can see for yourself whether we're saving you enough money to justify the price.

In addition, there are discounts from high volume, for pre-payment, and there's the possibility of scoring only high-risk users. If you run a web site, feel free to shoot me an e-mail at brandon@siftscience.com, and we can figure out how to make it work for you.
Another way to put it: PDPC existed to pay for Rob Levin's house/car/children.

Without the need to support Rob Levin, the other freenode volunteers didn't have as much drive to solicit donations.
They plan on charging people for Drive space, so I see the underlying storage as a Dropbox competitor while the convenience of online collaboration tools and document editing meant to push them out, as it is heavily integrated into other Google services.

https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...
It's getting more and more popular for intro level courses. It's an easy way to shift more of the cost of running the course off of the university (or the state) and onto the students because you need fewer TAs/grading assistants.
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Let's stop making things up about the facts of the case, shall we? Weev did not get 41 months for being the asshole that made AT&T's blunder public. The worst he could have gotten for the CFAA charge by itself would have been a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of less than a year (and realistically, probably zero jail time).

Weev was convicted, by a jury, of fraud in connection with personal information. The jury believed he intended to sell the e-mail addresses he collected to people who would use them for various nefarious purposes. Given that he claimed he was going to do so in IRC conversations, it's really hard for you to sit there and argue that the jury was unreasonable in reaching this conclusion, and that all they are really punishing him for is blowing the lid on AT&T.

What you're doing is trying to create a particular narrative about Weev's intentions, but ignoring that the jury in this case heard and rejected this narrative.
"In fact, if you're looking for hindsight vs reality, I don't think Google and Facebook really were competitors -- until Google decided to build a copy of Facebook's product."

Respectfully, I think you're putting the cart before the horse. Google saw Facebook as a potential identity platform and de facto backend for the entire web. It might have been paranoid in its assumptions of just how much of Google's lunch Facebook could have eaten -- but the move into social was very much a defensive move, not an offensive one. They weren't trying to eat Facebook's lunch; they were trying not to get theirs eaten.

It's (still) not a stretch to think that advertisers would transfer dollars on a zero-sum basis from AdSense to a Facebook-credentialed web. As for AdWords? That's a harder lunch for Facebook to steal, but it's not inconceivable.

"Google acted out of some combination of fear, insecurity..."

Smart companies should be afraid and insecure, to some degree, about potential competition. I highly recommend Andy Grove's excellent book "Only the Paranoid Survive."

"...pressure from Wall Street..."

Just the opposite. Wall Street wanted Google to keep milking the cash cow and trying to expand its market share overseas -- which is a pretty typical Wall Street-pleasing playbook. Wall Street likes steady expansion of existing markets; Wall Street hates big bets in unproven products or markets.
Anyone have the means to provide a translation?
Rubik's cube collaborative game using Google's new realtime API