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The Next Turning Point For Apple Isn't Going To Be A Device
There is no code or sample site.
Looks like a scam to me.
Yep. You can read it there : http://www.scrambledapp.com/articles/for-developers/
A whole article about THIS?

How about:

1) Get a job.

Fin.

Or, could it be, that a startup failure descends upon one with such shocking repercussions, that one forgets how to tend for himself?

Yeah, another shameless rant from me. It's just rather disappointing seeing such useful material on the front page, that is.
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1. Will there be any kind of mentorship and professional development for you or do they just want individual code monkeys?

2. What's the culture like? Is pair programming encouraged? Are there lunch and learns? Is there a budget to buy books or go to conferences?
The standard is `NDEBUG`, which (amongst other things) turns off asserts
> isn't it now implicitly legal to share that copy?

That may well be considered giving permission. However, since they are interested in the social aspect, not the legal aspect, that doesn't matter. The social assumption is that a game you get from a torrent is pirated.

> Can the devs then be sued for knowingly tricking people into committing a copyright violation?

(Ignoring for the nonce that in America you can sue anyone for anything) no. No one got "tricked." No one went out to buy a copy of this game and ended up on the torrent by accident.
If you're selling advertising space then in UK and US copyright law that would likely be considered to be commercial use. That doesn't mean that it's not allowed or [in the US] Fair Use but it's a strong mark against that conclusion.

There can be moral rights issues in "framing" work with your advertising too that could trump any conclusion that would otherwise fall as Fair Use.
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In other words, you have no salient objections to what I've said. Got it.
> this is the same premise as the article. who says an organization has to be large to be successful?

The people who invested in it.
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Wow - is this what constitutes 'research' these days? Look at some data on stackoverflow.com as if it's a representative sample, and then make some general conclusions?
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Visit [1] and try DE4 4HA - addresses include "1 Council Square Brassington, MATLOCK, DE4 4HA", "1 Pleasant Cottage Miners Hill, Brassington, MATLOCK, DE4 4HA" and "1 Windyridge Red Lion Hill, Brassington, MATLOCK, DE4 4HA"

Try HD7 4PD to get "1 Moles Head, Golcar, HUDDERSFIELD, HD7 4PD" and "1 Prospect Place, Golcar, HUDDERSFIELD, HD7 4PD"

Try HD4 6XA and see "1 Broad Lane, Thurstonland, HUDDERSFIELD, HD4 6XA", "1 Blake House Thurstonland, HUDDERSFIELD, HD4 6XA", "1 Clough Cottages Thurstonland, HUDDERSFIELD, HD4 6XA", "1-2 Clough Cottages Greenside Road, Thurstonland, HUDDERSFIELD, HD4 6XA"

And of course there's the other direction: EC1N 8QX covers a bunch of flats in the same building, so one postcode includes "Flat G.7, Ziggurat Building, 60-66 Saffron Hill, LONDON, EC1N 8QX" and "Flat 1.1, Ziggurat Building, 60-66 Saffron Hill, LONDON, EC1N 8QX" - in other words, multiple properties have the same number within the street, and the same latitude and longitude. Also the building "number" has a hyphen, the flat "number" has a dot and can have a letter, and the building has a name too.

[1] http://www.royalmail.com/postcode-finder/
Please don't be contrary and think your process through.

They do a kick starter today, what about tomorrow? not for profit doesn't mean they dont charge fees, I am sure they will charge. I am not belittling their efforts but they have all the required skills and enough financial ability (seems like they have held jobs previous to this) to pay for hosting till that can become a reality.

Your supporting arguments sound like, they were made up to back your purely contrary conclusion.
Dont worry, the question was whether or not people got better at something they more they did it.
News at 11.
Lets hope that it doesn't require us to re-install all of our *nix tools like every other release did in the past.
The prevalence of discrimination toward extreme youth in the software industry is probably a historical artifact of the fact that it's a new industry, so for the most part young people were the ones who "got it."

That being said, I think it cuts both ways. Both younger and older developers have advantages.

Older developers tend to see pitfalls and avoid them better. They tend to have a more diverse skill set, better organizational skills, and more knowledge of related domains outside programming (such as marketing, business, finance, etc.). Older developers are also less vulnerable to faddish thinking, choosing tools that they can ship with over the latest faddish language or technique. (And recognizing today's fads as yesterday's fads repackaged, which they often are.) Finally, older developers sometimes remember things that didn't work long ago but that might work today. Younger folks might not have a clue that certain things don't have to be the way they are, while an older person might be able to explain why a certain decision was made and then help them question whether it's still necessary today. A lot of innovation can be realized by searching through the discarded piles of yesteryear's ideas and asking, for each one, "are the reasons this was discarded still valid?"

Young developers have the advantage of fresh eyes. They don't carry the accumulated baggage of prior environments and old ways of doing things. They can more easily dump legacy cruft, embrace genuinely novel and interesting ways of doing things, etc. They also sometimes have more energy, having simpler lives and lacking things like kids and mortgages and personal accountants. I think it's easier for a young developer to focus laser-like on one thing for a long time.

I think the ideal team has both, and listens to both.

It's also possible for anyone, regardless of age, to take on either of these sets of characteristics. It's possible for younger programmers to take the time to scratch the surface of fads, or listen to the older ones and learn from them. It's also possible for older programmers to intentionally "forget what they have learned" and open themselves to the possibility that such-and-such isn't needed anymore, etc.

Edit: I also think it's important for teams to avoid the dark side of both. For older developers, it's the curmudgeon, or the developer so set in their ways they are not open to any new idea. For younger developers it's the cowboy who thinks they know more than they really know and will waste a lot of time reinventing wheels, chasing things already known not to work for provable reasons, etc.
yes it was. I guess that's why this one points to the search page instead of the front page…
Exactly. Why not using a host witout connection to internet to host the database ? One could use a simple serial or usb link to exchange information with the host with a specific protocol. There is no way someone could hack ino the database.
I don't have an iOS device but the website looks very good. Appreciate the write-up as well, it's always interesting to read about these things.

Just a minor issue on the code you have on [1]:

imagesToPreload.forEach(function(src) {
var img = new Image();
img.src = src;
img.onload = hasLoaded;
img.onerror = hasError;
})

The onload and onerror callbacks would be best to be assigned prior to setting the image's src attribute so as to make sure they are always called.

Also, on your Element.hasClass method have you considered a non-regex approach, like this.className.split(' ').indexOf(c)? That would most probably be faster. Same goes for removeClass where something like this.className.split(' ').reduce(...).join(' ') may do the trick.

[1] http://www.scrambledapp.com/articles/for-developers/
RAM is dedicated on DigitalOcean, CPU's are not - the virtual cores are shared to some extent on almost any cloud provider if you do the math.
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Which in a round-about way - means that sanitation problems in India might turn into problems for the rest of humanity through the over/misuse of antibiotics leading to widespread resistance.
That would require the person doing the kickstarter to commit time to the project. I get the impression from most of these software-development kickstarters that the goal is to get payment in advance of the dev work.
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@6. It is perfectly fine to use multicast ElasticSearch clusters on DigitalOcean - just make sure to use an ACL to protect the environment in a public cloud environment.
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Also, in the UK and in Canada we use postcodes, which will pinpoint you down to a precise street.
Same here, my very first cover letters were hand written, but only because it was "how it's supposed to be". I don't know if tech companies ever cared about it. I used to be stressed because my handwriting looks like 16th century cursive and I didn't want a graphologist to put me in the "pompous ass" category (I'd prefer that to happen during the interview!)

Nowadays my cover letter is either the body of the email or a attached PDF (a good way of filtering recruiters who insist on getting Word files so they can edit them.)
I'm not sure what is left these days. The casual family dining places have all redone their menus for the worse. Longhorns used to have shaved Parmesan on their salads, but last time I went, it was Parmesan powder from a bottle! Applebee's went downhill majorly since the early 2000's as well after their menu redesign.
Nice project, but I d think SQlite will not cut it. Not even in the short run.

Other than that, definitely an interesting project.
Yeah, if you are a small site using any off-the-shelf forum software, you will need defense from the spambots. They don't care that your forum has only 10 real users. It's spray-and-pray spamming.
The Ghost design looks very polished. A shame to see the good efforts buried under marketing missteps.

The side-by-side authoring and editing is something I think a lot of folks are doing now in their personal blogs. For mine, I just used plain HTML rather than Markdown [1]. I wanted total control of the resulting markup. Beware, most people hate the background. Just fair warning.

The hard part for me was doing some trickery to scroll to and highlight the current paragraph in the live preview panel. I ended up inserting a "cursor" span that I locate in the preview panel and then scroll to that, find its containing block container, and add a class to that container [2].

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/simplest-of-webapps

[2] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/images/tiamat-authoring-2012-10.pn...
> shouldn't there be a work order processing standard solution for aerospace by now?

There are probably several, all mutually incompatible in some way, and chances are every company picks bits from each to make their own "local" standard (a local standard that gets worked every time the name associated with a C*O title changes).

Sometimes we are not in a position to control the constant wheel evolution and just have to get on with it & accept the paycheck.
Hi, author here. With respect, I am a mid-career senior engineer too. I trained for a few weeks before interviewing at Facebook because, well, changing jobs is important. There is zero harm spending some time warming up mentally.

I recommend that people prepare because I've seen many many obviously smart people not make it through. It's like showing up for a singing audition without warming up your voice. You might have a beautiful voice, but you have to show it in the best condition possible.
> The only solution that has ever actually worked is for government to step in, tax, regulate, and build infrastructure. I'm not aware of any case in all of history where anything else has been effective.

That is far from the truth. One of the recipients of the 2009 Nobel (memorial) in economics documents cooperative solutions to commons problems: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2...
In that email he was probably referring to the direction the board wanted to take Opera in. There has been consistent speculation that Opera's board wanted to make Opera better suited for sale, and was looking forward to getting acquired by someone with deeper pockets. JvT of course, wanted to stay independent and continue to innovate.

Related: http://techie-buzz.com/opera/opera-tetzchner-reacts.html
I agree with you on this one. I think for some websites it makes sense, but for a maps application I think it makes no difference.

Some times for example you are not actually linking to an address or a building for example, and you want precise coordinates. Just very randomly:

https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=47.413395,-77.029266&ll=47...
Definitely read that as "Oprah" and was very confused.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm saying that for the typical investor, the actively managed funds don't outperform the indices above the line, so they lose substantially after you take out management fees.
Or just select the text and hit CTRL + K, C

At least in my IDE anyway.
Actually, resetting a device solves most problems, as was repeatedly made fun of by the appropriately-named (for your comment) "IT Crowd":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Ph8zwpNyI

If I may only have one button in life, please, please, let it be reset (I think it already is).
The NFL leaque headquarters organization is a non-profit.

The actual teams, on the other hand, are all profit-seeking entities and pay taxes accordingly.
For more context, writing this list was a necessary step in assessing my situation, accepting reality, and moving on. It wasn't as simple as "no pay, no work." It should've been, but it's hard when you enjoy the job, love the team, and desperately want the venture to succeed.

It's harder still when you see potential investors and clients actively meeting with the founder right up until the end of the runway. It's easy to delude yourself into thinking that one signature will bring everything back to normal.

In the end, we all missed two paychecks and, when it was clear that things weren't coming back soon, everyone dropped down to a 10% retainer (in IOUs) while simultaneously being encouraged to find freelance or full time work. I took that opportunity to learn letterpress printmaking and travel a bit while getting my professional life back in order. Not a bad deal.

But I'll never do that again.

(FWIW, the startup in question did, eventually, repay its debts)
I remember one particular job I interviewed for after leaving a start-up, and got asked various questions like "why did you fail?" and "working for that little money? That's stupid!"

I always think of them as the perfect example of "the interview is for you to learn about the company and the company to learn about you."
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The population is not a problem, the population is a resource. Of course, to be (more) valuable (than it is now) it has to receive some attention/investment. The sterilization of people that possess the potential of growing and becoming beneficial to society is, for the society as a whole, a form of self-mutilation.
I think 90+% of the Firefox users don't even know what open source is.
I read a piece on this recently:
http://jasonlbaptiste.com/featured-articles/how-i-pitched-te...

The main gist is that to get journalists/bloggers to write about you, you have tell them a story that they can rewrite and run. I spent years as a PR professional, and unfortunately, this is still how it works. I wouldn't say that bloggers/journalists are lazy, but they get pitched so often it's hard to select a good story for them.

Some other advice: Find out which blogger usually runs stories about Pinterest or social startups. Find out his/her email address, and write a personalized pitch. Keep it short but engaging.

Last tip: you can call Robert Scoble. His phone number is on his website, and apparently he doesn't mind getting pitched over the phone. Be sure to have your story straight, though!
Can you back that claim with actual data or are you exactly the guy I was talking about in my post?

I run a phpBB forum and 2 blogs. They got the standard spam like everyone else. Once I installed Spam Destroyer for Wordpress and made a 3-line JS-based modification for phpBB, I reduced spam by approximately 99,99%.

My main Web App gets something like 40,000 visits per week and is online since 2006. I never bothered with a CAPTCHA and there are hardly any spam signups. Same JS-based spam protection mechanism.
"Knowing the argument signature" and "knowing how to implement the guts" are two very different things. I personally don't care if you can remember fine details of the API. We ask many kinds of questions; in the article these are only examples.
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They don't have to. The parent postulated that they are linked because they are both the result of non-technical management. Stating that this is not mentioned in the article is meaningless as a rebuttal.
People already have geocodes, it's their address. Nobody wants yet another address.
What's wrong with SQLite?
It's kind of useful to write out code by hand, or at least pseudo-code...I'm not a neuroscientist but I wouldn't be surprised if it turns on a different part of the brain. Last week I was sitting in the park with nothing to do and I reflexively pulled out my iPod to play Sudoku on it. Since it was one of our first nice days I felt bad about that so I just wrote out the Sudoku grid on a pad of paper and solved it from there. It was surprisingly difficult, even though it was an easy puzzle (the iOS version highlights which minigrids on the main grid that a given number appears in for starters).

Anyway, anytime I think about what a pain in the ass writing, or even just typing out code can be, I refer to the chapter in iWoz in which, lacking development software at the time, he "wrote out the software [for Little Brick Out] with pen and paper and then hand assembled the instructions into 4096 bytes of raw machine code for the 6502"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_BASIC
On that note about running out of space, an interesting thing you have to keep in mind with btrfs is that, as a snapshotting filesystem you can't simply unlink files to free up space. They're still present and taking up space in a previous snapshot.

There's ways to free up space for real but you have to manually use some tools to do it from what I understand.
It is impossible to judge the impact from this rant but I can certainly say that ownership of intellectual property is not a human right. Nor does the Berne Convention hold that it is a human right. Can we please ensure that every human being has the right to life, security, and liberty before we throw in the right to claim the creation and ownership of intellectual property without registration and justification.
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No, she hired and paid a band of professional musicians, who toured with her. She also invited fans in each city to play with them on stage.
I would hope it's done in JavaScript. And, based on the image uploading stuff, (you type something like `!image` and the preview adds in a drag-n-drop spot for an image), it looks like it.
In TextMate (OS X), a Cmd+/ does the same thing as well! To the author's credit, he does mention his hack has "no tool dependencies".
It says 10.9 is 'internally codenamed' so I assume Cabernet not the the final release name. Fingers crossed for OSX Ocelot.
These look like good moves. While Microsoft and Ubuntu are shunning their desktop users, Apple is making me look the smarter for choosing a company who still stands believes in a desktop OS :)

FYI, I was a decade long Windows user who switched to Mac then to Ubuntu then back to Mac after Unity.
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cringe harsh, but fair. can't have this kind of idea spreading.
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That sounds like a complicated way of explaining the broken window fallacy. "Maybe the economy will be better off if the glazier has the money because he will spend it better than the butcher whose window was broken." In specific circumstances that can really be true, but in general there is no reason to expect it to be, and unless you somehow know that it is, breaking the window is more likely to cause a net loss than a net gain.

I think the "economies are complicated" explanation is the wrong one for the point you're trying to make. If you can't predict what's going to happen, and taxes usually (but not always) result in lower growth, you're usually going to lose by raising taxes. And when taxes are broad-based, this is very likely to be the case indeed. Take "usually" and average it over enough repeated iterations and you get something that looks a whole lot like "always."

The place you can win just by raising taxes is where you set out to tax something that it would be economically beneficial to destroy through economic disadvantage. For example, one of the problems with sustainable energy has always been that they could achieve cost parity with fossil fuels, but only by gaining economies of scale that they couldn't do without first achieving cost parity, so you have the chicken and egg problem. If you tax fossil fuels at a sufficient rate then that in and of itself solves the chicken and egg problem, which allows sustainable energy to increase economies of scale and become even less expensive, in the long term even less expensive than untaxed fossil fuels (especially when accounting for externalities). I assume this is what you're referring to as regime-switching. But you don't, as a general rule, get that sort of thing by imposing broad-based taxes or specifically taxing anything that you wouldn't like to discourage the consumption of, you get it by correctly predicting the outcome of a targeted tax and intentionally destroying something undesirable through taxation. (Which I don't think Sim City allowed you to do.)
Most strange thing is that he says the email was untouched so he concluded that the attacker somehow must've bypassed the email - if such a thing is possible..
I think so. I think there's a ghetto effect. They select from the middle. They reject the really bad (which is probably most of the proposals they get) but their terms (that essentially make them bosses, even though they're minority owners, and render the "entrepreneurs" mere PMs but with fast-firing instead of the usual corporate severance) keep out the really good.
It's definitely more computing than biology, but it does depend slightly on the type of signal acquisition device. You have to know more about the underlying biological processes of the brain if you are recording from an implanted microelectrode array rather an an EEG cap.

Here is a decent resource, but specific to one BCI research platform: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Brain-Computer-Interfa...

Reading doctoral theses on this subject is also a great way to learn more. There are at least a few online that do a great job of explaining BCIs from the ground up.