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When your code base grows you will end with dozens of places to change your code, all of them error prone. More things you need to keep control means more potential problems.

There are 2 alternatives to this. For languages that have macros (C#, C, C++) use the #ifdef construct, as others suggested here. For languages that don't have them (Java, Perl) use a less error prone alternative:

static boolean Test = false; // Only one place to change code

...

if(Test) doTest();

The difference in this last technique is that since you have just one place to change code there is less chance for errors and the change is easier to automate.
Well, the "antithesis of western culture" is also how US drug policy works too.

US companies make drugs. They patent them wherever they can. Places that don't acknologe the patent get the benefit anyways. And the drug users in the US bear the brunt of the costs.

I like being on the other end, too. If there's more than enough to go around, I state that it should.
You would just leave out the comment text.
I am one of the older'ish programmers

One day a young programmer flies into the office talking about the new MVC frameworks and how it would revolutionize how we write programs.

He was mystified when I explained how MVC works to him without even looking at what framework he was ranting about.

He asked how I knew? I told him it was invented at PARC in the 70's and I've used them starting in 1995 with the MFC C++ for document view. This was more of a reintroduction of an older methodology suited to web.

Older developers also get to see the linear progression of current technologies and how they arrived at current day implementation. What worked and what didn't work.
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Holy hell, my 2012 Macbook Air does this! Its pretty irritating but I had been taking it as a fact of life.
Use the Royal Mail's 'find an address' tool [1] to look up the following postcodes:

SE20 7QR, SE25 6EP, E13 0AP, E15 2LR, W5 5DB, W3 6LJ, NW10 4SJ, N14 6BW

For a map see [2]. As you can see, plenty there are several roads the Royal Mail considers to be called High Street, London!

[1] http://www.royalmail.com/postcode-finder
[2] https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=from:SE20+7QR+to:SE25+6EP+t...
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And since OP doesn't know how source control worms, he will never know how you found him.
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Get out. The characters in Simcity put up with tax rates that no human ever would. The default is like 8 percent muni. And they'll put up with them even if you don't have a single school or police station.
All the sandbox entitlement files are written in that scheme-like syntax, but it's limited to that in OS X as far as I've seen.
Shouldn't just be a question for post-failure, but any sort of post-startup job. I've bounced back and forth between startups and bigCo my entire career. Or as I like to call it, moments of stark frenzied terror sandwiched between years of immense boredom.

One thing being in a small startup teaches is versatility, you can vastly expand the breadth of your skillset in an environment where you have to perform, even if some of your core skills languish a bit.

It's hard to get this across in a resume, but do put them down. Are you a coder than ended up spending a few hours a week on sales? Put it down. Marketing guy who got roped into server administration? Put it down.

When applying for a place, just simply reorder those various hats you wore in your old startup to suit the position you are applying for. Put the most relevant ones at the top of the list and the least relevant ones nearer the bottom.

It can definitely take some getting used to, going back to working for somebody else, you feel like you've lost lots of autonomy -- you might even have to take what feels like a couple steps back. But you can turn that on its head and use your broad skillset to quickly move up the ranks. You can do the job they hired you for and, oh yeah, you can do these other half dozen jobs competently, should you just be in charge of the whole group then since you know what everybody does and can reach across and down as needed?

also get used to befuddling even competent recruiters, at one startup I did almost every job in the place at one time or another, when looking for a new job it drove the recruiters crazy trying to place me
Promoting value by thinking in terms of products, not projects
I got that for my Bank Of America account.

If three other people tried that username, I not only got locked out of my BoA account, and had to set up a bunch of stuff again.

I have a long blog post about BoA's horrible policies I still haven't published because I work in a major financial city and might end up wanting to work for them some day, but as time goes by the odds of it getting published go way up.
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Cool website... I run it on a project and it says:
WWW Resolve

This website without www doesn't redirect to www (or the opposite). It is duplicate content.

but it actually does redirect with a 301 redirect.

One other question, where does it get the Visitors data it displays?
I thought this was an odd thing to say too.

A platform itself may have technical limitations, most of which can usually be worked around or improved on, but often the limitations of "accomplishment" are often in the developer's mind.
I feel that I want to now use the term "weblications".
Agreed, use pre-compiler commands like this.

Alternatively if you don't need to check in your comments then your IDE should have a "comment selection" option (CTRL K, C chord in VS)
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Same for my 2011 Air, I was thinking about formatting and re-installing OS X. Not sure I can reliably reproduce the few-second freeze in OS X, but it does happen (and is very noticeable when it occurs).
Sad that the completely obvious fatal flaw in the entire premise is so far down the page here.
I like the style of the demo website. I downloaded the game and after solving my first word, the app froze on the "Word Complete!" screen. At least I think it froze. I've tapped "next work" and "replay word" and swiped and tapped all over the screen and nothing has happened. Heading back to my "desktop" and back into the app leaves me at the same "frozen" screen. I-phone 4 with 5.1.1

EDIT: More random tapping and swiping got me to the "Achievements" screen which scrolls vertically but I have no idea how to get off this screen and back to the game.
The Imposter - maybe not inspiring but an amazing documentary.
this api is used from twitter for counter on tweet buttons. You can check from firebug console.
They say that we should not use this api because the counter sometimes was not correct, which is lie.
I think that they dont wanna use this api because of overloading...
they're great games, you already know them and know that you like them and how they work.

and.

they're still triggering your dopamine release like when you were young. i remember reading an article about why every older person seems to hear the music from his youth. the reason for this is that when we're in our teens, the brain releases dopamines more readily and we're losing that ability when we grow older - except for the already ingrained pavlovian triggers.

i can't cite any sources right now. i think i ... uh, saw it on cracked (yeah, shame on me).

here it is:

#7: Your Brain Will Stop Getting Pleasure from New Music

http://www.cracked.com/article_19722_7-scientific-reasons-yo...

don't worry, it's natural.
Agreed. I've seen several demos of Gimbal and I fail to see how GPS and Google Goggles differs from this. GigaOm has a video demo: http://gigaom.com/2013/01/11/video-qualcomms-project-gimbal-...
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If your first premise is true, then only old people would have developed this prejudice, and the article's headline is false.
While we're at it, we could also ban hyperbole.

The parent raises a valid point that shouldn't be dismissed simply by carrying an idea to a comical extreme.
I had a lot of fun styling google maps for this project - voya.ge (still beta). Early versions were very minimal like the example posted, but as the project progressed the necessity for labels (street names, etc) became pretty obvious.

also, not to be a hater, but isn't this conversation about flat design getting kind of old?
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This may not so much be a matter of culture or ideology, but just a matter of game simplification.
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Isn't this for you to answer? NewAer builds "showcase apps" but the SDK is for all to build on. Our favorite is a menu on a tablet that knows what you ordered last time you visited the restaurant and suggests something new the 2nd visit. All with your phone in your purse or pocket. No check ins, QR codes, tapping NFC or logging in. That's the vision of the SDK.
It is tedious to layout a PDF but actual pain points are handling variable sized images and amounts of text, try formatting recipes to a PDF... Your demo video explains the features but not how it can solve anything that is a major problem to me.

The concept here in designing a template to be filled later is a brilliant idea, but I think its the delivery of the product that may pose the biggest problem. PDF generation doesn't have the same level of complexity as video encoding or payments so when it is used, its expected to just work as the environment doesn't change.

This introduces what I think is the main issue, if I build a website for a client, as a developer I never want to see it come back with problems, so its not worth introducing the risk of a third party service for the sake of a few hours of tedious work. At the other end of the industry any company producing a webapp may have problems with this simply due to how fundamental the feature can be, PDF generation doesn't require the same infrastructure as video encoding or payments, so they will have very different tradeoffs. Your main problem here is that you have no competition so I have nowhere to go if you close and the design online feature is essentially a vendor lockin.

Your assumptions are right but they are what a developer wants, the decisions are mostly made by management where future risk is more important than short term convenience.

Personally I think this product in particular would be much more suited to being a standalone package.
I've had a few issues with ML locking up, some seem to be from this, others are from graphics updates being suspended. It's almost enough to push me back to SL honestly, but I need the later versions of XCode. Very annoying.
I encourage everyone (including Mr. Santos) to read about (and do their own research) on why do we have a war on drugs.

http://prorev.com/whydrugwar.htm

This may sound like conspiracy theorist talking, but some of the the source comes from Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD in the first Bush Administration.

A more detailed story can also be viewed on Catherine's site at:

http://www.dunwalke.com
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Wow, when kids don't even know that the latest fad was originally popularised by Apple, we have entered postmodern hipsterdom.
Simple is probably not the best word, then, but what I meant to describe was the unambiguity of the immorality of the crime. At the end of the day, piracy was still roughly morally equivalent to mugging, although, of course, vastly more complex.
Okay. You're missing a word in the title. :)
It just looks like Apple integrated TotalFinder, but considering that is closed source, I imagine it will not be an integration with TotalFinder, but there own brew.

I only hope 10.9 doesn't break TotalFinder.
Where does the "related websites" info come from?
Christopher Alexander [1], one of the best designers in my opinion (for his insights), is an Architect and has a Masters Degree in Mathematics. I highly recommend reading all his bibliography.

People use "designer" as a synonym of "graphical designer" or "photoshop pilot" only, when the design discipline is present in anything human-made.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander
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Apple loses more global smartphone market-share to Samsung
Hmm. I "love" your inflated numbers.

I paid $75 for my iphone 3GS. I bought it from some dude that had to buy the iphone 4 when it came out.
I then proceeded to jailbreak and unlock the phone to run any software and use any carrier.
I then got onto a carrier that charges $30 for unlimited phone/text/data ~ family mobile.
And I don't buy any app at all. I'll save my money for tangible things instead.
I would imagine that there will be some other DB options to come out pretty quickly once they release the source.
same here, thought it was photoshop. My computer doesn't do the freeze anymore. This is awesome.
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Page Rank is a rank that Google uses for search results.
Before we backslap too much, note that the study isn't about programming skills, it is about sitting on SO all day answering questions instead of working.
Waited about 5 min for results and gave up. Looks simple, need to improve response time.
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SEO Authority: Page Rank missing. - What exactly is this?
PageRank is a link analysis algorithm used by Google to assess the popularity/authority of a website. The PageRank goes from 0 to 10. New websites start at PR0 and authority websites, like Twitter.com, have a PR10.
Smitestreams.com's PR: 0.

Security: Reputation - What is this?
Reputation - data is provided by WOT (http://www.mywot.com/). Reputation ratings are based on real user ratings and they tell you how much other users trust this site.
Your rate is mising in WOT.
Hire an individual. Don't hire an old person or a young person or a guy or a girl or a... just.. don't.

An individual at age 40 is generally more qualified than he or she was at age 25. However, absent of other context the fact that one individual is 25 and another is 40 has no bearing on the prediction of whether the one individual or the other is a better fit for a technical role. Go for the individual who can show adaptability and/or a history of compounding success in the areas that you need.

My anecdote:

I once had an argument with my former non-technical manager. She was arguing in favor of hiring a woman in her late 30s with two masters degrees to serve as a lead software architect. The degrees were in two subfields of physics, one theoretical, one applied. This would be the candidate's first position outside of academia. I participated in the candidate's entire interview process, and I recommended against hiring her for any position. She didn't have enough experience and she was awful at all of the technical portions of the interview process, especially her code. At the same time I was arguing that I should've been the lead, as this was a position the rest of the team had thrust me into and I was effective in the role. The manager's argument was that the candidate was more qualified. After some discussion, "more qualified" turned out to mean older (we both agreed the degrees weren't a strong indicator).

In the end, the candidate was hired for nearly twice my salary (apparently upper management likes letters after a candidate's name). She never fit the lead role, so the team never accepted her for it. Further, she was very ineffective as a developer (we were working in Java, her experience was in Matlab and R), so we either had to refactor a lot of her work or let it go to review and decline to accept it. Everything that went her way took months longer than necessary. In the end I think she wound up working in some type of higher-end sales/administrative capacity.
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We had to make adders, flip-flops, etc (on paper, not physically) and those were used to build an ALU and (I think) a memory-switch bank.

It was very cool to know that when the world ends I can build a new computer, from scratch.
Please don't think I'm not taking your question seriously, but I do think the future model is a donate button (I also say above, I think it boils down to begging). I do also consider this model sustainable since, even ignoring all the other ways fame can be monetized, the potential audience is 7 billion people and a gift of even $1 from even 0.001% is $100,000 - enough to justify most indie projects. But if that's too risky, I am encouraging people to put the horse back in front of the cart and to hit up people through kickstarter... (It still amounts to begging/patronage, but it's more predictable by being up-front.) The main difference between that and the old publisher-oriented model, is that creators have all the control over the terms.

I would also love to see people release commercial stuff more under CC-SA and similar (even if they still charge for distribution), or the FOSS licenses - assuming they need one. There's no reason they can't generate income, even while being shown through a subscription. The license doesn't change the distribution model. (Ubuntu is asking for donations. I would love to see some stats.) I think people just need to get used to flying without a net (copyright).

Take Netflix for example: they are producing their own shows. Like iTunes, all the content on Netflix can be torrented, but Netflix is easier for non-technical people. I don't even think copyright is necessary for either of Netflix's or iTunes' success. Netflix is a subscription, but I think they could make a similar amount if their shows were CC-SA licensed. People pay for both Netflix and iTunes because downloading is simply harder and more likely to give their computer an STD, even if the quality can be better ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5621119 ). Copyright still affects the food chain today, but Netflix has convinced me that they don't need copyright to keep the game going.

What's more likely however, I think, is that we will see something like the 6.4/93.6 ratio continue into the future, painfully and in spite of copyright, and with much resentment, until that hostility turns to acceptance (though, by then we'll probably have other generational gaps to deal with) - assuming we can get through the next 10-20 years without a censorship/copyright-centric police state. 6.4% of 7 billion, for something priced as low as $1, is still revenue of 448 million, even without budging that ratio, so I have no doubt creators will do well.

Edit: I don't feel like waiting 40 minutes for the reply button to appear on your comment, but I suppose only time will tell. In the mean time, the pro-copyright-ons and anti-copyright-ons will likely have to learn to live with each other, if for no other reason then so they don't collide and annihilate, sending us all back to the stone age (or industrial age).
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Liking this project. What kind of new features are in the pipeline?
Yea!, I used to steal "NCR programing paper sheets" from my older bro (he worked for NCR) to write most of my assembly code.. (For a Zinclair Z80) ahh the memories of peek & poke :)
Calendars could be better integrated with todo lists. An event on a calendar is just a todo item that has to occur at a certain time on a certain date, instead of by a certain date.
I'm pretty handy with Unix but this problem and fix seem like pure magic. What problem with Spotlight indexing / Time Machine could cause the entire GUI to lock up in the first place? I'm used to random Apple apps like Finder and iTunes beachballing because they are badly written, but the whole OS?

The "alternative fix" hidden text at least explains why booting Safe Mode might magically fix things; it's "rebuilding things and clearing caches". What a mess.
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There isn't anything in there that would get me back on board (I jumped ship about two years ago). I would consider proper multi monitor support for fullscreen "apps" a bugfix and not a feature.

Where is the proper window manager (or at least some hooks for 3rd party window managers) and the modern file system (at least give us snapshots and copy-on-write)?
> It's a calculated bet.

Certainly, and all founders take this bet when starting a company. But any reasonable bet has a potential for upside, not just making your money back.

Working for deferred salary is truly a dumb decision, because even in the very best case you get paid as much as at a comparable position elsewhere. IOU's make sense only when they are many times over market rate to adjust for the risk, or if you get equity and become a founder.
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As long as the developer keeps curiosity and learning new software technologies rather than getting comfortable with the tool that he trusts to get things done, which, I think, is a stage which the majority of developers will reach one day. I am not sure if it's wiser to continue coding without the fun of learning new tricks (meaning when new tricks no longer interest you).

I think when that happens a real hacker will stop hacking code and start to hacking something else. That being said, I am sure there are hackers that never get tired of learning new tricks.
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I'm willing to bet they will finish it anyway. I'm sure a lot of us know that feel when you get something to prototype, holy crap it works stage. Something that you would use in the future with the bonus that many others may too. That feeling when you have to finish the project at least to a point where it works properly.

They have that feel, but they also want some money for their troubles - to justify/legitimize it as worth their time.

It's a blogging platform after all. Their feature set could be done by one man in 2 to 5 weeks time with some experience and perseverance. I hate to belittle it below its merit, as I do think some features of Ghost make for something potentially useable. The project also could be nice because of the so-called committed team behind it maintaining it into the future, as Wordpres does.
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He tried, but his product is so good that it scrubbed out the identifying information in his post.

(Kidding)
Could you possibly show us the statsgram dashboard for statsgram.com? I'd like to see how optimized your optimization tool is. :)
“this would be the first OSX release to be named after something other than a great cat.”

No, OS X versions have had internal codenames named after French wine regions for quite some time. Known monikers are Pinot (10.3), Merlot (10.4), and Chablis (10.5).
I understand the criticism, it's not supposed to be _the_ way to toggle code in and out.

It's a TRICK, and that's all it will ever be.

However, it is the only way I know of that is not language specific for a particular dialect of C (#ifdef) that enables code to _not_ become a part of the compiled binary, or in JS terms - not available from the runtime.

Best regards
-OP
The two highest frequencies (not including visible) are amazingly beautiful. Almost like a painting of a storm at sea. I would really like a poster of that.
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Just a SEO tip.

Google does not like - in the domain name.
It will believe that you are imitating some other site and will lower you down.

Perhaps think for a different domain name.