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Small claims courts often have favorable laws governing venue. In California it can be especially onerous (for the defendant) but I believe New York has a similar arrangement. You may be able to file in your county/city, which, if it differs from your client's, creates an additional perceived cost of fighting the claim.

However, one thing to keep in mind is that even when you win, you still have to collect. It's just "easier" to collect (or sell the debt at even more of a discount) when a judge or arbitrator has evaluated your case and ruled in your favor.

You should have some terms associated with your invoices. Don't be afraid to start invoicing for the additional 1.5% or whatever per month after your invoice term has passed.

I'd recommend doing the least possible and getting another engagement ASAP. Spending time on this is going to reduce your effective hourly rate as well as cost you the opportunity to earn income from a paying client. If you can't spend a few hundred on a bad lawyer printing out a Nolo Press form letter, your financial situation is dire enough that you need to focus on getting billable hours.

The 'Fuck You, Pay Me' session (https://vimeo.com/22053820) is worth watching to prepare yourself for engagements going forward. You still should invest in an attorney, but at the start of the engagement, when everyone is still in love.
LLVM has lots of nice features, but they are mainly interesting to C, C++ and Objective-C developers on desktop UNIX systems.

So it tends to be ignored by the folks you mentioned.

An interesting consequence of LLVM's popularity is that compiler researchers are moving away from JVM and .NET implementations to LLVM for their work.
will take some time to get used to it..
Brand awareness campaigns and media buys would be the sort of exception you're talking about and you're absolutely right. Or if you're a company who buys a ton of fraudulent traffic in order to inflate your Alexa/Quantcast/Hitwise/etc rankings, then every impression counts as well.

However, if the advertiser is like the bulk of online advertising (e.g. one of the many for-profit online-degree-mills or someone pushing the latest weight loss pills) they tend to very aggressively optimize towards a desired CPA and eliminating non-converting traffic is always the goal. A better CVR creates happier advertisers which leads to higher bids & budgets and then higher publisher payouts.
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The effect is minimal though, 2-3% improvement if I recall.
The great thing is that Google has replaced their old Featuring concept with 2 sections of slots based on a recommendation algorithm. It recommends you a particular game/app based on what you have already installed on your device and other data. Despite this, it still recommends you games/apps you already have installed. Very surprising indeed!
Absolutely. I'd agree that all conclusions derived from such analysis ought to be thrown out and cause for dismissal of any case/warrant issued. This really is what is at stake--well, beyond the violations of the 4th Amendment and other legal expectations/protections.

This is a dangerous step. Not to go too Hollywood on the subject, but I'm struck by the ways this could increase in effectiveness to the point that the next whistleblower/debacle centers on the ways in which the collection and analysis of private papers/data lead to arguing that such programs aid in the Minority Reportish prevention of impending crimes. We're already (supposedly) using this to prevent terrorism. Next thing could be robberies, murders, "illegal" demonstrations, dissent, civil disobedience, etc.--in other words, thoughtcrime.

Moreover, where juridical proceedings are concerned, how in the hell is Joe/Jane Public supposed to argue that s/he is not guilty of something that is alleged on the basis of data contained in a secret database of dubious legal, but otherwise publicly accepted, nature? How do you prove that incriminating communication records are not yours, or that they do not mean what the government alleges they mean?
VMware definitely seems faster (I'm running Windows 8 as a VM inside Linux), but seeing as it's a paid product, there'll be choice-supportive bias all over the place.
It's amazing how little this guy knows.
In the article, it says it's opt-in.

The quotes you added say they get info only if you opt-in.

I see nothing wrong with the quotes.
Thanks for the tip on that. I'll certainly have to look El Follonero up. Sounds interesting.
This is exactly why I created Techendo (http://techendo.co -- shameless plug) . Honestly, I was fed up with journalist covering tech, who knew nothing about tech and had no technical background. We need a media source for technical news that actually understands what it's covering.

The problem is balance. Balancing both covering in-depth technical news, and also providing content worth coming back to and sharing. I'm still unsure of how to do this -- as we're still doing a ton of discovery currently.
I totally missed that part. Two weeks is nothing. Even if your invoices are "due upon receipt", most companies will default to net-30 and, as a tiny vendor who is no longer engaged, your invoice will be processed after everyone else.

I have one client who seems to stay right about $250k behind, especially around year-end. It was a little disturbing at first but their AP department just takes its time with these things.
All of my kernel panics and spinners of death were due to running some Java IDE or XML tool loading up 100MB files and the like (sometimes in-memory parse trees for those sized files can push the heap to multi GB levels).

Were you using a JVM when you ran into the system glitches?
I rented a nice apartment for a week in Shibuya the last time I was there for 2/3rds the price of the hotels we’d been staying in. They do exist, even if the range of options is a little limited.
This creates opportunities for games themselves to showcase your rank relative to your social network. This is more meaningful and naturally reinforces engagement within the game, something the game developer cares more about than Apple.
Automatically break things (or make it less usable/crippled). Hopefully that is optional...
> I can also assure you that none of the data we have is ever going to be sold to anybody [2010]

> Evidon sells two main services based on the data it collects [2013]
This change is welcome. For me reStructuredText broke the ice and made me like writing documentation.
Funny enough, Super Metroid was seen as too easy back then.
While it may be a problem that top ten rankings can be bought (I haven't seen any evidence that it is a problem), without those organic downloads from the top of the charts it would be much much harder to build a growth business out of the app store. Turning off the top rankings seems like it would prevent there from ever being another Angry Birds or Instagram... discovery is too hard otherwise.

Even an editor ranking is ephemeral. Say you're right and the cream rises to the top--how long would a feature last? A week? Two weeks? Maybe a couple hundred thousand free downloads?

I don't know what the organic/non ratio is at most companies relying on paid installs, but my gut would say it's somewhere on the order of 1:1 or better. If you remove the organic installs, CPIs would essentially double overnight and most of these businesses would no longer be able to sustain themselves.
Madambakkam area. ( Comes near Medavakkam area.) They have a BSNL office there. But they aren't giving any new connections since their capacity is "full".
I never been to the US, but I would say it is a matter of which type of agency we are talking about.

I pretty much doubt secret services in most countries would need any kind of warrant to do whatever they want.
>If you’re not a “U.S. person,” there are few restrictions on what the U.S. government can do to monitor you. If you are a U.S. person then…

So as someone who doesn't live in the states, this has been the biggest takeaway from all this. It doesn't matter that my country is allied and friends with the US, it doesn't matter that we're not at war, the US is not and has no intention of being my friend.

My current feelings then, is that I and everyone else who isn't a US citizen really need to get our data out of there, because regardless of where this debate is going, our "alien" data will never get any respect.
I would assume that at some point latency would be a larger issue.
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From what I understand, google is even going further. They're ranking based on the usage of installed apps. ie. an app installed and never used is ranked much lower than one that's installed and used daily.
> -Only having one or a few lives for the entire game

> -No saves/continues (usually combined with the above)

Sometimes these mechanics define a genre, such as roguelikes. Permadeath and single saves makes games like Nethack and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup nail-biting experiences that keep you striving to improve, even though these turn-based games give you all the time in the world to plan your next move.

Granted, the audience for this kind of game is self-limiting, and the games themselves are designed around replayability. But you see new games such as Demon's Souls/Dark Souls use similar negative-reinforcement techniques to create truly engaging experiences that some people find fun and addicting.

I can't tell you how many times I've lost a Nethack character in the Astral Planes, losing hundreds of thousands of turns and sometimes weeks of effort just before the end. But each time I died, I learned how to counter yet another combination of states that resulted in my death, and Nethack finally became boring when I could ascend in a few hours. This point took me 16 years to reach. Very, very few modern games can reach that level of engagement.
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Solr or Elastic search?
I agree about the pile of EE stuff, but it's not unlike having to learn a pile of math to work on, say, graphics; it's two areas into which programmers can naturally branch out, but it's not trivial.

And yes, you'd need EEs around; you'd need artists around to ship nice graphics, ultimately, or you'd need to be one yourself. Another angle - to be really good at C, you basically have to be fluent in assembly, at least in reading it, so you could say that C isn't just another language, or "C isn't a high-level language, it's a portable assembler", analogously to "FPGA isn't software, it's hardware design." In reality there's a continuum between hardware and software design, as there is a continuum between programming and math, programming and art, high level languages and low level languages, etc.
This is a horrible result - how can law enforcement be effective if no one trusts them enough to willingly assist them?

Their job just got tougher today.
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As long as revenue is still getting to Apple, Apple should encourage an environment where users are maximizing their utility from playing games they enjoy and using apps they like. This can only be done by understanding who the person is and/or marketing relevant products. PR & media should take advantage of the nascent nature of this industry and focus squarely on this through bundles, their own curated content, etc. and legitimize mobile despite the small screen and price. App Gratis is an innovative (?) example of this but I'm sure there are many more to be created. If done properly, Apple will begin to realize that the overall market can be maximized by easing their restraints.
Its interesting you mention the cutscene style story telling - most games do employ this now, simply because its the easiest way to direct an experience.

really good games like portal doesn't do this, but i imagine the sort of effort required, and a lot of AAA publishers just aren't willing to take such a risk. So the root cause is the high producitno costs associated with games causing it to become liek this.
I believe the reasoning is solid: most high-priced consultants and business travelers stay at decent hotels, and the $10/day is an easily expensed item.

Sucks for those of us who also like higher end hotels for personal travel, though.
Like they get away with Guantanamo? "Enhanced interrogation"? Still being in the middle east? No-knock warrants?

Please. This is the System. Nobody of any consequence will go to jail, because the System writes its own rules.

That probably sounds a little tin-hatty, but face it, you're counting on the Government to properly regulate the Government, while waving TERR'STS and AL'QAEDA and an American flag. It's not going to happen.

Eventually it will happen, but today is not that day.
If your CTR is twice what it would have been you can command half the eCPM but as you also have twice the inventory it all just factors out... like, if this matters, then the math is broken somewhere. Even more clearly, in the usual CPC case, anyone not clicking on the ads is effectively irrelevant.
The best games are simple to play, hard to master.

Not sure how I feel about this statement. Such games are certainly excellent examples of what a game is. Chess is a classic example. But I derive quite a lot of enjoyment from more complicated games that are also hard to master.
The storage is the problem, not the analysis. After all, if anyone does anything notable, all their past conversations (public or private) can be pulled up for retrospective analysis. That's why anonymity on the internet is a mirage - better to assume that public postings can and will be used to construct a complete history of you at some point in the future.
Some operators already offer flat rate packages for several countries. E.g. my operator the Finnish-Swedish TeliaSonera offers me unlimited data, calls and sms for Fennoscandia (fi, se, dk, no) and the Baltic countries.
It's the agreement between a manufacturer and a retailer about the price of a product, not an agreement between multiple retailers.
Oh, must burn my neighbors car to prove a point.
Both. Some are stupidly easy, eg. God of War "Load Game. Face Plant Controller. Finish Game. Get Star!".

In defiance of this trend, games like Dark Souls are coming out, which are wickedly hard, but extremely well-designed (for the most part). Or Monster Hunter 3. These games stress player skill to the max, but offer almost no 'cheap deaths'. This is my favourite kind of game.

I strongly hope that the skill-based system of gaming comes back to MMOGs (remember EQ? I do.), but I'm still waiting.
the opt-in could be more transparent. I just installed Ghostery and the option says[1]:

> Help Support Ghostery by sending anonymous statistical data back to Ghostery HQ.

It is only when you click more information that you find out this information can be sent to other companies "Ghostery community..", and then only when you click on the FAQ and read the section about Ghostrank is it clearer how this information is being shared [2] and with whom.

No mention of ad networks as clients. No mention of helping ad networks better target ads, infact their FAQ explicitly states:

> Evidon doesn’t work to allow advertisers to be more invasive.

Ghostery market to the privacy community. Their Twitter account[3] has been on top of the recent NSA story and other privacy stories and they promote their product as a solution for the privacy conscious. The way they have co-opted the community, funneling new users into their product via user ad tracking fears, while at the same time selling the data via a vague opt-in feels disingenuous to me.

I think the 'fix' here could be as simple as acknowledging third-party sharing in that initial opt-in screen, and then updating the language in the FAQ to include clarification on how it is shared.

[1] screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/xuRdj

[2] FAQ: http://www.ghostery.com/faq#q14

[3] https://twitter.com/ghostery
It isn't. Wikipedia says this particular type of price fixing is often allowed, and called "Resale price maintenance"
Take the lady that wants a fur coat a few sizes too big.
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I'm a US citizen who left the US. I am pretty damn sure they're not making some sort of provision for expatriate citizens, either. How on earth could they?

I mirror some of my less-important data to a private server in the US, but it's data I can afford to lose. And everything I transfer is encrypted these days. Pretty ashamed of my country, lately.
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On one hand, you have web developers. On the other hand, you have compiler engineers. The difference in communities is quite stark.
When I worked Apple retail (in a shopping mall) back in 2005, I walked a customer out to the Dell cart and helped them pick out a laptop because they had some Windows only real estate software that wouldn't run very well on Virtual PC.
If you liked VVVVVV, go play Super Hexagon (preferably on a mobile device). It's the same designer, and oh god, it's the most amazing game I've ever played. It's brutally hard, but never frustrating, and it forces you to get better. Absolutely worth the $3.
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I don't remember where I read about it, but I've known about it for a while. I was never particularly upset- I understood it to be aiding ad networks in targeting, which I think is a good thing.

You seem to think this line implies they are not improving targeting:

> Evidon doesn’t work to allow advertisers to be more invasive.

But this says to me they don't help advertisers shoehorn ads in more places, not anything about targeting.
This is the thing I hate about media.

Charlie, dude, you're the moderator. You're a journalist who's been schooled and has tens of years of experience in the field, whose duty is to inform your viewers/readers about current events. If they aren't informed, ask the fucking question. "But has FISA turned down any request?" "The -- because -- whatever". "Ok, so has it turned down any request?"
Spying on phone calls/metadata has nothing to do with announcing raids against legitimate terrorists.
Neither Android nor WP8 get priority for obvious reasons. Cutting edge apps? iOS.
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This is good news for me because my job entails traveling a lot mostly within eu.
optimised especially for customers with lots of money to burn, but no actual data to show how? sounds like snake oil to me!
I'm indifferent to it, I knew they were collecting data, I didn't know where it was going from there.

I have never used or recommended Ghostery because I don't believe blacklisting tracking targets is the solution.

The 'more invasive' line isn't clear - it isn't a term that you find in other privacy policies. It would be difficult to be 'more invasive' than tracking with third-parties on the web the way it is today.

I think they may be forced into expanding and clarifying that line and parts of the FAQ is this becomes a popular issue.

I read that entire section and can't figure out what they do or don't do ..
My first thought was Aberforth.
In general, I'd suggest you don't "out" people. First, they might not want to be thrust into the spotlight. Second, it doesn't really add anything to the conversation when you do it like this.

I don't think there's any harm done here though, since they have mentioned it themselves in comments.
Getting rich may not be the goal, but they're doing pretty well for themselves: they've paid out $10B to devs[1], so they've made ~$4.2B.

1. http://9to5mac.com/2013/06/10/tim-cook-talks-numbers-at-appl...
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Yup. I just ordered a 512GB ssd + 1TB spinning disk + 8GB ram for my 2009 MBP to try and squeak some more life out of it. Like 12 screws and it's done.
Good differentiation between leadership and management. Reminds me of some very good HBR articles on that difference, and the need for putting leadership before management in any organization.
Wow, impressive! More high margin places should operate like that.
Is there any way to revert to the old one?
Protests erupt across Brazil over high costs and poor services
After reading the first paragraph I thought someone had a nice trick to save what I'd spend on an entire laptop (for $750 I get a new one, although indeed not an Apple one). Then it turns out the trick is just "don't buy more than you need". Go figure.
I'm not sure that's true.

I suspect the MacBook Air is as successful as it is because most people want portability a lot more than they need raw power. I wouldn't build a render farm out of 11" MacBook Airs, but I bet they're a lot easier to pull out on a crowded flight than my 15" MacBook Pro.

This does raise an interesting question: how often do normal users grow past their hardware's limits?

I'm not a typical laptop user. My machine serves as a portable desktop replacement, and I spawn virtual machines to work on software for Linux and Windows. Even so, my 4-year-old machine is serving me pretty well. It wasn't the base model, but its specs are pretty pathetic by modern standards.

It doesn't take a mini supercomputer to maintain a photo collection and edit documents. Some people will be satisfied with a base model MacBook Air for a good while.

Though I admit, buying a machine with 4GB RAM today is a bit sketchy. Maybe the SSD cures it, but OS X does not take heavy swapping well at all.
So, in short, "Occupy Brazil"?
Well, that's great. Could you send some of your colleagues over here (Spain)? Cause I definetly think they didn't follow the same training sessions as you did.
apropos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

Edit: ahh didn't realize link was posted below as well.
You mean getting an ssd generally is a wash? Because SSDs are crazy good. I just had one installed on my work MBP (2012) and the performance is astounding.
Ugh, having your photos on an external is terribly annoying.

And as far as I can tell it does take a supercomputer to run Aperture.
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It's unfortunate that you have to subscribe to wsj to read.
Well, yes. Except the source text is tiny, so unfortunately all the software is pretty big in comparison.

I love the Hutter Prize, and the various compression benchmark sites.
Germany is an exception because there is an actual law that says you're liable if someone else uses your wifi for shady purposes. That's why our routers are password protected out of the box and almost no one will offer open, let alone free wifi. I heard from a hotel owner that this is not just a theoretical danger; he'd paid a high fine once and decided not to offer free wifi any longer.
What is the time it takes you to find this "library" and verify its fitness for your purpose? You can see
that it causes runtime errors in IE8 and one had to read the source code to see this because it's not mentioned anywhere.

If you are making a custom implementation specific to your application, most of the css and js is not needed (especially if you are using jQuery)
or are useless and need to be changed. It would be so trivial to write you would not even think of finding a library for it.
This doesn't look good for ghostery but hypothetically both of these statements can be true.

They may be referring to the idea that they don't sell an individuals data, only massed results, so no one can be singled out. This is how census data is used, the data itself is never sold but companies can ask for certain queries to be done on the data which are then performed by the census bureau and returned to the client.