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I have not but I'll add it to my reading list. Funny you should say that. The way it worked at my place, is we had a few managers on each floor. Each floor has over 300 people. A lot of people had no idea who they report to, what they're supposed to do, they just kind of asked random people for work.

One of the contractors was hired shortly before the hiring manager quit. He had an office. He came in every day, opened his macbook and worked on his own projects for three months before somebody finally asked him who he was. Nobody questioned him because nobody had an idea who to even talk to about such issues, nor did they care.

We have armies of developers that essentially do nothing.
Oh, the response looks as bad as the blog post by Secunia. Well that's rather disappointing. I don't know much about security, but claiming an exploit is not possible anymore simply because the original implementation doesn't break the program anymore just doesn't seem very convincing. Same goes for calling all statement lies, that the author disagrees with.

Well at least it's not wonder why those 2 groups fail to communicate. Thanks for the update Maxious!
Work isn't an end in itself, it's a means to an end. If you work hard and achieve your goals quicker (or at all) because of it, that's admirable as long as your trade-offs (spare time, family ...) are made consciously. If not, adjust your goals accordingly.

Condemning hard work and long hours without any such considerations, is not constructive. Personally, I don't see a value in working as little as possible just to waste more time watching TV or drinking beer, but if that is what you really want to do, fine ...
LDAP schema design pitfalls
Script still (OSX) produces nonsense if you run vi in it.
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Why not OTR? Not having perfect forward secrecy seems to be a big hit in a situation like this.
Unfortunately, There is no way to avoid NSA type surveillance.. without or without "Personal Clouds". I guess It does help reduce the footprint, but with the move to think clients (like mobile devices) and Cloud backends, I am afraid, the public cloud move seems quite irreversible and therefore no way to avoid snooping either by governments or abuse by corporations.
Upvoted for judicious use of the phrase "brain-RAM". Me likey :).
The antiquated wire services and their magical distribution
It sounds like a messy translation of "mess of wires", like Christian had soldered on a bunch of extra wires to scope out various signal lines and interrupt the clock, etc.
Type 'OK Maps'
Nuclear civilian power stations are fairly incredibly well-protected post-9/11. One of Canada's nuclear power facilities has continually swept the various S.W.A.T. competitions they hold in North America for at least a couple of years now, and other facilities are similarly well-guarded.

But even if you managed to break in, you can't destroy the containment building with just the explosives you can carry on your person (it is, after all, designed to contain something much worse). Likewise you wouldn't be able to make it near the reactor complex itself as the radiation would kill the terrorists before they could get close enough to damage something.

The best case (for the terrorists) is trying to impeded reactor cooling from the control stations, but that takes a long time for actual damage to occur (time enough to preclude the damage in the first place), and even if you somehow managed to hold out for a whole day and let the reactor try to melt itself (at a rickety old facility without passive safety), you'd just get something like Three Mile Island, not Fukushima.

Perhaps you might try to fly a plane into the containment? But even that wouldn't cause a nuclear yield or anything close, especially with U.S. style containments. Steel-reinforced concrete simply eats planes for breakfast.

The story you linked comes from a description of a nuclear weapons production facility, and even that security lapse was not inherently more severe than breaking into something like a chemical production facility.

There's no magic fairies that kill 10,000 people just because you touched something labeled 'nuclear' after all, so even breaching into the facility wouldn't be a public health risk by itself.
Nah I'm not making any money at all. I'm using the money from the job I just finished to fund 2 years of development time, rent, and food. I don't spend much so I get to live a fairly risk free lifestyle. I just work and read whatever is interesting that day/week/month.

Worst case scenario: I get a stupid amount of experience and land a sweet job at a startup once my time is up. Loving it.

My minimum goal is to become an awesome full stack engineer. My max goal is to live lavishly as a freelancer/consultant.

Thanks, I hope I succeed as well.
But how else can I show to the management that I'm really not mediocre at what I do because if I don't sit in the chair longer than everybody else doing actual work.

/sarcasm.
Windows Phone 8 has offline maps via Nokia Here, you can also use Nokia Drive to get offline navigation. Both are free and have helped me navigate without a data connection in Europe, Asia and North America.
Use of requestAnimationFrame triggers high-precision timers in at least Chrome and Firefox...
An issue with an ISP would certainly be consistent with the reports that the outage is geographically limited.
Meetings: where minutes are taken and hours are wasted.
They would have copyright for the translation if it weren't itself illegal - §103 of the US Copyright Act. But this may be different in other jurisdictions.
I encourage you to talk to some doctors. No one makes $250k per year, except maybe a few surgery specialists (and maybe ER). Primary care doctors (the ones that where there actually is a shortage) can can easily start at under $100k and the max can be below $200k. And if you are a pediatrician or a pediatric specialist, expect to take a cut in pay relative to your adult colleagues.
This is really cool stuff, I thougth about a end-to-end one language envoirment for some time, with this and Datomic you get everything from in browser up to database query in one language and with one data transmistion format (EDN).

I just started with this but it looks very well thought out. I allready have a project lined up that I can try this on.
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And my response to this is that if you don't have a scope clear enough to accurately figure out your project's pricing, that's your fault. The second part of this is a mutual understanding that scope is gospel. This means the client has a clear understanding of the end product and what problem it's going to solve, and you're going to have the same understanding. Changes to the gospel mean changes to everything else.

Obviously running a business is part philosophy. If you don't mind a customer looking over your shoulder throughout an entire project, second guessing your time usage, then sure, I can see how an hourly situation might work. I despise that, and so I've found fixed pricing to be my preferred approach (which has the apparent added benefit of being very appealing to most clients).
How Oregon Is Getting 'Frequent Fliers' Out Of The ER
....why not just run OTR on top of Jabber? It's pretty surveillance proof and they are applications for iOS/Android that support all of that.

I fail to see the point.
> It's crazy that for such expensive services I NEVER know what my bill is going to be until months after the procedure has happened.

Not only that, but one often doesn't know if insurance will cover it, at all. One of my wife's surgeries was "pre-authorized" but rejected by insurance when the bill came through.
This nice as long as the source doesn't already contain a backdoor. Definitely plugs a security hole though. Nice
Nasir Gebelli was a game programmer that created some of the classic early games for the Apple ][ (Space Eggs, Gorgon). He eventually went on to create Final Fantasy at Square.

When programming his games in 6502 assembly for the Apple, Gebelli used the built-in mini assembler from the command line. No text editor, and according to most accounts no printer either. All in his head, by hand.
Hey there

Thanks very much for sharing this :) Hope it's some worth to some people
..but reddit won't be reddit if there was no anonymity
Thing is though that with diet and exercise it can be really easy being very dedicated to not doing the right thing! It's also very easy to get side tracked into being too dedicated to gathering information and not dedicated enough to doing something :-) I'd be interested to know what your methodology was?
Quick question then (which may be a bit naive). What happens when this crypto tech falls into the hands of terrorists - the ones that target human lives?
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Why do you use Hacker News?

No, seriously.

I simply can't understand the logic of someone who says that they stopped using G+, BECAUSE all of their friends are on Facebook... when they SAY THAT on Reddit or Hacker News.
They lost it. WebM is officially patent-encumbered. So, license or no, it's non-Free. Making it no better than MPEG now that MPEG is basically under the same license. Plus, unlike WebM, MPEG has widespread hardware acceleration on mobile devices, making WebM basically DOA. I was a fan of WebM and thought it could supplant MPEG on mobile. Mozilla did, too, which is why they took the stance of supporting WebM but not MPEG. Google, however, supported MPEG for commercial reasons, so WebM never had a chance.

WebP isn't used by Firefox yet and won't be used by IE or Safari anytime soon, making it useless for most sites. It's handy for some mobile apps. I know Facebook uses it in their mobile apps. But it's pretty useless on the open web due to lack of widespread support.

I will give you SPDY's small latency improvements, of course. As well as WebSockets now that it isn't horrendously broken and insecure anymore. WebRTC is quite cool and will hopefully achieve wider support.

Chrome's apps are definitively not the same as Firefox extensions. Chrome's extensions are the same as Firefox's extensions. Chrome's apps are a proprietary grab at the desktop and keeping people locked into Chrome instead of being able to use open web apps in a browser of their choice. This is by design and not exactly a secret.

Chrome's UI was simply evolutionary, not revolutionary and is the direction things were already headed in. Take a look at Opera 9.5 released the year before Chrome existed. Tabs up top. Forward/back to the left of the URL bar. Chrome evolved having the menu bar hidden by default and simplifying the visual controls a bit. But it didn't completely change what was already occurring in other browsers. Firefox took more note of Chrome than Opera because Chrome started stealing market share.

Mozilla/Netscape has put more man-hours into the open web than Google. Google doesn't 'sponsor' Mozilla. Google pays Mozilla for a service that nets Google far more money than they give Mozilla. It isn't just about money thrown at things, it's about actual hours and results. The majority of Mozilla's man-hours being unpaid doesn't mean they don't count, despite your insistence on only measuring dollars.

And, as for the open web, Mozilla is the only one fighting for it on mobile via Firefox OS, which will use open web apps with additional open source connectors into local functionality (storage, camera, etc). This is an attempt to fight against the closed ecosystem of Apple and the partially closed ecosystem of Android's app store. You'll be able to 'install' web apps from any website without the need of an app store and without needing to side-load onto your phone.
Depends on the meetings.

And if you are wasting time in meetings, then you are wasting time in meetings.
There's no mystery.

> is Google artificially inflating it's numbers while really dying a slow death

Yes.

Every free Google product that they don't know how to monetize is being moved under g+ in an effort that g+ will be highly monetizable(?) In the future.

I have some 7 g+ accounts just for such logins.
The arms race doesn't need to happen in the pure math realm of crypto. It can happen in a myriad of other areas. One example - if I have a keylogger installed on your computer, it doesn't matter how perfect your encryption algorithm is.
There's no sexism in gaming
good point. Weekly & daily rates are probably better as few commenters suggested.
I can imagine its related to the whole Glass interaction like 'OK Glass, <take x action>'
Seems to be a clever marketing campaign by Secunia. Exploit an OS project to promote your own company. Make noise. Clever!
Well, the big problem here is that glibc isn't on every other OSes box. FreeBSD uses its own libc, as does Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc. In fact, the latter three are probably more in common with each other than with glibc. And certainly the CRT on Windows is a different beast entirely.

Personally, I want a predictable API between different libc versions; I don't want to deal with somebody's code that assumed that they could fopen(3) a URL and have it do something useful. That Solaris and Linux (say) set errno slightly differently for the same error is enough for me to pull my hair out.

And yes, I realize I brought Windows into this argument, but at least you know that Windows is always going to be a little bit different, whereas you expect all the Unix libc implementations to act mostly the same way for most of the things, even though in your cold, cynical heart you realize that's idealistic.

But my cold, cynical heart is still idealistic and believes that all fopen(3) should be fopen(3) everywhere. So if you can get all of the vendors on board, then let's talk.

Otherwise, let's just use libcurl.
In many cases, "work harder" happens because you're too busy to "work smarter". The boss expects 60 hour workweeks for months on end to keep up with a time-wasting process that could be automated if they'd give you a week to do it. But you can't take a week to automate it, because you're too busy doing it.

And this is what I hate about corporate work.
What about content generated using these subtitles? A couple of years ago I created http://moviewordclouds.com/ based on movie subtitles, it could be illegal too.
Yeah, marketing is a pita. It still doesn't negate the fact that even the corollary has slowed down, not stopped.
At least with personal clouds you own your data. The real fundamental issue with public cloud is all the data at one place. When you have everything at one place it is prone for abuse.
Jason Holtman: one of the main guys responsible for Steam

Tom Forsyth: already mentioned, VR for TF2

Moby Francke: art lead for TF2

Realm Lovejoy: one of the Narbacular Drop people which turned into Portal

Plus a few others that have been there since the beginning, what you would call the core of the company.

Without knowing details it's impossible to know if they were justified or not, but they are surprising because their resumes suggest these aren't slackers.
Not in a very large corporate environment. I have had so many meetings where I didn't say a word, didn't even know anyone there. Manager I talked to like once a month sent me meeting requests and I went. It was pointless. They weren't optional either.
Social norms are a pendulum that swings back and forth every 100 years or so. At one end is 6 hours a day or 30 hrs a week, at the other end is work/sleep/repeat. Any less and a society can't function, any more and a person will physically break.

Individually, you get the same shake every free man has had since the beginning. You climb the mountain until you don't feel like climbing anymore. Maybe you're hurt, maybe you're tired, maybe you've found a nice plateau with a wonderful view.

Meanwhile around you, above you and below you - others scamper up the same mountain.

'Twas ever thus.
Work is not war. Not even close. Executives and wannabe clueless use war metaphors to try to rustle us up for what ends up being a trench digging operation that lasts 40+ years.

I understand your naive enthusiasm but work is more of a marathon. Even doing the most glamorous part, founding a company, is an Iron Man race with many stages. Sprinting to the finish line with goofy motivational speeches when you are still 100 miles away is just bad strategy.
https://github.com/WhatCD/Gazelle/blob/master/classes/wiki.c...

Yeah, not to be negative, but it literally has SQL and HTML in one file. Ooof.
When debugging recursive code...
“are ideal for workloads where corporate policies or industry regulations require that your EC2 instances be isolated from instances that belong to other customers at the host hardware level.”

What a hypocrisy. This should be read as "polices require that an adequate and predictable I/O performance could be provided".
"And my response to this is that if you don't have a scope clear enough to accurately figure out your project's pricing, that's your fault. "

Bingo. Hourly or fixed doesn't matter here. Both will mess up the relationship because there's no value delivered in the clients eyes.

As for the micromanaging; some customers like running a daycare for adults and babysitting everyone. I prefer to not be in these relationships and in exchange be proactive with our updates.
>Excluding Wii they have been a niche console for generations...

Niche or not, hardcore market or not, the question is can Nintendo sell 30-50 million WiiUs? If they can, they'll have a viable platform that will at least be a good enough vehicle for Mario games. If they can't, they're done on the console side.
An "EU Directive" is a law, it's decided on in the same democratic manner that (say) UK laws are decided on. It's like how in the UK there are "Acts of Parliament" (i.e. laws).

It's up to individual countries to implement the minimum, and likewise, each country will implement each one slightly different. The UK law and the EU Directive are basically the same, "It's illegal to do X, Y and Z unless you do W etc." There isn't really a mean/results differnce here.
See, if working extra hours at your job will actually make you rich and/or influential, or if you just plain enjoy the heck out of your job, then you have a very good reason to do it.

But I've also seen people put in 50-60 hours at a job where others put in 40 and get paid basically the same salary, without any increased possibility of promotion either. They were basically workaholics for the sake of it, or for appearances, not for any concrete benefit. I think what they got was a feeling of moral superiority for working the hardest (even though they didn't necessarily get more actual work done), as well as a sense of security that they wouldn't be the first on the chopping block when the next round of layoffs came (not necessarily true).

It's not a straw man, I know people who do this in real life. I think of it as cargo culting for career success.
I don't know how we got here, but you must admit that SWAT teams in mine-resistant personnel carriers sure look spiffy. If your police force isn't ready for battle, the terrorists win
The problem has always been abuse of laws that simply don't move fast enough to keep up with the changing times .Companies with deep pockets to fund lawyers will always take advantage of the laws that were written for a different time (and there is a similar parallel to the IP/Patent as well).
While true, I'm not sure how that's particularly nefarious. It's just another platform that's not an existing platform. iOS is like this. Android is like this. FirefoxOS is like this. They all are their own ecosystem and have their own APIs, and they all seem to be working out pretty well for both developers and users of both native apps and web sites.

What would be worrisome is if the platform creators locked them down in such a way as to prohibit choice; if Chrome were ported to iOS and Apple denied permission to distribute it, for example. But that's simply not happening anywhere anymore. Every owner of a locked-down platform is being pretty open about letting users choose which apps to use, even for core functionality like the web browser. Perhaps this is the lesson we learned in the 90s with the browser war and we are actually trying not to repeat the past!

I'm personally quite attracted to the idea of a native app that I can program in Javascript, and wouldn't want ChromeOS to not exist simply because of concerns of being "unfair". I never really used my laptop much because it was too hard to keep in sync with my desktop. But since I switched to ChromeOS for my laptop, I've used it a lot more, because everything stays up to date. Yes, I have to give some control to Google, but I always have the option of compiling it from source and making my own sync server. So overall, I'm really happy that ChromeOS exists and is open-source, even if there is no standards process for web-browser-centric operating systems :)
I like hard work sessions. Fuck me, right?
I'm not assuming anything. In fact my post has nothing to do with VLC, really. I'm challenging the idea that a crashing bug in a desktop app is a "denial of service". That's not a useful use of the term. If you want to talk about a different type of bug, go ahead... and you will be talking about a different kind of bug, so my comment won't apply to your new bug.
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> From my perspective Apple looked at the market (Amazon), realised their pricing wasn't sustainable, and agreed to a more sustainable model with publishers.

Working something out with all the big publishers is pretty much the definition of an illegal cartel.
For instance for a plain text content-type,
no string != empty string
Google+ is a UI disaster. Look at some of the basics. When the browser is fully maximized, my screen can see 8 chats / contacts / "hangouts" / whatever they're called in the sidebar on the right. On my Facebook chat sidebar, I can see 14 contacts. When you refresh a G+ page, the open chats mysteriously disappear. This cuts down on usage, because, for example, each time I go to Facebook, my chats are still open and I can immediately continue from where I left off. Google+ has 3 "toolbars" at the top of each page, taking up an enormous amount of vertical space. Honestly, with the sidebars open, it feels like you're working in a 500px x 500px window. For God's sake, the "About" page doesn't even let you be in a relationship with another member. The "About" page also doesn't allow other users to see your interests, or favorite books / TV / music. Essentially, G+ utterly fails to encapsulate everything Facebook offers in this regards: when you first Facebook friend someone you just met, you immediately get the basic information about their life: where they stand romantically and what things they like.

There are other problems. Tagline? Bragging Rights? Skills? Links? Is G+ a page for socializing or a resume?

I simply cannot fathom why some people in the tech industry think that G+ is in any way a viable competitor to Facebook. Outside of the tech bubble, its usage is nonexistent and unhelpful. It is cluttered with things people don't want, and it lacks some of the basic things people DO want.
Design is billable work. Just because we can build a shed without a blueprint doesn't mean we should attempt anything on/in a house that's major.
There is a colo in Boulder that will host a Mac mini server for around $75/mo (negotiable). I haven't tried it yet, but I'd imagine that I could get 3-5 'servers' off of eBay and negotiate a nice monthly rate for hosting them.