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I'm no longer based in Santa Cruz. When I got the job at Trulia my family and I moved to the Bay Area. I'm currently living in Castro Valley and taking BART in and out of the financial district each day.

The junior college I attended is Cabrillo College[1]. They have a really great Digital Media Department[2] with many passionate and knowledgable teachers and students.

In particular Cabrillo has an excellent web design teacher named John Govsky[3]. I can honestly say that John's passion for web development was genuine and contagious. He is the first person that I remember showing me that software development is fun, cool, and exciting as well as serious business. It was in his classes that my confidence began to grow as I realized that I really understood this stuff.

For networking in Santa Cruz I did 2 things. The first is that I started a meetup called 'Startup Santa Cruz' and had bi-monthly meetings at my house in my personal office and invited people from my web design classes. The meetings were never huge, perhaps 5 people at the most but I found my first job via a 'Startup Santa Cruz' event.

A fellow student named Brook attended one of the first meetings. It turned out that Brook is the owner of a local Santa Cruz Web Design firm called Brooktown Designs[4]. She was looking for a web developer and my obvious passion for HTML/CSS as well as my drive to organize the 'Startup Santa Cruz' meetup got me the position at Brooktown Designs. I was only there very briefly before I transitioned to the Android dev shop that I mentioned in my original comment.

The second thing that I did to network is that I started hanging out at NextSpace [5] which is a really cool co-working space located in downtown Santa Cruz. They have regular tech talks so I signed up to give a talk on (still new at the time) HTML5.

A couple of dozen people showed up to the talk and I ended up leaving with several job leads and connections with local web/app developers as well as a couple of designers.

Regarding Ruby, Python, or PHP I would just recommend going with whatever feels the most natural to you, which according to your comment seems to be Python (Flask). I prefer Ruby on Rails because I think it has the greatest abstractions but the main thing is to feel comfortable and confident with the tools that you choose.

My email is cgcardona [at] gmail. Feel free to drop me an email so that we can make the connect. I'll pass along any leads that I can think of.

Best of luck!

:-]

[1] http://www.cabrillo.edu/

[2] http://www.cabrillo.edu/academics/digitalmedia/index.shtml

[3] http://teacherjohn.com/

[4] http://brooktown.com/

[5] http://nextspace.us/nextspace-santa-cruz/
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>there is little 'new ruler' can do to establish himself if people don't need a ruler.

What about sending his group of followers door to door shooting people who don't acknowledge that he is the leader?
For all the bad he's done to the world of software? I appreciate that Microsoft illegally bundled a browser with their OS, driving their biggest competitor from the market, and subsequently stalling browser innovation for ~5 years, but to think that Gates was a net negative for the world of software is a bit heavy-handed.

Gates' originally mission was a personal computer in every home and on every desk. I don't mean to detract from Apple, or IBM or any other company, but Microsoft accomplished that goal, in a remarkably short period of time.

And even if you believe that Microsoft did somehow damage the world of software (which I dispute), his charitable work has saved millions of lives, and will continue to do so. I understand that the ends don't justify the means, but whatever ill will you feel towards him for not being a champion of free software can't possibly overwhelm his positive contributions to humanity, even if they don't live in this country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_Compiler#Criticis...

It's a reference to that incident where intel's C compiler was checking the vendor strings to turn on certain optimized pathways.
Or is it the other way around? I honestly don't know anymore.
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Mono 3.0 stable has been out for a while. There just wasn't many binaries for it so you have to compile it yourself mostly.
Same thought here: For $7500 you can get something built without giving up equity or even going through an arbitrary vetting process. I've done this myself with offshore developers. It took 8 weeks to go from signing the agreement to deployment.
One thing that's not being mentioned in these stories: at least at it's height, SAC trading (reportedly) represented several percentage points of NYSE / NASDAQ volume on an average day (which is huge considering their AUM and the total number of organizations trading). The allegation that they were essentially an organized insider trading scheme is pretty spectacular given that scale.

(Correction: 3% of NYSE, 1% of NASDAQ: http://www.vault.com/company-profiles/hedge-funds/sac-capita...)
Finally! The whole world has known that SAC is nothing but insider trading with plausible deniability. SAC even had a platform, where if you submitted a trading idea, and they used it, then they would pay you a fee. It was a scheme to harvest insider information but give SAC an excuse.
Seriously? I thought when most people saw a line at a restaurant, they just went somewhere else.
I've had a Twitter account for over a year and posted absolutely nothing to it.

I wouldn't say "con", but I do find it implausible someone went from nothing to everything and was making full websites on day 1. I mean I've cranked out some personal web-apps over a weekend, but I usually spend the next week or so "fixing" them, which for me is how I learn - I have the framework of what I want to do, and then I figure out how to add more and more features until it's the streamlined experience I want it to be.

But a ton of that time is just spending hours working out why things are the way they are.
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We crawl the page that you specify within the data-item-url attribute.

We validate that no product informations has been altered.

If so, we simply ignore the order and nothing is charged or processed.
Yes. Hygiene regulations that have to be adhered to in commercial settings prohibit a LOT of stuff you really wouldn't think twice about doing at home. It's all for good reason. Whilst you might be preparing a meal for a healthy 20-something person with a great immune system, restaurants have to cater to EVERYBODY.
Just a thought:
For the better half of the 20th century, i.e. after WWII, Europe has been confronted and living with acts of terrorism from numerous sides (Israeli – just after WWII, Palestine, left-wing, right-wing, nationalist, etc, etc) with several severe casualties. Europe's democracies (for the better part at least) stepped back from drastic surveillance measures at will. (Partly because of the example of the Eastern block. Look up: Stasi.)
It worked anyway.

So: There is no possible deal of security versus freedom as it has been proposed for the last 12 years or so. Sorry.
It does not make sense. There is no proportion between the losses of freedom and identity, the investment, and the reported "less than 50 use cases" for the whole surveillance system. Please stop. Immediately.

Just saying, while we are losing digital identity.
What if there is malware in USB keys?
What makes it inevitable is being a public company, or being on track to be a public company, with quarterly numbers to hit.
It's unfortunate but not surprising how little coverage this whole thing has had. I think as tech savvy individuals we need to do a better job of informing people of these events. The media won't care unless people care.
Is there a site which makes AMA's easier to read? Something that scans the page and picks out the comments he's replied to so I don't have to?
>>Once Maslov's hierarchy has been topped off, it's like the insatiable drive to achieve that made that possible just evaporates.

Great quote, I just tweeted it. I wish it weren't true, but it is.

Steve Jobs is another one who clearly didn't have that very common gene. After getting fired from Apple he could have just done drugs and had sex for the rest of his life. But he kept on building. And building. And building.
How does treehouse compare to other MOOCs?
"Under U.S. law, 47 U.S.C. § 317, a radio station can play a specific song in exchange for money, but this must be disclosed on the air as being sponsored airtime, and that play of the song should not be counted as a "regular airplay".

Source: Wikipedia

Does LinkedIn identify the candidates on the top as having a "premium" membership?

Also, the "charts" were somehow important in the radio industry, so the law was that paid plays weren't supposed to affect the charts. What charts do we have for candidates here?
Have the robots come for the middle class?
Indeed I have discovered that. Decided on Ely instead.
Delaying light is sometimes used for a buffer in optical networks and signal processing, it is also used in the internal workings of certain opto-electronic devices such as optical oscillators; sometimes also used for testing and calibration of optical systems, making sure things are coming out as clean and at the same time as they do through the 'test' delay coil.
What tools do people use to manage the checklists? (some features I am looking for: easy to write new checklists, view history, allow to discuss them, ...)

I know about http://howtracker.com is there anything else out there?
it's ridiculous to say that only bribery could make you agree with these points.

I didn't.
> Public-key cryptography as we know it today may be rapidly approaching the end of its useful lifespan.

No evidence in the article substantiates this bold statement.

- "pressuring major Internet firms to provide their "master" SSL keys for government surveillance purposes": this demonstrates a weakness of centralized public-key infrastructures, it does not follow that public-key cryptography is doomed. (See: web of trust.)

- wiretaps, snooping, etc.: everyone is welcome to grab a copy of the ciphertext, this does not prove that cryptography is futile -- quite the contrary.

- "concerns about the security of widely used cipher algorithms and a range of other associated exploits": vague.

- "it is prudent to at least assume that intelligence agencies around the globe may still be working several steps ahead of public "state of the art" in crypto tech": unfalsifiable.

- "forced the hands of chip manufacturers to include "special goodies" for surveillance purposes": I am willing to fear deliberate plausibly deniable weaknesses on accelerated hardware implementation of crypto primitives, e.g., PRNGs, but it seems very hard to believe that implementations of public-key crypto using general purpose instructions could be somehow identified by the CPU and somehow tampered with in a way which would be non-obvious somehow.

- "when governments really want to target someone, they'll find some way to compromise the associated computers directly -- either through phishing or other malware attacks, or via in-person "black bag" jobs to physically alter systems as they might feel appropriate": humans are the weakest part of cryptosystems, and if they have physical access then they win; nothing new here.

In conclusion:

> I believe it would be fully appropriate for us to be considering alternative methodologies for data protection that are sufficiently outside the existing public-key "box"

Public-key cryptography is a tool. It certainly does not form, in itself, a full "methodology for data protection", but nothing in the article justifies that has lost any usefulness in its current form.
There is no way to say "stop" anyway, it's up to them if they stop. Look at Guantanamo...
This article is factually incorrect.

If you pay for a Job Seeker Subscription you show up at the top of the list of APPLICANTS for a job, it does not influence the search result rankings when a recruiter is searching LinkedIn.

I think some of the confusion is from the way the marketing copy is worded:

* "Get special placement as a Featured Applicant"

translation: show up at the top of the list of applicants for a job, but its clear you paid for placement (ex: http://corcodilos.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/linked...)

* "Stand out in search results with a Job Seeker Badge"

translation: you get a badge next to your name in search results telling recruiters you are an activate candidate, I personally think the value of this is dubious (ex: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22639568/Search___Linked...)
It is Russia, can you prove he wasn't?
>> people using p2p currencies on a massive scale

I'm not of the faith that says that p2p or crypto currencies are necessarily a good thing. I, personally, think it's a good thing that democratic governments can exert control over fiat currency in order to attempt to mitigate economic disasters. I certainly don't think that the (for example) bitcoin model is a good one.

>> and encrypting their communications

I'm not really sure what this has to do with governments or control. I don't think democratic social order necessarily depends upon being able to surveil everyone, it's just a trap that the current bunch have fallen into.

>> production structure not suffering from possibility of monopolism

I'm not really sure what you mean here either, but it's hard to forsee a state in which monopolies are somehow impossible, or how the lack of them would imply the lack of need for government.

>> how will the government exercise their control?

In much the same way they do now, by the majority of us granting a democratic government a monopoly on the use of force. I'm not sure what bearing the form of currency, or encrypted comms, or even a utopian ideal of monopolistic impossibility have on this.

--edit-- Please do not take this as me saying either that I think the way governments have handled currency is good, or the way they do ... pretty much anything is all totally awesome. Far from it.

--edit 2-- The use of language is interesting here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you see government as the external imposition of control on to otherwise free citizens? I see it as (at its best) free citizens banding together to achieve collective goals and prevent the worst of human nature overtaking us. The rhetoric and the social measures that come from government in this day and age are pretty abhorrent, but collective defence, roadbuilding, education etc are (to me) vital and useful functions.
Be careful that you do not equate "power" and "authority". As Canada mentions below, they have top talent, researchers, and likely many exploits. It seems foolish to believe that geographical location of entities on a globally connected network has a nontrivial bearing on whether the NSA can penetrate it.
I'm curious how whips work. Do you have anything I could read up on it to learn more? It makes sense from a certain perspective, but does that mean that they decided to look into how many people were going to vote no for sure (which was 217). Then the remaining legislators would get more money if they voted yes (205) or maybe they voted yes because it was what their constituents wanted. That's all speculation but it's seriously interesting and very disturbing.
-- "and most users don't use passwords anyway"

Is this true? Everyone I know with a smartphone -- everyone -- uses a password.
You apparently missed the fact that the Obama administration had a full scale Democratic congressional revolt on its hands yesterday - a majority of congressional Dems voted to defund the NSA collection of bulk call records under FISA - the White House was seriously afraid the Amash Ammendment would pass - it only failed narrowly - 217 to 205. So in objective terms, the response has been far worse than the administration expected. And this policy tussle isn't over yet.
I know that's a popular thing to say, but the mainstream media broke the story. In what way are they a government mouthpiece?
Doesn't look like an explicit ban on preprints, though Nature might prefer that you not do it. I'm pretty sure I've seen a Nature paper or two appear on the arXiv around the time of publication.

"Nature does not wish to hinder communication between scientists. For that reason, different embargo guidelines apply to work that has been discussed at a conference or displayed on a preprint server and picked up by the media as a result. (Neither conference presentations nor posting on recognized preprint servers constitute prior publication.)

Our guidelines for authors and potential authors in such circumstances are clear-cut in principle: communicate with other researchers as much as you wish, but do not encourage premature publication by discussion with the press (beyond a formal presentation, if at a conference)."

Looks like they say "It's okay to talk among scientists, but don't talk with the media at all until we've released it. We'll pull your paper if you do."
Applying electricity to soil increases plant yield
IE 10 Trumps Rivals on User Privacy Features
Self signed certificates throw up all kinds of nasty "you're taking lots of risks" in browsers (if they're allowed at all). I would not expect that they will be more broadly used than before, particularly since installing a self-signed certificate locally is very hard to do for the average person.
Yes Stripe is easy to integrate, but we are mostly focusing on frontend developers that want a customizable shopping cart, with all the features like shipping rates calculation, full control on the CSS and a dashboard for their customers with the orders.
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We validate that no product informations has been altered.
If so, we simply ignore the order and nothing is charged or processed.
The Snowden story got huge traction. It will be the biggest story of 2013.
Given the known facts, I agree.

It's not a whack with a baton, but government authorities shouldn't call someone to wrongly warn him that his actions might be harassment.

Even if it's libel, that's what lawyers and the civil court system is for.
What really scares me is that there's no mention of security on their site aside from the usual "we use HTTPS" line.
Having worked at Ticketmaster for a few years, the first thing that came to mind was the similarities in automated ticket-buying bots.

Thing is, is there really that much of an arbitrage opportunity with restaurant reservations? Is there a place I can go purchase restaurant reservations?
I am convinced that my RSI was physical. I'm not convinced it's physical for everyone. Which is exactly what I said ("It's not").

There's no question, ZERO, that it's anything but physical in my case. It's worth mentioning (again, by the way) that I have debilitating problems with my right arm following an old injury. Some of us have real physical problems that cause real physical pain. I understand the mechanics of my unique situation well, and took careful, deliberate steps to physically address those limitations.

Finding the right equipment was not something that happened overnight. It was a long process that took at least a year. I could feel, physically, when new approaches were working and when they weren't. I could feel, physically, when introducing certain parts of the setup introduced new problems, etc. For example, while playing with my keyboard and mouse, I started fixing my wrists at the expense of my shoulders and neck, which then called for the leaning discipline, standing desk, and so on and so on.

Otherwise, good sleep and good food help me maintain the focus that's required to keep myself from slipping back into bad habits. One of the worst habits of mine, that's been the toughest to shake, has been stopping myself from leaning into the screen while getting into my work. It's terrible for my neck. Leaning back helps immensely. I can stay on top of this easily when I'm properly energized. I slip when I'm tired or it's getting late.
Who specifies the page? Is that set up in the SnipCart admin?
Or, radio telescope analysis. I wonder how hard it is to get a terabyte of radio telescope noise. If I had that, how hard would it be to use it to xor with a truecrypt partition.
Actually laws do protect private domain of a rental. It's the same reason the apartment companies themselves/landlords are not allowed to enter the apartment without your expressed consent.
"IF YOU SELL, WE GET PAID, IF YOU DON'T, WE'RE NOT"

I don't speak Finnish or Russian, but if I was going to offer businesses an ecommerce solution in those countries, I'd be damn sure my copy was grammatically correct.

Not to bust your balls, but we're talking about moving customers' money around - the details matter.
As I mentioned in my post, high-touch, full-service doesn't have to be the permanent model. Our plan isn't to do it this way forever. Our plan is to do it this way for a while so we can learn everything we can. Then later on we can automate this and make it self-service. The product will be a lot better off because of it. This was pg's point in his original post as well.
It's the assumption because it's how things have always happened. Do you have an example to the contrary, of any significant group of humans living without rulers for any significant amount of time?
Fixed, thanks for your feedback! We are a company from Quebec city so we speak french most of the time!
So there's no disaster recovery for the company if their hardware breaks? There should be an offline backup thats N-way encrypted (secret sharing).

I've had to think about that case myself.
Raising prices is the wrong way to address this behavior. Ultimately the restaurant wants to maximize yield, not just average meal price. Open tables are wasted inventory. So the priority should be to stop bots from grabbing reservations for people who aren't that committed to eating at the restaurant (and thereby stealing them from people who would actually go dine.)

A better solution would be to charge for making a reservation, and give that charge back as a credit against the meal. You don't have to raise prices, you increase the probability that someone making a reservation intends to show up, and when you have a no-show, you get compensated for the empty table (and can still give it to a walk-in.)

Restaurants like State Bird are a bit of a poor example, anyway. Regardless of their reservation book they're going to fill all their tables every night anyway right now, and they don't particularly want larger (5+) parties anyway because they're tiny. I think they want prices low enough that they can establish a loyal clientele that will keep them going once they're no longer the "hot spot" in SF. Or maybe (gasp) they like offering their food to a broader range of customers. Chefs tend to be a little more down-to-earth.
This doesn't seem much different from the MediaLink HD that HTC has had for over a year now. Although that ran Android and this runs Chrome. Both were capable of talking to NetFlix and other content URLs directly once they got the WiFi information from your device. This helps devices save battery since they don't have to download the data just to resend it, and don't have to transcode anything.

That said the MediaLink HD often had lag issues that kept it more in the realm of presentations and media and made it difficult for real time games. Even for presentations I'd often carry my own WiFi AP around with me or find ways to get it just to connect between the phone and device to avoid them. Home performance is probably better than conference and event performance.

I recently tried a Netgear Miracast adapter to send HDMI from an HTC One and the lag is completely gone. I haven't tried Google's implementation of Chromecast yet, but I'm suspicious it won't be nearly as lag and trouble free as a WiFi Direct only device like the Netgear, though. You have a whole extra OS running device in the chain to make things a pain. So I'm suspicious the extra complexity isn't worth it for this class of devices.