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As I've said before, I don't get this idea that we should strive to act like that darkly funny scene in Terry Gilliam's Brazil, wherein the patrons and staff at a bombed restaurant attempt to continue dining as if nothing has happened.

Let's suppose that some terrorist group became skilled enough to bomb a major sporting event or other large concentration of people every six months or so. Not big bombs, mind you, just enough to kill a few dozen or a hundred people each.

By the strategy seemingly being argued for here, a "resilient" or "rational" America would just let the existing police do their work as best they can, maybe with some not-too-expensive Federal assistance, and simply accept the added risk of dying at major events, which, after all, is not that much more significant than the risk of dying in a car accident on the way.

Obviously, that is not the response we'd expect, and it's not because Americans are irrational or fearful. It's because this prioritization-by-mortality-rate policy logic is faulty. It matters that there's an agency behind these deaths. One thing our society values highly is justice, and that often requires a disproportionately expensive response to an unjust act, and not solely to buy deterrence.
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What's even worse is that there is an extremely simple, cheap, and constitutional way for US leaders to dramatically reduce the risk of terrorism: stop engaging in aggressive wars and stop supporting corrupt foreign governments.

That surveillance systems of unprecedented cost and scope are built while this option is not even considered demonstrates very clearly that the proponents of both militarism and surveillance are not genuinely interested in preventing terrorism but in increasing their own power.
And if speeding repeatedly banned the driver from driving, then you'll run out of ambulance driver after a day.

Or let's put a man in jail because he break the law three times (even if all those cases would be exempted in current system).
Thanks for the reply! The other 10% is split amongst the 3 other employees that we have.

RE: the VC route, we were looking at M&A companies (just started though), so that is good advice and will investigate it.
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If only the robot could do all the thinking and observing that a skilled manual tester can do whilst testing an app...

I'm all in favour of automating the boring repetitive parts and using automation for things humans can't do but AI ain't here yet
There's an implied dichotomy in this article between "manual testers" and "testers who know how to program" which is unnecessary, in my opinion. There's a whole spectrum of technical skill that's being ignored. All software testers are using computers to do their work, and they are all using tools to make them more effective.

I think this tool sounds really interesting and would allow a tester to generate lots of interesting tests. It could conceivably also speed them up, which is great, and it could allow for automated regression testing of touch features, which is also great. That doesn't really mean anything with regard to who is using the tool. You don't have to become a full-time developer to learn to use Selenium for tasks where it makes sense, and I assume that this tool is the same way. If it's not, then a collaboration between somebody who has those automation skills and the "manual testers" could still create a wrapper that allows the testers to use the tool effectively.
I'll claim it if he doesn't :)
(Disclosure: I'm an investor in True Link).

A key difference is that the True Link card has built in protections against specific cases of elder fraud, not just the general cases of fraud that something like Amex targets.

Just to give a concrete example: there are bunch of charities that sound like legitimate ones but aren't. An example is the Cancer Fund of America, which spends less than 1% of their income on charitable activities (see [1][2]). These charities specifically target the elderly, sometimes calling them over and over again to take advantage of cognitive decline (cf. [2][3]).

[1] http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/
[2] http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/us/worst-charities
[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-15/financial-abuse-vic...
[4] http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2009-07-16/opinions/36887...
Meh, I'll let it pass.

Two of my elderly neighbors were really badly fucked by these scammers. Actually, I know a lot of old people who were run dry by these scammers. Think for a moment how disgusting this is -- robbing and manipulating people who are at an age where their wits are leaving them... robbing them of money to live their last years on earth peacefully. I say fuck these scammers all the way, they know exactly what they're doing.

To say that those 3 words are 'neutralizing' the work they're doing is a rather ignorant thing to do.
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Good advice and you are spot on regarding the imbalance - the CEO put up the money in the beginning.
Comparing the Boston Bombing to 9/11 doesn't really make sense. The OKC bombing, that's a much better comparison.

Attacks on the level of the Boston Bombing happen every day in various countries around the world. But something like 9/11 or OKC, that kind of stuff doesn't happen every day. One of those was by far the most incredible act of terrorism in the modern world. Heck, even car bombs that kill 100+ seem to happen every couple months.
Sorry, I forgot to note - I'll have free time from September at least, now busy with few projects to be done.
If you want something more easy comparable, lets compare terrorism kills vs murder rates. How much police resource is spent per murder citizen vs killed by terrorism.

Do anyone really think that the US would spend the same amount of money catching a shotgun wielding mass murderer who robs liqueur stores, or the same shotgun wielding guy that has a terrorism manifesto posted on youtube but with no prior kills on his hands. Who of the two is more likely to have biggest kill count in the end?
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Hey snorkel,

> I heard the best apps will win great promotional prizes and the latest Samsung devices.

yes I heard of it too and I am going to submit an app! Wish me luck. I am submitting my battery draining app. By the way do you know how Samsung Touchwiz manages to heat up my phone? It is an awesome feature and it seems to be unique to Samsung because I could not find the function the Android SDK! Can you believe that?! Ha!

I really look forward to winning the new Galaxy Note as I compared it to a bunch of other Android phones and it seems that it not only offers the best hardware but also the biggest surface for heat dissipation. I have a cold currently and can't stop thinking about how awesome it would be if I could use my cell phone as a portable hot-water bag.
That reminds me of a story about Samsung and illness: 2003 I had a heart attack. I was so shaky and panicked that instead of the emergency services I dialed the Samsung hotline.
I got to speak to a support agent instantly! He calmed me down and explained to me how there is a secret resuscitation function built into my current Samsung phone then he hung up. As my heart rate came to a halt I yanked up the vibration strength in the settings menu and with his callback a powerful electric shock ran through my body giving my heart the much needed kick to start beating again.

As I thanked him he explained that this function was not openly advertised because Bill Gates had a patent on breaking bones through muscle contractions caused by an electric shock for using a Linux product. But because the implementation was too similar Samsung hid the feature.

Beat that Apple!
That's a really good idea, I'm considering maybe having an explanation of what the site does that displays before it first asks for your location (once you've said no it can be tricky to undo that)

For curious people here: it keeps your location for up to 30 minutes in memory on the server then throws it away. I don't log your location or share it with anyone but those you ask the app to.
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Ya, I know Kai well and he definitely let his exuberance get the better of him there. His intentions are genuine and he and Claire are personally driven by this problem.
I've seen other figures that suggest that about 80K people lost their jobs immediately. I guess I'm not convinced that the rest of the job losses were due to economic pessimism and fear in the financial markets. I was assuming it included the bodega guy, the guy working for the bodega guy, couriers, tailors, every other small business owner in the area, people servicing those small business owners, the carpet cleaners, window washers, the outsourced IT guys, people servicing the physical infrastructure of the area, people who worked in the other buildings. etc. I could be totally off base, but blasting out part of the infrastructure of a city of 19M people seems like it could cause a relatively "direct" 2% job loss over 3 months.
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This again?

Again, name the country which is acceptable, possible to travel too, and out of US reach.

Snowden has to take whatever he can get.
Ah! I saw one yesterday near Prospect Park, Brooklyn. I was driving and couldn't stop to ask about it. Now I know.

Looks like a trip.
Name the country which is acceptable, possible to travel too, and out of US reach.
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Just as well he's not gay then - Bradley Manning would have found things a bit harder in this situation
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...it’s hard to put an exact number on the scope of scams out there. But he estimates that there are 10 million people in the U.S. above a certain age who are living alone and susceptible to fraud.

I'm not sure what the point of the latter sentence is - I had to read it twice to make sure that I wasn't missing something...am I?
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> Proving the point. He stole 4 laptops!

I've been trying to find the source, but I can't, so scratch off my #1.

My understanding of it was the "theft of government property" charge was based on physical laptops, or their drives, being taken home... But I can no longer find that source. And all the media reports are alleging/assuming (though without any references or proof) that that charge is in relation to copying the data.

And the indictment is sealed.
They have recently opened up in Montreal too.
Terrorism and crime are a side effects of living freely.

And I didn't say otherwise. However that there are efforts to combat terrorism always gets compared to the traffic deaths/heart disease/cancer canard. It is a non-starter argument.

non-expanded powers have been surprisingly effective at stopping worst-case scenarios

Expanded relates to expanded avenues of communications and organization. The NSA moves into collecting data in avenues that "the other side" didn't have not too many years ago. The world evolves on all sides.

Further, as the critically important old saying goes: chance favors the prepared. There will come a day that a nuclear weapon gets in the hands of the "wrong" people (e.g. during a breakdown of the government in Pakistan, etc.). That chance event, which thankfully hasn't happened thus far, can have many possible outcomes.
The most reasonable conclusion is IMO that there is a strong correlation with developed countries, low fertility rate, and socially liberal values. The more likely connection is the developed economy and the low fertility rate, in general. Socially liberal people tend to accept homosexuality more.
There is also the concept of Daisy World, which demonstrates that even when organisms are selfish, they can lead to mutual positive outcomes.
Numerous bugs on github were attributed to the guy with user name 0. He evaluates to false in many PHP applications, too.
I once worked at a company that liked to do charitable team building. They'd take about 40 engineers and IT people out and do things like serve food or unpackage toys for little kids (remove matchbox cars from the package for example). While I enjoyed the day out of the office I think it was a waste of money (our salaries). If 40 people make $80k/yr on average with 240 working days per year that's $333 per person * 40 = $13,333. You could've hired a minimum wage worker full time for the whole year for that kind of money. All for the novelty of "my department did charity work."
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I don't think that anyone who clicked that link really believed that they were going to find out "one weird trick," so much as they just really wanted to know what you were really linking to.
I am no source whinger, but that claim it too fascinating to let pass. I have never heard such a thing before.

Please tell us more, with, sorry to ask, sources.
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The IRS is not stealing from you. The money does not belong to you, it belongs to society, which has authorized its agents to collect its property.

This is the reality of human society. We are herd animals, and the herd has spoken. Your extreme anti-social views have not and will not prevail, for the logical (and observed) results are intensely undesirable to those of us who wish to live in relative peace.
Samsung is always using scam PR agencies, see before:

http://brianford.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/12/13234078-sams...

http://int13.net/france/blog/i-won-a-contest-to-go-to-the-lo...
You misread me. I am not saying this is a bad thing, nor am I holding snowden against some moral compass for doing it. I support it 100%.
I totally agree. The way I see it, there are two types of manual testing that often get conflated in conversation:

1) Make sure everything that worked yesterday is still working today.
2) Check out this new feature. Let us know what makes sense, and what doesn't.

Automation is great for scenario one and (still) terrible for scenario two. Some expert testers prefer to call scenario one "checking". They don't want their high-skill work (which it is) to be confused with low-skill button clicking.
While Company A copying Company B might work in theory, there's still the matter of whether or not Company B has access to the source code (assuming Company A didn't open source the thing they spent all that time on).

In a hardware sense, I can take apart an object (like a smart phone), and see how it works. In a software sense, it's much harder to decompile something and see how it is working if the scope of the project is large enough.

Software patents are bad (in my opinion) because the things which get patented are the things that form the foundation for what almost every programmer works with in their daily routine. Things that are abstract ideas such as "Connecting to a server to process a payment" might seem like a logical thing to patent as a software idea, but if I transferred it to its real life analogue it becomes unpatentable as a business practice: Person A gives payment to Person B, who then forwards payment to Person C.

All this being said, I'm not aware of any legitimate software patent suit that didn't involve corporate espionage. Can anyone link anything to show me a legitimate use of our court system in order to protect an innovation that should be protected?
It's not that people can't stand on one foot, it's that if you stand on this wheel with only one foot, then you'll fall sideways before your other foot has a chance to hit the ground. Well, that's my assumption, anyway. Get on a (normal) bike, ride along, then stand up on it so your weight is on the pedals through your feet. Come to a stop, then try and get off it, from standing, without supporting yourself with handlebars or seat.
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A part of me doesn't want to believe this story.
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The open-ended nature of this anti-terrorist campaign/effort/whatever reflects the open-ended nature of the risk.

The risk is not "open ended" than any other risk. It can be estimated. Objectively, as many others have argued here, the response has been far more costly, destructive, and damaging to institutions and ideals we say we are trying to protect than the threat itself.
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Check to see if there are any indices you don't need anymore. Check to see if you got indices on long text or string columns, and see if you can convert those to indices on bigints or int columns (by hashing the string).

In my opinion, it's not the amount of data that is the bigger issue, but the amount of reads/writes coming into the system. 100+ million rows with just 1 thread reading and writing to it really isn't a big deal, technically. If you have load issues, you might need to shard the data, do bulk inserts by buffering the data, increase the memory, cache commonly read rows in memory, etc.
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