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A good feature would be to mirror/replicate other trusted mediagoblin instances, provides the ability for community backed channels to expand in a distributed model. Federation should allow for some aggregation would also be a useful feature.
So basically, passion, right? Or is it what you already know and do all the time?

It's an interesting take nonetheless, I've been toying with the concept of data/documents as the integration of event streams (commits, status updates etc) for a few years but never really thought to use the concept "from the ground up". The idea to me never really had any technical justification, mostly end user ones. Collaborative editing (Google Wave), action replays and time machine visualization (Starcraft, Gource), status update and event analytics dashboards (google analytics or the twitter firehose)...

It's a bit outside of the scope of my webapp for the time being but I'm glad there are people who think there is value in that approach!
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I have created a similar site http://www.tempsky.com
Tried to make it simple and easy to use
How about:

"What are you protecting,"

Freedom

"and who are you protecting it against?"

The US(UK) government.
One interesting option would be to bring this kind of P2P syncing to KeePass. This would benefit from all the features that are already build into KeePass.
Animated HUGE <hr> gifs would be cool too.

EDIT: And spinning animated bullet-points.

Did "Hot Dog Stand" have any legitimate use? How did it end up being delivered? EDIT: Apparently, useful for monochrome displays and some forms of colourblindness, according to a comment here (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/07/a-tribute-to-the-wi...)
My plans regarding browser plugins was to have a small icon inside a <input type="password"> that can generate a new password, or would allow you to select the password if you already stored it and it's not clear which one to use. Otherwise the field should be automatically filled in.

How do you activate the paste in your setup? Is there some kind of global key combo for this?
Why is the demo inside an iPhone graphic if the point is to show that I can run it in a browser?

This made it very difficult for me to understand the concept: I wondered if you were showing me a web app that accessed native hardware.
That's right, on HN - gotta have an eye-catching title.
(The Thomas Covenant series was by Stephen Donaldson by the way)

Card definitely has his own style with his work. Whether it's great or not is dependant on the reader - http://one-starreviews.tumblr.com/ gives some fantastic examples.

If you can, try the Seventh Son series though. easier read than Speaker or Xenocide, and very interesting IMO.
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For one thing - auditable source code. Except for my most paranoid moments, I pretty much trust AgileBits to not be selling me out to the NSA, but that'd be much easier to completely trust if the source code was public and audited/approved by smarter people than me who know their crypto shit.

Having said that, I'm currently storing my 1Password file in the unencrypted section of my DropBox storage, so my iOS devices can easily access it. (I've got EncFS/BoxCryptor working, but I don't think it's easy/possible to convince the DropBox app to read from the encrypted filesystem…)
The entropy problem you can go around with by encrypting the data with a combination of pass phrase and a token file. For example KeePass supports these kind of combinations.

Obviously the token file would be something you don't put into cloud but instead store on each physical device.
Any. That's what VMs are for.
Not sure what the breakdown would have been for technical vs. non-technical people, but $55,000/year in New York City (where Tumblr is) is a pittance. You'd be lucky to hire a decent programmer in New York for under $100,000.
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I kinda figured that part but to me that's a very very archaic way of thinking given that a significant number of people will eventually break the NDA and hint about bugs.
Php is an old lover to me, I haven't even touched it in the last decade. Revisiting this tech is very tempting, especially when I look at the first line of the changelog for all the things I missed:

> Switch to using Zend Engine 2, which includes numerous engine level improvements.

Does anyone have an executive summary of how Php evolved since the 4.3 days? Where there any fundamental changes anyone should be aware of?
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Yep. There's no excuse for allowing reviews from iOS devices running beta OSes.

However: Can't you also post reviews from your computer? In that situation, Apple has no way of knowing that the reviewer is running a beta OS on his mobile device. So blocking reviews from the devices themselves is a half-assed "solution."
Of course, there are jobs for quite everything, including COBOL and Fortran.

But mentioning the near future in web development or general "app" development (typical stuff, not AAA Games and the like) in startups, there will be probably only one question:

"why not javascript?". I expect every other language/stack to fade away over time, at least for startups. However, managing legacycode will last forever and have it's jobs, too. See Cobol.

Of course, all the other coders of all the fascinating and interesting other technologies out there are pissed off by that statements. They have valid points about the ugly "design" of javascript, circumstances where it doesn't shine, and so on, and they are right. But for the majority of all technology decisions, this just won't matter.
Not at all.
TLDR;
No.
(I do have a degree and a M.S., and have found very competent coders, at least as competent as me, without one)
Calling yourself a software engineer implies an software engineering degree. Otherwise you would be a liar.

I bet not many people have the guts to call themselves mechanical engineers just because they know how to fix the break pump of a car, for example.
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Agreed. Something in the $30-$50 region with a lower usage allowance and the ability for more (private) apps than the free allowance would be much more palatable to me as a freelancer.
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Do you plan on integrating with cloud storage / sourcecode providers ? Something like a github instant preview, either directly on the project's home page, or in the source browser.
Or, an HTML widget to enable developers / companies to embed previews of their work directly on their blog / homepages.

I can see a pretty bright future for your company, congrats.
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That's weird. I had bookmarked a Mailinator inbox, and apart from doing the change from nikcub's comment, it's working perfectly. It says 'Inbox for: <whatever>' and it seems to work. Maybe it was a temporary bug? Remember Hanlon's razor :)

Edit: oh wow, I totally take that back. I have been banned for abuse for a whole day! I didn't do anything special but access that inbox from my bookmark a couple of times. Here is everything I can see on Mailinator now:

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Rate Limiter Engaged !
Hi Friendly User!

Unfortunately, your request cannot be processed. Mailinator is committed to providing a valuable service to its users and at the same time, limit abuse of the system.

An automated rate-detection system triggered based on your usage. Please note - programmatic access to Mailinator is prohibited by our Terms of Service (for users that require high-speed programmatic access, please check-out Mailinator Pro which provides proper APIs for such access).

This is a temporary ban and should clear by tomorrow. Continued access attempts today could result in a more permanent ban (please don't do that).

---
Why not improve something existing is a valid question, and I did look into it.

The difficulty is that a P2P sync requires a completely difference design. Keepass is pretty much a frontend to an embedded database. A P2P node need to have its own network facing component that acts independently of the frontend, to relay messages, respond to pairing requests, etc. This is why Bluepass has a frontend/backend architecture. It is a lot easier to create such a different architecture from scratch.
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Awesome stuff... although my boss wouldn't think so ;-)
You can't have follow-on funding for all eternity.
I think it may be about 2 years before the games industry even starts to pick up Rust (or possibly a post-Rust language instead), but I think it will happen eventually.

As someone else mentioned, C# is a big deal now and comes with a degree of safety over C++. I don't expect to see Rust in the pole position on the whole, but it could easily displace C++ at Id Software since Carmack has been shopping for an alternative, and elsewhere (especially if he runs with it first.)

But I think C++'s share is losing ground, and Unity is an impressive platform. The asm.js buzz seems to whisper promises about ES and browsers becoming a serious AAA gaming platform. If FFOS gets anywhere it may supply the necessary voltage. So the lay of the land is anyone's guess, but all the variables eat into C++'s % share even if only by expanding the market around it.
A couple more listed here: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/08/youtubes-geeky-east...
Wrong. Email first and second, and only call after receiving contact back. I get so many cold calls from vendors I don't answer my phone anymore unless the number comes from one of three area codes or is someone already in my contact list. And god help you if you block caller ID.
Maybe it was supposed to be "sex", in reference to the owner's girlfriend who had the abortion?
Those best suited to solve the problems of a particular discipline are those who are invested in it. Developing software ought to be a literacy that many are able to attain outside of having a CS degree. That way, one can develop their interests outside of software.

Obviously, if technology is your major passion, CS is awesome. However, maybe you want to become a baker, a musician, a painter, etc. who also happens to like developing software.
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It's a nice redesign, starting out. I especially like the cloud design up top. I'd just like to throw forward a few comments on it. Please take this as constructive, not as mean criticism.

* Design:

Unfortunately, it reeks of hip design gone too far - green text on a green background, grey text on a grey background, and amateurish construction. Removing the text-shadow alone from the alert boxes makes a big difference in readability.

* Structure:

The angularJS parts have already been addressed in another comment, but the most bizarre part is that there is minimal minification (.min.js versions of jquery & bootstrap, that's it - comments are still intact), no concatenation, and no gzip compression whatsoever.

I think it's easy to forget that jQuery alone is 90KB, bootstrap JS is 30KB, and bootstrap's CSS is ~125KB alone. The site is pretty simple; it could easily be trimmed down into something much faster. The use of jQuery is questionable, the use of bootstrap even more so considering how simple the layout is.

The pubsub module that pushes new inbox data is pretty great though.

* Content:

The content pages look great. The little transitions are nice. I like the new copy as well; it helps cement the point that this is not a serious security product and it should not be considered as such.

Overall, while it's a nice change, it may be a bit more flash than users are actually looking for. The massive assets package makes the actual email page huge - jQuery, Bootstrap, and Angular, just for such a simple page? Combined with web fonts, the total payload is well north of a half meg. Intro transition animations serve to make the perceived time to displayed content even longer.

A second pass with a proficient JS developer and a keen eye for readability would do a lot for this site.
I don't know why this still surprises people, or why Google is being singled out here. Information is transmitted by copying. Every provider has to look at and analyze your messages if they want to do clever things to them, like let you search your archived mail server-side. Even if they don't do anything with your messages themselves, they're still compelled by the government to parse through it all. Nothing is safe.

Whenever anyone asks me to explain how the Internet works, I don't talk about tubes or connected servers, because thinking your message is "in" a pipe is a broken abstraction; it makes people imagine nothing sees or touches your messages until they arrive at the destination. Instead, the mental model I encourage people to have for Internet is that "each packet is like a message stuck to a big public message board." Privacy is not the default; it's a public system, and privacy is something you have to actively create on top of it (via encryption, onion-routing, etc.)
Hi Ronald. It's mostly for context. We enable 'try before you buy' for mobile apps, in which case hinting to the user that this is an iOS app increases the likelihood that that user will download the real app. (We actually have two core use cases: early beta testing, and marketing apps). Point taken though; thanks for the feedback.
The reason for sharing is that I've noticed many people asking about quant trading and etc recently. Hopefully it will be useful.
Even SE degrees are a little flaky. My CS program compared to the SE program was one difference in compulsory modules. McMaster seems to be going the right way with their program, which isn't focused on CS like most others are [1].

[1] : http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/cas/0template1.php?903
For intellectual fun and profit, there is an increasing number of "meta"-languages out there which compile to javascript. See Coffeescript and Livescript for Example.
One less reason to use Firefox
> It seems we have different definitions of what type
> inference, higher order functions and Turing
> completeness means. :-)

I don't think so. The definitions are pretty much standard and those are the ones I'm using.

I think we can agree that the way Java supports those features ranges between unusable and pretty terrible in practice, but that's not what your claims were about.

Your notion of Scala having more features than a "standard" mainstream language might even be correct, it is just that the points you have given don't support your point here.

> Regarding coroutines in Java: I don't know if libraries
> using native continuation mechanisms or bytecode
> manipulations prove that Java (the language) has
> continuation support. :-)

Then Scala doesn't have continuation support either. Whatever definition is applied, it needs to be applied consistently.

> I don't have anything against Scala.

I never suggested that and even if you had something against Scala, it would be perfectly fine – for me and probably for everyone else.

It's just that you have claimed a few things which I think are incorrect, either factually or in the way they were worded, and I'm offering some data points against it. This all happens in good faith and in the hope that we both will have gained some knowledge at the end of this discussion.

> As you noticed with Java 8 Java is already borrowing a lot
> of useful things from Scala. I am sure conservative
> corporate decision makers will see less and less reasons
> to switch to Scala as time passes by.

I think most Scala users would agree that Java 8 copying Scala is a good thing, because it strongly validates what the designers and users of Scala have been doing for the last 10 years.
With Java moving closer to Scala, adopting Scala becomes a lot easier from a management POV which in turn removes a lot of the concerns corporate decision makers have.

> If I have a function: def upcase(s: String): String [...]
> A unit test can check if the returned string is really
> the upcase version of the input parameter.

def upcase(s: String): UppercasedString

Now the compiler can check it, too.
I'm curious to know if people think it was in bad taste to add that detail?
love how you're hosting this on neocities, seems apt
I know where you're coming from and I think it depends a lot on what you're selling. For example, I have become personal friends with employees of a few of our largest vendors who I ended up corresponding with on a daily/weekly basis, but for a lot of minor contracts it's completely impersonal. And yes, don't force anything... that would be sleazy and a turn off for most.

I'm a bit curious about the sales process, too, and occasionally tempted by the opportunity to learn more about how many different companies work (with a chance at making high six figures in the meantime)... but I'm too risk averse to seriously consider a commission based job. Good luck!
but you can also be an expert in your fields, even without a a degree.

Think about online marketing practices like SEO. There is no university which is really teaching you how search engines work and you can influence them. You can only read as much as you can and learn on your own experiences.

And even if you have a degree and call yourself a software engineer, it does not imply that you are a one, does it?
The github native viewer doesn't seem to allow for setting color to countries - or at least I can't work out how. You'd need to host it outside of github with json to do it, I think, which puts it on par with the current map?
I did a fun experiment once. I wrote the actual recipient address in the return address place, and put a non existant address in the front. I also didn't stamp it. It did arrive to the recipient 2 weeks later, with a "return to sender" banner.
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> It combines broad platform support, peer-to-peer synchronization over local networks (never using the cloud)...

My god, the NSA has managed to turn "The Cloud" into a dirty word.
The good folk at Jenkins actually created a plugin for the CI platform which we love: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/App.io+Plugin. We have an API so if anybody is keen to integrate with GitHub we'd gladly welcome it! Embedding into blogs and on homepages is possible today via a simple iFrame and is one of our core use cases. Thanks for your feedback and positive outlook on App.io's future.
It depends. If your product is obviously a revenue empowerment tool, then sure, pitch that, but that is not usually the case. Even money-making software is still effective because it automates manual processes, which is a cost savings... it just happens to be automating processes most companies don't actually perform at all.
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So, does this mean that if i switch from keepass to Bluepass I won't be able to go back and will be stuck with a semi-commercial app forever?

Why not use keepass format natively? IMO a keepass-compatible app with built in sync would make much more sense. The userbase is already there, and a user friendly keepass app with sync would be a hit.
Why not link to example sites using the software, instead of screenshots and videos and what else? The real thing. Show us.
There's also the 'engineer' baggage, in that engineers probably don't think software engineering is engineering.
Hi, COO here. It's a similar idea. We've chosen to focus on iOS first, then branch out in to many other platforms, even beyond mobile eventually.
Wondering how the streaming works. It seems to send a bunch of GIF images which hold the diff from the last frame when something is moving.

The framerate is quite low at the moment, but that's probably because of HN?!

Edit: it also sends full JPEGs of the screen when there's much going on. I believe my JSMPEG[1] would really be a viable alternative for this use-case. Streaming support is in the works :)

[1] https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg
Or if you are in the vast percentage of the world that is working stupid hours for pittance and barely able to feed their families or personally develop in any way, or had their land and homes sold off by the government to multinationals, or those who wish to contribute to charity or the world but cannot because of extortionate rents and cost of living, or those in prisons because they are run for profit and thus courts favour custodial sentences, or those who's race means that they do not have access to the tools to succeed as easily (or at all), or those who are pressured into insecurity because people make a buck off of their lack of self-confidence, all the time.

We in the west are overfed pigs standing on the backs of billions.
My point is that in most if not all EU countries Bush wouldn't even be a serious contender. However, I do feel for you, and others who are opposed to the certain development that happened since 9/11 but have no say in the decision making process. On the other hand maybe the thing is that you are not really trying. It's not like in 1960s with students on the streets. It's like people are 'outraged' and then all this rage causes them to sit down and do nothing. We (I'm an American too) need a serious revolution in our fatherland and not debating the Constitution haters. If you hate and want to destroy the US Constitution there is no place for you in the US. All these guys go there on the streets (when they actually do - OWS - too socialist for me) and then they let the police do whatever. It's not like 1960s. That's exactly why the Government feels so bold to do stuff like PRISM. Because it can't hear or see serious voices of discontent.
plastic.com used to be a good place for such, though I fear it may be running out of users.
Same situation in Austria. Not only for development positions, but for nearly every rudimentary interesting job, you need any kind of university degree. I have got another philosophy in finding the right people.

In my opinion, people only need the right attitude and they need to be willing to learn something. all the rest can be teached / learned.
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I'm a big fan of Mozilla as well, but can Firefox Sync handle credentials other than for web? I use KeePass2 to store a lot more than just web username/passwords. Also, I like to keep my password database separate from my browser for security reasons.

As far as trusting this project, it is GPL and you are free to inspect it. I don't think being part of the Mozilla Foundation somehow guarantees secure code. If the author wants $60,000, he is free to ask for it.
I don't have a degree. I feel like theres so much I could've learned at the right University, but I'm doing alright without.
It was a great read and a friendly reminder to all.

Out of interest, what do you do these days?
Does this violate Apple's developer terms in any way, as you are running these in the simulator?
Who came up with the idea that education only happens at a university? I knew significantly (by orders of magnitude) more about development (by doing it 8 hours a day for six years) before going into university than what I learnt in my five years there.

Of course, I learnt about lots of other stuff as well, but, if you want to learn something, you can just as well start doing it and learning about it yourself.