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I looked into getTimezoneOffset when implementing pre-orders here at Gumroad and realized that technically this is incorrect:

"Luckily, the browser already knows what timezone the user is currently in, so we can make use of the getTimezoneOffset() function"

Getting the timezone offset isn't the same as getting the timezone. Granted that in certain cases having the offset is good enough, but sometimes you need the actual timezone. In my example I needed to know when a merchant wants their pre-order to be released. For that to work predictably I needed to know their exact timezone in order to adjust the time for daylight saving properly. Remember that there are quite a few timezones that are UTC-7 and they can behave differently in regards to daylight saving.
What, through VNC? That doesn't seem like it would be a very enjoyable experience.
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Reagan would be ashamed of what has been done and said in his name. I also suspect he would admit that the war on drugs has been a costly failure and express regrets that he escalated it.

(And I'd love to see the faces of many members of his cult when he showed up and set then straight.)
HECS is amazing. I would never have been able to afford university without it.

Mine has long since been paid back (a painless process).
Yes, but the C standard also allows a realloc() that can never actually succeed in growing the allocation.

The probability by which a given allocation pattern is likely to result in a successful growing realloc() seems like a pretty big design choice.

Do you leave space after allocations for them to grow? Do you have power-of-2 size-based tables with an allocation bitmap? If so, what sizes? Etc.
I brought that sort of scenario up, was told it wasn't an option, although the lower level staffer I talked to wished it was. Perhaps my school took a particularly hard line, I certainly had a few peers who boasted of scams they and their family were running, e.g. borrowing at subsidized rates and getting >20% returns that Carter era inflation allowed them to earn (the government was slow to acknowledge the inflation it had created back then).
> As we continue to grow and hopefully reach $25,000, $50,000 and $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue
The federal government is going to step in and start confiscating grow-ops in Colorado and Washington State. They will bust people doors down and most likely injure or kill a few. It's going to happen. The powers at the federal level are just too great.
The evidence presented shows that they're getting better and better at being monolithic. And conspiring against Congressional and electoral oversight.
What I mean by bottom-up is, literally, start at the bottom -- with an individual customer -- what is their problem, and how much are they plausibly going to pay for the solution, and then how much is it going to cost to acquire that customer. Then sum up how many customers like that exist at various sizes and in various market segments.

Interestingly enough, that totally jibes with the Customer Development methodology from @sgblank, where he talks about developing and validating your "Problem Hypothesis", "Market Hypothesis", "Channel Hypothesis", etc.

E.g. "I estimate that in the US alone there are 50,000 small companies that need this solution and will pay $10,000 each, and I think I can acquire them for $3,000 of sales and market expense each. And then there are another 5,000 midsize companies that will pay $50,000 each..." and so on and so forth. You can slice and dice it however makes sense for the specifics of what you are doing.

This is the approach we're taking at Fogbeam. We've identified a beachhead market we're going to pursue to try and get initial traction, done some simulations based on the number of such customers, potential price points, etc., and come up with some potential revenue numbers and what-not. NOW, the next step is to get out and prove that our numbers actually make sense and hold up in the real world. Of course, they won't really, at least not according to our most optimistic projections. But the hope is that they do hold up well enough to get this thing off the ground...
No, they shouldn't, because "just" living gives you 40-60 hours/week to work, and going to college doesn't. Especially at a high-level, challenging school.
PG's advice reminds me of a story from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. Feynman relates how his first (!) scientific talk (as a graduate student at Princeton) was attended by such luminaries as Eugene Wigner, Wolfgang Pauli, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann. We was terrifically nervous, but discovered that as soon as he started giving the talk his nervousness melted away—he was too focused on the physics to worry about who was in the audience.
The government offers both need-based subsidized loans and unsubsidized loans. The latter are available to anyone, regardless of need. They usually won't cover everything, but they often cover a good chunk of your total bill.
> What worthwhile candidate would ever do this?

One who was looking for a job but didn't know where to apply? I come across people all the time who are worthwhile candidates but the person who trying to get them placed is clueless. And I come across recruiters who are a waste of oxygen but you can't really know that unless you've got some way to measure their capabilities.

> (I'm also a hiring manager; we simply don't work with recruiters.)

Generally I don't either as there are enough people in my network that when I'm looking to fill a role I can find someone, however when you need to fill a role with a deadline and you don't have a ready source of candidates (this is not uncommon in the Bay Area) for places other than Google, Apple, and Facebook :-).
>but you must be aware that you might get back an entirely new pointer

Which is super fun if someone else adds code that keeps a copy of the pointer, not knowing that it might change.

Incidentally, is that possibility realistic in a 64-bit system? It seems like the addresses could easily be spaced out enough that you would never actually expect to see a realloc return a different pointer.
I'd agree, except that most financial aid is zero sum (in terms of scholarships/grants). If you don't get it, someone else will who also might become an engineer. Someone gets screwed either way if your parents really won't support you. But if they were lying, then you go to college anyway.
Say we are in the US before the Civil War. Since we can't, according to your methodology, insist on the general principle that slavery is wrong (because general principles don't exist) then the proper role of politics, in your view, is to reconcile the interests of the slaveholder and the slaves. The non-slaveholders who want to eliminate slavery don't count, because they don't have a direct interest, in your analysis. They only have an interest in decency, but that is just another general principle. So how to we reconcile these opposing interests? Abolishing slavery would seem to be off the table, because that just benefits one side. Limit the number and severity of beatings?
You said as the "sole framework". That's made up.
There are also the fairly thinly veiled 'hack a thon' type things where you offer a prize of a Macbook Air for best hack using technology X and as part of the signup you get both a number of people's names and a good sense of their coding ability.
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That is not an contrived example but pretty accurate description of actual scam scheme that got popular again in recent years.
They've thought of that. Even emancipated children are not considered financially independent for aid purposes until the age of 25. The only exception is if you can provide documentation of child abuse - police reports, DCF files, etc. Estrangement is not enough.

Even a noncustodial parent you've never met is expected to make the same sacrifice as your custodial parent.
Heh I did this in 2007: http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/27/contrastream-to-join-social...

With reddit-style voting and embedded youtube/uploaded mp3 tracks.
Government is not monolithic in the sense that (at least in the US) its sheer size and complexity prevents all the actors involved from correlating their actions and ideologies into a single conspiratorial entity like swallows in flight. Not even in regards to tyranny and violence.
Every time I have to call customer support to reset a bank password it makes me realize how bad of a security hole most phone support is. Security through two-factor authentication is only as strong as the process for bypassing it.
haha, yeah. Edit the comment to tag the time, forget the the timezone... EDT ( views are 6785 as of 21:42 7Aug2013, fwiw )
Not sure if this is relevant these days, but the Emscripten FAQ mentions the need to use "-s ASM_JS=1" as an argument to emcc in order for it to actually output asm.js style code. See "Q. How fast will the compiled code be?" from: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/FAQ
Don't use a debit cards.

I destroyed most of my debit cards and the rest is locked away. I carry an ATM card (no expiration also, I had to request it from Chase to replace the debit card) and few credit cards. With a credit card I can charge back any transaction up to 180 days later.
Shield's PC game streaming works by using the hardware H.264 encoder in Nvidia GTX 650 (or higher) graphics cards. They recommend a reasonably fast PC and a fast wireless network.
I keep hearing that the US student loan situation is a 'bubble' that is going to burst soon. Fine, but...what will that look like when it happens? I've read Michael Lewis's books---if you haven't, do!---and consequently I think I understand what happened during the mortgage crisis, and before that, M&A fever. But what would a student loan default crisis look like? Lenders can't exactly foreclose on college degrees. What might take the place of vacant houses in a student loan default crisis?

Seriously, I would welcome any speculative economic analysis here.
http://store.nvidia.com/buyshield?cid=sp-gfnewsletter

Is that an affiliate link?
Yes, 401k, IRA, etc.

But your concern of their limitations applies to so few people.

Roughly 30% of people have less than $1000 saved for retirement, in any kind of account [1]

Roughly 55% of people have less than $25K saved, in any kind of account

The 401k personal contribution limit is $17,500 this year, and if someone had a 50% match form their company, they could top that in just ONE single year.

[1] page 18, 19: http://www.pacificlife.com/NR/rdonlyres/BCCBDD57-93B9-4B5F-8...
Yup, HECS is wonderful. I'm a current engineering student and it's offloaded a major concern from my mind about university. University used to be free in Australia a few decades ago, I believe.

I think there IS a limit on how long studies go. When I changed degrees I remember one of the Centrelink mentioning something graduation date and if it's within a range—I should check. Also, they've proposed to remove the HECS-HELP discounts[1].

[1]: http://studyassist.gov.au/sites/studyassist/news/pages/chang...
Whether it passes or not Ubuntu edge has set the tone for what to expect in the next generation smartphone/personal computing.

I bet Google, Apple and Microsoft are already on their drawing board.
"If a system requires nearly the entire populace to be as active (intellectually and financially) as every individual vested interest just to be successful, then it is a bad system."

We can't even get half of the country to make informed decisions. Americans are definitely the problem. They vote every couple of years to elect rich politicians that don't give a fuck about them. And they vote based off of arbitrary reasons. They find out we are being constantly spied on and they just don't care. Just like they didn't care when Japanese Americans were thrown into camps during WW2. Just like they didn't care when we were lied into Vietnam and then again into Iraq to make a few people richer. Americans are complacent.
I think you have incomplete data and your conclusions are, therefore, suspect.

To illustrate my point, you have no data points for infraction offenses (speeding, equipment violations, etc). Your data is only for misdemeanor licensing violations.

Given that one can't obtain a California license without a valid social security number, doesn't it make sense that the large Hispanic undocumented population would be well represented for these violations?
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> Ubuntu itself is seeking an exorbitant $32 million to make [the Edge] happen...

That is a really annoying misuse of the language. There's nothing exorbitant (unreasonably high, excessive, inordinate, extravagant, undue, exceeding all bounds of custom or fairness) about it. Yes, it's a lot of money, but I trust Canonical's judgment that this is what it will take.

Perhaps the word the author was looking for was "ambitious".
40% of UC Berkeley undergraduates pay $0 tuition, thanks to grants and scholarships:

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/18/campus-announces-2...
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What potentially happens is too many people stop playing the game, or the game many schools require.

Harvard and MIT will be fine, but the schools that aren't worth $60K/year, or less for e.g. higher tier state schools other than UC Berkeley, are likely to see enrollment crashing. That's starting to happen with law schools.
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HECS is nice, I knew a number of Aussie engineers at Microsoft who got a good education and as you said, fled the country.

Low interest loans are not the worst idea if people actually stop to ask themselves if their major will provide the enough income to pay them back. They avoid the flee the jurisdiction problem an the waste money on a useless major problem.

Its reasonably rational to pay the money to go to Stanford for CS even if you pair full freight. It's probably not economically rational to do so for sociology.

The problem of course, in the US, is that no one asked themselves if they could afford to pay back the loans given what they intended to do. Its some mass collective delusion.

The other problem, is that every time they up the amount for federal student loans, universities up their tuition to match.
1. This cost Nvidia $10 million to develop and essentially promote the Tegra 4. If it convinces other companies to back Tegra 4, it was probably worth the investment. If it completely flops, it's not exactly something that will sink the company.

2. From following the thread on NeoGAF about the Shield, it seems like this is targeted more towards hardcore gamers who want to stream PC games so they don't have to be at a desktop all the time and to also have a relatively powerful emulation machine.
Are you not allowed to charge back debit card transactions? Granted, it’s only 6 weeks for me, but not being able to do that at all rather surprises me.
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The real killer (or at least differentiating) feature is that you can stream PC games from your desktop to the shield. Apparently it works pretty well[1].

[1] - http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/31/4573596/nvidia-shield-revi...
It's not just about loading the JS; it's about loading the entire WebView, or whatever other environment. (Obviously, this is an issue that every application faces, it's just something worth paying attention to.)
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Credit card? Horrible advice, but you should be able to pay it back fairly quick with your skillset.
Does it support an ATI card in the PC?
Or you enter a competition [with card number] or use a coupon they posted out to you.
No, you missed the point entirely. It's indicative of the slippery slope you encounter when discussing politics on a tech news forum like this at critical mass.
>they could not have been expected to re-read the entire contract looking for alterations //

I don't think a bank will want to go down the line of arguing the contract shouldn't be binding because they shouldn't have to read the small print - that sounds like an overall loss for the bank in general.
The last sentence is clumsily written if that's what you mean eruditely [with erudition; in an erudite manner;] I didn't take the time to make it shorter.
I showed two developer friends at work today the ease at which I could recover their Chrome passwords. They were both surprised that they were clearly visible on the settings page.

Both have since stopped storing passwords in Chrome.

Both developers expected their Keychain password to be needed before unmasking their stored passwords. It shocked them that this was not the case.

A better fix for this would be to require the Keychain password before showing all passwords. There is no harm in doing this.
I think exorbitant is a valid word for it. yes, it is the actual cost of the manufacturing run, but expecting to raise that full amount via crowd funding rather than seeking any traditional investors qualifies it as exorbitant.
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Another stupid thing is you're allowed to write off your education expenses from your taxable income, but only in the same year that you made the expenses. The tax deductions can't get carried over into future years.

This effectively means almost everyone who gets loans for their education pays full taxes on the money they used on that education. But if you have well-to-do parents pay for your education, they get to write the expenses off and pay much less in taxes during your college years.

It's a situation where wealthier people get a significant discount just for being wealthy, and there's really no social benefit to having it be this way.
Prisons are privatized, helped managed by the likes of SAIC[1]. FBI databases get shared amongst all the alphabet boys, including local law enforcement and private entities[2].

SAIC fills the monitoring center fused with fusion center niche with their "Domain Awareness Center[3]" being built in Oakland California. DEA uses the NSA who pulls data from all the various private/government/corporate/infiltrated databases to forge investigation paths, aka "intel laundering[4]".

FBI assists in private digital forensics centers[5] run by Snowden's Booz Allen Hamilton which help all levels of law enforcement in things like intellectual and copyright prosecutions[6].

Endgame Systems uses illegal exploits and data harvested from botnets against whoever for a cool million or so at the whim of the NSA/others[7] while hackers come under further prosecution and filtering for their esoteric deeds[8].

All the while SAIC[9] managed drones continue to spread across the US[10] and elsewhere.

Monolithic by choice, the whole lot.

I would honestly appreciate those affiliated with ATT, Comcast, Blue Coat, Endgame, Booz, Hunton & Williams and others to halt their profiteering endeavors. This of course should apply to all functionaries of the various arms of the world's governments that are complying in exchange for their salary as well.

[1] http://www.alanco.com/news_040104.asp

[2] http://www.dhs.gov/fusion-centers-and-joint-terrorism-task-f...

[3] http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center

[4] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-dea-irs-idUSBRE...

[5] http://whois.net/whois/chicagorcfl.org

[6] http://chicagorcfl.org/

[7] http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Endgame_Systems

[8] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/27/pornwall

[9] http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/06/14/news-saic-wins-95-mil...

[10] http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/coming_soon_t...
I'm of two minds about password stuff like that - while requiring long passwords "adds friction", it's also clear that sub-eight-char passwords are trivially reversible in the face of many common password hashing schemes, and even you write your own or use a framework with bcrypt/scrypt/PBKDF2 password storage, short or dictionary passwords are easily vulnerable if the password hashes are exposed.

As a site owner I'd like to be able to look people (or a judge) in the eye and say "I followed realistic best practices in protecting your password - I put technical measures in place to ensure the password storage wasn't so weak they could be expected to fall in under an hour to a curious journalist running HashCat on has laptop as part of a story he's writing."

(Story time: I once signed up for this interesting sounding new website/service "just to see what it was". I used my usual "throw away" password. The same email and password I'd signed up to PerlMonks with. Several years later, that new website had become a regular part of my online work and social life, and a place where I cared about my reputation. I hadn't - back then - had a process in place to remind myself where I was using weak or reused passwords, so when the PerlMonks site got hacked (with their plain-text password storage!), all of a sudden my friends/colleagues/clients started getting Acai Berry Spam from my Twitter account…)
At my school, I once worked with an administrator who helped with the admissions process (every application is read by a minimum of two people, at least back then), and she had her hands on a lot of data, including a big set of accepted students. We looked through them and noted a couple of things: a disproportionate number were first born (like me) or only children, and no admits she looked at were from broken families. She also got a feel for that based on people asking about going to the university in her department, she hears a lot of stories, arranges and gives lots of tours, etc. Hmmm, now that I think about it I cannot remember a single student I knew who came from a broken home.

Basically, it appears that once parents divorce, at least one parent is not willing to pay what the College Board/the school expects, and that's game over.
Of all the "Javascript.next" languages I hear on a regular basis, it seems to me Microsoft's Typescript is the one most likely to become successful, if only because every time I read an article about it, most of the comments are extremely positive about it and it looks like there are already some fairly large projects written in it.

In comparison, I don't see a bright future for Dart nor Livescript (although I secretly root for Dart because I have more confidence in Google to take this language somewhere interesting).
Thanks for answering keerthiko, that makes sense, I did some snooping and found BitGym, very cool product. Best of luck.