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This crash any app. Try to paste this Unicode combination into any text field and you'll get a crash. http://tny.cz/1a56d253
reminds me of nikolai tesla attempts to sell tech to rich investors or the military.. such is most of human history. quite a lot of the best and brightest in search of funding to pursue their research turn to the military industrial complex rulers aka generals and plutocrats. while the emergence of the internet has opened up a third avenue, how many phds languish on wall street or the nsa.
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Good for you! My thoughts are that it would be cool to mix pure "learning" exercises with "portfolio" pieces.

The learning exercises might consist of simply coding up a few simple exercises in the areas you have listed. Pick a decently rated text and do a few problems.

The portfolio work should probably approximate working systems (e.g., mini-products). Since you are interested in web dev, throw together some working web apps that have full front-to-back-end stack.

Another option, and this one worked out well for me personally, is to take advantage of a cooperative education and internship opportunities. You'll gain a perspective on coding in the "real world" that you'll never get working on personal projects.
I don't think it helps on touch screens.
That is not completely fair, though. At the time of his arrival Nokia was a desperately sinking ship. The price would drop before rising no matter what direction the company took at the time.
The city _was_ effectively at lake level. Between the raising of Chicago, the Chicago fire (which made sufficient debris to create Grant Park) and additional raising of the street grade, some buildings "ground floors" are three stories above the ground.
Most signs also have a symbol as well. PED XING signs will have an image of people in a crosswalk. It takes exactly no time because the signs are fairly standard and we, in the US, are used to it. It's the non-standard signs that take time to parse.

The road signs in the US are _well established_ in the US.
I still find the association of mac users with graphics design/video/audio editing interesting.

I've used a mac since 10.4 as my main workstation system and I still get people asking me what they should use for a video editor. I spend most of my time in Emacs, or the Terminal ssh'd into something, or looking at docs in Dash, or in chrome looking at webpages.

I couldn't edit an image to save my life, I leave that to professionals.
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I disagree with every comment you have made here.

There is no reason Nokia couldn't have had Meego and Android alongside Windows Phone.

Really? How will their marketing handle this? Imagine three entirely incompatible operating systems. Add to that, they need to sell Symbian for a few more years anyway.

Samsung and LG launch products with alternative OSs because they don't want to be caught out if OS preferences change.

OS preferences don't change just like that. You need apps in the app store. It gets harder if you've already spent money on paid apps. Also, Samsung has gotten nowhere with their alternative OSes.

Those products failed to gain traction and were abandoned.

Windows RT was lame and deserves to die. Windows Phone is by no yardstick dead yet. It is actually doing a better job than many expected.

Several OEMs tried Windows Phone and/or Windows RT.

Exactly what Nokia wants. Nokia has become _the windows phone_. As of now, Lumia accounts for 75% of windows phone sales.

Microsoft disappearing from mobile, it looks to me that

Microsoft is not disappearing from mobile. Lumia sold 7.4 million phones this quarter. Up from 5.5m and 4.4m earlier. How is this a failing company, or a failing product?
Terrestrially you are correct, but space is a very different situation. There you can get plenty of energy, but volatiles are rare.

H is needed for water (for people) and propellant (for rockets). The rockets in particular are open systems and must be, so need a plentiful supply. If you can find a good source of Xenon, you can use that in some applications instead, but that's probably harder than H since it doesnt form more stable materials like H2O.
In addition to this, with SPDY around, these first milliseconds are becoming even more important. Since SPDY requires some sort of negotiation between server and client to agree they both support the protocol, this creates a problem for the first request: how do you know a server supports SPDY without having seen a response from said server? Note that the regular HTTP Accept negotiation is not enough since the browser should already pipeline multiple requests before having seen a response.

Since the designers of SPDY also figured security is important, they made use of TLS' protocol negotiation feature: they actually announce themselves as a TLS protocol in these first milliseconds of a HTTPS connection. Brilliant.

For more information, see: http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-protocol/spdy-protocol-dra...
You're saying Google made a change that hurts SEO? Isn't that what they're supposed to be doing?
It looks like the response was written when Jobs was still around. I doubt Woz would sound so belligerent now. In any case, if you watch some of Job’s old videos and biographical material, it was clear he knew coding. There was some mainframe terminal in his high school that he first learnt how to code.

Now Woz was clearly Genius level when it came to tight hardware/software engineering. So, it is not at all surprising Jobs had limited input when it came to the Apple I and II design. In fact Jobs mentions that Woz was the first guy who knew more about electronics than he (Jobs) did. In Woz’s response, quoted here, he mentions that Jobs was technical enough to alter/change/add to the design. Does that sound like someone who doesn’t know anything?

I find it sad that engineers project their own insecurities in this whole Jobs/Woz saga. Jobs was highly involved in not just the technical aspects but the overall vision of Apple I, II, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad. He was one of a kind. There is no need to pull him down and artificially elevate Woz to something he was not. Jobs could work with the best engineers/marketeers/design/retail people during Apple II and the iPad. A whole 35 year period in technology. How would you think Woz would have fared in deep technical discussions involving the iPhone? How many engineers do you know who have worked at the highest level for 35 years? Technology was only one of the aspects that Jobs understood quite well.
If you're going to nitpick about that, then Apple didn't start any revolutions either until the iPod.

They were one of a range of companies starting to mass produce "proper" home computers with keyboards and support for proper displays around the same time, and consistently in the third place in sales numbers of the three (Apple, Tandy, Commodore) that launched their computers on the West Coast Computer Faire in '77If you're going to nitpick about that, then Apple didn't start any revolutions either until the iPod.

EDIT: Of course the Apple I was out before that show, but it was produced in miniscule quantities - about 200 -, and just a board, and competed with a number of other small production runs of other home computers including ones that were out well before the Apple I, like the Altair; the Apple I had some firsts that made it significant, such as being the first pre-assembled board to come with support for proper displays (but display hardware had become available for other machines like the Altair as well). But pretty much every new computer from well before the Apple I and to well after it had some significant first.
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What is (not provided) in Google Analytics?
Why do you think paid search campaigns don't need more detailed data? Why do you seem to think SEOs shouldn't get data?
What if the court order prevented the government from obtaining all the data in the first place? The court could order the cellphone companies to do the correlation (for a reasonable fee), and then report back. If they report back that they have a tiny set of numbers that correlate, then that would provide probable cause, but only for those numbers.

Is there a reason why all the information must be handed over?
In the 'Lost Interview' of 1995, Steve Jobs says that he was programming at the HP Palo Alto lab, on the 9100 in BASIC and ATL.

He would "hang around that machine and write programs for it"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=m8m...
I think there are many people who could, but the skills are no longer as remarkable or required in today's world.

Your point is so correct though -- he was a genius, and such diversity of skill should be respected and significantly more valued in the field today.
For a one man effort, that Basic interpreter was very good

But yeah, at that point I believe Microsoft had more experience with Basic interpreters as well as a code base.

MS Basic on MSX for example was very good.
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I'm talking about Apple, not Breakout
I have a real issue with the current NSA practices and with much of the government surveillance attitude, that said this generally sounds like a case of doing it right.

I like that there was a court order for specific cell towers near the robberies, it would be better if order specifically requested the intersection of the towers or in someway restricted further use of the information to prevent long term and or continued use of collected data for unrelated cases, but I do not find this to be egregious.

This was a case of law enforcement using reasonable tools to do their job and a judge was in the loop -- I think the there should be a requirement to show probable cause, but a I think that a judge should be able to see that in this case there was probable cause to believe that anyone who had been at X number of the banks at the time of the robberies was a probable suspect and the collection of the data would be warranted.

My issue is when law enforcement (or other 3 letter agencies) collect (and retain) all of this data (and email, and license plates, and security cameras...) for non-specific uses. This is a significant infringement on our personal privacy and a threat to our democracy.
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So as far as I understand this you can either embed this on a website or use the browser extension. Do you have any examples of it being embedded on a website?

I'm interested in adding something this to my webapp, but I'd need to see what it looks like first and I don't want to have to install the extension. I also don't want my users to have to install the extension.

I'm also looking into alternative projects like Joyride from ZURB [1] and Guiders from Optimizely [2].

1: http://zurb.com/playground/jquery-joyride-feature-tour-plugi...

2: https://github.com/jeff-optimizely/Guiders-JS
The panel isn't a referendum on the morality of the NSA surveillance. It's an investigation into the legality of the NSA surveillance.
My impression is that project overages have scared cities quite a bit. To use your Boston example, the Big Dig certainly has scared many other municipalities thinking of something like that. The Denver Airport fiasco most certainly scared away people from building new airports for decades.

Moving into speculation... I believe that society values lives a lot more. It would be very hard to cost effectively build another Golden Gate Bridge due to the lives involved. Is this really a bad thing? So instead we build skyscrapers.
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Nothing really, on the whole I was a rather unambitious teenager. I enjoyed programming and computers and stuff, but never really had any plans or ambition to make them my job. I drifted into a junior sysadmin role more or less by accident after high school because I needed a job and eventually ended up programming. It wasn't before finally ending up in university that I found any sort of calling (mathematics), and I'm currently doing data analysis, with a side order of GIS.
Icons sometimes need translation too. For example, the "filter" icon only works in English because most other languages don't call funnels "filter". It would be better to show a sieve than a funnel.
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That's not really an option at all, at least not to your house. At the kLab we have a 15Mbps line allocated for us, but the realities of oversea (well, undersea) bandwidth purchases means we often don't really see that.

Most people not at kLab get mobile data connections that in good areas when it's working well can get downloads between 200KBs up to 1MBps (those are bytes, not bits) depending on the time of day. Up oftentimes is about the same as down. It's not heavily throttled as you see in many other countries. These data plans are also very cheap.

Really, the biggest problem here isn't so much the speed these days, it's that the connection occasionally just stops working altogether.
This is absolutely ridiculous logic. He was doing far more important things at the time than prototyping a calculator, even if he could. These were likely 10 minute flash meetings where he gave direction. This was about time, and time alone.
You could try a Personal Kanban with a very low work-in-progress limit (maybe 3 or less?). This would help you create a rule to force yourself to finish one task before being able to start another, lest you go over your WIP limit.
Unless there are multiple secured domains hosted on that IP address, in which case knowing the domain would be extra information.
What manual code changes are you tired of making?
I doubt it.

Why would Nokia want to be another Android pusher with no competitive advantage? Value-adds on Android are all shit (crappy launchers and bundled shitware) and the platform is fragmented to fuck. Firefox OS isn't even off the ground and Ubuntu is dead as well.

Nokia hit the spot with windows phone. People will realise that in time.

The platform is worth it just for Nokia Here+ for a lot of people (myself included) and the fact that the hardware is decent.
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The title should read: "Docker is Git for deployment"

Currently, it implies that Docker is using Git for deployment.
No it wouldn't. There are literally billions of other people capable of doing that job.
She is more of a grande dame than someone who signals an infusion of fresh thinking. But then again this could be just what MS is looking for.
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"...the FBI dumped all the numbers into a Microsoft Access database and ran a query..."
The parent asked for "lightweight". Have you considered the size of the charlesproxy binaries?
It's not about an "incorrect opinion" though, it's about active proliferation of the lie.
How many units did Palm and HP sell of the Pre series before collapsing? And everybody liked that platform too.
Additionally, Andy Grove, Elon Musk, and Sergey Brin speak very clear, understandable, and yes, accented English.

What PG actually said is that speakers with accents so thick that the YC team had to interrupt frequently to ask them to repeat themselves, tended not to be successful.

I think the problem was that PG used the term "accent" rather than "communication problem" or "could not understand what they were saying".

It's about the communication, not the fact that English is not their native language.
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> Some stores cannot thrive unless they are within SHORT drives of many customers.

My prediction is that within ten years, you will be able to tell the success of upmarket stores by the number of electric car chargers in front of them. The wealthy has always found ways to reduce their costs in ways that poorer people cannot easily duplicate, like reduced banking fees to draw their business.
That is an insane conclusion, since you forgot to take into account that the price of all the things we buy, with a few exceptions, have dropped dramatically.

Very few people are interested in the price of silver, we are far more interested in what a steak cost, or a car, how far they go on a gallon, what a gallon costs, that fresh vegetables are available and that we can buy them, etc.
A substantial part of the justification is that allowing the resurgence of support for nazism is seen as posing a direct risk of genocide and war, and a such a substantial threat to the rights of others.

This was further shaped by the experience that the nazi rise to power was propelled by widespread popular support both in Germany and elsewhere, despite the millions that died in World War I just a couple of decades earlier.

In comparison, the limited harm done to people who have their speech restricted is seen as a relatively minor tradeoff.
Actually it's not zero value to society, and you don't just get to watch money roll in. It is providing capital to a business and it is full of risk. If the business fails then the money is gone. The markets play a valuable role in our economy. It is you that is misinformed.
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This looks really nice.

I've been wanting to get into clojure (mainly for the web aspect of it) for a while, but as someone who hasn't done much lisp and really loves Haskell's type system I've been hanging back a bit.

I'm assuming that clojurescript will also work fine with this?
I don't get the comment how TCP creates routing tables but just having an IP address for HTTPS is not necessarily sufficient as you can have virtual hosts.
I agree. I also think that Jobs probably recognized that Woz was well beyond him technically and that he would just get in the way for the most part. Nothing worse than someone "who used to code" deciding to "get their hands dirty" and just end up slowing down the whole process.
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The purity of his vision would have been lost, and the Apple I wouldn't have been an Apple I.

Maybe it would have been better?
> Should we have any concerns with the government getting that sort of mass tracking information on so many Americans without a warrant?

It's a pretty interesting article, but as a Brit I just don't get why American's are so concerned about privacy. In England, there is basically no 'right to privacy' in law. As such the police (and anyone else really) are free to track me like this, on CCTV, whatever. If I am innocent, and have nothing to hide, I don't really see what the issue is in this.
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But you're not harming a living human being. At worst, you're minimizing a memory, which is a fundamantally emotional position.

As to the risk of repeating history: Anyone positing the holocaust didn't happen is competing in a marketplace of ideas where the evidence is overwhelmingly to the contrary. Not to mention fierce competition from the European equivalent to K-12 education.

It seems to me akin to criminalizing street vendors selling hot dogs made of ( sterilized, to minimize health counterarguments ) toe jam and ear wax. Very very few people are going to become customers. Except it's much worse, because you are criminalizing ideas.
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Have any projects been purchased yet? If so, you should market the hell out of that fact.
Trello is horizontal product, targeted to a very wide audience, basically anyone. Cleverflow is targeted to software development teams. Of course I do understand the confusion, as we do not yet have almost any features specific to software development. But is is only an MVP and the main goal currently is to collect feedback and figure out the features we need to build to cater for the needs of software development teams.
> Thankfully for them Apple showed/shows them much of the UI direction. So they don't to really work on any paradigm changing innovation.

Yeah, Mattias Duarte, the man behind WebOS cards that pretty much everyone including Apple is ripping off - I am sure he likes to sit all day letting things happen on their own - like all the post Gingerbread UI changes for example. Sure.
embed script is used in this app (http://app.searchenabler.com/)

you can see flows on that app here: - http://www.searchenabler.com/faqs/
I have a git repository on the server & push to that repository. On the server, I just pull, compile the binary and use upstart (service xyz restart) to restart the binary. Not nice, because I kill all connections. I'll switch to something more elaborate when I'll have more users on the web service.
>>Keeping track of that network is enabled via linkedin. You do NOT need to follow all the personal lives of people you work with. You should keep a pulse of where they move to and what position they hold over the years.

This is called "networking" and people have been doing it since long before LinkedIn. If you want to learn how, read Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty by Harvey Mackay.
If the host name is encrypted the server needs to provide an SSL certificate identifying itself before it knows what host the user will request. This works if there's only one host on that IP, but if there's a 1-to-1 mapping between hosts and IPs then an attacker can figure out you're going to anonymous-upload.wikileaks.org from the fundamentally public information that you're going to 190.93.240.19. The way to fix this is to use tor, not to go back to old versions of SSL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
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You forget substitute goods. You can substitute a cashier with a self-serve machine, you can buy and use machines to clean the store faster, you can reduce opening hours, you can plan the store so that fewer employees are needed, etc.

Yes capitalism is amoral so people will certainly be willing to pay to increase salary, but they are also willing to buy machines, outsource work, make customers do more and other things that reduce the need for employees.
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>Why do you seem to think SEOs shouldn't get data?

Because they pollute the real results. If you write your content for search engines and not for users then it's bad content.
> The road signs in the US are _well established_ in the US.

Of course they are! I am not trying to say that US signage is unclear. I am trying to illustrate that it does not automatically make things clearer if you use text instead of pictograms. Using text might make things clearer, but "SLIDES" is only clear if you already are familiar with it. Agree? :) (The same thing goes for the text "PED XING", but this example is less important since, as you say, it is usually accompanied by a pictogram)

In my experience, road signs in the US rely much more on text than road signs in Europe. This is why I brought this up as an illustrative example that text is not a magic bullet :)
Unless you are over 60, you weren't. You were promised an oppressive cyberpunk dystopia - and here it is #nsa
More specifically, the psychopaths that you're likely to run into in a tech company fall into this class.

There are certainly psychopaths who are hopeless at concealing the fact. These are typically the less smart ones, so you wouldn't meet them; they are more likely to be in and out of prison than your office.

There are also psychopaths who are just about perfect at pretending not to be, and have no intention of ever doing otherwise. You can work with one of those for decades, and never notice a thing unless something extreme enough to make 'acting normal' seem a long-term liability happens.