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> People who do not understand technology seem to treat technology as a magic bullet that can be adapted to implement policy

Pretending you need experts in 'technology' to do anything that ever comes in the same room as a computer enforces this view, it doesn't change it.

Policy should be written in such a way that it is abstracted from the implementation detail. To the point, it shouldn't matter if I am talking on the phone, writing a letter or IM'ing someone over the internet, the NSA should have to hit the same requirements to look at it.

> completely ignores the fact that it is technically impossible to do what he would like. Yet he continues to demand it anyway

"Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots." He has been told, many times, by 'technologists' that what he want's can't really be done. It doesn't seem to matter now, does it.
Admittedly, I'm only a novice at clojure (working on it), but I find that type error really unfriendly. It doesn't provide any clearly actionable information, something like "+ expects it's 2nd argument to be Integer, but internal-number is a Number"
Yes -- see https://github.com/hraberg/shen.clj/blob/master/shen/src/pro...

Upper case symbols are variables, as in Prolog. The others are literal matches.
Hey, it was Coders at Work not Clean Code. :) I have both and I guess I mixed the two.
same with

$ python -c "u'\u0647\u0020\u0488\u0488\u0488'

source: https://twitter.com/nst021/status/316124758469120000
The Harvard study unequivocally does not say that gun control legislation causes the increased violence, nor does the linked blog post.

The Harvard study is simply stating that murder rates are not appreciably affected by gun control legislation, and that the big drivers of violence are socioeconomic.
And it's hard to stab 70 people ..
The question then becomes do those cities have tight gun control because of or in spite of the high rate of gun crimes?
your statement implies an assumption that there is a normal distribution of users among the languages but google being a company driven by metrics would realize that the vast majority of their users speak only a handful of languages, wouldn't they?

I would venture to say that more than 60-70% would be English, followed by the romance languages and perhaps German ending up with more than 90% of users among 5-6 languages.

there is no reason to make 90% of your users suffer for a possible inconvenience created by 10% of your users.
Same thing happening in Android development right now. You may have spent years working with Eclipse and Ant and the ADT plugin for Eclipse to write Android apps. Personally I have dozens of apps written using these. But now everything new is happening on Android Studio and Gradle, the new IDE and build system. If you want to use new features like binary Android library packages, you have to switch to the new tooling.
The point is those additional laws don't control the violence. Good/law-abiding/upstanding armed citizens, however, do.
The majority of the population doesn't care and Wikipedia tends to reflect the popular views. Pro-life used to mean pro-health care, free student lunch, etc, but converted over time to be largely (exclusively?) about abortions in the public conversation.
To me this is OK. Specific crimes, specific limited locations, filter for the repeating phones and and then get a warrant on them and no longer use the general ones. The thought that goes into targeting is important and I hope subscriber information was only looked up on those that did match multiple crime locations.

On the the other hand the NSA/GCHQ etc. scoop everything and that is not OK and is too easy to abuse.

Edit: I do think that the phone companies should have the maximum retention period limited by law rather than the minimum. It would also be better if the full tower warrants only provided unique references (hashes?) rather than phone numbers themselves until the follow up specific requests.
There was a case of the woman in the UK that used the parole DB as her personal dating site / stalking ground. The more data is held on you by the government (and more likely here, 3rd party contractors) the easier it is to stalk or blackmail you.

I personally don't like the idea of G4S, Serco, A4E, etc. having that much power over me.
Can you please post the benchmark technique to allow for reproduction?

My colleagues and I often use client's hardware rather than our own to work on their project. The mono source sounds like a good stress test to guague the pain and implement preventative upgrades early in the piece.

For comparison's sake, `time make` of mono-3.2.1 from tarball on a 2012 Macbook Pro Retina / 2.6GHz / 16 GB RAM / 512 GB SSD returns:

make 583.12s user 77.90s system 98% cpu 11:11.99 total

This seems slow compared to digital ocean. I wonder if there's something I'm not setting. My settings per [1] were:

./configure --prefix=/Users/joshka/Code/mono --enable-nls=no --build=i386-apple-darwin11.2.0

[1]: http://www.mono-project.com/Compiling_Mono_on_OSX
Let me quote another MS figure here: "developers, developers, developers, developers." I have yet to see an actual smartphone app, used in Real Life, which is for WP. On the other hand, everybody and their dog seems to be making iOS and Android apps. (Anecdote: on the occasion where we needed a mobile app, WP was considered as a target, and rejected - alongside BB and FirefoxOS - as marginal; the app is for iOS and Android).
Can this be fixed in statute? If not, why not? The method and results should well defined and reproducible, right? It could even be possible for the FBI to have some level of oversight without actually having access to the data.
I'm no lawyer, but from my understanding of UK regulartions at least, it depends whether your domain is likely to cause misunderstanding or confusion between the trademark and your site.

If the trademark was for a cookery product and your blog is about cooking it might fall foul but if they're unrelated you might be OK.

You should be able to search for the actual trademark online. If you're worried, seek legal advice.
It's all logic and imagination.
Except of course the "conservative judges" did nothing of the sort. Unless you consider 21 years to be "decades" in the first case.

The latter only said, per Wikipedia: "In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), the United States Supreme Court struck down Section 4(b) of the Act, which contains the coverage formula that determines which state and local jurisdictions are subject to Section 5 preclearance, as unconstitutional. The Court said that although the formula was rational and necessary at the time of its enactment, it is no longer responsive to current conditions." Presumably the Congress could enact a new formula that's not based on the racial politics of half a century ago; you're complaining about something akin to rotten boroughs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs).

You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
If you get hit with a pay wall to read this article, just Google "spy_kids_nsa_surveillance_next_generation" and you should get the article as the first result. Then you can read it from there.
It has worked for me with forms that take less than 1000ms. For simple one field forms, they typically have a reasonable length requirement on my platforms (e.g. 32 characters). Things that fit in less than that length are typically things that should be tags (e.g. funny, insightful, etc).
Trying this 32 char minimum myself just typing jibberish gets me over the minimum needed time to detect bots.
Haters will be haters.

In 2016 I reckon the market will look like the following:

25% - iOS - Luxury/fashion sector.
25% - WP - business/teenage/student sector.
40% - Android - Mainly generic landfill sector + Samsung
10% - Everything else (probably still mostly S40)

Plenty of room for growth and a sensible return.

People used to take the piss out of me when I decided to invest in ARM Holdings, Microsoft, Apple and Raytheon. Who's laughing now?
> Less guns = more violence: Harvard Study

"Less guns"? No one at Harvard would dare write such an ungrammatical headline -- this had to be the work of the submitter. And it is.

http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/fewer-vs-l...
I had to turn a squid log over to FBI agents, they wanted it in XLS format so they could search/sort it. A few commands later I grep'd out the addresses they wanted to see, they were amazed.

Moral of the story is FBI field agents are not super hackers. It's like 24 where they take the data back to the HQ and someone works on stuff there, or they just do it in Excel/Access on a laptop.
Coming from the UK and having looked into the history of some of my country's behaviour during the height of empire, I have no problem believing that in the slightest. Peccavi.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be a "hacker". I am not a hacker...but I code, so I guess I kinda achieved that status?
also check out this post on doing code coverage with gocov for your golang apps:

http://blog.wercker.com/2013/08/05/checking-code-coverage-wi...
Anyone who needs a "better" home page probably ought not to be using it.
Yes -- it's grammatically correct, and this title isn't.
That's about Eric Schmidt.
Where did you host it?

Heroku forces you to use long polling instead of websockets, and long polling is not very good for keeping it speedy.
Q: Does Steve Jobs know how to code?
A: Steve Jobs never wrote code

Woz doesn't say Jobs didn't know to code. He merely says that he didn't code at Apple.
Considering that those cities have what amount to complete bans on gun possession, it's "in spite of." Total prohibition doesn't work.
You can if you have a certificate with multiple domain names in the SAN[0] field.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubjectAltName
Never heard of it.

Oh, wait. That's the site that tries to be like http://stackexchange.com, but is behind a login, and they steal your data, violating your privacy, tracking you through their mobile app, and is run by former Facebook engineers?

Not interested.
Sort of amazes me that serial bank robbers wouldn't use burn phones. In that case they probably would have just gotten caught by buying a cart full of TracFones at a Walmart somewhere or frequenting a flea market to buy them, but still.
The main issue in Jones was how the court would find the search unreasonable. Four leaned toward the physical invasion, and four leaned toward the comprehensive and permanent nature as violating reasonable expectations.

Sotomayor broke the tie in favor of physical invasion solely on the basis that it was the more conservative approach, and thus the facts did not require analysis of expectations. Reading her opinion, it's strongly implied that she - or one of the other four justices - would switch sides on a case that actually raised the issue.
Ever heard of a nav menu?
Removing bullets from people causes violent crime.

Look, we can statistically show that everywhere someone has tried to do something about people getting injured with guns, there is more violent gun crime!

We must stop these surgeons! Clearly, by trying to help, they're causing the problem!

</sarcasm>
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If you work independently and the outcomes of your results are judged by an impartial authority you will succeed by working hard. The best example I can come up with is are exams. In an exam if you study well and appear for the examination you will win.

Same applies to scientists. They work individually, and pretty much do work and are judged in isolation.

If you work with a group of people. Politics is a inevitable consequence due to human nature and you will see how that will effect hard working people.
Obligatory quote from http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

WHAT ABOUT THINGS LIKE SJCL, THE STANFORD CRYPTO LIBRARY?
SJCL is great work, but you can't use it securely in a browser for all the reasons we've given in this document.

SJCL is also practically the only example of a trustworthy crypto library written in Javascript, and it's extremely young.

The authors of SJCL themselves say, "Unfortunately, this is not as great as in desktop applications because it is not feasible to completely protect against code injection, malicious servers and side-channel attacks." That last example is a killer: what they're really saying is, "we don't know enough about Javascript runtimes to know whether we can securely host cryptography on them". Again, that's painful-but-tolerable in a server-side application, where you can always call out to native code as a workaround. It's death to a browser.
As a Drupal developer, I find it cute how you Ruby guys consider Rails to be massive and monolithic. You know nothing of massive and monolithic :)
It's a development and expansion of my original argument, expressed here:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/08/snowden-...
BINGO. Thank you for pointing that out. You can take away the guns, but you CAN'T FIX CRAZY and America is CHOCK full O' nuts.
This is the consequence of writing code against ANY framework. I don't care if it's Symfony, Zend, etc. in PHP, Rails in Ruby, or Spring, Struts, etc. in Java. The more you lean on a framework, the more you are tied to it and the harder it is to move.

Just look at all the pain Ruby devs have felt moving from various rails versions. https://railslts.com shouldn't have to exist if we were doing our job as software developers.

Using a framework is a HUGE tradeoff. You are trading ease of development for a kind of vendor lock-in where the cost to move goes up with every line of code you write.

Using an architecture that lets you write framework-independant code is a huge win and would keep you out of this kind of trouble. I wrote Obvious Architecture http://obvious.retromocha.com for this reason, but there are plenty of clean architecture examples here: http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-arch...
It is somewhat ironic you chose the word ghetto when discussing Rails, as it reminds of Zed's previous article.

I think it is a good thing for new and maybe even experienced Ruby developers to build their own, to see a way beyond all the meta magic and five minute blogs, and that you really don't need that much plumbing to get things moving and understandable.

At least it didn't say roll Rails in five minutes - it would take much longer than that to bake in all the security holes and to stick YAML parsers all over the shop.
It takes a very twisted mentality to put the Nazis forward as an example of the dangers of a free and democratic society that respects freedom of expression.
Good question. So far, I don't.

When I go live and get some success,
then I'll handle other languages.

Actually, the user interface (UI)
is so simple to use that people who
don't know English should be able to
use the common 'interface experimentation'
(that I don't like and that I hope
my English language users won't have
to use) to see how to use the
site.

But having versions of the site
for languages other than English
should not be too difficult.

I'm writing nice code, but it's
not the most general thing since
Einstein's theory of general
relativity, and with enough
changes for languages, small
screens, etc. might need some
'refactoring'. So be it.
They are very, very nice!
If the maintainer is reading this, I submitted a pull request that significantly speeds up CCM encryption by using arraybuffers. I'd love to see it merged in: https://github.com/bitwiseshiftleft/sjcl/pull/89
I think it's fairly obvious that these effects aren't intended for body copy links, rather for header navigation and the like. In those cases, such as when they appear in a navigation bar at the top of the page, their utility is already obvious and there is plenty of room for differentiation.
The biggest problem is that the law is often quite moralistic and frequently influenced by people with hidden agendas. Almost everyone violates the law at some point or other, and the biggest concern is that with unfettered surveillance the only thing stopping the book being thrown at you is a lack of will. Don't assume just because you believe that you're innocent you actually are in the eyes of the law.

Saying that, I think the process they used here is a good one. If there was some sort of guarantee that the data collected for this search would be deleted (and not left, free for any bored policeman to delve into at any point in the future) then I'd have no issue with this type of investigation. The people they caught were committing potentially violent crimes. A little bit of privacy violation is definitely worth stopping them before they actually hurt someone.
As a longtime symfony user i think the biggest mistake here was to not upgrade to 1.4..Even now the effort to upgrade to 1.4 should be worth it had a lot longer lifecycle, more documentation and alot more people are still using it. I also believe the effort should be fairly small compared to rewriting it using Symfony 2.x.
I am currently working on a huge Symfony2 project and we update to the next version asap to avoid these kinds of problems. Its kind of like merging a branch. If you merge master into your feature branch every day and take the time to fix conflicts one by one it will be easy to merge back into master. If you dont, and develop for weeks/months on your own it will be alot of work to merge back.
Throwing a knife/axe to useful effect is difficult enough with a stationary target under calm conditions. The number of people able to do so with malice under high stress at a moving target is vanishingly small.
You can offer to sell it to them?

Back in the day, there was a big store 'Wiz' - "nobody beats the wiz!" was their logo.
If you went to www.wiz.com (doesn't seem to work now), you got a private page - here's the way back machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20110512192129/http://wiz.com/

So if "the wiz" didn't take over that website when it was a big chain, I don't think you will have much issues.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe this is an odd case - I don't know maybe the owner of wiz.com was a powerful wizard and that's why no one could steal their website.
Didn't Andy leave long ago to work on robots at Google X? They put the Chrome guy in charge now, which is unfortunate.
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I like how adit.com doesn't serve anything. Not sure if that could help you. I'm guessing this is the company in question? http://www.wooeb.com/ Seems small time. Perhaps they couldn't get a hold of adit.com?

I know you're attached to your name, but this may be a good opportunity to make some cash. Maybe you should make them an offer? (_After_ seeking some legal advice.)
Woz is a badass.
I built a reddit client on the iPhone for viewing image posts. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flippit-reddit-pics-client/i...
Image posts are really popular and I've found that about 70% of the posts on the front page are image posts. Sometimes I just want to look at some funny images for a quick laugh and read some witty comments.
Not sure how it will help. It will be just as true in the new job.
See also the 1893 World's Fair -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition

(One of my favorite books in the last few years is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_White_City)
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Absolutely. I'm assuming we solve the security and validation problems before all of this gets added in.
One can only hope Charlie, one can only hope.
I completely feel your pain with regard to Symfony. That, and the required verbosity in coding left me feeling lost in a language I thought I knew.

Even after a couple projects I still didn't "get it." Most of my time was spent in the docs and stack overflow trying to learn the "symfony way" of doing things rather than just getting it done.

- Too much nesting, both in file layout and yaml configurations
- Too many different ways to do things (YAML, PHP, .ini, file annotations)
- Too verbose when coding (namespaces, long class and method names)
- And don't get me started with Twig

I took those hard knocks and tried to write my own mini-framework, which only taught me why you don't write frameworks. It is really hard to do well.

Then I found laravel [1] and have been impressed. It is more opinionated than Symfony and feels more cormfortable to develop on. Less configuration, less verbosity. I combed through the docs and had a project up and running in two days.

But here is the real nugget, kids. Using a framework on a long-term project is like marriage. It takes commitment. You will be in it for a while, so you had better make sure you can live with it. You have to invest your time and effort into it to understand it as much as possible -- warts and all.
That's true, but the fact remains that shareholders don't really get a larger share of profits than employees because they're more deserving. They get a larger share because they're in a position of power and the employees are powerless to secure a fair share.
That's a common trick to snap a domain. I was in the same position, but signaled that I would sell, if the price is right. In the end I got a decent price and we were both happy. You can also try to convince the new owner to have a link to your new domain for some time to help your users migrate. Everything is negotiable and I prefer that before going to court.

On the other hand you have a good chance to keep that domain, because you already own it and its your name.
Lies and revisionism in entertainment media is what creates folk stories and folk heroes. It's where a big source of our culture comes from. Folk stories aren't hurting anyone. Take Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer for example. I'm fairly certain Abe didn't kill a single vampire. Or John Henry, the steel driving man. Maybe he did beat a steam drill and die with a hammer in his hands, but he probably didn't. Talk to all the blues singers who tell tales about Stagger Lee killing Billy Lyons. I'm sure they really care about the facts and would love to know that Lee wasn't actually 10ft tall and and that he didn't actually meet the devil himself.

Even dating back to Odysseus, did he actually meet the sirens and the cyclops and see his men turned into pigs? Probably not, but it's a damn good story. You'd have to prove malicious intent before anyone could entertain the idea of folk stories causing damage to anyone.
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We better be really careful with the next one, unless we want to get "scammed" again by someone who just promises what we want to hear in a very credible way, and then does more of the same.

If such a candidate even exists at the next elections, I'd assume the whole government and all the traditional media will be against him and try to make him seem like a crazy person (much like they did with Ron Paul).
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You can run away from someone holding a gun. I did. Worked great.