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As a former Mozilla intern, I can confirm that the company has an unusually great intern program!

Sure, there's some perks like free food, laundry, free yoga and other things that are taken for granted at startups missing but some of my favorite things about it were:

1. Mozilla has the most geographically diverse set of interns of any Silicon Valley company I know. In addition to regular recruiting at North American Universities, Mozilla also recruits from the open source Mozilla community, and that means people come from everywhere. I was recruited on-campus but two of my roommates whom I lived with were recruited directly from the community and were from Argentina and India.

2. At least on my project (I worked in the Labs group), I got total freedom to scope out a project I wanted to work on, convince my managers about why it could be great, then go ahead and build it. This is a remarkable amount of flexibility for an internship.

3. You got to keep the laptop. Because Mozilla's open source, we just used the default OS X with no custom stuff. Since the value would go down after the summer, they let us keep it as a perk!

4. Once every two years, they fly out everyone in the company and a lot of people in the community to a single place to meet up (Summit). This might sound crazy in theory, but face time is invaluable in growing teams that are spread across the planet.
The term "wiring money" still has a connotation of being complicated, probably from all the movies and TV shows that mention wiring money in exchange for hostages, etc. I wish people would just refer to it as a bank transfer.
Pretty sure the Shanghai Transrapid does 430kph in regular use, or at least it was the last time I rode on it. Definitely worth taking for the trip from the airport into Pudong if you're ever flying into Shanghai.
You are really protecting against local, non-root access to your box, especially when that user is the nginx child process. This can manifest itself in a number of ways, but most roads lead back to improper input sanitization and/or using user input in shell command execution.

Using the Unix file permissions to our advantage and the properties of fork'd child processes, you can scope your risk to a highly skilled adversary rather than the common adversary.

Note that not only is your SSL certificate at risk, but every file the web-server needs to read including configuration files containing passwords, API keys, and crypto keys.
Seems like there is a growing trend by tech companies to spoil interns with the hope of improving HR. This is great and by all means take advantage of it.
yeah, thanks, just remembered / updated.
Because the consumer won't buy from you if you don't have a good track record. If a big company with a good brand name like Boeing or Airbus hired you for that, they might buy it. A company with reputation on the line will be more likely to invest in quality control than your local hospital (which usually refuses to publish any statistics or prices).
This has nothing to do with you writing webapps as a side job. It's about having some way for those corporations to prove the people who are verifying your work are competent to do so. That is the _whole_ point of the PE stamp!
Key term: administrative subpoena. Judges, we don't need no stinkin' judges.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/administrative-subp...

For the P. Simon inclined, rather than just pointing to the obvious slope we've slipped down since Nixon:

Whoah God only knows, God makes his plan
The information's unavailable to the mortal man
We're workin' our jobs, collect our pay
Believe we're gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away...

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/simon+and+garfunkel/slip+slidin...
Hardly, you have to consider the additional cost of attempting to support that additional 2%; it could very well cost more than it's worth in development time and long term complexity. Of course that's an app specific decision. Every market you specialize for has a cost, short term and long term, so it has to be worth it financially; businesses aren't in the habit of just being nice for no reason.
Its not so much different than living in a city then and denying children the ability to learn to be farmers. it is easier to learn a computer for the first time as an adult than learn how to run a farm. Amish take varying attitudes towards technology like computers. The more progressive Amish now have computers but no Internet access. It is a community that takes a very slow and deliberate approach to technology. They debate how technology will affect society before adoption instead of adopting and seeing what happens.
Is it for Zanda? :)

If yes, good old SEO is a great way to gain users. Especially for long tail keywords.
Interns are not spoiled. They are simply treated like any other regular employee.

I am not sure what you mean with 'improving HR'. Did you mean 'PR' ? Because Mozilla's HR department is doing a pretty great job.
Sure, if that someone owns that money, a priori.

But in real life, wealth isn't simply owned in a vacuum. It's accumulated, possessed, and taxed within the bounds of a system of governance.
Wow, that's a huge amount of insecurity balled up into a single post. Way to validate the research mate!

Sounds like you need to practice letting go / not caring about your reputation and what other people think, and just be yourself. It may sound trite, but the way you live sounds horrifying!
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Off topic... wiring DOES seem hard. I'm from NZ, where it's very common to do an EFT payment to another bank account. We do this for paying bills, giving money to friends, and even paying for online purchases.

I recently set up a US bank account at Wells Fargo. Today I needed to pay someone (in the US) from it, and after fruitlessly searching for a way to transfer money to another account was told by customer support that the only solution was to do a wire transfer. At a cost of $35 and having to visit a branch to set this up.

They did have something called SurePay that involved sending someone an email or SMS message, but my beneficiary is a corporate so this isn't really an option. SurePay also seems to be limited to very small amounts.

Given this is free and simple to do in every other country I've banked in (NZ, Aus, UK and Canada), I'm still suspicious that I'm missing a something on the internet banking website. Any suggestions?
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> Nobody can leave the community of farmers and woodworkers because they're so dependent on it and they've never known anything else.

Is that true? Rumspringa[0] is specifically to allow exposure to the outside world.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa
Too bad Facebook actively punishes third-party client-side software distributions that modify its behavior or function according to user preferences.
But where does that track record come from? It sounds like you are now defending the protectionism your previous comment was decrying.
Sounds like you're projecting, to me. There's no bitterness in his/her post, just an observation.
I've been working on something similar myself, since Google has indicated Chromium WebView isn't a priority for them right now https://github.com/davisford/android-chromium-view
Ah, I didn't know it. Very interesting.

Thanks for sharing it.
if I run across a website, I'm not looking for source. But if a friend of mine was showing off her site specifically with a facebook post and I looked at it, I would absolutely look at the source to see what direction of knowledge they appeared to have picked up. Not hoping to complain of mistakes but just curious about a fellow web dez/dev.
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Very interesting!!

I actually had some of these experiences when I was based in Asia. I agree, and I understand.

Thanks!
@lightcatcher:

>Previously, most people would say that it requires programmers to make a website.

It hasn't required a programmer to build a website in many years now - HTML and CSS were declarative to begin with. It's only with the advent of CMS's - which are definitely NOT all automated (i.e. Joomla or WordPress) - that programmers entered the picture.

> Re Re MBA guys - I don't know how many MBAs are working on something more complex than another social network, because many successful businesses recently have been quite easy to build a MVP for with not a lot of programming skills.

Good point, but are they doing it? Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Airbnb all had technical founders. The true complexity of these startups lies in their server software - how to optimize at scale and so on. An MBA aware of this complexity deserves all the success he or she can get.
I guess I don't understand your argument;

I said: "No advanced society (past a certain GDP) has slipped back into tyranny"

I bring up Japan and Germany. I assumed you were not talking about modern Japan and Germany, and you were referring to WW2 Japan and Germany. Japan was a monarchy that turned into some kind of fascist monarchic bureaucracy and Germany was a failed state that turned fascist. Neither represent a modern society turning tyrannical. And yes, when I say modern I mean democratic and with a degree of respect to civil liberties (which is basically true for all wealthy countries in the world, save some oil states). There is no use comparing the US to China - that's apples to oranges.
actually, using firefox and the recomended plugin prevents this snippet. So it is actually kind of fixed...
Are people really worried about the difference of one hour or so on intercity trips? I kind of doubt it's that big a deal. Rock solid on time schedule adherence is the key thing, which Amtrak can't even get close to now.

The other important thing would be more and better business class cars at a fair price. Business class should have strictly enforced quiet, be spotlessly clean, with totally reliable internet access.
On CMD640/RZ1000, if OS/2 2.x actually replaced DOS/Windows instead of turning into an entire fiasco, these hardware would not likely have shipped with the problems.
Here! https://careers.mozilla.org/
Nonsense. You can certainly argue that "less" of Android is being open sourced than a few years ago, but it's still orders of magnitude more open than any of the other mobile OS available on the market. Especially OS X and iOS, which are both 0% open source.

Open source fanatics are impossible to satisfy, they will always find a reason why the flavor of open source that a company or an organization picked is not the "real" open source, but the simple truth is that I can load up the source of Android in any IDE and start debugging into Android's system libraries any time I need it.

Good luck getting this from Apple.
The problem is that a large portion of the country thinks that we shouldn't actually leverage that wealth and power to achieve transformative accomplishments anymore. We just don't have a paradigm for this in today's America. We're stuck in a monkey-patched late-18th century system of governance, and we've proven ourselves thoroughly unable to plan for the future and adapt.
I'm fairly certain the Google intern demo is more geographically/culturally diverse.

Really glad this guy had a phenomenal time at Mozilla. All of the top internship programs in the bay area are equally good and I hope he gets a chance to try some others :)
Thanks for noticing! As soon as I fix that I'll resubmit.
The first part is technically true - the automation team can exceed the original team, but this may be a special case of "engineers untangling a mess of functionality accumulated over the years." The second part has an exception of its own - there doesn't necessarily have to be a complexity threshold, developers "over-automate" simple processes all the time (e.g. Microsoft).
>About < AUD$400 off, which if you consider the time to order, build, etc, isn't as significant as many make it out to be.

Not only does it make financial sense - the upgrade-ability and repairability of a custom build in unparalleled by the iMac - esp. the newer one. You would at least need the $169 AppleCare to allow for the possibility of free repairs on the iMac for 3 years. That still leaves out upgrades. Whereas for the custom build it's just a matter of yanking out the failed part and putting in a new one at cost.
Perhaps they can reallocate the $1.2 billion they set aside for prisons that was never spent.
Where does a typical carpenter, web developer, entreprenuer, hedge fund manager's reputation come from?

Word of mouth from previous clients. In the beginning a company with needs hires you and your reputation builds over time.

As I said above, I think Boeing does a fine job of minimizing errors. The AMA, teaching hospitals and local hospitals don't.
Might as well just graduate and use warp-drive.
Might be useful in some surgeries as well; like total hips.
Yeah, I was about to reply with this. Also, the article states that the Amish are pretty well-informed about the outside world.
I must be a first class idiot, then, because I'm pretty sure that's the case.
While I'm not suggesting that OS X is as open as, say, Android, I don't think the parent is speaking Nonsense. OS X does have and open source element, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system), so claiming iOS and OS X are "0% open source" is somewhat incorrect.

I think the parent is correct in that Google is now moving the value added components of their Operating System (as opposed to the more "core" elements of the OS, into closed source and fully under Google's control. It's a rational move, and I applaud them for their cleverness.
But they are not contributing to technological progress.
Cool to see you had fun this summer, now you can come back and give a talk about things you worked on at our Ottawa Ruby/JS meetups!
Which was swiped from the actual life of Salvador Dalí: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_dali#Politics_and_pers... ;)
While I agree with your reasoning in the latter sections, comparing android to basically every other mobile os and calling it an order of a magnitude of a difference is a bit strange when they are basically 0.
Knowledge workers are definitely not immune to automation, I've acknowledged that in the post. They do set the bar quite high for software and intelligent agents, however.

Regarding your last point, I think a knowledge worker smart enough to automate themselves out of a job will be smart enough to capitalize on that discovery. Moreover, there will always be tasks people will prefer done manually, knowledge-based or otherwise.
People aren't suggesting that Apple is significantly open, what they are now observing, is that Google is becoming more "closed" - and to call "Play Services" an application is a little bit of a misnomer. It's a system level service that enables higher level applications. The Mail.App doesn't do anything of the kind (though, the rendering engine is an apt comparison).
Why does this link to the blog and not the article referenced in the title?
Nintendo is a great company with very informed people. The "problem" is two-fold:

1) Nintendo is not just a publisher of its own games, but also a platform for others. In Japan, there are major hits like the Monster Hunter[1] franchise that is currently exclusive to Nintendo. Japanese people do not look at devices for the devices themselves, per se, instead they will buy the device that allows them to play the franchise that they enjoy the most (ie, Monster Hunter or Pokemon, etc.)

Thus, it is wise for Nintendo to continue to make revenues that will be tied to successful software/game franchises.

2) Nintendo has a culture of ROMs and direct addressing. You will notice that when a game boots up that it is impossible to switch back to the home screen. In actuality, the OS/core libraries are actually statically linked into the software. The philosophy of the Nintendo platform has always been one where the device won't get into the way of the gaming experience. In other words, I would doubt if you ever see multitasking on a Nintendo console.

Nintendo is in its own unique position and is fortunate to have a wonderful and caring fan-base. They are building a new corporate office here in Kyoto and things are relatively well for them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Hunter
Ad hominem? I am specifically criticizing the comment, so yet another showing of some ignorantly misplaced Latin isn't worthwhile.
Everything in play services is most certainly not Application level. I presume you didn't read the linked article or the other comments here about the APIs that are migrating there.
I don't see any reason why the play app shouldn't be Free software. So, while I might be a minority, I'd certainly like to see all of it opened up.

I'd much prefer a reality where the play service and app is open, and which upstream source you trust is defined by which certificates you trust, and nothing else. That'd make it trivial to set up trusted sources for a company, for example.
I'll be back in January to do just that!
That would mean they have to carry fuel for the engines which they do not at the moment.

So yes, but you wouldn't want to
It is within the range of known opportunities for people in a city though. Whereas growing up in an isolated society doesn't exactly give you much exposure to develop interests.
The problem actually isn't "the machine doing the cryptography can not be trusted" - the machine is basically you, the user, obviously once you have your files they're on your computer. If you don't trust your computer, what use do you have for files in the first place.

Problem is actually "the computer that sends you code to run on your PC can't be trusted". Big difference..
downvotes don't change the truth of the observation. Android is no longer meaningfully open, other than a years old core of basic functions.

The problem is that your observation isn't true. Here are some of the under-the-hood changes in just the most recent releases of Android:

-OpenGL ES 3.0
-Bluetooth low energy/Bluetooth AVRCP
-restricted profiles
-VP8 encoder
-new DRM framework
-SELinux
-various other optimizations and APIs

Yes Google is moving some functionality to Play services. Yes it is worth discussing how this may impact the future of Android as an open platform. No, that does not mean that Android is no longer "meaningfully open", especially not in the matter-of-fact way you are presenting it.
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I don't doubt it. At ex-work, I had two different USB<->SATA dongle things with two different brands of USB<->SATA controller IC inside, and both would occasionally corrupt data read from or written to the drive.
HumanAPI (Funded startup) - Palo Alto, CA - http://humanapi.co/careers

HumanAPI is building the unified API for all human health data, and we are hiring another experienced engineer to add to the core team.

We started this company in late March this year, and are currently hard at work building the infrastructure to pull in and analyze health data from a wide variety of sources. Some of these include: wearable sensors, consumer health devices, smartphones, and genetic testing services (like 23&Me). We collect this data, normalize it, and have built an API to allow any application developer to easily and securely build applications with our service.

We are looking for a long term hire, and this position includes meaningful equity in an exciting, fast growing startup.

The person joining must be an opinionated, independent thinker and feel comfortable making big decisions. You have experience shipping real products to users. You are broadly curious, have probably had some side projects, and you have ideally hacked around with some hardware as well.

You are versatile across technologies and platforms, and can teach yourself what you don't know quickly. You don't identify with specific technologies as much as you identify with the problems that need to be solved.

Ideally, though not required, you have some experience with distributed database systems (cassandra, hadoop, hbase, etc.), security (HIPAA), and generally get excited about data, sensors, health, and how we can combine them to make people healthy at scale.

We are based in Palo Alto, California - the right candidate can work remotely for a time period, though we would like to get the whole team under the same roof soon.

Come help us build the human health data infrastructure layer.

To apply, send an email directly to andrei@humanapi.co with your background, some relevant links (github, linkedin, etc), and any questions you have :)
Neither are most non-Amish.

(Not to mention "contributing to technological progress" is a subjective value. I'm pretty sure most Amish value instead "contributing to community connectedness", and I bet some find it disconcerting that most non-Amish are not raised to further this end.)
So? Neither is the cashier at your local grocery store.
It's giving me weird upside down text. http://i.imgur.com/ikTne52.png Arch Linux, Chromium 29.0.1547.62 (219432)
If the above link doesn't work (as Twitter reports seem to indicate sporadic issues with people hitting nytimes.com [1]) you can also access it here:

http://news.nytco.com/2013/09/03/business/global/online-atta...

Just substitute news.nytco.com for www.nytimes.com and it appears to be free of hassles. Not sure if this is a new DNS attack or if there are stale caches out there causing problems.

[1] https://twitter.com/nytsupport/status/373087293147332610
Definitely wasn't trying to stick up for greedy bankers here, just saying they're "dollars on paper" evil not "boots on the ground" evil.
Sorry if I missed this somewhere but how does arkOS intend to handle delivery issues? Many consumer ISPs make it very difficult for an end user to have good mail delivery rates, and especially so to freemail providers like Google, Hotmail(MSN), Yahoo, etc.
> In particular, I can't imagine how horrible it would be to be an atheist in that community.

Judging from the article on Rumspringa that was posted below, an athiest wouldn't stay in the community.
so.... why exactly does UEFI exist again....? seems useless
I wish we could replace that report with something a little more lively!
Greed is not modern, but the opportunities for taking advantage of other people have grown immensely with new technology, globalization, and general economic expansion. It's easier than ever to be greedy.
That is not the only use for Facebook, although sadly I think a lot of people view it that way.

Social media is a great way to find out about new things which have been vetted by your social network, meaning you're much more likely to enjoy them. It's like a curated stream of Things of Potential Interest that you can peruse at your leisure.

The social interaction side of things can be very positive when you feel like there is an active community around the things you're doing, and hell, there's nothing wrong with getting Internet High Fives when you post a good run time or achievement.
Right, I think this is where the OP's hackintosh is meaningfully similar to a Mac Pro, regardless of its specs.

The Mac Pros are the only Macs in recent memory that I've kept in service for 5+ years, with multiple rounds of disk upgrades (boot SSD + 3TB, then 6TB, currently 12TB), and graphics card and RAM upgrades as well.

If that's important to you, you currently either need a Mac Pro or a hackintosh.

Of course, once the new trash-can Mac Pro ships, there won't be any Macs from Apple like that anymore...
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> This is why you should not buy BTC with services like PayPal.

Sell, not buy. There's no obvious risk to buying BTC with PayPal, if anyone is foolish enough to sell them that way.