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Exactly.

I have had this boss, unfortunately. To a t. He'd tell me a project was "completely up to me," that I was "the leader" of it, and that I should feel "totally empowered" to make decisions, allocate resources, etc. He proceeded to show up to each of my project meetings, often late and out of context, disagree out loud, offer unsolicited opinions, micromanage, and badger me into implementing his ideas -- thoroughly undermining any ostensible authority I had over the project, or reversing any progress the team had made up to that point. His ideas came in two flavors: a) completely off-the-cuff and unconsidered, and b) foregone conclusions (what the team and I liked to call his "pet" ideas). Both of these types I had to entertain, and often to implement. And of course, when it came time for him to chip in with the execution in any way, or even to explain his rationale, he'd bolt for the door.

Essentially, I was his task rabbit. If a project went to shit, he'd claim it was "mine" and be able to pass the buck accordingly. If it went well, he'd swoop in and scoop up the credit. Attempts to talk to him about it in one-on-ones went nowhere. Attempts to "check in" with him prior to meetings, in the hopes of pre-selling him on a plan, went nowhere. He'd be dead set on a pet idea, and it was my job to "totally lead" the execution of that idea.

Bosses like this are toxic. I'm not sure I've ever found a good way to work successfully with this personality type. If this describes your boss, figure out how to transfer, how to escape, or how to develop Vulcan-like mastery over your anger and your pride. Some tigers can't change their stripes, and I can guarantee you that this kind won't.
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And that wasn't even on SSD. Node can be very fast on your own hardware

Surely the absence of a SSD and hardware vs virtual hosting is more likely to affect Postgres than Node? Node presumably runs all in memory and is more likely to be CPU bound (or waiting) than disk IO bound.
In America the goal of copyrights has always been to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts. Of course this is done by giving the authors exclusive rights over their work. With the hopes they can profit from it, so they can make more.
For anyone who's interested in why this is the case, here is the classic article on this situation: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
That is a ludicrous argument. An animation does not affect timer functionality unless you are an incompetent coder.
I've just realised something, although I love Alfred and bought a licence and cant work without it, I neglect almost all of its features. My main use for Alfred? App switching. I find it faster and more reliable that cmd+tab.
Virgin started with one plane. 1. Uno.

In fact, starting with a fraction of a plane / plane-on-demand would be even less risk.
For sure, certain things have gotten a lot better. Supporting IE8 (still for a bit) is far better than supporting IE6/7.

But there are new areas that inspire a kill-me-now reaction. If you've tried to do anything serious with controlling HTML5 audio via JavaScript, for example -- it's a nightmarish maze of different commands and event names and varying functionalities and crashing bugs that vary from browser to browser and version to version.
Have you looked at Blank Ink?

It's still in early-early-early-beta but it's the first product I looked at and thought "woah, there's something that is actually interesting in the design space".

[1]: http://www.bleank.com/BlackInk-a115.html

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77GlldH06kY
People far smarter than me have been saying for a long time that if you make the price of the content more reasonable and make it far easier to get, most people wouldn't bother to pirate.

I have no idea about the numbers, but it's good to see someone who makes money on providing the easier content providing some data on the fact that one of the best ways to remove piracy isn't to randomly sue people to scare them, but to provide them a good product, at a reasonable price and not to go out of your way to make it difficult for people to purchase/license/rent your product.
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The people need an answer. Does the NSA have a copy of the linux source code or not??!
> which would have offered them a higher market share

That's huge leap of logic. Android has a larger market share. Android vendors don't automatically get more market share. They still have to outcompete the other vendors.

Given how commodified the Android space is, it's not surprising they saw the Windows hail mary as a relatively more differentiated approach. Obviously not as differentiated as a proprietary approach, but given they couldn't pull that one together in time, they didn't exactly have a plethora of awesome options. Become yet another commodity Android vendor, or try to be the "Samsung of the 3rd platform" so to speak.

Too bad that 3rd platform didn't work out. It was a risky bet, but probably the only shot at a sustainable business. Really their fate was sealed a long time ago when they missed the shift towards sophisticated software platforms.
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My 2 cents, I am aspiring to an online business and to be able to work when I want to not because I have to. To that end when my regular job ended 3+ years ago, I decided to work as a contractor.
I work as a professional in Australia but live in S-E Asia. My work schedule is about 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off.
It's a little like the Four Hour Work Week prescription for geographical arbitrage. It's not perfect, and if the AUD tumbles will have to re-assess. Compared with previously I work the same hours per day for 12 days/month - before I used to work these hours or more for about 22-24 days/month + as employee had lots of administrative and bureaucractic headaches which you cannot help taking home. As I am on contract have none of these - or very little. Those admin and politicial headaches are so bad for your health.

Now I have some time to think and strategise on my long term plan - and act! Anyway good luck to all looking for something different.
In defense of Adobe, I made my living for many years from a Flash 8 app I wrote 9 years ago. We have since moved to html5, but I swear, I have made 1 change to the flash version in 5 years and it still works flawlessly on all browsers. The html5 version constantly require tweaks for stuff that changes. Support for html5 video is all over the map. e.g. do you get load progress events? Are loaded ranges truthful? Contiguous?

I don't disagree with the author as we are now 90% html5, and 10% flash, but the flash version has worked without issue over the last 200 updates to the flash plugin. I have a feeling our app is going down some C++ code path that is never going to get modified because it is a giant shit pile that no one understands. The good news is that it will probably work forever.
I was going to mention this. The page is like a trip to the past. Will they handout free AOL cds at launch? (:
> If it is so detrimental why hasn't it been replaced with something better?

That's a ridiculous argument, which is clear if you apply it to other detrimental things like wars, murder, and disease.
I like Constantia, by John Hudson. It has become my go-to font for screen reading, since it manages an almost-oldstyle feel without falling apart at current resolutions. MS did commission some good work for the C-series.
That's not what I was saying, and if that's what you read, I will take the blame for phrasing it improperly.

This article is about a particular combination of Introversion and High IQ. It is one combination of many.

Obviously it's possible to be a different combination: Extrovert + High IQ, Introvert + Low IQ, etc. I did not mean to imply, in any way, that Introversion is correlated with IQ, much less axiomatically correlated with high IQ.
You still need to check the contents of the first commit.
Constantia and Consolas are works of art, but Calibri has become about as grating to me as Comic Sans, as hyperbolic as that sounds.
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It was not just embassies.. it was the president, ministers, comercial companies, and thousands of civilians..

Also, privacy IS a fundamental human right

You may dont feel it now, since your government doesnt make any movement against you, or your freedom.. and maybe its not that bad, right now.. but you ever wander.. if a hitler-like figure get elected to president of US, do you think anyone would be safe?

Imagine if you tell a joke about your government, and policeman jump right at your door to put you in jail for that, without a fair trial..

We never now... so in any case.. no government should try to achieve this kind of power..

And worse yeat, if you think they do it with the money you pay them in taxes..

so you pay, to empower them to crush you whatever they want..

Democratic governments are not so strong as one might think.. there are sereval politician in anyone country just waiting to something like that to happen.. think about that
>Why is it unreasonable to think that copyright has been maintained because of lobbyists when copyright was established by a vast lobbying effort in the first place?

This is possibly true, but ignoring the fact that many artists still continue to release their work under copyright vs. some sort of free license without any compensation.
Our entire team is made up of entrepreneurs that have at some point failed their own startup. There are hundreds of companies like us that are always looking to hire awesome entrepreneurs.
Every Webvan delivery cost them $80. I'm sure without such ass backward overhead, it will come. Maybe even before the google car.
I spent a few years doing Flash/Flex development back then as well. I don't know if this was ever a problem for you, but I always found Flex to be, well, kind of slow.

All that data binding and event bubbling was convenient for the developer, but you certainly paid a price for it at runtime. Most of the Flex apps I encountered during that time period (even very simple ones) just seemed to run so sluggishly. That type of user experience might have been okay for internal corporate type applications but I never really found it suitable for the web. And of course on top of that you had to deal with the SWF loading times too.

Flash/Flex definitely had its time in the spotlight but I can see why it ended up dying out.
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Do you honestly believe that there would be any damage to your company's image that would last more than 5 seconds to a small minority of people that would even see an article regrading "improper language"?

Unless your fellow developers are posting extremely obscene racial slurs and threatening rape on the interns. In which case your company has bigger issues to worry about.
Let me start by saying I like the sentiment here. The hardest thing about living in NYC is knowing too many people. They distract you and give a false sense of comfort towards your situation. I get that.

But, I have a problem with this, is moving an hour outside of a city really relocating? I'd argue if you don't want to be comfortable move to a city where you have no connections. Focus on somewhere not particularly welcoming to tech entrepreneurs and really get out of the comfort zone. Otherwise, I don't think you really moved your startup anywhere.
He's upset that the comments section might show him more than one comment worth reading. Good comments are a huge time sink!
They seem like an awesome fit for tablets and smartphones, I really can't understand why no-one is making them (or I'm not hearing about them).

Edit: somewhere on the thread, "The Room" is mentioned. Looks nice, I might give it a try :)

Edit2: "this app is incompatible with your device".. oh well. I do need to upgrade my phone.
Unfortunately, that means that piracy is still by far the easiest way to get content, for arbitrary content.
They never were important, although Steve Jobs certainly tried to make them so (see his failure with NeXt).
"Why not admit that copyright and culture evolved together, and that suddenly trashing one does irreparable harm to the other?"

You are confusing correlation with causation. Copyright as we know it today is the result of a change in technology -- the printing press -- which also caused changes in culture. Prior to printing presses copying books was a vital service, worthy of praise and encouraged by society as a way to preserve knowledge (at least among those societies that gave a damn about such things). Ancient Greek science was preserved because Arab scholars copied Greek works. The Library of Alexandria had a vast collection because books were copied by law.

Ironically, we might never have developed the technology that led to copyright law had it not been for such copying.

Of course, how technology left to copyright is very different from how that technology changed culture. Copyright was the result of many years of efforts by the British government to censor printed material, which ultimately failed for political reasons. The censorship effort did create a very powerful lobby of printers who pushed very hard to reestablish the monopoly they had enjoyed during that effort, and who ultimately managed to get what they wanted in the form of copyrights. This is basically orthogonal to the cultural changes.

"the preference for expensive productions is as clear as its ever been."

Maybe those productions are a waste of resources that have been made economically viable by copyright. Do you really think people would be unable to produce and enjoy entertainment without the copyright system? It might mean the death of films that cost as much as it would take to end world hunger, but not the death of entertainment.

The printing press changed how we communicate. Computers are doing so as well, and like it or not, entertainment will be affected as much by this change as it was by the printing press.
That's binning, sure.

But I thought pro chips actually tended to be clocked a bit lower than gaming chips. There's no 'ignoring QC' there if you trick the board, quite the opposite.
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The US Government pays huge subsidies to US airlines that aren't extended to foreign airlines. It also has rules in place that do not allow foreign airlines to fly domestic routes in the US.

Perhaps the UAE(/European/applicable foreign) governments should start charging US carriers an extra fee to combat the subsidies when they land abroad.

I'm sure no-one would complain about that or attempt to use the US government's muscle to fight it...
Safety nets have a moral hazard of course. Nothing is perfect. People do fall through the cracks, others take excessive risks and some even game the system (risking being caught and put in jail).

But on net (no pun intended) welfare has reduced poverty. Consider limited liability companies and corporations. They can afford to go bankrupt and starve of resources. The free market discipline can apply to them. But when it comes to living beings such as humans, we need to mitigate the loss.
There is a documentary on the rise and fall of the original Kozmo called e-Dreams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Dreams

Wonder if they'll make a sequel? :)
this would appear to be it: https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
You must watch this movie.

It's pretty eye opening what Google and Facebook have automatically gotten us to agree to with their privacy policies. And from the movie show a pretty lacking responsibility to the users who give up their data not knowing what's happening to it.
Damn, that looks amazing, nice find.

I've seen other awesome specialist "arty" apps like this, but nothing for general use. Photoshop has incredible breadth and depth, I've been using it for 15 years and I still stumble across hidden corners.

Corel Draw is the only app I've ever seen seriously compete, and it wasn't really in the same league - I could be wrong, I never spent a long time with it. Gimp really is a toy by comparison. (Sorry Gimp.)
As a Canadian, that's what I've heard too. Netflix Canada = sucks.

Not that I personally like streaming anyway... but the piracy problem is a tough one because it's so quick and easy, but is not always reliable nor safe (and obviously screws the creator in terms of $$). However, piracy can also go beyond the original creation, like how Warcraft 2 was ported to work on modern operating systems. Will be interesting to see in 10 years where things go.
As soon as I saw the colours I knew there was going to be some sort of comment about movies tending towards this scheme.

They're complimentary colours. They go well together. This was known long before blockbusters started using it. It's colour theory 101. Is it any wonder that websites are using well established colour theory? not particularly.
"These solar cells are used in concentrator photovoltaics (CPV), a technology which achieves more than twice the efficiency of conventional PV power plants in sun-rich locations. The terrestrial use of so-called III-V multi-junction solar cells, which originally came from space technology, has prevailed to realize highest efficiencies for the conversion of sunlight to electricity. In this multi-junction solar cell, several cells made out of different III-V semiconductor materials are stacked on top of each other. The single subcells absorb different wavelength ranges of the solar spectrum."

If that isn't a reason to be investing in Space, I don't know what is.

"This world record increasing our efficiency level by more than 1 point in less than 4 months..."

I think we may start to see Moore's Law starting to be applied to Solar Cells. Which actually reminds of a chart on the waves of innovation[1] on the Stanford Tech Entrepreneurship course where we are now seeing the tail of IT and computing and beginning of renewable technologies. The same thing can be said about energy density of batteries(According to Tesla batteries).

[1] Page 5
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The piracy confrontations are not about the money or revenue maximizing. They are about gatekeeping and distribution control.
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I didnt like the article either. I had different experiences than the ones he described and I also doubt he even had those experiences himself.

Also, while some of the experiences are not consistent within the time apps, they are artifacts that users already recognize- did he really get confused by the "cross?" Its a plus and its in the upper right hand corner of an app where you can add alarms...

This kinds of reminds me of an anthropologist trying to get a paper published in an journal for psychologists. Where is the rigorous application of science? Where are the statistics?
So I've been playing through Mass Effect 3 again on the PS3 and can see the sorts of influences Myst had on designers of more "modern" games. One of the more interesting aspects where the 'side' stories, not essential to the game but added depth to some part of it. Reading through the political infighting in the email on data pads, or some of the radio stuff on GTA. All "atmosphere" which, prior to Myst, wasn't nearly so prominent.
Have to say that Consolas is the best monospaced font (that supports a large swath of Unicode) for my terminal emulator. I've always taken a rather dim view of non-functional niceties but have been swayed by just how damn nice the terminal looks while programming in Vim using Consolas. Well worth the purchase so that I could use it on Linux.
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I felt exactly the same way. I "tolerated" the gun fights in Infinite, but the story and world-building were what I was really there for.

I was talking with a friend today about how interesting it would've been if Elizabeth's "quantum powers" had been explored as a puzzle solving device rather than a "summon furniture" mechanic. I feel like that could've been a Portal-esque revolution in gameplay.
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I guess so. I should clarify I've never actually done this, just seen other people [say they] did it. And watching the vote patterns correlated with homepage position on my few submissions tells me it would work.

BTW I don't see any mention of this in the rules.
GNOME Do has not had a release since 2009.
Might be?
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Because a basic model can take 20 hours, and then is useful in supporting the valuation in discussions. It can literally bump the value of your company post-investment, similar how an MS on your resume can get you a bigger salary. You COULD do without it, but it's not so obvious why you should always omit it.
Tough Speech but soft actions.

If she was so 'tough' why she did not grant asylum to snowden??

I am very sure All us is scared about Brazilian almight Power.

and Sure the next president will mind to not 'offend' brazilian communist party..
Great example of this is Sliderocket.com (powered by a very complex Flash slide editor/interface), recently purchased by ClearSlide. My guess (with no inside knowledge whatsoever) is that SlideRocket was looking at an expensive tech transformation to move up to current standards and fix all the annoying technical debt they've accumulated along the way. (It's extensive: I'm a customer, their platform is buggy and dated.)

Instead they got acquired by ClearSlide.
Well, hopefully their next step is to open up in Australia.

There is a demand for it here, and there's even many Australians that buy a US VPN service to buy a Netflix subscription. See - http://www.zdnet.com/au/australians-encouraged-to-bypass-net...
It was marked as "never fix", though.
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I wander where did you get all this "serious data" and statements over Brazil ?

about Spying: NO one country has this mass surveilance state patronized by public money in the world. its proven.. its scary, and its US..

This must stop, period.

if every citizen take care of its own country actions.. so they do not interfere badly with the other countries.. we would be just fine..

Anyway.. this happening its a warning to all of us.. we should listen carefully, and take good measures about it..
cause in peace time, they might look harmles or like a joke.. but in war time, or with dictatorships, they might have severe consequences
I'm talking about intentional design here. It is on purpose that the system has no authentication. It is on purpose that the system returns records solely in response to an ID request from any client. It is not on purpose that the system can be SQL injected.

Intention of use is entirely different. The high level intention of use / purpose is often opaque and contradictory. Using it as a threshold would be foolish. "it securely stores passwords but also mails you a reminder if you forget" "it sends marketing mails that don't get marked as spam" "it shows people images that they can't save" "people will stay signed up for 15 months and we will profit on the loss leader"
FWIW, I would pay a lot of money for an airline that would knock me out with some drugs and wake me up when I'm at destination (Toronto - Hong-Kong is a long and boring trip and I can't seem to do anything that truly distracts me in an airplane). Subjectively, this wouldn't be too far off from teleportation.