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web apps today are so much more than ajax. You have to actually a full blown DOM tree to get what real user-agents renders
It was always possible to see an install referrer if you set up the right listener in your AndroidManifest.
It seems that the link between the market and analytics will now give you more funnel like stats, as it includes views of the app details page in the market itself. (It's interesting to see what this will do to competitors of analytics, it seems it's not possible to get this information in any other way than connecting with Google's product).
Excellent choice again, application updates until 2015 and security updates until 2017, so possibly the life of the laptop.
> That's how we interpret it.

No. That follows from the fact that the author gives up copyright. No copyright -> no license terms.
> You're not representing your company very well.

> FYI you have about 1.5 hours to edit your post. You may want to do that, because otherwise it will probably scare off most informed potential customers who read it.

(The above post was, curiously, edited very slightly before I was able to reply.)

It's possible brongondwana is taking some of the discussion here personally, but most people invested emotionally in their company are going to feel some need to defend their decisions against criticism they see as invalid or misplaced. I can't help but feel that some of your post is also somewhat emotionally-charged. I apologize if I'm misreading it.

Regardless, to play devil's advocate, both of the FastMail employees have a point (I also fail to see how they're being "mean;" maybe it's a cultural difference?). While they may not be a huge company with a great deal of leverage with the right government officials, I think such criticism levied against them is indeed kneejerk and perhaps a touch myopic. It's ignoring the greater story at large, which is the souring of US policy abroad, particularly among our allies. As an example, an enterprising Australian politician who wanted to make a name for his or her self could certainly take any such incidents against FastMail and use them as political leverage.

I can only imagine just how incendiary such headlines might become: US Seizes Australian Servers in NSA/FBI/Scary-three-letter-name US Agency Sting Operation. That'd go over real well, especially among Commonwealth nations.

I would submit to you (and others) that the best means of debating this would be to research case law and find examples where US courts upheld government actions against foreign assets held or based in the US. IANAL, but I can't help myself from thinking that such a foundation would be much better than accusing one side in particular of being "mean."
Looks to me more like someone sold a few bags of weed to friends and got lost in his delusions of being a runner, and made the rest up to try impress people.
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thanks for the heads-up. My standard hourly rate is public (you can find it in the "hire me" section too), long term hires are then discussed on a per project basis. I actually didn't disclose how much they spent :)
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Pretty sure Donald Trump and the Hiltons feel the same way.
> Google doesn't like it when they are shown different content than a browsing user.

This is exactly correct. Regardless of your motivations.
If only Google had access to a full blown browser they could use in the crawl engine...
Mozilla folk were very positive and welcoming when I made (minor) contributions to the Core code. The whole code was easy to set up and run on my system too. Just go for it and start contributing!
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I can see a lot of issues with this (slow, displaying different content to Google can get you penalized, etc)... but this is a really clever hack.

Google is less important (they already execute JS), however it's good for sites like Facebook (which doesn't when you share a link).
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Considering using this for my Meteor app. Do you have any experience of it?
I know several ROM/app developers in the Android community (including one close friend) that have been approached solely based on their contributions to their own Github account and organizations they are a part of on there. At least one of them was not even a college graduate and was offered competitive pay + benefits by several different companies. However, each also ended up going through at least part of the traditional interview process as well (phone calls, in person, etc). I don't believe any of them had to write code though.

In all of the cases, the companies were interested in not only their Android development skills, but that they had shown they could collaborate/communicate well with others. Each had also been a core contributor a major Android ROM project for at least 2 years, besides maintaining their own side projects.
I have received countless offers, with an average, not so great github profile (@jaseemabid). Looks like this works :)
Pretty sure the load time problem can be mitigated by caching.
With anonymous crypto-currencies thrown into the fray, the next version of AirBnB -- that is undoubtedly already somewhere in the making -- may be entirely off-limits to this kind local government requests. Anybody can see today already that it is "game over" on quite a few older forms of taxation. The internet has started treating money as just information and ,therefore, taxation as just a form of censorship. It will just begin to route around that too.
Every few months I tell myself I'll turn off the internet.

I never do it.
What about European users? That market should be roughly equal in size.

As others have noted, I would consider Fastmail if servers were located in a country with greater respect for privacy, judicial oversight and rule of law.
I tried using phantomjs in the past to serverside render a complex backbone application for SEO, and it was taking over 15 seconds to return a response (which is bad for SEO).

Looking at the prerender's source I did't see any caching mechanism.

What kind of load times have you see rendering your apps?

Have there been recent significant improvements in phantomjs's performance?
If it doesn't cache, then besides latency, someone could send fake googlebot requests and overload the prerender service, which is unlikely to be able to handle a lot of traffic.
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Best case scenario you still have network trips going out to the service, so it's still not a great solution UNLESS the caching was done by your webapp - which is what I spoke about at the end of my comment above.

Unless this works w/o adding network roundtrips on each request, it's not a great idea.
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You could move the servers to a country with more respect for rule of law. That would be awesome!
Secure alternatives to email?
What current attempts are there to replace email with something secure rather than encryption slapped on after the fact like with email? Desirable properties would be like, for example, Google Wave had a federated model which thus allows you to run your own server which gets around the problem of the feds backdooring web based encrypted solutions like Lavabit.
I think I've already seen that link around here.
Still a very good read for those who didn't.

I love how this little plus provide in the long run an overwhelming advantage.
Lastly, negotiating in person also has it's drawbacks. Personally I prefer to negotiate by email in most cases. Depending on the other party and your own skills an in person does't always work out the way you would like.

I think it totally depends on what you're selling, who you're selling it to, and many other factors.

For example, a guy emailed me one day about a domain I owned, and wanted to know if I'd part with it. None of the domain appraisal tools rated it as having any significant value and I wasn't emotionally invested in it, and had no specific plans for it, so I emailed him back and offered to sell it. He made an offer, I accepted, and told him to Paypal me the money, and then I'd transfer the domain to his GoDaddy account. No "escrow", no face to face meeting, no weird stuff, just email and two strangers trusting each other over $100.00 and a domain. And if F2F had been required, it would never have happened, since I was in NC and he was in Canada. So, totally an appropriate case for doing everything via email.

Now... our startup is in the business of complex, B2B enterprise software solutions which will sell for 10s (if not 100s) of thousands of dollars for a subscription. This stuff will need to integrate with existing legacy systems, and - if successful - will have big implications for the way people get work done. We are not going to get anywhere without some serious face time when it comes to selling this stuff.

Of course, those are two extremes, but I think there are a lot of cases where the higher bandwidth of face to face communication is still very valuable.
There is a very fine line between saying "I will publish if you don't pay" and "I will keep it online unless you pay". It's pretty clear that this doesn't violate the federal extortion statute, but these cases have not been tested against laws in all 50 states. I'd say the odds are pretty good that there is at least one state extortion statute written broadly enough to cover this type of behavior. All it takes is 1 prosecution in 1 state where there are victims to start taking big bites out of these sites.
This is one of the biggest gotchas of (some of) the high productivity full stack frameworks that are out there, in my experience. I've also had issues getting Meteor deployed, and while it's in many ways a smaller, simpler beast than Rails, it has the same kind of black magic and hitting-a-wall-at-100mph deployment experience.

Both Rails and Meteor will let you develop apps at breakneck speed, with their powerful, magic cores and their excellent module ecosystems, but when you get to deploying them you'll sometimes wish you'd stayed on LAMP or (god forbid) ASP.NET. Yes, I really said that.
Back when I used Windows I modified my hosts file to make facebook.com redirect to 127.0.0.1.

That lasted for a few minutes.
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These days, now that word has gotten out, it's not unusual to see fake GitHubs, with an unmodified fork of another project in say. HR is not equipped to evaluate this, it needs an engineer to git clone and take a look.
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Just a tangential thought, but I can't imagine seizing Australian assets based in the US would make for a particularly comfortable diplomatic position to be in (although I suspect our current government doesn't care). To say nothing about the fact that we've already shown our hand (and upset most of our allies) by way of the Manning leaks, the Assange manhunt brought about largely by US political pressure, and, more recently, the NSA scandal.

I've mentioned it elsewhere but it's worth repeating here. Finding established case law dealing with foreign assets seized (possibly illegally) on US soil and the repercussions would make for an interesting exercise. I feel like there's one instance in particular that was especially noisome that happened recently, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

If you don't mind my asking, what contingencies do you have in place in the event of a seizure of hardware assets? It's unlikely, but the FBI has been known to take anything that vaguely looks like a server...
Better features in my opinion (Notification Center, modmail, modqueue, cakeday, audio alerts, etc.) but mainly the fact that Reddit Notifier has been updated in the last year!

https://github.com/voidref/orangered/commits/master
This is part of the reason that burning man is so meaningful for many people - without phones we have to connect with those around us and be present in the moment. When everyone is like that, it's amazing!
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The tea party is shuting down the government to try to force the defunding of Obamacare, but then they're downplaying the inconvenience they're causing. I don't understand the tactic.
While this (the second paragraph in particular) is a valid point, I'm not sure I see how it applies here. The value of a stock on an exchange is an aggregate of that stock's value to many investors. The value of a stock to any one buyer will obviously be different, whether it's a grandma picking her own stocks or a large institutional player considering a buyout. The former is relevant to the IPO in the short term, the latter not so much.

Basically, I'd expect that the aggregate value on an exchange (as opposed to a buyout) going forward is going to tend to be more about the fundamentals (as the only thing that all investors have in common information-wise). At least in a scenario where there is no obvious buyout possibility in the short term.
Don't do this.

Rendering different content based on user agent is tempting the webspam gods. Rendering nothing but a big gob of javascript to non-googlebot user agents is a recipe to get the banhammer dropped on your head.

You're either gambling that Google is smart enough to know that your particular big gob of javascript isn't cloaking keyword spam (in which case you should just depend on their JS evaluation, since you already are, implicitly), or you're gambling that they won't bust you even though your site looks like a classic keyword stuffer.
It was impossible to afford licenses for the lyrics our site contained. You can go two ways...fly illegally (which most of these sites do) and risk getting sued, or pay an outrageous copyright fee yearly to license tracks for display.

For a "fun side project" I wasn't willing to accept that risk.

http://subimage.com/blog/2012/12/15/lyricful-looking-for-inv...
I must say: It looks awesome. I've been using it for a small project, and it's pretty ok. The docs are lacking though; I've been through them a few times, but if I have to go back to something I saw, the website doesn't really allow you to do so; the docs need to be better structured.

As for the naming; it works, but the examples are lacking as well. Some don't have all the markup you need, leaving you to inspect the site, others have hidden constraints with accompanying tags that are required (tends to go wrong when you start mixing up stuff).

It's a pretty cool looking project, but I'm not sure this is the way to go. My ideal framework would be bootstrap with some UI elements from here, with Foundation's grid system.
I don't think disability is that rare. In the US disabled people are believed to be at least 30 million people. Why not have people trained and move them around? Why not have advocates within the university who do the fighting?
+1 for adwords & rapportive.

>> ... tool that no sales team should omit.

i'd add olark[1] & nerdydata[2] to that list as well.

I even have a SaaS product built, but yet to deploy - I'm testing the following way:

...i put a "pre-order" or "buy" via gumroad widget, and will start deploying once i have my first purchase. just stats on how many people go down the funnel[3]( clicked the "for companies" link, # who viewed price, # who clicked "i want this" is worth the 10 mins setting up your product on gumroad ...

~B @verbsapp

[1] http://olark.com
[2] http://nerdydata.com
[3] http://gum.co/wvFqR
> As for the GC, I can give the Squawk example which has a GC done in Java, targets embedded systems, with C/C++ only being used for hardware integration part.

I didn't say it was impossible, just slow, and it is:

"My third reservation is Squawk's performance, which is roughly that of the J2ME-derived Java KVM introduced a few years ago, an interpreted JVM that is written in C. From everything I have learned about it, the developers are assuming that most applications for the SPOT platform will include processors of sufficient power and that large amounts of memory will be available for garbage collection, pointer safety, exception handling and a mature thread library for thread sleep, yield and synchronization. That is not true in many cases, and if SPOT is limited to only sensor applications that are not performance-constrained, the platform is interesting but not all that important in the long run."

http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/cole-bin/4025677/S...
Yeah, modify to taste. I only wanted to post some example code to show how easy it is to automate tagging.

My code won't be appropriate if you don't use master/staging/production branches, either.
While that remains a particularly amazing insult, perhaps it is in fact you who have conflated libertarians with minarchists?

Not all of us, gold/bitcoin stash or no, accept that police are a necessary part of society.

Given that one part of society (the state) has historically demonstrated that it will expand to fill any and all available opportunities to exert destructive power over others, it doesn't make much sense to grant them a monopoly on the opportunity to use violence to uphold the law.

Laws, we need. Cops, we don't. The NSA has nothing to do with it.

TL;DR: Fuck the police.
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Intel? It's alleged that Intel is in on it! Any NSA-proof solution must be based on chips designed and fabbed outside the US.
Looks like that's exactly what Meteor's spiderable package does since 08/2012[0]: look at user-agent, run phantomjs for 10s and return a rendered page once google/facebook crawler detected.

[0]: http://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/08/08/search-engine-optimiza...
So Lavabit should have shutdown before the leaks?

What you say may be applicable to the big players, but not to the smaller ones.
It looks like the government needs major surgery.

Why don't we deal with the widespread corruption and overreach of power on all levels, from blue-clad street thugs, through federal prosecutors who see nothing wrong with pre-trial asset forfeiture, all the way up to and including the military-surveillance complex?
"The Web should be ours: People should have the ability to shape the Internet experience and be able to contribute with content without requiring permission from a central entity."

Honest question: Why?

No other network is supposed to be "ours". Roads, telephones, mobile networks and so on. Why is the internet supposed to be different and special?

I mean, yes, as a Utopian ideal, but realistically, I dont see how long term that flies. I cant help thinking that up till now we have been lucky and spoiled, but in the end, everything gets controlled and regulated.
How are race and culture the same thing? Multiracial groups where everyone has near similar beliefs probably work "better" than groups where everyone belongs to the same race and have radically different beliefs.
10,000 hour rule is only a metaphor. I think at best it should be treated as something that requires a lot of effort to master.

But its not like you go and spend 10,000 hours and at then at the 10000 hour 1 second you become an expert.

If you are deeply involved in something working day and night. Within an year, you will be close enough to swimming with experts. Often that is all you need.
I can't say I disagree with any of this, though it still feels wrong to otherwise pay taxes on something like renting a room in this instance. It's your property, what business is it of the government's?
The article ignored the emergence of lactase persistence in West Africa and Saudi Arabia (where two other hotspots on the map are) but there is more on that in this study:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672153/
How can a JIT runtime be faster the first time code runs? How can it load faster if it has to load all the compilation code to run the process?

Yeah, each has their own benefits. AOT compilation is even theoretically faster in some situations, as well as being faster in practice.
Fine, but the FSF doesn’t think that SQLite is non-free software http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/SQLite#tab=Overview
Not that long ago, if you hired an artist based on his work, you might have ended up with a Godwin related situation...
Because it works really well in the long term if it's ours. It means that innovation can come from many more people than if it were a regulated network. And that's not just a possibility, that has actually happened lots of times.

A possible contribution is "write a search engine", and see where Google is today.
Absolutely not. I've interviewed people who had amazing Github profiles who couldn't write a simple loop on the whiteboard. Either they hadn't written the code in their github, or they code only by copy/paste.

ps. It might be a good idea to be slightly more gender neutral in your question. :)
Because freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And being regulated does not mean lack of control or any kind of censorship. Network neutrality written in law is regulation. And I like it.
> However I would be genuinely interested to be shown a deliberate wrong fact or lie he's written.

Just an example, I can pick just any of their articles, they are full of that:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2013/03/09/googles-android-pow...

If you can't see the wrong facts and the lies in just that post I can't do more.
I'm curious - why not get a video projector and throw the image on a wall? I understand this is not a portable solution, but for at-home, this might be just the ticket.
I've had this experience too. I was a hardcore Facebook user (the village smartarse), and finally got frustrated and deactivated my Facebook account. Also went largely cold off social media. I even left the Whatsapp group my circle of friends are in.

It felt like diving deep underwater after struggling with the crashing waves. Serene, calm, bliss. I find that now when I return to the surface, I approach it with a very different perspective.
We must do both. Of course we need to change how our energy is produced, but we must also decrease the amount of energy we consume at the same time. Otherwise we have no chance to succeed.

And of course I am know very well that what I and my wife do is just a piss in the sea. The point is that it is much easier to argue that you should do your part to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases you are responsible for, and even support legislations that forces you to, if we already have done our part and a little more. It would be much easier for the US to ask China to do something about their greenhouse gases if the US per capita emission wasn't something like 4 times as high as China's.
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This is a great approach, but detecting the user-agent is the wrong way to decide if you should pre-render the page. If you include the following meta tag in the header:

<meta content="!" name="fragment">

then Google will request the page with the "_escaped_fragment_" query param. That's when you should serve the pre-rendered version of the page.

Google has documentation on this here: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/... and we've been using this method at https://circleci.com for the past year.

Waiting for google to request the page with _escaped_fragment_ should also prevent you from getting penalized for slow load times or showing googlebot different content.