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> Someone's updating their resume tonight.

At a start-up, it most likely was not an engineering decision, but an agility trade-off. Get that product out the door now!
I lived in a single payer country. I still remember how depressing it was at the end of each month looking at my paycheck. The amount of overhead and false incentives such a nationalized or semi-nationalized health care system generates truly paralyzes - not just the economy at large. You can get pretty decent prices for medical treatments in the US, but you always have to ask and price shop. Certain things seem more expensive then elsewhere. It's interesting to note how the great quality and extreme competition of dental care providers in former Eastern European countries have driven price down. Many people living in the neighboring socialized welfare funded health care systems take a bus/plane and get their teeth fixed in the "capitalist" alternative in the former communist countries. Oh the irony.
OT: pitbulls don't harm their humans. They're only a threat to humans who are obviously a threat to them or their humans.
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I often point out in aviation-related threads the striking difference between aircraft engineering in the past and today.

In 1989, a DC-10 operating United flight 232 suffered an uncontained engine failure which damaged the tail and disabled flight controls, resulting in 111 deaths (and could have been more, but in a freak of chance, a DC-10 flight instructor was on board and was able to assist the crew in landing, which may have made the difference for the other 185 people on board). In 2010, an Airbus A380 operating Qantas flight 32 suffered an uncontained engine failure which damaged a wing, disabled a hydraulic system and braking systems, and disabled some flight controls while starting a fire. It resulted in... zero deaths.

In the early 1990s, Boeing 737-200 and 737-300 aircraft had a variety of uncommanded rudder movement issues, resulting in at least 157 deaths. In 2012-2013, the 787's battery fires resulted in... zero deaths.

In other words, the main difference between "then" and "now" is exactly the opposite of the usual arguments against modern aircraft development: more recent aircraft, when they have serious issues, result in fewer injuries and deaths than older aircraft when they experienced serious issues.

This track record of improvement gives justifiable faith that modern aircraft development is safer.
They're both generally used to solve one problem and, while they both may be really great at it, don't have a lot of applicability to other things. It isn't a bad filter - don't bother with someone who only has experience and interest in one of the tech stacks that's a total institution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_institution
Is there any kind of time limit on this? Or could a person transcode any length video?
Aufbewahrung - ZNL- ein großes internationales Möbel Online Shop in Deutschland
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I have zero first hand knowledge of the hosting market, but as a developer I think there's still a very legitimate market for smaller hosting companies out there. While small companies may not be able to compete with Amazon on the ability to offer numerous features or scale out rapidly with massive numbers of machines, they can compete on things like price and customer service.

While many developers use Amazon seemingly by default without considering alternatives, many developers also realize that you can often pay much less for greater performance by relying on smaller hosting companies.
Fedex? Your cat? I dunno. We don't know if it's a particular batch or all of them uniformly smell like that.
BlackBerry still has millions of customers and a pretty decent OS built, someone could buy them and probably do pretty well, especially someone like Lenovo, Oracle, Dell, IBM, etc.
Pretty much every job offer I've gotten has involved walking into a manager or interviewer's office and pointing out things he can do better with his business. It's often not core stuff, but I'll frequently point out UI improvements they could make, or new technologies they may want to take a look at, or new algorithms & data structures that can solve their interview questions. And on the flip side, I enjoy learning about new businesses and new techniques they're using to the greatest extent that they'll share them with me.

A-players are not threatened by this. B-players are. I've found that it is generally good for your career to try to work with A-players whenever possible and avoid B/C/D/F-players.
Probably cost cutting gone wrong. Lots of acidic chemicals are used and they need to be carefully washed off parts or the smell will linger. Many cheap glues/tapes can also carry a strong acidic smell. The comparison to cat urine makes sense since the smell comes from its high acidity.
So the question then is when will browsers provide access to crypto libraries as a built-in JS API? Clearly, the browser already requires crypto to function. Why can't we standardize a way to access it from the runtime and provide a way to run code against it in a sandbox that would be impervious to things like wrapping one JS function in another?

On top of that we would need some code delivery system with built-in trust verification. This way you could load an up to date copy of PGP written in JS and verify that this code comes from a source you trust.

Then again, this is starting to look a lot like a secure package management system and downloaded software vs the continuously updated web apps we have today, so it might not be worth reinventing the wheel...
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This. People complaining about what JavaScript lets you do just need to learn how to exploit its strengths while being aware of its dangers.

It's like someone complaining that git let them make a mess after they merged master into their feature branch and then merge it back into master.
You are 100% right on both points. We'll be updating our security page as we get more details, I expect we'll have some rough timeline information tomorrow.
I see a number of posters suggesting various tweaks to democracy in order to prevent this sort of thing.

Here's a suggestion: do away with voting altogether, and select representatives randomly from the citizenry.
Unfortunately, even after any graphics (WebGL) related improvements, on my Windows machine Firefox still lacks in graphics performance when compared to Chrome. If I open the new Google maps, it is very slow when compared to Google Chrome. Wonder what is the reason for such huge difference in panning/zooming performance. What is Firefox lacking here? Anyone knows more about it?
That would be one hell of a bug.
My Ford Escape's air conditioning smells like cat pee sometimes, when it's first waking up. Not too badly, but the resemblance is quite distinct.
Is there any other kind of error?
Any length
I think that was in reference to a web app.
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Sounds great. Many of us prefer to be contractors for as long as you can afford us. Its really win win.
Maybe they have some other debts to balance out their assets?
Thanks for the spirited reply, Perceval, but I don't see a place where you justify a disagreement with the substance of my position. What I do see is you bragging about your acceptance to a nice school. Not to belabor the obvious, but lording your supposed superiority over opponents is not a good way to conduct a discussion.

Maybe the first part is going in the direction of a productive discussion -- are you complaining that the split between "right wing" and "left wing" is so general as to lose all salience to the discussion at hand? I assume that can't be your position, because that's pretty obviously wrong.
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User script to hide Twitter actions until rollover on new timeline
i find i use virtual desktops a lot when using a tiling window manager; otherwise i just have one desktop per monitor and move between windows using the xfce/gnome taskbar instead.
Why not link to the original article, instead of some weird half-Greek aggregator blog?

http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151...
Using the world's first Bitcoin ATM
Hey, ping me at witt.rj@gmail.com We're looking for people. Have an LOI with UCLA Oncology and are meeting with a group of 1200 oncology researchers in a month. h4ycorp.com

Happy to talk and help where I can.
-ryan
Self Evolving Website
I just released my first website. I plan to make periodic releases over time that change the website in some way. At its current state, it's a simple html page, but I hope that along the road, as my skills as a developer grow, it will evolve into something much more interactive and exciting. Hope you enjoy.

www.peterpark-er.com
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beware of hidden characters in commands while pasting them in terminal from random sites.
"unless you have an in with the employer or manager."

That's usually the key point. I have a number of friends without college degrees that do just fine. Their usual modus operandi is to meet someone from the company at a conference, consult for them for a while, and then get hired once the company sees how awesome their work is.

I wish this weren't needed, but hiring managers function under conditions of very low information, and they wade through too many resumes of low quality to avoid filtering it on some criteria. Degrees and GPA are the most easily quantifiable filtering criteria, and so that's what makes it into the filtering software.
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Yes it is a seamless experience! It has to be!
Ad-hominem attack, check.
Actually the thing that's infuriating about Netflix and many of its competitors is the weak or no support for deep linking to content. We don't need channels to curate content if bloggers, etc. can do it themselves.
You obviously don't have to write numerical code. I also guess, if you had to, you'd also be fast to start avoiding language that forces you to do the above dance everywhere.

I didn't claim it would be pretty, I was just demonstrating that it's possible.
I've gone back and forth in my own head about this argument over the years, and I'm still not entirely sure where I come down. But, that said, I have seen the following problem several times, and it seems like client-side crypto provided a reasonable solution.

Challenge:
I have a client (web browser) and I have a back-end server (sitting deep behind several layers of intermediate servers of varying degrees of trust) and these two entities need to exchange some sensitive piece of information (a credit card number, etc). How do I transmit this information (either from client to server or the reverse)?

Problems/Assumptions:
Let's assume I trust the front end server explicitly to serve fully server-controlled data. Obviously, if we don't trust the server serving me the JS it is all for not. Now, let us also assume that, although my front end server is trusted, it, as well as all of the intermediate servers may accidentally log data that flows through them. In other words, we assume that if I pass a plaintext credit card number over a trusted SSL connection to the server, it, or any of the intermediate servers on the path to the trusted back end server, may accidentally log the sensitive data. How do you solve that problem?

Solution:
You could use client-side crypto to create an end-to-end channel that transmits the sensitive data to the back end server.

So, yes, the above solution assumes a fully trusted front end server. In this case, the client side crypto is more to protect the service provider than for the user, but it does seem to provide some sort of "existence proof" in so far as it is a problem that exists in the real world, is made better using client-side crypto, and doesn't seem to have many alternative solutions that provides the same assurances.

P.S. This is more or less what BrainTree does with their client-side encryption for credit card processing (https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintrust/client-side-enc...). In this case, the front end server needs to be trusted, as it is serving up the public key to bootstrap the whole system. But, if we assume the server is trusted (even without client-side crypto we have to assume this for any security) then this approach mitigates the problem of logging credit card data by accident.

Now, maybe this use case is the only legit use of client-side crypto. But, it does make me take pause before dismissing the approach entirely.
If every employee's salary is at least the market median, the market median will rise until half of the employees have salaries below the median. By definition. You can't have Lake Wobegone in a market.
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This is such a cool comment. Thanks for writing it.
That is hilarious. Really though, most people in our industry are constantly being recruited for jobs we don't want or aren't vaguely qualified for. But, hey, it keeps LinkedIn in business!
Pretty poor communication -- we were also among those who had to get new AWS credentials with no idea as to why ours were no longer working. Luckily we jumped on it pretty quickly, but I hope this kind of thing is handled much differently by providers in the future. Very inconsiderate of the impact on users.
I am strongly in favor of basic income, primarily because I think technology is going to make it increasingly difficult for many individuals to find meaningful, high paying work. But even with sufficient basic income, people are going to forgo insurance and health care until it's too late, and as I mentioned in the previous post, this will have societal level effects.

I would agree that in a more ideal world, we could have free market health care. With enough technological progress, it might be possible to get accurate diagnoses of illnesses just by using an iphone app and then go to a pharmacy (or get drone delivery) to get a prescription for a cheap nano surgery pillbot. But we are way too far away from that, and there are way too many human lives on the line. I think it's okay to be militantly idealistic, but when human lives are at stake, I think it is necessary to cede to practicality.
I don't want to be an asshole, but…instead of prancing around like you actually know something why not correct what you think is "certainly categorically incorrect".
Three rules for organizing under an attention economy
So fresh tho
As usual Anandtech has one of the best reviews. My only complaint is the CPU benchmarks are more or less useless. I understand there aren't any good cross platform benchmarks right now but using JS benchmarks is completely inaccurate. Not only are there major variations between scores on the same device (across different browsers and versions) but the same browser isn't even available on both platforms.

I'd love to see how the A7 really stacks up against the Snapdragon/Tegra but it doesn't seem like we'll be seeing that any time soon.
I've heard about that and it sounds awesome. Can you say anything more about its design and syntax? For instance, I've heard that you could do manual memory management in GOAL. How was that accomplished?
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> has never been observed in real life

Frontline did a whole show on that, "Dollars and Dentists".

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dollars-and-dentists...

Frontline isn't known for having a conservative bias.
It's the same sort of thing that causes people to write off microsoft. Even a company in decline will often take years doing so.

It is a little justified though, the market changes rapidly and being on the wrong side of the acceleration curve can cause your company to crater at frightening speeds.

The thing about blackberry is they're not failing for ordinary reasons. They can't be fixed the way you'd rescue a once popular restaurant. It will take a lot of work to make them relevant again and only a few companies can do so.

Of all of them I think google's bid is the one most likely to be the most interesting. It's a perfect door for google into the business realm, if they can execute well it could lead to gdocs, android, and even chromeOS becoming major, multi-billion dollar businesses.
Does this feature cost extra?
I, uh... I'd like to take some time and point out the following implicit logic veiled beneath your posit of pro-Apple fanboyism bias.

Even if it's a software update, Apple bears the full brunt
of all the acrimony, because when it comes to Macintosh
products, Apple takes credit for the whole thing,
regardless of where the failure originates, be it
hardware or software.

Apple controls The Spice in that scenario (and thus, the universe). They are at fault for everything that sucks no matter what.
Microsoft owns Skype anyway.
> The Economist, simply put, is liberal in the sense that it tends to favor less regulation on both these fronts: it favors legalization of drugs and gay marriage, but also less regulation for markets.

Wouldn't that make it libertarian?
Dell laptops are assembled by cats. Incontinent cats.
So the Economist is like... me!
I used to work on VW's in the early 2000's and VW uses really heavy wax on all of the inner body panels to prevent rust. It's thick and nasty and smells very strong (especially in a hot climate). I used get that stuff all over me and it was tough to wash it off.
Do what you're passionate about and make the impact you want to make (or at least give it your 100% effort). Don't settle because you don't think you're capable or equipped to achieve your #1 goal. Create the opportunity you seek, if you don't see it already. "Limitations like fears are often just an illusion"
iOS apps can be hijacked to show fraudulent content and intercept data
Not to mention The Economist's fetishes for gun control and government health care monopoly.
Interesting. Which ones in particular were popular? And what do you consider a "systems programming language"? As I understand it, a systems programming language is a language that can be used to implement an operating system. C was the first high-level language to be used in this way.
The text in the middle, on the white background, is not very prominent. I can read it, but I have to strain.
Had a team lead follow that strategy once, bug was time and time zone related in testing. Nasty bug ignored in testing killed us in rollout. He made his schedule, I spent 3 days doing data cleanup for his team.
Our office plans changed from three choices down to two. One is a 'bronze' certified plan under the new regulations, and the other is a high-deductible plan with a health savings account.

So yeah, the plans go away if you get them through an employer and the previous plans are discontinued by the insurer. I'm not surprised by this.

Of course the cost of living increases part is your employer's fault.
Glad to see this article.

I found that Guardian article very disturbing and anecdotal. The Vice followup was worse (at one point characterizing Japanese culture as "South East Asian").
If they actually do a recall/replacement I'll be extremely impressed.
I assume that for the purposes of your survey, running ClamAV as part of a junk mail filter (all hosted on FreeBSD or Linux) counts as a "yes".
Go based on the job description and if you find a company you want to work for, figure out what technologies they use internally via open source or LinkedIn profile skill sets and job ads. Write on your resume specifically what the job ad asks for, practically repeating what it said, and mean every keyword. If you don't have the skills listed, don't apply for that specific position. Full stack or not, if you want front-end, learn front-end technologies. Starts with the browser, might end at the backend, but honestly? People will love you if you simply don't mess up existing code and can learn on the job from more experienced devs. I don't think that will ever change, it's just getting your foot in the door that's more interesting. As much as possible, try to gain the interest of your prospective manager and ... sometimes it just takes luck for both you and your prospective employer to agree you're a good fit long enough to sign the paperwork and deliver during the first few months. It's okay if the job's not what you expected, as that's happened to me for pretty much every job I've had. Thankfully, for most employers, "just doing your best," is enough. Mostly.
In the UK there's a TV show called QI ("Quite Interesting"), hosted by Stephen Fry, which likes to dig up "quite interesting" odd "facts" (in quotes, as sometimes they are twisting things quite far) and ask questions about them. Especially things that will get the celebrity panelists to give "obvious" but wrong answers (which they are penalized for).

One of their questions years back was "why does the House of Lords smell like wee?"

Supposedly it at least used to because stale human urine used to be used in the manufacture of Harris Tweed, which used to be the favoured cloth for suits worn by the peers. Which was not usually a problem, except, supposedly, when it rains, at which point the suit would smell faintly of urine. Gather a few hundred of them together in a room...

Here's a thread from the QI forum regarding the topic - the whole thread is quite amusing, but the end contains a fuller description, with their sources:

http://old.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=1694&start=0&sid=5efc...
bytes=>bites

Not sure how I feel about that typo
I'd heard this too, so I didn't leave reviews for my first few UberX drivers who had broken cars and didn't know the way, because they seemed like nice guys having a bad day. Then by the time I had bad drivers who weren't nice guys, I figured that was just the general quality of UberX service and still didn't leave reviews.
Cats would cost less people to assemble the product. Beef up those margins.
The problem is that even at the junior dev level, you're delivering solutions, not skills. And you really do need all those skills to build a useful frontend webapp. The only two that you could possibly cut out are Data Structures and Algorithms & Photoshop, and both of those definitely help.

The way I would approach it if I were gunning for an entry-level frontend dev position would be to just start building webpages. Start with HTML, and layer on CSS. Make it interactive with Javascript. Now serve it up from the backend with Django/RoR/PHP, which will also teach you Linux. Work with it for a while and you'll see the reason to learn Design Principles. You don't have to learn everything about those topics at once, but as you face new problems with your webapp, you layer on new skills.
It was not under warranty at the time (she has had it since soon after the 4S was released, and the bug came about with iOS 7).

Edit: that said, the warranty in Australia is legally probably two years, though Apple advertises only one year.
Wow do I have to explain it to you?

Samsung reports operating profit = Also known as "earnings BEFORE interest and tax" (EBIT) or "operating income"

Apple reports net income = AFTER TAX net income
What's so impressive? It is just a delaying tactic from June till now. And still no resolution.