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.Net Technical Developer in DFW
YourCause is looking for a Microsoft Certified Professional (or somewhere near that level) who has a specific emphasis on application development. This position is not purely oversight and management, rather, development and actual execution and implementation. The individual will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of the application, both from the front and backup.

Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to
API integration with third party services
Management of an ongoing product development schedule
Single sign-on development with other systems (a plus)
International platform expansion
Ongoing optimization of the current platform

Technical Job Requirements
Demonstrated experience with object oriented design
Demonstrated understanding of the .NET architecture
Proven proficiency in C# development
Experience in developing Web Applications and Web Forms
Other Microsoft technologies & Packages- SQL 2008, Windows CE, Microsoft Windows Core System Administration Package, Microsoft SQL Core Database Administration Package
C++, Java, HTML, JavaScript
XML / XSLT, MCSD
Full understanding and working knowledge of CSS

Basic Responsibilities
Create and modify tables & Indexes
Create, modify and debug procedures, functions, triggers, and views
Ability Perform SQL optimization
Create complex Joins using ANSI
Good SQL Server architectural understanding
Several of the company’s directors and executives are sharing stock. Chairman Jack Dorsey is selling roughly .6 percent of the company and will own 4.3 percent after the offering — making his share worth around $434 million. Co-founder Evan Williams is selling 1.6 percent of the company and will own 10.4 percent after the offering. Williams will be worth just over $1 billion if the shares go at a median price of $18.50. CEO Dick Costolo will own 1.4 percent of the company after IPO.

I don't see any sign that anyone is selling stock... these numbers are all consistent with 13% dilution due to Twitter issuing new stock.
I mean, Mailbox literally does the same thing (editing your messages on their backend -- http://www.mailboxapp.com/blog/?p=1#javascript-now-filtered-...) and no one cares. LinkedIn does it and the Internet goes shit crazy.
Regarding Marco's footnote #1, I'm not entirely sure if I agree. At WWDC, I thought the 'Designed by Apple in California' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGXFGjponC0] video added an air of magic (excuse the metaphor) to the whole charade. Considering these events go on for quite a while, surely a bit of overly-produced footage can't go down too badly?

I'm glad that this was only a minor point, and that the main issue, that the speakers currently seem to lack vivacity (exception of Federighi), was highlighted as a major issue.
I understand the position very well, and I think most people with common sense do. Of course it's harder to become wealthy than it is to achieve other positions in life.

I just think it's a stupid use of "disadvantaged." It implies someone else has an advantage, in to quote you, "escaping their position in life." It's like saying a bad baseball player is at a disadvantage when trying to become a good baseball player. It almost doesn't make any sense.

Same goes with the idea that poor people are disadvantaged about making decisions wrt money. Of course they are, or they quite likely wouldn't be poor any longer. To use baseball again, or any skill really, the experts of course have advantages in deciding the best course of action, and typically have more ways to achieve it.

What I've gleaned here is that you consider poor people to be novices at the skill of acquiring wealth. I agree. For some reason people seem to think it's far different from rookies in other skills, because acquiring wealth is perceived by most to be a vital part of success, happiness, health, etc.
WITH FARMPLICITY, THE FARM-TO-TABLE MOVEMENT MEETS THE 21ST CENTURY
You can generate images from TileMill. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/602885/hot-pink.png
And in non-English European languages from non-European institutions, as well.
You also need to ensure either the device, or the location you operate the device is rad-hardened. We cannot rule out the possibility that They can control the phases of the sun and introduce errors to your circuit at-will with solar flares.
Tarsnap. Not developing for minix specifically, but it runs there just fine.
Don't forget these are un-audited and don't really give us much information other than what they want to show us.
> Windows revenue is (finally) down. I say finally only because many people wouldn't believe this would happen, even a few quarters ago. Right now they are offsetting that with enterprise deals, but do they really think that's safe for them? RIM did, too.

If anyone is surprised by this, then that person has not been reading Microsoft's financial statements.

Windows revenues were also down year-over-year in Q4 of fiscal 2013, and in Q3 of fiscal 2013, and in Q1 of fiscal 2013. (Non-GAAP in all cases, to back out the effect of revenue deferrals.)

As for RIM, I don't see what it has to do with Microsoft. RIM didn't have platform lock-in -- all they had was email.

In contrast, analysts estimate that IBM still derives 40% of its profits from mainframes. ("Estimate" because IBM plays accounting games to minimize the contribution of mainframes.)
Nice boost in their search revenue

From what to what? I see a "47% increase", but was that from $100 to $147, or $100,000,000 to $147,000,000?
They attempt to avoid refund laws as well. Apple claim you can't get a refund on the App store. Although they have to provide one if an App you purchase does not do what was advertised. (This was brought up on The Chasers show "The Checkout")
If they want to translate the great performance some parts of Microsoft are having into a Google-like stock price they should break Microsoft up into business and consumer companies.

Critics of Microsoft are wrong to call it's enterprise business a dinosaur. There is no reason to think Microsoft won't continue to grow this business for decades to come.

But I would like to be able to own this as a pure play, not mixed up with XBOX. Let's call this company "Azure" and spin it off, like HP did with Agilent (which should have been called HP), and let the "devices and services" part screw around with reinventing itself.
Nicely stated, what I didn't see mentioned was the iframe it introduces into the mail. It can use this iframe to collect all kinds of additional data about you.

In the first instance I thought this was an app that was running in the background on your phone, I would have called that doing the impossible. This is just a MITM, and not a very good one at that.
If they follow through with what you suggest, I wonder if it will be the straw that breaks the camels back in regards to an antitrust lawsuit by the government.
that does not address the volatility issue at all - even if bitcoin are converted immediately to dollars or euros, because they fluctuate so wildly, no business would be able to know if the amount they receive will even cover their cost or if suddenly they are charging way way 'too much'.
On one hand he is definitely not being fair to Android and its eco-system... but that's expected from this blogger.

Having said that there are a lot of apps out there that should really have a decent tablet interface but don't for no good reason.

It's not as bad as any Apple fanboy thinks it is, but it could be a lot better.

Thankfully it is getting better, slowly. It looks like Trello is about to release their tablet interface. Like, 1 year late... but better than never.
From the footnotes:

> Let us continue to believe that these are relevant industry events rather than giant commercials!

Why? Oh, why is it so hard to confront the reality that is right in front of their eyes? IT IS A GIANT COMMERCIAL, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!

This is the point where it becomes impossible to avoid comparisons to religion. You have a basic admission of someone who wants to keep believing in an illusion rather than exercising any kind of critical thinking.
"DNF is the default package manager instead of Yum, which only works with Python 2"

This will be interesting.
Key point: "hype about it at their event".
> I find it funny how you think of differentiation in terms of "frequency domain", "bandlimit" and "filter". Very signal-processy, very engineery. A mathematician would speak about unbounded operators in a Banach space. :-)

This more or less depends on what kind of mathematician you're talking to. A mathematician working on Frames and signals almost certainly uses that language. But someone working in PDEs probably doesn't, even if the theory intersects a lot. It's probably a sign that there's nothing wrong with mathematicians and engineers sharing concepts :).
Consider an alternate universe where Southwest Airlines has a worse reputation due to a variety of bad practices they've engaged in. These banner ads have the potential for pushing many hits describing these practices further down the page, stifling the ability for organic results to properly reflect public opinion on a company.
No comments on the obvious relations to the startup world?

Here we have two people on virgin territory, because they were building something to their logical conclusions and fulfilling their rare ambition of excellence.

They weren't really copying anyone else or cutting much corners.

I believe that the world is full of possibilities like that - but we somehow fail to see the whole process through.

What are the next services that will blow the mind? That will have the users say "I never knew that was possible!"
Seasonic seems to have a pretty good fanless power supply.
More people know what LinkedIn is.
For those of you who continue to predict the demise of MS, it might be worth mentioning that Microsoft has a quite broad range of products and they primarily sell to enterprise customers who are notoriously non-fickle.
I wonder if they called it "intro" to make it impossible to google for so that no one can ever figure out what they're agreeing to when they install it.

What does the sig it appends look like? I will have to make sure to never send email to anyone who has the tell-tale "I opt into spyware" flag.
There's a typo in the Request Invite to Python 101 modal. It should say: The initial class size will be limited to 20 students.
I take a super dose of Vitamin C (3g) if I ever feel like I'm going to fall sick. It's amazing how well that works and keeps the flu at bay. I make sure I don't take it daily though - prefer the natural route - fresh fruits

I used to take protein powder, but I think its a waste of money if you are not trying to seriously bulk up. For the ones who want lean muscles, enough eggs and chicken breasts do the trick.
Recipes for Embeddable Stripe Revenue Growth & Conversion Charts
That is true, so it isn’t unprecedented, but when Apple announced that display, it also lowered the prices of its other displays to $699 and $999, which it continued selling.

I believe that if and when Apple releases a 4K display, it will not be its only offering. I expect it to be accompanied by a revamped (thinner) 27" display that supports Thunderbolt 2, USB 3, and MagSafe 2 – priced the same as the current Thunderbolt Display ($999).
And the OP link plays to both of these. Like an Apple story.
That's not what GP is talking about. Those algorithms are the sub-cubic ones, the ones that are O(x^2.something). GP is talking about an algorithm that is still O(n^3), but is not just a straight translation of the matrix multiplication formula into code, but rather does things in a way that is more friendly to the CPU cache, resulting in significant speed gains.
> But that was a huge one more thing, yet somehow they managed to deflate giving an enormous quantity of top quality software away for free. I completely agree that in the end it was very ho hum, but I still can't even place why that is.

I think it had to do with timing. In many cases, the timing of the presentation seemed...somehow "off" -- aside from Federighi whose parts of the presentation I enjoyed. Lots of "ok now watch this video we made", untucked shirts that seemed "forced" somehow, the feeling of "forced" humor (Cue especially), etc. It almost seemed like the whole thing felt somehow rushed and/or unpracticed. Weird.
Math doesn't apply when you use Apple products.
Steve Jobs is dead. Nothing will come him back to life.
Those passive coolers generally still rely on some airflow. With no case fans at all, I'm told they won't be able to hold up under any decent load.
[EDIT] As others have said below, this comment, while maybe useful, doesn't really apply to the article (or AD), since AD is about differentiating functions, not data.
> Problem solved, myopic holier-than-thou rant avoided.

There will be many many people who will use it and won't be aware of all these facts. It is important to discuss these things so that everyone knows and possibly, stays away. If you don't know what it does, you may install it. See - it goes full circle.
Great! I will be in touch very soon, looking forward to chatting.
Shutterfly Acquires BorrowLenses
Just to clarify, high end for last two ratios are 2560x1600 and 2560x1440. Both were available at least two years ago when I built my current machine, although after some quick research the 16:9 format had some available as early as 2007.
Map: Six Decades of the Most Popular Names for Boys, State-by-State
You can use PCR to check for the presence of viral DNA or RNA (the "viral load"). It's a direct test for the virus and is relatively cheap.
Great piece that breaks down the value of the Flipped Classroom model.20 yrs from now people are going to look back and say "I can't believe teachers would spend 4-10 hrs per week standing in front of a classroom and regurgitating memorized materials! That's what videos are for!" (hear sound of hand hitting the forehead) This is timely because we;re in the midst of Flipped Classroom week, so for more information you can checkout our blog http://studysoup.wordpress.com/ (sry it's also connected to our company StudySoup, but it's still interesting stuff)
They are going after a similar market, but the key difference (and it's very important in terms of expressiveness) is that they have a workflow engine, but this is a state machine at its core.
Sitting Down – A Web Developer’s Life Sentence
Just wanted to point out that the weird "hiding the address bar" thing isn't as bad as you describe (the behavior you talk about might have existed in one of the betas, but trying on my iPhone now it seems to be gone). Instead, if you press the top of the screen the address bar now appears, and pressing the top again makes you scroll to the top of the page.
Still running a 2006 MBP primarily, so I'm getting close.

Also getting close to needing an upgrade. Mostly for RAM though.
58 Things We've Learned About the NSA
You will love this article...

http://www.marco.org/2012/10/26/an-alternate-universe
And, perhaps more importantly, people don't like LinkedIn.
I generally agree with the post. It was so dull that I didn't even finish watching. And I couldn't believe how much Cook was stumbling over his lines. I always though they did tons of rehearsals. And they do have teleprompters, right? (maybe that's the problem).

I realize Apple/Steve nailed the presentation format and many are trying to copying (and some, like Samsung, are trying to stray from it). But maybe it's time to shake it up a bit. Every event feels exactly the same, even the general structure and collection of stats and retail store openings. Apple is creative and smart. It should figure out the next format/style.
Solution: clean it once in a while :)
Well the company I work for as one and any other company that realises the pursuit of money without regard for other ideals is an exercise in destruction and exploitation.

Often co-operatives will fit well in to this category as the workers in a co-operative are rather less likely to malevolently exploit themselves in a disdainful pursuit of profit before humanity.
I'm not convinced that Hofstadter is pursuing computers that think like humans, so much as computers that appear to think like humans. He abstracts certain observable behaviors of the human mind (e.g. analogy), but there's no guarantee that what a brain can observe about itself is what a brain is actually doing. Does it make sense to ignore the underlying behavior of human brains, and instead try to directly emulate a particular abstraction? We can't let our romantic notions of what brains "do" get in the way.
Bitcoin volatility won't decrease for a long time. Right now we're in the first major phase of Bitcoin's evolution, wherein the global financial system slowly wraps it's collective brain around what Bitcoin is, how it behaves, and what it's good for.

Even experts in cryptocurrency don't agree about any of those things, so global consensus about those three things is a long way off.

A few basics are starting to emerge:

* Bitcoin is good for transactions that governments don't want you to make.

* Bitcoin is good for transactions between vastly different financial and legal systems.

* Bitcoin is good for storing money in your brain.

* Some subset of people feel Bitcoin is a good investment.

But even now, there are many people with money, not to mention many financial experts, who are not so sure about these things. With every WSJ article we creep closer and closer to consensus, but it is still quite far off.

That said, eventually the global financial markets will start to agree about these uses, and a generally accepted model will emerge. I suspect this will take at least 20 years, which is the length of time it will take for us to start having University Faculty who went through their entire undergraduate education with Bitcoin existing and at least partially understood by their professors.

That model will be something like:

Bitcoin market cap = I + f(V)

where V = volume of global transactions for which Bitcoin is the best choice

f(V) = the float required to make those transactions

I = the amount of capital for which Bitcoin is the best investment vehicle

And of course we need models for each of these... V is going to be some portion of illegal transactions, some portion of inter-border transactions, etc. We really have no idea what this is right now.

Until then the price of Bitcoin will be very chaotic, which will influence the I term, but not the V term. The V term is just a pure result of how many people have need for a Bitcoin-like currency, and what percentage of those people are aware of Bitcoin and have the technical means to use it.

BUT, when the global financial markets do start to reach consensus on the model, then Bitcoin will stabilize. And I don't mean it will stabilize as a deflationary currency, I mean it will literally be flat. Because the financial markets have NO problem pricing deflation into their models and they absolutely will. The price will go up to where you can't make money investing in Bitcoin during a reasonable slice of a human lifetime, and then level off.

And I suspect Bitcoin will stabilize MUCH more than traditional currencies. Because there will be no capriciousness of international politics or policy, the Bitcoin price model will be based on much more stable factors: global crime, global population, etc. And those things are much easier to model than things like U.S. foreign policy.

So anyone who is thinking either A) Bitcoin has a chance at stabilizing in the next 10 years, B) Bitcoin will deflate forever, or C) Bitcoin will never stabilize, I just don't agree. It's just going to take a while.
Interestingly, relatedly, a lot of the emacs style keybindings (ctrl-a, ctrl-e, ctrl-k, etc) are system-wide in OSX. I prefer vim as my daily editor, but it is often useful. You can also make the bindings even more emacsy if you want.

http://irreal.org/blog/?p=2063
You Can Now Liberate GIFs From the Web With an Old, Weird Technology
>The part where they reduced the amount of RAM, or the part where they used Iris/Iris Pro graphics like every other PC manufacturer is going to be doing pretty soon?

1) It seems like they introduced a "cheap" model with only 4gb ram and 128gb SSD.

2) However, the previous version with 8 GB ram and 256gb SSD is _costs less as well_.

3) Iris Pro graphics aren't bad - it's certainly better than Intel HD 4000.

4) Apple did not remove any dedicated graphics card on the 13" retina. For the 15", a dedicated card (nvidia 750m) is still there.

New prices: http://mu.ms/f/qc.png
Old prices: http://mu.ms/f/rc.png

Basically, if you want a MacBook Pro with Retina Display, there's a new model that's now a whopping $200 less, the previous low-end model is $100 less, but with brand new cpu, graphics and battery life. There's even more money to save when buying the 15" models.

I don't understand what you people want from Apple
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/southw...

Speaking of "high quality ads": The second Cheap-O-Air Ad is for flights to Southwest not on Southwest Airlines - Deceptive IMHO.
>>Microsoft has gotten serious about exploiting their search engine tech and that is having an effect

If you ask a source like Yahoo who see's real data, you would know thats not true. If Bing is making an impact Yahoo would not be going out of way to avoid Bing.

CPC is down due to lower CPC's on Mobile. Isn't it public knowledge?
The TCC binary is small enough that it is eminently tractable to inspect it all by hand (or with IDA Pro if you are the rich kind of hacker). Binaries aren't black boxes, they're just code, only like it's written by a demented cowboy coder with really bad taste in variable names.
Downvotes? The build quality on most PCs is atrocious compared to Apple.
TechStars Seattle Demo Day Showcases Google Glass Apps And More
> Right, and... what would the harm be there?

That's a little too obvious to state so I won't pretend there's people here that haven't figured that out yet for the sake of overly-pedantic or naive arguing. You're moving into "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" territory.

> Is that just a fundamental value for you?

Yep. It's in my country's constitution and protected under various laws.
I think they're on track to do $2 bil this year for some context.
This is why I love my Kindle Paperwhite so much. I could read on my Ipad, but it's so easy to jump into something else with that. The Kindle's limitations let me get on with reading without being tempted by other things.
> Is three years a long time?

That struck me as odd, too. Thinking of progress in such short periods must be Moore's Law in practice, I guess.
Monetize your WordPress, Blogger or any site with Bitcoins
You need to use the right level of abstraction for the problem at hand. For modeling intelligence, abstracting away the probabilistic/statistical aspects of cognition greatly limits your options. Continuing the web development analogy, abstracting away statistics in cognitive science is like abstracting away JavaScript/HTML and using WYSIWYG GUI tools. With the same effect of only being applicable in toy problems and not scaling to real world scenarios :)
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An update has been posted on this: http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-10-24-1

tl;dr: Relevant services moved to new servers; investigation continuing. Post mortem to follow once that's done.