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Never mind, the "We show an ad only in the context of a call to or from a business." in their faq http://pingjam.com/faq/ is probably what you mean. So, I guess I will suddenly see ads if they detect I'm calling to business, but I will have no idea which app caused it. Genial.

I would not knowing install app that does that.

If only I could filter playstore by permissions. That would make it that much more usable. As it is now, it take too much time to scroll down till first app that does not require too many of them.

Or control better what kind of data applications see. Anything would be better then current "we pretend you are in control, but will make it as hard as possible for you to exercise that control."

End of rant.
Whether the spec itself is correct is another question, but then we’re getting into verification vs. validation, a different issue.

I think you get to the nub of it here. TDD lets you develop a spec that is consistent with requirements (the subset so far implemented) and the code at all times.

Writing a comprehensive suite of tests before any production code is like writing a complete spec without any clue as to its applicability. Writing tests afterward would be analogous to writing a spec for an already shipped product.

Tests work both ways in TDD: you are checking both that the code behaves as intended and that your expected behavior is reasonable. If it were only about the former it wouldn't be very valuable.
Interesting to see the change from 2009, in the Stack Overflow podcast 48: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/podcast-48/

>One reason localization has been a very low priority is that we feel for our particular audience, namely programmers, English is the de facto standard language. Not that other languages aren’t important, but it’s easier to get engineering work done when everything coalesces around a standard language.

>Joel believes that there are five “important” languages that programming content should eventually be localized into: German, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Japanese.
Conversely: I have never fished for only one fish therefore I refer to them as 'fishes' because I fish for more than one.
I guess you could classify it as selfish under some weird definition that classifies everything dangerous as selfish

No, under the definition of having loved ones who will be terribly upset in case you die or irrepairably injure yourself.

I think it is rational to classify certain voluntary highly dangerous activities as selfish if others will suffer in case an accident happens to you.
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The title for this link needs to be fixed. It's a question with some answers, and very few of the answers reflect the position stated in the title.
For MIPS (recommended for starting out), check out my post. It walks you through creating the initial program in C all the way through finding its vulnerability and exploiting it. The buffer overflow building is done in Python through Bowcaster. http://csmatt.com/notes/?p=96 (also check out the links at the end). Good luck!
Nothing, they just aliased existing PhoneGap APIs to the chrome.* equivalents.
Coursera could establish an Office in Europe and accept foreign students from there, if there is a interesting market. The whole e-learning thing, is interesting and seems to be kind of exploding. I'm not sure about the quality though
Which is exactly why they're willing to make an offer like this :)
Retrocomputing enthusiasts keep debates like this alive even today.

With single-byte addressing, I'd say even a 1 MHz 6502 can make a 4 MHz Z-80 sweat. ;-)

And, for the MSX crowd, having to do 3 OUT's, one IN and an OR just to set a pixel is definitely ludicrous.
British people don't call them lego because of trademark issues, we call them that because we consider it to be a mass noun.
Is it as clear cut as binaries == license required; source code == no licence required? Is this specific to the codec's patent pool or how patents work in general? What about interpreted languages or bytecode?
But a single brick isn't called a lego, it's called a LEGO brick (or part). You have never played with one LEGO brick, you have played with LEGO bricks.

Would you build a house out of house bricks or out of houses?
I'm writing a tutorial in x86-64 assembly on OS X that you might enjoy: https://plus.google.com/+MagnusHoff/posts/9gxSUZMJUF2

Its focus is actually writing assembly on an acutal computer, with the goal of implementing a snake game.
Might Apple take issue with this under rule 2.25?

>Apps that display Apps other than your own for purchase or promotion in a manner similar to or confusing with the App Store will be rejected.

I don't see a world where this could ever replace a native icon/app on an iPhone, but if it did I'd imagine Apple would bring down the hammer on this.

edit: I didn't realize that these would be wrapped in a shell so they can be submitted to the app store. I incorrectly thought they'd be run from the Chrome app
Code golf : Count the words in a text and display their number for each
"It's also selfish, expensive and dangerous, for you and others."

I believe you have missed the short term vs long term risks. Most people think "selfish, expensive and dangerous" is a fantastic lifestyle, as long as the risks are long term.

The short term risk of dying on Everest is really low, like 5% or so (depending how you fudge the numbers, for example the death rate of people who summit is way higher than people who nope on the way to 3rd camp and come home, but on average someone who takes a leave of absence from work to "climb Everest" has about 95% chance of returning). Note that your very long term risk of death is approximately 100% so 5% isn't all that impressive.

The short term death rate from "selfish, expensive and dangerous" like smoking, drinking alcohol, eating fast food, watching TV is about zero plus or minus drunk driving. The long term death rate is far higher than climbing Everest.

So they just have a set of tradeoffs different than your own. More people have been killed watching TV shows about Everest because they sit on the couch and get fat and have a heart attack, than people killed actually climbing Everest.

The only thing sadder than people who died climbing Everest is people who died because they like bacon cheeseburgers too much, or they drink too much beer, or they got fat sitting on the couch watching Oprah reruns.
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What about French or Spanish?
Depends on prices

https://markdownmail.io/ - much cheaper for large subscriber lists (I made this because mailchimp got too expensive once we hit 80k users)

https://tinyletter.com/ - for an easy cut down feature set

http://sendy.co/ - very cheap but self hosted and fairly unstable imo
This is rather disappointing implementation. This doesn't solve the problem is making web apps first-party apps on the platform, as this is still running on top of Java. They need to do something to allow non-Java runtimes to have the same access to system APIs that Davlik has.
Funny initiative, but was I the only one who had never heard about this "tau" movement?
As in the attacker would be able to pop up and attack the original user of @N at will for what might very well be a vicious attempt to take over or destroy as much of his digital holdings as possible.

The grandfather post is referencing asymmetric warfare[0] which would be a pretty decent name for what could happen. I don't think he just threw some cliches into a sentence.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assymetrical_warfare
Something isn't right. They ask for the 2 digits before the last 4, and then let him guess the first two.

I'm really interested to see godaddy's response to this...I'm sure paypal records their interactions, I would imagine godaddy does as well. Hell, I called Avis about something 2 months later with a dispute and they pulled the recording to make sure I wasn't BS'ing them.
1.22% of your users are bots with an old user-agent
Το 61.5% της κίνησης στο ίντερνετ είναι bot
> How is Coursera identifying students in sanctioned countries?

"Coursera has implemented an IP address block that prevents users in sanctioned countries from logging into a Coursera account. When attempting to sign in, these users will see a message explaining that we cannot allow them to access the site due to U.S. export control restrictions. In rare instances, students with IP addresses bordering on but not geopolitically within the bounds of these countries will be affected. Our engineers are working to mitigate this issue while pursuing a broader solution to the restrictions."

Translation, the USA gov is acting kinda stupid, we can't help it. Use a proxy and you're fine.

NOTE: A link to TOR would be nice :-)
If I don't remember incorrectly Khan is running on App Engine and therefore already blocked.
> Obama got that for not being Bush

That's probably what he's is going to be remembered for. Poor guy.
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Climbing Everest has become more and more ridiculous year after year. What was once a frontier pushing expedition has turned into a sport for rich idiots who are practically being dragged up and down the mountain by their sherpas and expedition leaders. There may be an occasional experienced climber but mostly the mountain is filled with rich tourists who have hardly any climbing skills.

This is well portrayed in the Discovery documentary Everest, which shows a group of people attempting to get to the summit. The mountain is so full of people that are queues of people waiting in line while inexperienced climbers ahead move slowly through the bottle necks (narrow ledges and ladders, etc).

The documentary also portrays the death of climber David Sharp [1] who was left to die up in the mountain. In the documentary, it is shown that he was found during descent in a very bad condition. There is some controversy if this is true and whether he was actually found on the ascent instead. If he was found during the descent, leaving him might be considered acceptable since the party who found him would have been exhausted, low on oxygen and the daylight fading fast.

But if the situation is (as some have suggested, and the Wikipedia article says) that he was actually found on ascent and left to die while going for the summit instead, it is very morally questionable thing to do. Going to the summit, which is essentially only a tourist attraction at this point, instead of attempting to save a man's life is something that I might never comprehend. Even if the chances of saving that man were slim, not attempting the rescue is questionable.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sharp_(mountaineer)
You seem to have completely missed the point of the scale described by strlen which is that people have different definitions of fairness and continued to argue that yours is the only one.
Let's not confuse digital "property" with physical property. It's disingenuous at best, flat out wrong at worst. On top of that, you don't own a Twitter handle, or for that matter a domain, you rent it.
Unless non-x86 desktop PCs become mainstream in the consumer market, I don't think there is much risk of confusion. The channels will be completely different and I don't think it will be easy to buy a motherboard with an Opteron A anytime soon.
> Half of the fun of this was seeing things on streets I'd never been on before

OpenStreetMap has lots of opportunities for this kind of thing, it's one of the reasons I contribute a little.
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Egypt News today now – Egypt interim PM backs army chief for president
Egyptian interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said on Thursday he backed General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for president, one of the highest-level endorsements for a widely expected presidential bid by the army chief.

Sisi, who deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July after mass protests against his year-long rule, has yet to announce his candidacy for an election that could happen as soon as March or April.

"General Sisi has a very strong popular support and definitely he is a candidate who we can count on but of course the final judge is the people," Beblawi told Reuters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Sisi is seen as the only real contender for the presidency. He enjoys broad support among Egyptians who rallied against Mursi's rule. His supporters depict him as a national hero for deposing Mursi, but the Islamist opposition depicts him as the mastermind of a bloody coup against a freely elected leader.
source: http://www.akhbrna.com/cat/egypt_news
That is a great question. What is the point of life if what you do is having a brush with death?
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"No one went bankrupt, for a normal definition of the term."

A lot of people who borrowed from the Irish banks were forced to go bankrupt - apparently mostly those who had borrowed relatively small sums (less than 20 million or so).
At the time he got it he and Putin deserved it. Had he not gotten it then, he would def. not deserve it now after all the horrible decisions he's made since.
What if you need to send the invoice after getting paid, not before?
Yasser Arafat & Yitzhak Rabin were awarded it, its not clear if they intended to create a peace, but they did not. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were awarded it. Henry Kissinger meanwhile embarked on a major bombing campaign and Le Duc Tho declined the honour.

They've made premature or outright bad calls before.
It amazes me that this type of social hack still works so successfully, I can understand Kevin Mitnick's success back when he was a hacker but surely the industry should have learnt by now. Resetting a users credentials should be treated like changing all the locks on their houses. If the user cannot verify their account credentials and is crying over the phone at least implement a 7 day delay and grace period before the reset takes effect, send emails which notifies the current email etc, or even send a pin to their postal address. I know these are not ideal security either but at least there would be some grace period.
This is sad and not very clever. If you want to destroy this regimes: educate the people. Period.
While bottled oxygen helps, it's not a panacea. The following presentation gives a good overview:

Mount Everest & The Gas Laws [1]

[1] http://prezi.com/uyvudl1s2h7x/mount-everest-the-gas-laws/
The author is stating that the child dependency cannot be extracted to another library or app. If it is extracted, it is untested, because the only tests wrapping the child dependency are actually testing the child's original parent. (Which is likely to not exist in whatever other library/app to which the child component is moved.) And then, to retroactively add tests to the child component in order to facilitate moving it to another library, is painful.

Having symmetrical tests enable components to be easier moved to other libraries/apps because the test can move with the unit under test.
This is based on Cordova, which Phonegap is also based on. There are tons of Phonegap apps in the App Store already.
I'm guessing the issues here are to do with the extreme danger you "choose" to put yourself into. You are 100% responsible for your well being and you don't expect or want other people to risk their lives for the situation you have put yourself into.

Obviously you have the support of your 'team', but if you go off on your own, then it really is your responsibility and yours alone.

This attitude also pervades "cave diving". Anything can and does happen and, as a diver, you understand the risks you are taking when exploring new cave systems and take full responsibility. It's an extremely risky "sport".
I don't think you've read that "claptrap" in its entirety, otherwise you'd have seen that I agree the undermining of those regimes is pretty much only achievable with education. If you're from the US, that includes your regime as well, which I'm guessing is the point you're disagreeing with.

If you really want to hear something controversial from me: I don't think the problem is political at all, at the core it's all about religious ignorance and religion-inspired values. Politics has a way of resolving itself, religion does not (except, again, through education hopefully).

Also I'd like to point out that I don't write comments to get upvotes - although it's nice to see people agreeing with me on stuff, I'm really here for the discourse. I fully expect my comments on this thread to turn gray shortly, to be honest.
I've been thinking along these same lines. It's going to be very tricky to simultaneously get the rich language required for interesting reading and make it sufficiently interactive. It will be pushing the state of the art in natural language processing, because portions of the story will need to be procedurally generated as you go. Or possibly have a team of writers modifying the story in real time as you go, which is also intriguing. To make it interesting and interactive, there will most likely be too many branches to do it any other way.

By the way, nice diagrams.
We are so far from a distribution that even a Rawls based system would support that it seems pretty crass to even talk about it in my mind.
I don't believe that reading is a "passive" activity.

"[Tom] saw a new girl in the garden--a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair plaited into two long-tails, white summer frock and embroidered pantalettes."
(Tom Sayer, by Mark Twain)

Reading this, we all pictured the girl in our minds. But I believe the exact image of the girl I have is different from yours. This is our mind working and filling in the gaps of the information that it believes to be missing. Some people may see the girl vividly, filling it with details like some freckles and an embroidered dress while others will simply see a blonde girl with blue eyes. But our ming WORKED to make that.

In the book Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, he says that the most import place in a comic book is the place between the pannel, where our mind rushes in to fill in the gaps, to connect the action.

Even movies have this. We have the jump cut, that can be considered a jump from one panel to another (with the implicit "space in between"). We also have the "places outside the scene". If someone goes away to get a coffee, we can picture it happening. If the scene is being filmed in a room, and we can only see 3 of the walls, we KNOW there is a fourth one.

And, besides it all, with every medium we consume, we have the "baggage" we take with us. Our knowledge of previous stories, movies, songs, books; our own opinions on the theme and even if we had a good or bad day will influence our experiencing of the "object" (book, movie, etc.)

It isn't because we're not moving our hands that the medium becomes "passive".

Books are what they are. And they are good at it. The author's fault is that he is trying to change books while what he should really be doing is creating a new medium.
I fail to see how Microsoft's decision to not fix these proprietary APIs in future IE releases is somehow the fault of "the non-engineering background trendy startup pushing culture".

Your company bought into a single-vendor solution that was then (as is TYPICAL of said vendor) dropped like a rock. Tough.
Web browsers are allowed all kinds of leeway with the Official Rules. A prime example is making payments via browsers. Limiting which parts of the actual web a browser can access would be a detriment to even Apple's walled garden.
Because Transport Tycoon is written in Assembly by Chris Sawyer. (I know, pretty amazing right?)
Agree on the split-problem. There is no way I could be satisfied with anything but the best ressource with the largest community, so I'd go great lenghts to decipher the greater wisdom.

However machine translation isn't quite there yet (judging by the quality of Microsoft's MSDN-articles translated into German). The topics I read about there, or on Stackoverflow are by definition situated right at the border of my current understanding; a few translation ambiguities or odd word choices push it over the edge and I might not "get" it.

So I doubt building a community on machine-translated articles would work.
On what basis do you conclude that "most of them have climbed a zillion other mountains"?

For example, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152659/I-strong-fee... lists 'overweight French journalist – a small woman weighing around 80kg, who had used her entire supply of oxygen before she'd reached any height at all, and an American of Turkish origin who was carrying his bicycle with him because it had always been his dream to take it to the summit and insisted on fulfilling that dream at whatever cost'.

http://failuremag.com/feature/article/into_sin_air/ includes "Since we’ve decided to measure everything on the planet against Everest there’s a group of people that feel incomplete without having climbed it. Consequently the majority of the people that go there aren’t seasoned mountaineers. Many of them have no interest in climbing any mountain other than Everest."

I can easily find other references if you wish.

I don't believe there are good numbers for the amount of experience that people who climb Everest have, compared to (say) K-2 or Annapurna, both of which are more fatal than Everest, or Cho Oyu, considered the easiest of the 8,000+ meter mountains.

But that suggests you might also not have a strong basis for your statement.
Could be worse, as I've just found out; it could be hot coffee.
Nothing is wrong with them trying, I just want to see them succeed in doing so. I was finding fault in their strategy for monetization, not in their desire to do so.

I believe customers pay for support, not for the GUI that makes support easier.

For me, the big picture is to boost ES adoption, so that the 1% of customers that pay is a bigger pie. Trying to squeeze another few hundred dollars a month out of the existing customer pool doesn't feel like a winning strategy.

But of course I"m just armchair quarter-backing: hopefully I'm wrong and ES will gain adoption because this GUI funds other developments.
Maybe we can get someone to nominate the NSA for the peace prize. Would make for fun commentary.
Snowden hasn't officially been nominated. From the article:

"The five-member [Nobel] panel will not confirm who has been nominated but those who submit nominations sometimes make them public."
That could backfire badly (disclaimer - English is my second language, so I suppose I don't have some superiority complex). Fragmenting knowledge doesn't give much benefit. English is the standard language for the IT for better or worse. Right now a small investment of learning technical English (you need probably 1000 words and rudimentary grammar to be able to search and even contribute) could pay off a lot.

If we are to share knowledge we must speak a common language. A much better use of resources would have been intensive English for IT learning program that could bring people to speed.

And the high quality content found on the Brazilian SO will have hard time finding its way to the main site.
Did you even read what I wrote?

"Would it be ok for someone to break in and start living there? No, of course not."

Dislike != ok to take my shit but it's still dislike.
I've seen people post technical questions on Facebook groups like "Jquery Brasil" (sic), by describing the problem/error and attaching an screenshot of the source code.

So, yeah, there's a lot of potential for this.
loved ones (naturally) being upset doesnt mean they havent been considered, or that they would want to prevent you from doing something you wanted just because of the possibility it results in a situation of them being upset.

By that definition all dangerous activities are selfish, I dont think thats useful.
I go with a hybrid approach: I hit the number row somewhere in the loose vicinity of the number of rows I want to move, and then hit "j" a couple times to get exactly there. If it's more than a single-digit number of rows away, I might do the first step more than once.