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My dad had purchased a Commodore 64 back in 1984 (I was 6). He bought it so he could create spreadsheets, etc. to track his budget or other household things. It came with a book on BASIC, which was built into the computer (in lieu of an 'operating system'). I began reading and copying the sample programs in the book, and slowly taught myself how to program.

One day, I was being punished for something, so my dad took away the external floppy drive for a week so I wouldn't be able to play any of my games. I remembered that I could just write my own, so I wrote a simple Hangman game. It took me 2 days, but I still did it. (Again, I was 6) Although, Hangman is not much fun when you're the one who wrote it an you know what the words could possibly be. But, I digress...

Anyway, my parents were very impressed that I had taught myself how to do this all on my own. Years later, in high school, they bought me my own PC (an IBM clone with a 386DX-40 processor, 4MB RAM, etc.) that I used to learn Microsoft QuickBASIC (a more advanced version of BASIC than came with the Commodore), C, and eventually C++. From there, I studied Computer Science in college, and the rest is history.
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This was an interesting article, but isn't the title begging the question? Unless I missed something, no one made any criminal charges, or even raised any suspicion regarding the author's behavior.
I loved this bit:

> For example, seven months in, my uncle sent me a Facebook message, congratulating me on my pregnancy. My response was downright rude: I deleted the thread and unfriended him immediately. When I emailed to ask why he did it, he explained, “I didn’t put it on your wall.” Another family member who reached out on Facebook chat a few weeks later exclaimed, “I didn’t know that a private message wasn’t private!”

Ordinary people have no idea what they're actually trading for "free" Facebook, "free" Google, "free" Chrome, etc. Heck, I'm technologically savvy and I don't really understand either.
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Recommendations on the latter?
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Dalvik is being slowly replaced by ART (Android RunTime). Also, you can pretty easily hack Java 7 or even Java 8 into Android to use lambdas. Official, default support is coming soon.

http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-gui...

http://zserge.com/blog/android-lambda.html
Good article, lots of opinions but the title forewarns. For me, Eclipse is still very good and if anything, more stable than in earlier years. I've tried NetBeans and the free IntelliJ but though those are fine, Eclipse is better for me. The real trick is to _not_ store your code in the workspace (which is ironically where the project wizards default to unless you change it). Store your code in as an example, svn for Subversion, git for Git, etc. Use the workspace as just a shell to manage Eclipse preferences and such.
If it didn't affect your life, it wouldn't be valuable.

Are you claiming all the effort spent on all this by corporations is simply misguided and doesn't affect people?
What concrete things do you gain from freedom of speech or any of the other rights enshrined in law?
BTW I already have 16GB RAM on the machine. The swap file was 32GB.
Personally, if I have to watch 3 ads on Hulu before my video, I'd rather them be for things I might want to buy than things I will never buy.
What a ridiculously overwrought writing style. This is why Pando is terrible:

> Instead, it took sheer force of will and a refusal to back down to any of the obstacles he faced. That, and an unholy faith in the power of Google to answer his questions.

Don't get me wrong, this kid is pretty awesome, and I'm happy for his success. But let's be serious: He got lucky with a silly fun app that caught on.
Gradle is mainly being pushed by Grails and Android development.

I don't know of any other project using it. We are always doing Maven or Ant.

If Gradle is the future I hope it gets improved, I gave up on Android Studio given its dependency on Gradle and how it drags my dual core with 8 GB to its knees when compiling.
They added SSL but it appears they are still making some kind of mistake. They claim to be using stripe.js (edit: http://mayone.us/distribution-plan/) which, as far as i know, creates a token so you don't have to send the credit card information over to your server protecting you from liability. It seems like they have still implemented it incorrectly. If you click "Pledge" it still sends the raw (albeit now encrypted) information to their wordpress server.
Specifying the dependency in Maven XML has become sort of a standard that even Gradle people use. Obviously, Maven has been around much, much longer, and a lot more people are still using it, but more and more are switching to Gradle. At the very least Gradle has come to a point that you don't have to worry about it not being maintained, or that there won't be people to ask if you've got a question.
You must not have any children. :-)

When a child comes, there are all kinds of new expenses: diapers, formula, clothes, pediatricians, strollers, cribs, baby monitors, toys. . . .

Personally though, I'm surprised the canonical example isn't buying a new home. I bought my first home two months ago, and it seems like every day in the mail I get two offers for life insurance, another for lawn care, and another for furniture/blinds. But I'm not seeing a deluge of online ads for those things. Maybe it's an opportunity?
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This. I can't see myself using Gradle any time soon. Literally everything I've touched is maven only and I don't want to learn another DSL on top of yet another language.
When trying to pay cash for several pre-paid cards in order to place an anonymous online order for a stroller on Amazon, the transaction was rejected and possibly reported to the authorities for suspicious behavior.
It's certainly a bit strange, but it's how Scala works as well. I wonder if it's for backwards compatibility reasons, given that everything is nullable already. Have to give it more thought though.
People that are of a sexual persuasion that their employer disapproves of. Victims of domestic abuse. People with stalkers. Bunch of other example. But really I think the author is speaking about the benefit of not, well, what the article's title says.
I've fixed this issue.
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We work with Scala, Ruby PostgresSql primarily in our backend services. Hopefully you'll be into some of those but we also would like someone who would help out on Front End projects from time to time.

This is an opportunity for individuals interested in working with a small team on a variety of systems.
If you're interested, check out our sites and send me an email, adam@sps.io.

No ninjas or rockstars, and we can promise we'll never hire a "Growth Hacker" either.

Pirates ok.
- Adam
Amusing occurrance of spell-checker-failure:

While it has a reputation for facilitating elicit activities...

Did the author misspell "illicit" in such a way that the spell checker changed it to "elicit", or did she write "elicit" originally? It makes a difference in how I view this unknown-to-me-author's credibility.
The lie is that these services intrinsically require that the companies be able to use this information for their own purposes. They only get to do that because people defend this behavior as acceptable.

Also - you seem to be saying that if you want privacy you should be willing to make the sacrifice of behaving like a criminal and stressfully hiding from observers on a daily basis. I fail to see why you would want society to be this way.
Just to be clear, the store selling gift cards had a signed out stating that they will report excessive number of cash transactions to the authorities because they are forced to by FinCEN and other U.S. regulatory bodies.
If a merchant fails to report cash gift card sells over the legal limit per day, they can be criminally prosecuted and put in jail.

So please don't blame the merchants for this. I can assure you that the merchant doesn't care if someone wants to pay in cash. In fact, they prefer it usually (e.g., cash discounts at gas stations).

What people see as "corporate oppression" is quite often government oppression.

Personally, I think both corporations and multinational corporations are engaged in this kind of misbehavior. Indeed, the line between powerful politicians and powerful corporate leaders blurs more and more each passing year.

If each side of the political spectrum continues to ignore the fact that both government and large corporations are at fault here, things will never get better.
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[edit] FULL-TIME, VISA

I'll talk about Boston where we're hiring Software Engineers at all levels. There are 13 engineers in the office and we're looking to grow to 40 by year's end.

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I've been at Fitbit since November (previously Google) and Fitbit is an awesome place to work. The company culture is fantastic. The people are great to work with. The Boston office feels like a startup because it's so small and new, yet we're well-funded and secure. Everywhere I go people tell me they love our product or know someone who loves it and talks about it.

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Findings of the Big Data and Privacy Working Group Review
Yep. I'd argue that Angular is far more complex though, with its `track by $index` and `ng-repeat-start`/`ng-repeat-end` and the scoping implications of caching filtered expressions in the view and the `ng-init` watcher trap and all that. But I digress.
He just gained experience programming apps. Give him time and he'll be better at monetization. 300k impressions a day should yeild over a 6-figure yearly salary.
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Seems killing HR and management is not always a good idea... Nor is pretending that hierarchy doesn't exist when it still does (i.e. Theresa Preston-Werner's "I was the wife of the CEO, but that never entered my mind when I hung out with any GitHubbers.")
> What concrete things do I gain from opting out? What do I lose? How does it actually affect my life?

These are for profit businesses and both are ultimately controlled by investors. What's to stop Google or Facebook from giving that data to your insurance company so they can increase your premiums? Or what about the case a few years ago where a girl was pregnant and her father found out when Target started sending them targeted ads and spam?

And keep in mind not only do they collect and use this data but they NEVER delete it. It's their data an it's their data for as long as they decide to keep it. What you gain is the ability to say or do something without being forced to think "in 25 years will this be used against me?"
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There has been some discussion lately of JS being too verbose – this seems to be adding semantic sugar to address this. But introducing ambiguous semantics is quite an other thing.
I'm sorry you have to live in a world where you are forced to watch things you don't want to, but I guess that's the endpoint for our society so we should just learn to accept it.

/s
White House report on Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values
There are a number of implementations of JSR 305 (https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=305). Findbugs is one that provides the annotations. You can include the annotations JAR file on your compile path and then use findbugs in your build to enforce them. IntelliJ will still recognize them and flag the warnings/errors.
> The goal of a movie theatre is leisure experience. If you know a movie is 90+ minutes, and there's a significant likelihood of you or your devices causing a disruption to the other 100 people in the audience in 90+ minutes...

I think your definition of "disruption" may not be entirely reasonable. It's one thing if someone is sitting there having a chat during the movie, but if a person quietly getting up and excusing themselves (in response to an unheard vibration in their pocket) is unacceptable, then we're going have to ban anyone who sits down to a three-and-a-half-hour film with a Jumbo Big Gulp from the concession counter.
https://github.com/search?q=gradle&type=Code&ref=searchresul...

I also know that Netflix use Gradle for pretty much all their Java stuff.
Has anyone read Frederic Gros' "A Philosophy of Walking" (http://www.amazon.com/A-Philosophy-Walking-Frederic-Gros/dp/...)? I thought about picking it up yesterday, but I didn't do so and it'd be nice to hear some HN reviews.
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likely to cause negative environmental impacts if spilled

Isn't this true for millions of things that we use every day?
Coming up in part 3, where we discuss http services.
Is it me or is this mixin is storing entirely the wrong thing?

If I remember correctly, state is the transient component-local stuff e.g. what a user currently has typed in a field, or whether a pane is open or closed. While you can certainly persist it locally (so the user sees the same thing when he reopens the site/application), it seems odd to persist it remotely and not persist props (the application state).

Now I understand that the homepage demo uses state, so demoing based on that is fair enough, but building a mixin to remotely persist state?
Number station was my first thought but seems overly complicated.
Sure: Raw C++ isn't necessarily OPTIMAL C++, and PHP is really, really optimized for the read-multiple-queries-render-to-a-page case (at least for MySQL it is).
Yeah, pretty much the only time you want non-arrow functions is for prototype methods (but once ES6 classes are implemented, you can use that syntax and it will be less verbose anyways). In almost every other case you either don't care about `this` or you want to use the containing function's `this` value. Arrow functions are perfect for these cases.
Would it be possible to maximize your footprint, instead of minimizing it? I think it's almost impossible to opt out, as the story says, so I try to get other names associated with my address, get other people to use my grocery store loyalty card, and I let my kids do school homework searches under my Google log-in. I also fill in as many surveys as I can with semi-fake answers, and on Netflix or Hulu (Can't recall which one does this) I alternate checking "yes" and "no" for "Is this ad relevant to you?"

If you create enough "data smog" will the Big Data people be able to penetrate it?
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I take it you live in a climate not subject to the extremes of seasons?
Should we use the "report an issue" option in Canary, or file it under:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=368725&q...

?
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I've been in the App Store since opening day and in all that time I have made a grand total of $26, far below what I've paid to be in the program.

My wife is going to let me do one more app, and if it doesn't earn enough to break even, I am instructed to shut down operations.

I am very impressed with and jealous of this kid's success.
I don't understand. Do you think these companies are sending coupons out of a sense of charity? They spend so much money giving coupons in the hopes of winning brand loyalty and making back a whole lot more money.
I have a meta-proposal. Random westerners are a terrible source of ideas - you should talk to people from developing countries and if possible go there. The local knowledge will be 100x more useful than anything we can come up with.
Road fatality rates! Here in Costa Rica about 500 people per year are killed (pop. 4 - 5 mil, and that's not even high for developing countries) and the majority of it stems from a cultural and complete disregard for road rules which is pretty common in all of these countries down here. In bad countries the rates are significantly worse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
Most app entrepreneurs wouldnt go as far as he did w/ regards to marketing. I think that was a big takeaway in the difference of drive. Most stop at facebook ads not working if even that. Extrapolate that approach to problem solving and you start to see a big diff in this entrepreneurs approach compared to others. I agree that luck is involved but don't let that blind you from the other ways he set himself up for a better shot at that.
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Does this have anything to do with this article?

I don't know about you, but they must be designing something right, because I know a ton of tech challenged people that know how to use Facebook better than their Cellphones, TV's and DVRs. Whether this is a testament to their design, or permutation is another story, but I purposely picked those 4 examples because they all have equally permeated our society.
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I also did some J2ME stuff back in 2003, most with Sharp and Nokia devices.

I read somewhere that some in the Android team are C converts doing their first Java gig.

Have you seen how broken are the generated Renderscript bindings? They don't have anything to do with Java conventions and feel completely out of place.
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