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http://glimmerblocker.org/site/filters/browse-itunes-store.x...
Authoring MathML is extremely difficult compared to authoring TeX, because it is one of those godawful bloated XML formats. I know people who can write TeX about as fast as I can write mathematical equations on paper. I don’t know anyone who can write MathML at all.
Why ERP is still so hard
Some reporters need to find another job.
TRW Stockbrokers Ltd. A member of the Nigerian Stock Exchange
0. Because why do you want to?

1. Uhm.

2. If you set iTunes NOT to copy music into the Library, then you can continue to manage your directory structure manually and do your command line tricks (or even drag & drop the folder visually). The only big limitation which will probably to continue drive you away from iTunes is point 0.

3. You can tag files in OS X. I don't think you can have unlimited number of tags though. (I don't use this feature).
Complexity of writing software
That's exactly how internet is supposed to work.
Or did you mean www? That is not the same.
For music I don't buy through iTunes, I either do "Get Albmum Art", or I find it online and add it manually.

This is something I can highly recommend as your iTunes experience would certainly go up a notch.
He decided this all by interviewing FIVE java developers and ONE .NET developer? Quite silly if you ask me.
class Applicant < ActiveEngineer
require 'mad_skills'

is an odd way to express it, because it doesn't actually say that Applicant has MadSkills. Presumably they mean:

require 'mad_skills'

class Applicant < ActiveEngineer
include MadSkills
So You Want My Job: Entrepreneur
Cyborg Exoskeletons May Soon Become as Common as Bicycles
TRW outperformed the Nigerian Stock Exchange market, despite the GREAT FALL.
Come over and lets Show you the way.
Google Voice has cool tricks, but has downsides
Why software developers are immune from the recession
Actually games that don't involve too much motion tweening (think sudoku, tic tac toe etc.) can be done pretty well with js and html5.
Just because biological evolution was not directed by intelligence does NOT mean you can't use evolution to describe a process of gradual improvement based on intelligent improvements rather than random changes and natural selection. Both are evolution, just in different domains, using different methods. (Your complaint sounds sort of like saying reading on a computer shouldn't be called reading because there is no actual printing involved in producing it.)
They are using http://www.apple.com/itms/ namespace, not the w3c one. It does not make much sense for XHTML1.1, but trying to validate their markup is not making any more sense either.
Of course, I was making an assumption that humans are conscious. Even if consciousness is not what we belief, even if its complicity deterministic.

I mean, if something exists, we can copy it. Even if humans only mirror consciousness, we can copy the mirror.

Otherwise we're talking about teology, and, if such, I won't be part of the debate. Not my field.
I was actually going to suggest that book before reading your entire post. Its an amazing book - not edited too well (through cafepress) but it has some really great lessons in it. I went to business school, and read that after graduating, and felt like my school's curriculum needed some immediate changes.
From the very limited view we have so far, they aren't specifically calling out for an audio or video tag in the CSS.

They are definitely using canvas though. Going through the inspector, the round audio buttons are made with canvas.
Pretty damn impressive because it's gorgeous. Most online stores look like they're made out of HTML. iTunes looks wholly different. It's a reminder to me as a designer that the web is capable of handling much more than I put it through at the moment.
Why on earth would they want _less_ nuclear power? And replaced with low-efficiency gas, too. Are they sponsored by the Russians or something? Because from an ecological point of view I don't really see any reason.
We're talking about a friend passing you a link that leads to page that redirects you to download some software to view that page.
At the level of "consumer goods" the technical pedantry of www. being on the address can hang.
Even AllOfMp3 had a web AND client side application to view their store.
Latency would be to high for most usage (retrieve a couple of rows a t a time). I would use it as the service is ALL my queries where taking 1 second and more on my own system, and about the same time (or better: less time) from the cloud.
Don't worry, you're far from alone. I sympathize with their desire to stand out from the other job ads, but this one is just silly. It gives the impression of a place, as Zed Shaw says, that identifies more with Rails than with their business.
Newsflash: That's because more people like Maroon 5, have heard of Maroon 5, and will search for Maroon 5 than will search for, say, Grizzly Bear.

That said, once every month Apple releases a new free indie pack for download, and even I, for whom indie is not a thang, download it and get exposed to twenty new bands I've never heard of before.
Do you think the same thing exists for Word documents?
Google’s 09/09/09 Doodle
I wonder how many cover letters they will get with that in them. Fun puzzle, but does it really help selection?
* Getting Real - 37signals

* Don't make me think! - Steve Krug

* Envisioning Information - Edward Tufte

* Purple Cow - Seth Godin (see TED talk for 15 min summary)

* The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki
I made this into a greasemonkey userscript. It searches for PDF links on a page and sets them to open in Google's pdf viewer.

Userscript at: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/57453

Tested on Minefield latest nightly, winxp, greasemonkey.
How do I subscribe to a filter?
Wait, so what does it look like when viewed with filters that limit it to the visible spectrum?
Types Of Agile Projects And The Value Of Velocity
Open the GlimmerBlocker System Preferences Pane.
Select the "Filters" tab.
From the gear-menu below the filter list, select "Subscribe to filter".
Well, he does seem to want to portray it as dishonest when he says:

There's a dirty little secret when it comes to the
stunning images produced by the Hubble Space Telescope.
...
The scientists connected with Hubble take liberties no
journalist would ever get away with--though in the name
of science.

For one thing, it says it right in the name "false color image". There is no deception here. For another, journalists regularly print these images. So, technically, they have no qualms about it either (and they shouldn't).
Eliezer made what I think was a similar point in posts at Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong; he also pointed out that evolution is really stupid. If we can understand the result of an evolved process, we should, using intelligence, be able to do much better. The key is understanding.
You only run the numbers you need at any one moment, and you can power up/down extremely quickly. This gives you fantastic control over additional power.
Evil Ink: A Robot Impersonator Opens a Blog to Post Spam From the Future
Boston "Quest for Innovation" scavenger hunt to benefit young entrepreneurs
What is the Placebo Effect, and is it getting stronger?
the pictures with the hundreds of galaxies shown is the real kicker, you talk about sizing one's self up instantly.

amazing, i'm glad we have programs like this. I can say being in my 20's i'm actually pretty sad too have missed the excitement of the apollo program's in the 60's and 70's. i can only hope i get to witness similar events in my lifetime.
It seems to be the animated part of the button that is a canvas. The static part you see before starting the sound is a background picture on the div, created using inline image data in the css.
OK. E.g. PHP does not check whether your templates are valid HTML (or even just half-way sane tag soup) at all.

And you need to put a $ in front of every variable. Seems like someone did not know how to write a parser..
Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM
Airless tire project may prove a lifesaver in military combat (July 2008)
He misses the simplest, easiest, and most effective action anyone can take:

Don't do reviews for locked-down journals.
Seedcamp data shows the startup trends in Europe
It depends. If you point it at Mars, it would be reddish. If you point it at other things, they would be different colors depending on their chemical makeup. The problem is that most of the radiation given off by objects is not in the visible spectrum, so the images would be much less vibrant. The would generally be dull gray blobs.
Perhaps, but (to the best of our apparent knowledge) the difference between "doggy brain" and "human brain" isn't really that the "human brain" is orders of magnitude faster at thinking "doggy thoughts"; it appears to be at least as much a qualitative difference in what it does as in the amount it can do in a given unit time...and the moreso if you start comparing, say, "gecko brain" to "human brain".

Agree with your general thrust but it's the qualitative change that's the more interesting, as it's perhaps unknowable (in the way that your dog Fido will never understand most of your thoughts, no matter how patiently you explain them).
This one transforms the links rather than opening them automatically. For pages with a lot of pdf links.

javascript:(function(){dl=document.links;for(i=0;i<dl.length;++i){if(dl[i].href.substr(-4)==".pdf"){dl[i].href="http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=+dl[i].href;}}})()
require 'mad_skills'

this is where I stopped reading.
This is certainly not the first time in history that a non-browser application has embedded a browser rendering engine for its own purposes. If you have ever used a kiosk, you've probably seen it yourself. In fact, I believe the Outlook mail client uses Trident for HTML email.

This is also not the first time in history that a vendor has used the human practice of exchanging URLs to promote downloads of special client software. Flash rose to dominance based upon people sharing links to amusing cartoons with each other, for example. Microsoft heavily promotes Silverlight URLs, and there has been no "hell to pay".

Nor is this the first time in history that a special URL scheme or content type was used to launch an external application. In fact, this has been a browser feature from the dawn of time.
I guess we will put live on Mars within our lifetime. Not necessarily human live. Perhaps microbes or advanced robots.
Runway Thinking: A Practical Guide to Startup Survival
Interesting read. There's some great advice in there - especially his take on the importance of play - but much of it reads like the standard approach to procrastination that has consistently failed to work for me. For example:

> Sometimes you may have more items on your to-do list than you can reasonably complete. This can quickly lead to overwhelm, and ironically you may be more likely to procrastinate when you can least afford it. Think of it as your brain refusing to cooperate with a schedule that you know is unreasonable. In this case the message is that you need to stop, reassess your true priorities, and simplify.

My experience is exactly the opposite - the only time I'm really productive is when I have way too much to do. In fact, when the density of my agenda drops below a critical threshold of overwhelm, my productivity collapses to zero.

His section on laziness is a bit more ambiguous. I agree that exercise is a great way of jump-starting an inert brain (I commute by bicycle and generally take a brisk walk every day after lunch), but disagree that laziness as such is necessarily a problem.

Again, in my experience laziness has been a strong and persistent incentive for me to figure out how to accomplish more with less work - i.e. increase my productivity.

Similarly, his section on lack of motivation rings hollow for me. I chronically lack the motivation to do whatever is the most important thing I should be doing; but instead of fighting against it, I've learned to leverage my work avoidance by doing other productive work as a way of not doing what I'm supposed to be working on.
From Fortress and a few other languages. Like Scheme. In the talk at ICFP he said, he did this, because he likes them all.

The video should come online soon. I hope ACM won't put it behind a pay wall.
A Concise Review of iTunes 9
Clojure tries to address this problem. First and rest are still fundamental concepts in its data structures, but underneath the hood is properly written concurrent Java code. Hickey wrote it once, and now you don't have to.

I highly recommend the Clojure videos, available at: http://clojure.blip.tv/. Watch them online or download them via iTunes. There are a two videos on Clojure data structures, and a set of introductions for both Lisp and Java programmers
Seth's Blog: The big drop off
Quantum Chip Helps Crack Code
Alanzo is our Church. That's a cold, hard, simple fact and not a mere superstition of the Cult of the Least Fixed Point.
It's becoming more common to use a separate domain for static content like this to be cached more effectively (and to have no cookies etc sent), so it may not always be the same server as the page you're looking at.
Top Teams for Seedcamp Week 2009 Announced
That would be OK if Lisp wasn't list-based. In Lisp you always start at the beginning of the list: any processing requires going through that list somehow.

Prolog allows some workaround to this problem by using difference lists.
There are wysiwyg tools- like FireMath (for FF), and open-office will convert. But the cross-browser stuff is killer. I'm writing a physics tutorial site and decided I'd only support FF because of the hassle (SVG, too).
New debt clock calculator overcomes $1,000,000,000K bug
Sounds like a generator repair man's paradise...
How is this not a show stopper?

Hashed/salted passwords provide marginal security if someone has already succeeded in thoroughly compromising your production servers. If that happens, 37Signals and all their customers are 37Screwed. Any password touching the Rails stack (i.e. all of them) would have to be considered compromised anyway, because whatever compromise allowed the bad guys unfettered access to the app server also lets them inject arbitrary code into the Ruby processes.

Hashed/salted passwords are security theater for geeks.
There is a difference between being the most dominant species on the planet and being composed of living cells, resulting in breathing, aging, dieing, and reproducing. An organic thing should not be looked at in the same light as something that is not.
Did highways cause suburbanization?
Just add crypthographic authentication (and hashes) and some problems go away.
30 Helens Agree: You Can't Win Without Failing
"Other researchers have made live frogs and grasshoppers float in midair before, but such research with mice, being closer biologically to humans, could help in studies to counteract bone loss due to reduced gravity over long spans of time, as might be expected in deep space missions or on the surfaces of other planets."
Perhaps, but not necessarily that much. How many people would put a link to how to build a dog house on their web page? Anybody who would probably has links to other dog house things (buy a book on Amazon, keep it smelling fresh with this goo from WalMart) etc., diminishing your algorithmically determined authority.

Not everybody blogs about everything going on in his/her life.
BTW, I can ask all of these questions without going into tilt, and without having any biological malfunction.

So, these are all valid question. If I were a "biological machine", someone would already have called for a "biological" doctor...
Are you saying it will be possible someday to kill a human being, disassemble all its parts, reassemble them and bring that person back to life?
Luca Cardelli: Geek of the Week
Why does the first step "Query Friends for all my friends" take 1.5 seconds? I am struggling to understand this. If this simple table of say 100,000,000 rows is indexed on userid and we are only reading and returning say 200 rows for a particular userid what makes it so slow?
Oh no! Someone call Bernanke! We need to stimulate the film photography industry!
Danah Boyd is a she.
Thanks. Though I wonder how this copying squares with fair use laws.
It got them to the front page of Hacker News -- a "normal" ad would not have. I'm guessing that there are at least some of us that would look past (or not mind) the ad if the job looked good.
And any actual learning would still happen in your head, just as it does now (if it happens at all that is, now or future).
To be fair, even what we consider the visible spectrum is subjective. We assign names to specific wavelengths, but that doesn't mean our brains interpret them the same way. Just ask someone that's colorblind.
"Then it proceeded to travel North"

I totally made that up.
Should Apache replace its current httpd.conf with Lua?
Managing your online reputation
I'm wondering if that was inspired by the #songsincode meme on Twitter a short while back.
The article mentions that the explicit unsubscription of PuSH is an advantage over the implicit approach of rssCloud. With garbage collection being a major problem of publish/subscribe in distributed systems, the author needs to mention how PuSH deals with it in order to assert superiority. Without acknowledging it, the credibility of the article is limited
There's delivery and demand advantage to decentralizing power generation. There's also a huge load balancing challenge associated with it.
The Online Pet Store for Dog
The Online Pet Store for Dog, Cat, Bird and Small Pet The Online Pet Store for Dog, Cat, Bird and Small Pet
The article was prompted by some assertions on StackOverflow that pickle was secure or "secure enough", etc. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1389738/how-to-save-data-...
The Perfect Server - CentOS 4.8 Server i386 [ISPConfig 2]
Do other template engines, e.g. Smarty, check HTML validity? I tried looking at the docs and it wasn't apparent.
Yes, and that's why they shouldn't be here.
What is ERP - Enterprise "Something" Process?
I wonder if it would be a good idea to actually include real code in a job description, such as few choice code snippets from the company's source code.
Just in case anyone else is thinking of getting 4 steps, it's $10 cheaper from here (not an affiliate link) than Amazon:

http://www.cafepress.com/kandsranch.58024175
At least they should use proper Umlaute.
Analyzing gapless playback information...
> Hashed/salted passwords are security theater for geeks.

Ok. Point taken.

So, how to do significantly better than hashed/salted passwords ?

Most frameworks that I'm aware of implement the hashing/salting (and sometimes just the hashing) method as their default method of securing stored passwords.

Is there a much better approach that does not inconvenience the user and that has been widely implemented ?

Once your production server is hacked I would think that pretty much all bets are off.

Especially if someone would manage to get access to either the network stack (where they can monitor the initial attempts at authentication in plaintext).

Just having the hashes for a large number of accounts would allow an attacker to do a whole bunch of mischief 'in their own time' rather than to have to contend with the first line defenses (velocity checks etc) of the website under attack.

edit: on re-reading I think you possibly mean to say with your use of 'security-theater' that you might as well store the passwords in plaintext because after your software has been compromised the passwords are all to be considered 'lost' anyway. But that only deals with the 'front door', not with the back door, in case someone walks out with a copy of the database (such as what happened to Reddit).
I hope that it will be extended to TeX, PostScript and ODF as well.

The viewers for the first two formats are lagging in the UI department, it would be really nice to be able to access them online.
I'm interested in learning Scheme, and keeping my fingers crossed that they can come together and specify some kind of "batteries-included" standard library. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'll only be able to fiddle with Scheme for an hour or two on weekends and get my real work done with one of the "popular" languages (i.e., Perl, Python, etc.).

Yes, I realize PLT has some batteries included but I'd prefer a community standard rather than a one-distro standard (not that I think (or even have much of an idea if) anything is wrong with PLT).
Like something that could be hairy, but isn't. Too show off how pleasant your code is?
My point is that a better designed database, specifically for scalability may alter the point at which CAP becomes relevant for all but the largest problems. E.g. custom indexing, partitioning & caching algorithms.

We see this with vertical-specific databases, having 1-3 orders of magnitude performance advantage over traditional dbs.
You may have brought up ERP's biggest problem of all: mortals don't understand it.

Enterprise Resource Planning
An example of pointing to the one big measurable thing "Hey, no big ugly power plant in the countryside" and missing the sum effects of 100,000 real actual people having these in their basements.

It will "save" money, but actually each of these 100,000 people pays $7,000 to get started (and then saves some on their bills).

It's innovative and the best-case scenario looks good, but the many unknowns and places it could go wrong make it likely a mistake down the road.
That's an important point. You can see how PuSH handles it here: http://pubsubhubbub.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pubsubhubbub-co...
Combine it with this http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html and you've got yourself a nifty draw->code tool :)

EDIT:
I tried to leave this comment on the jsMath site, but the form wouldn't let me include a link to detexify.
Ah. A religious assertion.
and what about:

1) That database dump of the users table that someone put on a usb drive and lost.

2) A brute-force attack via a misconfiguration which allows remote logins to mysql. No "rails stack" access, but the passwords are now compromised.

3) The non-application backup server with DB dumps.

4) S3 access is compromised and unencrypted dumps to S3 are downloaded.

I guess I could keep going, with the attacks getting more outrageous, but I can assure you that stranger things have happened.
" ...tightly integrating Oracle software with Sun hardware."

Does this mean support for Oracle software on Linux will slowly degrade? Oracle would likely prefer to sell you the entire suite of hardware, OS and software vs. just selling software.
six.com? stx.com? What's instead of the star, and why the fuck is it there?
any live examples?
I'm similar (work best under pressure) but I often wonder if it's a case of avoiding failure (PG) by delaying work and also increasing the internal excuse you have if it all goes pear-shaped. Then again, I find that I don't get enough time to just relax normally, so anytime I do have a light agenda I "procrastinate" because I haven't met that minimum threshold. If you give me a few weeks holiday to catchup I'm all pumped to be working again. Given this, the only time I will work is when I've either had enough rest (very rare) or when the workload is so great that I can't afford not to.
There are two major problems for me: one is that markup filled with "<?=$varname;?>" is harder to parse than markup filled with "{varname}"; for a designer, those extra characters are totally extraneous, and they're not even balanced the way all other kinds of special markup are in HTML or XML.

Secondly, there's nothing in PHP that guides one away from packing more and more functionality into the template instead of the template's caller; it's easy to find snippets of PHP that do something "cool" online, and it's hard to explain to your designer why they shouldn't use them.

So, too verbose and less maintainable, is what it boils down to.
Lubuntu: Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Bee