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I disagree. Back before the reorg and layoffs, there was a clear prestige difference between Test and Dev, where most SDETs were levels 1 or 2 with one Senior per team, while the SDEs had 2-3 times as many Senios, and one Principal per team. It was clear that the ceiling for promotion was much lower in Test.

I left before they began doing away with the SDET discipline, but I'm sure that QA work is still not very prestigious.
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isnt michael moore rich?
They're talking about the Raspberry Pi not Arduino. Raspberry Pi has always said publicly that the whole thing was never likely to be open source.
There are different goals of advertising. Brand awareness and purchase oriented (I forget the technical names). Most online advertising has revolved around driving purchases, with brand awareness only establishing even a non-negligible online presence fairly recently.

When someone creates the ads the ad almost always focuses on one of those two things. Purchase oriented ads are expected to produce a certain number of actual purchase, have metrics to measure their success, and have one set of techniques. Brand awareness has different metrics and generally takes different means to be successful.

My understanding (as an outsider who doesn't work directly in advertising) is that failed purchase-oriented ads are not viewed as successful brand awareness ads. If they wanted brand awareness they'd do a separate ad campaign that targets that specifically and would do a better job. So if a purchase ad fails to drive purchasing, it's still considered a failure.
That's my favorite thing about the internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cghg-QyTP_M No reason
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IIRC, Privacy Guard simply returns empty sets of data instead of just revoking the permissions so the app shouldn't crash. It probably will lose functionality, but by actively turning on PG you're signing up for that.
Back in the Soviet days, it was illegal to take Rubles out of the country. It wouldn't surprise me to see that law reinstated.
I have a crazy theory: There is no such thing as open source hardware. It's a myth. If a project has any electronics, there's a closed bit in there somewhere. Even if there are published layout files, the chip is still closed. Can anyone fab their own chip? Same goes for BeagleBone, which drives demand for (closed) TI-based ARM chips.
Well, they've got to do something with that half billion dollars. Decisions that don't objectively make sense somehow become possible when you've got that kind of money to spend.
Interesting! Right now we're focused on solving the "What's for lunch?" problem and layering in suggesting great places to eat for groups of friends. I can definitely see a time in the future where we support all types of solutions for what to eat, including preparing meals at home. Which incidentally is also my preference. Though that may be the bootstrapping talking :)
They're making some sort of AR goggles. Despite all the imagery on their website, I'm not convinced there's anything holographic about what they're doing. In other words, this is a truly Herculean amount of marketing fluff. Google got interested probably only because they're targeting a form factor very similar to Google Glass.
So instead of two kill messages, we now have two scripts to run, dependent on name or pid?

Just put everything in one script - these scripts are shorter than an init boilerplate section - and use an option to switch. Do process names by default, then perhaps use a -p arg to switch the script into 'pid' mode. Bash's 'getopts' is pretty easy to implement.

As it stands, you currently have to waste mental power to figure out whether you want the 'n' or 'p' version anyway, so may as well just make it an arg.
CyanogenMod's "deny permission" behavior is largely the same as XPrivacy's, but way less fine-grained (and way easier to use). Basically it just returns "empty" data for requests - it doesn't revoke the permission, because yes, that would cause crashes.

The vast majority of applications work with this with no problems. They just won't e.g. show your contacts.
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sure - but we're talking RUB specs who are in it for a 5 day move. Nobody is expecting annualized vol of 566% (35% * sqrt(262)). RUB has been moving several chunky percentages daily for 2 weeks at least, and is down 50% against the dollar 3 months. 17% annualized doesn't make an iota of difference in that kind of market.

Where it does make a difference is that long end bonds (OFZ 28s) are now yielding 15%. That's 15% for 13 years ;) Chunky yield in the long end. That will tempt the long term investors in (IF big if, they don't impose controls). Care to catch the falling knife?
It's like saying "You don't need a web browser at all -- See how we can navigate the web using cURL!"
I wonder if Putin will soften anything after Obama signs new sanctions this week and we start giving millions to Ukraine...
Well-written and interesting perspective.
By labeling them "bank robbers" you are criminalizing the person and not the action. That is inherently unfair and you should apologize to these affected people for your insensitive remarks.

The reasoning is sound and a quick look around at the groups who have been pushing the change in language, for right or wrong, shows that many of them use that very reasoning. To downplay the issue.

The funny thing about all this is I had a similar thread happening today about the proper use of the description "illegal firearm".
Ok, you're right. I've never had a problem with the Pi because they've never claimed to be "open source"
It is interesting to watch the effect of the Russian ruble collapse on Bitcoin markets... It is causing an influx of Bitcoin buyers on Russian exchanges: over the last 14 days, BTC is up +11% from 19000 RUB to 21000 RUB with most of the uptick happening in the last 24 hours (https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/btce/btcrur) despite being down -13% from 380 to 330 USD on American markets (https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitstamp/btcusd). There is an opportunity for arbitrage! The ruble is collapsing so fast that even buying at 21000 RUB is a steal (worth 310 USD as of Dec 16 21:00 UTC). And the collapse will likely continue in the next few days and weeks, so the arbitrage opportunity will grow bigger.

Edit: @potench preev.com is an inaccurate indicator of the BTC/RUB rate because it is basing its calculation "based on the USD Bitcoin price" per its footnote, so of course it will never show a big deviation from the BTC/USD rate. For the true rate you need to look at the real-time bid/ask spread on a BTC/RUB exchange such as btc-e.com which is why I linked to https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/btce/btcrur or you can also look at https://btc-e.com/exchange/btc_rur: bid/ask is 20855/21099 RUB as of 22:09 UTC, so the arbitrage opportunity is approximately 2000 RUB.
You should copy the explanation about the calculation from the github page to the demo site.

Also, I still can't understand what the spiderweb-diagram represent.
> During the last 18 months, vendors have come to realize that advertising on Websites doesn't work at all.

I think that's the wrong conclusion to draw.

Advertising on web sites works very, very well and thousands of companies depend on it on a daily basis.

What doesn't work so well is advertising on a web site that's just an online version of a magazine. The problem has a lot more to do with the magazine part than the web site aspect.

I've been reading DrDobbs for a couple of decades and I'm a fan, but the simple truth is that it's become less relevant these past years. First switching to a download only model and then progressively nagging me pretty aggressively to download my own issue (which I stopped doing because the summaries I saw in the email were of little interest to me).

Andrew, reading your editorials has always been a pleasure and you should be proud of what you accomplished.
Was the article deleted? It is 404ing now. Odd.

edit Nevermind, it's fine now.
Sounds nice in theory, but is there a way to access the private key - e.g. for backups or passphrase protection?
This would cover the currency rate the day of transaction but would not protect them against losses during the time that it would take the transaction to clear.
or you can use just what js you need instead of loading pages down with dozens of bloated js library's and wondering why your site sucks and is slow as a slow thing
Confused. Web server cost pennies. Writers, heck lots would do it for the press. Publishing a magazine? There are tens of thousands of millennials just in SF alone that have net worth in the millions, and would love to be involved. Did you cast the net?
I do this with some vehicle tracking equipment I run at ski resorts.

They run the machines over the snow on a daily basis. After a week or so of passes over the same trail, you get a much better idea of where the average line is.

The data my clients typically initially supply me with is usually taken with a single pass using a Garmin unit strapped to the handlebars of an ATV. They often wonder why it differs so much from the results they're getting from the vehicle tracking equipment.
There's little question the Eurozone is a massive economy, however it hasn't grown since 2007:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/20/w...

In that time the US has added $3 trillion to its GDP, going from $14.5 trillion in 2007, to a present $17.65 trillion or so. It's likely the US has reclaimed its title as the largest economic zone. Given the US is set to expand at close to 3% for 2015, and is growing much faster than Europe, that gap is likely to expand in the next few years.
This is jurisdiction-dependent.

I work for a very large company with three dozen law offices across the US. Listening to what is considered "normal" in other offices is always interesting. I am, unfortunately, in an office that practices in courts that are paper-dependent, even though there are rules that allow for electronic filing and service in many circumstances, all it takes is one litigant (or the judge!) to say "eh, I'm not comfortable with this, we're going to do this the old fashioned way" and we're done.
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This is true, but given the Arduino does not publish Official gerber and BOM, there's zero chance to recreate the hardware without guessing/reverse engineering. The specs are not version controlled for public consumption.

So the arduino "platform" is not open in that you/I do not have an offical specification to work from.
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It's almost as if software and automobiles were completely different things! These comparisons are pointless.

Reliability of hardware or software is a trade off. If your software or hardware is responsible for keeping people alive then more time and money is spent on ensuring its stability and that is then factored into the cost.
I had the same thing, then refreshed and it was fine. I think the 404 is not consistent, so technically not an actual "404".
Counterparty risk might be a tad too high at this point. Ruble is not that prevalent for any major players to sell options against, and a local player might have liquidity issues.
> The fear drug works like this: you are repeatedly told that bad, scary people are going to kill you, so place all your trust in us, your corporate leaders, and we will protect you.

I've literally never been told anything like that ever.

I've been told similar things by the gov't as reasons we need TSA and civilian spying programs...but never from a corporate entity.
Still seems quite a challenging disruption here. For one, you'd need to know some aspect of the lawyer's daily job and two you'd have to know how to sell to lawyers. The thing that scares me most is that these people also hold a trigger to suing the crap out of you because they can. It's exciting and scary at the same time.
A lot of the advice I have seen though is too take a niche industry and own it, then generalize. Its much easier to grab traction when you really know you exact sales targets.
Next up: you don't need Underscore/Lodash!

Forget this "you don't need JQuery"...JQuery, the entire library, is basically an API bug report against the DOM! What browsers need to start doing is get off their butts and start implementing a real selector implementation like Sizzle. Reduce JQuery to set of polyfils after that.

As for IE7 support. Sorry that still accounts for too much of my traffic to ignore.
This is a bunch of drivel. Anyone who knows their ass from a hole in the ground knows there are functions that back jQuery. jQuery just wraps in a nice, easy-to-use solution.
It sounds like there was no vetting of alternative monetization strategies for the website. I say this because it looks like the site is still running direct-to-advertiser deals, when they could open their remnant inventory up to auction systems via an SSP and tie in yield optimization strategies with their sales team.

If the site has high quality traffic and 10MM pv/month they shouldn't be closing the doors. Based on a 5 minute look at the website and some of the ads seems like the site is restricting its ad revenue to software industry vendors when they could open it up to the rest of the advertising world that wants to pay to serve an in-view ad to a real person with a software engineer's salary.
On your commute, you're passing a McDonald's store every day. You know it's there, but you never buy food there for whatever reason. Are you stealing?

I'd rather pay the site directly if they'd stop displaying ads.
Several companies experiment with those kinds of revenue stream: OkCupid shows you this [1] banner encouraging you to pay 5$ if you're using an ad blocker.
Reddit has the "gilding" concept. While I don't know if that pays out at the end of the day, I'd rather pay the site directly than having them to rely on distracting and sometimes malicious ads which load 3 embedded flash player objects and destroy the site's performance.

By relying on ads, sites naturally introduced a terrible usability. Notice how many times you encounter a complete page reload where a simple AJAX call would have done the job better? That's because you sell a certain number of page impressions to advertisers, and the sooner they're used up, the sooner you get paid. The complete system is a mess.

[1] http://cdn.okccdn.com/media/img/template/image.png
The article is controversial but it is definitely not stupid.
I made a tinder auto liker script a while back to help my non-nerdy friends out. That's where I learn't about the man in middle attack trick.

Very well written I should say.
I couldn't afford it every month but some of the ones I did get I read again and again. I remember Abrashes articles and thinking that I had so far to climb. I still do but the thing is I don't think I've ever come across content like it since. Another one I remember was an article by Douglas Hofstadter about metaphors. It wasn't just tech but a way of thinking about everything. And Swaine's flames for dessert!
Somewhere late in high school my father started bringing home copies of Dr. Dobb's and I think around 11th grade -- (1993?) I was given my own subscription. I was lucky if I could understand 10% of what was written, but I would devour it -- and it provided a definite different perspective to me than the pop magazines I had been reading Compute! and many years before, Run! -- I have fond memories of the publication....I just have no longer had time to read it...sorry to see it go. Thanks for all the great content.
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Or maybe Putin is popular enough to survive changing course in Ukraine before the economy is completely trashed. Also do you have a source that oil prices are being manipulated to punish Putin? Seems likely but I haven't seen anything.
Has this publication undergone peer review by subject matter experts? It will be hard to take seriously otherwise.
Automobile recalls are necessary because it's impractical for automobile manufacturers to remotely deliver and install a fix to your car. Software can and does work that way, which is much more convenient for everyone.
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My interpretation is that it doesn't necessarily solve escrow but solves one part of the escrow equation which is - "does the one party actually own enough money to pay". In other words because all BTC is tracked by the blockchain I can verify that the buyer has the $100 they are saying they are willing to pay me, as opposed to him simply saying "Ya I got the $100, don't worry". The "don't worry" part is eliminated because I can verify that his $100 actually does exist on the blockchain. If he decided to sell it, I could see that he is no longer the owner on the blockchain and thus rendering the "don't worry I swear I have the money" impossible. The release of the payment is still done by an escrow service.
Then this article is a poorly written piece. It makes no mention of that. I'm not in WA so I've no clue what was in that initiative. But the article sure does make it sound like it was just for reduced class sizes. I feel like the author is against it and her bias is seeping through.
Exactly. It should be, are two mediocre teachers better than one mediocre teacher? Yes.
Rather than meaningless, it's amazing.

Apple is not worth anywhere near as much as China's stock market however. The Shanghai Stock Exchange all by itself is worth several trillion dollars.
Well, the nice thing about mobile first is that the benefits extend to smaller browser widths as well. And just because you don't find a method appealing to use doesn't mean it's not a valid use case. I, for one, like to have all my documentation offline in ePub on a tablet, but that doesn't mean I assume it's the best method for everyone else (or even anyone else).

Plus, though it amy be an unintended consequence, mobile first shouldn't at all hurt the desktop experience, just make sure that mobile is not an afterthought once the design patterns are engrained and it's too late to modify a responsive experience.
I'm reading Snow Crash at the moment for the first time.

The beginning is actually really tough going as a completely new reader today. It's just so ridiculous. I can see where he was coming from, as I grew up in that era, but it's actually pretty bizarre now given the reality is nation states, religion and banks turned out to be so much more powerful than corporations.

Which is one of the perils of predictions in ageing sci-fi.

I've been on a sci-fi kick recently of all the classics I never read (William Gibson, Ender's Game, The Mars Trilogy, Forever War, Starship Troopers, A Canticle For Leibowitz, Philip K. Dick, Hyperion Cantos, Ringworld) and re-reading some I've not read for a long time (Foundation Series).

I personally found that Snow Crash is by far the most dated book. Even Ringworld and the foundation series were better.
> That said, click fraud has really burned a lot of advertisers.

THIS

> That is why advertising on content needs to shift to a performance based model,

As someone in the ad biz,it's something hard to do.You still need ways to track(I understand people don't like it but...) accurately where the traffic comes from.We really need innovative tools in that domain!

Finally,I think the biggest disappointment in web marketing comes from the (un)ability of social medias to really influence sells.FB and co ad services are way worse than classic web advertising.It's borderline scammy.
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What I don't get with Amazon is that they continue to spend whatever they make to capture market share but at what point will they start reaping what they sowed? What happens when there is suddenly no capital around to help this growth but competitors have plenty of cash in their vaults?
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Off-topic browser usability rant:

Web developers & designers: Please STOP messing around with how my browser works. In this case, I want to open a link in a new tab, so I Cmd-Click[0] only to have my request ignored with the new page in the current tab ... but then I do get a new tab with the original article loaded into it. This might be fine for your experimentation, but it's not fine to force your incompatible UX onto my browser.

Other things that I've seen lately that are detestable:

- prevent me from zooming on mobile

- similarly, covering your actual content with an ever-present menu or heading (and I can't zoom to get around it)

- change the operation of the "back" keyboard shortcut to navigate articles on your site rather than the actual history in my browser

There are other things that are annoying, too, but they all boil down to some web site developer deciding to repurpose my browser's UI to their site. Please stop.

[0] Google Chrome 39.0.2171.95 (64-bit) on OS X 10.10.1
Our RPM was always comparable to the rest of the industry. Revenue, especially three years ago, had multiple components other than pure ad placements. I can't get into too much of the details (for obvious reasons).
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Consumer versions are expected to ship fall of 2015

It would be interesting if this was progressing because some major patent roadblocks where about to expire.
It's a developer's problem.
Japan and Korea, famous for their high-achieving students, are also famous for another thing: huge class sizes. Larger than those in the USA.

Sure, classes are different, teachers are different, but the culture to push your kids to succeed is different as well. The parents are to blame for so many of the problems in our schools. I'm guessing parents in Japan and Korea don't go to a kids school and fight the teacher when they have bad grades.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I believe the core database from which BDB evolved (and which was also written by Keith Bostic) is part of some pretty widely-used Unix software (SMTP servers, or DNS, or something like that).
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No, there will be left free some small percentage of useful content, maybe 00,01% or less. And personally for me, these several tens of millions of pages left will be enough.

Additionally some will survive on subscriptions.
I mean, this seems just straight amazing, right? Am I missing something?

Obviously Google is pivoting on a number of fronts; if this enjoys wide adoption (unlikely as that may seem at the moment), they'll have to basically retreat from email content analytics, right?
There is a bit of a feeling that advertising on web sites, much like SEO, is a bit of snake oil business....I agree with the op's statement-- when have you bought anything from a web advertisement anywhere? Maybe you have signed up for a service from one? But bought something? Even something very targeted.... although it does seem that "paid placement" in search -- (google search advertising) does provide some sales... Dvorak has been calling this out for some time.... advertisers seem to be catching up.
Well, I'd argue that the person is in fact illegal in the sense that they are there illegally.
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I loved the Baroque Cycle, but I am also a history fan so a lot of the names were already familiar to me.
You're correct. I jumped the gun and pointed to the Arduino - which is claiming to be open source. I've never had an issue with the Pi because they've never claimed to be open source.