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CNet's downloader app looks like it's signed. It warns that it was downloaded from a website (which it was), but you don't have to do the right-click-open song and dance.
They don't have to drop dead from starvation to be weak and more vulnerable to disease complications.
>Now that Mac OS X has hit about 7% of internet users, it's profitable enough for adware/malware folks to target.

I keep hearing this stats, and it's not true that a platform is hit based on how much share it has.

Share does affect the volume of the available malware, but not whether it exists or not. And for 10+ years on Mac it was unexisting -- all such cases touted by the media were proven to be trojan horses, not viruses and such.

Contrast with Mac OS classic that was plagued by lots of viruses, despite having 2% market share at best at the time. Or even platforms like the Amiga and Atari -- viruses were prevalent.
The biggest improvement they could make is having the Apps category NOT include games. Discovering useful and/or interesting apps is so damn hard because of games being included.
If you didn't care to read it, why comment?
I really hope they can throw some Broadwell laptops into this event. How long can they let the MacBook Air get thrashed in every other manufacturer's comparisons? When Dell has a better version, it's time for an upgrade.
You also could have skipped right over the link, not commented and moved on with your life. Saved some precious seconds.
Uhm, Apple had an entire campaign about it. "No worries about viruses and other things affecting PCs!"
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crows leave gifts for one another. This may be some variant of that, triggered by the food?
If you don't mind sharing which 3rd party stores do you have success with? I have tried Amazon with pretty much no success so I've assumed if they can't do it no one can.
Singletons were perhaps the worst possible example of code snobbery: code snobs (real code snobs, as in "no true code snob") typically detest the singleton pattern as less maintainable, less testable, and less flexible than dependency injection.
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> Conversely, I think Christians (for one) do not like the idea of animals having "human traits", because it goes against their core mythology

Lots of Christians, including fairly devout ones, have no problems with recognizing human traits in animals; sometimes, this is in part because of a core theology that distinguishes between traits in the material universe and spiritual essences (cf., Catholic doctrines related to transubstantiation.)

> I'm being downvoted, but this was the exact reasoning given to me by a rather devout Christian

Christians are a rather diverse group, even when it comes to religious beliefs. The explanation given by a rather devout Christian on just about any issue is not particularly likely to be valid as a generalization of Christian belief.
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Shame that I automatically convert all ads to nonexistance.

It's too little, too late for rich media/content-heavy ads. Especially in the mobile sector:

* Ads are a performance burden on low-power devices

* They consume extra battery; power is wasted on superfluous cruft

* Bandwidth wasted; especially a concern given draconian data caps

* Tracking and privacy concerns

Not to mention the fact that ads are a primary attack vector (think of all the advertising CDNs that have been compromised and used to deliver malware). The real improvement here is moving away from a proprietary plugin.

Pointing out the problems of rich media ads isn't very useful here though, since most of us are probably aware already. My proposal would be simple, inline text, along the lines of "this page load sponsored by _". Doubt that will gain traction, though.
I never claimed that Windows or Mac OS X are more or less secure than the other. I very specifically said the following:

"Most of the infections on Windows aren't due to some huge security issue on Windows that Macs are magically immune to. They are due to the users themselves installing adware or malware-infected software from sites online."

This is 100% accurate and what most home users have to deal with in terms of issues on Windows. The vast majority of Windows issues that end users experience and get frustrated over have nothing to do with Java or Flash flaws or needing to compromise a system. The users themselves give the apps permission to install and do their thing.

It's also worth noting that Java and Flash don't provide much of an attack vector for the majority of Windows users you and I know anymore either. Firefox won't permit outdated versions of the Java or Flash plugins with security issues to run and will direct you to update. Chrome has its own version of Flash built in and automatically updated with the browser and disables Java by default. Even Internet Explorer blocks outdated ActiveX plugins like old and insecure versions of Flash and Java these days.
This is global. In the us, the measles death rate is less than a tenth of a percent, and the measles rate itself is quite low.

In the US, in 2013, there were more school bus fatalities than measles fatalities.
Brew integration would be nice. There used to be a couple of non-Apple app stores, but most of them were killed off when the actual App Store came along.

MacUpdate is still running one though: http://www.macupdate.com/desktop/
The basic problem is, there are good ways to run teams and bad ways to run teams, but the good ways in general are organic, contextual, intersubjective. It's hard to distill down to bullet points, much less a damn chart.

The most productive teams are the ones that focus on good people doing good honest work, being fairly rewarded, having a meaningful separation/delegation of responsibility/authority, communication, a knowledge of when to gather data and optimize against it and when not to, etc.

So, any time you try to distill team productivity on this cooperative creative endeavor into some number that you're going to put on a chart and give people shit about, you've already lost. If you don't already have a sense of how productive your team is and what the obstacles to increasing that are, chances are you're just a suit and you need to have someone else to run the team.
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"We don't broadcast our salaries with our job listings because reality is how much we're willing to pay varies candidate to candidate."

This sounds reasonable. But just to play devil's advocate for a second -- for any given role, is your variance really that high? Do you expect to field a dramatically variable range of candidates for the same level, title, or position? So variable, in fact, that establishing a ballpark range is an exercise in futility?

If you're fielding candidates with N years of experience, 1.5N years of experience, or 2N+ years of experience for the same role, maybe it's worth recalibrating your expectations for that role. Fine-tune them a bit. If your expectations are all over the map, then you're going to make a lot more work for yourself by taking on variance and trying to sift through it.

It's totally fine, even admirable, to take the position that each candidate is unique. But how unique, really? Unless we're talking about very high-level or rare positions, a reasonable and market-appropriate range will usually cover most of the variance. (That's not to say that you can't have some sort of discretionary, secondary range available for rockstars or competitive bidding situations. But aren't those typically the edge cases, and not the norm?)
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I don't support any downvotes of you, but there are many different types of Christians; this kind of thought is a bit foreign to me as an Orthodox Christian. Consider what St. Isaac of Syria says:

"The humble man approaches wild animals, and the moment they catch sight of him their ferocity is tamed. They come up and cling to him as their Master, wagging their tails and licking his hands and feet. They scent as coming from him the same fragrance that came from Adam before the transgression, the time when they were gathered together before him and he gave them names in Paradise. This scent was taken away from us, but Christ has renewed it and given it back to us at his coming. It is this which has sweetened the fragrance of humanity."

To an Orthodox Christian, restoring the relationship of humanity with animals, which includes that of their expressing intelligence, love, and other such "human-like" traits, is to work towards restoration of our pre-fallen state. The Image of God lies not just in these traits... without going into a deep discussion here, for Orthodox this Image can be seen in the Transfiguration of Christ: that of glorified, deified[1] humanity united with the energy[2] of God.

Some more information is available here: http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/articles/misc/flana...

[1] http://orthodoxwiki.org/Theosis
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essence%E2%80%93Energies_distin...
What about the colleague's who have successfully enshrined non-idiomatic variable naming and space rules in a project?

They seem to have just as much of this argument on their side, as far as consistency and such. Yet I actually loathe the decisions, as it causes a ton of friction with standard tools.
It's probably a bad idea to promote minor upgrades when you're trying to get the world excited about your new product.
You're right.
I apologize for my use of the word underhanded.
I don't really think there was malice or sabotage of other people's work.
bullshit. Perhaps you don't understand that crows use tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmLVP0HvDg and that they also are social and communicate with each other. They do give gifts to each other as part of courtship. We don't need to anthropomorphize to recognize plain facts about crows being intelligent and intentional and social.
Ah, this does look like a more plausible reason for the Gemalto hack: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/20/8079083/gemalto-sim-card-g...

Short version: Knowing the OTA key lets you push malware to the target phone SIM which you can use to surreptitiously exfiltrate data from the phone via SMS messages, amongst other things.
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Seconded, AdwareMedic is quick and painless.

Power users might also appreciate Little Snitch[1] to see what their Mac is connecting to.

[1]: http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
http://gpl-violations.org/ when it was still around (seems defunct since November 2014?).
How does it 'hurt sharing?' Maybe in the most trivial sense. The original code is still out there.

How does not paying for works not hurt sharing? If return on investment on works is being hurt then that's a demotivator for future works. Monument Valley had something like a 95% pirating rate on Android. That affects the expectations of indie devs and investors. Brushing this under the carpet doesn't change the facts.

If pirating was more under control, we'd see more innovation and top notch applications in the Android market. Instead, we see all the top notch applications go to iOS either exclusively or only to Android after they've made money on iOS and then publishers decide to push out a port because its just going to get pirated anyway. The difference between these two ecosystems is proof enough that pirating games hurts innovation, companies, and customers.
Except he was arguing that discussion the impact of revealing troop movements was the same as releasing the actual location of troop movements. The two are very dissimilar.
Linux is doing alright on the 'desktop'. Chromebooks, Dell is selling Ubuntu laptops, you can buy Linux preloaded on a variety of hardware in some markets. Raspberry Pi and Pi2s are out there, and apart from Linux desktops, open source is getting to be huge.

The real difference is that nowadays, the 'desktop' doesn't matter. Most new apps are either browser based, or built multi-platform from the start. There's very little you 'need' Windows for today.
I click on all MacKeeper ads I see, repeatedly

Let the fuckers pay for that
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Perhaps they smelled the family on it, and just returned it to a place that smelled similarly.

Can you do that?
The title should probably be updated to say "ACM SIGMOD Programming Contest", to distinguish it from other contests like ICPC and ICFP.
Thank you but I like NixOS & nixops too much.
Thank you for your intelligent, insightful comment which has really improved the discussion regarding state secrecy and the rights of its citizens to know what the government does in their name. Bravo, Bravissimo.
In India, We have launched a site to promote salary transparency!

KitnaDetiHai.in (coincidentally means the same as show me the money in Hindi)

The site has gone viral in top bschools in India.

The idea was born out of the thought, just for a simple mobile purchase or for a meal, we compare prices and reviews to get the best deal. Whereas for one year of blood and sweat, when HR says this is the best in the industry they are no accurate sites to refer to ask for a fairer deal.

How do I trust the HR words, when one of her prime KPI is also how much money she could save for the company while rolling an offer out.

I would be happy to hear feedback from you folks!

p.s. In Glassdoor I can post as CEO of Apple, there is no authentication and why the data is so inaccurate, whereas in KitnaDetiHai after initial search its a compulsory LinkedIn Login to search more and even after that Machine Learning Algorithm's are used to identify outliers. If found so the user's access is removed and he cannot be a part of community at all.

Another Incentive here for users to enter right salaries is, we will suggest jobs which
1. Match hiked up no's from current salary.
2. Also fairly matching skills of the job against skills listed/endorsed on LinkedIn.
girlfriend and joke how despite being "modern" people we still have pretty traditional division of labor: she cooks, i manage money. it works for us. i agree that it's much better when you have a few people doing the scale-invariant tasks for each other.
This is how I look at it too. The shopping and transport overhead for ingredients, plus the overhead of time paying bills and stocking a kitchen in the first place is nontrivial also. Basically you need 2 people to make it work nicely, unless you're a foodie or are so used to cooking that you enjoy the shop/cart/unpack/retrieve/prepare/cook/clean cycle as meditation. Three or more is better.
That's nice. If there were a competition of who could grasp the main point from this article the quickest without even reading it you might be in the running for first.
Agreed that the issue opener is a bit of a troll (and antirez: don't feed the trolls!), but let's step back a moment and separate the content from the subtext.

Context: Error messages reach users, by their nature, when something has gone wrong. It's likely that, in that moment, the user's amygdala has started sounding an alarm that the brain's prediction about the outcome of an operation did not come true. It is, quite literally, an emotional moment. A feeling of vulnerability, even if only for an instant, is the first and most profound response when a user encounters an error. Humans further tend to anthropomorphize the systems they interact with - a natural shortcut the brain takes to understand a system that seems to have intelligence - and a cold, unforgiving error message lashing out in a moment of vulnerability seems almost malevolent.

Content: If error messages considered the momentary mental state of a user when they're feeling raw from their expectation not being met - the error resulting from their action - they would be more helpful to the user, and allow them to be self-sufficient, which increases their feeling of well-being and satisfaction with a system. As developers, we can "be right" or we can "be happy" - sure, it's right to say something went wrong. But it's happy when the friendliness of an error message means that a user can resolve an error condition without having to submit an issue to the help desk.
Looks like Swiffy was started first.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Swiffy

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumway_(software)
I still don't think that's true - visiting a malicious site without any action still provides far more of a risk on Windows than it does on OSX.

Are there improvements on the browser and OS side that are helping? Sure. Do those impact the vast majority of Windows users? Probably not. Look at browser & OS version usage and you'll see that the "users you and I know" are probably not indicative of the majority of users in general. At least not yet.
I think part of it is that the article sounds incredibly speculative and "just so". It doesn't, in other words, appear to be researched, and it is about something (the causality of our directional associations) which would be really hard to know even if you were to stare at all the known historical facts without uncertainty about them.

So if it's all conjecture, and you wipe the conjectures away, you really do have "I think it's either because shadows in the Northern hemisphere go from left to right when you're facing North, or because when you track the Sun across the sky from that hemisphere, you have to face South and then the Sun describes an arc from left to right."
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We've heard for years that Macs are overpriced, that their owners overpay for style over substance. The "rich but stupid" demographic seems like an ideal target, even if they only made up 1% of Internet users. Banks make up less than 1% of businesses but people still specialize in robbing them.

I don't believe the "overpriced Mac sheeple" meme at all, but there always seemed to be an overlap between people who dismiss them as "safe because they're so rare" and "Apple tax LOL" critics. That always struck me as an interesting dichotomy.
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I stand by “if the objection has some merit.” If you don’t think it has merit, deploy the counter-snobbery.

Naming seems cut-and-dried, but there are other cases that aren’t so clear cut. What if there are two factions in a team, one of whom are very OO, the other are very functional?
I'm fine for code snobs. I just despise swimming against the tide in tooling and formatting. If you care enough that the code look a certain way, make sure this way is a few keystrokes away for any developer using standard tools.

Then there are those that insist on highly flexible and overly engineered solutions. Yes, they got it to work. No, they aren't doing any favors to anyone that was wanting to pick up the code and make changes. (Been there, done that. On both ends.)

Basically, if you encounter a large amount of friction for every new contributor to your codebase. Consider that the source of that friction is not necessarily the "low quality" of the contributors.
First, good luck on your business.

My question: How's this different from something like helpusell.com?

I used Helpusell over a decade ago in California. They saved me a nice chunk of change because the agent was smart, but ultimately the buyer came from listing on MLS and not their site. MLS drove buyers to my property very quickly.
The blogger never suggested that US anti-vaxers are the cause of the high number. I believe the intent of the post was to say "this is a deadly disease in some countries and yet there is still a movement to not vaccinate children against this disease."
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I'm curious about just how difficult managing ZK is. My initial experience was pretty pleasant. Sure, it doesn't have a pretty admin UI (Exhibitor fills in that gap), but it's not like the consensus is that ZK is unreliable or doesn't live up to its utility claims. So, what exactly am I missing here?
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I'm sure these reasons happen, however, the most common reason recruiters don't talk salary to me seems to be that they know it is below market, and want time to sell all the other benefits. I treat it as a warning sign of a very low salary.

It also often wastes everyone's time. After going through multiple rounds of communication, the salary is finally revealed: often way too low, even after hearing about the benefits.

Other recruiters will talk salary early, and those jobs are usually the ones that pay well.

I don't waste time (mine and theirs) talking to recruiters who don't share salary information (expectations or ranges). There's a major tech company that needed my expertise (systems performance), for whom I never got past the recruiters because they wouldn't talk salary. (After several months, I don't think they ever filled that role.)

This all doesn't matter much to me now, as I'm at Netflix and very happy. Netflix does talk salary expectations.
The very first sentence has a link to the paper. That paper is really interesting, for example how the authors had to cull the data to get to usable factual data that had the true cause of death. For what you are interested in there is a in particular an excellent graph on page 143. I rather like science blog posts like this compared to what is more typical and this post mentions what your concern is in paragraph three of four. No where in those four paragraphs does it leap to the conclusion "therefore those parents are the cause of the high number."
Even with all the down votes I wouldn't write it off. These generations spent huge amounts of time watching real looking animals behave as humans while their brains were still developing.
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>They consume extra battery;

I find it fascinating that Google is always hurting their own mobile experience. Between all the issues android has with wake locks and memory leaks and the massive infrastructure of location and 'lifestyle' tracking for ad delivery, its a miracle Android devices get any battery life at all. Even without this html5 conversion, Android battery life often pales compared to iOS or Windows Phone.

The more I think about it, an OS from whats essentially an ad delivery company is probably a liability. Monetization will trump user experience. Get ready for some pretty invasive html5 ads.
Most of the issues Windows users encounter aren't viruses and the like that you're thinking of in the Mac OS classic, DOS and Windows 9x days of old. Those could self-propogate, infect apps, and be carried from user to user.

Most of the issues today are about money or reputation.

Adware and spyware makes money for the publisher, so they target areas where they can do that. It's actually legal and semi-legitimate. It's an annoyance for the end user, of course. A freeware publisher doesn't make any money from their app but they can make money from bundling an ad replacer, search engine replacer, browser extension, etc with their free software. So, they do.

Malware follows the same trail. You can distribute cracked software online over torrents like Photoshop and the like but sneak your remote-controllable malware into it. Then you get more installs you can use to direct a DDoS bot attack or to watch for and steal financial details from the local machine. Maybe look for the default install of a cryptocurrency client and grab the local wallet, for instance. Note that this is more difficult on both modern Windows and modern Mac than it was back in the days of Mac classic.
I'm not sure if I understand this correctly.
Are you saying connections should matter or a meritocratic method (no connections) is better ?
Should society bother to even try to change the way this works ?