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Location: Malaysia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: Python, C, C++, Java, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mgcxp16fg9wo2gu/Resume%202.pdf?dl=...

Email: wasif_hyder@hotmail.com

Prefer Intern Roles, or Open Source Mentoring.
Gold jewelry, atleast in India, is sold by weight, and not volume, with a percentage markup for workmanship. This development doesn't change the value of Gold as an investment.

The iWatch would be lighter as a result of using this new technology. This reduces the value of the Gold it contains, but increases the iWatch's quality as a techology device.
I feel the Feedback page might need some work. Right now is seems like all the submitted feedback is made public with no approval.

http://i.imgur.com/1qieQ03.png
I don't agree - while Live was one of the first mature tools for performing, don't be fooled by the name. Studio work, production and arrangement view aren't second class citizens at all in my opinion. I switched from Logic to Live and spend most of my time in arrangement view. The session view is just a bonus for quick sketching for me.
Bitcoin (probably) wasn't created in the Valley.
Addicts are very lonely people whom are simply trying to connect with people but have some sort of synaptic wiring issue that prevents them from successfully doing so without the use of powerful pharmaceuticals (or anything that releases dopamine, really) that both create false bonds of dependency and mood-altered states.

That is why research shows over and over that creating new environments and new "friendships" (the cornerstone of AA and NA) is of crucial importance.

It's so hard for "normal" people to see and understand this because (from my personal experiences)...

1. the addict often seems like the life of the party (at least in the beginning of the story) and no one thinks that person is lonely.

2. normal people, for the most part, discover and nurture these connections so automatically that they can't understand how it could feel for it not to work, thus addiction is totally baffling to them.

To me, the crown jewel of Neuroscience would be to come up with a successful treatment to addiction that worked directly on the brain and didn't require the complete overhaul of your life that inpatient and outpatient treatment demand.
Lots of people are stuck on RHEL6 which means we have to use a wrapper to get chrome installed.
The questioner is using Chrome and already made his mind up that it is an acceptable trade-off. He is asking for a simple yes or no, but instead gets useless Chrome bashing.

Of course, no one can expect free support. But if you want to have/keep users as well, this is perhaps not the way to treat them ;).

Even if you wanted to sneak in the Chrome bashing, it would be better to answer the question first.
There's a big difference between "it's possible" and "it will happen". I mean, look at air travel for example. Supersonic air travel has been possible since the '70s. But it doesn't happen because it's not cost effective, and the benefit from it never outweighed the cost.

I think it's possible that we can to send a human consciousness (physical astronaut, uploaded mind, etc.) to Proxima Centauri in a thousand years. But will we? "It would be amazing", as it turns out, isn't actually a very strong justification for doing anything.
> A longer running challenge is http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/the-enduring-.... No entry fee, $100 prize, and just as unfair.

At the 10-year scale, a whole new set of tricks opens up. Invent a sufficiently popular programming language, or contribute a lot to the linux kernel, and start surreptitiously hiding bits of the file on his OS (the easiest would be for you language to have a builtin function that spits out a small part of the file).
Maybe a silly question, but why not just export the illustrator file (when inside Illustrator) as SVG?
And if you don't upgrade you get moaned at by gmail et al until you do.
Neat. What would the output look like with some Von Neumann whitening in the mix? Also,

<troll>
in b4 someone writes a JS app that uses this to generate crypto keys
</troll>
I thought they'd been doing that for years on windows installs...
> Does the decompressor have to be wholly hosted locally? Could it just be a shim that pulls a more complex program from the net?

The judge can disconnect his computer from the Internet, attempt to run the submitted decompressor and file, and declare failure when it doesn't work. Nothing in the challenge guarantees Internet connectivity on the machine.

> Does a decompressor that depends on linked libraries count? Do things like libc count towards the total decompressor size?

Nope. In the email exchange, Mike said that just a script that called out to gunzip would be fine, and that he'd only count the size of the script as the decompressor size

> Where do you draw the line? Can any decompression code call an external dependency and not be disqualified in the same way?

Yup, as long as the dependency is already on the machine I suppose.

That's what's so enlightening about this challenge. Even a tiny, tiny script that calls to other programs still can't compress a "pathologically" random file by more than a few bytes.
Now that you mention some of that people involved in making audio software: Camel Audio, developers of the highly praised Alchemy Synth, recently closed shop as they were most likely bought by Apple. There's a bunch of talent at Camel Audio - would have been a great addition to the Ableton team in my opinion. Too bad the results of that acquisition will likely only be available through Logic in the future.
Claiming that Chrome pioneered sandboxing doesn't pass the smell test, irrespective of how many Google employees (according to your profile) are backing you up.
That FAT32 doesn't support sparse files is a well-known fact. But that isn't even necessarily the limiting factor here; the size of a file on FAT32 is represented by an unsigned 32-bit integer, and is thus limited to one byte short of 4 GiB.

Some of the other details mentioned here are inaccurate as well. In particular, stat() returns both the file length and the size on disk; ls will typically display the length, not the size on disk.
I think it's worth mentioning Material design from Google: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti...
I'm leaving aside the certificate issue for a moment since others have mentioned it. This solution is a great way for hackers and phishers to collect a lot of personal information. Perhaps this is done with very good intentions, but is really poorly thought out. I wonder who architects these solutions and how they think.

See the following question in the FAQ (I've edited it for brevity with ellipsis and emphasized important parts). [1]

>Q11 How can I share the e-documents in my digital locker?

>A11 For sharing your e-document...enter the email address of the recipient in the dialog box and click ‘Share’ button.

>The document will be shared with the recipient via email. ...email body will have the URI link of the document and the sender name and Aadhaar number. The recipient can access the document using the URI link provided in the email.

So:

1. You share your document, which is sent over plain text email.

2. The recipient can access it just with a link. There is no authentication or verification of any kind.

3. The recipient can forward the mail to data collectors so they can immediately get your name, your Aadhaar number and the document. There is no link expiry, which allows perpetual abuse of information by forwarding emails. This technology makes selling information a lot simpler and quicker.

4. Someone else's email account gets hacked? Thousands or millions of names, Aadhaar numbers and documents could be out on torrents soon enough. Talk about government enabling things through technology.

Even if you trust the government to store all your documents, even though some may be issued by local authorities, this looks more and more like a comprehensive and centralized data collection mechanism. The next step, which may or may not be disclosed, would be to provide access to every government entity to query this database without any control or limits or oversight. For a country without any privacy laws, they already have your biometric information, now they can completely own you. :)

[1]: https://digitallocker.gov.in/Resources/FAQ-Digital_Locker_v0...
Reading from a socket is exciting!
Knowledge nurses talent, but it is not in and of itself knowledge. The knowledge of how to solve a problem that has been solved before is incredibly useful, but the real talent in our industry is the talent to solve new problems in new ways, and most people develop that talent but not just looking at how a problem was solved but deconstructing the process of how the designer of that solution came to the conclusion they did.
I was thinking that his point here would be that we always have to consider the noop case, the empty list etc. But no, so this item ironically added nothing to the piece.
I don't think the other half of that comment affects my point: that the Chrome team is declining to fix bugs that only manifest on older kernels, and hence it's reasonable to call those kernels "unsupported".

I agree that it's the Chrome team's prerogative to decide that supporting those kernels is unimportant.
This has been around for quite sometime[1].

It's also cool to note that there are usually free credits involved in most Google Cloud competitions and some Google Udacity courses. Off the top of my head, I think I might have enjoyed a total of about $3000 since 2013.

Oh and there's the $100000 for Startups[2] that'd be cool to get at some point in time.

1: [http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/11/google-cloud...]

2: [https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/]
Since version 9 Live is 64 Bit only. It's an important move, but you always have to deal with musicians who rely on old plugins that won't work in 32 Bit mode - so backwards compatibility is an issue.

correction: They still offer a separate 32 Bit installer - didn't realize, never looked back.
Since this is still a pedantry argument: Mike agreed that Patrick could send multiple files, but Mike never agreed that these files would be accepted as a winning submission. Furthermore, Mike never agreed that the filenames of the files would be considered to be meaningful data (without contributing to the filesize calculation).
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Some browsers have different goals. Is that a problem?
yeah, its a terribly misleading comment...

still he might be a programmer, just not a 'real programmer' - some kind of web dev or script kiddie, and therefore knows little or nothing about memory addressing
My first thought along these lines is to also dump a whitened version of the provided entropy that might be more useful than the raw bits.
And then people wonder why normal users go for Windows and Mac OS X systems for their desktops.
Any animations that take longer than 0ms are annoying. (i.e. I don't like animations in my UIs.) But for the general public, I guess this is pushing in some direction.
the counter looks like a massive chore to implement...
I also found this in the "What if?" app that is apparently a collection of Matrix memes.

http://i.imgur.com/aq8NAO3.jpg

>What if I told you

>Jankenpopp's new album is in the trash
As far as I can figure out, on chrome it's just a web service -- and doesn't work on Debian Chromium as they stopped shipping google api keys (which makes sense, part of the point of using chromium over chrome is to have some measure of independence from google).

Just thought I'd mention it here, in case anyone else were about to run off and try stuff like:

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk---I...

only to be disappointed :-/

Note that on Debian/Ubuntu you can for example do:

sudo apt-get install festival
echo "I speak nothing, because I no verbs." | festival --tts

if you need to get your computer voice fix.
When referring to social "scientists" the quotes should be obligatory
There's a lot of everything in the valley.

For complex software, take a look at some of the database companies. For flight hardware + software, AirWare is doing some cutting edge work.

Even the "simple" gets complex at scale (ex. Facebook).
I would say it's not. But I bet you if you came up with a replacement alloy that had the same exact texture and color as gold, people would not knowingly pay the same money for it. Just like lab diamonds can be grown to look even better than mined diamonds, the fact that they're from a lab still (sadly) diminishes their value.
I recently switched over to making cold brew coffee at home. It's incredibly easy to make a week's worth at time, tastes great, and just as convenient as instant coffee.
setInterval(function(){Math.random() > .5 ? $(".zero.button").click() : $(".one.button").click()}, 80);

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The fact that most software sucks is not exactly a secret. I'm not sure a "look how the sausage is made!! ZOMG!!" thing would surprise a lot of people.

In my experience, one of the most counterintuitive truths that (good) programmers understand is that security is, in most cases, the opposite of obscurity. It's really hard to explain to a non-programmer that the most secure system is the one that everyone understands perfectly.

I could go on... there are lots more. Like, the mythical man month is something most of us know about now. The deep relationship between randomness and compressibility. Cryptographic hashing. How a single number can be used to represent the answers to a set of yes-no questions. And so on.
You could maybe use something like pi-fs :) https://github.com/philipl/pifs
There have been programming languages that counted from 1. It's more convenient IMO to count from zero but we could have had different conventions.
Interesting overview. I just dislike how it sets the tone with the 'everything on the internet is crap except for what my Red Hat buddies and I say' intro which is then followed up with several minor inaccuracies in the text.
To paraphrase...

Because good coders borrow, but great coders steal.
Front-end web development, so yeah knows very little about memory addressing.
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From casual observation, it would seem a lot of black communities are not afflicted with this moral dillemma.

What's more the latest US Census post points quite clearly to a powerful assortat I've mating effect.
Note that the current stable is 36.
> "It would be like taking apart a brand-new 747 and discovering that the fuel line is held in place by a coat-hanger and the landing gear is attached with duct tape."

At the museum of flight in Seattle there is a 747. It's the first 747 that was built and partially taken apart (or never put together in the first place). Halfway down the interior fuselage you can seen the terrifyingly small cable pulleys that transfer pilot commands laterally to the wing control surfaces. The track in which the cable runs seemed not much deeper than the cable itself. If, say, a suddent jolt of turbulence dislodged the cable, something not good might happen. I'm sure aero engineers would say this is how airplanes have always worked and there's no chance the cable will fail. Programmers do the same thing: This is the way the database/web service/storage has always worked and there's no chance it will fail.
starting counting at 0 is mainly because

start + index * offset

points to `start` when `offset` is 0 (ie, array indexing in C and other languages with 'direct' memory access).

Any other reason?
JetBlue Airways Flight 191
>semantic markup is optional, but definetly helps break up a sea of divs, and is good for people who use screen readers

Amen for the "optional" part.

Designers who don't really understand programming, reusability etc had this fad in the mid-2000s were they made "semanticness" some kind of holy grail, as if an html pages were meant to be data abstraction/interchange formats.
Presumably an unintended consequence, but if I ever found myself needing this software, after watching this video I can't imagine myself pirating it. Ditto for games whose developers I've seen in documentaries (like Indie Games The Movie).

I guess this video is mainly for recruiting, but showing users the people behind the software seems like it would have lots of side benefits.

(I mean I haven't pirated anything in a decade or two anyway, but I can't imagine child-me-who-sometimes-pirated-stuff pirating it. You know what I mean.)
Bill Gates seems to have contributed quite a lot to computing, and he's widely known as self-taught.
I don't understand why you think the rules need to be application-specific or why you think the alternative would be more expensive.

If you want a high-bandwidth low-latency guaranteed-reliable fully-provisioned circuit then it's going to be expensive. Providing the same guarantees but only for a single application doesn't reduce the cost at all. If the customer is paying you to guarantee the delivery of packets, it doesn't cost you anything more if the customer then decides they're going to be YouTube packets rather than telemedicine packets. None of the things that cause that level of service to be expensive are application-specific so there is no savings to be had by treating applications differently.
I understand that the contestant gets to specify a "decompressor"; my point is that this is not information-theoretically relevant. The real decompressor in this challenge is the Linux/C runtime environment. The "decompression" program you send is really just part of the compressed payload, and whatever steps you, as a human, take to produce the compressed payload (encompassing both the code and data portions) are ultimately governed by information theoretic limitations.

Another way to say this is that although you have the 'privilege' of a designing a custom decompressor for this one file, this is not really a benefit since your custom decompressor counts against the space limit. (in contrast to the typical information-theoretic setting where the channel can have an arbitrary pre-specified decoder).
Click bait blog spam. The Mac installer will now optionally install the Ask toolbar, the same as it always has on Windows. You're still free to opt out of it at install. Yes, it's annoying and rude of Oracle, but not unusual.
For most governments, where lying does not come at a very high premium, the first instinct is to not tell the truth, but the information that appears to be the most beneficial at the moment. Knowing the truth is an advantage, why give it to others if one can avoid it without any major repercussions? So, one should not make a very far reaching conclusions from a government official lying - it doesn't necessarily mean they were involved in some conspiracy, they may just been routinely lying to not reveal something that has no relation to the case in point, such as something that may paint somebody in unfavorable light, or some minor secret of totally unrelated nature.

Additionally, when criminal wrongdoing is suspected, the authorities routinely lie about what they know about the case, in hopes that the criminals would operate under wrong model of their knowledge and thus be at disadvantage, and also they would be able to distinguish somebody genuinely knowing something about the matter from somebody just watching the news.
I wanted this as well. But, the business model might be hard to sustain. Most of us might use it for prototyping and then move to server-side for production. Or, the original API provider might support CORS sooner or later.
Wow, yeah rereading it, that made absolutely zero sense.

Update: Fixed the post, I wrote it at 4am, and just pulled that part from another source.
>Then there are the tribal effects. Why do bankers and traders earn 3x what programmers do, and why do we as programmers earn 3x what academics do, at each level? Because the worst place you want to be in a market is side-by-side with someone who's similarly competent in the rendered service but has no organizational or social skill, nor sense of self-worth; he'll sell himself very short, and drag you down with him by lowering your market value as well.

I am failing to understand how the question and answer are related here.

Are you saying that bankers make more than programmers, and programmers make more than academics because of the difference in overall or uniformity of social skills?
Fascinating article over at The Edge where Kahne man interviews hariri. TLDR; the answer to your simpering question is "yes"
The DataGenetics Blog (similar to What If)
So, this…

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…isn't an "ascii stream". You can look at the source code for "covertBinaryToAscii", and it's really converting 8 bits of random data at a time into one of the first 256 Unicode code points.

(Also, you can avoid the need to escape special characters by using textContent[1] over innerHTML, although that comes with the catch of only being supported in IE 9 and later…)

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/textCo...
I've heard women complaining for the exact opposite. Men not brave enough to engage with them casually. I guess it depends if the man looks like George Clooney.
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I just wanted the answer to my question, but I guess if you had one you'd just give it to me and not hide it.

They haven't published a positive sentiment in 7 years of ZIRP? You don't say?

And they profit from stirring up the hype? OMG, call the profit police. This "they profit from it" argument does not work with capitalists. I'd hope they profit from doing what they do, because that means they'll be in business that much longer. I am not against anyone profiting from speaking their mind. I am endowed with critical thinking skills and I can judge their arguments for what they are.
It's an unfortunate side-effect of there being so few women in tech. You're semi-forced into hiring potentially toxic personalities so you can keep up your 'quota'.
Google has to do something extraordinary to prove it can provide adequate support. It's support reputation is absolutely abysmal - why would I build a business on system of a company that tries to not have human contact?
I bet that with longer strings, the odds of drawing a kolmogorov-random string are high enough that he's guaranteed to make money from his Challenge
It's supremely arrogant to tell your users to change the kernel they are using because you couldn't be bothered to fix a regression in your code. The problem with that approach is self-evident.
eh, I think it's actually pretty easy to tell if a person wrote a particular piece of code last night. So cheating is pretty easy to ferret out. Because of this, I think the take-home test conveys a lot of useful information.
> Mike agreed that Patrick could send multiple file, but Mike never agreed that these files would be accepted as a winning submission

Then what is "agreeing"? These two sentences appear logically inconsistent.
"almost all 0" is still random. :)
Um..., swaps?!?

This would immediately tell me that I need to get more RAM.

For those wondering, I run the following comfortably in 16GB of RAM with SSD:

Postgres 9.x
Ruby 2.x
Rails 4.x
Python 2.7 / Flask
XCode 6.1.1
Chrome
Safari
Whatever else apps...

I don't think I would trust this in 8GB and feel like I'm productive. Remember, RAM is 10kX-100kX faster than hd, so you can never have enough.